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Vittorio's Guide to Parenting audience skews heavily female — not because they're targeting women, but because goofy, silly, unguarded male chat is a thing many women don't get from their friend groups. The Basement Yard sold out Madison Square Garden with a 90% female crowd.
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The manosphere question comes up directly: Vittorio admits Chris is closer to it than he is, but doesn't think he's guilty of the really problematic stuff. Chris describes being 'ideologically spit-roasted' — called a feminist shill by manosphere accounts and a right-wing misogynist by left-wing media, sometimes in the same week. [1] — Vittorio Angelone "TV producers asked Vittorio if he worried his audience might include incels or Tate-adjacent men. His answer: that's exactly the audience h…" 1:36:20 When the Louis Theroux documentary aired, the main Twitter conversation wasn't about the documentary — it was about Chris platforming Theroux. Vittorio notes that TV producers have asked him whether he worries his audience might drift toward Andrew Tate. His answer: that's the audience he wants to reach first. If he and Mike get there before Tate does, those young men are less likely to become radicalised. Someone has to talk to young men — abandoning that space doesn't make the space safer.
The Basement Yard podcast sold out Madison Square Garden, with 90% of the audience being women — Apple Watches alerted listeners to unsafe noise levels.
TV producers asked Vittorio if he worried his audience might include incels or Tate-adjacent men. His answer: that's exactly the audience he wants. If he and Mike reach them first with openness and silliness, those men are less likely to end up radicalised.
Erin Brockovich describes data center expansion as 'a full-on assault' hitting communities across water, electricity, noise, air pollution, and land loss. She calls it the biggest bipartisan conversation she's seen in her 30-year career — and warns that tech companies didn't see the coming backlash.
Demanding an emergency fund balance on a first date is the wrong approach. What you're really looking for is someone with character, maturity, and a direction — not a perfect financial snapshot. You can build a budget in 20 minutes; you can't build character that fast.
The fear of not being financially ready to have children is almost always a failure to run the real budget. On $110K a year, you can afford a child. What you can't afford is the fantasy nursery, the bigger car, and staying home on one income without a plan.
You've already said enough. The enabling, the financial dysfunction, the fear it'll land in your lap — if you can't say yes with full confidence, the answer is no. Tell Mom to rent a cheap one-bedroom, sell her house, and buy a condo near the grandkids instead.
Bobby watching a father hold his baby triggered an existential moment: he and Andrew might be missing fatherhood. They priced out adoption ($40K–$70K private, $0–$2K foster care) and briefly considered adopting a child to timeshare like a condo.
In 1950, 60% of the world lived in extreme poverty. Today it's roughly 1 in 10. Capitalism and economic growth did that — nothing else has ever worked at scale. The challenge now isn't generating enough wealth; it's building the political will to distribute it.
The manosphere begins with genuinely useful advice — get fit, be ambitious, find a partner. But it rapidly devolves into dominance, misogyny, and crypto university grifts. The most famous manosphere figures are running $50-a-month Ponzi schemes, exploiting the very loneliness they pretend to cure.
Throughout human history, only 40% of men have ever reproduced. Romantic success has never been guaranteed — it has always required effort, self-development, and resilience. The incel movement's core lie is telling men they're owed something that no man has ever been owed.
The most common word Scott Galloway has heard in his life is no. That's not a failure — it's the mechanism through which great yeses are earned. For shy young men, the path forward is simple: approach people, accept rejection, repeat. Resilience to discomfort is the only real competitive advantage.
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