Podbit · Call Her Daddy
Wilde thought the Harry Styles/Chris Pine spitting video was a private absurdity. Then the world went insane. She kept reassuring herself each scandal was small and unnoticed — until Tom Cruise walked up at a party and told her unprompted: 'Fucked up, what happened to you in Vegas.' Nobody is unnoticed.
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Wilde delivers one of her most clarifying arguments: co-parenting done well can produce better, more present parenting than a fractured cohabitation. Each parent gives their best during their time; children receive the undivided best of both parents. She urges anyone going through separation to hear this rather than fear it [1] — Olivia Wilde "Co-parenting can produce better parenting: Wilde argues that sharing custody can actually make you a better parent because each parent is f…" 1:08:16 . The conversation pivots to the film's ambiguous final moments — Wilde conducts a live audience poll at every screening and has noticed that women overwhelmingly believe the couple does not reconcile. Her theory: women, when they finally decide to leave, have already run the deliberation through their 'committee' and are done. Men sometimes still waver. Despite all of this — the marriages, the breakups, the public humiliations — Wilde insists she is still a sucker for romance. She just thinks you need to be a whole person first.
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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