Hi everyone, this is Chih-chou. Welcome to my channel and welcome to another comic book reading. Now, as you know, we're sort of half way through or third of the way through reading set number four that we're doing where we picked out 32 books to read, right? And we've read some key issues and some issues from that lot that we're just interested in reading and along the way I've picked out a few comic books either from my collection or from more recent comic book hauls for us to have a read through, right? And what we're going to do in this comic book reading is have a read through Young Love number 31, okay? From 1952 by Crestwood Publications Prize Comics, okay? Now this comic book is from a recent comic book haul that we had. We have someone that's been following the work we've been doing here regarding the comic books and some of the other stuff that we've been doing, but specifically regarding the comic books and they love the comic book hauls that we're doing, the comic book readings and the comic book discussions that we're having. So what they ended up doing was sending some funds our way to do another comic book haul and this book is from that haul, okay? So a huge thank you to Nicholas for sending the funds over for us to grab the books that we did and we ended up getting 23 books with those funds plus a little top up from my end, right? And this is one of the books that we're going to that we ended up getting that we're gonna read and what we're gonna do is we're gonna read two more books from this haul that we had and this is it was basically that we've already loaded up the videos, comic book haul number 23 or 24, I believe, comic book haul number 24, right? And we ended up getting two romance comics, okay, in that haul and this is one of them and we're gonna have a read through this and the other one is this one right here, which is a love story, okay? And this one came out in 1950, okay? So in the next comic we'll call reading this is we're gonna read one story from this comic and we're gonna flip through the comic as well and the reason I tracked down these books or I ended up putting the bits in to buy these books and we ended up getting an amazing deal on these things, right? We ended up grabbing the young love for 244 US, which is basically 325 Canadian and we ended up grabbing life story for a dollar Canadian, which is basically 75 cents US, right? Amazing deals and as soon as I tell you who's done some of the work in these comics you'll know why they're amazing deals, right? For young love what we're about to read there's a few giants that done the work for this and Cresswood Publications Prize comics was basically a pioneer for romance comics, right? And what we're gonna do is read a story by Jack Kirby in this, okay? The artwork done by Jack Kirby and for life story the story that we're gonna read is by Wally Wood, right? The artwork done by Wally Wood, right? So fantastic, we got two books from the golden age of comics for basically you know, a little bit between three to four dollars US for both of them, right? Combined, so I'm just gonna put this one aside. We will read through this one and we're gonna crack open this one and have a read through it and talk about the comic a little bit, okay?  So let's crack this open for now and then we'll have a little talk about it and as before we're gonna take the tape put it on the side so it doesn't get snag, right? And we're gonna pull this out, put this guy on the side. Now I ended up grabbing this book for like I said, $2.44 US, $3.25 Canadian and it's great at very good. It's from 1992 and it's Young Love issue number 31, okay? And it came out I believe for Valentine's, right? Fantastic, nice photo cover with the heart in it, right? Beautiful, true romance confessions it says and it's got the Young Love little logo there with the young love title on it, right? Now what does it say? Here's the logo for a prize publications, all right?  Now as you know I've just recently got into last three years or so, three or four or five years or so that I started buying moral mass comics and I believe we've done at least one romance comic reading. Hopefully we've done one romance comic reading. If not this is going to be our first romance comic reading. We've done a fair bit of readings, comic book readings. So if there isn't a romance comic in there this is our first romance comic, right? And prize comics, okay? It's also known as Crestwood publications, okay? And the editors, the people who put this together is Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, okay? That's the duo team that really came up with the prize comics company, sort of the offshoot that was publishing on their Crestwood publications, also known as feature publications, okay? They're sort of considered to be the people that put out the first ongoing horror comic book featuring Frankenstein and under this prize comics, right? This company, okay? They published Black Magic, Fighting American and the first comic book title called Romance Comic that came out in 1947, right? So the first continuing sort of romance comic genre was kicked off by the same people that created this, which is Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. And that was in 1947 with Young Romance. And this is 1952 Young Love issue number 31, right? And Young Love was the second series that they kicked off through because Young Romance when they started it was a huge hit, huge hit, right? They were selling millions of copies. What I found online, which I find unbelievable is that 92%, this is from Wiki, I believe, 92% of their print runs for prize comics was the Young Romance comics, right? And they were selling millions of copies of that title. And they sort of giving birth to the genre. What they had done was on top of it, they had noted that the romance comics were for adult readers, more people who are more mature that aren't, you know, really into following superhero comics. And they want to hear, read stories about romance and love and possibly true stories, right? And let's take a look at this. This is graded at very good minus, right? And the staples are nicely intact. Beautiful. A little bit of chipping going on on the cover, right? A little bit of browning on the edges. But otherwise, it's beautifully, nicely intact, a little bit of chipping. Look at this. We're going to flip through this and take a look at all of it, right? Chipping, awesome, awesome, awesome, right? Now, through Crestwood, through prize, prize publications, there are some giants that worked for Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, went through this company, okay? And this company was only around for, you know, a few years. Crestwood, I believe. Let me find where I took the notes for this. Was around, prize comics was around from 1940 to 1968, right? I have some notes laying around here for me so we can go through this stuff and hopefully tell you as much as I found out on this or as much as possible, right? So they were around for about two and a half decades, right? From 1940 to 1968. And there's a lot of people that worked for this company, right? Dick Ayers, Bruno Permani, Carmen Infantino, right? Will Elder, Joe Severin, right? These are some of the names that I just wrote down, right? Mort Menzkin, right? There's a tremendous number of people that worked for this company. And in this issue, there is five stories, right? Take a look at this. Produced by Simon and Kirby, right? Fantastic, fantastic. And this one, this title, this is the one that we're going to read actually. This is done by Jack Kirby, the pencils. The inks in the script, we're not 100% sure. Some people say it's Jack Kirby. Some places I found was Jack Kirby. Some places, it was sort of a question mark. It was left blank that we didn't know it was, right? And Jack Kirby is huge, right? He's the king of comics, basically. He's, without Jack Kirby, there would be no Marvel comics. And if there was a Marvel comics without Jack Kirby, it wouldn't be the Marvel comics that we know of right now, right? It wouldn't have, most likely, Captain America, because Jack Kirby's credited with creating Captain America. Fantastic for the fourth world Hulk, the X-Men, right? Like just tremendous Silver Surfer Galactus. Basically all or most of the great loved characters, if from Marvel comics and from comics in general, were either created solo by Jack Kirby or collaboration with other creators. Okay. So we're going to read this story, which is basically a six-page, one, two, three, four, five. Six-page story by Jack Kirby, Be My Valentine, right? And here's some of the advertisements that people love, right? Fat men and women, let's read some of this.  Oh, wow. Medical doctors say chew, improve formula, kelp and dine chewing gum. Reduce, reduce, kelp, kelp. I have never even heard of this, right? Chew gum, improve formula, kelp and dine chewing, right? Chew gum. Reduce up to five pounds a week with Dr. Phil reducing plan. What? I'm surprised this isn't being advertised at present. It's fun to reduce with kelp and dine chewing gum. Now I'll be curious to find out what the health implications of this were. No drugs, no starving, no massage, no exercise, no steaming, no laxatives. Lose 10, 20, 30 pounds. Wow, wow, wow. Now just imagine a young Jack Kirby drawing a romance comics, right? With Joe Simon. And Joe Simon is credited with this. So I'm guessing maybe Joe Simon, right? Is produced by Simon and Kirby. So I'm guessing once we start reading it, we might get a feel of this little sort of Jack Kirby's writing when Joe Simon is writing, right? Some of you experts out there might have a good feel for it. Okay. Wow, look at this one. Now this one, The Great Indoors. Okay. This one is done by George Rosos and Mort Menzkin. Okay. And just to give you an idea of how many comic books these people have to their credit. Okay. George Rosos, from one of the comic book databases, okay. He has 1,952 issues comic books credited to him. Right. Incredible. He was actor from 1940 to the 1980s. Okay. He also went by the name of George Bell. And he was one of the primary Silver Age incurs for Jack Kirby's pencils. Right. So he did a lot of work for Marvel and stuff like this. Beautiful, beautiful. And let me read you a little bit, a little bit of a thing I found out. Just a, this is a little excerpt from, let me give you a closer up on this. Little excerpt of, that I found on Wiki, right. And here, let's look at this panel. This was beautiful, the opening one, right. Sitting by the fire. What does this say? Let's read this guy. Something had to give when the sport, sport who loved hunting and fishing and the open sky met the girl from The Great Outdoors. What a romantic night Wally.  Yeah. On a night like this, the git fish are running like murder. Boy, I sure would like to be out on a boat now, pulling them in. Really? Sitting by the fire. Nice romantic setting and you want to be on a boat pulling fish. I doubt it. Maybe it does. It's crazy. Now here's a little excerpt I found on Wiki. Let me just read it to you. Okay. Now he's done a lot of work for EC Comics as well and numerous other publishers, right. Bob Kane and Bill Finger hired him to assist Inker Jerry Robertson on Batman stories. So George Russo's was hired by Bob Kane and Bill Finger, the creators of Batman, to do some of the Batman stories. Russo's duties included drawing backgrounds, inking and lettering, starting as early as Batman number two, summer of 1940. Wow, wow, wow. The person who did this was working on Batman number two from 1940. And this thing is from 1952, right. One of the comics most famous covers, right, okay. The Avengers number four from 1964, Pencil by Jack Kirby and Ink by Russo, Russo's, right. So he also worked, and we're talking about the cover of, with Captain America coming back from the Golden Age, right, with his, you know, with the classic Jack Kirby cover with the pencils and Russo did the inking for it, Russo's did the inking for it, right. Here's another story, okay. This is another six-pager by Mort Meskin and Mort Meskin did the layouts for the previous one by Russo's, right. Now, Mort Meskin has 393 issues to his credit, okay. That beautiful work, just a lot of detail. And the facial expressions are huge from the Golden Age of comics, okay. Beautiful, beautiful. And he was mainly around Meskin, was around in Golden Age and up to the Silver Age of comics and he did some work in the Silver Age of comics as well, right. Beautiful, beautiful. Ends with a beautiful kiss. Awesome. Happy love stories. And Joe Simon, Jack Kirby's partner that co-created Captain America. He worked at timely, timely was sort of the precursor to Marvel comics and stuff like this. He's been credited with 447 issues in one of the comic book databases that we saw, that I looked at, right. So right now together, okay, the three care, the three people that we've talked about so far, the creators that have worked on this, together they have about, you know, 3,000 comic books in their name, right. To give you an idea how huge Jack Kirby is, Jack Kirby alone has been credited with three, over 3,000 issues, books that he's published, that he's created, okay. So Jack Kirby is the king and that is the reason why we're going to read the first issue, okay. The first story of this, right. Now this one is called the house of your dreams. And this is by John Prentice. And John Prentice, I couldn't find too much info on. He's only been credited with 81 issues, right. So I'm guessing he must have moved on to a different career back in the golden age of comics, right. Something that paid more. House of your dreams. You can look now darling. Here it is. The model of the new manor house, our castle in the country. Made, made and mortgaged for the two of us. Oh net, it must be beautiful. I'm so excited, almost terrified. I'm so about to take his first look at heaven. Now take a look at that. The bubble, what she's imagining, right. House with pillars and stuff like this. The house, the model house that her lover, her partner, her husband, whoever he is is holding up, right. I hope she's not disappointed when she opens her eyes. Cute. Take a look and here's a white picket fence. And they're driving up. I would love to have one of these cars. Preferably electric, right. Turn right to happy acres. Oh my, oh my. Cute. Oh look at the spider webs on there. And the house. They're a lot. Oh she's working away, fixing up the house. Oh no, she put paint on his jacket. Oh, oh in the yard, fixing up the yard. The plumbing's shut. Look at them moping down there. A lot of these romance comics from the Golden Age. They sort of went, unfortunately a lot of them, a lot of the companies that were producing a lot of romance comics went bankrupt because of the Golden Age, because of the comic code that kicked in. Okay, look at this. What's this? How he proposed. Oh my. And this is a one-pager. Okay. And this is done by George Russo Sagan. Okay. Let's read this one. It's a one-pager. I believe it's a one-pager. It could be a two-pager. No, it's a one-pager. So let's have a read through this one. All right. The doctor had a case on the nurse, but that was as far as it went. Then complications set in and nurse Edith had to go out on an emergency case. And that was how he proposed Roger when he interned in the same hospital where I took nursing, writes Edith. Our love bloomed, but even after we graduated, nothing more tangible occurred. Another couple of years at this hospital, Edith, Edith, and I'll be ready. Oh, he's talking. I'm reading as if it's a sort of a story. So the husband or the doctor, what's his name? Roger is talking. Another couple of years at this hospital, Edith, and I'll be ready to enter practice. Then we can be serious about each other. Oh my, he's totally dragging her along. Edith, what's wrong? What did I do? Nothing. And that's the trouble with you, Dr. Roger. I don't think we ought to see each other any longer. I hope you'll be happy battling your way to the top alone. She wasn't happy at this at all. Edith is writing. I meant it. I wasn't going to wait until Roger had a million dollars and a castle to offer me. I wanted a bungalow for two now. I refuse to see him anymore. One day, the registry sent me out to a housing development on an emergency. Roger's mother, what's she doing here? I must be at the wrong address, I was told. So I'm guessing that's Roger's mother, right? You were told correctly, Edith, dear. Your patient is inside. It was Roger, of course. The handsome faker. My heart faltered. But I stilled my trembling hands with as professional an air as I could muster. Evidently, you'll live. First, I'll take your temperature. Oh, I'm burning, Edith. My love for you has me raging fever. By the way, do you like this house? I slapped down a payment on it, just in case you'll want to stay here and be a doctor's wife. What can a girl answer when there are tears of happiness that begins somewhere in a dry, dry throat? I threw away thermos, the thermometer and answered Roger with my lips. Oh my, saucy, saucy indeed, saucy indeed, right? For the mature reader, definitely. 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And as some of these stories that came out in these romance comics, there were letters that were sent to the publishers and they were given permission to write a story about them. And there are stuff like that happening online. There's one place where you can send them one website that has this creating sex that people are sexting each other. They send in their stories, their sex texting, and they're making video shorts for those messages, the texting messages that they've sent they wanted to share. So that's along the same lines as what these are. Now monthly, by popular demand, Black Magic magazine. Cool. True amazing accounts of the strangest stories ever told. And again, we have stuff like that happening as well. Ask your news dealer to reserve your copy. Take a look at this one. And this should be the last story which is, what advice would you have? Would you have given? Oh no, wait a second. This is a two page story by, oh, take a look at this. It's backwards. I wonder if it's backwards. Upside down. And this one is also a two page story by George Rusos. Oh, so it's a story looking at what's going on with a love counselor, right? It's like one of those puzzles. And I guess the counselor gives the advice but it's upside down so people can't read it right away. They think about it. Let's read this and then I'll read this. Okay. And there it is reader. Let's pretend, let's check it out. And there it is reader. Let's pretend you are the love counselor. What would you decide as an answer to Alice's problem? Then look at Nancy Hale's advice below. Is yours an agreement? That's reader advice. Okay. Let's check it out. That's cool. This is the first time we're doing something like this as well. Tell him there's no substitute for honesty between a man and a wife. Ronald would only love you, love you, love you the more for it and possibly carry hurt and anger the rest of his life for you if you have, if he found out by any other means. Honestly, that's good advice. Let's read this part too. Why not? Imagination. Read the following account carefully. This story of Alice, W, who has found immeasurable happiness only to fear losing it because of a family secret. What would you tell her if you were the love counselor to whom she turned? Honesty. All cases. No matter what death, what the issue is, honesty is the way to go. Bargain galore, magic loop, fishbowl, rings, ladies, sport text, watch. $7 or $8. Platinum. $4.19. Look at these small busts. Wow, wow, wow. Look at the pictures. Classic advertisement style. Poorly lit picture standing a little bit more sideways. Shoulders back. At another angle. Nude. Nude, white, black, blue, sizes 28 to 38. No pads. And this is the last story. And this one is by Mort Meskin. Okay. The person who's done some of the work before as well. Let's read this title for it. Sometimes it takes more than love to budge a man into marriage. It takes a wonderful gal like baby doll. Now keep in mind, this is 1952. I don't know how dominant the penetration rate was for television in 1952 in the United States, but I'm assuming there were many households that did not have television. They had radios and stuff. So this would have been the form of entertainment they would have, right? Millions of copies of this. From all accounts, the first romance comics that came out, right? By issue number three, they had tripled the print run for young romance with prize comics, right? That's how much the demand was for these love stories. And I've actually seen a little bit of the love stories make a comeback recently. I know I mentioned a couple of years ago in one of the comic book videos that there weren't too many love stories around, but it appears that they might be coming back. I hope so. I hope so. What does the letter say? Check this out. At the end, darling Betty, I miss you very much. And there is something that I'm assuming says something, something I want to ask you. 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We are reliable our fifth 36 years, 36 years. Premium cash, so I guess they buy them. It's almost like a pawn shop, right? Should we have a read through the first story? Be My Valentine by Jack Kirby. Let's read that little bottom part, the way we always do. Too small, I don't think you'll be able to read it. But let me have a read through this. So this is volume number four, number one. March 1952. Young Love is published monthly by Crestwood Publications Company, incorporated. Eighth Lord Street, Buffalo, New York. Editorial office, 1790 Broadway, New York, 19 New York. Single copy, 10 cents. Subscription, $1.20, 12 issues. Re-entered a second class matter, July 22nd, 1949, at the post office at Buffalo, New York. Under the act of March 3rd, 1879, the stories in this magazine are true. Wow. But the names and places have been changed and should not be identified with any actual persons living or dead. No responsibility is assumed for unsolicited manuscripts. Entire content copyrighted 1951 by Crestwood Publishing Company, incorporated. So the stories in this are true. Printed in the USA. And again, the artwork for this is done by Jack Kirby, that we know. We don't know who did the script for it or the inks. Some places were saying that the script and the inks were also done by Jack Kirby, but the script could be done by Joe Simon as well. I found one place that was mentioning that Joe Simon was a contributor to this. And this is produced by Simon and Kirby, the people that brought us Captain America, plus many, many, many other marvels, mainly superhero line of characters, especially Jack Kirby. He's the king of comics, the person that came up with many of our loved characters. Okay. This is just a bit of a pace board, edged into lace. But in mischievous hands, it can cause great havoc. Well, we'll let you in on a little secret. This paper heart has been tampered with, and it's being mailed to the wrong party. You know what it will say to her? Be my Valentine. What does that say? To miss, to miss something. I can't make that. Here's the mail miss. Looks like some lovesick young, uh, Scallowag has sent you a Valentine. Gosh, I can't imagine who it's from, she says. She's in a robe, I think. The card came in the mail that Valentine's Day. I received it with mixed feelings. Written on it was sentimental verse and the name of a man. It was a name that made me cry. Scott, Scott. Good grief, Guinea. Is that you crying? G-I-N. You couldn't really blame me for crying. The world made me, had been an empty place since the day Scott and I had fallen out. And this sentimental bit of pace board and lace reopened the crypt where my love, pain, and other discarded memories were buried. Ginny, honey, stop it. I thought you'd gotten over Scott. Oh, she's sobbing. Over his picture won't bring him back. Oh, so that's it, a Valentine. Why that impudent young scoundrel. Don't say that. I know what you think. That'll be hurt again. But I've got to risk it. I'm going to see Scott.  Scott's engaged to Ruth Nicholas. He had no right to send you that Valentine. No, mother. But don't you see, Scott and I broke up because we were both stubborn. Neither would concede to the other. But he must still love me. I've got to go to him, she says. Despite further protest from mother, I went to see Scott. Pride in hand and heart upon my sleeve. Why, why, Ginny, Scott, I came in, came in answer to this. She's got the little coat.  Your Valentine has given me the chance I waited for to see you again. That's fine, Ginny. But all it is to be able to say that word, I love you, Scott. Somehow I knew you still cared. Well, what a touching little scene. From the third act of all hearts reclaim no doubt. Guess that's her, his fiancee, right? I didn't expect to see Ruth Nicholas. She and I had once been good friends. That is until Scott took up with her after a flare-up. It's happened, hasn't it, Scott? In again, with the old, out with the new. You could have given me a few days notice, Scott. Whoa, hold it, Ruth. Give me a chance to gather my wits, don't leave. Ginny, this is all wrong. I'm all mixed up. Ruth and I are engaged. You must have heard. I know, Scott. She must be heard seeing us together again. Reconcealed. Reconcealed. But Ginny, you don't understand. Wait. It won't be right, darling. You must tell her yourself. I'll meet you at eight. You know the spot. I should have been happy, but I wasn't. The situation disturbed me. Scott and the flesh fell short of Scott. In the Valentine, it didn't make sense. At eight, I found out why. Scott, you remembered the place. Look, Ginny, we've got to talk. There's been an embarrassing mistake. He says, you see, I never sent you a Valentine. It was just someone's idea of being funny. Oh, no. Funny. Oh, Scott, you don't mean what you're saying. You did send it, didn't you? No, Ginny. I didn't. This thing is as shocking to me as it must be to you. You can understand how this places me with Ruth. I've asked her to meet me here. You want me to help you explain, of course. I tried to tell you this afternoon when I realized what had happened, but I couldn't. I know what it must have cost you to humble yourself. It's all right, Scott. I believe I can get over you now. Here comes your girl. I'll tell her the truth after you've kissed her. Hello. I wanted to turn away. I wanted to end it clearly, once and for all, but I ached and yearned for Scott for so long. My love had grown to outrageous proportions. I couldn't help the outrageous impulse. I'll say goodbye the same way. What? Again? She's kissing him. This is too much, Scott. Insult on injury. Surely you didn't ask me down to see this, did you? Please, Ruth. It's all my fault. Won't you listen? What I've seen speaks for itself. However, I'm not a vindictive person. I'm only too willing to do the sporting thing. Oh, be yourself, Ruth. You know I won't. I wouldn't. I am myself. For the first time in a year, I haven't enjoyed being a substitute sweetheart, Scott. May you both be very happy. Goodbye. Ruth, Ruth, you must let me explain, she says. She was only too willing to do the sporting thing. I suppose it's what she wanted. I've really devastated your love life, haven't I? It's possible that you may have improved it.  I think it jolted a lot of old wheels into motion. Strange. The very same thing happened to me when I received the Valentine, she says. Ginny, let's go into Tony's restaurant, where we can both write.  Somehow, we never quite got around to that chore. Instead, we ate a good deal of Tony's excellent spaghetti, and danced to the dreamy music of the jukebox. Nice. We came so close to losing each other forever. I'll never let you go again, Ginny. Just try to get rid of me, he says. Scott and I were more in love than ever. Our love was the one thing that counteracted the occasional, disquieting thoughts I had about Ruth. It seems that wedding invitations from fake Valentine's grow. I wonder if Ruth would care for that sentiment. I lived in a golden world of happiness, but I couldn't manage to shake off that guilty feeling about Ruth. The prospect of meeting her made me uneasy, but in a small town like ours, it had to happen. Scott, Ginny, how nice. Did you kids know Dave Hall? Oh, she's got a new boy. They both dressed in blue, different color hats. Never had the pleasure. Hi, Dave. They get introduced. Ruth didn't seem unhappy, but she didn't want to talk. It was she who suggested that we join them. And it was Ruth who led the way to the powder room later. Ruth, I want to talk to you. Ginny, I want to talk to you. I think there's some stuff going to be coming out. The tension broke with that exchange, and we laughed spontaneously, a warm air of friendship formed between us.  I wouldn't blame any girl for going after Scott. I did, but I didn't. I'd been too late, at least. I'd always felt that way, she says. You were there before me, Ginny. And I took Scott on the rebound. I was sorry later, because I could never keep from wondering whether his love for you had really died. Things might have turned out differently if you hadn't doubted him. I don't mind things as they are. I found Dave Hall, and I couldn't be happier. We're going steady, nice. Ruth, how wonderful.  All seemed right with the world when Scott saw me home that night. My heart was free and unfettered. The ghost had fled, and the moon was full and bright. Dave Hall told me about himself and Ruth. I'm very pleased. It means she can forget me. That's what he's saying. So the boys were talking, while the girls were talking, right? Conceited of. I suppose you think you're a special character, she says. You know I am. You lucky wench. You know I am. You lucky wench. Just think, if some wise acre hadn't sent you a phony valentine, you may not have been in my arms this minute. Whoever wrote that valentine sure knew how to stir up an old romance. You will admit, she says. I could have told him, but I let sleeping dogs lie. I wonder what Scott would have said if he knew that I had sent that valentine myself. Oh wow, what? Tricky, she was playing. Oh my. Until we read this, I thought maybe it was her mom, or maybe it was, what's her name? I forget, Ruth, right? Maybe it was Ruth testing out her love with him, or her mom trying to get her daughter to go after her love one more time. She sent it herself. Wow, wow, wow. Cool story. Tricky, tricky. Fantastic, fantastic. Great golden age romance comic. And in the description, I was looking this stuff up. I believe it was in my comic shop, they have a database there. They're saying this guy, sort of a look-alike for a young Robert Redford, but when I look at it, I don't think it is. I don't think it is. Fantastic story. Nice read, nice read. And thank you very much again, Nicholas, for contributing for us to be able to get this comic book, to have a read through it. And we will be reading a couple more from this haul as well, okay? I hope you enjoyed. Nice romance comic. And we're gonna do one more in the next video. Read the Next Story, okay? By Wally Wood. That's it for now, gang. I'll see you guys in the next video. Bye for now.


Welcome to Sister Power. Sister Power's special guest is Erica Ingo. Erica recently joined the staff of Honolulu City Council member Kimberly Pine as Communications Director while just last month she was one of the reporters who was seek out Kimberly Pine for interviews. And now she's helping former colleagues and competitors arrange those interviews. She started in radio in Hawaii Island and then moved to Honolulu working at KSK, AM and FM where she served as news director. Erica adapted to print journalism, working at Pacific Business News, then the Honolulu star advertiser as a business columnist and reporter. She was one of the inaugural writers at Crave, the weekly food section which she calls the best assignment of her newspaper career. Erica did some TV as well at KGMB TV in the 80s and most recently at KHON2. She was named Small Business Journalism of the Year for the City and County of Honolulu by the U.S. Small Business Administration in 2008. Our topic for this episode be phenomenal or be forgotten in 2020. Welcome Erica. Thank you so much for inviting me. Thank you for taking that time out of your busy schedule to visit with Think Tech and Sister Power. So let's talk about be phenomenal or be forgotten in 2020. Well first of all congratulations on your new position. Thank you very much. It's such a blessing to have that job with yeah I never imagined a political career but now that I'm in the position I don't think I would be if it weren't for Kimberly Pine. She is an inspiration to me. I think she is a woman of integrity and that's the only way I would have it you know entering the political realm working for someone I believe in and who I think is trustworthy.  Yes she is. And that's our mutual friend Kimberly Pine and we have another mutual friend is of course also with Ann Marata. Yes. Marketing genius woman. So go ahead. The AM and Marata advertising marketing she's just so brilliant. She is. She is brilliant. So tell us about your day-to-day task has been a communications director. One of the things that I do is check for various publications news outlets. I look for Kim you know stories that have been done about her and I make a note of it and forward it to other members of the staff just so that they're aware. Kim was on KHON last night or she's quoted in the Star Advertiser this morning or Civil Beat. I look for those sorts of media references and just make sure everyone on staff is aware. And I keep my own file of course media tracking for all of that. And then too if anything comes across as needing to be corrected I'm in a position to work with council member Pine and you know get any information that needs to be fixed. But so far that has not been the case. Oh good. So you've been there how long now. Only since September 23rd so I'm still I'm not even a month on the job but I am loving it. Oh my goodness. No because today is October 17th. Yeah almost a month. Almost a month. And previously before that we were talking about. KHON. I was a reporter from 2 30 to 10 30 p.m. on weekdays. The schedule is a little bit brutal for someone who's usually you know asleep by 10 30. Sure. It was an adjustment. So I'm one of the reasons I like this new job is that I have normal human being hours again which is nice. Good. Well looking ahead to 2020 give us some advice or tips about how to connect faster commit smarter communicate better. That's that's a big subject. Yeah it is three point subject. So the first thing was connect better connect faster connect faster social platforms. Google news alerts. You know they're free. Sign up for your Google news alert for whatever you're interested in. A keyword. Mine happens to be council member Kimberly Pine. OK.  You could do a Google alert about that and it you can get it as soon as it is found or once a week or you know you can customize that search. So that's one way to get things faster. Also your social platforms of course Facebook Instagram Twitter Snapchat I guess I'm not on that one personally. And then the second point was it's smarter commit smarter. Yes. Yes. OK. What that means to me what that speaks to my heart is sometimes you see something on a social media platform and it makes your blood boil. Don't reply right away. Commit smarter. Take some time to formulate your thoughts.   Why not make a more thoughtful. Response to whatever it is that set you off. Maybe think it through a little bit before you commit and a paper so to speak. And I'm glad we're talking about that because social media and Facebook is such a tool where people just fly off the handle. And I think that the younger generation the millennials should understand because you've been in this business in the journalism world and the media world for how long 40 years 40 years. That's wonderful. And your wisdom can teach them your words follow you. Exactly right. Exactly right. Now we mentioned you know when I started we had a typewriter. I don't know if all of you know what that is but it was a machine that had a keyboard and the printer was right in it. You know you put the paper in and you typed and there were your words on this paper. That could get thrown away and gone forever. Piping in the ether. That is forever. Yeah. Someone will find it even if you delete it right away. If somebody can find it. You have to be very careful with your words like our grandmothers used to say remember to keep your words nice and sweet or one day those words you may have to eat. I like that. It's still true. It's true. So then we're talking about communicate better. Yes. And that taking time for more thoughtful responses is one way of communicating better. I think a very undervalued skill and it's maybe weird for me to say this because I had to have you repeat the parts of the question. But one of the main things that helps you communicate better is listening more. Because yeah. Don't just listen for the pause that you know that allows you to speak now. Listen for what's actually being said. And if you listen and you're looking at the person who's speaking with you if you have that luxury you can see their face their intention the expression and that sort of fills out the words that they're saying to you and you can take that in think about a little bit and not just knee jerk react. This is why I think it's so important that we pick up the phone sometimes just pick with the phone sometimes and hear that warm voice and really you can hear what people are thinking and how they really feel about what's going on in their daily life. Yes. Exactly right. There is a very popular meme on the Internet social media. It may be posted on YouTube. I'm not sure the source of it. But you know key and peel the comedians. Yes. The comic team. It lent. It spoke to the power of texting versus calling like you're saying. So one texts the other something about you know they're going to meet up and the other responds with yeah the intention of meeting up but the way that the text was worded offended the other one. And so they the other one who's replying thinks everything's good and you know we're going to connect later on but this one is getting very upset because they're not talking on the phone. They can't hear the warmth of voice and all of that. So person is ready for the meet up at the location and the person who had been getting upset at the tone of the text thinking it was too casual like yeah whatever whatever you know he shows up with a baseball bat with spikes in the end. So we don't want to escalate anything like that. But it just showed the power of or how easily the written word can be misconstrued versus a phone call like they yeah sure who inspired you to do what you're doing. Oh that's a really good question. I think it's a multifaceted answer. I did not think about a journalism career in high school but as a junior at Pahoa High and Elementary on the Big Island all the radio stations on the east side of Hawaii Island got an opportunity to go to one of the radio stations in Hilo and give a little high school report what's happening at your school this week. And so the student government took it on and I was head of the social committee or something like that. And so I went along and after the first two weeks everybody else was like Erica you do it. You know I have piano and lessons and everyone else found a reason to not do it. I was a little nervous being the only one but actually went around to the various student government leaders and you know whoever was relevant this particular week wrote my notes of what they told me was going on and then I would write a report and go to the radio station once a week and do my five minutes. And that was really fun but I still wasn't thinking about a journalism career. I just thought radio looked like fun. Yeah. I wanted to do that. Playing music and and all that. Went to school for a little while took a journalism class and just got an opportunity to be an intern for one of the DJs in Honolulu and I just left at the opportunity. And that was Michael W. Perry back at KKUA. Right. 690 in 1979 or 78. Yeah. And I was unpaid but it was so much fun. I'd go to the station three days a week and pull his music and commercials and help him answer phones and just the vibe. It was so exciting. And then went to intern for him. I guess there was a summer break or something and I went back to Honolulu and he said hey if you're going back to school I can use an intern but I'm at KSSK. Well it was called KGMB radio at that time. I'm at K59. I'm sure I'll do it and hey we might have a part time job. What. So yeah I went for that opportunity. It was that's how I got into radio and then I got an opportunity in the news department and that's where my passion started. I'm not really a DJ but but give me something to research and report on. I'm all over it. I love that. Oh that's wonderful. Well you know in 30 seconds or less less inclusion is the currency of the future. Yes. Tell us fresh ways in about 20 seconds to engage collaborate and innovate and we can just start with engage and then come back after break. That sounds good. I think engagement starts with listening with an open mind and learning how you can best engage with that person who's in front of you. Oh I like that. Well we'll be right back don't touch that doubt. Thanks to our think tech underwriters and grand tours the Atherton Family Foundation Carol Mon Lee and the Friends of Think Tech the Center for Microbial Oceanography Research and Education collateral analytics the Cook Foundation Dwayne Karisu the Hawaii Community Foundation the Hawaii Council of Associations of Abarbon owners Hawaii Energy the Hawaii Energy Policy Forum Hawaiian Electric Company integrated security technologies Galen Ho of BAE Systems Kamehameha Schools MW Group the Shidler Family Foundation the Sydney Stern Memorial Trust Volo Foundation Eureko J Sugimura. Thanks so much to you all. Welcome back to Sister Power. We have a special guest Erica Ingo who is the communications director for a council member Kimberly Pine and our topic for this episode be phenomenal or be forgotten in 2020. And before we went to break we were chatting about inclusion is a currency of the future and we were talking about fresh ways to engage and talk about engage. So let's talk about collaborate collaborate and innovate. Okay. So collaborate engaging I think I mentioned starts with listening. I'm collaborating then could include contributing your own ideas. And like Play-Doh right. There's an idea. Oh and they have an idea. Let's see how we can shape this Play-Doh. I'm a mom. Can you tell I'm talking about Play-Doh. You have your mother for I am and they're all grown. I don't step on Legos on the carpet anymore. Thank God. Right. But yeah here I am using Play-Doh as an illustration tool. But ideas all on the table and then you formulate them into something bigger than that was which was placed on the table in the beginning. That is kind of a visual illustration I guess of collaboration. Those are good tools because this is what's going to empower us for 2020. 2020 is a big year for everyone especially women. I feel. So what lessons has your work life taught you? Research, research, research. I don't want to single out any one website but I will tell you that in journalism we don't rely on Wikipedia. It might be kind of a good starting point but it's not your be all end all you can't have. You can't attribute factual information to Wikipedia. So you do need to consider all of the sources that you're using for this research. Know your fact and that way you will have firm ground upon which to stand when it is when you're saying whatever it is that you're going to say or speak about. That's very important as we see what has been happening over the course of few months is know your fact. Exactly right. Exactly right. I mean it's one of the cannons of journalism and it's it really should be applied to life in general. Know your fact before opening the mouth. Yeah. It would be nice if everyone felt that way wouldn't it? Yes it would be. And more note what is your definition of a fearless woman. Oh someone who has been through a lot and I think we've all been through a lot at some level. I'm a widow. I was a single mother twice. First marriage practice husband that didn't go well and then my forever love died leaving me with four young ones.  Every day is a new day. The next minute is a new minute. Anything could happen. You just keep moving forward. Oh I like that. I like it. And it's how you handle your disappointments and I think speaking up for yourself standing up for yourself whether you know people agree with you or not. Absolutely. Just having that confidence. So what do you even if you're trembling on the inside. Even if you're trembling on I like that. So you're not as they say don't let people never let them see you. See you sweat. Yes. That's right. You might be. Yeah. Like no I am not. Did you see Game of Thrones. Any of those episodes. No I there was this fearless young female character and one of the kind of buzz phrases is with the question what do we say to the God of death and Arias Stark this not today. Not today. All right. I like that. Yeah. So that I took I internalized that big time. Sure. Sure. Who do you consider your greatest mentor and why. I would have to say my dad. Dad. We he was he taught me so much about so many things. He was determined just a small example. He was determined that I would learn how to drive on a stick shift manual transmission because if I could drive that I could drive anything.  Speed I have so much fun driving it. The other thing was and this is also a very simple thing we always kept a dictionary by the dinner table because he was pretty learned was an engineer by trade. But he would come out with these words in the course of dinner conversation and I'd look at him and he'd say get the dictionary. So after a while it just became like all right I'll get the dictionary. Do your research again. Do my research and I would look up and the dictionary became one of my favorite books of all time. Yeah.  My mother would be another one. Same level but for different reasons. Sure. What advice would you give your younger self in this business for 40 years in journalism and in the media. What advice would you give your younger self to pass on to the next generation. You're stronger than you think you are. Don't take no for an answer. Just keep trying.  And boy I don't know if I can say this without using a naughty word. Take no guff from anyone. We got yeah that's not a naughty word. No that's in place of. Yeah standing up for yourself. I think I would I would that's what I would tell my younger self. Okay. Things I wish I had known when I were younger. Well that makes you phenomenal going into 2020. Absolutely. Absolutely because now you know the do's and don'ts. Exactly right. Exactly. That's the beauty of wisdom. I feel so any other professional pursuits on the horizon. Well I nothing set up or in place. But I'd like to return to cookbook editing which I did for a while. Love that. And I was taking culinary continuing ed classes at KCC but the program changed a little bit so it's not the same that you could just take a class here and there. Love that. Okay. And now being there to support my my kids it's weird to call them kids when they're 31 going to be 30 and then my twins are 26. We have twins. Twin sons they're six four. Oh my they live here. Yes they they live at home with me so I don't have to ever get on a step stool to reach a tall casserole dish that's in the kitchen. Wonderful wonderful. What advice would you give women in order to keep their seat at the table? No one to listen. I'm never going to say no one to shut up but formulate carefully what you're going to say and avoid being shrill. That doesn't mean don't be loud. Be loud without being shrill. You know what I'm saying? Kind of the high pit. Rosie Perez when she gets a little bit amped up don't be that. Okay. Yeah because men don't take that seriously. Because it's more being with confidence calm and cool and collected. Yes. But stirred. Absolutely. Yes. Let them see the power. I like that because it's all about empowering and motivating educating people exactly whatever you're doing. All right what does it take to be recognized as an emerging leader? That is a really excellent question. I think Tulsi Gabbard is doing a good job of getting noticed. This is not to say anything about her politically. I'm just talking about her methodology in getting on television and coverage nationally. She is doing a good job of that. If I had to come up with an example on the national level it would be her. But for that matter, Council Member Pine has gotten some national coverage for her bill about tourism and having visitors sign Keep Hawaii, Hawaii Pledge. It's a promise to our Kiki after all to keep Hawaii nice for them as they grow and they have children. I think be strong in your convictions, be able to make a decision, tell the truth, stand by your word, acknowledge when you're wrong if you are wrong. That's being a woman and that's being a man. You can acknowledge that when you're wrong and I think saying I'm sorry. Yes, I agree with you. The acknowledging wrong thing, I'm sorry. Exactly right. Chief Susan Ballard impressed the heck out of me after the recent HPD false alarm when all of our emergency alerts went off. And for people who don't know who Susan Ballard is, she's the chief of police. She's the first woman chief of police. To my knowledge she is the first female chief of the whole police department. And she was on I guess every newscast that night saying it was us. We made a mistake. I'm sorry. And we're going to take these steps, the following steps to fix it and make sure it never happens again. I thought that was fantastic. Woman or not. But that she was, that she is a woman, I think it speaks even better of her than the other chiefs. Just saying. Just saying. It's the truth. We want to speak our truth. Exactly right. What is the key to success when communicating with the public? Truth. Absolute truth. And there are perhaps some truths that are still forming, let's say, things that can't yet be talked about, but address it saying, you know, we're not ready to talk about that right now. But when we are, we'll let you know. I think being forthright about things you can't talk about, instead of, you know, making something up that sounds disingenuous, that's not a good idea ever. So always truthful to the degree that you can speak to something, do that. If you can't talk about something yet, say that. I think journalists respect that. It frustrates them because they want to know right now. But, you know, there are reasons that sometimes information gets withheld. You have given us so many tools and ideas about being phenomenal or be forgotten in 2020. And I want to thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Erica Ingole, for taking the time to come in and speak with us and sharing your knowledge with us. On behalf of ThinkTech Hawaii and Sister Power, thank you for spending part of your day with us. Oceans of Aloha. Peace and love.


In the wake of my recent dialogue with Richard Granon about gender issues, I had received the totally predictable tsunami of hate mail claiming that I'm a misogynist. At first my impulse was to ignore the avalanche, but then I said to myself, people have a right to be heard and they have a right to my reaction. Having provoked the debate, I owe them what is called a replica. I owe them a reply. So here's my response. I ask you to please suspend your hostility.  Forget for a minute who I am. Just listen to what I have to say. Agree with me. Disagree with me. Criticize me. But talk to the arguments. Don't attack me personally. This is a logical fallacy known as ad hominem. Don't attack the messenger. Argue with a message. I'm a man. And believe it or not, I'm old. And this of course puts me in a certain context, contextualizes me. Obviously, old men feel very uncomfortable with new ways and with the young. Clearly a man cannot fully grasp the experience of a woman, and so I acknowledge my limitations in this video. I accept that I cannot reach the truth, but only strive, attempt asymptotically to get to it. Remember that even misogynists, which I vehemently deny that I am, but even misogynists can have good arguments. Even a broken clock is right twice a day. If you label someone, you automatically block yourself. Labeling is not the same as comprehending. Not the same as arguing. It's not even scoring points. It's meaningless. It leads you nowhere. I've been trained most of my life since age nine to be a scientist. Scientists are little like judges. They're supposed to put aside their emotions, their biases, their background, their upbringing, their prejudices. They're supposed to go where the data take them, where the evidence takes them. So in this presentation, I will try to be data-based, evidence-based. My observations are based on studies, not on anecdotes, not on my values, not on my prejudices. I advise you or recommend that you watch my video on hookups. In that video, I review 91 studies. It's a literature review. That's the way I work. Before I make a video, I study the topic in depth. I dive through the literature. I scan, assimilate, incorporate dozens and sometimes hundreds of pieces of literature. Take for example my claim that casual sex has deleterious effects, bed effects. These are facts. This is a fact. This is not my bias. That's simply a fact. And now, a personal confession. I have had casual sex. I did swinging. And I participated copiously in group sex when I was young, or young girl. That alone goes to show you that what I say has nothing to do with who I am. My arguments do not reflect my personality, or my background, or my personal history. Casual sex and group sex, but especially casual sex, has deleterious bed effects. Sexual self-trashing, or self-trashing via addictions, is a form of self-harming. And today men and women use each other to self-harm. So when I state a fact, it's based on studies and research. If you want to dispute the fact, find alternative studies, other types of research. Disprove me. The same way I had proven my point. Throughout the ages, women had been complaining that men are reducing them to sex objects with no mind and no personality of their own. Strangely, women are now fostering exactly such an attitude by giving in to casual sex.   It's not a savory experience. It's not something to look forward to. So why do women keep experimenting with casual sex?  Because they have no choice. This is the environment today and we'll come to it a bit later. I'm giving the example of casual sex, which has horrendous effects on mental health and sometimes physical health through sexually transmitted diseases. I'm discussing casual sex as an example of a statement I make, which is evidence-based. Everything I say is evidence-based. If you don't like the data, you don't like reality. And if you don't like reality, you're going to end up badly. We're all going to end up badly. Some women say, why do you focus on women? Men are also to blame. Men are also guilty of what's happening. Yes, that's true. Men and women had colluded in this emerging catastrophe. But my focus on women has to do with the fact that women are in the driver's seat of this enormous revolution. This is the biggest revolution ever in human history. Never before, never before were gender relations so tumultuous, so uncertain. Never before did we have the process of fluidity, sex fluidity and gender fluidity. This has never happened before. In 300,000 years of documented homo sapiens, this is the first time this is happening. It's the greatest revolution ever, far bigger than the agricultural revolution, far bigger than the industrial revolution. And every revolution is a threat. So this is the biggest threat. This revolution threatens vested interests, the interests of men. And this gives rise to rebellion movements among men. You have the model sphere, you have the MiG Tau, you know, this kind of people. And I've been accused by men of being a simp, a misandrist, a man-later and someone who caters to the whims and needs of women. So it's a good sign that both men and women are accusing me of bias. But we are undergoing an enormous revolution. And this revolution, if it is not managed properly, if it is not tackled and understood deeply and profoundly, threatens the existence of a species. The threat of intergender implosion, the threat of intergender alienation, the threat of men and women going their own way is far bigger than climate change. Immeasurably bigger than COVID-19. This is the greatest threat the species had ever faced, bigger than any pandemic and any tectonic shift in any field of life. If we stop interacting with each other as men and women, we are doomed. For the very practical reason that without men and women, procreation is somewhat more complex. But even more so, I would say, without the contributions of men and women, I don't think civilization can survive. The role of women in civilization had, of course, been underestimated, rewritten, retouched out of history, ignored and erased. But women had been foundational in modern civilization. Take away women and everything crumbles to dust. Men had been more visible. Women had been the power behind the throne and behind the scenes. Without men-woman collaboration, without cooperation, without a joint effort, nothing will be left of us. I am an old man and I'm afraid of what I will leave behind. I'm afraid of what will happen to the next generations. It is out of this fear and concern that I'm making these videos. I stand nothing to gain from that. I stand nothing to gain from that except oprobarium and attacks and castigation and belittling and mockery and ridicule. But I'm doing this time and again, alone and with other people like Richard, because I believe there is nothing, absolutely nothing, more urgent than this. And that the young generations don't see this, that they're out on the streets protesting against climate change, that they developed climate anxiety, and they think climate is the main threat. They had been blinded. They had been blinded by indoctrination and brainwashing. We need to wake up. And to wake up, we need first to go back. We need to go back to the concept of patriarchy. Patriarchy, the dominion and domination of men throughout history, at least starting with the industrial, with the agricultural revolution and with mass urbanization, let's say 10,000 years ago, 5,000 years ago. The domination of men and the institutions that men had created, men I mean males, had created in order to render women subservient. This is called the patriarchy. Now, Jordan Peterson is right that men had been beneficial to women. Men had been providers. Men had invented many things, many devices, pills, medications and necessities of life and luxuries, which make women's lives a hell of a lot better. Men had been friendly to women throughout the millennia, but the problem is that the patriarchy was a top-down structure, hierarchical. There was no consultation. Women had no voice. No one asked them, do you want the patriarchy with all its benefits? Is this the way you want to live? It was taxation without representation. It was subjugation. Occasionally, and in many periods in history and many territories frequently, women had been horrifically abused by men with and men got away with it. Women were subjected to stunted growth. They were not allowed to self-actualize. They were sexually assaulted with impunity, hence the MeToo movement. So the patriarchy had its positive aspects, shielding, protecting, providing. But the qui pro quo, the trade-off, was both unacceptable to women and no one bothered to ask them. So the patriarchy was a bad thing. Let no one tell you otherwise. And one day, women woke up and they realized that most of their relationships with men in professional capacities, in service capacities, in intimate settings, most of the relationships with men were abusive, are abusive. And then women had a choice. That happened about 150 years ago with the suffragettes. At that point, women had a choice. They could say, we're going to build a better world. It's going to be balance. It's going to be equal. And it's going to be in some areas male-free or at least free of the dominion and control of men. But it's going to be fair. It's going to be just. It's going to be compassionate. But at that point, around the 1960s, women made the wrong choice. They did not choose to create a better world. They chose to emulate and imitate men. Now we know in psychology that victims of abuse tend to adopt the abuser's point of view. They tend to internalize the abuser. It's a way of regaining control over one's life. If I am the abuser, then I cannot be abused anymore. If I become the abuser, I can abuse others, but no one will abuse me. So many victims of abuse, actually the vast majority of victims of abuse in complex trauma, for example, tend to adopt traits, behaviors, and personality dimensions of their abusers. Women were no exception. Starting after World War II, women became men. They had adopted, internalized, assimilated, emulated, and imitated their own abusers, men. They tried to conform to male stereotypes, actually. They tried to become men, too. It was a catastrophically wrong choice, which took us down a path of no return, and is threatening the very existence of the species. It was brought on by militant feminist literature, and I'm not being misogynistic here. I'm being fact-based. Men are guilty of the most horrendous crimes against women throughout history. Men have enslaved women, but when women became emancipated, more or less, when they were liberated, they chose, they didn't choose the Nelson Mandela way of forgiving your enemy and coexisting with him. They chose to become the enemy. They have seen the enemy, and they wanted to become the enemy. I've seen the enemy, and it is I. Women had become men, and women are trying to outdo men. Women are trying to outmen men to this very day. Men, on their part, shied away, bitter, resentful, hateful. They betrayed and are betraying women. For example, they are coercing women into casual sex and then abandoning. They lied to women. Men are becoming more and more narcissistic and psychopathic in their attitudes to women, because they perceive women as a looming threat, on the one hand, and as the gift that keeps giving on the other. Why buy the cow? If you can just have a pint of milk, now and then, in the local pub or bar. So men have given up on women. Men have given up on modern women, because the power structure had been upended, and men feel belittled and under siege. Men feel frightened. They're in panic, and they want to get away from the source of their frustration, and they become aggressive. Now everyone, everyone, men and women, everyone is becoming more narcissistic and more psychopath. This is the tide that lifts all boats. Narcissism and psychopathy are on the ascendance. They have become the organizing principles of our civilization. They make sense of life. They endow it with meaning and provide us with goals and direction. But women regard their newfound narcissism as an empowering ideology. They had created a whole ideology around being vulgar, bullying, immoral, amoral. A small minority of men used to be narcissists and psychopaths and bullies. Other men shunned them. These were the bad apples. These are the bad men. No one wanted to be like them. They ended up badly. Women chose these men, the psychopaths, the narcissists and the bullies, as role models. And suddenly this became an ideology which legitimized and contextualized misconduct, misbehavior and misdeeds. Men, women, had become proud of being, of becoming bad guys. Women aspire to become bad guys. And they think that this is about being assertive. This is about being empowered. This is about being agentic and autonomous and self-efficacious. They don't realize that to be a narcissist or a psychopath or a bully, that's the easiest thing in the world. It's an abrogation of responsibility. It's a surrender of autonomy. When you're defined by someone else's gaze, you're wickling. You're nobody.  You're nothing. Narcissists don't exist except when they are seen and noticed. Psychopaths are losers. But women want to go there and are going there inexorably. You should see the comments that I'm receiving and the direct messages and the emails from women. They keep telling me, we're going to do these things because men used to do them. But women are wrong.  These were not the things that men used to do. These were the things that certain men used to do. And the overwhelming vast majority of men regarded these other men as outcasts and misfits and miscreants. These men who used to drink and curse and womanize, who never had a family, who always were carousing and the overwhelming vast majority of men regarded them with disdain and contempt. And yet these types of men became the role models for women. Now don't get me wrong. The forthcoming age is matriarchal. We had patriarchy and we are entering the age of matriarchy. Women are on the ascendance. Women are going to rule. Women are going to dominate. We are entering the female age. Women are much better suited to the challenges and exigencies of the post-modern world in a variety of ways. If you want to, you can watch my other videos on gender and gender issues and so on. Suffice it to say that women are far more accomplished as far as education, jobs, they are very close to wage equality. In many, many professions they dominate and these are elite professions. So the oncoming age is the age of women. Artificial intelligence, robotics will displace men. Muscle of men will no longer be needed. Their brains will no longer be needed. Their sperm is no longer needed. Men are not even needed to produce children, to procreate.  Men have to accept this. Men have to adapt to a world dominated by women. But so do women. With power comes responsibility. With responsibility comes accountability. With accountability comes payment, cost. Women must adapt to their new attained or new obtained dominance. Women now increasingly are in control. Women bear as much responsibility to this emerging new brave world as do men. And if women choose to imitate good for nothing men, men who are the refuse of virility and masculinity, if women take these men, psychopaths, narcissists, bullies, if they take these men as role models, we are doomed. We are doomed. There's a joint responsibility of the genders here. Women confuse equality with identity. Quality is not identity. Quality is about access. Equal access to money, to wages, to education, to healthcare, to positions, no glass ceiling. These are all laudable goals and women should continue to pursue them and men should help them. Men should help women become equal because this will unleash an enormous suppressed reservoir of energy and creativity. Half of humanity had been hitherto prevented from contributing. So this half, we should incorporate it. We will double our force as a species. We should make this happen as men. We should help women become equal. Equality, I'm all for it. Identity, I'm all against it. Identity is about homogeneity. It's about unigender, having a single gender, half of it with vaginas and half of it with penises. I can't think of anything more dystopian, more unsettling, more nightmarish than this. Fluidity of sex is again a choice, a personal choice. A personal choice is a good value. But when fluidity is used to homogenize, when fluidity is abused by certain groups to create fuzziness, we are all just human beings. We are not men and we are not women. We are people, pregnant people, not pregnant women. This is bad because homogeneity leads to entropy and entropy leads to death. Homogeneity means there are no differences and where there are no differences, there's no attraction, there's no comparison, there's no learning, there's no evolution or growth or development, differences, gradients create all these processes.  Indeed, we see a precipitous decline in human communication and interaction, especially between the genders. Dating is down by 60%, a whopping 60%. Even hookups are down by 25%. In several countries in the world, there's no sex. Sex is vanished completely. Relationships are gone. Long-term relationships, gone. Cohabitation leads nowhere. We need children and we don't have any. There is this myth that there are too many people in the world. Yeah, there are too many people in the world, old people. We don't have enough children. We need many more children if we want to sustain, for example, our retirement schemes and we don't have them. No one is having children. No one is getting married. No one is having a long-term relationship. There are no intimacy skills and no relationship skills. We'll deal with it a bit shortly. And the whole sphere of intergender politics is suffused with counterfactual claims, nonsensical claims and myths in an age of truthism. Everyone has his own facts. Everyone is as entitled as everyone else to make a statement or express an opinion. And the outcome is no one is happy. You don't need to be a scholar. You don't need to read the literature. You don't need to listen to some vacuum. Just look around you. Do you know anyone who is happy? No one is happy. We are doing something very wrong. And in my video with Richard, I tried to isolate or pinpoint several trends, social trends, which are undermining our future. So a future critically depends on collaboration between different genders, genders with differences. So there's first, I'll summarize it very briefly. You can watch the video with Richard, which is longer. I'll summarize these trends. Number one, invulnerability signaling. Everyone is signaling to everyone. I am invulnerable. I am autonomous. I am magentic. I am powerful. I am goal-oriented. I am empowered. I am unemotional. I am uninvolved with you. I am self-sufficient. I don't need you. Go away. This signaling of invulnerability had become a variant or a subspecies of virtual signaling. It is virtuous to be invulnerable, impregnable, impermeable, invincible. That's narcissism. It's a form of grandiosity. So men and women team up for one-night stands. And throughout the process they signal to each other, we don't really need you. I'm here just for my own pleasure. I'm not going to see you again after that. The second trend is gender vertigo. Vertigo, V-E-R-T-I-G-O. Gender vertigo. Apologies for my accent. Gender roles which are socio-culturally determined, of course. They're not biological. They're not natural. There's nothing natural about being a man or a woman. This is dictated by society. And it's ever-shifting and ever-changing. Gender roles are fluid. They've always been, by the way. In the mountains of Albania, in the steppes of Russia, in the savannas of Africa, gender roles were different all the time. In biblical times, the 19th century, gender roles change all the time. They're fluid, but it's the first time in human history that there is a concerted attack on the very concept of gender roles. There's an attempt to abolish gender roles, or as Richard calls it, criminalize gender roles. And when gender roles collapse, sexual scripts collapse.  Sexual scripts are critical because they lead to sex, which ultimately leads to family formation and procreation. So if we don't have gender roles, we don't have sexual scripts. There's enormous God-awful confusion as to appropriate and inappropriate behavior, how to behave. Codes of conduct have vanished. People don't know how to behave. Men and women are utterly befuddled and confused. Men are trying to emulate some feminine behaviors. Women are trying to be men. You can see that when young people are arguing about splitting bills, going Dutch, young people even have arguments about how many orgasms they've had. Everything is reduced to some kind of accounting, the number of orgasms and who pays for which drinks. And this is an outcome of confusion, desperate attempts to introduce some structure and order into a melee of chaos and the miasma of coming across each other. In the absence of institutions and online institutions are dead, you realize it. Family, community, church, even the nation state is dying. In the absence of institutions, relationships, however rudimentary, even a one-night stand, relationships have to be negotiated from scratch every single time. This is time-consuming. It's energy-depleting. This need to renegotiate everything every single time creates destructive friction among the gender, among men and women. Frustration, aggression, exhaustion, and ultimately leads to abusive behaviors. And so people say, I'd rather be alone. The squeeze is not worth the juice. The price is not worth the price. Many other such phrases. I mean, I don't need any of this. I don't need this. Who wants this? It's too much. So this leads to atomization and alienation, loneliness and boredom. Everyone in East cubicle with his Netflix. Not seeing other people. 2016 was the first year in human history where the majority of men and women never came across another person from the other sex throughout the year. You heard me correctly. 2016. Majority of men and women did not see each other during the year. Didn't come across each other during the year. Didn't have a single encounter. People live alone. People withdraw. When you live alone, when you're subject to boredom and loneliness and emptiness and alienation, there's a collapse of agency, a collapse of self-efficacy, because agency and self-efficacy are only in relations to other people. Everything is relational. When you don't have relationships of whatever nature, there's no you. The very boundaries of the self are defined from the outside.  And you know by interacting with other people, is the only way for you to find out where you end and they begin. And so this collapse in agency and self-efficacy, it leads to self-loathing. People begin to hate themselves and love themselves. They're depressed, which is a form of internalized aggression. They become anxious.  They act out recklessly. They self-trash sexually in some other way. Substance abuse. The third trend is what is called in literature the Stold Revolution. It's an S-T-A-L-L-E-D revolution. I said before that there is the emergence of a single masculine unigender. Everyone is a male. Males with different genitalia. But still everyone is a male. The Stold Revolution is a technical term to describe the fact that women are now describing themselves. Women are now referring to themselves in strictly masculine terms. Women have now appropriated adjectives that used to be the domain of men until well into the 1990s. So now women define themselves as men. In actuality, about half of all breadwinners in big parts of the West are women. And they had surpassed men in many, many fields. And the politically correct mainstream media, they revel in uniformity. Remember, pregnant people. Not pregnant women, pregnant people. So the media encourages you to discuss everything in uniform, homogenous terms. There are no differences. Difference is considered to be kind of sin or crime. Politically incorrect. You should not mention differences. Differences are bad. This is the most totalitarian system imaginable. The irony is, in our attempt to liberate and emancipate and empower minorities, we had created a totalitarian system where no one can speak his mind and no difference is tolerated. Women are defining themselves in what used to be exclusive masculine terms and are rejecting all feminine aspects and descriptors. This told revolution, as it is called in the scholarly literature, is exploding among the younger generations where gender roles have been effectively abolished, leading to an androgynous, unigender state. There's one more piece of evidence from a series of studies by researchers at the University of Minnesota. Men are now seeking love and long-term connection prior to having sex even in a one-night stand. It is women who reject these men and walk away. I quote from Time magazine, February 14th, 2019. Studies have shown that men usually say I love you in a relationship before women do and prefer to hear I love you before they have sex with a woman. Women are more circumspect, preferring to wait until after the couple had sex. This is total gender role reversal. It runs contra to all the stereotypes. Men are romantic. Men seek love. Men want relationships. Women don't because they had become men. Men, they had become the erstwhile men. But men hadn't gone far enough and that's why we call it the stalled revolution. It stopped. Men tried to accommodate women, not very graciously, with a lot of aggression and pushback, but still tried to accommodate them, but at some point they gave up, they withdrew, they became hostile, and women reacted in the same vein. And now we have an unofficial divorce, enmity and hostility between the genders. The next trend that affects all this is fluidity, biological and sociocultural gender, both fluid, which makes it extremely difficult to orient yourself, if you're a man or a woman. Then this defines, there's an attitudinal shift from agency and self-efficacy to aggressive assertiveness. And this replaced benign constructive discourse and intergender dialogue, one of the main things that's happening in the world today. Women had realized that they had been abused for millennia and they don't take it lying down anymore. They fight back. So there is a stream, a river of refugees of abusive relationships and divorces. Most women in the market, so to speak, in the marketplace, the sexual marketplace, the romantic marketplace, most of them are refugees and they carry with them animosity, bitterness, hypervigilance, hatred, withdrawal, insecure, avoidant attachment. This same goes for men increasingly. Increasingly, many men go through embittering processes of breaking up with women. And now we have these two camps. They are both paranoid. They are both hypervigilant. They're both suspicious of each other. They both hate each other a bit. They are both hostile, staring at each other from across the abyss. The divisive, immersed and moored in bad memories, terrified to try again and be hurt. Both men and women are wounded, broken, damaged and can't get over it. There's a whole cottage industry of trying to help these people. Not very effectively, may I add. And finally there's the enshrined double standard. Women now conform or try to conform to male stereotypes of sexually emancipated sluts.  It's a bad stereotype of bad men, narcissists, psychopaths. And yet women try to conform to it, had adopted it gleefully, are proud of it. Slut parade, slut pride. Claims of empowerment by these women are belied by introjection of male double standard. And these women display rampant discontent and substance abuse because they're not happy. They're not happy because they're not themselves. Because they play out a caricature of an emancipated empowered woman. Because they try to conform to the male gaze. They think by becoming sluts they are stronger. They are equal to men. These men are sluts and they are sluts. And now everyone is on the same level playing field which is nonsense. Because men take advantage of this. And they abuse women even further. And women realize that somewhere deep inside they realize they actually lost their power in the sexual marketplace. And so they are extremely depressed, anxious and unhappy. This duality, this self-denial, this self-deception, it's driving men and women apart. I said that self-trashing, especially sexual but also other forms of self-trashing like substance abuse, these are all forms of self-harming. And that men and women use each other to self-harm. Suicide by men. And this is the outcome of myths which we can't seem to read ourselves of. There are two myths that had pervaded the last 60 years. Myth number one. We all have a right and a need for recreational sex. Myth number two. Women are gatekeepers who refuse to procreate with unsuitable men. This is another Jordan Peterson malaki. The truth is this. The facts are these. The evidence is this. Well into the end of the 19th century. And in most of nature sex was and is about making offspring. Making offspring. That's it. Procreation. Sex is limited to a mating season or estrus. The Jewish Talmud actually uses the word season to describe the female sex drive. Recreational sex is a new invention. The right to have sex is an incel concoction. The majority of animals majority of humans get laid rarely or not at all. No one has a right to sex. And a big number of people don't need, don't feel the need to have sex. Moreover, a plethora of studies revealed the toll in mental and physical health that casual sex has on its participants. Casual sex also adversely impacts the capacity for intimacy and the ability to form long-term relationships. Every word I'm saying is based on numerous studies with tens of thousands of people throughout the world. Hookups are seriously damaging. Again, see my video on hookups where I review the literature. And finally women actually have a tendency to select inappropriate males for breeding. Criminals, the uneducated, the poor, they account for the vast majority of children born worldwide. Children are born to the poor, to the uneducated. The elites are often childless or they have one child per household.  These kind of women make it very difficult for boundary self-regulated, self-respecting sisters who are possessed of at least a smidgen of self-esteem and wish to pace the dating process organically. I'm going to repeat this controversial paragraph. And I'm sure I anticipate the attacks. Women who consent to not streams attached instant drunk sex with men they had just met make it very difficult for their boundary self-regulated, self-respecting sisters who are possessed of at least a smidgen of self-esteem and wish to pace the dating process organically. Now this applies of course to men as well but more so to women. There is still an asymmetry between men and women and asymmetry needs, asymmetry expectations asymmetry in social structures and asymmetry in power. To ignore this asymmetry to pretend that it doesn't exist to assume that it will go away mysteriously somehow is idiotic.  A woman who gives her sex free unconditionally drunk to total strangers she is undermining the very structure of intergender interactions even in the future in the female age when women will be in charge dominant and in control still childbearing and childrearing will remain female prerogatives and will entail certain structural adjustments adjustments. The behavior of women cannot be identical to the behavior of men for the simple reason that women are not men never mind how much they protest and how much they want to be men they will never be men, luckily for us and men will never be women never mind how much they try they will never be women men and women are separate different not only by virtue of sex but by virtue of other biological functions like procreation to ignore this is to ignore reality it's delusional, it's totally psychotic having grown accustomed to sex on demand men are becoming more and more predatory and they're unwilling to commit or to invest beyond a single night is this the outcome women are seeking not according to studies women are very unhappy with the situation and with men's unwillingness to commit and to invest but women had created this women had made this happen because they give their sex free when denied sex even on a first date most men become aggressive demanding, coercive verbally abusive and worse a whooping one quarter of first days now ending rape similarly studies show that women are giving up on men in droves women expect no intimacy or relationship with men any longer when women are horny they resort to dating apps or the nearest dive they pick up a stranger and they go through the motions hookup sex is so bad that only 10% of women and one third of men actually orgasm and it's intimately connected with drinking about 80 to 90% of hookup sex is drunk to the point of blackout ok what about other arrangements for example friends with benefits sounds much more benign a friends with benefits arrangement is vastly preferable to casual sex as far as mental health outcomes are concerned that much is true but it is a pernicious phenomenon because it provides the illusion of an intimate relationship what there is none studies show that people who engage in friends with benefits arrangements these people are less likely to find a true intimate partner these people are less likely to maintain a full-fledged love relationship these people are more likely to engage in promiscuous and reckless sex in addition to the friends with benefits arrangement friends with benefits benefits liaisons often last for months or even years and so they inhibit dating they inhibit courting ultimately friends with benefits arrangements may have a retarding effect on acquiring and deploying intimacy and relationship skills you don't need intimacy and relationship skills with a friend with benefits friend with benefits arrangements also foster and encourage superficiality and emotional unavailability and render sex a mere release or self-soothing function on the rare occasion that one of a parties wishes to convert the friend with benefits situation into a romantic affair she is often rebuffed and rejected painfully this might take a devastating emotional toll especially if the sperm party suffers from a mental health problem such as borderline personality disorder the outcome is mind boggling the catastrophe the calamity the apocalypse is staring us in the face almost half of the adult population in the United States are singles who have never been in a long-term committed relationship including cohabitation half other parts of the world are getting there contemporary singles are likely to end their lives this way single atomization malignant individualism and technological self-sufficiency conspired to render all of us irredeemably lonely the solitude of singles adversely affects their income and health both mental and physical everything I say is based on massive studies these shocking data reflect terminal deficiencies in the skill set required in order to maintain intimacy in relationships decades of casual sex decades of placing career above love hardwired our neuroplastic means to shun both love and intimacy he who does casual sex habitually is incapable of real sex never mind what she tells herself and he who places career above love may end up with one but not the other and usually ends up with neither what are these missing skills the ability to compromise the capacity to set boundaries to be vulnerable tolerate frustration give space trust cooperate these are all lost arts in short everything that the narcissist and psychopaths we are all becoming are bed at by giving up on the other half we are becoming less human less whole less healed less happy less happy why are we doing this to ourselves why have you given up on some of the old ways why did we throw the baby with the bathtub and the bathroom what's wrong with us why are we trying to emulate and imitate the worst in human nature rather than the best where are we all going with this it is apocalyptic it is nothing short of suicide


I'm actually incredibly excited about the future of India. I think India has more promise than any large country in the world. He really cares about India because he's pushing us to make significant investments in India, which is something that we intend to do, and we're just trying to figure out the right timing. It was a fantastic meeting with the Prime Minister, and I like him quite a lot. He visited our Fremont factory several years ago, and so we've now known each other for a while. I can say he really wants to do the right thing for India. He wants to be open. He wants to be supportive of new companies, and obviously, but at the same time, make sure it accrues to India's advantage, which is, obviously, that's the job. I'm saying, I am a fan of Modi.


Hello everyone. I want to begin by thanking the Prime Minister Kishida and Japan for their welcome. The G7 countries are our allies and our closest friends. We have had a very productive week. We have talked about the economy, security, the fight against climate change and several other issues that are important for our populations and for the world. This week, with our G7 allies, we reaffirmed our support for Ukraine. As you know, on Thursday Canada imposed new sanctions on individuals and entities that provide military technology to Russia's armed forces that are involved in ongoing human rights violations, including the transfer of Ukrainian children to Russia. I had the opportunity to speak directly with President Zelensky in person, and I can say it was really great to see him again. We speak every few weeks, but being able to sit down with him as he continues to lead through this extraordinarily difficult time as he continues to embody the courage, the strength and the resilience of the Ukrainian people made it a real privilege to be able to sit down and reconnect with him. He provided an update on the situation on the ground. We talked about how important it was to continue to reach out to partners around the world and friends to ensure solidarity and the support for Ukraine and for the principles that underpin the peace, stability and prosperity that we have had in this world over the past many, many decades. What we saw around the table, including with outreach partners, is a solid commitment to obeying the UN Charter, to respecting the territorial integrity and sovereignty of all states, and that is the basis on which we will be able to move forward. Of course, for our part, Canada will continue to support Ukraine and the Ukrainian people with everything it takes for as long as it takes. Of course, meeting here in Hiroshima was symbolic and it served as a reminder of the devastating consequences of war. This week the G7 issued the Hiroshima vision on nuclear disarmament in which we condemned Russia's reckless nuclear rhetoric. The threat of nuclear weapons is also very real here in the North Pacific. Security and stability in the region is an important part of our Indo-Pacific strategy. This is why we announced this week that Canada is investing in projects to help identify, investigate and respond to North Korea's activities related to weapons of mass destruction. We also announced additional funds for the International Atomic Energy Agency to continue monitoring Iran's nuclear commitments. Of course, when we talk about security in the world, we also have to talk about economic security, one of our priorities with our G7 allies and to continue to strengthen our supply chains. Canada will continue to play a key role, particularly with our critical minerals, which are essential for building a clean and resilient economy. Whether it is because of the war, the pandemic or climate change, we see the consequences of this instability on our economies and on our citizens. We all agree that we also have to continue to protect ourselves against authoritarian countries that use their economic powers to exert unfair pressure on others. That is why we launched this week, a platform that will help us coordinate our approach against economic coercion. If we want the world to be more stable, we must also continue to work to close the infrastructure and investment gap in low- and middle-income countries. We had a meeting about exactly that yesterday, in which we reaffirmed the G7's goal to mobilize up to $600 billion by 2027 for the G7 partnership for global infrastructure and investment. As a part of this, for example, Canada is investing in projects that include solar grids and village electrification. This will grow the economy and create good jobs for people. It will help reduce poverty and it will also help fight climate change and achieve our sustainable development goals. Canada has come to Hiroshima to encourage greater ambition and unity within the G7 on a way forward to meet the needs of emerging and developing economies. We are listening and we are taking action, including by working together to make international financial institutions deliver for all countries. Some it's like these are an important moment to coordinate our efforts to strive for a better future for all people. In this consequential moment for the world, the G7 continues to be united and resolved.