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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's a rare, sincere introduction what Americans have to be
thankful for. It's one more thing.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
I'm strong and getty. Oh perfect, perfect, something sincere before
we get to that, something tawdry and disgusting. Perfect. So
I came across this saying on Twitter one of those
articles you've seen a whole bunch of them. I think
it was in the New York Post some schoolteacher mom
who was making eighty thousand dollars a month on oldle fans,
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eighty thousand a month and nothing special, above average, attractive,
but sow's half the world above average? I mean, so
you know whatever. And somebody had attached to that article.
I fundamentally don't understand only fans. The scale is insane.
Who's paying for this? Which has been my question all along?
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How is there possibly the appetite to make the porn
world what it makes, and only fans and all these
different people so much money? How is that even possible? Anyway,
I still don't quite understand the scale ar outworks, It
doesn't make any sense. But the connected article where somebody
is trying to explain it did include I guess at
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some level, if you're an only fans. You're part of
the Only Fans world, and they have bots, some of
it AI, some of it human beings that will engage
these sad, lonely people like round the clock. So it's
not the forty year old school teacher making eighty thousand
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dollars a month. I mean, she's doing videos and all
the stuff that goes with only Fans, but she's not
contacting these people all day long, checking in with them.
That's some sort of combination whatever you call it, you know,
farm of human beings, like a call center that's like
a call center Only Fans has and bots that all
day long. We'll check in with this poor lonely dude
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somewhere and say, hey, I was thinking about yea, how
you doing constantly throughout the day and engage.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
You, right, you know, I was gonna say, the difference
between OnlyFans and porn quote unquote porn is the illusion
of a connection with an actual human being. I mean
it is a connection. It's a salesperson customer connection, but
it masquerades as not only a real human interaction, but
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like a interaction between lovers who are intimate with each
other and share all man.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
I find that sad, and.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Then the fact that they got Ai, you know, doing
the hey thinking about you. I mean, that's just yay.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
I wonder where we're headed with that. I mean, they're
a patively beavers. We're gonna die out as this. Do
you know anybody who does it? Only fans, Katie? I do,
I do.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
They don't name it narrowly that much money as you
were talking about, But if.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
You made, you know, one thousand dollars a month, that's
your car payment all you have to do for it.
But uh, whatever it is, I'm willing to do it.
If I wonder what percentage of the population is willing
to get by with online connections like that, it's just
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enough to get you through life. Is that five percent
of the population or a third of the population. We're
going to find out over the next couple of years. Yeah,
and I don't know which it is. Well, that is
tawdry and disgusting. He didn't lie.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
So the editors in National Review talking about well, they
were writing about I believe on Thanksgiving Day that would
make sense what we're thankful for. And I thought it
was absolutely terrific. They write, as Americans, we have much
for which to be thankful, and they mentioned that we
can begin with our many material blessings. We remain the
world's richest nation, with a standard of living approached by
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no nation of even remotely comparable size. Many of Europe's
most distinguished states have a medium income on par with
the poorest states in our union.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
That's interesting, that's true, they pointed out, more to the
supposed down trodden.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Yeah, I'm reminded in this next part of the very
popular book, Guns, Germs, and Steel, which I thought was
like seventy five percent interesting, in twenty five percent absolutely
full of crap.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Correct, But it's all I had the same result.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Yeah, anyway, But they get into the greatness of the
United States and its way of life. Has many causes,
but it would be churlish to deny the role that
our land itself has played in that success. The Mississippi
River basin draining into the Father of Waters is that
great river is known contains more miles of navigable river
than the entire rest of the world put together. Wow,
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I did not know that, but yeah, the Mississippi is
entirely navigable. Right.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Anyway, we have many natural harbor The first part you
step across up in Minnesota. Have you ever been there?
I have not where the Mississippi starts. Katie might not
know this. I don't know, but the Mississippi River starts.
I think it's in Minnesota. And it's so tiny coming
out of its little spring there that you can just
step right across it. It'd be hard to have a
boat there of any size. But then it flows out
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most of the river that flows out into the giant,
giant River.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
That it is right. We have many large natural harbors
around which have grown up great cities such as New York,
San Francisco, Boston, Seattle, New Orleans, and Baltimore and others.
The history of Africa alone shows what difference can be
made by the absence of these two blessings. I did
not know that. I would like to learn more, but
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I'm picturing Africa. Africa, they do not have a lot
of great natural ports, natural harbors, interesting navigable rivers I
couldn't tell you about. Unlike the nations of Europe and Asia,
we enjoy the protection of two vast oceans separating us
from all but two neighbors by sea. As recently as
nineteen seventeen, we scarcely had or needed an army worthy
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of the name, which is worth remembering. Back before you
know air travel and or super efficient, you know naval excursions,
we had no need for a navy. How's anybody gonna
get here to fight us?
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Right, I'm sorry?
Speaker 1 (06:20):
An army?
Speaker 2 (06:20):
That's pretty interesting. So the whole nineteenth century Industrial Revolution
and where the America just exploded as an economic power.
If we had been in Europe, surrounded by other countries,
it would have been invaded by somebody. They all tried
to tell our stuff.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Yeah, over and over again. Right, like Europe, We're blessed
by huge stretches of fertile farmlands, sturdy forests, gorgeous beaches,
and teeming fisheries. We were the first nation to strike
oil beneath our own soil. From the Gold Rush to
the natural gas boom, the land itself has showered us
with plenty. Our great diversity of climes and communities means
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that every American restless of home. It's the sort of
phrase I would never write, but it's pretty can find
someplace more congenial within our borders. There remains much room
to grow. With nearly three hundred and forty million people,
we still have a lower population density than the Faroe Islands.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
I don't know which You're known, of course for there.
It's like it's interesting.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
I will tell you this though, as a kid during
the seventies, Katie, it was the beginning of clickbait. It
wasn't clickbait, it was take it off the news stand bait.
I'm sorry that's not the beginning of it, but I
think it really got perfected in that there was an
ice age coming or an hot age or whatever the
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hell and whipping you from one mortal fear to another.
And as a kid, it really got our attention the
fact that within ten years we would be completely out
of landfill space, the country would be completely buried in garbage,
and that the population bomb was going off and there'd
be no space. And then I drove across this great
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country and I thought, wait a minute, there's nobody here.
And I've been driving for fifteen hours and there ain't
been nobody for the entire time except that guy in
the combine over there. Population density my eye snow Faroe
Islands anyway, And yet many other big nations have natural
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resources in large desirable territories. That alone has not made America.
We are thankful for our patrimony. It's those who gave
birth to us. Essentially, Western civilization came down to us
from its beginnings in ancient Greece and Rome, stretching back
two and a half millennia. The Judeo Christian religious tradition
traces back even further. The political traditions of England planted
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the seeds of American exceptionalism in Jamestown and Plymouth. From
the outset, representative assemblies, consent to a constitutional charter, and
the liberty of dissenting religious communities, colonies founded by charters
to private companies and people, by restless gave us an
entrepreneurial spirit from the outset. May we never lose it.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
That's truly good.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
We are thankful, yet again after a national election, for
the genius of our political system. We're thankful that over
one hundred and fifty million Americans were able to exercise
their self government, their god given right to change the
rulers with an election few doubt was free and fair.
We're thankful that an assassin's bullet did not derail that process,
however close it came in a field in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Oh boy, then he reminds us. So they remind us
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we have the world's oldest continuous written constitution and the
oldest system for the peaceful transfer of power on earth.
These things have proven enduring against internal dissension and civil war,
disputed elections, riots, assassinations, leaders of dubious character and competence,
and huge cultural changes in conflicts. We approached the nation's
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two hundred and fiftieth birthday in two years, having survived
in surmounted wars, depressions, slavery plagues, and great power nuclear showdowns.
We traveled in less than two centuries from the old
North Bridge to the Moon. And then they go into
the fact that it's been our gratitude, not our grievances,
that have allowed us to do great things as a
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nation and a continuous nation, understanding what we've got so
good and not crapping on it. I'm departing from the
elegant phrases of the National Review obviously to my own
more earthy parlance. That's good stuff, that's great stuff.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Yeah, I wish she could get more high school teachers
to read that to their kids, as opposed to here's
where white people did something awful once again in our
nation's history.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Yeah. Actually, that's a great comment because the next part
is about how we still look to the hardship of
the Pilgrims and the Doe Boys who went over to
help France because of our debt to la Fayette. We
revere the Declaration of Independence, we argue over the Constitution,
we recite the Gettysburg Address, because we unders stand our
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history is who we are, which is why, as Orwell
would tell you, those who would overthrow us and Western
civilization civilization are trying so hard to deny and pervert
our history. Don't let them, says me. Now past the gravy.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
You have any idea how much money your friend makes
on only hands? No, I don't know. You have any
idea what they do on there? I have an idea,
and that's just is it full on sex stuff? Are
they like sitting on balloons or just soft core feet?
It could be feed A lot of ass pictures, A
lot of ass pictures. Yeah, I know that a phrase
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I haven't heard big.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
The genre, not the ass in question. I have you
even't seen it? I don't know what.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
A lot of ass pictures, A lot of them.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
All different poses and locations of the house yeah, I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
That's what goes over my head. Here's my ass in
the laundry room exactly now. The feet finder thing that
makes sense, man, you know that makes sense to me.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
It makes no more or less sense than the ass thing.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Asses. It's a little more private. An ass is sexual
gratification adjacent, at least for almost everyone. The foot not
so much. Right, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
You're right. I can see the point.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Everybody says nice ass man or woman to someone or
thinks it not everyone says thinks it ever for feet
for a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
And this is what has made this country great and
what I'm thankful for the right to exchange ideas in
the public square and come to an agreement.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
I have thought before. If well, I'll ask you, if
you were an attractive Ish woman, would you consider looking
into the only fans thing?
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Or you need to be more specific, what are my
life circumstances. I'm single at this point or same as
you now. You're married with kids and upstanding human being.
But you could make you could easily make, you know,
five thousand dollars a month, just a couple of pictures
here and there, a video. It's a fair amount of money. Yeah, gosh,
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I don't. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
I make your.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Probably not. I mean there are a lot of things.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Like moral reasons, yeah okay, and then state the morality
behind it well.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
And the fear of derision and and and uh, it
wouldn't exactly work in my social circle.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Right, yes, so that would be me. I wouldn't do
it for derision. I can't imagine in various situations where
i'd be Hey, Jack saw that picture the other day,
whoa dude? You know I don't need that. But I
don't think I have any more. I don't think I
have any moral problem with it whatsoever. I don't think.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Yeah, I've seen you doing yoga in the gym, now,
I know how you got so flexible.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Nice work, Katie. Well you could. You're an interactive young woman,
so you have the option. Maybe you do it. I
don't know. I couldn't. I don't think I can for
moral reasons or or you just don't want other people
to You just don't want to be that person.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
I yeah, I just don't have any desire to be
that person. Plus that would just kill my parents.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Oh okay, there you go. That's a good reason, right there, Eh, right,
regard for.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
The morals the feelings of the people we care about
is not a bad thing.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
No, absolutely not. That's what keeps practically everybody in line.
Is is there social circle, parents, friends, whatever?
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Sure? Well, and you know my dad is a fine
and upstanding fellow in every way.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
But I often doing fans. Is that where the sense
is crazy?
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Money? Yeah? Just joined Augusta National with the money he
made on only No no, no, But I often think
about it as we're including when we're approaching the show.
What would my mom say? It was? You know, an
extremely moral and decent person, and so yeah that matters.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Oh yeah, I don't want to say to my dad
wile in cool boat, how'd you get that? I'm spreading
it on uh my fans.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Wow, this is horrifying.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
I had to put in some bright lighting to make
sure everybody could really see. Okay, you know what, Katie,
the turn this took.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
I'm just always to always too far, doesn't know when?
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Huh huh, you know, I think I'll start slow. I'm
gonna take a couple of elbows up there right, see
if I can get a few bucks, you know, just
just enough, maybe one hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Male elbows dot com.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Why named my boat the spreading It?
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Well, I thought he was done, dude, Well yeah, I
guess that's it.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
The S S spread meant no, really, that's it, right,