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