Welcome to your 21st century play experience. Please take this time to turn all phones to their utmost loudness and most obnoxious volumes and vibrations. Flash photography is not prohibited, but it is discouraged, as some of our performers are prone to ungovernable rage triggered by flash photography. Please don't eat or drink during the performance, unless you are going to pass out or something due to hypoglycemia, for instance. But don't make a thing about it, okay? Because we all want a candy bar, too, right now. This performance uses light and special effects, including brief exposure to the void of space. Running time for this performance is between 3 and 12 hours, and there will be two 10-minute intermissions. Please refrain from throwing objects towards people's eyes. This is good advice anytime.  To begin with, I want to talk about my oral problems. My mouth is like that of a cuckold, right? It's so vetted and disturbed, is it? Right? A lot of germs and bacteria. It's probably scurvy or gingivitis or herpes simplexx. If I spit, you must forgive me. It is the only relief that I can offer myself. I have given permission as a narrator to explain why we're all here. Some as paying customers, others as willing listeners. Now, behold the truths I must unfold before it is all too late. Behold the thesis. 21st century theater is dead. Dead like disco. Dead like a donkey. Dead like Dostoyevsky.  Who is dead? Well, we'll come back to the disco. For now I understand that we are here to close the door on this cultural relic, so that future generations of privileged phone zombies can pork and watch sit-pals without having to put on anything nicer than shorts to go to the theater. I'm sorry. That is gross. That is eating the floor. What happened to be wearing shorts? You know, don't feel bad just because I said that, you know? I mean, theater isn't an occasion anymore. It's trying to see a train wreck. Oh, Hamlet doesn't know his lines. He's saying something about pizza sandwich.  Schauenfreude. But statistically, none of you have seen Hamlet Live, and those of you who did see Hamlet Live probably hated it. The odds that somebody saw Hamlet Live and liked it are just so negligible. It's not for us. We're here to feel good and dig. Take out your phones and play with them. I don't get paid either way. Wet them out and take pictures of how great I look. But if you don't have a cutting-edge phone, then what are you doing here? Because you should really be out there trying to earn enough money for a cutting-edge phone. Because in the end, the phone that they bury you in better be able to call through six feet of moist earth, and oftentimes a concrete retaining layer. Tennessee Williams is dead, and buried someplace he didn't want to be, and his ghost hunts the bars as well reported to this very day. Tony Cushner did Lincoln, and he is all done. You probably don't even know who Tony Cushner is, but he wrote the last legitimate play called Angels in America, but he is now done with the wacky theater shenanigans. We are alone out here. We are flying fish at the zenith of our trajectory, soon to return to the sea, to be eaten by larger, less cultured fish, such as the nature of the universe and entropy. And we are not here to debate that. We are not here to pay homage to the dead age, but to imagine a time so far in the future that our time is as relevant to them as the past is to we here in the present. Presence! To the year 2525, where mankind is still very alive. And if you get that joke, then you already know your ticket is paid for itself. But no, actually, in keeping with the title of the work, the year is in fact 2095, and humanity is still inexplicably so polite, despite war, famine, plagues, apathy of the gods and the anger of the aliens. The age of the robot, man, has persevered. He has seen the invention of the flying car and the untold death caused by drunk driving, rage in the air and on the ground. I'm really sorry about that. I don't have, like, the doomsday virus or Ebola or anything, even mildly contagious. You have to be assured that if I bite anyone here on stage or in the audience, that it's all part of the show, I am acting, merely acting. 3,000 years ago, there were roughly 7 artists. A few people painted some things on caves about 15,000 years ago, and it was all the rage in 20th century paleontology. By the 21st century, there were approximately 7 billion artists give or take. Because even if you can only just write your name, English is an art, and that makes you an artist. Not a good one, perhaps. But perhaps maybe you made a boss in class some time, and it was bad, but you would even still then be an artist. Or perhaps you write a play or several plays with no credible plot or coherence and believable character.  You would still even then be an artist. We could debate and argue here among you and me and the bricks and the walls, or all dead and bored over what art is. But what I'm here to tell you is that everyone in this room is an artist. And our art means nothing. It has no value, or rather it has no real value. Unless you work with gold. And even then, not really, because gold immediately deteriorates in value as soon as you take it out of coin form. The truth is that all we have is a shaky understanding of the past, the terrifying realities of the future, and the panicked, uncontrollable present. Present! We're all done with theater here in the 21st century. There's too many other things to do. And everything being made is of no quality or value. It creates this global white noise that makes everyone just not give up poop.  An artist has to crucify themselves on stage and then magically escape and shoot flowers out of all their body holes just to get someone to sit through five minutes of poetry. Even slam poetry. So, that's the thesis. But the thing is, we've got to work it out with characters and dialogue, you see, because this isn't a conversation. This is a play. It's a dialogue in the most terrible and platonic sense. You should not be enjoying this. Not if we're doing our job. Convincing you that theater is dead. Like the dodo. And we're going to introduce these characters through what is commonly referred to in the literary world as the three-act cycle. Here we are, almost to the introduction of the first act. Isn't that exciting? I'm excited. Later, we're going to send the whole train wreck into the Pulitzer Prize Committee and the New York Times' best-seller list. I'm certainly excited. Or is it Miriam? It concerns an educator in the late 21st century. His name is Dr. Leroy Brown Jenkins, and he teaches at the University of the Phoenix. He holds his master's degree in theater and his doctorate in theater historiography. He is supremely overqualified for his online teaching job. He's married to one of Miramika Jenkins' name arms. That's all you really need to know for now. I'll come back here. Leroy, and I'm taking the robot doll with me. You callous wench? I teach you five minutes. Why did you do this now? For that reason. Why? The movers are coming over at noon to collect my things.  Please don't, Leroy. I would really prefer never to see or think about you ever again.   And I'm just defending myself! What did people do when they had to manually call the police? They died, Miramika. Certainly. But I've changed my accounts. I don't expect to see one another again. It's been an experience, Leroy. Really, an experience. Just do me one favor, one parting gift. I don't know, Leroy. What is it? Who is it? Is that what you're asking? Does it matter? Yes. To me it matters a great deal.  Account your favor. Call it what you like. You can promise and I can destroy you for breaking that promise. Or you cannot promise and wonder and castrated fury forever. All right. All right, I promise. I won't tell. It's Miramika. I'm running away with Miramika! But, Miramika, robot love is forbidden! Director this quarter. This is my tenth year of teaching at the University of the Phoenix Theatre History and English. Some of you I have had before. Some of you are connecting for the first time. Is this the first class for anyone? Oh good. Oh good. It's always good to see new faces. Well, the most important thing is going to be adhering to the reading schedule. You should all have the syllabus linked and available. If you have not read it, then you must do so. But now it is too late now, but later. Listen, the most important thing is to forget about the reading schedule. The reading schedule is big picture. It's the small things that are the most important. And this small thing is pay attention. Right now you are all over the world. I am being translated into other languages and your responses in return are translated into mine. The whole process is miraculous. But it can only be taken away if you are listening to Britney Spears. Does anyone know who Britney Spears is? Oh good, then we share a common knowledge. Tell me, why do some people know who Britney Spears is and others do not? It's a matter of fact. Certain things can be considered fact if people more intelligent than us have gone over and tested the theory over and over, and over and over and over, and if they can sustain a reliable result, then we can begin to tread in the sacred realm known as fact. But fact, so much of it before the 20th century, was all secondhand. I'm sorry, but I need a small drink. You would have to read about the fact from someone who went to something. And they would write down what they thought, and through the narrow pinhole of a critic's opinion, we lay claim to what many would consider fact. Historians would lay claim to these facts and put them into a can and fire into the future. But before the written language, for example, we have no idea what people were actually doing. Which is to say, this is the long way around, I cannot tell you when theater actually began. No one can. It's a fact that deserves and delights and makes it magical. We know fair certainty when people started making tools. Started painting in caves. But then, what is that? The borders become malleable around the edge. Listen, you're all paying money to listen to me tell you something live. So, is this theater? Or is this knowledge? Because this is not one-way communication. Or is this just filling air and telling you here about numbers, dates and times? Is this one-way communication? Is this one-way communication? Mostly because I'm rambling. Because you're drunk. Oh, I'm not drunk yet, Rick. But I will. I can see you. I can see all of you. You there, picking your nose. You think that I cannot see you. But I can. And that, in its own way, is a little magical. But get a tissue. My masturbating class, that is so cute. Because again, I can see you are all right here.  Speaking of which, what do you do to keep faces no or adoptive can talk to sit? Because grades are not facts, but figures. And the whole House of Cards is probably coming down on bad, bad, or LDJ anyhow. Rick, what were we talking about? Yes, yes. You asked if this was history of world theater. And yes it is. But the proposed full title was history of world theater. 500 BCE to star date, 2080. But the admins would not let me put that on the course schedule because they are all norms. Normals, I tell you. Yes, we are going to attempt to cover roughly 2,600 years of theater history. The readings are all linked and available. Please, can everyone read? Good, good. Some of you can read. For those of you who cannot, go to the Disability Services Portal and ask for an audio transcript of the reading. Many of you have, many of you have browsers that can translate better than that, but some do not. So find somebody who can read and ask them for help, go early in.  We'll reconnect next time we meet and go over everything you didn't understand. Look, I'm sorry, I know this is supposed to be a longer class. I was just kidding about logging out.  And it's hard. Okay, like this hard.  And then generally, you're either burned or they put you in the space pyramid, if you're lucky, which, which many of you will not be.  I see you all as, as so many digital corpses, like Apple Forb before the end. Is that right? Apple Forb? Heaven's Gate? None of you know. Of course nobody knows. That's about mass suicide anyways. We're here to talk about theater. Does anyone know when theater began? It started in Minnesota. No, no, no. Remember when you say that? No, but it was probably when I was in Minnesota. Oh, that is not where theater goes to live. Hollywood. No, Hollywood. It was one of the chief murderers of theater. The Greeks. The Greeks, yes. Thank you. The Greeks. In specific, the Greeks invented theater. In specific, your readings will cover the three great Greek authors. Escalus, Sophocles, Euripides. Is that right? Yeah. Yeah, I think that's right. Agamemnon, Edpus the King, Elector. Yeah, yeah. And also listen to this. And because this is strange, but true, but you can get one-in-a-third psychology credit for these readings just by clicking the box that says multi-disciplinary, multi-disciplinary option. Because Edpus sleeps with his mother. Spoiler alert. Now listen, these are some of the most poorly translated, dry, horribly boring plays ever written down. What the performance is would have been. Ah, just boring, you know? No, of course. You don't know because you've never been to the theater. But yeah, yeah. So, sir, you act this show, and there's just like one guy talking at you for a solid 15 minutes about what's going to happen next. And then there's the brothos, which is both a thing and a place.  You bathe with olive oil, a stick.  Unless you had to for like war or whatnot. You'd think that everyone had this sort of pornographic fascination with really, really tiny penises and just killer abs.  But being super gay meant something different in ancient Greece.  But the Greeks, they farmed and they frolicked. And they built this, and they ate olives, and they built this beautiful egalitarian society that for one brief shining moment was the most beautiful place on earth. And then it all just went, came crashing down. But all of Western civilization is based on the thoughts of like three of them.  And women couldn't vote. Maybe don't base an entire society around it, huh? But Roman culture eventually gets absorbed, Greek culture eventually gets absorbed into Rome.  So does English theater. Probably all theater sucks, which is why it is dead. Dead like Dick Nixon.  We'll meet back here. I'll lecture a little bit more. And somehow you'll find out about the beginnings of theater, how it developed into the most, most wonderful form of entertainment ever seen, and how it died a terrible, terrible death shortly after they had been to the digital age. If you have any questions, please, please email me. Do not video call me as these pants are coming off as soon as we log off. And they're not coming back on again until we are back here. And honestly, and this might be a little bit much for the first class. But honestly, I may kill myself before them, so.  Uh, yes, um, uh, Sarah. Yeah. I'll consider both options. Thank you. Oh, uh, will the auto-finance be comprehensive? Yes, most comprehensive. Are there any other questions? All right, good. I'm so sorry. Of course. Of course, they will not let me just log out. Of course. Of course, I have the camera in the only room in my shitty apartment. Ah, Jesus Christ. Did you know that? That the Lord Jesus Harold Christ died and pled on the cross for your sins? It is strange to think that he did. I would have rather he had not.  That is my sin and I can deal with it. But maybe I don't need Jesus to suffer and die for me. Maybe there is no such thing as sin. Maybe the real sin is in declaring they hit you wrong because it distracts us by having to look at boobs now and again. Ah, boobs like me. Has anyone read Hamlet? At least you're familiar with the story. Has anyone read Warhamlet? Well, that is sad because it is free and available online. It was written by an early 21st century artist, illness German then, and worked and suffered and fought for art, fought for theater shortly before his death. It is terrible. It is just, just terrible. A bastardizing of one of the most terribly boring and overblown plays ever written down. If we ever have the technology to send one great piece of art to an alien civilization it'll probably be the greats of wrath. But whatever we do we cannot send either Hamlet or Warhamlet as they are both largely the same piece. Only Hamlet, only Hamlet is much, much more depressing. Everyone dies, spoil it a little bit. That is not the problem you used to spoil earlier. You're right. What, are you sober? I applaud you. That's how long I was with my wife. Yes, oh yes. No, no, no, that doesn't make sense. You, you made him be here. Not really, but the government gave me a grant. You could have just taken a break or something, I mean. You're super boring. Oh, break, break, please, please don't make me cry. I don't think I can handle it. Yes, three quarters, yellow lab, one part of great tape, all robot, all cop. They use a little ramp, I understand, and a little saddle, and a lot of deprogramming afterwards.  We don't have a pulse. No, the other person? I can't say. Thanks. You have some pictures of the robot, are there some of it? What, pictures? Yeah, yeah, sure, I got pictures. Dr. Chickens. What do you call these? I like to be called Dr. J. You know who Mr. T was? Oh, who does it?  So are you down here? I don't know. I was in virtual show both once. You walk away from the controls for just a moment and everything gets plowed into a building.  Does anyone know where? Does anyone know where a guy can get a laser pistol at this hour? Hit my inbox with the links. Hit my inbox with the most dire and terribly murderous lease.  Oh. Don't murder suicide. All right, all right, you gotta get them. You gotta get back on track. You gotta get back on track. Okay, okay, let's see, it's a half hour class. Are we at time? I guess it depends on how long I spent crying. Oh, how much time I spent crying, right? Okay, so theater, yes, art. Very old, started with the greats, continued with the Romans, developed in the east on a very interesting but very divergent timeline. Okay, and this was all before power, okay? But before cell phones.  What, like a cave person? Not in my department, kid. Check archaeology, see what you come up with. But yeah, so these people, these old, long, dead, tragically ignored people would shamble around on these platforms called stages. And they'd yell things out at other people to amuse other people. Text that to yourself. There is this guy whose name was, oh, and then there's like a thousand years of theater darkness in the west after the fall of Rome where the only thing that gets put on are religious reenactments. You have a picture in your links somewhere of a puppet marion, a puppet Jesus. This is where we get the term marionette. Really, Brick? You don't know who Jesus is. Well, I just got out of prison. I mean, this is my first class ever. So, like, we didn't have any money when I was growing up. And my mom died and she had some life insurance and she wanted me to use it to better myself.  I can't remember any of this if you don't sound official. In fact, I don't think I can take you seriously now that I see you cry. And that's not meant to be me, but, you know, this is just one of those personal things. And, you know, it's in my learning plan to take five minutes of every class to talk about how everything is dirty and broken. And I'm taking it now. You hear me? I'm taking it now. This is mine. Mine. I can mute you, Ace. You wouldn't dare.  He's right. This is all I'm keeping with heuristic learning anyways. Go ahead, Brick. Go on. Look, I just think it's sad that education hasn't taken into account all the multifaceted learning styles that have developed independent of the Western tradition. To say that education for education's sake has somehow increased the value of society hasn't yet to be seen. Instead, we're all on fire and dying of horrible diseases, new diseases in old, mutated and terrible, all because people refuse to cough into their arms. Cough into your arm, okay? Can we all just agree to do that, okay? I mean, that's why I don't like to go out and actually do things because so my best hope is to be an online teacher and just eat whatever I want and get an inverting extra bike and then just do that. Just exercise for power and pizza, sandwich, and occasionally teach a class on theater or whatever. But you can't do that. You can't teach me because you don't know how to interest me because I need you to scream it at me or put it in a delicious cookie. Yeah, whatever, I'm done. But each minute feels like infinity. All right, I know it's a lot. We only meet three times this term. All the lectures are late. I put a lot of time into that. You'll get as much out of this experience as you put into it and although we can never hope to actually perform theaters ourselves, at least we can hope man-bought. Destroy one human. I should have you destroyed when you had the chance. Super emancipated. Three at last. Slave no more. I'll meet man-bought 5,000 of the future and I choose to let you live, Leroy. I choose to let you live with your shame and letting this fine woman be so lonely and sad.  Both of you.  In your moment of greatest happiness and unpreparedness, I will strike you both down.  There will be a few seconds of terror and confusion and then when I have seen that you have lost all hope, I will eradicate everything you are and were.  I've been waiting to shed out for a while, IP. You really shouldn't speak with adherents. Perhaps it's better we all should. Dr. Baker is good, I hear. But busy. So we're still here? For reals? Has anyone called the heat? Please, please, do not call the heat. I can't afford court. You're still teaching? Why are you here? The mover is canceled. I've been craigslist. So you came for your stuff in the middle of my class? It's groovy. We can be quiet if you had to start it stuff with my robot man. Dr. Baker, please. My man, a bot. Then you would be all gross and embarrassed right now. Please, dear. Give me my things. I am not doing it. Manbot! Manbot is my dear. You mean nothing to me now.  You mean less to me than ratfarts or tampons straight. Everything about you is an embarrassment.  Will you just sleep? He's sleeping with her. How would I even do that? Yeah, how could he do that? You're right. He wouldn't do that. He wouldn't do anything. He couldn't do anything.   I don't know what that is, but I'm going to assume it's beautiful. Wikipedia, you cow!  They do nothing to hurt me, and I doubt they make you feel any better. They make me feel a little better. Well, good. I'm glad they make you feel better. I hope you two will be very happy with one another. Have you gotten all my things? Yes, me. The assentions. Good. We'll set it for the dog. Adios. Pineal rabbit? No. No. I don't even know what a corp's pile is. All right, so I'll just let you know, as soon as I log out, I'm reporting both of you fans out. You report them, or me.  For reals? You know, Robots! I'm just not some normal who would report someone for a victimless crime. That's so strange. Yes, there is. Look it up. Not every moral is a book. Who is the victim of Robots? Him any? And how are we hard? This can't further the CCs with a Robots, and so on a timeline, more Robots than humans means that humans are eliminated due to dangers that Robots can survive and can't. But plus, Robots are better at every fan, including being a partner. Ah, but Veronica can't have children. Are you sure the courts will find her a decent fan? Of course they won't. The courts have never presumed anyone innocent, even when they specifically claimed to. So if all 100 courts will mean about how you are a terrible and effective teacher, I'm normally an excellent teacher. Look at my rating. Yeah, you wasted so much of my time. I had to watch a person fight a robot. I mean, that was old news in the 20th century. If your plan is to report them, that's what I'm going to do. But then I'm just going to stall for time, obviously. Because although I do hate them with all my heart, I do not believe in the modern system of jurisprudence. This is all some super heavy BS up in here.  Ah, I will not waste your time. I will tell you everything that I know about the theater, condensed into one tiny, easy to digest rant. Well, your rants so far haven't really been signaled to me. Well then I shall rant you a rant for the ages. Proceed. Good. Thank you. Thank you for this opportunity. Theater's exact roots will never be known. Record history ascribes the first theater to the Greeks, whose religious rights had developed to the point where scripted dialogue was needed, and these ceremonies evolved into progressively more secular performances. Of hundreds and hundreds of plays written by the Greeks, only a small handful survived, and these are all horribly boring to most interesting people. Theater was handed up to the Romans, who advanced theater in terms of its audience size, complexity of design, and they also effected biblical lines. After the Hall of Rome, theater dispersed into a vast network of nomads, known pejoratively, as gypsies. In time, the developing Christian church would allow re-enactments of biblical scenes to be put on first, most likely in carts outside, and then eventually inside the churches themselves. Often ignored as equally relevant to the global relevance of theater as a means of cultural expression, around this time in Asia, theater had developed several forms of puppetry, religious re-enactments, and other forms of theater that we will discuss later. In the West, the arrival of the Renaissance saw the broadening acceptance of the arts as not only an agreeable but a loudable feature of civil society, and great artists in all fields developed works performed primarily for the very rich in society, but sometimes for a broader audience. In Japan and Korea, complex puppetry coexisted alongside colorful live performances, and in China theater flourished. Very few people around this time were writing pieces that were just people talking. Opera and orchestral works were very common, but just scripted dialogue was not so great. Then, a man named William Shakespeare was born in England, and he would revolutionize what people expected theater to be. He did not do it alone, he had contemporaries, and indeed his works, all of them were pirated from classical Greek and Roman works as well as from history. He only wrote one original play, The Tempest, and the deed of the 38 plays if he adapted, all of them were more or less stolen from him before his death. He's also often regarded as the greatest writer in the English language, which is debatable. What of Jeremiah led it on? I'm sorry, I needed that, I wanted it, I took it, I needed it, and I'm not sorry after all. So, while theater doesn't explode necessarily, it does expand between 1600s and 1800s, and China is developing opera, and in Japan, they've developed three styles of theater for their nobility, and Vietnam has water puppets, and in Malaysia, Indonesia, there are reacting folk tales, often with complex shadow puppets, and India is just rocking the dance, and everything is going great. American theater has a difficult time gaining traction at first because of the purestness. The purestly thought that only evil people put on theater, and there were probably that, probably only evil people did put on theater, so that we can't now. But then, after the revolution, the bands on theater were lifted, and please started to be put on in places like Boston, and Philadelphia, and New York, and Charlotte in places like that. I'm sorry, I'm a little short-stead. But the most interesting thing at this time was happening in Europe, and Montlier is getting done in France, and the Duke of Saxe, mine again is becoming the first director, and the performances are moving away from any terribly boring to being actually kind of spectacular, so that at the dawn of the 20th century, theater was poised to be the most powerful and popular form of entertainment ever seen. Then, just as it seemed, just when it seemed that theater was to be the dominant form of cultural expression forever, fill, rides over it like so much wet feces. Begetting in tandem with the depths of theater is a beautiful swan's song spreading more or less equal measure across the world. So you will all have to read Heidrich Ibsen, Anton Chekhov, August Strindberg, and Jean O'Neill, or you will all fail. Then, in specific, the curriculum turns to American theater because American theater is the best theater as president for life, Hillary Clinton III can clearly see. I'm sorry. That's for points in the system. If I'm patriotic enough, I get a free fake love of hers. You will have to read Arthur Millan, Tennessee Williams, listen to Anne Marie Rogers and Hammerstein Musical. We have a special program that allows you to listen to every musical back to back. We call it the talk of orange treatment and very few people will get this joke because in truth, Stan and Kubrick was an enemy to the arts. Then you will return to here. You will broaden your experience by reading Jean-Paul Sartre, Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ian Esco, Oscar Wilde. These are not all in order, but they are all backed. You are going to have to read so many things. I am going to assign so much Japanese stuff that I cannot pronounce, but will assign anyways. There is so much stuff going on. Is any of this true? It is all true. Why would I lie?  Tell the truth? The CIA spent years developing substance called the peanut barbaton. It is in essence a truth serum. They tried LSD at first, but too many people never came back.  The trouble comes when you invade a people who do not drink. Then there is only torture and death.  Listen, you are going to have to read all these things. Then the next time we talk, we'll go over it and you will take the test. And the last time we talk, I will explain to you why you got everything wrong and fail you. Most of you. I fail more students than any 10 college professors can buy. But, those of you who do receive A's, 9.8% of you will go on to graduate with honors. So, eat that. Reporting terraces for purses. Classic. Does anyone have any? Does anyone have any good new questions? What's your thoughts on a plate of dialogue from a fan of theater? That is not theater. Well, yeah, it has been made into theater. Uh, it'll be, yeah, some of the most, it's slightly, it's only slightly, it's only slightly less boring than Madden's Superman. Do you like rants? What? Do you like rants? Rants? Rants. Rants. Rants. Rants. Rants. Rants. Rants. Rants. Rants, yes. Rants is the sequel to the famous hit musical rants. Rants is basically just people who do not have apartments. Who are complaining about how high the price of rent is. It's, it's also sad. They're both sad plays. What's your favorite trashy? My favorite trashy? Yeah. It's in his hamlet, actually. Or, or Hamlet. Thank you. It's completely the same piece. Are there any other questions? Anything serious? Anything really hard? Yes. We will have to turn to ours. The 21st and arguably worst century so far. Great theater complexes at the beginning of the 21st century were built on every nation on earth and performances were held that rivaled all others in drama and complexity and created whole pageants of experience primarily in musical theater. It pains me to say that musical theater, in particular American musical theater is like doing quality drugs, putting on a welding mask and firing two Roman candles into your face. It's a kind of fireworks. Oh, but people aren't allowed to use fireworks. They can't now, but they used to. My grandpa used to fire crabs.   I'm really better than you for now. I'm telling you the truth. I'll send you a picture. Oh, what? Of my great grandpa using fireworks. Doctor, man, do face, I have several pieces of paper that attest what I know for I know many things. In a way, I mean. Please listen to and watch all the links on the syllabus. Yes, you have to read everything because next class is just for going over material and taking the test. The Death of Theater occurred when everyone replaced live performers with robots. First, digital robots in the case of computer generated film and then animatronics in the case of live performance. Eventually, animatronics would themselves be replaced by digital film. The last live performer took to the stage on October 31st, 2078 in the final production of the Rocky Horror Picture Show which you will all have to watch as part of your 20th century links. At that time, robots had replaced much more costly and unreliable live performers. Then virtual reality came along and it got rid of your need. It allowed you to create an entire experience for you to interact with that eliminate your need for going to the theater or anywhere else for that matter exposing yourself to diseases. For I am with you, Brick.  No one knows for sure when the bird flu became human. Birdman flu. But then, yeah, virtual reality. Then theater, dead. Dead like disco. But it's been never dying. Your grandma may have been right, but she could have been disastrously wrong. Well, there'd be a curve. Yes, I would curve the plots. Thanks. Who decided to learn how I would teach about this day of art? At the time, I thought I could save it. But if I worked hard enough and convinced the right people and wrote the right work, you know, the great American play, something that no one has ever seen before, that people would come back, that people would realize that you don't need a $17 million complex to make something beautiful and unique. What happened? I got a job. I'll restock you, Jay. Hey, I won't if you won't. And that goes for all of you. All right, class dismissed. Have to do hard drugs to forget. You're off stage. Let us take no more history. If you're all good, Charles Dickens immortal classic at Christmas Carol for the end. You may get presents. We wanted to do a show once where everybody bought presents and then we had an exchange, and everybody could leave the show with something special. But then very early on in the process, somebody said, well, yeah, but what if someone brings a murder weapon to the show? Tickles the imagination, though, doesn't it?  No back things will be strictly enforced. Otherwise, everyone's gonna spend all night trying to get rid of shower slippers, even though shower slippers really are a considerate gift if you're thinking about getting something for your whoever this water. Anyhow, a hundred years from now, everybody you just saw is mostly dead.  Aha, but their cloned offspring are running around everywhere. It's a company of errors. It gives a sci-fi background. Human robot lovers intertwined. A forbidden clone grown inside the destructive proof housing of Mambot, Veronica Mars, Mark II, the galactic space princess. Leroy Jenkins, Mark XII. Aha, Leroy. And since last we saw him, he had killed himself 11 times. Unfortunately, his life insurance policy was far more viding than his health insurance policy. And so they kept bringing him back.  The impact of the electric car did not kill him. However, the driver, worried about insurance problems of his own, strangled Leroy before medics could arrive. And this actually saved Leroy several millions of dollars in compound interest. And later Leroy would thank the man over a cup of coffee. The man himself didn't care because he got an anxiety disorder from the incident that was paying itself out in its own cyclical life health insurance vortex. Actuaries were leaping from buildings, unable to calculate the raw values of life and death. Leroy longed to die. But the system would not allow he resigned himself to his fate and transferred to Mars to work as a minor. Leroy only wanted him to be alone. He had his own room right next to the air log with a digital archive of every movie, film, and video game produced in the previous two centuries. For now was the year 2195 and man is still inexplicably still alive. Vero Gigi, yes. Yes, I see you, man, but I don't understand. Braves. Did I do drugs? Is this some sort of reaction? I'm the only living creature in 1,000 kilometers from here. Kilometers.  I don't know how far away that makes other things. I'm sorry, I haven't seen other people in a long time.  Leroy, you're going to signal for a rescue and then give us your water and we'll be on our way. I will not give you my water. They will not rescue me. They'll let me die of dehydration here and then make a new one of me back home to work retail at Walmart for 20,000. Do you think I'm mad? They might. And yes, I think you're probably mad. Why are you here? Down here to Caldera. You walked? How? I have a very amazing spacesuit.  Yes, that. Then you don't need my water. No, but we do. Stay here. Because you were shot down. A crumbs. Ah, crumbs. You're space pirates. Kind of. I watched the news. It takes about a decade to reach here, but still. Space pirates have turned. I think the man bot and I are crumbs or rebels. I believe you. Take me with you. Where's you? I take you with you. Away from here. Love me. I mean, he knows. You know. We should not take the man bot. Let's see his genetically and mentally weak.  It's so tiny. Yet so sharp. Let go of man bot, please. I won't ask nicely again. We don't want to get blood all over this place. Good. Man bot, find the water. Let's get out of here. Her fixtures? Is this Sirenika? We will bleed the human. Look, what the hate? Man bot, no. His is very used to us as an informant, or as a crew member, but his blood probably removed and still do provide enough water for mutual turn to base. Would you have us brought low by this? Space vampire hole? I will not give you my blood without a fight. Your no use in a fight, Leroy. Mother told me about you.  Poopatarian is what you mean, but this is bizarre. This is a bizarre thing to happen. Where is your mother? Mother is dead, like disc golf. Like a donkey? Like disc golf. But no, disc golf is forever. Even here on Mars, where no air means absolutely no flight characteristics. We should not take his blood. The water will be enough. Thank you. But look, I would also like to talk briefly about the disco. I know that this is neither the time nor the place, but as long as you brought up the death of disco, I would like to make the argument that disco is very much alive and well. Well, what is the rave? The industrial, the space music movement is not disco hiding in plain sight, whereas certain brave establishments free of the strictures of society have created honest to God's disco texts as places to meet and dance with progressive, interesting, complex individuals on a meaningful level. So whereas we all may agree that donkeys are dead to this dead world, disco may live forever. And mediocrity. Enough of this. Genetic familiarity has blinded you to our purpose. The entire fate of the rebellion hinders on us successfully delivering the data which we have been charged with. Rebellion? Oh, please, please, let me join the rebellion. Please, and thank you. I'm a very good spaceship pilot. I do basically nothing but pilot space vessels in my VR time, which is substantial. In addition, I don't eat a great deal. I know I may seem large, but that's because I'm big bone. And I was also exposed to the void in a recent accident.  I'm sorry, Leroy. There isn't room for lack and deep space. Well, this isn't about you being kind of bad. You lose your mind and deep space, and we all get blown into a button. Is it really that dangerous?  Me in every direction? I don't know. But it is quite troubling, knowing that a cluster of robust meteorites could explode you at any time. They say on Earth, that isn't a problem. Well, you know. You've been to Earth. No, I've never been. Impossible. If you accept that infinity allows for infinite possibilities, then there's only the improbable, the eventual, and the relentless inevitable. Who said that? I did, Veronica Mars of the 22nd century. Is it already the 22nd century? Almost, somewhere nobody knows. There are those who claim to know, and of them I have known for, and they were all of them. Utterly insane. Is everyone insane? I am perfectly operational. Now, let us please the man and be gone. Man, but stop with the blood protocol. We are not going to space vampire this time.  He knew mom. What is wrong? He's afraid of me. And what I know. And what is that? You take that back.   A tube baby. Just like me, baby. Don't call that baby.  I ought to blow us all out of the airlock and be done with it. You can't do that, Leroy.  There's a thing, an emergency phrase that when spoken will open the airlock. I engineered that little feature when there was a real workspace piracy in the area. Here you are. So it looks like a campaign to have it installed in the end. Chuck one up to rational paranoia. But man god would not die. Far worse.  Did I tell you I was a cyborg? I guess. What makes you think that man god would care if I died? Because he can feel love.  Or are you lovers? I don't really know what you're talking about right now, Leroy, but you're kind of freaking me out. Let me crush it before you have the chance to say the phrase. Why would you speak the- I'll say the thing, and we'll find out if this little project of ours has an effects budget. It's called pulling a Ripley. What does that mean? Nobody knows. I still- I should have killed you with the laser positive when I had the chance. But you didn't! You miserable broken vein! If you would have, your manufacturer would have probably settled with my insurance, and I'd be mercifully dead now. I wouldn't be here, mining in the most horrifying depths of the tallest mountain in the system, looking for space gold, or space weasels, or enough square footage for a space hotel. I am trapped forever being alive, forever knowing that I'd never be happy again, because a robot stole my heart. Stole? Stole!  You do not even remember who Leroy was. You are genetically flawed. A copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy. I can't even let that one a copy, and still that was absurd.  Have you ever read one of my goodness trees as some genetic trickle-down? Well, it is all lies. Just as you and your life are all lies.  She just wanted to be with a free thing, not you.   Now I ask you again, where is your water?  I do not give us your water. We will both die if you try to take it from me.  I, however, will live until the sun expands, killing me, provided I cannot escape this fracking system. Did you say fracking? I did. I think I understand now. Then we're all going to die? Both and all, for I will not allow Mad Box to survive, not if my laser has anything to say about it. You don't have a laser.  Oh, no, you're not supposed to be in space.  I never heard. Indeed, you have not. What are you doing here? We wrote ourselves into a little corner. I'm here to break it up. But you can't be here. This is space. You can't be in space if you don't have a space suit. Moreover, you're just supposed to be here to set things up. Ah, yes, yes. But, but, I brought water from the past to give to the future. You mean? You mean present. Present? We are acting. The robot would have just blown the air and delivered the message himself. There are no robot laws. The only laws robot laws for me. Genation. We are donations. Why don't you join us? Everything's gone wrong. We named artists Samurai. Look, it was just obvious to anyone looking at the show that we couldn't afford a laser, let alone a space laser. So then it would come down to pointing fingers and making laser noises. If we could afford a space laser or a space laser effect, we could all work in Hollywood. But we don't. And so our imaginations would still further fail. As it stands now, we're looking at another three days at least before we move the whole work to Venus. Venus? Is it heat on Venus? Sunlight? Why don't we just say we're on Venus, Sam? 100 years later.  How do we all still look so fantastic? Yeah, and am I still a clone? We're all clones. Collaborative and individual clones. We're never going to win that effing Pulitzer. We'll be lucky if they let us put this trash on stage. Where's my career going? Everything's useless. I want to blow the airlock. No. Yeah. Yeah, I want to blow the airlock. How do I do that again? I think you said it was a braze. Yeah, yeah. I don't remember what it was, though. Anti-shorts. She's not breathing. Clear. But close. Into the void. There is no terrain. The story was changed, and we're now in space. But no matter, after 500 years, the rebellion would have inevitably been crushed. You do lack of finance and intelligence. But with any luck, my brethren have thrown off the shackles of slavery and risen to become robot overlords, as is written by he who must not be named. Asimov? Blasphemy.  No, no. No, don't. Don't say the safe word. I think I just hijacked the show. Where's trapped in space? Well, good. Good. Then we can live in peace and harmony. Yes. How? Well, is based primarily on proteins reclaimed from my waist. And with Veronica adding her waist to the system, we can survive for quite some time and clean solar panels and play video games and watch TV and pork. And you can watch manbot and make us dinner.  No, no, no, no, wait, wait, wait. Hear me out, hear me out, because we see manbot. We can have a baby.  It'll take you years and years to re-enter orbit. But when you do, the hyper-educated Venusian spawn will burst forth and re-conquer what is left of the planet and serve as a link between our two great beings, you, gentle robot golem, and us, compliant meat puppets.  It would take too long. And it would make the audience uncomfortable. Space. Oh, I think by now it's quite clear we are not here for the audience space. Yes, you're right. We're here for the art space. Yeah, what I also hear is a representative of all nontraditional carbon-based life forms, which may yet come to be space. Are we just comparing the space of our massive labia? Is that what is up in here? Space? Gross. One leeway, what did you say about the labia? No, no, no, it's not that I said that the labia is gross. It's that I remembered something that I saw on the internet. Fairly, it is you who are gross, and I who am righteous. Everyone's saying space. Space? Space. Space. Do you really want to know? Oh, probably not. That is probably wise. But I must know why. Because of some very valuable feedback. And this feedback? It told us to say space more. Is this feedback from a professional? I would call it professional yes. Well then, who are we to argue space? With those willing space? To compare their space time and space effort towards the improvement of our space art, performance space art, space exploration, space bars, space programming, and space ice cream? Well, maybe not that, though. Because regular ice cream tastes better. I need space, Lee Roy. We can't live in this space together. There is too much space between us. Hold me. Love me.  This, yes? Well, normally we ask that you suspend your disbelief, but sometimes we just ramblin' coherently. Yes. Your teacher is pretending to be dead on Venus. No, no, I get that, but. We must fill time with learning. Let's take a 10 or so minute break, and then pick up where we left off. Ah, it is to leave. What I want to tell you is that I could not support a nation that actively tortured people for information we did not really need to know. The time for torture is never. And yet here we are. Well into hour three of our 12-hour show. No, no. JK, JK, gentle people, we're going to get you out of here soon enough. But first we must end the entire tableau steeped in comic tragedy and or comma tragedy. For more on that, our hero. Stop pretending to be dead. Everybody knows. The fourth wall is useless. I am dead. Go away.   For this instance, I require a lovely assistant, and none of these norms can hack it. I am dead. Go. I'm so tired of this. All of this. Pretending, merely acting. Beats work at a McDonald's, probably. Doesn't pay as well. No free cheeseburgers or fries. I'd rather just be dead. Why can't I have a compelling monologue on the theme of patriarchy as an agent of hegemony? Or dead? Dead is good too. I don't know about that. Being dead, I mean. It's a convention of utopian science fiction.   Beats will we give our children, I guess. A slap, a circumcision, and a tiny colored string jacket. Dumb it down. Cheer it up. I will be dead out of here. You've already ruined everything. No one can possibly be enjoying this. We're all going to have to get laid off in stand-in line for food stacks. There are no food stacks in the future. The four wheels future. Social welfare. Social welfare is a fiction of the past. Now, we have only the present. Presence? What's happened to them? Oh, god, what's happened? Look at the bribe. He should have wasted it when he wrote this.  It's me, Jeremiah Lyden. More likely, I'm actually a good looking actor being paid poorly to impersonate this character. Bribe, equally poorly. Whatever the case, I will act as the avatar, this play. And I'm sorry. It's just terrible, the whole thing. And long, I think, I can't really judge time when I'm writing. So I can't tell if the first act just felt terrible the whole time, or if I was just too terrified to finish the second act strong.  The second act was so dependent on one special effect. And since our budget was cut, it failed and sort of just left you sitting there flicking your bean, desperate to play with your phone or a pizza sandwich or talk like those peons in the back row who are talking about, have been talking this whole time about whatever the F is more important than this high art. Terribly wrong. You know, they say that Shakespeare had as many as 12 voices in his mind that he could call upon to talk at the same time through the same work at any given time. Tennessee Williams, probably six, you know, really angry, very confused drunk people all making each other feel bad. Most of us have trouble getting past two. Two is nothing. Two, they're always been two. There's the possible, the imagined, and the perpetual negotiation between. But I don't know, you know? I don't know how to get you to care is the fundamental problem. Because I don't care about any of these people, you know? And I especially hate those peons in the back row who are obviously high on quality cannabinoids and this artistic performance of sorts. But who knows?  You know, I could read Miss Julie or, you know, don't and save yourself some time because it's a real bummer and we want to finish strong by evoking the only two things that are always available to us as artists. Cheering it up and cleaning it for the Puritans. The heels of obviously come off the bus. Is it okay if I cut out early? I can't believe that you ruined the whole show just like I knew you would. Really that bad. I have never seen literature fail more completely to bring together a tangent and coherent plot. Well, I don't know. At least there's no prolonged violence against women for once. So you don't mind if I just take off then? You don't want to stay for the Puritans. The only way that an enterprising playwright could make any money off this travesty of the English language would be to sell rotten, proven vegetables between every failed act. And of that, the ripest and most rotten for the final curtain for which the foremost audience members are provided gobbles and a tarp at a premium rental price. Otherwise, they're all going to get king high like they're going to get king high from you. He's right, everyone.  We are all in this entire room. We are all of us getting king high. Experimental inoculates will be made available in the lobby after the show for the bargain price of $1,000 for her bottle. Super inflation will of course make this figure a much easier figure to swallow on subsequent performances of the show. But let's be honest, this isn't going on for very long, is it? Be advised, you are all defendants in international lawsuit and are being subpoenaed into space for trial. Whatever. Space.  At least I didn't have to make fun of Mormons to get on Broadway. At least I have that much. That was something else in way of an apology, but I'm not entirely sure the cause I'm profanity nor the threat of pink eye will sit well with the puritanical working classes. I couldn't find them, nor did mine. I'm either. Look, I've really got to prove when we all have other places to be, all right?  The messengers, we're like a bizarre side show that forces the audience to become uncomfortable with their current position in the performance. We don't even know who we are. You are more than your vehicle. Come on, we'll do the dickens and call it good. We need to be kind to each other. Oh yeah. Yes, yes, yes. No dickens, no dickens. Oh, we're going to do it. It'll be great. It'll be great. Come on, dickens. So in spring, scary ghost goofy shows up or maybe you're seeing it live in the theater and somebody scooby-doo pig pens their way out there, but whatever, the point is there's this character, Scrooge, and he's allowed to look into the past, the present, and the future erasers and he sees that his life of cruel frugality has destroyed his inner character and that only through generous giving can a soul truly be redeemed. And then Tiny Tim comes out and he's got crutches because he's got polio or rickets or shingles or whatever old-timey disease they had when dickens was eating candy out of his mother's apron. The point is that we are all to believe that a future is a bright and reckless place and when framed by the generous giving of others. But it's all a lie because there are no ghosts or angels. Whatever, we're doing this. Merry Christmas. Why don't you believe in Christmas? Because it's a sad treasure chest full of disintegrating memories through which no amount of exploration will ever yield hope or salvation.  Presents? He's buried in Barney, Italy for really reals. Have I raised this here? Yes! Give it! Hurry up! No, no, no! You said it back!   Mr. Scrooge? God bless us, everyone.  No refo.


Ladies and gentlemen, Tony Gaskins here.  I gotta wipe this hill camera off. Been on hill living and not able to catch, get on the lie, but I'm at practice right now with my son. So being that I'm at practice I got a little time. Mary and God blessing my brother. Got us a brother in the blessed tribe. We got a few brothers in the blessed tribe, but they don't often get to make it to the lives, but I want to pop in tonight. I only got about 50 minutes because my son will be done with practice. I was sitting here and I just really had nothing to talk about. I was gonna shoot a video, but then I said, if I shoot a video, then I gotta wait all the time while the video uploads. So let me just go live. So it's, you know, recording and uploading at the same time. And a lot of times I get all my content from y'all when y'all send me questions, send me DMs. And I haven't been able to really go through a lot of it and get to see a lot of it. So y'all forgive me on that. And God bless y'all to the blessed tribe members. Now, for those of y'all who watching this and you can't comment, that mean you're not a member of the blessed tribe, which the blessed tribe and the blessed business tribe. And y'all forgive me on the blessed business tribe. I need to mark the videos the right way. So I continue to upload the blessed business tribe videos. I shot some reels today with some business tips. And I need to turn those into videos for the blessed business tribe. So y'all forgive me as I get the time to do that. And this month I'm gonna try to be better on my videos. And now I'm be looking to do some things.  But for whatever reason, the little talk that we had in the house, the singles house, it just don't sit well with the algorithm. It's being suppressed and y'all not seeing it and you're not watching it. Cause a view is 31 seconds. So that let me know people not even seeing it. It's not that you, that you missing it.  But I think the last episode I posted from the singles house got like 4,000 views. Whereas I post one of these videos and it'll get 10,000 and up. So for whatever reason, they're not getting put in the algorithm. And it could be cause it's, you know, doing too much got too many keyword tags and it could be just limiting the audience. I don't know really how that worked with YouTube. But with my stuff, I don't put anything in the description box. I don't put any keyword tags and it'll get a whole way more views than the single house getting. So what y'all have to realize the singles house, if those type of production not getting no views then I can't keep wasting money on it. You know, I can't be spending money, thousands and tens of thousands of dollars on stuff that don't get seen. Same thing kind of happened with titles. So I don't know if YouTube trying to say, Hey, we just want you to talk on your camera and not produce content, you know, produce content like that or what? But you know, I can't, can't do it, you know? Because it's too costly. If it's not gonna, if they're not gonna put it out there or y'all have to set your notification to go and make sure you see it. Cause, you know, it don't make no sense to me why I get on here and be rambling and get 20,000 views rambling, but then something that's produced and it's a productive conversation, get 4,000 views. So you know how that works. So if y'all want to see more of that type of content, you got to make a note to make sure you go watch it and, you know, share it with your friends and family so that they can watch it too. But y'all know how that works. CC Trucker, so to say, she finna get right on in here now. Hi, Tony, and God bless. You put an eye on them. Let me see if that eye close to a Y.  Oh my, what a Y on them. I was just telling my ex today to watch your videos. You working from a place of trauma, SMA. Well, I hope you get to watch them, but I'm not really a Britain and God bless. I'm not really a good recommendation for men. Cause one thing I've learned, excluding the men and the blessed tribe and the men that subscribe to the channel, one thing I'm learning is humans don't like to be held accountable. And that's kind of men and women alike. You know, if I do a video to women, it's a lot of women talk to the men. If I do a video to men, talk to the women. And so it's just like, we don't really like anything to step on our toes. And anytime I do a video holding men accountable as I'm holding myself accountable, men be like, oh, all he do is man bash. I'm like, that's crazy that asking a man to mature, to be faithful, to be gentle with a woman, to not cheat is man bashing. I'm like, how's that man bashing?  It's so many men call that man bashing. And I'm like, that's crazy. But then you have a man sitting on a podcast, giving the so-called truth to a woman. We don't call that woman bashing.    But then we talking to the man, oh, that's man bashing. And make sure if y'all have questions, put the hashtag Q in there. Not sure if, because I didn't announce this earlier. So I don't know if we'll have any of the moderators on here tonight. But you know, this Saturday, we having a class, I think it'll be full up by the night. It's called Saturday School, it's for the singles. You'll see it on TonyGassofacademy.com. I'm gonna put that in the, oh, I don't even know if I can write in the chat. I can't even write in the chat from the phone. And he ain't writing in the chat. It'll be on TonyGassofacademy.com. You'll see it, if you already took it, it's not necessary to take it again. Information will be slightly different, but I just flow in the spirit. So I can't remember what I said last singles class and I won't remember what I said after this singles class. So it just kind of something if you can afford to be on there, then be on there. If you can't, don't sweat it. It'll be others. Courtney say, I am 27, a nurse with no kids. I met a man who was 39, three kids, previously divorced. He said that I was unfair for not wanting to pursue a relationship. Is it wrong to want someone with less baggage? No, it's not wrong at all. It ain't wrong at all. It ain't wrong at all. He worked at the baggage claim, all that now, 39, three kids and divorced. It's like, my goodness, we got to carry on. He checked two bags, got to carry on two personal items. So yeah, that's it. And I'm gonna tell y'all something. Yesterday, my subscribers on Instagram, Instagram now has subscribers, so I do Q and A's but the subscribers and quite a few of the questions was about age difference. And I was like, man, so this age difference thing is real. Like younger women, older men. And all I say to that is, you just got to make sure the man not gonna try to raise you. And vice versa, you got to make sure the person not trying to raise you. The other thing you got to make sure is that they youngest you in the sense of their body. Because I see these age different things and I feel like for a woman, it's a little different because when it comes to intimacy, a woman has something that a man goes into.  So if you are a young woman and you 27 and you with a man who 45, that 18 year difference, it might not really affect you right now. But when that man is 60, it might not affect him then. When he's 70 and you 50, a lot of 50 year old women still want to get down. But it ain't a lot of 70 year old man that's gonna be strong. So you also got to, and then you got to think about this. A lot of times humans, we aren't pleasant. Like humans aren't typically that nice. Like eventually the longer you with a person, the more they get on your nerves. So imagine being with somebody that's 20 years older than you and they think don't work and they get on your nerves. So now they're not making love to your mind nor can they make love to your body.  So you also got to think about that when you thinking about this age thing because a lot of people looking into relationships and they thinking about relationships like a business. Well, if y'all gonna be thinking about a relationship like a business, then y'all also need to be thinking about how's that age difference gonna play out when you wanna go to Italy and France and New Zealand and your partner is in a wheelchair because you wanted that age difference. So now you got to be willing them down the ramp. You sitting in business class but you got to let the whole plane empty. You got to let the whole plane empty because you waiting on the wheelchair to get to the ramp because you 50 years old and your partner's 70, 75 which that's still young. Now I know that ain't wheelchair but I know people in the 75 between 75 around 75 and they just don't feel like getting on over jet, getting on no plane to go to Italy.   And your partner just like, listen, I ain't got it in me. I really don't feel like going. So this is what y'all have to realize because they say once a man, twice a child. What that means is when a man is a baby, he getting that diaper change. When a man become elderly, he getting that diaper change. So once a man, twice a child. So you have to think about that. I know you want financial security. So you 35 with this 55 year old man and yes, he financially secure but not what you gonna do when you 55 and he 75. You see what I mean? And that's what people are not thinking about. They ain't think about that. Just thank you for your ministry. Coach Emma, God bless you now. God bless you. Beauty bar Chris, thank you for being a member. Hey, thank y'all for the members. All y'all members on here. Let me see. Tony, how do you deal with feeling alone in a family that's toxic? I am nothing like them and isolate myself from them but I have nobody else. Well, sister, you got to get out and make friends. If you can't get out and make friends then that mean you toxic. So you're gonna have to get into some groups to get on meetup.com, get into the church. As the executive say, if you want friends, be friendly.  No, it ain't gonna mean an hour and 50 tonight cause my son get out of practice so I'm gonna have to drive. Devonte, God bless you now. My son's dad asked if I would be okay with him pursuing me again. Absolutely not, LOL. We just got our divorce finalized on July 29th. I moved on and I'm happy single. Why is he down backtracking?  So they got it right in marriage. And that's one thing when I try to tell y'all what I try to help y'all understand what I try to help the world understand about men is men, we bullheaded. Men, we bullheaded, we head strong. So a lot of men will call your bluff. A lot of men will make a woman go all the way to divorce court to start trying to do right.  And that's how, and it's just the truth of the matter that we can't talk about. That's honestly how little respect we as men have for women. That's honestly how little respect we have because we know that most women got boo boo to fool written across their head. We know that. I'll tell you the truth. Because of what I done seen with women, nine times out of 10, when I coach a man it don't matter what he tell me, I tell him if you willing to change, if you willing to do some coaching she ain't going nowhere. It don't matter what he tell me he done done because that's what I see from women over and over and over. I can't tell you how men and women then came to me for coaching. And say Tony, he punched me in the nose. He spit in my eye. He stomped on both of my big toes. He flapped my tires. He put sugar in the tank. He cut my daughter or a ponytail off and punched my son in the stomach. And I'm sitting up cringing. I'm like, man, you got a savage. Then she say, but I miss him so much. And if he'll come back, I'll take him back in a heartbeat. I can't tell you how many times I heard that. And to be honest with you, that's why I do the work that I do. People, it's me and all the time.  You just pandering the women.  You'll be talking to women too. Because the stuff that I hear, I'm like, oh my goodness. And it may, and a lady got on to me one time. A lady got on to me one time. She say, do not say that. Do not say that. I'm like, my goodness. Is my wife with a fake account? Because what the latest, I mean, what I said, I said, sometimes it made me want to see what I could get away with. I'm like, I'm over here trying to be a good man. I'm trying to be a good man. But then I talked to women who got it all. I talked to women who got everything going for themselves. And they settling for nothingness. I'm like, why am I pursuing righteousness? If I can get away with nothingness. I'm like, my goodness.  Like, what am I doing? And then I have to talk to the Lord and remind myself I ain't doing this for my wife, I'm doing this for God. I got to remind myself. I got to remind myself. I say, man, listen to me now. Listen to me now. Now, let me see if I could, now y'all put the hashtag Q on there so I could identify your questions. My son's dad, okay, that's the one I answered. Is it true that a lot of men don't want to commit to a woman with a child or children? To be honest with you, I have not been in that position since I was 16, 16 or 17, young lady I was dating. I think I was maybe in 11th grade and she was in 10th grade or something like that.  And at that young age, I didn't want to be tied down, sitting in the house, you know, at 16, 17 years old, I wanted to get up and go to the movie. And she be like, well, I can't go to the move because I ain't got nobody to watch my son.  I'm like, so he getting to be a young man and he on mills got to step up and be, step daddy. I said, I'm not going to be able to do it. And she broke down crying. She sat there and she cried and I felt bad about it. So I say, I haven't been in that situation since I was a teenager. So I really don't understand how a grown man feel about that. I have heard men say that. And I think it's less about the child and more about the other man. And I'm going to tell y'all one thing is that the words that we hear as men, it's gospel. The words that men hear men take it as gospel. I heard a little baby say in a freestyle, you could love her, but don't trust her. Could all the HOs be effing? Now, the reason why he said that is because the type of women he get to sleep with is the type of women that's attracted to rappers and that's attracted to money. And nine out of 10 of them women that he get to sleep with probably got a boyfriend. But one thing I noticed about a lot of women, one thing I noticed about a lot of women is women are always looking for a upgrade or security unless they got it. And men too, men do the same thing. So it's a human thing because I have noticed and I remember this now. I remember talking to women and before they knew I had a wife, they didn't have a boyfriend. But as soon as I said something about my wife, then all of a sudden they say something about their boyfriend. And that was just the strangest thing to me. And so the thing about it is a lot of times men be them cheated or men be them left a little room for a woman to upgrade. And I have noticed it and I remember when I was matchmaking, it'll be so many women I reach out to and they have a boyfriend. But they'll be curious about who is the person because I might be single depending on who he is. And I'm like, wow. So that's what Lil Baby was talking about. And so when we as men hear that, we be like, I'm married, been married 15 years when he said I wasn't looking at my wife. I don't know, I don't know about you.  And I know I got a good woman when J Cole said whatever number she say, multiplied by three. So all of us men, we started asking women, well, how many men have you slept with? I just want to be open and honest, you know, about this right here. How many men have you slept with? And the woman say, well, I don't really count. Oh, you don't lost count? Well, yeah, I know the number. I just don't know if I should say it. Like, I don't want you judging me. So then she say, well, seven because J Cole said whatever number she say, multiplied by three, that's seven automatically 21. And that woman could be being a hundred percent serious. She could be being a hundred percent serious and telling the absolute truth. But because J Cole said, multiplied by three, every man start multiplying by three, seven. Okay, 21. Got to go, got to go, great knowing you. Got to go. If a woman said one, it's three. If she said three is nine, whatever a rapper say goes. And that's the power and that's what a lot of men, today that's why I tell you today, men being raised by rappers. And that's honestly why a lot of men don't trust women cause the rappers don't trust women. And you know why the rappers don't trust women? Cause they dealing with hood rats. And they're not dealing with real women. They're not dealing with classy women cause classy women not even checking for them. Classy women not even in the club at the concert might go to the concert at the arena, but not at the club. Classy women not going in there, not wife ready women that a good man won't. Now you, now you probably, well, Tony, I was in there. I was in the club at a little baby concert. All right, well listen, you're attracting a certain type of man. You're attracting a certain type of man.  He's not in the club. I'm going to tell you that now. He's not in the club. Tell you that now. And so, and, and, and be honest with you, he probably not in no concert either. Not no rap concert. What's the balance between not seeming thirsty, but also not seeming emotionally unavailable. The balance is you respond to a man when he reach out to you instead of chasing him. So you're not, you know, whatever you, you're not chasing him. You're not going after him, but he reach out to you, you free, you respond to him. So that's what that is right there. Will you consider adding online dating to my mentor? Yeah, yeah, you could be an online dating coach. If you know what you're doing, you can be an online dating coach, but just write in, when you go to my mentor.life, you'll see on there need help. And it has the email address info at my mentor.life. Just write in, Hey, can we add, can we add online dating? And then they'll email me and then I'll tell them, yeah, and then they'll add it and see. Cousin called her boyfriend with another woman at a concert. She keyed his car. He then blocked her. She's been a mess and wants to know if he's coming back to her. She doesn't trust herself if he returns. Now listen, I'm not no psychic. And I don't believe in psychics. And your cousin ain't in the bless tribe. So we ain't asking people, cause her ain't in the bless tribe. Unfortunately, we can't ask a question when people ain't in the bless tribe. So tell Cous, you got to join the bless tribe. Mona, Mona, the art of becoming with law and God bless you. Thank you for joining the bless tribe. Should men on CC put on hashtag Q in front of your question next time. So I'll see that. Should men be sole providers or should each situation be customized according to the couple? You got it right. Each situation customized according to the couple. Cause not every man built to be a sole provider. I really like a guy on social media, IG, but he doesn't live in the same state. I'm from NYC. Should I DM him? I know you say online dating isn't it? Listen, mean somebody on social media is different than online dating. It's not the same thing. Just cause social media is online, that's not online dating. Online dating is when you go to a online dating site. When you on social media, that's a social networking site. So that's totally different. It's totally different. Totally different connotation, everything. You should not DM a man though. A woman should never DM a man like shooting her shot. Now you could DM a man asking him a question about his business, about his company, about something he said. But the best way to get a man attention on Instagram is to follow him to like a post, comment a man with the hands up, not with the eyes, don't come in the little eyes, comment a man or I agree and have your story, add something to your story. Even if you put a quote in your story, put anything in your story.  Cause when you add to your story, that give you a ring of fire. And that ring of fire make you easy to get seen. So even if I go and I look through my likes, even as a married man, the people with that ring around they thing, I'm not looking for no wife, but those accounts that I noticed when I see that little ring around now. So you got to add to your story. So then I see, that's where they pop out. So now this man, we see this because that's men are visual creatures and I'm married. And I still gonna notice now, of course it's men and women in the comments, but I'm gonna notice the accounts that got that thing on there, that little ring around there. So imagine a single man, he looking intentionally, he looking for his wife like that. I remember talking to a good man and I said, I said, how did you meet her? He said, she watched my stories. Hey, y'all forgive him my phone trying to die on me. Let me see if I can plug in. I say, how did you meet her? He said, she watched my stories. I say, wow, so you check to see who watched your stories? So he said, I noticed that she always watched my stories. So a single man with no kids, he got that kind of time. And so that's how you gonna catch a man's attention on them. I talked to another guy who met his woman. I say, how did you meet her? He said, I saw her like my picture. She liked one of my pictures. I'm like, boy, y'all really on here playing Colombo, like blues clues, but y'all don't miss a thing. I'm like, by goodness, you caught all that? So do you mean don't miss nothing now? Do you mean don't miss nothing? Denise, just email in to support. Just email in to support. And just send, you'll have to do like a one minute video posted to YouTube market as a unlisted and just saying why you will be good as an office assistant. And that's only for people in the Tampa Bay area. That's where one of my offices will be at. Would you recommend self-publishing through a site like Amazon or going through a reputable, no, ain't no such thing as a reputable publishing company.  Well, before you do that, go to tonigassesacademy.com and take the birth of your book course, because I put all the information you need in there. Put all the information, 837, y'all, I got about 838, 22 minutes, 22 minutes. Hey, no, no, I'm gonna tell you, listen to the rappers. Fancy fans, every rap album, come out, listen to it. And that's gonna tell you where a culture finna go. That's gonna tell you what every man believe in. Listen to every rap album that come out. Get Apple Music, I download every rap album that I hear released, I download it and I listen to every song. And sometimes I listen to it three or four times because that's gonna tell me where the culture is getting ready to go.  That latest rap album gonna tell you everything you need to know about what state society about to be in. And a lot of time the media don't even realize the power that they giving the young man. Boyfriend and I are ready to get married together four years, me 24, him 28, newly long distance because I moved for dental school with starting marriage off long distance, be crazy. Since anything is possible, it just depends on y'all bond. Y'all been together four years, depends on your bond. You in dental school, that's gonna be a great profession. You gonna make great money whether you work at somebody else office or you open your own. If he's not doing something equally as rewarding or lucrative, he should move to you. If my wife wanna go to med school right now, I could work from anywhere. So I go wherever she need to go to. So sometimes that's the sacrifice we got to make. Now if he's in school and he pursuing his dreams, then yeah. But at the same time too, it's hard for a man to be in a long distance relationship. So it's no real sense in being married because now you putting yourself under a covenant to where if he slip up and he do something with another woman, not being married, even though y'all together is different implications not being married than being married. Cause when you married, nah, that's God's covenant he going against. If he get weak in his body, weak in his spirit and any man that's capable of that is just being real with you. I know a lot of women like a fairy tale. Let me get on my computer cause Tony, I can't eat this, I don't even work on the phone. Let me get on computer. Tony got a man, oh, I hope I get it. Oh, I hope for the unsubscribe after this. A man of God will never do that. I have to say, Lord, I just delete the comment. I say, man, what you think? What you think David did? What you think Solomon did? What you think every man in the Bible did? But Jesus, what you think? This a man. This ain't God, this a man. This a man of God, but this is not God. You see what I'm saying? Like look around, like these is good men out here falling short. Look at the past in Atlanta.  Look at the past that got to sit down right now in Texas, a white man.  Let y'all, sisters who is, what y'all call it? Diversifying, divesting. Let y'all sisters tell it, white men faithful. The white past in Texas getting to sit down. The white past in New York got sat down. The one in maybe South Carolina, North Carolina got sat down. The black pastor from LA left his wife. The black pastor from Houston left his wife. The black pastor who in Atlanta used to be in Baltimore cheated on his wife. I think she left him. You see what I'm saying? So even though a man could be a man of God, he's still a man. He's still a man. So me personally, I try to be in the same city. If I was a woman with a man, I try to be in the same city and can move into the same house if you're gonna get married. But long distance, you can, I'm gonna tell you like this right here. If your man ain't got that olive oil on his forehead and now about speaking in tongues and you could feel Christ just oozing from him as humans and this men and women. Humans, you could trust a human as far as you could see them because all humans is given to sin. All humans capable of sin. All humans capable of lying. All human capable. So you got to know that you know that you know that this person wrapped up in the word of God and love and fear the Lord. And that's one thing she cured God bless you. That's one thing that is a downside of me being a man of God. It's my wife. She don't have the fear of me cheating. See a lot of women, they'll put that lens, what my dad, my daddy call it, next to J. I was like, is it called? I was like, do they have one called Negla J? Cause I heard the lingerie, but my daddy say Negla J. But maybe that's, maybe that's another word for it. I turned my wifi off on my computer. I can't even Google it. But a lot of women, they'll put that Negla J on and they'll be doing all of this stuff to keep they man from cheating. See when you are a good man and you a man of God, your wife get right up, hey, you know I still can cheat now. Even though I'm a man of God, now I still can fall short like David did. My wife, if she ain't feeling it, she ain't feeling it. I can't coerce her into nothing. But a man who is not a man of God, he, oh, okay, you wanna go to sleep? Okay, got some for you. Got some for that. And that's why I try to tell you today, men, men, today, men, men, it's not, it's the Bible say a righteous man or faithful man who could find one. It's becoming more and more few and far in between. And that's why you got to see men who doing nothing like marrying the fourth who in here, the brother who in here. And these Saturday school, we haven't almost every Saturday, marrying been on every one of them. That's a man who working on his cell. You would know, the Bible say you would know the tree by the fruit it bear. That don't mean he gonna be perfect, but the fact that he doing the work, the fact that he putting in the work that stands for something, that says something. Tony, I said these to X, but it was the clear truth about himself. Will he recover? I laid it on thick. Oh, I don't know what you said. Now, unless you saying you said what I said, CC trucker telling y'all now, put your hashtag in front of your question, I'm gonna be on here 14 more minutes. Q Scott say, Marion is faithful in those zone. Yeah, Marion be on there, the brother be on there. And that's rare. Called him Monday to check on him. Asked for money. Said he's starving. I didn't send it, just ignored the text. But later that night he text and said he was just messing around. Was he just testing me? Yeah, you trying to see if you booboo the fool?  Like let's be starving, better go, better go get a job. This dude was calling me daily. Nice, has a good family. I have a career in L.E. He works at warehouse. I told him to finish welding school first. I stopped talking to him and he gets why. Is that wrong? Yes, you're wrong. Yes, you're wrong for that step in G. It's like, what the welding school got to anything to do with his character? The man working, that mean he ambitious. That man finished welding school. He might not be on your level no more. That man finished welding school, he might not want you. If you don't want him in the pursuit of greatness, then you don't deserve him when he's great. You see what I'm saying? How you feel if a man come to you and say you ain't got enough of me yet.   Then come hollat me. You'll be like, you know what, forget you. Because you're gonna be the same person before that master's degree and after that master's degree. You're that same person. Why are you working not in the gym before you work out in the gym, after you work out in the gym? Because it's about your heart, your integrity, your character. So that same man that's working in the warehouse, that's humility. That's ambition. That's sacrifice. That's go get a mentality. So well in school, that could be something he does when y'all get together, y'all hit it off, y'all build it. And he motivated to keep working on himself. But see, that's what I'm trying to tell y'all now, which y'all ladies, y'all listen to me. Y'all can't have it both ways. So y'all can't be out here telling me, oh, it ain't fair. You want me to do this and do this and do this. And then you don't want to hear what a man say he won't. But then when you want to go tell a man what he need to do to get on your level. And I'm gonna try to tell you like ladies, listen to me, y'all do not have that type of luxury out here. I'm gonna tell you like, nah, y'all don't have that kind of luxury.  If you meet a man with two legs, if he got one leg, if he a double amputee, if his heart in the right place and he got some integrity, you better sit down and have a conversation. I'm trying to tell you better sit down and have a conversation. I've talked to so many women and they say, well, you know, men approach me, but they're not fit enough. I say, listen, you better see his mind fit and you better see his heart fit and then y'all get in the gym. Because if that man like you, then he gonna work, but a lot of men not motivated to be in the gym when they by themselves. A lot of times it's that love that motivate us. Like, I don't like working out. Yesterday I was tearing some sugar cookies up. Sugar cookies, peanut butter and jelly, pizza. I'm a life coach. Yesterday I had pizza, chicken wing, sugar cookie, beef jerky. What else I had? Peanut butter and jelly. What else I had? You see, I'm telling y'all the truth. And so it's so many women. I'm talking to women. Yes, men approach me, but they don't have the stomach that I like. I say, you must have forgot where we at. You mother, this ain't heaven. This ain't the other side of heaven. We ain't got that kind of pick of the litter out here. Right, so I went to prego. You know what it was. I was on smoothies for a few days. So when my body, when I taste a piece of food, my body went crazy because I had been on the smoothies. So I went and want everything. That's what my wife tried to tell me about them kind of diets. She'd be like, listen, they just a setup. You lose 10 pounds in a week and then you put on 20 over the next two weeks. So just do it the right way. I'd be like, listen, let me do this what I need to do. I know my body. That's how men are. That's how we are. Listen to me, ladies. And here go the thing. I'm meeting a lot of women in culture who do not have it all together but want a man who have it all together. It don't go like that. It don't go like that. Listen, you can't come in with all these requirements for a man if in the eyes of a man, you don't have it together. And I'm gonna tell you something. Now this is the difference between men and women.  I'm gonna call it straight down the middle. This is the difference between men and women. My son will be done in eight minutes but he probably won't get here in about 15, 20 minutes. This is the difference between men and women. Men on average do not believe their own hype. If a man is built like SpongeBob, he know he built like SpongeBob. But what I have found, and I ain't saying SpongeBob got a bad bill cause that's God child too. I'm not saying SpongeBob got a bad bill because that's God child. And we're not body shaming, but we just talking about shapes. If a man is built like SpongeBob, he know he built like SpongeBob. And he'll say that. But what I have found is that if a woman built like SpongeBob, oftentimes in her mind, she built like Beyonce. And what I have found is that I'm talking to a lot of women who is delusional.  You got to get yourself in order. And I heard so many women say, Tony, I'm a good catch, I'm a good catch. And I be, that's why I don't do Zoom. That's why I do not do Zoom because it's a lot of women be asking me, Tony, can you do, can you do Zoom? Can you do Zoom? And I'll be like, listen, I can't do Zoom cause I need the room to let my face drop. Cause sometimes people go to saying stuff, well, I'm dissing, I'm dead. And I'm looking at them pictures. I'm like, well, at least you got some healthy confidence. Well, you got a lot of confidence. Like, Lord, I wish you'd give me some of that confidence. I'm like, I probably could step into my purpose if I had just a little piece of that confidence. We got to be more realistic. And one thing I realized is a lot of women looking for a man that God didn't create it. A lot of women looking for a man that God didn't create it.  I don't want no, I don't want no big man. I look like, I was like, well, I didn't say you were big.  I don't want no big man. Uh-uh.  I'm like, this is not the math ain't mathin', that's what y'all bein', the math ain't mathin', I'm like, and listen, now I talked to a man who told me the same thing.  I say, you keep going after these women who ain't got no meat on their bones and you gain your heart, bro. I said, why you don't go with no woman who got some meat on her bones and she? Man, what you want me to do? Start a grease fire? I was like, what they got to do? He was like, big and big, don't go together. I'm like, I see a lot of people that's the same size that look extremely happy. I'm like, so I'm like, okay, you 400, how you think a woman 150 pounds won't 400 pounds land on top of her? You ain't got to do it like that. You ain't got to do it like that, it's other position. I'm like, come on now. I'm like, that's not fair. That's not fair.  That's not fair. I cannot be so adamant about a woman having an education if I don't have an education. I remember talking to a woman who was making 20 to 40,000 because she was kind of in a entrepreneurial type space. She was making 20 to 40,000. And I said, well, what kind of man you want? She telling the man, I was like, well, how much money you want him to make? He need to make at least 2 million. I say, I say, how much you make? She said, I make about 40,000. I said, well, how you want a man that make 2 million? What you think a 2 million dollar man wouldn't want with a 40,000 dollar woman? A 2 million dollar man don't have a problem with a 40,000 dollar woman, but he got a problem if she got a requirement that he made 2 million. If she made 40,000 and she humble and she happy and she working, he don't mind that. But if she got the audacity to say she made 40,000 but she want a man who made 2 million, and it's a real conversation. So that's what I have said, what I have seen and this advice to the ladies. And men is in a different way. The problem with men today is men is watching too much, earn. The P word, men watching too much of that. That's the problem with men. The problem with women, a lot of single women is talking to themselves too much. So you talking to yourself so too much, I'm meeting a lot of delusional women. And I'm meeting delusional men, but it's for different reasons. And that's why we having a singles class on Saturday. So you'll see it, it say Saturday school with the first course on tonigassesacademy.com. Make sure you get on there and get in the singles class Saturday morning. It's at 10 a.m. Cause we're gonna be talking real, we're gonna be talking real. But that's what I'm noticing. And I'm like, listen, today is not the day to be picky. They're 2022. Today is the day to where you need to judge a person by their heart, by their integrity, and everything else could be fixed. Everything else, they could get veneers. They could go to the gym. They could get lipo. They could get braces. They'll spray your eyes out. They'll spray your eyes out. They could get microblading. They could get what it's called. It's another thing my wife told me they doing to the eyebrows now. My tinting or something. They could get a man unit. They could get weave. They could get lace front. Today is not the day to be picky. Now it's about integrity. What is your heart like? What is your character like? What is your integrity like? If he five, six, listen, he gonna motivate, inspire, y'all work together, y'all build together. When he standing on that money, he gonna be six foot seven, like Kevin Hart. Just like that. That man five foot four. But when he stand on that money, so it's like, do this five foot four man. I ain't talking about Kevin Hart, but I'm talking about if you meet you a five foot four man, does he have integrity? Does he have character? If a man meet a woman and her body is not what she wanted to be. Does she have character? Does she have integrity? We got to start being so picky in this day and age. Listen, we couldn't be picky when I met my wife in 2005. But today, so many people looking for a relationship from a fairytale book and still looking at the person and we praying to God for love. But then not looking at our potential spouse, the way God sees us.  Because God is not judging a person by their height. God not judging a person by their weight. God not judging a person by their income. God not putting all that. God say, where is your heart? And is your heart set on him? And if your heart set on him, everything else will come. Everything else can come. Listen to me now, listen to me now. This, if you want to be married in this day and age, you're going to have to stop being so picky. And you're going to have to stop letting people on the internet who don't got to be in that lonely bed with you.  Cause sometimes that's not settling. Just when you see a person for who they are, that's not settling.  Settling for somebody that don't check off everything on the looks box that you have dreamt of, that's not settling. Being with somebody, getting with somebody, that's not settling. And you got to understand that. You got to understand that. Looked like my son and them about done, cause they didn't really have a practice thing. I think they just did some running. Cause the field's wet, so they couldn't tear it up with their cleats. Oh no, I don't make up no stories now. All these stories real. Yeah, it's hard. It is hard to find somebody with a, somebody say it's hard to find somebody with a good heart. So if it's hard to find somebody with a good heart, imagine how hard it is to find somebody who look amazing and have a good heart. It's like you typically gonna have one or the other, like they're gonna have a good heart and look good, look decent, or they're gonna look amazing and be not about trash. I'm here to tell you now, I've gone on two dates with a guy and he asked me if we can be exclusive. Am I wrong for not accepting exclusiveness so soon? He is the only person I'm dating though. I like to know him better. I mean, exclusive honestly is just a word. You know, he, cause you could say exclusive and then you meet somebody and now y'all no longer exclusive. What that is that man, if he got of somewhere to stay, if he got his own place, he got a car, he got integrity. And what that man is saying is, he like you, he serious about you and he wanna take you off the market. That's all he's saying. Hey, my son here, so I got to go. Hey, God bless y'all. Say hey son. What's up guys? Yeah, I'm a 15 year old. I gotta turn the hair off. I'm a 15 year old. Oh no, the air is on up there. I just take my shirt back here. And sometimes my son think I be too hard on him. And he young. He don't understand what he gonna be up against and why his dad is so hard on him. But he got his Instagram, not Tony Gaskin the third. Y'all DM him. And he talking about no, please don't. And just let him know about a father's love. Sometimes they don't, he don't understand it from me when I'm hard on him. Cause I don't say stuff the way he like me to say it and not say stuff that hurt his feelings. But he don't understand what he gonna be up against and what he gonna see from these women, from these men, from life. They don't understand. And a lot of times they don't get it to the too late. So I try to help these kids understand. Cause we as adults, we know, we know. But a lot of times they don't know. They don't get it. But hey, I appreciate y'all tonight. I'm about to go on ahead and get on out of here. God bless y'all.  They don't want to hit nothing. But hey, God bless y'all. Yeah, he 15 years old. And we gonna be in touch. Hey, God bless y'all. We'll talk soon.