1 00:00:06,360 --> 00:00:17,159 Speaker 1: Room room, the cutting room for Well, here we go, 2 00:00:17,560 --> 00:00:18,439 Speaker 1: cutting room four. 3 00:00:19,120 --> 00:00:22,959 Speaker 2: I thought we'd talked about something called boy sober. This 4 00:00:23,040 --> 00:00:26,840 Speaker 2: seems to be a new trend, going boy sober or 5 00:00:26,880 --> 00:00:31,240 Speaker 2: girl sober. That famous people like Julia Fox, Chloe Kardashi, 6 00:00:31,240 --> 00:00:35,040 Speaker 2: and Lenny Kravitz are all adopting celibacy, I mean sor 7 00:00:35,080 --> 00:00:36,800 Speaker 2: right for them, They've had a lifetime. 8 00:00:36,360 --> 00:00:38,800 Speaker 3: Of doing it. Yeah, made up for the rest of us. 9 00:00:39,520 --> 00:00:42,839 Speaker 2: The idea, though, of going boy sober, for example, is 10 00:00:43,320 --> 00:00:45,959 Speaker 2: this is a young TikToker who coined the term. So 11 00:00:46,040 --> 00:00:48,920 Speaker 2: she's taken a celibacy pledge for herself because she's just 12 00:00:48,920 --> 00:00:51,160 Speaker 2: sat a headspace was being taken up with too much. 13 00:00:51,479 --> 00:00:55,200 Speaker 2: So there's no dating apps, no dates, no x's, no 14 00:00:55,520 --> 00:00:59,080 Speaker 2: situationships now hugs, no kisses, she said. And you're not 15 00:00:59,120 --> 00:01:01,960 Speaker 2: single if someone's takeing up brain space. So all those 16 00:01:02,040 --> 00:01:04,040 Speaker 2: years that you've spent out of a committed relationship is 17 00:01:04,080 --> 00:01:07,280 Speaker 2: still yearning for an X, don't She said that this 18 00:01:07,360 --> 00:01:10,280 Speaker 2: is the plan is to go cold turkey and get 19 00:01:10,360 --> 00:01:12,280 Speaker 2: rid of it all and clear your head. 20 00:01:13,840 --> 00:01:16,320 Speaker 4: Well, you know that sounds appealing, and I'm married. 21 00:01:16,640 --> 00:01:18,279 Speaker 3: Because you're living that life already. 22 00:01:18,440 --> 00:01:20,320 Speaker 5: The idea where you just you know, you don't have 23 00:01:20,360 --> 00:01:23,280 Speaker 5: to answer to anyone. Well, this that would be kind 24 00:01:23,280 --> 00:01:26,120 Speaker 5: of cool. I guess I would get lonely, but it 25 00:01:26,120 --> 00:01:28,520 Speaker 5: would be cool just to not answer to anyone because 26 00:01:28,560 --> 00:01:28,920 Speaker 5: there are. 27 00:01:28,800 --> 00:01:32,480 Speaker 2: A lot of people who are just obsessed with finding love, yeah, 28 00:01:32,600 --> 00:01:34,520 Speaker 2: or finding hookups or whatever it is. 29 00:01:34,640 --> 00:01:35,280 Speaker 3: And we've had it. 30 00:01:35,360 --> 00:01:38,760 Speaker 2: We've had a spike in what they call sex positive 31 00:01:38,760 --> 00:01:43,480 Speaker 2: feminism and the destigmatization of women enjoying in casual sex. 32 00:01:43,920 --> 00:01:45,920 Speaker 3: So this has now been the thing. 33 00:01:45,920 --> 00:01:48,400 Speaker 2: It's all the aby chatfields and whatever I'm saying, don't 34 00:01:48,720 --> 00:01:49,960 Speaker 2: shame us, don't judge us. 35 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:52,480 Speaker 3: We're living our lives. This is a reaction to that. 36 00:01:52,520 --> 00:01:56,520 Speaker 2: The pendulum is swinging again and the latest trend is 37 00:01:57,040 --> 00:02:01,160 Speaker 2: reclaiming your celibacy and going boy so and clearing head. 38 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:02,720 Speaker 2: Someone has said here, I did it for six months 39 00:02:02,720 --> 00:02:04,040 Speaker 2: and it was literally life changing. 40 00:02:04,960 --> 00:02:09,919 Speaker 3: It's like being what do they call it, sober curious? 41 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:11,320 Speaker 4: Yeah, right, this is. 42 00:02:11,440 --> 00:02:14,800 Speaker 2: Boy sober so sober curious is where you try not 43 00:02:14,880 --> 00:02:16,799 Speaker 2: drinking for a while and just clear system out and 44 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:19,120 Speaker 2: see how you feel. This is the same without the 45 00:02:19,160 --> 00:02:20,720 Speaker 2: dating apps and all the swipes, et cetera. 46 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:23,040 Speaker 4: Six months without sex that's a walk in the park. 47 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:24,680 Speaker 3: Yeah, should try being married long too. 48 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:27,119 Speaker 4: I could do that that do it on the head. 49 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:28,880 Speaker 2: When you were young, Would that ever have ended your 50 00:02:28,919 --> 00:02:30,720 Speaker 2: mind that you'd like to be celibate? 51 00:02:31,840 --> 00:02:33,160 Speaker 4: No? 52 00:02:33,160 --> 00:02:35,240 Speaker 5: No, But I wasn't one of those guys that we 53 00:02:35,280 --> 00:02:37,800 Speaker 5: was out for women, you know, had to chase women. 54 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:40,520 Speaker 5: Women were sort of like it was great if they 55 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:43,239 Speaker 5: came along into my life. But I wasn't on someone that. 56 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:46,160 Speaker 5: You know, I wasn't girl crazy. You know, those guys 57 00:02:46,160 --> 00:02:48,399 Speaker 5: are a girl crazy with their kids. There was one 58 00:02:48,400 --> 00:02:50,800 Speaker 5: made of mine and I look at him. He's still going, 59 00:02:51,080 --> 00:02:54,040 Speaker 5: but he's not married, just still always you know, he's 60 00:02:54,080 --> 00:02:56,320 Speaker 5: fifty six, you know, and he's got you know, I 61 00:02:56,360 --> 00:02:58,600 Speaker 5: had a bit of a relationship there. He's got a 62 00:02:58,720 --> 00:03:01,000 Speaker 5: kid from this lady and a kid from another lady. 63 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:03,880 Speaker 5: He just you know, I don't think he ever settled down. 64 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:06,839 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what they say. 65 00:03:06,919 --> 00:03:07,080 Speaker 1: You know. 66 00:03:07,080 --> 00:03:08,920 Speaker 2: We talked about this about j Lo, that she has 67 00:03:09,040 --> 00:03:13,239 Speaker 2: trouble being satisfied. Yeah, maybe she should go boy sober. 68 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:15,520 Speaker 2: If this is true, that should breaking up from ben Affleck. 69 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:18,000 Speaker 2: And apparently the house is on the market sixty four million. 70 00:03:18,040 --> 00:03:22,520 Speaker 2: If you're interested, she should go boy sober. And for 71 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:24,720 Speaker 2: a while, did Taylor Swift go boy sober? Or she 72 00:03:24,760 --> 00:03:27,080 Speaker 2: just didn't talk about her relationships for a while because 73 00:03:27,120 --> 00:03:30,960 Speaker 2: people who had the public thinks that you're constantly on 74 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:34,200 Speaker 2: the lookout for love. Yeah, kind of judge you in 75 00:03:34,200 --> 00:03:36,880 Speaker 2: a way, don't they. They think you're needy. So maybe 76 00:03:36,880 --> 00:03:38,080 Speaker 2: boy sober is a good idea. 77 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:41,680 Speaker 4: Yeah, it's because you look at guys. 78 00:03:41,760 --> 00:03:44,520 Speaker 5: When guys get together as a group, they're always willing 79 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:46,600 Speaker 5: to get away from the women. And I was thinking 80 00:03:46,600 --> 00:03:50,040 Speaker 5: about my late uncle Peter, and he was old school 81 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:53,440 Speaker 5: misogynist and he is the thing so his LinkedIn profile 82 00:03:53,440 --> 00:03:56,040 Speaker 5: and he is thing Miaonti pad is the most lovely person. 83 00:03:56,120 --> 00:03:58,680 Speaker 6: What I love pat But he was so like almost 84 00:03:58,760 --> 00:04:01,000 Speaker 6: mean to her in a way with his misogyny. And 85 00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:03,200 Speaker 6: I used to always think, but his thing was, I 86 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:05,480 Speaker 6: don't want naging women telling me what to do. I 87 00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:07,880 Speaker 6: want to get away from the women, you know, always 88 00:04:07,960 --> 00:04:09,120 Speaker 6: getting away from the women. 89 00:04:09,160 --> 00:04:10,760 Speaker 4: It was almost like they had their place. 90 00:04:10,920 --> 00:04:13,080 Speaker 2: Well, this is a different culture now we've spoken about 91 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:15,440 Speaker 2: that that guys can't they're finding it hard to get 92 00:04:15,440 --> 00:04:17,600 Speaker 2: club crickets because it takes two days to play a 93 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:21,400 Speaker 2: game of cricket and the guys, and now our relationships 94 00:04:21,440 --> 00:04:24,200 Speaker 2: are different. Men have to do childcare, men have to 95 00:04:24,240 --> 00:04:28,000 Speaker 2: do shopping and domestic duties. It's all equal. Now you 96 00:04:28,040 --> 00:04:29,960 Speaker 2: can't spend two days doing your own. 97 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:32,200 Speaker 5: Goof of Yeah, and all the guys get accused of 98 00:04:32,279 --> 00:04:36,840 Speaker 5: being a simp if they're attendive to their women by 99 00:04:36,880 --> 00:04:39,280 Speaker 5: who I think, by other guys. I think you can't 100 00:04:39,279 --> 00:04:41,000 Speaker 5: play golf for four hours, you're a simp. 101 00:04:41,480 --> 00:04:43,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, But I think the world is changing where men 102 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:45,440 Speaker 2: choose to spend time with their lives, the women go 103 00:04:45,440 --> 00:04:46,160 Speaker 2: to the pub with them. 104 00:04:46,160 --> 00:04:48,520 Speaker 3: They're allowed to. Now life is changing. 105 00:04:48,680 --> 00:04:48,840 Speaker 1: Well. 106 00:04:48,839 --> 00:04:50,839 Speaker 5: In the old days, and you're old enough to remember this, 107 00:04:51,320 --> 00:04:53,840 Speaker 5: they used to just have the lady bar. 108 00:04:53,920 --> 00:04:56,040 Speaker 4: I was for the man. That was the men's bar 109 00:04:56,160 --> 00:04:56,680 Speaker 4: and the woman. 110 00:04:57,000 --> 00:04:58,960 Speaker 5: I've heard of stories where the women would sit out 111 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:01,359 Speaker 5: in the car with the kids while the man was 112 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:04,159 Speaker 5: in there for the six o'clock swill, and then he'd 113 00:05:04,160 --> 00:05:05,160 Speaker 5: get in and drive the car. 114 00:05:05,400 --> 00:05:07,559 Speaker 2: These were the years of women had no agency because 115 00:05:07,560 --> 00:05:10,440 Speaker 2: they didn't earn a living, They had no authority on 116 00:05:10,520 --> 00:05:13,400 Speaker 2: their own, whereas now men and women meet in the middle. 117 00:05:13,720 --> 00:05:16,400 Speaker 2: And so that's why things are changing. So when you 118 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:18,840 Speaker 2: look at your uncle's thinking old school misogyny. How did 119 00:05:18,839 --> 00:05:21,159 Speaker 2: that manifest? Just meaning the way he spoke about I 120 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:22,560 Speaker 2: don't want I just want to take off and not 121 00:05:22,640 --> 00:05:23,359 Speaker 2: have women around me. 122 00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:26,520 Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't want bossy women. I don't you know 123 00:05:26,839 --> 00:05:28,680 Speaker 5: that was I don't want bossy women around me. I 124 00:05:28,720 --> 00:05:31,080 Speaker 5: want to do my own thing. And as I said, 125 00:05:31,160 --> 00:05:34,200 Speaker 5: Artie Patt was lovely, never never nagged him at all, 126 00:05:34,839 --> 00:05:37,280 Speaker 5: you know, it was just it was. It's interesting, it 127 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:40,000 Speaker 5: was of a time. It was of a time. 128 00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:42,800 Speaker 4: But for me, my wife's always wanting me to get 129 00:05:42,839 --> 00:05:43,560 Speaker 4: out of the house. 130 00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:45,840 Speaker 3: She's gone boys sober some time ago. 131 00:05:46,200 --> 00:05:48,640 Speaker 4: She went at LEAs she just went me. 132 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:53,000 Speaker 2: So she's the lucky one 133 00:05:54,400 --> 00:05:58,560 Speaker 1: Combats love from Lord Chauncey then just coming rou