Episode 046: Loneliness TED - Part Sex

In Loneliness TED Series Part 6, Jeremiah Gunn concludes his exploration of loneliness by examining its deeper roots in modern culture, family breakdown, faith, and personal responsibility. He argues that loneliness is not simply the absence of people, but the painful feeling of being unseen, misunderstood, and disconnected in an increasingly fragmented world.

This episode tackles big questions about the role of institutions—government, schools, churches, and families—in either contributing to or healing the loneliness epidemic. Jeremiah reflects on how cultural shifts, declining community bonds, and changing social values have impacted relationships, marriage, faith, and individual identity.

Drawing from history, philosophy, and Judeo-Christian teachings, he challenges listeners to “wake up,” seek truth, and reclaim hope through conviction, courage, and meaningful connection. He also shares candid thoughts on marriage, community, and the importance of choosing relationships wisely.

This final installment is a passionate call to resist isolation, pursue purpose, and fight for the values that build stronger families, stronger communities, and a stronger future.

In this episode:

•  Why loneliness is more than simply being alone 
•  How modern culture and institutions can deepen isolation 
•  The role of faith and churches in rebuilding connection 
•  Reflections on marriage, commitment, and choosing healthy relationships 
•  Why truth, responsibility, and hope are essential in overcoming loneliness 

A thought-provoking conclusion to the Loneliness TED series.

Transcript

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This is the Jeremiah Gun Show. Welcome. Thank you for joining the Jeremiah Gun Show. We're broadcasting from behind enemy lines. This is uh this is TSN. This is TSN, the Common Sense Network, part of the ISI network. You will learn what that means someday, but we're broadcasting behind enemy lines in the middle of the civil war that never ended. We're broadcasting to the resistance. I'm telling you, you can't say I didn't warn you. You can't say we didn't warn you. You can say a lot of different things, but that ain't one of them. So anyway, the loneliness, loneliness. We defined it. This is uh loneliness, Ted. Part sex. I hope it's the last in this series, but uh loneliness is very important. It's an epidemic. It's destroying the country. It destroyed families, children, churches, government, states, the world by extension. So we remember our definition. Loneliness is not the absence of people. New York City, LA, Frisco, they're the loneliest places on earth, and the densest, most densely populated. Um, Japan's having an issue. Tokyo was always the most densely populated city, et cetera. Uh Japan's having a big problem. They don't have the replacement rate. Remember they used to always say 2.5 kids, 2.3 kids, something like that. I guess you got you got three car seats and one of them just has an arm and a leg in it. But 2.3 kids, that's the replacement rate, meaning the civilization's gonna die. They're gonna disappear. But but you know, Japan has a lot of problems with loneliness. They're coming up with some creative solutions where like you can like rent a family, uh, but they're trying to pair people up. It sounds kind of kind of nice, kind of compassionate. They're trying to have all these people living alone, dying alone, and they're trying to pair people up with them. Not social workers, but uh somebody that, yeah, artificial family. Artificial intelligence might as well have artificial family since we destroyed the real ones. You know, I saw this program's dedicated to Charlie Kirk, by the way. God bless Charlie Kirk. If you don't know who he was and you don't know what he meant, then I don't think you know enough to know what's gonna happen, what is happening all around you. Um, you know, uh the greatest teacher in wisdom literature in the Judeo-Christian wisdom literature that pretty much everybody acknowledges was the greatest teacher, uh, said he said that um you know you you are are you're you're going to um well you're gonna pay a price for what you do. You can't say, oh, I didn't know. You know? The truth. The truth will make you free. What's the opposite of the truth? It's sitting and listening to Beelzebub, father of all lies, the Lord of the flies. That's what Beelzebub means. You know, we're not gonna get too crazy on that, but just a thought. So this is uh loneliness, Ted. Part F hive, F the Hive, forget the hive. You know, we we want you to you know, I I started to see this as I was raising kids, started to see them go to the government education media attainment complex that is a whorley-owned subsidiary of the Democrat Party, and vice versa. And I said, you know, what are they teaching these kids? I think it was Socrates, could have been Aristotle, don't matter, but one of them said, what you teach to children, you do to society. And I started to see this wave of what are they telling these kids? Oh, the world's gonna end from global warming. I mean, no, the coming ice age, I mean global warming, I mean climate change or whatever it, whatever it needs to be called in order to keep the money going. Remember that was the thing on Watergate, follow the money. But don't follow it on Climate Gate. That was a great book I read, Climate Gate, written by an expert meteorologist. Just fascinating. Can't find it. You have to go down 19 pages on the search engine. Saw this thing on the news last night about, or whatever it was, uh they they came out and found out that I and I'm gonna get the names wrong, but it doesn't matter. Uh Google, Wikipedia, whatever the other one is, Facebook, I don't I don't know, whatever Yahoo, whatever the search engines are. Maybe, maybe it was Yahoo, but nobody uses Yahoo anyway anymore, but whatever. But anyway, they were all like they only have 2% of uh of their references are for conservatives. One of them was one percent, one of them was three percent. I mean, we we we know this, but does anybody care? That's what John Adams, we opened up with the the definition of loneliness. It's not it's not that uh there's not people around. It's that people uh you you don't you don't feel that anybody understands you, anybody gets it. So so they started to play these mind games on little kids, you know, tell them that uh don't do drugs. Why? Oh, you won't live your best life. Well, uh you know, the the country sucks. It's a racist, misogynistic patriarchy. Uh I'm not gonna be able to get a job. Uh uh the world's gonna end by climate. Greta Thunberg said, St. Greta said so, Al Gore said so, made a fortune by selling that lie. Um so what do I I I guess I'm gonna go to the DARE event that you're bringing bringing the police in, D-A-R-E, you know, there's don't do drugs or whatever. But what why why why shouldn't I? You know, they they take away you know G.K. Chesterton was a great, great theologian and thinker, and he said, you know, when you take away God, you don't get nothing, you get everything. You get everything. College graduates in this we we call this the neo-pagan era. It's called the post-Christian era. Um college graduates are the highest believers in things like tarot cards, astrology, psychic readings, ghosts, whatever. So, like like Grant said, this is gonna be a battle between wisdom and intelligence versus superstition and emotion. Mm-hmm. He knows he fought the Civil War back in the day, 160 years ago, and saw the Democrats win and keep it going till today. So you got these kids, you give them you you're offering them two hands, no hope, and uh try to do a good job, be good. Go forth and don't multiply, but just go forth. After we've already made you miserable. There's these PDAs, uh PSAs, public service announcements, and they make these Dodgers. I play second bass for the Dodgers. Uh, you know, mental health is really important. And first five that Rob Reiner started, taking tax money from cigarettes to virtue signal that he's doing something about something and he's doing nothing. But, you know, they say that kids are subject to toxic stress within the first five years. 89.32% of kids are subject to toxic stress. So, okay, so you know, I read something about the corporate world a long time ago, just about the same time that I was watching my kids get trips laid on them by the public school system that I'm paying for, that privilege too. And I read something about corporations. They said they'll whip you like an egg white with one hand and offer you a stress seminar with the other. So, you know, in our area, which is kind of near the left coast, everything loose rolls into Southern California, said a famous architect. Um, the closer you get to water for some reason, look at a map, look at an election map. Closer you get to the Great Lakes, Seattle, Portland, that's water on the brain or something. It's this Laudida lifestyle that, you know, nobody ever has to grow up, especially California. I read an essay about, you know, you that's why you see people with a gray ponytail riding a skateboard or something. That's a good thing. Okay, but somebody theorized that the reason they don't grow up, and I know somewhere it's not a good thing, is because they didn't want to grow up and they abandon their families and go out to ride a skateboard, whatever, and that they think they're young, and their female counterparts are dressing like the young kids, you know, they're they're they're teenagers, whatever. So uh so I read this sort of essay. This guy he proposed, he he had a theory that because in it because the weather never changes, you know, if you're anywhere east of there, you're gonna have, oh, another season, fall, summer, winter, spring. I'm getting another year older. I better kind of wake up and get it together. You don't ever have to if it's ever endless summer. Interesting theory. But for whatever reason, you get close to the coast, you got these new age uh, you know, yoga yurts and and all this stuff. Chia, this, or whatever. You have a lot of new age nonsense, and we'll we'll talk about that another time, but when we talk about comparative religions, but anyway, what what so the schools started to teach yoga. They're trying to help these kids with their stress. Well, who whoever said that was their job? Why don't you quit stressing them out instead of giving them a band-aid for the stress? But you know, a lot of parents protested, I don't want them, I don't want you teaching my kids yoga. Well, it's just stretching. Well, not not really, not really. If it were just stretching, it wouldn't be as ancient Hindu religion where you find your chi and downward dog and all this stuff. You know, come on, come on, let's be honest. Can we just start by being honest? So anyway, if you weren't stressing the kids out and making them grow up before their time, and making them have no faith in their country and the world, anything, you know, the main job of schools was to indoctrinate children to love their country. That's why they did the Pledge of Allegiance, and that's why they wanted the Ten Commandments posted, etc., etc. So, you know, s here here's a thought. Stop taking our money, um stop printing it, stop stealing it, show us what you're doing with it, and stop stressing our kids. We'll handle the life and philosophy and religion and the moral values. Ted Teddy Roosevelt said to educate a man without morals is to create a menace to society. So, you know, you can't wiggle your way out of that one. You might think that Trump has no morals. People that think clearly m say that Biden and Obama and Hillary have no morals. Soros, certainly. Uh so you you can't say it's not true. You can only say I I think our side. Hooray for our side. But you you're not you're not uh debunking that that true true fact. Yeah. Somebody said uh I've was it um Woody Guthrie, I've traveled all this world and I've seen a lot of men. Some will rob you with a six gun and some with a fountain pen. That same Teddy Roosevelt said, uh, a guy who didn't finish school may hold up a train, but a guy who got a college degree will steal the whole railroad. So anyway, we we kind of left off on religion. Talking about loneliness, we left off on religion. And and what you know, here religion is something we talked about Catholics on SCOTUS, you know. Oh, there shouldn't be Catholics on SCOTUS. Well, you had a Catholic uh in the Senate trying to screw up the Supreme Court as much as he could. His name was Joe Biden before the hair plugs. And uh you didn't seem to bother you then, I guess. I you know, it it should be irrelevant what their religion is. Does anybody care what uh Jumanji Jackson 5 or Keegan, who I just saw an article where she leaked? Shouldn't it shouldn't it be their qualifications for the job? Not not their gender or their race? Because look what you got. Why are we worried about whether they're well, if they're Catholic, they might so here's a guy that said, I'm a staunch Catholic. You know, when he ran for president one of the hundred times, Joe Biden said, My Catholic faith informs everything I do. Repeat the line. Then he tries to make sure that there's no Catholics on the Supreme Court because they might vote wrong on abortion. It becomes a litmus test. There's no litmus test for the Supreme Court. It the job's really not that hard. It really not. That's one of the topics we're gonna have on the show, is that we're gonna talk about the biggest problem today is people don't know what their job is. They don't know what their job is, whether that's down the street at the UPS store or or the supermarket or the police or the mayor or SCOTUS, they don't know what their job is. They don't know, they don't care. They it's what they think it is. It's what it's what their boss told them it is. No checking, no fact checking. So, you know, religions, uh, you know, the church, separation of church and state, separation of church and state, I I'll I'll give you a I would bet you $10,000 that the average person that utters that phrase has no idea what it means, where it came from, what it means. Guarantee you, that's another show. But, you know, churches are, you know, they they ought to be the ones that are solving this loneliness epidemic. And what do they do? They stratify everybody into different families. That room over there is 20 to 21 unmarried, and that's 20 to 26 married, and that's 26 to 29 unmarried. And they're almost like making sure that there's no they ought to be the greatest matchmakers ever. That's why a lot of young men are returning to religion. They think that, you know, when I when I when I first moved to this town, I would run an ad in the paper, there was no internet and said, uh, looking for a room, looking for a room to rent. I'm a Christian male. I'm looking for a Christian roommate. Because I thought at least when they screwed up, I could say, hey, I th I thought I said, I thought we said in the ad that you were a Christian. Yeah, I had something. That's all. But you know, a lot of churches are so afraid of what what their paycheck or their tax status or the number of butts in the seats to tell the truth. But but anyway, they ought to be the, instead of stratifying everybody, they ought to be the greatest matchmakers here on earth. But they're but they're not. I was just talking to a guy today. His uh son married a Christian, and and uh they're having a lot of problems. And they they can't talk about they can't talk about philosophy, religion, politics, or sex because they're on the other side. They're on the dark side. Oh, his spouse is. So, you know, covenant breaker. Didn't you didn't you say you were a Christian? But, you know, pastors won't say, they won't come out and say what Charlie Kirk said. You can't call yourself a Christian and vote Democrat. There's no way. There's no way. That's not even hard. That's not hard. This gets back to the idea of uh people to know what their job is. Well, pastors don't. So why aren't churches being these great, you know, you know, it actually says in the good book. It says in the New Testament, which is the Christian part of Judeo-Christian, it says that the older women are to teach the younger women how to love their husbands. How many seminars have you ever heard that in? You know, there's a lot about sex in the Bible. A lot. I was listening to Dennis Prager when he did a he did a show called the uh, what was it called? The male-female hour. He would always have a woman guest or a male guest, usually this woman who was an expert on relationships, and he'd have her on, and he'd talk about that. And he'd say, you know, they they'd talk about male-female hour, and he'd talk about relationships. And and uh he'd always get to a point, because he's a Judeo, not a Christian, he'd always get to a point where he couldn't tell anybody anything else about marriage. And uh he he probably should have, like he got started with a thing called religion on the line. He should have had a real Christian um minister teacher who could fill in the blanks because the New Testament does. It talks very, very specifically about religion. So um, you know, uh there was this woman named Corit Boom who was uh put in a concentration camp in Nazi Germany. She was Dutch and uh kind of like a uh what was that name? Uh uh the what was the diary, the girl, Anne Frank. It was kind of like that. She got put in there for her religious um disobedience to the uh remember the founding of her co to the to the Nazis. Remember, remember when they took over Holland? Remember the uh the the thing that you remember what they wanted on the seal of the United States of America? The United States, not the divided states. You know what they wanted? They wanted a seal showing Moses leading the children out of Egypt, and around the seal it would say disobedience to tyrants is obedience to God. There's a correlation in the New Testament about that, too. So um, but you know, look what happened in COVID, you know. So so so anyway, her her mom, I think they got busted for hiding Jews against the Nazis, the National Socialists. The National Socialists. Forget national. That's just because Hitler hated international socialists and he wanted national socialists. So that's all it's just a little modifier prefix. They were socialists. Don't say they were on hard right. No, they were hard left socialists. Oddly enough, he hated communists. Same thing. But um she they got in trouble for hiding Jews. And she was a little girl and she asked her father one day, Coryten Boom, she said, uh, how come we hide the Jews and our neighbors don't? You know, a lot of the problem in Holland was that neighbors were turning people in. Imagine that. France, all those countries that were occupied, Norway, Romania, whatever, Hungary, Austria, you turn in, you turn in your neighbor. Wow. They kind of came back during COVID. This guy was talking about in England. Uh somebody stick their head over the fence. I think it was Douglas Murray. You know, you've been outside twice already today. I'm about to call the authorities. And they do that with everything. Tampon Tim set up a hotline. He he said that you call it socialism, I call it being neighborly. Yeah, Mr. Neighborly, he set up a hotline and sent SWAT teams to like kick people back into their house. But not if you're from Somalia and you're ripping off the government to the tune of nine billion. So anyway, so Corey Tenboom said to her dad, how come we hide why are we hiding Jews, but our neighbors who go to the same church as us aren't? And he said, you know, a mouse may live in a cookie jar. That doesn't make it a cookie. Just because people go to church. So it's kind of the pastor's job to kind of sort this out and at least say this. Like, I don't want to count that your butt's in the seat. So I can have a megachurch more than I count to whether you're really there. And you're gonna build a good family, a good marriage, and be biblical in your in your life. You know, I'm not gonna come down on one side or the other. I'm just gonna come down on the side of the truth. So, you know, they they ought to be the greatest matchmakers. And, you know, the government, the Democrat government made sure that the the greatest adoption force on earth. Catholic adoption charities, they made sure they shut that down because they wouldn't uh give them, they would didn't want to get involved in same-sex adoptions and and and and and and you know when all of this stuff started over the um homosexuality and um a lot of blacks, a lot of black people are are Christian oriented, in, you know, kind of in theory and sometimes in practice. And they they said, well, they said, oh, that's a civil right. Homosexuality is a civil right. And uh a lot of blacks said at the time, don't don't make your don't make your sin my skin. It's it's really pretty degrading. It's as degrading as when um uh Jonathan Leibowitz, Stuart Leibowitz, Liebewitless, he said he he called mom dummy, you know, that's a Jewish name, Leibowitz, and he called mom dummy the uh Islamic Islamist, you know, not Islamo-Nazi. He he he called him Jackie Robinson. You don't have the right to call somebody Jackie. Jackie Robinson's family would not be very happy with that. How dare you to quote Greta Thunder. How dare you? So, you know, where do we where do we come down on this stuff of just being able to tell the truth? So, you know, we we've talked about politics, religion, and sex. The thief comes only to steal, kill, and destroy. That's what it says in the wisdom literature. Sure, sure enough, yeah, they've killed politics, religion, and and now they're killing sex. Um, let's take just a quick example, men and abortion. You know, the the awfuls were going to these pussy parades and saying, uh, you know, that word offended them so much that they they took it on. Uh figure that one out. Figure that one out. Anyway, they were saying, uh, hey, some some ones that I know were going on TikTok or Instagram or whatever it was, Facebook. Uh all of us Democrat women should withhold sex from our husbands until they vote Democrat. Well, they're probably way too late on on that kind of battle cry of withholding sex, you know, if if if any indication is any indication. But, you know, how dare, you know? I think I think what if what if men what if men withheld their seed? You know, we got a real problem with um with the fraternity, fertility rate. A real problem. Not not if we bring in a bunch of Muslims and a bunch of aliens that don't believe in America, that don't really care about it, know about it, anything. Yeah, we'll get we'll get the numbers up. Is that gonna is that gonna be good? As Dr. Phillies say, is that gonna work for you? How's that working for you? Anyway, just think about, just think for a minute about um if a baby isn't a person, what is it? There's a fantastic book called Um The Unaborted Socrates. It's by a philosopher named Peter Krieft from back east, back east. Brilliant, brilliant. It's a brilliant little tiny book where Socrates comes back and he's talks to a physician, a philosopher, and a priest or a rabbi or pastor or something. And he just kind of says, Well, it's not a baby, what is it? Is it a fish? Is it a rock? I mean, this isn't complex. But anyway, just imagine that if a man and a woman were a corporation, let's let's say they're forming a corporation, and let's call that corporation because it means body, let's call it a baby. So the man gives 50%. Hello. This used to be called science to this corporation they're forming. The woman gives 50%, but then she decides to cut out or break up or she decides to murder the baby. He doesn't have a say. He has no say. So in other words, he gives 50% to the corporation. If they drew it up as a corporation, a Nevada corporation, a Delaware corporation, they would say that, you know, he gets he gets to have at least his investment back when you split up. No? Am I missing something? He don't get nothing. She gets a hundred percent, whether she kills it or keeps it. He don't have a say. Was that ever explained to anybody, ever? By the Covenant Breakers. So that product that product of the union of this corporation is not possible without the man. So maybe men should maybe the Supreme Court should say no no man's seed can ever be used unless he retains the rights to it. Whether that's from a sperm bank or so a lesbian can have a baby or artificial insemination or whatever. Maybe since he said he has no guarantee of what's going to happen to his investment, you know, a lot of men don't want the baby killed. But the woman does, and that's it. You know, California has, I think other states do, community property. All of a sudden, you maybe you just got married yesterday, but half of your stuff is hers. Half of her stuff is yours, but that wasn't what the point of it, what it where it came from. So, you know, what's destroying civilization? You know, a lot of men, a lot of men are on the wrong side of this. There's some really, really smart guys like Scott Adams, Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock. You know, humor is the highest form of intellect, highest order of the intellect. And so they're really smart. But they take like Scott Adams, and he says, you know, Chris Rock says, you know, he should have some, he shouldn't have any say in abortion, even though he's paid for more of them than anybody else. Yeah, that's kind of sick, isn't it? Dave Chappelle, he's supposed to be a uh a Muslim, I guess. He's supposed to be Muslim. You know, drinking, smoking, cussing, talking about women. Okay. But, you know, and and Scott Adams, I'll say the same. Scott Adams is was brilliant. He was brilliant. But he said that here's my opinion on abortion. I can solve this. I can cut the baby in half right here. No pun intended. No man should ever have any say in what? In abortion. No man should ever, because he ain't the one going through it. Well, she wouldn't be the one going through it if she didn't consent. And if it was rape, what about rape and incest? Look, I I I have studied the issue of abortion intensely. It's it's it breaks my heart. One of the books was called The Silent Holocaust. So I've studied it intently. If it was rape, we'll we'll talk about that. We'll we'll do a whole show on that, okay, unfortunately. But was it rape? Or was it just you changed your mind? Or was it uh was it a regret over a drunken hookup or whatever? You better be damn serious if you're gonna throw the word rape out there. So I want control over my body. You have it. You got it. No one can take it away from you. Just don't do the thing that leads to the thing. You don't know what causes it, you're maybe you're not that smart after all. Anyway, so who these people are destroying civilization. Um, you know, a woman, if she I'm choosing career over family, you know, I I saw this little thing pop up. It's always TikTok, it's always something. Women who regret having children. You know, you didn't do enough damage already. You didn't do enough damage already, feminine feminazis. You haven't sunk the ship enough. Women who yeah, we're gonna talk about the ones who were happy about their divorce, right? And talk about, yeah, meh. We're gonna get all this stuff out here. But you know, if a woman spends too much time at the office, wasn't that always the knock on men? Well, my biggest complaint about him is he spends too he's too married to his career. But if a woman is, that's okay. Okay. Just give me a minute to catch up. It's kind of like uh Bill Burr was talking about Caitlin Jenner, who was like this macho Studley hero back in the day in our bicentennial 1976. And he goes, he comes out on a talk show in a dress. He's on the cover of Vanity Fair, and you're supposed to just go, hey, I just went to the fridge for a sandwich. What? What? There's this incredible meme. It shows Howard Costell and on one side, I think it was Superstars or maybe it was NFL. He's on one side he's got Bruce Jenner wearing that same green ABC jacket or whatever. And then he's on the other side he's got OJ Simpson. And he says, folks, I looked into the future, and you're not going to believe this S. I mean, you know, OJ's on one side, and I mean so so Bill Burr says, Don't I mean, wait, can't you give us a minute or something? We're just supposed to absorb it and keep moving. So what's the solution? We have to wake up. We have to wake up and we have to have hope. We we have two manuals for life. I don't care. You want to talk about separation church and state? You want to think that I'm Bible thumping or ramming something? No, not at all. Not not at all. I'm just arguing for tolerance. But, you know, it's it's those who believe in the Judeo-Christian values that launch this country tolerating the ones who don't believe. Even the ones like Sam Harris, who devote their whole life to arguing against something that doesn't exist. That's brilliant. That's brilliant. Think about it. Yeah, that's just brilliant. Bill Maher wakes up a little too late. You know what? Here's the deal. When you wake up too late, it's too late. Hello. If you oversleep on your job interview, especially when you were bashing the company your whole life, and then you oversleep, uh you you can't like there's no time machines. So Bill Maher is kind of waking up, but there's there's no fool like an old fool, so maybe he's avoiding that fate, but it's kind of too little too late. You've done a hell of a lot of damage. We'll talk about him sometime. And you know, my family urges me that I I should be happier about him. Okay. But you know, we we gotta You gotta wake up. So we have two manuals for life. One is the Constitution and one is the good book of the Judeo-Christian faith. It's not the uh Upanishad Bhagavad Gita, it's not it's not the Koran. That shouldn't offend anybody. It's not what it's not what we're made of. But anyway, we can take the constitution that was built upon the other one, Judeo-Christian, or we can take the other one. But but we we are obligated, both of us, believers and non-believers, are obligated to the constitution. We're all bound by that. That's the covenant. So and the the good book, our first constitution was the Mayflower Compact that informed the uh the next one. Articles of a Confederation and then a true constitution. That's it. That's our country. We don't have that. No bill of rights, no constitution. So, so I'm not trying to scare you. I'm just saying you gotta wake up. They say it's bad to wake a sleepwalker. But it, you know, it's a bad dream. It's a nightmare. Might have to wake you up. And and don't say, so so one is you can't say, well, I'm I'm not just not gonna participate. I'm not into that. Okay, well, it's into you. It's into you. They uh I'm gonna let you know they're taking my money to do things to you and me that are not constitutional, not proper, not healthy, not nothing. I just paid six bucks for gas. When it's supposed to be coming down. When it was coming down. Because our state jacked it up, anyway. You you can't like you can't say, well, yeah, I'm just not gonna get into it because I'm holier than thou. I'm I'm better than you. I'm not gonna get involved in that. So so wake up. Step one, step two, know your enemy. Know your enemy. It says in the good book, have I become your enemy because I've told you the truth? No. Yeah. What does the good book also say? Your women and your children will become your oppressors. Is that a prediction? Is that a reality? Same thing Socrates said. You could even argue that, yeah, there's people out there arguing that the whole Bible came from these other pagan and and uh um uh what's that polytheist religions like like the Greek thinkers and so on. So, yeah, your women and your children will become your oppressors. Was was that written to women and children? Or was that written to men? As a warning. And were they told in the in the New Testament, the second, the new covenant? Were they told act like men, act like men. What what was Socrates' warning? He said uh masculine republics become feminine democracies, feminine democracies become tyrannies. Good job, Socrates. Bingo, bingo, you got it. Step three, fight, fight, fight. Fight for your rights. There's all kinds of stuff in the last few decades about men's rights for divorce, for child, uh getting the children custody. This war is existential. It's a holy war. It the culture of war is a holy war. The culture of war is a holy war. You have to choose a side. Way back in the day when Moses was leading the people out of slavery and tyranny and a king. It said, he said, uh, choose this day whom you're gonna serve. Some of them were ambivalent. Well, at least we had we had onions back there. It wasn't so bad. Let's go back and be slaves. Just like Uncle Sam's plantation, let's stay on it. The Democrat Party wants everybody on the plantation. That's the difference between the Civil War. That's how it switched. There was a switch. Yes, that's how it switched. They went from having African American slaves to wanting everybody to be their slave. So stay calm, men, carry on. I'm talking to men because I can't, I can't, you know, your women and your children will become your oppressors. That was not written to women and children. Is that hard to figure out? And neither was the commandment act like men, be strong and courageous. Says it in both books. New covenant, old. So I'm talking to Judeo-Christians. I'm talking to secular people who want to know what's going to happen if this keeps going the way it's going. So, you know, fight, fight, fight. This is existential. Stay calm, carry on. Don't fall into the system. They want you to go from the school to prison pipeline. They don't care about you. Black lives don't matter. No lives matter to them. None. Except for themselves, theirselves, their own life. I want to live my life. So men, you know, if you want, if you want to get married, you know, uh, um j just remember there's this sort of a spectrum. Uh on one side, on the far right is a soulmate. In the middle is a roommate. Let's call that where the zero axis, and at the far left is a cellmate. Nobody goes into looking for a soulmate and wanting no one would be happy with either a roommate or a soulmate or a cellmate. You want a soulmate. Nobody wants a roommate, nobody wants a cellmate. So you so you're kind of like hiring. And when we hired people, they trained us. Uh don't settle. When in doubt, weed them out. Proper uh it's better to be alone than in bad company. It's better to be alone than in bad company. Unfortunately, unfortunately, it's better. Uh, you know, proper marriage is the greatest thing ever. It's the highest high. It's the highest high possible on earth. When when it when it crashes, that's why it's so devastating. That's why it's so devastating. Um, I was in a church or a Christian family camp or something one time, and somebody made a made an analogy from the front. They said, imagine if a guy walked in and said, Hey, I'm not a pilot, but I just got a friend of mine to loan me a 747 or a 737 or whatever. Let's all go to Hawaii. I'm sure it can't be that hard. I'll figure it out. Would anybody go? Would anybody go sign up and say, yeah, yeah, great, cool. Let me give me some time to pack. No one's got nobody wants to get on into that situation. So, you know, people create marriages. Uh marriage was something that was um designed by our creator to make us let me just tell you, I'm at 45 years, not four to five, forty-five. It is the greatest thing ever. Highest highs, not possible in any other situation. And and that's and that's why it's so bad when it those times when it dips and goes south. It's terrible. It's worse than not being married. So, anyway, this this guy gives us analogy. You know, marriage is a sacred thing. I was at work one day, and there was a I was sitting at this table alone, this outdoor cafe. We had this really swanky uh high-tech campus. You know, it was in the days when they were very cutting edge of making Google places out of things. Beautiful Japanese garden. So I was sitting there in this open-air cafe at lunch. And at the next table, there's three or four girls and young young ladies, and they're they're all on this one. They're they're just uh dogpiling this one and just haranguing her. You have to live together. You just have to live together before you get married. And and she's uh she's saying, Yeah, but my family, my parents would be so upset. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. They're not, they don't matter. You have to live together. And I'm going, where did this frickin' religion come from? Where did it come from? You didn't, you didn't build the society, you didn't build culture. You don't, I mean, you won't you won't even attribute where that came from. It could have come from uh somebody 10 minutes ago. I I just wanted to go over there and say, hey, don't listen to them. I almost did. I was a young, I was about their age, I was a good looking guy. Sorry, but I mean, I think they would have might have listened, or at least she might have. I mean, what are you doing? Three black sheep trying to ride this white sheep and say, oh no, no, you just have to. Why? Why? You know, my cousin, the retired, retired LAPD, moved down to the southwest. And, you know, he asked me, Well, what is it that these draw these women want a drag queen reading to their kids? Why do the drag queens want to corrupt this youth? That that's what Socrates was executed for, corrupting the youth. Why do they want to do that? I said, you know, it's an old saying. One of the problems with our age is we don't have any old sayings. I don't have any aphorisms. You know? Penny saved as a penny earned. We don't have any of these rules for living. Just don't. I mean, if it feels good, do it was the last one that came through our watch. But um, you know, I I said to him, it's real simple. Misery loves company. Misery loves company. Just like I was in a fraternity, and as one guy, he didn't want to get drunk. He knew it would disappoint his parents, and the president of the fraternity was all over him. You gotta get drunk tonight, Ted. You gotta get drunk. I said, leave him a frickin', leave him alone. He can do what he wants to do. Oh, he got totally plastered after I went to talk to some girl, and and he told me the next day how ashamed and how messed up he felt, and just how guilty and shameful, you know. Yeah, I was riding with this nutcase. I was giving him a ride one day and we saw a bumper sticker in front of him, and it said, Screw guilt. I said, Oh yeah, that that's that's great. That's what we don't have. We don't have enough shame. We don't have enough guilt. And he says, Well, my therapist says, I mean, this guy was whack. My therapist said that guilt is the cause of all of our problems. Okay. Okay. That's great, you know? So stop the insanity. Don't don't enter into a contract that you know or even think they're going to break. And you churches, you pastors, you ministers, you haven't you have a responsibility to these young lives that are starting out. Keep yourself, keep yourself clean. The the good book says men, a prostitute reduces men to a piece of bread. That's pretty good. Just a meal, you're just a meal to them. A prostitute reduces a man to a piece of bread. Don't give your strength to women. Know who you are and know whose you are. Don't settle. If all you want is a roommate, if all you really want is a roommate, think about it. Think hard. Get one that doesn't get cranky every month. No offense. Sorry, you're worth it. I if you don't give up, it's better to be alone than in bad company. I I don't know if I have time for this story, but you know, I was well, I drove the company truck one day and and the guy from LA drove it after me, and he comes walking in, and all the guys are there, and he says, Hey, the radio was set on the Jesus station. Do you believe that? Praise the Lord and all that stuff. I said, Well, I don't know what you mean by all that stuff, but yeah, and he goes, I'll bet your wife got you into that. I said, Well, no, I already believed, but I found my way. But we met at a Bible study, and he goes, That's great. He says, I I met my wife at a bar and we divorced pretty quickly. So you never know where things are going. Anyway, thank you for listening, Jeremiah Gunshow. This is Loneliness Ted, part six. Thank you for listening. And uh, I love you, and I I I just want the truth for you. I'm telling you, that's it.