There was a comment from a woman that said, you know what, you're absolutely right, I'm married. My husband and I have two kids and I was having a conversation with a woman at work that does the exact same job. She's on the same pay scale, makes the exact same money as me and she gets an extra $1,000 a month over what her and her husband get combined. So combined income, two incomes in the household, one income with the kids because she's got custody of the kids makes $1,000 more as a single mom than what the family gets. The state encourages single motherhood.  Can you believe that? Yeah, I believe it. Man, look at our welfare system. There's people that make more money in the welfare system and people working. I mean, like they're comparing notes. You know, that's what we do. We like to compare notes. That's what we're doing. We're swapping ideas, we're comparing notes, but when these two women were comparing notes, she learned that her girlfriend as a single mother makes $1,000 more a month than she does. And a lot of the narratives that a lot of women have is, well, you don't need a man. You don't need a man. So it's like, well, why wouldn't she leave?  Yeah. She got what she wanted. She got the kids. And you got the money now too. You know what? The state is the head of the household.  Men have 100% responsibility, but we have no authority anymore. Whereas a few hundred years ago, we had responsibility and authority. Back to Stephanie Coons' book, Marriage and History. One of the things that happened a few hundred years ago was the family was responsible for school, for healthcare, for care of the elderly, for resources, for linear, like everything. Like there was no state involvement in anything, but slowly throughout time as a function of this, you know, this change with this dynamic of the female primary social order, it's changed to the degree where men still have 100% responsibility, but the authority's been stripped away and given to the state and to the feminine imperative, and that's not a disparaging statement. Just pointing to the facts, but that's where we've gotten to. Yeah, we're in a nanny state for everything and what makes things worse is, for the kids, this perpetuates behavior. You have, whether it's a daughter or a son being raised by a divorced parent, depending on where they are, obviously they're- 80% of the time, it's usually the mother.  Do you know what the consequences are? Oh, you tell me.   Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. He was the only one that had both parents intact in the household.    No, it's called Father's Day. Like let's stop hijacking a day for fathers and trying to repurpose it and brand it for feminine imperative. Men are needed, both parents are needed, right? You need masculine energy and you need feminine energy. You ever hear about that study they did in Africa with poaching, you know, with elephants? No. So, you know, this is an interesting piece because poachers got out of hand for a while and they were killing all the adult male elephants for the ivory. And what ends up happening was the young male elephants that didn't have fully developed tusks, they ended up misbehaving, like behaving incredibly badly and they were actually killing a lot of these, I think it was white rhinos. I can't remember the rhinos, but they would charge and kill these rhinos. And they almost became extinct because of the poaching of the ivory for the adult male elephants. When they got that back under control and the adult male elephants were, you know, back in place as a place of authority in, you know, the pride tribe, you know, whatever it's called, the rhinos recovered, the young male elephants behave better. Like it's throughout, you know, the animal kingdom. You need masculinity, like you need strong leaders and men in that capacity- Mentors, men, teachers, like fuck, men, that's not rocket science. Yeah. I mean, that's why these guys in the videos are like, hey, rich man, you like the father I never had because there's an absenteeism. I'll tell you from my own personal experience, the reason I was a motherfucker when I was younger, wow. You didn't have a dad, right?  If you get what I mean. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like ghost. Okay, so like you left the family or he was like a piece of furniture? Piece of furniture. Okay, so he was in the house, he just wasn't interested in being a father.  Got it, okay. Physically, he was there. Of course. And like, is it any surprise that you, because my dad would reel me in when I was a kid.  Dude, I remember my dad, when I was like 16 or 17, like I started pushing, right? Like I was like pushing in a boundaries.  I mean, kids have a way of throwing rocks in the ice to test it, right? So I was pushing boundaries. And one time in the backyard, my dad was like, he was coming at me and I was like dodging and I'm like, yeah, you can't get me.  And he couldn't get me, he got pissed off. Cool down, you know, 10, 15 minutes later, I'm walking down the hallway, he's going the other way. You know what he did? Body check to you? Soccer punched me, right? Shoulder plexus, knock the wind out of my lungs. But guess what? I learned who the head of the household was, right?  But I think it's important that, because moms can't reel in kids like that. No. They just can't. It's like- Especially boys. Especially boys. Yeah. Especially boys.  Complete absenteeism of fathers.  You know, are you pooing okay?   She's like, don't worry about it. Just be yourself. The right girl will come along. Just be a nice guy, right?  And then they end up being this guy that gets incredibly bad results in life because they don't like less agreeable men, make more money, have more sex, are happier.  Yeah, like, you know, before this talk, I said, I see a trend. There's a saying, it takes a village to raise a child. It did, yeah, at one point. And now the village is a state.