Today I'm here with coach Greg Adams Coach, how you doing? All's well man. I appreciate you having me on your channel You're coming on tonight. Yeah First question. I want to ask you is your bio and the back story We know people call you coach Greg Adams, but I know that the coach word Did not come from coaching men. So give us a back story Yeah, so my background is The name has been around for a long time even before I started making content on YouTube I was a college basketball coach So I started off around the age of 19 I finished up my last season at junior college and always talk about the community college on my show the benefits of the junior college all right and had many fun times there but What what happened was I got I knew I wasn't gonna play at the next level and I wanted to extend my basketball career And I started coaching at my high school girls basketball So started off coaching there eventually got into college basketball where I was there for almost 16 seasons It's up if I'm not mistaken and I traveled with women 24-7 I mean, that's where I get a lot of my insight on female nature just understanding women as a coach you got to understand women right in order to coach them and be effective and you know, I started coaching women and recruiting across the country and That's how I got the name I still it stuck with me and once I started making content on YouTube It was initially basketball videos and now When I changed into the YouTube making manosphere type content I didn't know what to change the name to I was kind of like what do I call myself? it's always been coach Greg Adams and I decided to leave it even though I knew people wouldn't Naturally agree with it. They were like, oh, who is this coach guy, right? So I decided to leave the channel as it was and luckily I did because I never had to change anything Okay, awesome. Now you have grown in the past year. I mean your growth has been incredible What is the reason why your channel has grown so much? What why do you think your channel? I think yeah, sometimes I'm amazed at The the connection right I'll see myself I'll do an interview on another page and and it'll give views and I'm you know to me I'm still astounded. I'm not the type of person where I'm like, yeah I'm the best one here and I got the best information. I'm not that guy. I'm looking at it going I'm astounded that people are still You know finding the content and finding it valuable for me. I Had a great run at the beginning the first eight months is where I had my biggest pickup of like seventy five thousand subscribers Right off the bat, but then I came out of time where there was a lot of demonetization A lot of stuff going on and overnight my channel got demonetized and the growth started to slow down For about a year So it was really slow to get to the hundred thousand subscriber mark, but after that it's still growing So I think what's happening now to be honest with you what's happening now is that the message I've been able to make the message more digestible, right before my earlier videos were a little bit hardcore MGTOW kind of the talking points that every beginning MGTOW guy talks about right well then I Found a way to make it entertaining right making sound effects. All right and make it a little more entertaining and comedic While still giving the talking points, right? So I think the entertainment the quality, you know changing the camera adding lights I think it offers a little bit more For people even if they disagree they could come in and get a good laugh Now the the word MGTOW, okay Or the acronym MGTOW if anybody doesn't know that's that stands for men going their own way Would you consider yourself in the MGTOW? Area I would because that's a lot of the people that Initially latched on to me work from that and that was most of the content that that I made at Initially was geared for that. I wouldn't even put that in the title But I think the reason why it people will still associate that with me with that is because That's the group that I latched on to when I came out of my divorce and came out of some busted up relationships So when I initially made the content it was targeted towards that But I think what happened is honestly There's not a hundred and forty two hundred thousand MGTOWs. There's just not so the people who are watching my content now They're not hardcore Monk MGTOW guys. There's guys that are learning about life And so I had to change the message just slightly For it for it to be not that hardcore Coming in from that MGTOW. I had to change the message to guide men So now it's free agent lifestyle and now a lot of guys can they can initially go. Yeah free agent lifestyle I want that as opposed to if I say, we'll just go in your own way. Well, a lot of guys would be like, well, you know You know, it's just not clear. They would have all kind of questions after that. I think that term is is Associated with a real negative kind of connotation that term I mean when I first came across MGTOW, I think it was that turd monkey guy, you know I mean the guy lives with a doll. So people get the wrong idea. I mean, you know, the more I've looked at it I would consider myself in the MGTOW community because I Date women, but I'm not interested in a relationship at this point. Yeah, so I think that's kind of all in the same spectrum MGTOW guys a lot of people the questions are well Do I not date anymore?  Do I get it? And so When that becomes unclear, you got to kind of guide them a little bit and say no You can still do these things and then within that I said, well, I'll just change the name of it Not of the MGTOW. I still respect all of those people and you know, I'm considered a part of that a hundred percent But I still got to give message to men because not all men are willing to take that leap So you got to give them something to digest. Well, you also you also kind of Set yourself a little apart from that because you came up and I believe you came up with this which is free agent lifestyle Yeah, so tell me about that. What do you what do you say is a free agent lifestyle? So free agent lifestyle has you know elements of going your own way I mean, it's kind of like you look you do things on your own you build your life up first If you're struggling with dating and you're having problems which guys are typically Complaining about or making issues about the dating landscape women and their attention Well, if you're having problems with that, the best thing to do is build your life and live free first, right? Once you learn how to do that then you can come back to whatever table you want to come to But if men avoid that step they avoid going your own way They avoid living freely first and they jump right from their mama's house Right into a relationship where they're co-habitating and this day and age. That's a recipe for disaster All right, that man is ill-prepared for life and he's going to mess his life up Most likely based on the statistics Now I'm gonna another question is and I'm sure you have gotten this and I think a lot of single guys will get this a Single guys that are living the free agent lifestyle. Why aren't you in a relationship? Is there something wrong with you? I Mean, yeah, that question comes up because of just the conditioning everybody assumes Your you know your next step into adulthood is going to be a relationship, right? The minute you have a couple relationships and you say well, I'll just be by myself Automatically they want to push you back into why you should be in a relationship Well, you just meant the wrong one or you need to keep trying the right ones out there Not all women are like that. Well over time as a man you learn Well, I could keep chopping away at this until I find the right one after 80 years Or I can experience life. Mm-hmm. And what I've noticed is this when I chose to experience life Yeah, 90% of women said I don't want no parts of that guy But a good 10% of women said that's interesting. All right And you can come back and get those 10% I think what guys do is we want validation from every woman All right, we want every woman to look at us We want every woman to think that we're handsome and and smart and got a big dick All right, we want every woman to believe that now in the real world You're not gonna get that much attention. All right, not in today's world So in reality instead of focus on a hundred percent of women Just focus on a few that focus their attention on you then you might be able to have a big better deal with it But relationship-wise, it's not the time 2020 2021 It's the time to live for as free as possible Now when it comes to dating, okay a lot of guys I think Blame blame women for The issues they have rather than owning up. Yes to what they allowed in their life. Yes You know, it's right now when we see I People watch my content and think I'm blaming women, right?  They don't have a problem doing it It's just us not willing to accept who they are and then by virtue of not accepting We allow them to do things and we give them all this rope in the relationship And then they do exactly what women are going to do now. Here's what happens. We blame them For not being the man in the relationship okay now I Told men on my channel going into 2021 and 2022 we're no longer gonna blame women and it shouldn't sound like that. We're gonna start blaming men Because it's too much information out here Related to female nature.  I mean we're here Giving you this information and you're instead of listening to us You're believing women and I'm gonna tell you that's gonna be a recipe for disaster So we got to own up to all a lot of our mistakes No, I'm sure I'm sure like like me and you I'm sure you have those friends in your life that always have to have a girlfriend yes, oh and Is it true and this is what I believe is that?  I mean as long as I've known him He's been divorced break up divorce break up.  Hey, let's go to the angels game. He's like, I got a ticket for you I'll say, okay, I'll show up with him and then he's got a woman there and I'm like, bro Why are you bringing her? I thought we were chilling. Oh, well, you know, she wanted to go and then it's just some girl He met online. It's not even a girl that you know, they haven't got a relationship and I go, bro Why don't you take a break? Why don't you take a break? But these type of men are conditioned That you have to have a woman in order for society to validate you and to be honest with you He's kind of right because look at what they do to us. Look at what everybody does to us We say, well, I'm gonna be a free agent. I'm gonna go out and do what I and we still we get shamed. So to be fair He doesn't get shamed or he doesn't get labeled anything because he has a woman with him But he's comfortable with that Where or he's uncomfortable with the idea of being shamed whereas me I'm not I go. Well, listen my money's stacking I'm not losing my business. Right. I'm not distracted And life's going good Yeah, everybody has those friends and I mean I'll bring up a recent friend of mine that his his actual words were I don't like your beliefs your beliefs and your thoughts and your views about women Now meanwhile It's the same guy who moved his ex-wife in They have no sex. She lives in his home The and now this is before you know, he had he had said this to me after he had asked me Well, I need to get her out of there and I think that's a good idea It's also the same guy that reconnected with an ex-girlfriend He went across the state to visit her. He moved her whole house When they went to go to sleep at night She said I don't want you sleeping in my bed and he actually slept on the floor See So I'm examples of the the guys that don't like our message, but they're in these type of relationships and you go Wow, but they think they're better than us, right? Because they have a girlfriend, but they don't do anything with them. I don't know what's amazing Yeah, it's just that it's it's it's the whole point of view and I think what you do is is your you're basically Having men work on yourself Yes, I mean that's the that's the number one thing that I do whether you know training or Or working on my business working on my home And and you know that to me is important as a man We got to be men before we can bring something else into our life and that's for sure So another question I'm going to ask you is Let's talk about social media And dating apps and what has it done to the dating world? Man, I'll tell you it's um, it's made a complicated issue a little more complicated Um, you know, if I just take a general stance if I was just saying in general Uh, they're bad for everybody right and I could just talk make talking points on that Sure You're the the amount of attention that I could give to one lady Compared to what she can get on a dating app and instagram and social media I can't compete Now could I find somebody I could All right, if I just you know, uh, you know With some time Taking some years to find the right one that is able to balance social media apps and dating apps and myself Sure. I mean she's out there But is it worth my time to go find that woman? I think honestly That is the biggest other than the law is not changing related to family courts. That's been the biggest A black eye to relationships Moving forward as long as there's dating apps and women believe that they got thousands of options But they get still complained. They can't find one which is mind boggling Women had three options and found them in all right back in 40 years ago They had three options to pick from and found a man women today have thousands of options Can't find one can't settle on one. They're all garbage This gives you an indication Of the mind state that this available options have has given them Too many options to pick from and they can't choose one Okay And here's the deal When you get married to one and luckily I wasn't married during the social media and dating app phase I was married without that. So in order for me or her to have an affair You have to have the person right there, right? You have to actually have to know them. Well now Your wife could have what's app kick Instagram Snapchat Dating apps on the side I mean various Various degrees of dating apps She could have 10 different things loaded on her phone And have these running conversations with people in the middle of your relationship and marriage now to me That's a violation of any sort of definition of relationship. There's no way you can run a real relationship doing that There's no way and not in my mind In their world. Yes, because their world they need socializing. They're the that's how they get through life socializing So they need this socializing But to me you can't have an honest commitment with that So in in my definition marriages are doomed as long as those exist Well, would you agree like on dating apps? I think it was I believe it was pat steadman said When he talked about dating apps that it's the How did he put it? I'm gonna paraphrase him, but the It's the easiest entry To something will will bear the worst fruit basically is what I think Yes, so yeah, right. Um Well, what typically happens I've done a stream Related to lily's mirror and I broke down Uh, the you know the story of lily's in the Torah in the jewish, uh folklore basically saying That the men that are in lily's mirror are demons, right? And so what's happening is In that den of demons she procreates with demons and produces more demons into the world and i'm thinking about it And i'm going this is what's happening The men that are getting the at-bats Which in the theory of mgtow or whatever It's 20 of men getting at-bats with 80 of women. What's coming out of these relationships are nothing good Very few positives come out of here. There may be one that say well, I met my husband on a dating app But there's so much procreation Uh fornication demon production, all right single motherhood out of these things That it's more reflective of negative outcomes All right, them choosing negative outcomes based on their lust As opposed to choosing a man from the entire picture And the world is actually bearing fruit, right? I mean these relationships are bearing fruit of what's being produced in the world The young children today are addicts of social media That's all they know So all future relationships will have the component of dating apps and or social media And now the dynamic of what was a traditional relationship can no longer be That's just what's happening.  I'm 58 years old. So Looking good though, by the way. Thank you. Yeah, I mean Jesus So, um I mean I grew up in the time to where when you wanted to meet a girl say even like in high school There was no cell phone There was the home phone Well, you got her dad. That's right make it past her dad to even speak to her And then you had to hope dad wasn't on the extension listening to you exactly So there was a whole different dynamic In dating meeting There wasn't you know when you made a date with somebody it was pretty much set and goal I mean you were you were set now. I'm sure there's a lot more flaking A lot more, you know, just just not being realistic because Their options are so much more than they are back then So Well, you still had to even even when you picked the girl up you had to go through dad, right? You couldn't just pick her up waiting the card You had to knock on the door All right, go up to the door meet the dad all right the kid You know came and kicked you in the shin all right the dog licked your leg and humped it I mean there was there were steps before you even got her out of the door now a girl were like, oh, I'll just meet you there And um, she'll forget guys. I've been on dating apps with women Check them with them the night before And the day of are we still meeting and that brought to be like, oh, I forgot I had a date. All right, you know because Literally for for them to keep track with the amount of at bats that they're getting I could see why one will slip through the crack. I mean it happens to me Uh, but most of the time they're busted pills buried biscuit cans. All right They ain't a lot of you know hot chicks after me. I'm gonna have to work I have to work hard for the hot ones.   All right, so stop the bs There's a lot of fat women having a lot of sex. All right, and the reality is What's that's doing to the dynamic is?  Oh, I ain't coming I ain't coming right because she knew she had to get on the phone get you on the horn Get you before you left your place So the dynamics of this and and before I got married there was no text messaging on phones like before when I was dating to get married to my wife You couldn't text We didn't get together on text when we talk. I mean when we had to communicate we talked on the phone Um and coming out of that it was a whole new dynamic. There was instagram and dating apps So yeah, this this technology now affords people more choices But again looking at the data just look at the data Of modern relationships more divorces less marriage less children being born and we got more options We literally got it all right here in the palm of our hand and we're failing at it What why why do you think men are failing at it? Well, first of all, I think the dynamic of what men are doing they changed as well So we talk about a lot about what women are doing the dynamic of men is that because women are more sexual Right, we're we're falling for the sex first, right? So we're getting the sex. We're getting the reward But in terms of the long-term relationship Some guys get de-napped all right They get a little bit of sex and then they get stuck with that woman But then that woman starts playing games on him and he doesn't know how to control her So he's he's he doesn't have a masculine approach to it So he keeps staying on the marketplace trying to scratch that itch But overall, I think there's men more men are simps And more men are weak as opposed to being in the masculine position And the reason why is women have the advantage?  What's a simp? A lot of people ask that question. Um, and a lot of people have a different definition, but uh The the standard definition for me is someone that idolizes mediocre Peace leave is what I call it on my show, which is pussy, right? You idolize a mediocre woman Okay, and that's what I think a lot of guys are doing.  That that would be the line that I would draw there Now when people go above and beyond that and say she she deserves the world and people need to be doing this And I would marry you. I would drink your bath water That's simping.  That was gonna be my next question The 304 so 304 came along with the uh calculator remember in school you had a calculator And uh, you could type little uh numbers in there and get a word So i'm gonna do it for your audience here. I'll type 304 into the calculator and then when you hold it upside down What does it say? Yep Ho e okay, so in order to pass by the sensor sometime you got to come up with creative names I didn't come up with it. It's been around for a long time, but 304 uh, there's women here that That aren't very good women and we pedestalize them. We're in the age of women worship And when men do that overboard we just call them a sim Another word that or another phrase that you use and it took me a while and i'm gonna take a guess at this one Oh 49er Yes, is that and now this is just a guess. Is that like a gold digger? No, it is not like a gold digger.    You might match with her on tender Oh, I got this one. This is gonna be an easy one Well, a lot of times the fours are getting a lot of attention because guys are like I don't have anything to lose. I'll just ask her for sex. I'll ask her out I'll get so she has more at bats and more men after her and therefore she raises her expectations by the time you show up So she starts asking you for a relationship. She starts asking you for two or three dates All right, she wants to be treated like the women who were rated nine and a 10 on the scale and you're like You like that doesn't match up ma'am. All right, that's not what I'm gonna do.   They're the they were the gold diggers. They were the Gold I can see that yet a 40. Yes.  Yes. Yes the hobo sexual That's a guy or a girl who doesn't have a house All right, she's at the end of her lease or he doesn't have his life together And he's basically gonna be homeless Where he has to shack up with a busted pills buried biscuit can in order to make it now What happens is with hobo sexuals these people tend to Take on more red flags than a chinese parade. They'll go live with a woman and this woman don't she got a 530 credit score All right, she's overweight by 60 pounds. She's overaged by 10 years. All right. She's got another kid All right, ex-husband living in the next bedroom. I mean disastrous All right, but because he doesn't have his life together or she doesn't have her life together She's at the end of her rope. She'll start batting her eyes at you.  They they use the laws of attraction To find residency Gotcha, so let's that'll that'll kind of segue into Men dating younger younger than them Okay, do you agree with that? I think yeah, I think it's natural What is uh Let's say a guy's 35 years old. Yeah, what what is a good age for him?  I mean if you just want to sleep with a woman sleep with whoever you want All right But a 28 year old woman by this particular point has been to college All right, most of them go to college They fornicated their way through the freshman dorm and the sophomore dorm They got their off-campus apartment and went through the fraternity guys football players and whoever else was popular on campus By the time she got out of school She did whatever she needed to do and now she's looking at she's at the end of her rope She's looking at maybe a couple of good years left Living her sex in the city dream Now she's going to toss herself at you and say she still has worth and value if she's over 28 approaching 32 Uh, that's going to be a dangerous point because her intentions Are not to be a loving wife.  You can't teach her You can't teach her. All right, this woman is who she is and she ain't she's never going to change. So why waste your time? Why complain and how come you're going to do this and how come win this and no just go ahead and Just give up. All right. Move into a younger model. Now if you just want to sleep around I will tell you honestly women between the age of 38 and 48 going to give you the best sex They're going to succeed you till you're dry. They're going to do monkey double backflips on you like crazy. All right, but You're following 50 a hundred different men Now take take it or leave it I prefer honestly To get somebody who's in that 24 23 24 25 year old range Okay, you can get them and you know, tell them what you want your expectations She looks at you as a person of value maybe a mentor maybe for money whatever it is But at least you can tell her what you'd like and she more likely will be willing to do it Now do you think that? um When it comes to dating do you think Men and women are different when it comes to age When do you mean when are they different? Well, how do I put this? Um, let's say Does a does a man's version of dating change? Compared to a woman's version of dating say at 40 years old Yeah, I think so. Um, the the unfortunate thing is you know as a guy past the age of 40 Uh, typically women are they've had their fun. They've been the girls nights out vegas Miami they got plowed through they mess with a couple of professional athletes and Musicians. All right. They've done that. They've they've lived the best possible life that they can possibly live Now a guy in his 40s has not even done that yet We haven't even reached that potential because everything that we have to get we actually have to earn to get backstage Passes we got to buy backstage passions for a woman before 30 40.   All right We're finally ascending to heights. Our money's getting better. We've been invested in our business or our job Uh, we've got promoted.  She's declining by the minute So her expectations on the date are to find somebody That would be willing to ride that decline out And we're at 40 going what the hell are you going to give me? Right? I'm going my way up Why am I going to take myself off the market for you? This is the trouble of dating in the similar age range once you get in that 40 position Okay Because literally as a 40 year old man my expectations are you know, I'm less patient with women Um, I've learned that women could be dangerous.  They could take you to court Most men in their 40s, they've already been through some traumatic experiences That cost them either their job their career their children There's a whole bunch of things that men have lost by 40 So he's going into it a little bit more tiptoe like hold the hold up And I actually at in my 40s. I got better chance With the woman in her late 20s than I do Making a relationship out of a woman in her in her Mid to early 40s. All right to me. It makes no sense Other than sexually Now you do private coaching, correct? Yes. How do you tailor your coaching say? With a 50 year old guy and a 25 year old guy. How was that tailored? How do you? So just this week I had a guy in his 50s and then today I had a call with a guy in at age 30 And it's funny the issues that you're dealing with are normally Different because a 30 year old guy He doesn't have the finances his life is really unstable Okay, he's dealing with issues that the 50 year old guy's not even dealing with a 50 year old guys typically dealing with Oh, you know, I uh got with this single mother and we you know, I thought I could make it work She's 42 Two kids, uh, I moved her in and then she went eight right or she she's not giving me sex anymore Some of those things tend to happen to those type of guys 50 And what they're trying to work out is getting out of the programming of what I call beta male programming they're trying to get out of that programming And realizing what I'm selling to them, which is Your life is going to be good for the next 15 years any woman that you bring in similar age She ain't getting no better By the minute she getting worse by the minute, right? So that's what I'm counseling 50 year old guys 30 year old guys I'm saying man. You better take two years Figure out what you want to do with your life before you roll the dice on a woman Because a lot of 30 year old guys believe it or not they're dating older women They're dating older women and older women are going down to date them because They'll more likely get a relationship out of a younger guy Than the older guy. But what I find with these younger guys Is that they're being dated by older women older or uglier women that um These younger guys don't have their life together Right, they typically are hobo sexuals.  They're stuck with somebody who's got major issues And they're trying to figure out what they need to do to get over that hurdle to get through enjoying life That's typically what happened And guys this age they waste years they waste valuable years on No, somebody with very little worth But wouldn't you say then a lot of it really basically is the sex that they're getting This it's the that's the only reason there guy. I had a guy reason is there This guy had a woman with so many red flags. I could not believe it and he knew it He sat down. We made a list. Give me the pros. Give me the cons okay The the cons were outrageous. I would have been running but I'm also not a 30 year old guy getting consistent sex See a 30 year old guy getting consistent sex is not many guys are doing that Despite the fact the guys are running around here. Oh, yeah, I'm getting stop the bulls Not a lot of guys are getting consistent sex at that age. Okay And if he's getting that that's that's changing his judgment And the the idea that he can leave that and make a better life. He he can't see it Now are you saying a 30 30 year old guy in this day and age? Because I think it was different when I was yeah um I think it was I think 30 year old guys in our generation were probably married Probably half of them were married by then Today's 30 year old guy. That's not the case the vast majority of made not having started thinking I mean started their marriage yet I mean I got married at 28 So that means I mean I was starting my engagement process at 26 Right meeting the woman by the time I got married. I was 20s. I mean it was 26 to 28 Most guys had 26 aren't thinking about marriage. I mean they they're not having that so The idea that they're getting consistent sex.  I'm gonna not get my dick wet if I leave this woman Despite the fact that she's a walking red flag Yeah, I think me and you are on the kind of like the same timeline with marriage I kind of I hit that same timeline you did I want to ask you about marriage. What is a good marriage? According to coach greg adams This could be interesting here because you know, I think it's a good marriage is different for everyone Um, I think a lot of good marriages aren't available, but I think Uh because of the dynamics, you're gonna have to have working woman I mean, I don't know if you can't you're not gonna be able to get around that unless you have your own business but Interesting question here. What's a good marriage? I think the the loyalty has to be there Not only short term. This is where I this is where it gets it has to be present long term Okay, and a lot of people don't get this so People can give me and show me good examples of good marriages. They're in their second year. They're in their fifth year But it's not till you get to year eight Year 12 you're 15 in year 20 Whether you can judge if that marriage is good or not And we most marriages don't even make it to year nine. Okay statistically of the divorces 73 of marriages Are in up in flames by year eight So a good marriage to me is a long lasting marriage That has all the markings of what both people Intended from start to finish Most people change dynamically in that time and it is that change that makes the marriage implode Right one person changes or I mean or both changes That's when you have all hell breaks loose and then somebody says well, I said I would do that But now I'm not going to do that anymore Okay. Well now that's a whole different ballgame. How are you going to make that work out? Well, you got to compromise who compromises the most Does the person that says they're changing their their their rules Do they get their way? Well now you have a whole different dynamic. Well by law. I can't leave that woman If I do she gets money now that means she can change her mind in the middle of the marriage And I have to go along with it. Well, I tell guys run for the hills If she does that because if you let it go once she's going to do it again and again and again And now you really don't have what they call a good marriage Let's get into um dating and Dating with race Do you book is our interracial? Relationships do you think they work out most of the time or don't? I think it depends on where you are. I think because I think you're in the south I mean, they don't consider florida the south, but it's the south But um, I think it depends on where you are because a lot of times people think of interracial relationships and they automatically go black and white But I live in a place southern california so mixed in the hospice You could talk about a a person who is persian and mexican, right? so A lot of times those interracial relationships don't get highlighted It's always the black and the white ones that we talk about it's never the You know the asian and the persian or the asian so those relationships seem to be doing well They don't have the problems that the black and white relationships have and because of our history we tend to focus on Black and white relationships, but to me in my mind I don't care about interracial relationships or not. I think The idea of a person finding a good woman Choosing her because of her race And you think it's going to be a better situation. I think that's a flawed plan I think that's that's that's not how you go into relationships picking Now if you say I have a preference for sexually Then that's different right you prefer somebody's attitude or something like that But to say and dismiss a group of people over here I won't date them because they're this skin color All right, no matter what you're doing even if you're a white guy and you say I don't date white girls because all right Then I say well, that's kind of A sweeping generalization Okay on my channel I tend to talk about women and I reflected generally And I go in and I say this reflects all women because we're all mostly american women That we're dealing with I think the mentality of the american woman Is dangerous no matter what skin color she's in That's just my opinion.  Is there differences? Yes, there's differences. However Um, this is how I would say it black women tend to be upfront The first couple of interactions with her are going to be very abrasive. Okay, it's going to be tough It's going to feel like a power struggle until there's somebody that asserts the dominance and the submissive There's always got to be a dominant and submissive. There's no equal relationship Somebody's got to assume the position whoever assumes the position first is the winner So black women tend to want to find out where that dominant submissive line is early white women typically are going to allow you an opportunity to be dominant Until you prove otherwise.  All right up front It looks good, but on the back end is where you pay with white women All right All right, when it comes to the family law court and her having white girl tears and crying and taking you to court And calling the police. All right, they take the cake. All right, they take the cake when it comes to that So, um, you know You got to pick your poison. All right, white women can do be as just as vicious In the courts and with the police and they can win What was that white woman that shot the uh, neighbor? She was a cop All right, and I think in Atlanta or somewhere she went up there and When you get white women crying guys, I don't care what race you are And you're in trouble and the white women knows how to do that. They're very manipulative Because they've been trained that way.   All right eight years later eight years to year 50 gonna be hell all right, so That's just what that's what you go. Have to deal with know what you're gonna deal with Um Let's go back to some mana spear stuff now most of most if not all Guys entry I call it an entry fee to the mana spear is usually through some sort of trauma That's the reason why a lot of guys search for content Maybe come across you other content creators How do you deal with a guy that's like going through a breakup or a divorce? That is is really hurting. Okay Now some guys are different. I'm the kind of guy my brother's the kind of guy we were raised like that We can take a shot to the chest. We can take that punch How do you deal with a guy that can't take that punch? They're gonna be in trouble. Okay, because in our society men For so long we couldn't voice these issues, right? This is the so this is why the message is so popular now Because men can pop on here and find a guy and say he's describing exactly what happened to me And this is the first time in almost history Since I mean in recent american history that men can do that and share these stories And we have to survive Being called names gay hurt bitter in order to keep doing this to benefit other men So now men can turn to us And call me as another man and say man coat. I I can't make it This woman buckled my knees. She's out here subpoena and everything. What do I do? This is the first time in the last 80 years that men can do this So that's the benefit Before men just have to suck it up We couldn't even go to our simp friends and talk about this Remember all your friends and you talk about man. Oh man. She crippling me. They all just don't worry about it Her his wife will come in. Oh, don't worry. You'll find another one Just going out there and try on again. All right, and then guess what? You get set up again And in that one when buckles you right after the previous woman buckles you because you're weak So The good thing is I'm I'm happy to be one of the men that other men can Come in here and at least laugh through the pain When I went through my divorce It was the most painful Thing that I'd ever been in and I've never you know, I've been I've been healthy Thank goodness But and you know, I've lost jobs and had to move cross country several times Did divorce process?     She don't have a man think about all the men That now have to think about their own mom as she ages because she was such a feminist She was so strong and independent. She never remarried now. You got to care for her And you got to try to make relationships work today It's a recipe for disaster for these young men So this is what I highlight for them okay, and you know what this is a kind of a great segue into uh a question I like to ask which is Since you're you're a big part of the manisphere I mean you are and the manisphere is for people that don't know is a collection of thoughts and philosophies whether it be dating lifestyle But this question to me is is important to ask a content creator like yourself How has the manisphere failed men? How's the manisphere failed men, um it could be The I think the issue that the manisphere has Is that we're youtube content creators right at the end of the day we're content creators So we have to find a way to Make this met give this message which is unpopular. It's unpopular even on this platform And we have to give it in a way That is beneficial to us Right as a content creator. So How do we do that?  I can't go get a job I can't I can't apply. Hey, my name is greg adams dude. They they google my name It's over. So How do I do it? Well, I have to monetize it. Well, here's the problem with men men don't invest in these things Right, not a lot of men do they want this information for free And I always tell men well your counterpart women. They're going to seminars. They're buying books They're paying these they're out investing Our rival our rivals message. They bought the love language What the five love languages a hundred million times over My book hasn't sold near that. So Here's the here's the problem that we have The minute we cross the line and try to be a monetizable commodity, well, then either the message gets weaker Or men look at it as he's trying that guy's trying to capitalize On his fame here on youtube Well The minute you do that now you're gonna rub people the wrong way Hey, they're gonna just call you a salesman and a pua artist and all this stuff.  So ultimately I think that's what ends up failing the man's sphere at all and also rivalries I think rivalries is a bad deal okay, um You know as men we're competitive So a lot of times we want to see us do better than the next guy Some guys are here for drama because they're single-raised men and they don't realize we're here not to entertain them all the time We're here to provide the messages So When people think their territory is being threatened or their monetization is being threatened Or they feel like they can make a name off of themselves by mentioning another person's name Well, then that can hurt and fail men too because there's guys that watch you and they watch me now If they consider both of us Men of high esteem and then I attack you tony What did I do to that man? I just made that man have to pick sides And I don't ask for your And I mean it's realistically it's it's a it's a group of philosophies Yeah, I mean it's it's it's it's it's your background Your life and you're sharing that with the world You're sharing your experiences And the best information that you can give to a guy that is probably Going through hell right now and hopefully they're not you know not everybody is But I know and you know that there are a lot of guys that are going through rough times Especially now through the holidays. Yes Yeah, I mean if you're a guy just think about it and this is what happens When people because we're a little tribal here.  How does that help a guy just getting reamed in family court and getting bent over and screwed by the bailiff the judge and the court Magistrate, how does that help that guy?  You see what I mean every man doesn't need Like a guy that just needs he's never been through a divorce. He just want to know how to pick up chicks Well, let's push him over to this guy I'm not going to diss him. I'm just going to say oh, you just want to pick up women go over there At the same time, there's another guy going his he can't even he's paying child support for kids that he has been seeing in three years Does he need to know how to pick up chicks? He doesn't he needs this tribe over here And then we need to correct him build him back up and then make him the man he needs to be so if we can get from attacking each other And learning and understanding that men are and pain when they come here We can focus on the message and then build a better man together as opposed to try to fracture off And claim who's better within this I always say this People on the outside don't see us as any different. So they will all link us all together So don't think your shit don't stink because you think you got a better philosophy Everybody is linked together in here yeah, I mean my personal attitude toward content creators and There's a reason why I've gravitated to your content too Not only did I have the pleasure of seeing you speak live, which to me was a home run at 21 You know, yeah, it was you know, it was it was just an incredible speaker and a great message You know, but to me that I I I gravitate toward Someone that has an end goal And I think a lot of content creators don't give you an end goal at the end of that You know, there's kind of leading you on and there's nothing nothing nothing at the end In other words, follow me do what I say, but there is no ending and to me an ending is a healthy Healthy confident man That has to get together 100 percent That should be the end goal of everyone whether you're pua So I you know, I see that you do always push an end goal for men Yeah, you know, and and I'm proud of you for that because I think that's really really important Yep, and there's times that guys will come to my channel. They follow me for two years And some might say well, we're still talking about this and I say yes Because you might be in what I call the transition phase where you either become a contributor You make your own channel or you just go ahead and leave Well, there's other guys coming in every day at level one Okay, they you know this message they wanted to evolve so fast. Okay. Now we got it now women or this Let's go to the next level. Nope There's a guy over there talking about the next level But here we're taking guys that are in stage one and stage two And that's what we do here. All right.  Don't wash clean cars.   These guys are hurt. These guys are going through some issues that they want answers to So every day You got to clean We got to rebuild a new man Yeah, and I I call it the pile-on effect a lot of times in the chat a guy will ask a sincere question And then it's like simp, you know, you're that you're this you're that Well, you might want to think back buddy because you were that two years ago That that's true. I mean I see that going on sometimes in live chats and and I'm kind of like man I mean just give the guy a chance He he doesn't know what a 304 is. All right. Give him a break. He hasn't watched me But for a few weeks So give him a break. Let him let him try to figure this out. We've all were simps When I came in I was watching Tom like this and saying man, all right And I was learning about they were talking about hypergamy and female nature Never heard of it before Right, I'd never heard female nature. What so until I was able to Digest the message over time then it made sense Then you can see it out in the field. So we got to make sure we give all men time Uh to be the you know reform themselves from simp symptom Yeah, I mean, you know, hey, I'm guilty right now because I took a guess at what a 49 or what exactly, right? Yeah, it takes time to figure that out. Yeah, so I want to do something with you in this quick segment I want to call this segment and I want to really kind of put coach greg on the hot seat. All right, and uh I'd like to call this segment, but coach greg So it's a question. So i'm going to ask you a series of questions You can answer them. You can use that sound effect board And whatever you need to do, but i'm gonna i'm gonna ask a series of questions And just shoot away man. Just uh, right, you know, give me the 100 percent coach greg here. I do my best All right first question is But coach greg she said she's only been with two guys All right, let me tell you something all right anytime a woman opens her mouth She's lying. All right. And the reason why is this is a protect protection strategy She's been with more guys. All right the two guys that she's mentioning are the two She's been in long-term relations with all right.  Just use them as practice But coach greg she only has two kids. Oh my gosh Okay, the the time of uh, bailing out single mothers has ended. Yes, they're practice too Uh, but the reality is those kids will never they will always be the priority In that relationship and you will be required to do things that you won't even be able to do for your own Damn children. Oh your children got to go to disney land, but my children didn't guess what? All right, guess what your children ain't my children. All right here listen a woman that is extricated The the father out of the children's life is basically one of the biggest red flags that you can see avoid But coach greg she's only been married twice before.  So red flag But coach greg she only goes to girls night out once a week All right. Nope. I'll give you a nope on that one Girls nights out is something that you should not accept All right, and listen to the word accept and you let her know that I don't accept it Now don't say allow you can't go now. You're controlling and insecure and now she's got you by the balls just say Any woman that is going to go to girls nights out and Rub on allow guys to buy them drinks and set up opportunities to have dates which has in time rooms Any woman that needs that i'm not going to accept that as a legitimate relationship Therefore, I don't need you as a girlfriend.  All right. Guess what guess what if you only caught her One time cheating. All right. She's cheating cheated a dozen more times after that. You just didn't catch her And guys women that cheat is different than when men cheat I think honestly men need more women than they actually can monogamy just doesn't work for men They actually have to become less of a man to be monogamous But when women cheat the intentions are to destroy the relationship that they're in They cannot cheat and take dick from two different men. It just doesn't work that way Okay, we got a couple more But coach greg She was in an abusive relationship before oh god. All right. Here we go Let me tell you something uh, I feel for people people that have been in abusive relationships But if you look at the statistics men and women abuse each other just about equally It's almost neck and neck and if you actually threw emotional abuse on top women abuse men Way more than men physically abuse women. It's just one look that is uh worse than the other but here's the deal I'm not a therapist. I'm not a counselor.  You're not welcome into this domain and don't let's out Nope At all if that's yours if you're gonna lead off with that excuse to get sympathy points with me All right, I'm gonna point you to the nearest therapist and move on to the next woman But coach greg we're in an open relationship. Oh my gosh. Nope guys um Open relationships don't work for men. All right If you're married to a woman and you're in the open relationship You're gonna get jealous real fast because the amount of bologna ponies that she can guzzle and swallow Compared to the amount of women that you can get she's gonna top you off I mean easily she's gonna and then it's gonna turn into a competition.  I'm in an open relationship and she go. Oh, okay. That's fine Like she'll never go for that the new woman will never go for that But a woman can walk outside and go i'm in an open relationship. My husband doesn't care and that guy will follow her home So don't do it But coach greg, where do I find a good woman? Okay, do I have a noise for that one? Here we go. What happened? Where did all the men go a good woman?  All right If you're looking to find a good woman after the age of 28 35 These people have ulterior motives and that is to beat father time beat the biological clock Find a husband so there they don't have the next 40 years living with cats and eating cat food They have ulterior motives once they get older and they're less trainable. They're less malleable and moldable Go for younger women if you want to try But if she's in a sorority or she went to arizona state Somewhere where they got a football team or a basketball team and she still got friends there Oh, my best friend was the power forward on the basketball team Guess what? All right, you following after that. All right, that woman probably been ran through more times in the hollentunnel You know, you got to be really creative on how you do this Just don't date older women and watch these younger women too.  Um, and I appreciate You know having that ability to do so And I and I think you're doing that. I really do I see that You know men are gravitating towards your content and your message And that tells me you're doing something that's helping other men And in this society in this world we live in right now as men Sometimes we need that help Yes, and I'm glad that so many guys can reach out to you And I think you're doing an incredible job with your content And your coach gang as they call I guess Coach gang. Yeah, the coach gang. Yes Right here. That's the group man But look, I mean, I'm happy to be able to be one of these voices out here because to be honest with you There were men before me that were voices for me. I mean gosh I mean I can't the names of people that actually helped me get to this point Uh, were the men that stuck their neck out there? And were the message for me to continue this so I'm happy to be that And what I think you're doing too and this is my personal opinion, but you're making it About the man not about the woman Exactly is a is a great message to pass to every man But uh going man Coach I appreciate your time Um, I just want to let everybody know my name is tony bruno Um, I'm having a great time here with coach greg adams. You can find my channel at tony bruno t21 surfer you can find me on all social media at t21 surfer Also, I have some great dating coach lifestyle podcast on my channel with the likes of alpha male strategies Steve the dean williams coach eo pat steadman alan roger curry dr. Sean smith Zach small and texas dom and a few others so I'd appreciate to subscribe to my channel and come and check me out check them out How can everybody find you because I think it's very important that we get your message out And so give everybody all your platforms. Absolutely, man I'm here on youtube coach greg adams the main channel, but I got six channels here. So Uh, you might find me on the free agent lifestyle channel to ask coach greg adams channel. Will I answer questions? Um, but if you look up coach greg adams put it all as one word Instagram will come up twitter will come up facebook will come up I've oversaturated the market on social media. So I'm if people have a hard time following finding me It's amazing because women find me all the time They seem to be able to find me and send me nasty messages all the time Well, I hope that this message today with me and you will touch a few guys and and you know kind of You know, we made it fun and I think that's important I think that's a great aspect of of what you do is making somebody that might be hurting or Somebody that is going through a tough time. You make it fun for him You make it make it easier for them to understand You know, so I gotta do that. It needs to be that way So In the words of my good buddy Ivan throne Much love honor and respect to you sir. Thank you, brother. Appreciate you for having me and I appreciate your time We'll talk again. Thank you


Hey guys, so we're quite late here. Obviously the episode's coming out in a couple of hours of most of you probably watched it by now but I ain't watching it because my dad has asked me to kind of respect this whole COVID thing but right now we're just kind of keeping away from each other respecting that whole social distancing thing. So I'm going to continue reading off the comments from my previous episode review like I said I would do even though I'm super late which again I apologize for but it ain't no matter. Supernatural's going to bed for a while again. Mmm that's good fire rock. If any of you haven't seen the news yet it has officially been confirmed that they will not be any new episodes coming out for a while.  I just realized my pretty face looked a little dark there so this is better. All right let's start off.  I'm confused I thought I was watching Supernatural not a comic book show.   You know what actually I've never watched any of the Arrow stuff but I was watching some of the little things like some of the parts that were appearing on YouTube and whatnot and that thing is fucked. I'm kind of weird about what they did to Kevin Conroy. Probably the reason why they couldn't go with the Claire storyline is because the actress is super busy. I think she stars in a Netflix episode depending on how long this lasts they may make their deadline depending on how long this lasts they may make their deadline they have only two weeks of scheduling left and the final is supposed to air on May 16th. Only problem is that Jared is supposed to start his new show in April so scheduling might conflict it won't because his show ain't starting in April guaranteed we ain't going back to work anytime soon. The more closer we get to the end of the season the more I get ready for disappointment. How are they going to end the show? Season five was supposed to be the ending of the show. It could have ended with season eight with closing hell gates or could have ended with the episode of or could have ended with eleven and less dab and the writers can pull something out of their ass as everybody might as well be prepared for disappointing a mediocre end. There is no way it could end on a satisfying and good note. You can't kill God it's been established the balance of the universe and all that goes everything goes if I find it convenient and how they've tiptoed around answering that question are they going to resurrect all the archangels and have them rule heaven? Is Jack going to rule heaven and make more angels? Can CW explain how they allowed the writers to make God evil when previously they were against the idea to kill God at the end of the God of Mara mark? Nothing makes sense no real answers have been given just vaguely talked about and where the hell is Michael? It's the end of days and you can't bring back one of the core characters. Anyone else remember alternate world Bobby? Nope me neither rant over you and me both all the alternative bullshit I just hated it the fucking alternative world was just so dumb pointless episode I don't know or care about any one of the people in this episode of all the drop story lines that decided to bring this one back the one episode I haven't seen because I fast forward through 90% of it thus forcing me to fast forward through this 90% of it I really hope that Jody comes back in one more episode to probably wrap up a character but Kim Rhodes did post something on Twitter the day that makes it seem like it might be the end for her which if it is it's really disappointing not terrible but boring I feel like the last couple of times we've seen Jody has really been there for Claire not herself Jody has been our gateway to knowing what's going on with Claire exactly Claire has not been there they keep focusing on Claire but they don't have her there so they have Jody there to talk about Claire even though Jody is a great character and if that is the end for her fucking sucks what a what a terrible end to a great character one of the best side characters and if you look up how many episodes she's been in she has not been in a lot she's been in I think less than 20 episodes in this entire shows lineage and she's that iconic to have been recognized that much for being in this show so little considering we have over 300 fucking episodes whether the episode was good or bad it just feels like this season has been stalling I agree the last few minutes are the ones that are intriguing but the bad play storyline was far removed from what I cared about in season 15 totally totally agreeable honestly this episode could have been cut down to the last seven minutes and would have been fine there's a lot of you guys talking about that like really I was too light on this episode but that's because I was watching it that much I fell asleep watching it I would have too if I was actually paying attention I agree with you as always I'm seriously cannot believe we are here at the end we haven't even had a real storyline that truly goes back to the beginning where it all began that would have been everything bring back people we care about not kaya the girl I forgot about after they drop that a potential great character again Claire should have been absolutely been in this episode when I hear Jensen vaguely talk about the end it makes me think that Dean will sacrifice himself so if if so with no real storyline this entire season I will will be legitimately bummed totally pointless episode I agree I just don't care about kaya I feel time is running out and they're wasting episodes on side stories about marginal characters this isn't how it should go you can't count there are eight episodes left shut up Dwight supernatural season 15 episodes are really hit and miss there's a lot more messes and there are hits transitional episode that wasn't super exciting but set up that Chuck will be returning to their world now that he destroyed all the others and finally death will be making appearance though keeping the hit the details hidden is while saying the Winchester's are messengers of Chuck's destruction raises an interesting question on their role Jack is the one who's supposed to kill Chuck so does that mean the Winchester's have to get him in position I certainly hope there is no possessions that need to be done oh apparently when the show shut down they just said they had filmed episode one day of filming episode 18 I read the article that most are claiming the most series of short in their seasons oh wow so they might actually obviously but obviously needs to come over the conclusion supposedly directing 19 and hopefully be there geez I this is long I really hope that 15 second wow that's kind of crazy actually the idea of them having to change the shooting schedule they have to go down to episode 16 you know honestly this hiatus could help them though because holy fuck do they actually need to get a storyline together dab said he had an idea but he's fucking bullshitting he apparently says that they've changed things along the way already which is just you're such a shit writer your reviews are not long enough do you guys agree with that I I've been trying to keep them under like five minutes try to keep them for five minutes you know just because most people don't have that long of attention span but if you guys think that I should make my reviews longer let me know real slow episode but at least they subtly acknowledge how many drop story lines they had and that jack is indeed soulless I was wondering about that hopefully they'll be able to conclude the season given the corona shutdown time to kick it into high gear but I'm sure they'll be needless filler oh you bet you anyways those are your comments that I decided to read I'll thank you guys again for giving them once the episode comes out tonight I've tried to watch it but I am going out tomorrow to help someone like actually for you know a reasonable reason so I'm not purposely putting myself out there for no reason but but oh god I need more of this if you guys like this video leave a like and if you're interested in more subscribe otherwise stay safe wash your hands and don't cough on people thanks for watching the video my name is nits and you might remember me from the animated cult classic tv show undergrads it's been a while but I'm happy to say the click is finally getting back together in an all-new movie thanks to a successful Kickstarter campaign but we are still asking for your support to see any and all updates about the upcoming undergrads movie be sure to check out and like the bring back undergrads facebook page and with any luck we'll see you guys soon


Hey everyone, welcome back to Nintendo Prime. We have finally a massive update from Nintendo on the Wave 2 DLC for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. We've been waiting all month for this news and it is here and it is coming next week.  Woo! We're giving away this bad boy right here. So if you would like to win this nice little piece of wall art, some classic Game Boy goodness, go ahead and click on the link down in the pinned comment in the description and editor, take us to that intro. Alright with that out of the way, let's actually get into the content of this, well, you know, DLC. Let's go. Nintendo has finally confirmed that Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Booster Course Wave Pass 2 will be launching on August 4, 2022. That is next week, Thursday. Not even a Friday, a Thursday after weeks or maybe even months of speculation. We now know exactly what courses will be featured in the next release. These include Calamari Desert, Waluigi Pinball, Mushroom Gorge, and a brand new debut track like an actual new one, Sky High Sunday. So the tri-list is as follows, there will be two cups, obviously one of the cups is going to be turn up cup. It's going to include Tour New York Minute from Mario Kart Tour, SNES Micro Circuit 3 from Super Mario Kart, N64 Calamari Desert from Mario Kart 64, and DS Waluigi Pinball from Mario Kart DS. The propeller cup is really, really interesting. We get Sydney Sprint from Mario Kart Tour, Snow Land from Mario Kart Super Circuit, Mushroom Gorge from Mario Kart Wii, and obviously most importantly, the brand new Sky High Sunday Course is the one that ends the final part of this DLC. These eight new tracks join the tracks from Wave 1 and will be available to download next Thursday. Of course, you can access Wave 2 of the Booster Pass if you have access to the Nintendo Switch Online plus Expansion Pass or if you purchased the DLC independently on the Switch, each shop for about $25. Sky High Sunday, the new track will also be added to Mario Kart Tour at a later date, so they're not just going to leave it on 8 Deluxe, although it will be exclusive to 8 Deluxe at launch. And then yeah, they have a little bit of extra information on the website, but it's not really any more informative than the trailer you're already watching. Look, I'm just really happy we're finally getting it and this does actually push things a little bit off. A lot of people thought that the courses needed to actually release in July to meet that every three months, every four months release date, but hey, it is the first week of August and the fact that there is actually a completely brand new course was something that I don't know a lot of people expected. I think most people thought we were just going to continue to see old courses from old games and then, you know, our new courses would just be stuff from Mario Kart Tour. They actually developed an entirely brand new track with such a precedent moving forward where maybe we can start to expect a brand new custom made track every single time to debut in this game and then come to Mario Kart Tour later. So the tracks are being made with Tour in mind, but they're being made first and foremost for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and that part is really, really exciting because, you know, the Tour tracks that get added are cool and feel new to a lot of us, but they're also designed for Tour, not for Mario Kart 8. It looks like this is going to be designed the opposite way. First for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and then for Mario Kart Tour. So in the end, this ends up actually being to me an absolutely fantastic compromise if you were on this ideal. So look, the Wave 2 DLC looks really, really great. I can't wait to play it. Unfortunately, it doesn't launch before Tuesday next week, so it won't be our game stream of the week, but we probably will end up doing a game stream of the Mario Kart Tour stuff the following Tuesdays. So not August 2nd, but actually August 9th, so we'll play through it. And then, I mean, unless I decide to do a launch stream, we'll play through it and do some other craziness there. I mean, who knows, maybe we end up doing a bonus stream on Thursday. So I guess I don't really want to, I haven't really thought ahead on this one. So I guess we'll play it when we play it and we'll live stream it and do tournaments and whatever else we get. Well, we can't really do tournaments, that's right. The new courses aren't in the tournaments. Damn, so I don't know. We'll figure this out as we go. The point is, the Wave 2 DLC comes next week, which is stupidly exciting. And look, we've been waiting for this announcement all week. Now, what I find interesting now that we have this announced is, if you combine this with Kirby's Dream Buffet, the Bandana 3 release day, the Splatoon OLED, and all the news on Xenoblade that's come out, all the news on Splatoon 3 that's come out, you start to get to this point where, with this release, this would sort of have been a Nintendo Direct. If you combine the, what is it, that big third party direct that they did with all the announcements here, if they were to just through this all together in a single direct, you can kind of get the picture of, man, that's like a really full Nintendo Direct. Huh, but you know what, we already talked about it earlier this month how Nintendo decided to take all of their personal, you know, IP-owned announcements and do this whole Twitter direct, social media direct kind of thing. And you know what, for the most part, it's kind of worked out for Nintendo. Despite all the complaints about waiting on this Wave 2 DLC, it's here. And it's here with a bang, with a brand new course. And I think that's going to make a lot of people excited. And now that it's announced, I think we're all just going to kind of forget what we've been saying over the last month, where we've been a little bit frustrated that we didn't know what was coming. So kudos to Nintendo. They seem to always make the wait worth it in some cases. Some people argue the wait for Mario Strikers for a decade. Maybe not worth it, but that's only because of the lack of content. Hopefully they finish that up by the end of the year. I look, I know this is obviously a grander conversation about Nintendo and their sports titles and just releasing what is not a broken game, but an incomplete experience. I don't know, man.  Anyways, folks, I entertain a RoboJance from Nintendo Prime. And I kind of want to end this video by asking you guys a few questions. One, are you really excited for this DLC? And what looks to be your favorite courses? Is it some of the classic courses you want to your favorites coming back? Is it the brand new course? Let me know down in the comments below. In fact, we'll probably do it on two separate polls today on which one these courses from each cup that you're most excited about. So be sure to check our community section. Also, be sure to go subscribe to our Nintendo Prime YouTube channel. We just got channel memberships over there. So if you really love our podcast and you want to throw some extra support, I would encourage you to go join as a member on that channel. That being said, our podcast from last night will be launching on that channel today. The audio version will be going out today as well. Oh, that's a lot to get out of my mouth. Here's the general gist of what's happening moving forward. We're getting Mario Kart 8 Deluxe DLC, way three is coming. They reminded us we're getting 48 total tracks by the end of 2023. And so they haven't adjusted the date. Nintendo sticking to their guns and I'm really, really excited about it. Also, I'm just curious. What do you guys think of the new setup? Obviously, we got a new microphone here and we're trying different angles and different things with it. I'm just curious what your guys' perspective is on this. Do you like the way I have it set up here? Do you like it if it's down here? Do you want it over here? I don't know, guys, we're kind of playing around with things. But for right now, this seems to be working pretty well for me. So you guys let me know and until next time. Nintendo Prime is out. Oh, wait, sorry. Sorry, sorry, Zach. I didn't I didn't mean to. Um, all right, bye.


First of all I'm Jonathan Hall. I'm an assistant professor at Uppsala University. I teach on the social psychology of conflict but mainly I focus on research and in particular in general my research is about the effects of displacement on psychosocial health but also political psychology. And in particular I've been using surveys, field experiments and qualitative interviews in order to get at this linkage between displacement, both migration and the effects of violence and exposure to violence and war-related losses on political psychology. That's my general focus. So I'm gonna start with my previous research which has been focused on a previous migration crisis. So this obviously isn't the first and prior to 2015 a lot of people thought of the Bosnian war as being the largest migration crisis that to rock Europe since the Second World War. And my focus of over the last six or seven years has been on trying to understand the impact of migration, outward migration from Bosnia on political psychology and particular support for the ethos of conflict among refugees and displaced persons from Bosnia. Now my more current research is focused on this particular migration crisis and I'm studying a related set of questions based on some of the findings from that previous research doing field experiments and mixed methods involving surveys and interviews among refugees from Syria and Iraq. And I'll get to that a little bit. So the articles that I'm describing the findings of are at various points in the publication process and what I'll talk to you about is going from published to accepted to under revision to in progress to keep that in mind. So it becomes more tentative as time goes on but perhaps also more intriguing as it's newer data. So to give you a starting point from my previous research I was really intrigued during my doctoral studies that a lot of the public opinion research after Civil War tends to be conducted in in war affected societies you could say in wartime settings and in post war settings and for obvious reasons. But at the same time when there is mass violence you have massive displacement and this makes it difficult for that data to really say anything about large segments of nations that have been affected by conflict especially when they've been displaced outside the country of origin. So we really have this large gap in really trying to understand and have really solid data on the the political ideologies the public opinion in general of refugees. And this is a problem it's a problem because first of all there are a lot of unfounded assumptions I think in research in refugee studies but more in I think in the literature on civil war about the diaspora about refugee communities there's a lot of research on for example when you think of refugees in civil war studies it's often the debates about refugee warriors or the spread of international conflict or the diaspora mobilization that is brought into focus. But at the same time we don't have much especially micro level you know individual level data to really understand what's going on within these communities and especially comparative data to really see what should be the baseline of comparison are you comparing let's say a migrant from Syria living in Sweden with his neighbor or her neighbor that's what was born in Sweden are you comparing them with people from Syria in other settlement countries or in in the country of origin. So we need comparable data we need more systematic data in order to really know anything about what is what are the opinions of the refugee community and within the refugee community. So this is my starting point and from that I wanted to really provide a more careful theorization of two things. One is what are the implications for outward migration on for political ideology outward migration from this the society that has been racked by a civil war for example. And on the other hand what are the implications of the experience of life in the settlement country. So these are the two things that I'm going to focus on. And in particular I wanted to look at political ideology I ended up focusing especially on what we talk about as the ethos of conflict. This is a concept that is developed by Daniel Bartol and it really tries to capture sort of the ethos that develops in times of war. So basically I'm looking at what are the effects of outward migration life in the settlement country on support for the ethos of conflict. So to start then what is this ethos of conflict. Well we're talking about basically the set the interrelated set of societal beliefs that develop as a result of this stressful crisis situation. These are beliefs about the in-group, the in-group's goals, the goals of the out-group, perceptions of the legitimacy of in-group goals, the delegitimization of out-group goals, demonization oftentimes of the out-group, perceptions of in-group victimization at the hands of the out-group in terms of also the need for security and the means that are necessary to attain security. Also beliefs about for example the importance of unity, the importance of patriotism and even specific conceptualizations and understandings of peace. So you can think about this as a whole set of beliefs that are actually interlinked and interrelated and this ethos of conflict it develops in specific situations under specific conditions. So in a conflict, in a conflict crisis you could say, the situation is very chaotic. There's a lot of uncertainty and a lot of stress. You're perceiving speeches by political leaders, major actions taking place that are come to you as an individual through the media, through social media, through watching the news and seeing for example the movements of actors, killings taking place, rumors spreading about what's happening in your community, getting closer to your home and so on. This creates huge levels of uncertainty for people and so uncertainty also at the same time the conditions that this arise in are, while they create uncertainty, they also for example undermine your sense of self-esteem, a sense of positive identity. So this basically the set of conditions that give rise to the ethos of conflict are aggravating basic needs, basic needs for security, basic needs for certainty, basic needs for self-esteem and so on. And the ethos of conflict is something that actually helps people to function in their daily lives in this threatening environment. It helps to produce uncertainty to attach yourself to this ethos of conflict. It helps you to have a positive sense of self-esteem and in a comparison without groups. It helps you to make sense basically of an otherwise threatening and chaotic situation. So this is the ethos of conflict and these are some of the basic needs it meets for human beings on the individual level. But on the group level it also this ethos of conflict also enables groups to fight and attempt to win wars. So this is both meeting individual and group level needs within the context of the conflict. So this is the ethos of conflict. Now, and there's a wonderful and vibrant literature on this especially coming out of Israel which is good to attach to. And I wanted to understand sort of what's what are the implications then of outward migration from this setting. And the basic basic point I'm trying to make in in my previous papers on this is that you're no longer exposed to those societal conditions, the political conditions, the economic conditions, the social communication that gives rise to and also sustains that ethos of conflict even after the war ends. So the politics of collective memory can continue to to make this ethos of conflict intractable and difficult to change even after the war ends. But that's because the societal conditions are such that there's conducive to the ethos of conflict. If you think about Bosnia today, there's still talk that it's, you know, it's possible for this war to reemerge. The conflict itself is not over per se. But but if you migrate, you're not you're not actually exposed to those same conditions any longer. So on a fundamental level, we should expect that all else being equal outward migration from that situation could have positive effects in the sense of undermining support for the ethos of conflict. On the other hand, I wanted to think about what are the processes that take place in settlement countries and try to understand how would these shapes support for the ethos of conflict? And in particular, I wanted to focus then on what we all tend to think about, which is integration, but really what is integration and try to make it more of a careful concept more tightly defined. And here I wanted to look at two things, looking at the literature on assimilation and acculturation. I divided divided the concept into two components, one being socio economic integration, meaning labor market attachment, income, and so on. So basically, achieving parity with the local population in your settlement country. So this is socio economic assimilation. And on the other hand, acculturation processes, and that's a very interesting literature that one can explore. And in doing so, I found a very natural linkage between acculturation on the one hand and support for the ethos of conflict. And that is through identity complexity. So acculturation, you can think of in a simple way as being a way of resolving to basic issues. And on the one hand, it is how to what extent do I wish to maintain my cultural heritage? And on the other hand, to what extent do I want to interact with and engage with and identify with the dominant culture of the settlement country. And these two, the sort of resolving of these two questions kind of creates a matrix of four boxes, you could say on a basic level. One is, you could assimilate, meaning that you could downplay your cultural heritage, and focus instead on your attachment to the dominant cultural in the settlement country. On the other hand, you might have basically a separation strategy where you actually focus on maintaining your cultural heritage and distancing yourself from the dominant culture of the settlement country. In between these, you have something you that we call biculturalism or integration and integration in the acculturation sense. And that is where you actually value and seek to maintain both your heritage, and also seek to interact with and identify with the heritage culture. And the fourth box is they call marginalization, which is that you tend not to focus on maintaining your heritage. And you also do not strive to interact with and identify with the dominant culture. So you have these four boxes. And what's interesting in that literature, especially as you move into thinking about the issues like issues like prejudice, is that a acculturation then ends up being you can place it on a scale of complexity. You have more complex strategies of acculturation that you can pursue in terms of your identity. And you can have more simplistic aspects or strategies of acculturation. So for example, assimilation is a less complex strategy in terms of your identity than is biculturalism. And what we also know five minutes, wow, that went fast. So I'll try not to speed up, but instead try to simplify that to make that short is just simply that biculturalism is associated with identity complexity. And at the same time, identity complexity is associated with political tolerance towards outgroups, because when you attach yourself to multiple social identities, each of those comparisons are less important and have less evaluative significance for you. So when one of those categories is threatened, you have other resources to draw upon for your meeting your basic needs, basic needs, for example, positive identity. And so to make that long story short, and that's actually covering most of my previous research, I would say, on the case of Bosnia, what I do find when I did large scale surveys in representative surveys in both Bosnia, Herzegovina and in Sweden among refugees from the Bosnian war and also the larger Yugoslav population in Sweden, what I found was that those living in Sweden express less support for the ethos of conflict at the group level, meaning and this being the result perhaps as I argue of being extracted from those conditions that give rise to the ethos of conflict. On the other hand, socioeconomic assimilation is associated with reduced support for conflict and biculturalism is also associated with reduced support for when I say conflict, the ethos of conflict. It gets more nuanced than that. We can talk about also different versions of cultural heritage, which people maintain and that was an interesting finding. So the Yugoslav identity is alive and well in Sweden, whereas it's quite dead in Bosnia. So and that had positive implications for people's identity. So it's not just biculturalism, but the way that you can construe your own heritage in more or less complex ways. That can matter. So this is the overall focus of my previous research. Right now I'm conducting research on this current migration crisis trying to go a little further and examine looking at using field experiments this time, trying to understand trust and altruism. So trust and altruism are really the underpinnings of social cooperation in society. When you think about what what creates a smooth functioning society, we need trust and we need other regarding preferences or the desire to increase the well-being of others. This smooths all of our interactions in economic life and social life and so on. So this is the underpinnings of social cooperation, but what's the impact of warfare on social cooperation? So that's the starting point for this new project, but then I want to look at that across many different contexts and that's how it links to this previous literature. So I want to follow the impact of displacement and exposure to violence on trust and altruism. For example along the Syrian border in Gaziantep is where we're going to have one field site across Turkey to the seaborder to Europe within Greece, Germany and Sweden both in asylum centers and after the asylum process to look at how do the conditions in which people are living shape the relationship between exposure to violence on the one hand and social cooperation trust and altruism. Trust within groups, between groups, altruism within groups and between groups. And this is a dimension of my previous research, which I didn't mention, which is that, for example, in the literature on reconciliation, in the literature on political tolerance prejudice more generally, what we find across many, many, many contexts is that on the individual level people exposed to violence express greater support for the ethos of conflict. Right? And why is that the case? It's the corollary of what we talked about, what gives rise to the ethos of conflict at the group level, but on the individual level on the individual level. And this relates a bit to psychological health and physical health, which Sophie is going to talk about a bit later. But on the individual level, people exposed to violence experience psychological distress. And that leads to a greater perception of threat, right, posed by outsiders. You know, maybe I should be a bit careful now, right, that I have experienced this, maybe I should be more careful. And it also gives rise to an attachment to the ethos of conflict as a way of coping with this process, as you have greater need, right, to for the ethos of conflict, because it is a coping process, right, I draw upon this for support. It's so this group cohesion that you experience is can be a positive experience on some level for for people and especially for those that have been most exposed to threats and to violence and so on. So they draw upon the social and community resources in order to in order to cope with their experience of violence, right. But the thing is, that whole literature is really it's really studied in the context of armed conflict. And my thinking, my theory is that I think that it's actually the context in which this takes place. That is the determining factor. If you look in the literature and psychology in general on how people respond to violence, for example, there is a whole set of literature on post traumatic growth. So to contrast that with post traumatic stress, people can actually bounce back from these life threatening events to experience post traumatic growth. In wartime setting, that might look like cohesion, you could actually grow, you could actually become a better person in the eyes of your neighbors and so on. But that leads to cohesion within your group and polarization and distance to out groups. But that process is in a threatening environment. So what happens when you're in a situation of low threat, both at the situation in your home country changes over time, but also if you yourself are displaced to different environments, very threatening environments is one example, you can end up in key lists where the bombs are still falling, or you might end up in an asylum process, which is stressful, but not threatening on the in the same sense, or you might end up several years down the road integrating socioeconomically and in terms of acculturation in your settlement country. If it's a peaceful settlement country, these are very different contexts. And I think into that, in that setting, that exposure to violence could actually have pro social effects, even towards out group members. So since I have no more time left, I just mentioned one point, zero minutes, which is that we just collected new data on this new project. And just analyzing the basic this, the results from Sweden, among 100 participants in a large field experiment that we did in asylum centers, three asylum centers in Sweden, we find exactly that, that the greater the level of exposure to violence and losses as a result of the war, the more pro social behavior you express in the experiments that we've conducted towards both in group members and out group members. And it makes sense on some level on some level, because when you're not exposed to the threat anymore, you could see other victims as just victims of the same war rather than as an enemy or potential threat. That's all I had. Thank you.