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The Deprogram

Episode 226 - Cost of living crisis

The Deprogram

JT, Hakim, and Yugopnik

Education

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2026

⏱️ 84 minutes

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0:00.0

What is your latest grievance? Actually, I never ask you this. What is the latest grievance in your life, J.T?

0:05.4

The latest grievance in my life. The constant grievance in my life is my children. I have two kids and no money.

0:13.5

Yeah, exactly right. Well, I can't have no kids and two money. That's a...

0:18.0

I should the fuck have... Oh, my God. I can't take credit for that. I have a... I have a... I should the fuck have... Oh, my goodness.

0:21.7

I can't take credit for that. I have a... I have a, what's it called? A colleague of mine at work, and he has, I think, three very young children, like, back-to-back, young children. And he works, like, he's a doctor's... Well, his wife happens to be a gynaecologist who does not like where she

0:39.4

works and she works further away and all that kind of stuff um and he just tells me about how it is

0:44.0

having kids and he tells me about like oh you know when they're like throw up in the car and they

0:49.4

do i'm just like what the fuck yeah he shit themselves they throw up in the car every day you wake up you're like how are they

0:56.5

going to inconvenience me today like what fresh horrors will they visit upon my household it's yeah

1:01.2

he shared something with me he's like yeah you know but you're showing way too late to have kids i'm

1:05.3

like my guy i don't need your fucking breeder propaganda at this moment i'm joking course. It's lovely to have children and if you'll have

1:12.6

God wills and what not, then maybe we'll have children of our own, so on, so forth but that's for the future. But he was telling me about, I was like, oh yeah, he's like, he's in his mid-30s, he's not an old guy. Yeah, but he's like, yeah, you know, like just a couple years ago, I wouldn't have had the energy.

1:26.6

Like, you need to bend down to tie their shoes.

1:29.1

I'm like, yeah, you know, like just a couple years ago, I wouldn't have had the energy. Like, you need to bend down to tie their shoes.

1:29.1

I'm like, excuse me, you're supposed to be able to do that.

1:33.7

No, you start falling apart real quick.

1:36.7

It's not good.

1:38.0

It's like your biological imperative has been fulfilled and you can just fade away like can just fade away like the, uh, the ghosts in

1:45.2

Lord of the Rings. I love it. There's just a slow decline, the reduction in bone density.

1:50.7

Yeah. I hold your oath fulfilled and you just like disappear. A wisp. I love it. But yeah,

1:57.3

have you felt such? Do you think that that's uh the fucking sign yeah i'm tired

2:05.5

i'm um i love the kids it's very cool to watch them um grow and learn and all that stuff

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