All right. Good morning, everybody. It is the 15th of October, 2020, 23. Still feels like science fiction,

but hey, sometimes it feels like science fiction just

to be alive, to be breathing, to be north of the dirt nap. Hello, hello, and you know what?

It's a chat show. It's a call and show. It's a voice thing. So if you have questions, comments,

issues, challenges, criticisms, massive praise for my armpit hair braiding. I am all ears.

So just have to raise your hand and request to talk. It shall be grantez. It shall be grantez to you.

And I have I have topics, of course, in case you all aren't feeling super chatty, but

let's see. Go for it, my friend. Just unmute. I'm all ears.

Hey, Steph, I'd like to ask you a question about men growing up without fathers. And if that

has any obvious connections to them, taking less responsibility in life.

Is that the question? I can certainly riff on that, but if there's more that you wanted to flesh

out, I'm happy to hear. I'm hoping for vocal rants, but so far, this is the question.

Okay, so it's not so much that children grow up without fathers. I mean, yes, of course,

it produces irresponsibility. It's very hard to do better than your parents, right? I mean,

this is why there's war. This is why there are these cultural conflicts. This is why child

abuse continues. It's really hard to do better than your parents. It feels like breaking the

sound barrier with your head exploding in your nerves, extending like golem reaching for a ring.

So it's hard to do better than your parents. And so if you grew up without a father,

clearly a massive amount of irresponsibility has been going on. And either your mother chose

a bad guy, an irresponsible guy, in which case she's responsible for her choice, and it was an

irresponsible choice, or your dad chose a bad woman, in which case he's irresponsible.

I mean, what is responsibility other than the deferral of gratification? That's all that

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