Ep 17 NPCs

Jim and Leo discuss the concept of first player mode and NPCs (non-player characters) in video games and how it relates to real life. They define first person mode as a perspective where you only see things from your own point of view, similar to tunnel vision, and NPCs as characters in video games that lack consciousness or control over their lives. They discuss signs that someone may be an NPC, such as having repetitive daily routines, engaging in superficial conversations, and being unable to have fun alone. They also mention the tendency to take the same path home every day and having repetitive thoughts. They criticize the lack of depth and individuality in society and attribute it to the prevalence of NPCs. Hello, hello, hello and welcome back to another episode, another installment, as you will, of the Saving Our Society podcast with your hosts, Jim and Leo. As you can tell from that intro, we're going to take a page, a little page, out of video games and apply it to the real world here and you'll see here in a minute, I know we threw it up on the Instagram for a little while, but it's going to be first player mode and NPCs and Leo, how do you feel about this? What's going on first and foremost? Welcome back. I know it's been a while. We're going to be on vacation again next week. It's a summer schedule, so just bear with us, but welcome back. How was the camping trip? What do you think of NPCs from first player mode and we'll get into it. Oh, awesome. Great camping trip. Had a great time with the nephews. Very little sleep, very little rest, but I can't complain. Really enjoyed the outdoors. They love doing stuff outside, learning about fishing and stuff, so had a great time. Video games, right up their alley. In fact, we brought some video games over to the camping trip, even though we promised we weren't going to do anything with the TV, we definitely played some video games to keep them entertained and I joined in on the fun. Of course, a little nostalgia, you have to, but I think where, correct me if I'm wrong, when we were kids, video games were strictly video games, but now in today's society, I think there's a big spillover of video games and we said NPCs, that's non-player characters or non-playable characters and first person mode and we'll break it down. This week was just right for it. I'm in a mood. I'm effing pissed. I've just had enough with this. I've had a complete meltdown with these people, so we'll give some definitions for you real quick and tell me if you agree or you can see the parallel that I'm going to draw here. This is just off of Wikipedia. This is first person. I coined like first person mode. It can kind of be like a watered down version, I guess, of like main character syndrome, but essentially, first person is any graphical perspective rendered from the viewpoint of the player's character or a viewpoint from the cockpit or front seat of a vehicle driven by the character. So what that essentially means and what I mean by first player mode is just the only perspective you have is your perspective. It's like tunnel vision. You don't see anything else. There's nothing going on in your peripheral and it's all about you. It's just like the rest of the world is just dead and you are just living a life. I don't know if it's your best life. Do you see what I'm talking about when I draw that parallel? Do you agree? Absolutely. But before we continue, explain to the crowd what an NPC is as well. Right. So I was just about to pull up that definition. I wanted to get the... From what I know, it's just a non-player character and when I played video games, it was just those characters that would constantly appear or revive and pretty much had no soul. You knew what they were going to do. So you're 100% right and that's exactly what we're living in today's world right now. It's just that so many people, right? So this is taken off of LifeCoachCode.com and I found this interesting. I'll go through it rather briskly and we'll get into the meat and potatoes as we always do. But essentially, a non-player character is one that's not controlled by the player. It's someone who exists but not really alive, which I'm sure a couple of you are probably thinking in your head. You already have a couple of characters in your head, a couple of people in your own life. So they draw the parallel and they say most people in the world are also called NPCs because they exist but they don't have any conscious or control over their lives. And there's... What they have done here in this article, they put 10 signs together. I don't necessarily believe them all or put much stake in them or stock, I should say, in all of them. Number one, 10 signs that you're an NPC in real life. Every single day seems the same. You wake up, check your phone, wash yourself, shower, eat, go to work. Couple hours go by, back on the phone, TV, doing whatever, computer, watch video games, Netflix, sleep, repeat, right? So not much substance to your life. You're just... You're existing but you're not alive. Most of your conversations are about the weather, gossip, or complaining. I read this one and I said, fucking bingo. This hits the nail right in the head with so many people. And I was just saying this to another coworker. People at work only talking about work. You try to get them to talk about something else and they just talk about work and you're just like, yo. Even better. You go out to eat that night or that weekend and then all of a sudden they start talking about the shit they eat about work and you're like, I don't want to hear that. Yeah. That's exactly what an NPC is. Sometimes it's hard to avoid though. You have situations where they make for great conversation. No doubt. I'm not saying that you can't talk about work at work or with work but you're trying to have a conversation about something else. God forbid you talk politics, religions, sports, or something more like societal or cultural and these people are just like, well the boss wants us to get back to work so I think I'm going to head back to my computer or my cubicle or whatever. That's NPC. Right? Number three, I don't necessarily agree with this, is you hate your job. Every time the weekend comes you feel excited, you can't wait for Friday, you wait the whole week for Friday, the weekend comes and moves so quickly and then, Leo, what day is it? This is our favorite day. Shmonday, baby. Shmonday, baby. Yep. That's hat tip to the great Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes who have always hated weekends because you couldn't enjoy them thinking about Monday being school again. See, that's like me on Sunday at noon. It's just, you know, afternoon starts kicking around, starts creeping in, you get those vibes, you get those thoughts, you're like, I got to go, what do I got to do to get ready for work the next day? Do I have my laundry done? I got to meal prep, so on and so forth. I don't necessarily agree with that one because how many people, listen, I don't hate my job or going to work but in the context of this, like, if you're telling me I can be home with my family or go to work, I'd rather be home. You know what I mean? Like, obviously, I'm waiting for the weekend because I'm giving all these hours to the man and not really getting ahead in life. All right, number four, you cannot go out and have fun by yourself. I don't really know. I mean, how many people these days really go out just by themselves? I don't really think this applies much but I understand what they're kind of saying. If we apply this to maybe just taking a car ride, grabbing a bite to eat, I mean, you're going to go sit down at a nice dinner by yourself or go to the movies? I know there are people that do. I can't do it. No, no, I get it. I know what it is. It's those people that share what they're doing immediately on Facebook and they share their location and I'm having such a blast at this place. Those are the people that can't go out without enjoying themselves by themselves. Yeah, I got you. It goes back to first player mode. Let me take a picture of this. Let me put it on the internet. People are going to care. People are going to give a damn that I'm at the Cheesecake Factory. I'm showing I'm having a blast and I'm really enjoying my life. Right, right. Okay, I see what you're saying. That's a good point. Number five, you take the same path home every day, whether it's commuting to work, going to a grocery store, same path. I don't know about that. I mean, for other reasons, I think you shouldn't do that. You should always switch it up a little bit. I want to get home as quick as possible. You better believe I'm going to take the quickest path home. Right, right. But, you know, I understand what they're saying, but okay, so for instance, this is what they mean by this. Like you just opened my eyes to number four, I opened your eyes to number five. So we're doing work because we do construction. So we usually have police detail to shut down the blocks. I'm not kidding to you. I cannot make this up. This happens more times than you think. Someone drives into a construction zone. Now it's like moths to a flame. Like if I see a flag or a sign up, I say, I don't want to be bothered. I'll go a different way. These people drive into the construction zone and then the cop asks them where they're going. They say, I'm going over there. They point. Oh, where? They say, oh, right there. My house is right there. They give a number. Sometimes they don't. Go around the block. I don't know how. I'm not kidding. It's un-fucking-believable. They do not know how to go around the block. They're like, oh, I've been here 20 years and never had to do this. They don't know how to go around the block. They don't know how to go another way. That's true. I had a friend for many years. I remember I'd have to give him directions on how to get places within his own town. I'm like, dude, you don't go out for a... No, I've never driven over there. I'm like, it's three blocks away from your house. How the hell do you not know about this? Never. Never, ever. And this is straight non-player. It's just like a whole different world. Nothing mad. It's a microcosm of our society. It's an exacerbation of the fucking downfall of our society. Number six, 90% of your thoughts are the same thoughts you think every day. Yep. Ding, ding, ding. No doubt. I mean, this is the same people. You ask them about anything. Anything. And they have no opinion. It's almost like, what the hell was that? That lady that they had in Congress, and Matt Walsh made the whole What is a Lady video, and she's like, well, I'm not a biologist. Remember when they crossed the exam? Wasn't that Judge? Yes. I forget her name. I don't recall the name. Yeah. So, same thing. It's the same nonsense, the same generic, I'm bored, I'm hungry, I want to do this, I don't want to do that, I need to do this. It's all about me, blah, blah, blah. Moving on to number seven, you don't know your purpose. You'll see other people, they're grinding, chasing their goals, following purpose, they're doing what they feel inspired to, what they're being called to, then you have people that are just sitting around, oh, that's stupid, why'd you do that? Oh, I wouldn't do that if I was you. Yeah, no shit, because you're sitting on the couch eating a Big Mac and then binge watching something on TV. Yes, of course you wouldn't do that. You don't do anything. So, number seven, moving into number eight, you're reactive to others. Most of your actions are out of reaction. You get angry or sad or excited or your emotions are based on what other people have done, which is like childish, would you say? Social media. Yeah, I mean, that's a big problem. Very big influence by social media and people allowing their lives and their moods to be dictated by what's on there. So, these next two, these last two, I think they hit the nail right on the head. Number nine, all of your choices you make are mainstream. You don't have any original ideas or plans out of your own. All the songs you like, the books you read, the beliefs, preferences, everything revolves around what you're being told by the media, what other people are doing on social media. You couldn't be original if you fell down into a pit of original ideas. You'd still be just a generic NPC. Last and not least, number ten, you feel powerless to have free will. You're a victim. You get manipulated by your ego, emotional reactions, whatever your environment is. You'll blame your environment. So after I read all that, I said, yes, I said, a lot of people are NPCs and after reading that list, the biggest NPC video that I think both of us can agree on, and there's been a lot, is when Mark Dice, I know we mentioned a couple of times, when he was on, was it the Santa Monica Pier in California, telling people that we should put more carcinogens in the water, and people just, yeah, yeah, whatever, here's a petition, sign it, yeah. No one questions any, I mean, no, my favorite of his videos talking to NPCs was when he was talking about Donald Trump Jr. going on a, I think it was with Joe Rogan, on a hunting trip over to Africa and killing a stegosaurus, and people were like, yeah, that's ridiculous. That's a good one. And he was just, you know, naming dinosaurs, and they're like, are you serious, that guy did that? That's fucked up, man. Oh, 100%, but this is the problem with these people, you know what I mean? It's just, they, it's groupthink, they don't want to be questioned, they don't want to be bothered, it's, it's scary when you think about it. And this is what I'm talking about by NPCs, so, in a second here I'm going to drop a clip, but I went to the store the other day, I don't usually eat lunch, but I was feeling kind of hungry, so I went to a farmer's market. I drive a big diesel truck, you cannot mistake it, okay? You hear it idling, you hear when the turbo kicks in, and I'm not whipping around these parking lots, but damn it, you can fucking hear it, the truck. This lady comes out of the grocery store and is aimlessly walking down the center of the parking lot aisle where you drive your truck, your driver car. I followed this lady for probably 65, 70 feet, and she did not move a muscle, straight down the aisle, like there's, unbelievable, unbelievable, and the same grocery store I went in there, now I'm, I'm crazy, right? And ah shit, Mario's going to kill me because I forgot what comedian this was, but he references like if something is screwed up at the grocery store counter, and they can't bring up your thing or they can't find the barcode, I'm the type of guy, ah don't worry about it, I don't need it that much. This fucking guy got done doing his groceries, no bags, there's like two watermelons and a couple other items, just stands there as the cashier hands the money back, one dollar bill at a time, back into his wallet, his groceries are still on the belt, he's just standing there taking his sweet time, I said, I was like, ready, ready to say, guy, move over, pull your car around the corner of the cashier counter, and get your shit together, I said, why do you got to stand here and hold up, not my day, but everyone else's day behind me, and I just, I just, it was just a week from hell, I was ready to lose it, I was ready to lose it, I already did lose it, I'm pissed. My experience with those people has always been my, my favorite has always been with my father, because my father has a real hard time showing, or keeping his frustration, and so. Keeping his composure. Yeah, one of the last couple of times we went to Home Depot, I think somebody cut him off in line, or something happened in line, and he just like rolled his eyes and threw his hands up, and I'm like, alright, can you relax, but it's true, it's just there's no sense of urgency, no courtesy at all, and who knows, maybe it's either, you know, they used to say, oh, because they weren't taught any better, but nowadays I think it's just because they might just be NPCs, or just walking zombies, you know, there's no sense of time, there's no sense of courtesy to them. Not at whatsoever, and I'll step that up, I'll kick that up a notch, as Emeril Lagasse would say, it's that they have, we have in society, let these people choose to be ignorant, we have the will to be ignorant, these people choose not to be aware of their surroundings, or courteous to others, it's just mind-boggling, so let me lead into, I'm going to lead into this video that I found, which is pretty good, didn't find too much social media stuff in terms of, like, definitions of people doing videos, but this one I thought stood out pretty well, and we'll play it for you right now, and then we'll talk about it, so let's get into this video. If you're born, you have only two paths of life to go, NPC or main character, now, let's understand who are the NPC humans, in the free world, as we know it, these are people who have no original ideas of their own, they just copy whatever is popular, and their ideas basically are outsourced to a third party, usually an institution, or someone more powerful than them, they don't want to think for themselves, they go for groupthink, and somehow the NPC typically, most of the time, believe that their way of thinking is right, and they think that they're nice people by doing that, they're mostly agreeable, they don't challenge anything, except they'll fight tooth and nail to ideas that they don't agree with, and they'll mobilize other NPCs to basically attack someone for simply not agreeing with them, they can even cry simply because someone else disagree with them. So, I mean, is that not like basically majority of people in today's society? I mean, I hate to be so blunt, but I mean, well, when you first got here tonight, we started talking about NPCs before the show, and you know, we were thinking of examples, and I mean, we came up with a couple good ones, you know, just our experience with COVID, remember everything that happened with COVID, how one day it was you taking certain actions out of courtesy to others, and then all of a sudden the group hive mind would turn on you and say, no, you better do this or you're going to lose your job, you better do this or you're putting my family, me at risk, you're going to kill people, you know, it was just so easily turned. For sure, and I mean, I hate to use that as an example, because there was fear-based driven behind it, and people, you know, it was just a time of turmoil, there was plenty of examples there, but something as so simple as, you know, in the lovely state that we live in, we have to, we can't use plastic bags anymore, right, and I just talked to you about it as I walked in the house, because like I said, I was ripening and steaming. They get charged for the bags, they put one package of frozen vegetables in a bag, and now I got to pay for that? Like you don't have the mental capacity to say, let me not screw this customer and put the frozen peas in another bag, like you put one item in a bag, and like this is what I'm saying. You allow them to bag it for you? I don't know. It was a shop from home order, that's what they do, so yeah, no, because me being a douche I am, when they came to the car, I said, am I getting charged for all these bags? Yes. I knew I was. Set up, here it comes. I said, excuse me, but can I just put all your groceries, all the groceries in my bags so I don't have to pay for the bags? Well, there's something I can definitely talk to my manager about, like, yeah, I don't need seven ShopRite bags. I already have 52 of them. I don't need them. You know what I mean? So this is the type of NPC behavior. Well, that's the thing, people go along with it, because what people should start doing is saying, no, I'm not going to fucking shop here anymore. This is ridiculous. Forget it. I'll go to some mom-and-pop shop. I'll get it somewhere else, or I'll stop buying these items, and that's how you stop it, because eventually someone has to put their foot down. Me, I went in, I remember one of the first times I noticed that this state took away the plastic bags, I grabbed the basket. I filled the basket with groceries. I hope you took it. I got to the front, and I went to go put the stuff back in the basket, and the guy looks at me, he goes, you can't take the basket to your car. I'm like, what about that? What about those carts over there? Yeah, those carts, yeah, people use them to come in and out. So I grabbed the basket, filled with the things, and threw it inside the car. So I took them outside, and the guy was just staring at me, and I'm like, you know what? This is ridiculous. It's absurd. Now we have plastic straws taken away from us. They were in paper coverings. Now we have paper straws in plastic coverings. Yep, yep. Famous Tom MacDonald line. We're saving the earth. We're saving the earth here. All these MPCs are saving the earth. They just go along with it, and I say to myself, I'm like, why do I, and Matt Graham, I've referenced him on the show before, but he even says, he's like, be the weirdo. Like, why do you want to be normal? Because normal isn't normal right now. Like, we've gotten to the point where people, and I've said this before on the show, people are sacrificing today's, sacrificing future's freedom for today's comforts. You go to the grocery store now. You go to the Home Depot. You go anywhere. Look at all these stupid machines, cashiers, self-checkouts. I already work. Why do I got to go? I have to have some kid that's going to have minimum wage to tell me what cashier lane is open? Like, I'm retarded? Like, I got to, oh, I couldn't figure it out. Thanks. Thanks, Tom. I didn't know aisle lane two was open. I have temporary blindness. I can't see. This is so offensive and so aggressive, but these are the MPCs, the people that go along with it, the people that get the job, that are just standing there useless, because that's what they are, and then the people who go there and not say anything. I see stuff all the time. I say, okay, you want me to use this self-checkout? I'm not checking this stuff out, and I make them swipe it all the time. I'm not, I'm not doing it. I got a job. I can't, I can't remember which podcast, which show I heard it on, but apparently there was an issue with a number of grocery store workers that were complaining that they weren't being tipped after bagging. The option was there to tip at the grocery store, and I'm thinking to myself, I've never tipped a grocery store worker. Would I? I don't know. If I would, have I tipped when I've gone out for drinks, food, and stuff like that, even at a gas station, but it's gotten to the point where the lowest skilled members of society have that type of audacity to think that they're an MPC, and they deserve what they think they deserve. Well, that's also first player mode, too, where it's just like, you're doing some service that God gifted you. You know where this stemmed from, right? And it's ironic that you bring up, or that we're talking about MPCs today in video games. We mentioned video games. This stems from the fact that technology has gotten us to the point where people didn't, we've talked about this before, people don't have to go to another person's house to play a video game with them. People don't have to go to another person's house and see face-to-face to have a discussion or an argument with them like they do on social media. And it's bred babies that feel empowered. Empowered, entitled, but I think I'm going to take it a step further with technology. It has made the people in charge, elites, government, the CEOs from these companies, what's the word I'm looking for? They gave up their accountability. You just walk in and the cashiers are gone. Cashiers in some of these supermarkets, or most of the supermarkets, are a union job. Where's the union fighting for these jobs? Why is this okay? You're taking away the jobs. You used to be trained. That's what I'm saying. It's been okay. There's no accountability. You just do whatever and you just accept it. They've convinced these workers you're mentioning, the lowest skilled workers, that they deserve a certain amount of money. We've had all these pushes for higher pay, minimum wage, that whole phrase, minimum wage. What does that do? It gets rid of workers. Why would I pay someone $30 an hour to flip burgers? There's an old video. Three points I want to make because I'm just piling up in my head. First of all, going back to the tipping and everything. The tipping, I'll tip during the holidays. This past Christmas, I had a big order. Some kid actually bagged. That's like a luxury now. I threw him some money. Yeah, they bring it to your car or something like that. Absolutely. Here you go. He was shocked. He was just like, hey, listen, they took away the baggers and the cashiers. What do you want me to do? The cashier, now after scanning all my stuff, watches me bag my own stuff. You want to make some more money? Do it for me, number one. Number two, with the tipping, I think the tipping is outrageously out of control. How can you go to Dunkin' Donuts and there's a tip jar? Tip for what? You're doing your job. You literally just held a cup underneath the machine and then handed it two feet over to me. There's tip jars everywhere you go. After COVID, you go pick up your own food at the diner or wherever you're at the restaurant, tip jars. Then it makes you feel bad. I don't feel bad. I did during COVID because I said people are losing their jobs. I let them keep my job and still make good money. This is outrageous. Now to the third point. There's an old video of Ronald Reagan on the Johnny Carson show. He talks about this. Raise taxes, corporations pay their fair share, yada, yada, yada. That's cool. Your $15, $20 shirt is now $30, $35. Who is paying that? You are. The consumer. The consumer. It gets passed down to the consumer. You can go ahead and make whatever you want because guess what? You want all this inflation? That's the hidden tax, this inflation. It gets passed down to the consumer. You think these corporations, these businesses are taking baths? They're not taking these baths. It gets passed down. This is what NPC behavior. It's just mindless complaining and talking. There's no original idea. There's no thought behind it. You just regurgitate the bullshit that you hear and you still do the same behavior. You still buy the same products. You still shop at the same places. You still complain about the same things and you don't do anything. There's no action. It's just mind boggling that we got to this part. I've never seen it where the first player mode is almost coupled with these NPCs. NPCs, like I said again, non-player character. You have no control over them, but they have this concept, this first player concept where it's all about them. They only see the world through their eyes. God forbid. After COVID, I think driving on the road has gone atrocious. You let somebody go, they don't even acknowledge you. No flash of the high beams, no wave, no head nod. Don't get me wrong. You get that once in a while. They expect you to let them out. It's outrageous. Also to the minimum wage part, when I was in school for business, you start off at $10 an hour, you work your way up to $20 an hour. What do you think that business does when you hit $20 an hour? Fires you and then hires two people for $10 an hour. They're still paying the $20, but now they got two people. That's what these businesses do. Yeah, you can fight all you want, but a minimum wage job is a minimum wage job for a reason. I had a debate, maybe even an argument with someone on one of the Instagram posts about the term skilled labor. This is another thing that drives me up the wall, is how you have to define all these definitions of things. This guy was an NPC just regurgitating the left communist bullshit. Why do I have to explain what skilled labor is? Any labor is skilled to a degree, yes. Does it take skill to flip a burger? No, but at the same time, you had to acquire a skill. Somebody had to teach you how to do that. As five years old, six years old, whatever, you don't just walk up to the grill when your parents aren't watching you flip a burger. You'd have to watch them or maybe they showed you how to do it. Regardless, what percentage of the working population can't flip a burger? That's what they mean by unskilled. This is NPC behavior. You're complaining that people flipping burgers should be skilled workers. This is outrageous that we got to this point. I know I'm ranting, because like I said, I'm just in a fucking mood. Correct me if I'm wrong, when do we get to this lopsided view of the world where you can be the most unoriginal, ignorant individual living in this world that is just created by you and you think that's your own reality. It's demented. Remember, this week, we are having our previous president being indicted and charged with crimes. The crime, of using his First Amendment right, of encouraging people to protest peacefully. Meanwhile, we have the previous four presidents having gotten us involved in 10 wars, zero indictments of them, obvious crimes with the Biden administration, bribery crimes, scandals with him, his son, all the companies they were involved with internationally taking bribes, selling out our country. Well over 200, if I'm not mistaken, 270 riots in the past couple years. Nothing over that. A couple grandmas with Trump hats show up on January 6th, and this is what we're being fed. But you know what? There's so many people that still watch CNN and believe this. No doubt, but NPCs, once again, this is the issue. It's nobody. Hold on to your hats because what's happening right now, this is the first step in turning this country into a third world banana nation. This is what happens in communist nations where they take out a previous president or the biggest rival coming up, the biggest contender coming up because it's been shown. Trump's numbers in the polls, even on leftist networks show that he's neck to neck and even beating Biden at the moment. So what do they do in these third world nations? They take out the rival. They use the Department of so-called justice here to take them out. We've been in the banana republic once. Once the election has... I'm going to be careful here because without the proof, I don't want to just say the election was thrown. Proof? What do you mean? For dead people voted. Machines broke down. They waited till the following morning to announce the winner, where in other places you found out 30 minutes after the polls were closed. There's loads of proof. But what I'm trying to say here is once we started accepting election day turning into election days or weeks, right? Because it happened here in our state. Listen, if you can't count, it's 2023. You can tell me using my phone and triangulate whatever you want to where I am, how long I'm there, what I'm doing. You can listen to my voice remotely even if I have all my permissions turned off. You're telling me for the President of the United States, you can't count all the votes in a 24-hour period? Election day is one day. If you can't count the votes and it goes from 11.59 to 12 o'clock, well, sorry, those votes can't be counted in my opinion. That's the problem. They did that here. They did that for the... in New Jersey. They did that for Cary Lake in Arizona. And they did that for the Presidency of the United States. So what does that mean? It means that the for the Presidency of the United States. So what does that tell you? But before we go around that, I got another NPC video that I thought was rather interesting. It was very good. So I'm going to play this. And this guy is... he hits the nail right on the head. I think he's pretty in line with, you know, the nonsense that we're dealing with, the people that aren't really engaged, zombies walking around in their own world. So let's play. And I like how he says that. He's like, you've got to put yourself out there and be vulnerable. And I think a lot of people in today's day and age are unwilling to do it. So they just regurgitate whatever the mainstream is doing, whatever the mainstream song is, whatever the mainstream artist is, whatever the movie is. Oh, I just want to go see the Barbie movie. Well, the Barbie movie has a lot of underlying themes that are anti-American, anti-family. Oh, well, you know, I played with Barbies as a kid. And it's just a movie. You can't... Stop. That's like NPC thought. It's just like, oh, it's just a movie. It's just a book. It's just a TV show. And I get on my wife about modern family. And I hate modern family, because they use that term to brainwash you to think that it's a modern family to have that's normalized. Right. And listen, I'm not saying it's bad. I'm just saying it's not, like Leo said, it's not normal. It's not modern. Okay. It's an outlier. Right. And there's enough information and enough stats out there that prove having single family households or certain types of households are not advantageous versus a father and a mother. It's a two family household. And it's just the, oh, well, I'm tired of NPC response. Oh, you just got to enjoy it. You don't enjoy anything. Yeah. But it's just like, I don't know what else to say. I know you guys are getting what I'm saying. But I'm just going on a total rant and tangent tonight. I'm just like I said, I'm just a fucking ant. Again, I think it goes back to what I was saying before. Just, you know, we've said it a number of times. We've lost that sense in society of someone saying something and having the backlash of running the risk of getting punched in the face for it. But isn't it like, it's now nuanced to have an original idea. You understand, like, to have an idea that is outside what is thrown at you. And I will say propaganda because in 2013, they made it legal to have the news be propaganda in this country. Like, isn't it, it's like, it's like, you're relegated, they call you conspiracy theorist or right-wing extremist, even if you're in the center, you know. And it's nuanced to have original thought. Like, really? It's, there's enough evidence to say the multiple elections were thrown. There's multiple evidence that say, Russia is not the bad guys. They're not the good guys. They're not, but they're not the bad guys in this case. You know, there's multiple, like, look, I just have a hard time believing. You're giving the example of the media telling you Russia's bad. Ukraine is good. Let's send them billions of dollars. They're winning the war. Bullshit, they're not. I have a hard time believing that same media that's been telling me for the past almost 40 years of my life that aliens don't exist. And then all of a sudden, coming out a couple weeks ago, saying, yeah, well, you know, we do have biological remains of bodies and entities that are, you know, of another, possibly even dimension. Not necessarily out of this universe or world, but dimension. It's a bunch of shit. So I have a hard time believing the same media, the same government. But we discussed that in the UFO podcast, where it's just like the episode where it's just like, all these years they denied it. And then coincidentally, when they have the next tech, enough technology to manipulate and to do the things that are led to believe to do to create the illusion that they exist. I just watched a clip of Joey Diaz on Joe Rogan Show saying the most UFO sightings in the United States is in New Jersey. And North Bergen is, yes, exactly. And then on top of that, the most UFO sightings in the world happen in the United States. So come on. We are the MTV people, though. We get all of our news from there, remember. But also remember this, where the last four years, well, not anymore, but when Trump was in office, they questioned the results, the election results every year until that guy left office. Now, when you question it, conspiracy theories, you're like, everything's flip flop. It's the NPC behavior that gets us into these positions where people don't question it. Why would the government do that? Why would Big Pharma do this? Just like on our last episode with food poisoning, why would they put those preservatives in there if it wasn't safe? Natural flavors has to be good for you. Citric acid is black mold. It's for the betterment of society, Jim. Remember that also we're talking about UFOs. Now they're starting to admit that they are real, supposedly. Aliens are real. Government is now accepting the fact that they have remains of bodies, remains of crafts. They've been working with them. Who knows what the hell else they've been doing. I saw a clip online of a man saying that what they're going to do to continue to push this new world order, government control around the world, is they're going to stage an alien attack. Yeah, but we talked about that. That was Project Blue Beam. Blue Beam, right? Yeah, yeah. And I forgot the guy's name. The reason why I'm bringing it up is my question is, are we going to have enough people now realizing, hey, we've been fooled the last 30 plus years by the media telling us these things don't exist, demons, aliens, whatever the hell you want to call them, all of a sudden saying, they do exist, we have them, or are they going to wake up? Are these NPCs going to wake up? The NPCs are not going to wake up. These people are stuck in first player mode, right? They don't know what the hell's going on. You ask them an opinion on something, and it's a talking point from a TV show, a newscast, whatever it is, and they're just toeing the line. And the last video is, well, the second to last, it's just prime example where he says they gather more NPCs. Hive mind. And yeah, and they just scream and shout, right? And I kind of, you saw this on Instagram this morning. Piers Morgan had that one guy big oil protester. These protesters, you will never see them in Pakistan, in India, in China, in Russia, in North Korea, protesting the most grotesque, abusive human rights problem. You'll never see them doing it. They'll do it to our environment. Right. What about the electric cars? I know China and India are the biggest producer of pollution, greenhouse gases, and no one says boo about that. They come here and they rant and rave in fucking New York when all these ass clowns that are so-called representatives from their nations, when the United Nations come here, causing traffic, not allowing people to park over there, and they rant and rave here, complaining about how the US is the devil. Why don't they do that elsewhere? But it's all bullshit. I just want people to start waking up. And even if you're half NPC and you're just, you kind of get it, but you're still kind of like trying to navigate your way. You got to wake up. Piers Morgan, say what you want about him. It's ironic. It's like Bill Maher, still claims to be liberal, even though liberalism has left him a long time ago. Or even when he had vegans on, and they're like talking about, oh, it's bad for the environment of the animals and this and that. But then they have their almonds, their avocados all picked and then flown halfway across the world. Like, where are you getting avocados in the middle of winter? You know what I mean? They got to be sent on trucks and planes and exported and all this carbon emissions. But it's bullshit. And even when we talked about it, I know you want to get to your point. But even when we talked about it with the oat milk and the almond milk in the last episode, where they're destroying the environment to farm these, quote unquote, healthier options or better options. And they're just brutalizing the agriculture, the landscape, the soil, the water. And we just sit here and just say, well, the doctor said it's better. The expert said it's better. A big farmer, big agriculture said it's safer, it's better, it's healthier. Well, I'm thinking about Anna Kasparian from the Young Turks this week. She threw a fit about the fact that she thinks the leftists are headed in the wrong direction when they continue to push this diversity nonsense. She's actually starting to make certain points that, I don't know, I think certain people like her, certain people like Bill Maher, certain people like Piers Morgan, they must eat away at your soul that eventually you have to say, shit, maybe we're not right about this. Maybe what's right isn't necessarily what the whole group thinks. And I think that's what's happening there. Well, it's funny about the Young Turks because the Cenk Unger episode of the Patrick Bet-David podcast, he was on there making pretty good admissions and conceding a lot of good stuff. I mean, he defended his liberal talking points, but for the logical stuff, he conceded a lot, which was nice. Like having sex with animals like he's done in the past? We can talk about his interview with Jesse Lee Peterson, but we'll leave that out of that. That's a topic for another discussion. But it's ironic, it's either two things are happening, and obviously two things can be true at the same time. It's that either these individuals have either come to their senses and have seen the light and say, I can't sit here and be a part of this. There's something subconsciously wrong with what's going on. And in order to save the last little bit of credibility that I have, I have to speak up. Or that liberalism has escaped these people and has been replaced with communism and Maoism and all the isms out there, all the bad ones that you can think about. And these people have been alienated by their own party. And I think that happens to be a little bit more true. Because these people, they're not stupid. They're not dumb. They have these shows, they're successful, they've been on TV or on the radio or whatever they have for many years. But I think it comes to a point where they finally wake up and say, the stuff that they were defending, what liberalism was about 30 years ago, is what a lot of conservatives are fighting about now. With the free speech and don't tell me what to do. Don't tell me what vaccines or what I got to put in my body. Because if you're going to do my body, my choice, and it has to be that across the board. Like there's a lot of talking speech. Think about it. They're shouting people down, they're telling people you can't hear them. They're shutting them down on social media from sharing their message. That used to be liberalism. Right. Exactly. That used to be liberalism. Now I think, to your point Jim, I think these people are having a moment where they're realizing, shit, this type of thinking, leftist thinking, NPC thinking, eats away at you and eats away at itself. Eventually it turns on itself. But isn't it ironic because, all right, let's relate this at this NPC type of thing. It's like sports. How many times do you hear in sports where they say, you know, the game isn't won on paper. You look at a lineup and say, oh man, that's a good lineup and this and that. And then you go play the season. First baseman gets hurt. The quarterback gets injured. The wide receiver gets the stomach flu. You know, the shooting forward rolls his ankle and he's out. So like, yeah, it looks great on paper. Socialism looks great on paper. This ESG stuff looks good on paper. This NPC behavior, the talking points sound great, but when you get challenged and you get questioned on them, you see how shallow and, dare I say, it looks like Swiss cheese because there's so many holes in the argument when you take it underneath the magnifying glass. And that's what I think is a lot of, is going on right now. And I think a lot of people are waking up to it. But the worst part is, and this is what I think, is just not enough people, like you said to your point earlier, is making any waves, is saying anything. Like I'll be the asshole that goes to the store and say, why am I checking out my own stuff? Like I'm not doing that. I'll wait on line for that one cashier because you know why? If enough people do that and you refuse to use the machines, the self-checkout machines, and listen, if you have one or two items, use the self-checkout machine. I'm not trying to be that type of like imbecile and saying, you know, you can't use them and they don't have their purpose. What I'm saying is you have a shopping cart full of stuff. If you have enough people on that line, what are they going to do? The manager is going to have to get involved. Oh, uh, can you go use the self-checkout? No. What are they going to do? They're going to have to open up another cash register. Yeah, but to that point, remember, we the customers, listen, we the customers aren't the reason why there's self-checkout lines. Think about it. It's from all these low-skilled workers demanding a higher pay. So the owners and managers say, what am I going to do? Well, I'll hire less workers and I'll invest that money in some self-checkout lines, right? But they're saving on the cashiers. They're saving on the bags now, but here's what, here's the curve ball I'm going to throw you. You're right. The customers aren't the reason why they're there, but the customers are the reason why they're keeping them there because so many, I don't want to use the word dummies, but I have to. So many dummies will have a shopping cart full of shit and they're sitting there swiping this stuff up, looking up the PLU codes or scanning them or looking up what the grocery, the produce and weighing it. Why? Why is that your responsibility? You work. Just fuck it. Throw it in the cart. Everyone's stealing shit in California and San Francisco and all these other liberal states. Ah, just throwing it. Like, what are you going to do? Like, this is what you get. So unethical life pro hack, you didn't hear it here. Go buy organic stuff and then ring it up at the cash register as regular stuff. Why is that your responsibility? You're not trained on the cashier to be a cashier. So why is that your problem? But this is the NPC behavior. You know what I mean? I heard someone else say the same thing and I was blown away by the idea. I heard someone else say the same thing about two years ago. But seriously, why is it our problem? Why is it our problem? You know what I mean? Like, why isn't enough people standing up and saying this is stupid? Everyone's just like, oh yeah, well, you know, they're trying to save this and they're trying to save that. Well, how much is it saving you? Why don't everyone take it? Be selfish in the other way. Instead of being selfish in first player mode and going in the grocery store and putting your shopping cart in the middle of the fucking aisle and then walking halfway down and looking at something else so no one else can get through, why don't you save yourself? You know what? I'm not going to use the self checkout. I'm not going to do it. Not only that, you scan it wrong or you take it off the platform that it has and then it doesn't recognize the weight and now you have to put it back down. The manager has to be called over. There's a blinking light. You're the only asshole who can't figure out how to work this stupid thing. How many times has that happened? So many. And listen, I'm not proud of this, but I do it on purpose. I don't care. I make such a scene. I talk to myself, this is stupid. Why am I doing this? I scan this. I throw it down because this is ridiculous that as an adult, I have, I don't want to say children, but I have kids or younger people. Just go use this. I'll just do, just swipe this. And they come over to a little badge and be like, I'll just clear that for you. You can scan it again. Like, no, I'm not going to do it. But I mean, this rant has been way too long. I wanted to really dive into NPCs, but this is the perfect example because this is the type of society that we live in now where people just go with the flow. They don't question anything. They don't say, this doesn't make sense. They just say, well, this is what I got to do now. Anything to remain comfortable. That's what I hate. COVID. Let's talk about COVID, the vaccine. Forget that. The best example of NPCs. Yes. That is a catalyst of why we're here, but we have to at some point, let that go because then that's just NPC behavior. Complaining about the same thing over and over. No, no, no. Because if you don't learn your history, you don't learn your past, you won't be able to learn from it. You have to remember that. Those who don't learn from the mistakes of the past are bound to repeat it. But at the same time, there has to be some point where we just let go. Someone's got to snap. Like, not only that, but we're bringing up the fact that that not only was a catalyst, but that's a learning situation. Should be a learning experience for everybody. But it's not. To be like, never freaking do that again in society. But Leo, that's the problem because we're talking about NPCs. It's not a learning experience from they're going to do it again. That's the fucked up part. What do you do with those type of people? You have to shame them. You have to embarrass them into realizing how buffoonish they were in their behavior. These are the same people that are still outside now, probably riding a bike with a mask on, Jim. And they were the ones telling me I'm being dangerous towards their well-being because I didn't get a vaccine or didn't wear a mask. But it's bigger than that. It's bigger than that. Did you see what happened with Lizzo? Do you see that news article, Lizzo? I don't know. There's always big things happening with Lizzo. She's big. That's not nice. Come on. Did you see the allegations against her? Yes, with her co-workers saying that she was either being abusive, verbally abusive. Being verbally abusive, fat shaming them. And yes, yes, I know. And I'm going to use some slang terminology here because I'm not going to be too grotesque. I think she had her co-workers or assistants or people that worked with her eat bananas or eat fruit, I think it was bananas, out of sex workers' hoo-hahs. Yeah, you heard that. Eating bananas out of sex workers' lady bits. This is the lady. Sounds like pretty normal behavior for an intern. This is all the NPC's favorite woman. Oh, Lizzo's big. She's beautiful. She owns it. We talked about it when Sneeko called that one girl, you look like Lizzo and she flipped out. Wait a second, 30 seconds ago you said Lizzo's a ten and she's beautiful. Then when you get called Lizzo, you have a meltdown. This is NPC bullshit. And this is the society, so going back to your point. These people are not going to learn from anything because they keep doing it. Whether it be 9-11, whether it be the income taxes, whether it be the tolls on the roadways, whether it be raising whatever tax or raising whatever fund for something that people less equitable or standing up for. Oh, Lizzo's beautiful. It's fat shaming. It's anti-bullying. Let's fix the climate by giving the government more money. So this is what I'm saying is that these people do not learn. We've talked about this since day one of The Critical Thinking. Nobody wants to get involved with politics. Nobody wants to get involved with society. It's too scary. What can I do? Just like that list says, they feel hopeless. They have no free will. They don't get involved. But Jim, they blame and complain. Jim, you're saying they're not going to learn. I could care less about that. I'm going to mock them. I'm going to mock them until I die because they're too stupid to learn anyway. So I might as well just rub their noses. Hold on. I don't think they're stupid. We learn that some of these people are stupid, Jim. Some, yes. But it's a very small part of the population. What I'm saying is that, no, no, no. We have gotten to a point that in society we have the luxury, dare I say, to be willfully ignorant. Like you said before with the technology. All you have to do is go online, pick what you want out for shopping, and some other fucking person picks out your food for you. This is what I'm talking about. There's no accountability. You don't have to do anything. You can be willfully ignorant. You can just tune in and watch the news. You don't have to even read it. You can just sit there like a dope, incapacitated, in between Instagram and Facebook scrolls and say, oh, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, oh, okay. Trump bad, Biden good, good. Next week, Trump good, Biden bad, oh, good. Next week, Hunter Biden this. Next week, Burisma this. Next week, Putin that. Like that's all they do. But that's exactly my point, though. I mean, you're talking about a society that doesn't realize that they live in the best time ever as a race, human race. I mean, you're talking about a society that has here running clean water, electricity to heat their house, cold air to keep themselves cool when, I don't know if I'm, I might be wrong with these numbers, but I heard it was like 70% of Europe still doesn't have air conditioning. Yeah, but they, but, and these people are still have the audacity to complain about stuff. I mean, you're talking about the people that are the poorest here live like kings compared to other third world nations everywhere around the world. So to the air conditioning point, I think a lot of that is like superstition over there. I don't know why. I think it has a lot to do with like people's superstition. I know at least when I was in Italy, when we're in a car, don't let the air conditioning blow on the baby. Don't put the air conditioning on at night. It's, you're going to get sick. It's not good for you. Yada, yada, yada. But I will say with the rest of the world is that this is, this is years ago, this stat came out. They said people on welfare, right? And this is, this, this statistic is probably at least five to 10 years old. People on welfare are living better than a middle-class family in the 1980s. Think about it. A camcorder or VCR, not a VCR, but the camcorder. I believe that. A thousand dollars. Imagine just for inflation, that's probably 15, $1,600. And then you have an iPhone or a Samsung, whatever you got at that price point now. You have the world at your fingertips. Right. I don't know. I'm just, like I said, I'm wound up. I'm just really sick and tired of the first player mode bullshit. I'm tired of people not being respectful of other people. I'm just tired of like the, the, the mental capacity of people have, has shrank so much where, you know, just, just today, I forget. I was, I was talking to someone, someone said, oh, that's very kind. And that's, I said, to me, it's just being normal, just being respectful and just being a decent human. Common courtesy. Right. Do unto others as we talked a million times, the golden rule. Here's my question to you. Again, I, I say, I mock them. I don't let it get to me. You're saying you get wound up and you get upset over it and you know, I don't want to talk about it, but I say I mock the hell out of them. And to myself, I laugh at people like that because I'm like, you know, you're too stupid to realize you're stupid. See, I'm just wound up because I, I, I've had a, it's like compound interest. I just had a week that started off with, I said, I can't wait to talk about this because there was just example after example. And I got really wound up for something with my daughter and one of the doctors that we're dealing with, with the, with the ineptitude and then just coming here and having the shop right order and the stupid bags you got to pay for. So I was just really primed to just go on a rant. However, my solution, okay, isn't to get upset, isn't to, to get a podcast and rant about and complain because that's part of the NPC thing. But is that people have to just stick to the moral high ground. Like you say, the mocking me, I don't even bother because they're not going to understand it. Whether you do it to your internally or to yourself or whatever, these people don't understand it. So if enough people just said and did the things that we used to do 23 years ago, for instance, when you see somebody that's doing something wrong, you would say that's wrong. But nowadays we just turn a blind eye because nobody wants to get involved. Nobody wants no confrontation. Nobody wants any problems. So we've got to the point society where these people could be willfully ignorant, could just walk around. There's no repercussions for your actions or should I say inactions. And that's what I think the problem is. And now I'm saying, do you got to be as, as outlandish or, or I don't really say flamboyant, but like I am when I go to the cash register, I said, I'm not, I'm not scanning this stuff. It's not my job. I don't know if you necessarily have to do that, but if you have the choice and you can go to, you know, the cashier or these people that are just aimlessly walking in the supermarket, you don't have to be rude, but you say, Hey, excuse me, you know, I got to get through here. Can you mind moving your car? Just like simple things like that. I think these people, enough attention needs to be brought to the fact because these people are just out there and just the magnitude of this problem is just, is just crazy. Nobody has original thoughts. If you have an original thought, you're crazy. You're this, you're, you're conspiracy theorists. When did it get to that point to be like, to be a critical thinker and to, to have an outside the box point of view is now you get shunned for being like, they call you dumb. They call us dumb for having these ideas. Well, I think it has to do with the fact that it's so much easier to be an NPC than to be an outside thinker. It's so much easier to be a part of that hive man mind than someone turning around and saying, Oh, you know what? That's wrong. Or maybe, you know, we should think about this before we continue in this direction. And that's why, you know, you're going to, you're going to have an easier time fitting in with others. If you do become the NPC, you'll, you'll have an easier time fitting in, but you're not going to be like, Oh, I know. I know. I know what I'm saying. So, so let's wind this down because we can just keep talking about this bullshit. So what is, what is any type of resolution or solution here? Because like, how many times do you hear people? It's not worth my job. I don't know. I don't want to get involved. Like we've said time and time again on this show, like everybody has a duty to do what's best for society, right? Cause we all live in society together. Maybe you're a recluse or you live like a hermit somewhere, but if you see somebody doing something that's wrong, why can't you just say something? And why has it gotten to the point where people are like, ah, this is not worth my job. Your job will turn around and fire you in a heartbeat. They don't give a shit about you. I hate having to bring it back up, but COVID was the best example for that. And you and I in, in both of our respective jobs, we decided not to get the vaccine and we refused to get it. And look at the shit we took for that. No, but at least I think that's one of the, the things people can think about is if you have a certain way of thinking and you think this is the moral, you know, correct thing to do, then dig your heels in. It's gotta be. But why is that so crazy? Why do people do not? It's gotten to the point where they're making you feel Jim, like it's crazy. Who is you? I want you to qualify this. Who is you? Someone who thinks outside the box, someone who asks questions, someone who doesn't go along with what everybody is saying. Is it fair to say the NPCs are making you feel this way? Yes, because again, it's much easier to become an NPC and follow along. And then you have people chanting the same direction you're chanting, right? Then it is to turn around and say, wait, no, hold on. I think you guys might be missing the point here. And I agree. And to that effect, I was ready to get fired and just leave the state if I had to. And I told my wife, I said, I don't care. I don't care. I'm a man of values and beliefs and principles. And I'm not going to violate them for a job for anyone else, no amount of money. And when you start doing that and compromising yourself, the devil's winning, Satan's winning, whoever's, whatever you believe in, whatever higher power you're, you know, I don't know, you want to say a quality and a higher power, but he's to affect over us, have more powers. You are sacrificing, you're selling yourself. Like we talked about the OnlyFans and Nicole and we talked with Danielle and stuff. Like once you put a price on yourself, it's very hard to gain respect and to gain notoriety amongst your peers to regain that part of yourself. You understand? Because if Burger Kid or whatever McDonald's starts selling the dollar menu, then all of a sudden they start calling it the $5 menu. And then they start saying it's the $10 menu. You're going to say, wait a second, you're losing a lot of street cred here. You keep changing, you keep moving the goal posts. And like, why am I going to spend $10 on the same thing that a year ago was a dollar or maybe $5, whatever it is. I don't know. I don't eat there. I don't care. The fact is, if you start putting a price on yourself and then you say, yeah, I'm not going to sell my body anymore. I'm not going to do this. This NPC behavior that has no correlation with respect to what you believe in, you know, you know, I didn't want to play this, but I'm going to wind up playing it. And then there's this, this is stupid, right? Because this is the point that I want to make. And so I had this up on my Instagram maybe a month ago, not a month, two weeks or so. I don't know. Fairly recent. And it just came up again. And I had seen it and I looked into this. So this girl goes by the name Pinky doll and she makes, she's a real life NPC. People send her gifts or emojis and she'll just act that out accordingly. So you say stupid shit, whatever you want her to say, you type it in. She'll say it, repeat it. People are paying $4,000 a month for that. She also does only fans and makes, I think, $3,000 a month for that. So this is the type of crap that you're going to hear this, this lady do. And she's making $4,000 and some guy, I forget the guy's name. I should've, I should've wrote it down or remembered it. He tried to do it. He made a couple thousand dollars acting the same way that she did. But obviously he's a guy who made a little bit less, but it's just crazy. So listen to this shit. So people will send her a cowboy hat emoji. And then she'll say, you got me feeling like a cowgirl. She'll say, she'll get an ice cream cone and be like, oh, ice cream. Lick it up, blah, blah, blah. Like this is, and she's making this amount of money on TikTok streaming. Like this, this is NPC behavior followed by simps. Like it's the worst culture, cultural, you know, marriage that you can have. So who are the, who are the NPCs in this case, Jim? She's the NPC. She's playing an unplayable character, right? That's what she's doing right now. Cause I think it's the people sending the money. Those are simps. Those are people paying for this type of behavior. What does simps stand for? Sims doesn't stand for anything, but simps is the people that are supporting these OnlyFans girls that think that these individuals, I'm going to say girls, obviously guys can have OnlyFans too, but it's an epidemic of weak men paying for these girls' attention. Cause that's what women want. Women want attention. Men want respect. So it's these guys that are paying. Oh, I'll buy you that necklace that you have on your Amazon wishlist. I'll buy you those pair of jeans. I'll buy you this. I'll send you however many tokens or I'll put, send you, this is simp behavior where you're paying for these girls' attention and you're competing with other guys for virtual relationships. That's what simping out means. So I'm reading here in the Urban Dictionary, it says a simp is someone who does way too much for a person they like. Almost like a cuck. That's very simple. Almost like a cuck then in other words. Well a cuck is when you're letting your wife bang other dudes and you're sitting there either way. Same thing. Exactly. Simping is virtual. Cuck is real life. That's what I'd say. Like when you're selling yourself out like that and you know. A guy that is overly desperate for women, especially if she's a bad person or has expressed her blah, blah, blah. No doubt. That is it. That is it. So I don't know if we're going to come to a resolution. I mean, I'm going to wrap this up because it's appalling. It's sickening. But where do we start any type of resolution or how do you fix any of this type of behavior? Is it at the point where you just say fuck it and you have to worry about yourself or is it, or can you legitimately start changing certain behaviors to your own, right? Because they say be the change that you want to be. Was that Gandhi? I don't know who said it. Definitely wasn't me. Someone much smarter than I did, than I am had said that. But you know what I mean? It's you can only control what you can control. Your actions, your behaviors. So I mean for most people, I think the only advice I can really give and that I wish I would see more of is just people standing up and just questioning things. And listen, I ranted this whole episode. Like luckily I had gotten enough material, real life material to go on this epic rant, right? But everybody listening knows a time, knows a person, knows a place where this happens daily, regularly. And you just got to start calling out the bullshit. It has to start with us. You can no longer accept this. Because like Leo said before, it's not our fault that it's here, but it is our fault that it stays here. So if you accept this, if this is okay with you, go ahead, keep doing it. Who am I to tell you how to live your life or what to enjoy or how to enjoy it? I'm saying is if you're just tired of the bullshit, you're tired of the disrespect, you're tired of all the decay in society that you see, you have to start saying something or doing something different. You can't just go home and complain to your wife or husband or coworker or whatever, because then you're just an NPC. Unless you take action, you have an original thought, you are the NPC. You are what we're talking about. You can't just sit here, talk behind people's back. That's a whole other story with moral and character. But you have to have some type of original thought or do something outside the box. Like Matt Graham had said, you have to be the weirdo. Just like many, and I think it was great that he said that because I know I brought it up before, calling people assholes. The person that assholes you is probably more true of a friend than the person who just tells you what you want to hear when you want to hear it. Yeah, you look good. Yeah, the other person's wrong. Yeah, you deserve that raise. Yeah, you look good. You don't need to lose weight. Those people are the real assholes. Lizzo's beautiful. Lizzo's a 10. She's gorgeous. So I have an idea, Jim. I think there's a way we could possibly try to remedy the situation or at least help people out. I say pull up that list you shared at the beginning of the episode. Pull up that list and let's read it again and let's do the opposite. Let's think of the opposite. We read off, or Jim rather, read off a list of 10 things that would describe what NPCs are. So what do you want to do here? You want to read these off and what, have a remedy for them or just like a counter? I would say let's read the list because they're simple words, right? There's a simple phrase for each one. Very simple. And then if you do the opposite, it should help you to... It should, but how do you get other people who are the NPCs? People who are Lizzo might not... Listen, we're not experts. You can only control what you control. I get it. Yeah, we can only control ourselves. We're not experts here. We don't claim to be experts here. We're just giving out the information we find. So for number one, we'll run through this real quick and wrap up. Every single day seems the same. You wake up, check your phone, yada, yada, yada. TV, back home, work, whatever it may be. Do something different. Turn the TV off. Well, what would it be a good remedy? Read a book, go to the gym? I mean, I think you should probably be doing that. Listen to talk radio. Talk radio is good. Turn on the radio. Listen to a different kind of music, different kind of talk radio that you've never listened to before. Podcast. Right. Listen to an informational podcast, not just some bullshit celebrity type stuff. Something that's going to challenge you. Something that's going to get dangerous. Maybe learn another language. Yeah. Right. Okay. So I think that is very simple. A very simple solution. Number two, most of your conversations are about whether gossip or complaining. Well, guess what? If you do number one, I think number two takes care of itself. Simple. If you're learning or reading or doing something new, you're going to have more to talk about. So done. We don't need to talk about that. Number three, you hate your job. I don't think there's much to talk about that. In the very basic sense, I think nobody wants to be at work. Some people don't mind being at work. I don't mind being at work. My job's not terrible. Of course, I want the weekend to come here because I want to be home. I wanted to enjoy my time. If you truly hate your job, Leo, this is a slam dunk. Please take it home from me. What do you do if you hate your job? If you hate your job, find a new one. Thank you. If you hate your job, find things on how to elevate your situation in your job or prepare yourself for that next opportunity. Leo, I don't know if you know this, but you know how many free certifications are on the internet to increase your earning capacity? I don't think we need to talk about if you hate your job. If you hate your job and you're still there, you are the asshole. You are the stupid bastard that you're going for punishment. You deserve it. Right. I'm not trying to be the bad guy here. I just got to call it how it is. Like, listen, everyone's hated their job. You just find a new job. Not only that, maybe you just suck at your job, but you're too lazy or too dumb to realize that you can be better at your job. Look at YouTube, Google. Yes. Okay. What can I do with my job? What other jobs can I get from my job? But Leo, if we took care of step number one, every single day seems the same. If you add in reading and learning and documentaries or watching stuff online, you hate your job. You can learn stuff how to make your job better or find other jobs. Number one. Number two, with the conversation about weather, gossip, complaining, you'd have more stuff to talk about. So just by changing number one, you've already changed number two and number three. All right. Number four, you cannot go out and have fun by yourself. I don't know. Maybe you got to look inward. Even if you're introverted, go for a drive, find something to do. Find a hobby. Find a hobby. I love fishing. I love fishing and I love fishing by myself. I don't necessarily have to go out with people to do it. Right. Find yourself a hobby, something that interests you, that gives you that drive to, hey, I want to do this again. Hey, maybe I want to get better gear. Hey, maybe I want to do this even better. I want to become even better at it. Find a hobby. Easy enough. Easy enough. Right. So you find a hobby, that's going to take care of a lot of stuff. You can go have fun by yourself. You can learn. You can meet a whole other community with people. Done. Okay. Number five, you take the same path every day. I think this is stupid and good. You want to take the most direct approach home. Maybe one day, listen, go get lost. Everyone has GPS on their phone. Type it in Google Maps. Go get lost. Hey, I never went down this road. Let me go explore. You get lost. Put it in Google Maps for Christ's sake. It is too easy. Number six. Hold on. Hold on. Before you go past that, I think you and I have had this experience before where we've realized that when you go out on a bike ride or out for a walk, you're like, shit, I didn't know that existed around my house. I didn't know that was there. Exploring. Exploring the physical world around you will change your mind. It'll change your whole being. No doubt. No doubt. It just opens up your eyes. It's that simple. You're missing a whole world. I feel bad for them, Jim, because I think a lot of people fall into that category. People that are MPCs and people that are miserable with their lives, they fall into that category that they haven't been outside the two-mile radius of their city, their town. They've never explored. They've never been outdoors. They've never gone for a walk and a trail and just gazed and wondered at nature. Agreed. I think I'm going to give a mind-blowing analysis here and a statistic that I'm totally making up. I would venture to say that 100% of MPCs are depressed in one way, shape, or form. How do you think that is? It's a very accurate statement to make. I have nothing to back it up. I would agree because you know what? Again, I think nothing is easier than to become part of a hive mind think or a hive mind crowd that's going to say, hey, we feel the same way and we're going to cheer the same direction where you complain about the same shit. I think you're onto something with that. I think people like to hate people that they have wished become. Instead of hating themselves, it's easy to hate people that they wish they were because they have become that person that they've been unhappy with. It's easy to hate and project your hate on people who did find another job, that did quit their job, that did choose to learn another language, that did choose to go to the gym instead of watching Netflix at 8 o'clock at night, 9 o'clock at night. I think there's a lot of truth to be there. Oh boy, number six. Like I said, once we did number one, I think all these just take care of themselves. More than 90% of your thoughts are the same thoughts you think every day. Well, guess what? If you're reading new books and studying new things, how are you going to have the same thoughts? You're going to be too busy learning and remembering and your mind is going to explode and you're going to say, oh shit, well that's false and this is true. Plenty of rabbit holes to go into. We don't need to touch that. I think the next few are very important. I think probably the most monumental in the list. Number seven, you don't know your own purpose. I think that's very important for a lot of people because I think a lot of people don't trust their instinct, don't go with it, go to college, do this, don't do that. Not everybody needs to go to college. Not everybody gets rich the first time around. Not everybody is going to be a business owner. You might get rich at 45 years old. You might get rich at 21. You may never get rich. You may never get married. You might get married at 50. You might get married at a high school. I don't know. Yeah, I was going to say maybe some people their purpose isn't necessarily to become wealthy. Right. Maybe you're the guy or the girl who makes other people wealthy in other areas, socially, spiritually. You complete somebody. Mentally. Right. There's plenty of capacity for that. Just go with your instinct, right? The journey that we're on with the podcast, I can expound on that. I don't want to make it about me but there's purposes and there's reasoning and then just to follow it. It doesn't have to make sense. You think you want to be a stand-up comedian? Your family makes fun of you? This makes fun of you? Go do it. You think that you have a calling, being a fitness instructor, whatever that's outside the grain, do it. Don't listen to anybody else. I was just going to say you find something that brings you joy, brings you entertainment, makes you feel good and then it's something that you can share with others for them to enjoy themselves and feel good about themselves doing it. I think you've struck gold. I agree. I was just going to say that. I said if you are feeling good about what you're doing and you're able to teach or be around other people to make them feel the same way, that's your purpose. You're enriching your lives whether it's being a yoga instructor, nutritionist, financial advisor, whatever. It doesn't matter. Your purpose, if that's what you're passionate about, do it. All right. Fine. Number eight, I think, is pretty problematic in today's society. You're reactive to others. Everyone's going to get reactive to others. Like I just said today, just the shit that I've seen, just like obviously I have a reaction to that. But I left it for the podcast. I wanted to air it out. I wanted to give examples. I wanted to save this energy. But dude, if someone walks in the middle of the parking lot, I'm not going to roll down the window and scream at them and say, hey, what are you doing? Hey, idiot, get out of the street. I'm not going to go to I'm not going to go to those extremes. Because for what? You've got to pick and choose your battles. You've got to know. You can't get bent on a sheet of everything. You can only control yourself. If someone's going to mindlessly walk down the aisle in the parking lot, someone's going to sit at the cash register and count every dollar and not load their car and make you wait. The fighting, the anger, the energy that you're going to lose, it's not worth it. Save that energy for something positive. Number nine. I think also before you get to number nine, Jed, if you allow that to frustrate you, you allow certain things, certain people to get under your skin, I think you've allowed them to win as well. So certainly keep in mind, I mean, if you don't allow that, then you win. If you don't allow that, if you don't allow that, you have that self-control, then you win. Leo, you're right. 100%. 100%. I hope people were able to deduce that. But you have to be able to control your emotions. I mean, you have to. There's just too much thing, like I said, you can only control so much. And it's a growing experience. It's not something that's easy to learn. And it's not something that happens right away or happens every time. It's something that after a while you realize, I've been in enough situations that I'm like, when someone else complains to me about it, I'm like, yeah, that doesn't get under my skin. That doesn't bother me because I've learned to just let it slide. I'm not going to allow them to win. At 38, I still get wound up at stuff. You know what I mean? It's a learning experience. You just got to minimize certain things and you got to grow. If the same stuff that winds me up at 38, that winds me up at 42, we got a problem. It's self-control. Damage control. You know how wound up I would get? You know how young we were. You know how we wound up, you would get something, somebody looks at you the wrong way in the club or bumps into you. And then a couple of years later, it happens to you. You're like, yeah, whatever, probably drunk, whatever happened at the time. Who cares? Number nine, I think is super important. All of your choices you make are mainstream. You go with everybody else. You don't have an original thought. I think there's nothing worse than people not having original thoughts. Now, listen, there's so many things that have been said on the internet, so many ideas, so many things that have been learned, expressed, whatever, but you can still have original ideas about those ideas. I mentioned a lot of other podcasts on here because I consume a lot of content because I think there's a lot of good stuff out there instead of just watching the TV, television, program, they're programming you on a channel. There's a certain verbiage that goes on and you dig deeper, you understand. I try to watch original content. Even the original content, I still say that's good, that's that. I still have an idea from it. So I think if you just, yeah, let's go to Barbie movie. Everyone's going to Barbie movie. I got to see Barbie movie. You're the problem. You're the NPC. Lizzo's beautiful. Lizzo's this. She's not fat. She's beautiful. She's large and in charge. You're the problem. We all know that's unhealthy. We all know the consequences that come from being that size, the hypertension, the blood pressure, the diabetes, the blood sugar, the glucose problems. We all know that. Don't just go with the flow. It's okay to be different and say, no, that's not right. Again, I know Leo before he jumps in here is probably going to say something about COVID and he hits the nail every time around the head with it. But the same, you got to be careful step by step. Analyze and critically think before you do something. Not everything mainstream as we've come to know in the last couple of years is good or safe for you, right? And number 10 and probably the most important, ironically, is you feel powerless to have free will. And Leo, we just talked about that. What can I do? I'm not going to make a change. I'm not going to do this. I think over the years, last 30-ish years, I think the media, the government, everybody has made a pretty good attack on making people feel meaningless, hopeless, pointless existence, got people away from religion, got people away from believing, got people away from having faith and hope and aspirations. People are just like, I'm existing. This sucks. I hate it. Woe is me. I'm a victim. And here we are. Number 10, if you did number one and you learned and read a book, maybe you dabbled in some of the Bible verses, maybe you've read some of the Old Testament, maybe you've explored Buddhism or Hinduism or something else that enlightened you, we wouldn't have to be at number 10. You know what I'm saying? You would know that you're a little bit more powerful in the impact that you have in other people's lives. It's much more important than you think and you do have the power to change the people around you and you have the ability to change yourself. Jim Rohn, this is classic Jim Rohn. What separates us from all the other animals is that tomorrow, Leo, both of us can wake up and be different people. We can get a different haircut. We can dress differently. We can learn a different language. We can get different jobs. We can move into different houses, into different states, into different countries. The deer that you see crossing the street in the morning on the way to work or the bird that you see flying across the sky as you drive home or on your lunch break, that bird is going to be a bird today, tomorrow, until the day it dies. We have the ability. You could be a sanitation worker one day. You could be a teacher the next day. You could be a lawyer. You could be a police officer. You can change whenever you want to change. I think that's what's very unique. Number 10, we say people are lacking free will and don't think they have the power of free will. I think that's very strong. I think people are hamstringing themselves and pigeonholing themselves into one position, whether it be a victim, offended, whatever. That's what's unique about being a human. When Jim Rohn said that, I think that's one of the damnedest things. You can wake up at 56 years old, 70 years old, and want to change something about you, where other species on this planet cannot. I think it has a lot to do with personal fulfillment, personal gratification. You mentioned it before in this episode about NPCs being people that are unhappy. Why not be happy? Why not go after something that makes you feel good, makes others feel good? Obviously, it's something that's either not harmful to yourself or harmful to others. I would believe people have the common courtesy of doing things that are morally correct, where they're not hurting others emotionally, physically, but be that pilot to your own journey. I think exactly to your point, you can choose to change anything at any given time. You can choose to change anything at any given time. You might be listening to that and say, screw you guys. I'm not an NPC. I have an original thought. You might say, well, you know what? I don't really know much about politics. I don't really know what's going on in the world right now. I don't really know much about other people's cultures. I always thought it was interesting. I don't know. Mexicans wear sombreros and drink tequila. Italians have wine and pasta. You have the ability to go tomorrow, the very next day. You don't have to go to a library. You can watch documentaries or videos of people on YouTube, whatever, explaining their culture, what they do, and you can learn about that if that's what you want to do. You can also learn about their language. You can also learn about the geography and why certain fruits and vegetables and things are grown and why they produce them and why they're maybe unique to the region. You can learn about how to defend somebody in the court of law. You can take law classes. Harvard has free law classes online. Virginia University has free law classes online. You can change immediately. But I think that's why I mentioned before, Jim, to repeat that list of 10 things that define what the NPC was. That was a good call. It's important for people to realize that, okay, listen, we're not experts. We're not telling you what you should do, but these are the things that are being pointed out that might be depriving you of a fulfilling life. Why not try the opposite? Why not have options or think of different things, different perspectives of how to look at life? I agree. And just to wrap it up, because I'm going to put this one down the street for two weeks because we're going to be on vacation next week. If anyone ever feels like they're stuck in a rut, just try to do something different. Just little things. You know what I'm saying? Get the NPC behavior. That was a great talk. We had first player mode, people only caring about themselves and thinking they're the only ones existing at times. That's very stressful and aggravating, but to take the time out and maybe correct somebody, and I don't mean go out of your way in confrontation, but you know what I mean. You can ask a question. Nuances to, like I said, to my point, I got brought out a grocery bag that I had to get charged for. I had one item in there. Why couldn't that one small item be put in another bag? Why did I have to ask question things? You don't have to be aggressive. You don't have to come off rude. You can be polite. That's fine with all that, but what I'm saying is you can change. Tomorrow you can wake up and say, you know, those guys are right. I think I'm going to do this a little bit different. I think instead of going the same way and getting a dunk of donuts, I'm going to go a different way and get a Starbucks. I don't know. All I'm saying is we have the ability to change. We have a society that has to do it, and we're all working collectively. We all want the same thing. We all want a nice house. We all want the white picket fence. We all want security for our family. We all want to go on a nice vacation. We all want to be financially stable. If you're able to accomplish that and help other people, you are enriching other people's lives. I don't want to cut myself off, but I forgot who had said this, but if you are selfish to a degree where you want to learn or help or do whatever, you want to better yourself, when you better yourself, you can better other people around you because if you're righteous, you're going to want to help. It's going to want to help others. You're going to want to help your neighbor. You're going to want to help your sister, brother, parents, sister-in-law, mother-in-law, brother-in-law. You're going to want to help them when the time comes. What's that phrase? You can't love others properly until you love yourself correctly, something like that, right? Yeah. Along the line, you want to see other people succeed. You want to bring those people up. You know what I'm saying? What do they say? They say, hang around five successful people. I'll show you the sixth. Hang around five drug addicts. I'll show you the sixth drug addict, meaning like if you're going to spend your time with drug addicts, you'll be a drug addict. If you spend your time with millionaires, you will be the next millionaire because those people want to see you succeed. Unless you're Hunter Biden, you hang out with both groups. Yeah, I mean, you can hang out with Hunter Biden. I mean, at least no one will know where your cocaine is, but I mean, I'm done. My rant's over. I think we covered it. I got it in my system. I think that needed to be addressed because there's just too many NPCs, too many people, first player mode, NPCs, no original thought. My world is the only world that matters. Nobody else's times matters. I'm important. Me, me, me, me, me. Yeah, no, I like the list you brought up at the beginning of the episode, Jim. I think it gives an insight to just a type of human that exists in society because we have different types of people that live in society. It's not just NPCs. We have those that are the tip of the spear when it comes to producers. We have those that are a little lower and need leaders. We have others that are just the drag on society. It's up to you to figure out who you are in those groups, but it's great to know that not only are these different types of people being recognized, but there's also options. There's ways to get out. Luckily for us, we live in a society that we have that opportunity. If you want to move up, you can. Right. Like Jim Rohn said, you can change at any second, any time, any day. I'm going to leave off with that because I think that's the most valuable thing you can learn here. You have the right and the option to be living an NPC up to this life or you might know people who have lived NPCs up to this life. You can change tomorrow. You can be a leader tomorrow. You can be a follower tomorrow. You can go like someone else's content or you can create your own content. You can live someone else's dream or you can live your own dream. These are the nuances that are in life and you've got to make your own choices. It doesn't mean that it's a bad thing if you're following others. We're not discouraging that. We're saying find the right people to follow because you need to have people you can follow. You need to have the right people around. You need to have the right people to be your leader in order to become the person you want to be. I'm not going to my butcher and asking how to invest $10,000. Maybe my butcher is making a lot of money and knows how to invest $10,000 but he's probably not. I'll go ask him what a good cut of meat is or how if I was going to fillet something and likewise if I go to my financial advisor, I'm not going to ask him what kind of cut I should get at the butcher shop or what kind of car I should get. People specialize in different things. Two things can be true at the same time but make sure you're following and learning from the right people. Like we said, you can change at any time. Hopefully you take this as a call to action and you challenge yourself. You say, you know what, I haven't picked up in a book in a year, two years, three years. I've always wanted to study Spanish. I've always wanted to study Cantonese or Mandarin or Italian or French. It's just like I want to go somewhere. I've always wanted to go to Kentucky. I wanted to go see Florida. I wanted to go to Texas. Do it. Change. Do something. Have something else to say. Have some other experience. That's where we're going to leave off. That's kind of like a challenge. Do something different. If you see somebody doing something, call them out. Do something. You don't have to be rude. We're not telling you to be confrontational but at the same time, this NPC behavior, this bullying behavior, this groupthink behavior has to stop. Don't be afraid to be outside the box. Don't be afraid to be the weirdo. Don't be afraid to be on your own island. We talked about islands before but in this case, don't be afraid to be out there because there's other people there on the island. You can go find them. We're on that island. So that's it. Sum it up, handsome. Let's get out of here, Leo. We'll thank everybody and then we're off next week but I think as the NPCs go, I think everyone gets a gist and I think everybody knows a good example or two in their own lives of NPC. Yeah. No, it's definitely an acronym that we have all become very comfortable and used to nowadays, the NPC, and it's definitely something that's great for us to talk about and make sure we are aware of ourselves. It's good as an adult in society to know, am I really headed in the right direction? Am I really producing anything for myself, my family, my family's name for society or am I just someone who's following along, bumping along? Non-playable character. No original thoughts. So I think it was a great idea to bring this up in today's episode, Jim. I hope you have a wonderful trip with your family and enjoy your vacation. Get some much-needed rest and relaxation and I'll see you again on next episode, Jim. Awesome, awesome. Thank you. I will. It's going to be just a little short one but any time getting away and just enjoying the outdoors is good. So I want to thank everybody once again. We've had probably 300 new subscribers, followers on the Instagram page in the last week or two which is fantastic. I put up a story thanking everybody. The support is outrageous. It's awesome. The comments we've been getting, the feedback, I love it. So keep doing it, everybody. Where can they follow us, Jim? So thanks for asking. I don't know if you want to call Twitter or X anymore but you can follow us at SavingOurSociety on Twitter or X. Take the G off on SavingOurSociety. Instagram, SavingOurSociety. Right there you'll find our link tree, our newest podcast. Download them, like, share, subscribe, do what you guys got to do. Thank you all for joining us for another episode. This is Jim talking for Leo. We're on our way out. Thank you guys very much. Have a great night and take care. We'll see you around next time. See you in two weeks.