Epstein Files Unsealed, $1 Trillion Saudi Deal, and the Collapse of Japan’s Economy | The Tom Bilyeu Show

Welcome back to Impact Theory with Tom Bilyeu! In this fiery episode, Tom and co-host Drew break down a whirlwind week in global politics, economics, and culture. They kick things off analyzing the passage of the Epstein Transparency Act and the political maneuvering surrounding its release, digging into why only one member voted against it and what’s really happening behind the scenes. From there, they dive into international developments, unpacking Texas Governor Abbott’s controversial decision to label the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization, Saudi Crown Prince MBS’s jaw-dropping $1 trillion investment commitment to the US, and the financial turbulence shaking Japan as the yen carry trade unwinds. The looming tensions between China and Japan get a spotlight as well, with an exploration of what’s at stake for Taiwan and global chip manufacturing. Finally, the conversation takes a turn toward culture, as Tom and Drew tackle a viral debate: do men really care about women’s careers? Tom draws from personal experience to unpack the psychology behind modern relationships and the pressures at play—and what it means for both men and women navigating today’s dating scene. Packed with hot takes, big questions, and sharp insight, this episode cuts straight to the heart of what's shaping our world right now. Let’s dive in! What's up, everybody? It's Tom Bilyeu here: If you want my help... STARTING a business:join me here at ZERO TO FOUNDER https://tombilyeu.com/zero-to-founder?utm_campaign=Podcast%20Offer&utm_source=podca[%E2%80%A6]d%20end%20of%20show&utm_content=podcast%20ad%20end%20of%20show: https://tombilyeu.com/zero-to-founder?utm_campaign=Podcast%20Offer&utm_source=podca[%E2%80%A6]d%20end%20of%20show&utm_content=podcast%20ad%20end%20of%20show https://tombilyeu.com/zero-to-founder?utm_campaign=Podcast%20Offer&utm_source=podca[%E2%80%A6]d%20end%20of%20show&utm_content=podcast%20ad%20end%20of%20show SCALING a business:see if you qualify here. https://tombilyeu.com/call: https://tombilyeu.com/call Get my battle-tested strategies and insights delivered weekly to your inbox:sign up here. https://tombilyeu.com/: https://tombilyeu.com/ ********************************************************************** If you're serious about leveling up your life, I urge you to check out my new podcast,Tom Bilyeu’s Mindset Playbook https://open.spotify.com/show/47VE90Cittmo6TGGFqg2xf —a goldmine of my most impactful episodes on mindset, business, and health. Trust me, your future self will thank you. ********************************************************************** FOLLOW TOM: Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/tombilyeu/ Tik Tok:https://www.tiktok.com/@tombilyeu?lang=en Twitter:https://twitter.com/tombilyeu YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/@TomBilyeu Linkedin: Post your job free at https://linkedin.com/impacttheory HomeServe: Help protect your home systems – and your wallet – with HomeServe against covered repairs. Plans start at just $4.99 a month at https://homeserve.com Bevel Health: 1st month FREE at https://bevel.health/impact with code IMPACT Incogni: Take your personal data back with Incogni! Use code IMPACT at the link below and get 60% off an annual plan: https://incogni.com/impact BlandAI: Call it for free today: https://bland.aiOr for enterprises, you can book a demo directly: https://bland.ai/enterprise Business Wars: Follow Business Wars on the Wondery App or wherever you get your podcasts. Connectteam: 14 day free trial at https://connecteam.cc/46GxoTFd Raycon: Go to https://buyraycon.com/impactto get up to 30% off sitewide. Cape: 33% off with code IMPACT33 at https://cape.co/impact Shopify: Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial period at https://shopify.com/impact AirDoctor: Up to $300 off with code IMPACT at https://airdoctorpro.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices https://megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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• 1:28Tom Bilyeu?

  Saudi Crown Prince MBS commits to investing $1 trillion in the US. Japan's economy continues to be on shaky ground as the yen-carry trade continues to unwind, and things are heating up between China and Japan. And do men care about women's careers? Ooh, we go deep on that one.

• 1:48Speaker 01

  The House passed the Epstein Transparency Act 427 to 1, and then almost immediately, the Senate unanimously voted for the release of the files. It's funny to me though, right? Because on the big beautiful bill or on the government shutdown, the House goes to the Senate, give us three days, we'll get back to you in a couple. It's kind of like shipping, like three to five business days, we'll sign the bill and get it then. But this thing got signed on Tuesday, went to the Senate, yep, we're good on Tuesday. It was like a conveyor belt. So now it's on the president's desk this morning, we'll see if he signs it. But it seems that everybody, this is the first uniparty unanimous vote I can think of since probably like the nine 11, like Patriot Act funding, like this has been a while, so.

• 2:29Tom Bilyeu?

  This is one of those where there is clearly a right side and a wrong side of history. That's why I think it is so wild that you had a guy vote against this. I'll be interested to see if he comes under scrutiny, but he certainly piqued my curiosity. Like, I want to know who that guy is, what he's about. So from that perspective, you also have to take into account that there's so much optics. Like, it is terrible optics to go against this, no matter how sound your reasoning. Like, at the headline level, it's bad. So in terms of getting everyone to vote for it, you kind of just have to hold your nose and see what happens because, I mean, how do you stand in opposition to this? It just doesn't seem possible.

• 3:12Speaker 01

  Copy. All right, well, let's jump into Mike Johnson's comments.

• 3:15Speaker 02

  Any reaction to Leader Thune, you seeing the bill without adding amendments or changing it?

• 3:19Speaker 03

  I am, um, I'm deeply disappointed in this outcome. I think, um, I'm told, I've been at the state dinner, I don't know. I was just told that Chuck Schumer rushed it to the floor and put it out there preemptively. It needed amendments. I just spoke to the president about that, we'll see what happens.

• 3:35Speaker 02

  So is he, do you think he may veto it? You say you spoke to the president?

• 3:38Speaker 03

  I'm not saying that.

• 3:39Speaker 02

  Is he supportive of it in its current form?

• 3:43Tom Bilyeu?

  Pause it for a second. So, super random, side note. I think the best way to view this is as a basketball player walking into the stadium. Like, once you understand politicians are playing a game, it attracts a certain personality type, people that have been survivorship bias, right? So all the people that weren't quite good at all the different elements of the game, they sort of fall off. And then you get these people that are like the NBA players of positioning, spin, lying, networking, care about governance, like it's a whole mixed bag. It's not just bad things. But like, the more that I try to map, okay, how is a politician going to respond to XYZ thing?

• 4:28Tom Bilyeu?

  Uh, if I try to map by morals, I'm completely baffled every time. Or at least they certainly don't share my morals. If I map according to what's the winning play in terms of public sentiment? Not even the long term, like you're gonna look good in this way. Cause if you go with even the long term historical, I wanna be in the right side of the, you know, I wanna be in the right side of this issue, that won't map. It's what is the short term perception of the long term tale of this thing? That you'll find, okay, yeah, people will change, they'll flip flop, they will um say one thing, do another.

• 5:09Tom Bilyeu?

  They will like Trump, be a hundred percent against releasing of a hundred percent for releasing files, then a hundred percent against releasing files, then back to a hundred percent for releasing the files. And all of that maps when you go, okay, what's the politically expedient thing? And so thinking of them as athletes for me reveals this is a game. This is people training, this is behind the scenes. I don't want you to see the plays I'm gonna call. Uh, I'm gonna try to like trick you um to get in the end zone. But getting in the end zone is all that matters. Gain and retain power, gain and retain power. And like that loop, you're blackpilling me. I don't know if you know how much, and I am sort of joking because uh, you didn't force me to write deep dives, but you did put your finger on something that was obvious and had to be tried. And it just ended up smashing.

• 5:54Tom Bilyeu?

  But every time I sit down to write one of these, I'm really trying to find, okay, my goal is to figure out like the one coming out on Mondays about gutting the IRS. So I'm like, was it good, was it bad? Democrats end up hyperfunding the IRS, right? Sounds like great idea, get all those tax dollars that you can. Then you look at the math and you're like, there's nothing here, nothing here. It's like 200 billion over 10 years were the estimates. That's nothing.

• 6:20Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 6:21Tom Bilyeu?

  What's happening right now? How, why are we even talking about this? So you then got the IRS and you put tariffs in this place. Anything there? More than what they're doing. It's instead of 200 billion every 10 years. It's 200 billion a year. And I get why people want to be excited about that. Even that, not going to close the gap.

• 6:40Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 6:40Tom Bilyeu?

  So it's like, you start writing this stuff and you're like, okay, then what is the solution? And you just get really dark into like, all right, everybody fend for yourselves. Getting the public to do the right thing seems impossible.

• 6:56Speaker 01

  Once Trump signs the bill, it's not like these files then get posted on X. There's still another layer of kind of, I'm gonna call it government secrecy that does have to pass through. So even though Johnson seems a little bit bullish on it or bearish on it, Trump doesn't like it in its current form. They still have a way.

• 7:14Tom Bilyeu?

  Supposedly. Trump has seemingly said just, yeah, whatever, give them everything.

• 7:18Speaker 01

  Yeah. Do you think that they are going to try to kind of do a little bit of that positioning before they just release it?

• 7:24Tom Bilyeu?

  A thousand percent.

• 7:25Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 7:25Tom Bilyeu?

  And I think that they will hide behind the fact that this is a national security threat. And so all those things that you see redacted, that's just all national security.

• 7:37Tom Bilyeu?

  Now Epstein's brother, Mark Epstein, is saying, and we should pull that clip up, is saying that right now Republicans are scrubbing Republican names. And they're gonna, I don't know if he's the one that said, under the guise of national security, but it seems self-evident to me that that's precisely the argument that they will use when we get a whole bunch of redactions. This is Jeffrey Epstein's brother.

• 8:03Speaker 01

  Mm-hmm.

• 8:04Speaker 04

  The reason they're going to be releasing these things and the reason for the flip is that they're sanitizing these files. There's a facility in Winchester, Virginia, where they're scrubbing the files to take Republican names out of there. That's what I was told by a pretty good source.

• 8:20Speaker 01

  They are sanitizing the files. Can you partisan your way out of this though? Cause I feel like there's certain things like, yes, money printing. Yes, uh, benefits for SNAP. Yes, healthcare for illegal aliens. But I feel like you can't partisan your way out of like, they're all the PDFs. Where there was no PDFs over here, it's just you got.

• 8:39Tom Bilyeu?

  They will partisan everything. Government is a game of spin. So yeah, of course they will. Of course they will.

• 8:49Speaker 01

  And the spin has started. Donald Trump Jr. tweeted, so a convicted sex offender who trafficked kids get invited to a private dinner with Obama and a meeting with Jeffries five years after being released, but it's somehow still all about Trump. The Epstein saga is a hoax regarding Trump, but not the Democrats who he funded and enabled him.

• 9:06Tom Bilyeu?

  There, there's your partisanship. There it is. On our side, bro, it's just coincidence that he's hanging out with him. What do you mean? On the other side though, it's clearly that's wrongdoing. Yeah, get, uh, get used to this, but oh man. So how do you parse through this? As an individual, this gets relatively simple, but as the masses, this is the game. The masses is a game of confidence. So I'm reading 1929, very good book. Uh, I really hope we can get him on the show. And one of the things that you see, so in my head, the way that the, um, Wall Street crash of 1929 happened was like, it was a day. It crashed, people jumped, commit suicide, uh, game over.

• 9:50Tom Bilyeu?

  We know that afternoon, oh, we're in a great depression.

• 9:54Speaker 01

  That's the Black Monday one, 1929. Got it, okay.

• 9:57Tom Bilyeu?

  And, uh, it's not how it works. And what happens is like, there's a bunch of like smaller crashes and there's a really big crash. And then for a year, people are like, no, no, no. Bullish. It's coming back right around the corner. It's gonna pop again. And then it's not for a year that people are finally like, oh shit, I guess this is really a problem. So people cannot tell what's happening in real time. That is the problem. Like people get confused, there's all these competing narratives. And ultimately it's, it really is just a game of confidence. If if they could have in 1929 gotten people to believe everything is going to be fine, everything would have been finer. There are still math behind the scenes.

• 10:40Tom Bilyeu?

  But what really exacerbates the problem is everybody goes, oh, I need to save my money, which you do. But in saving your money, you exacerbate the problem. It's it's like anxiety. Like, once you start feeling anxious, you pay attention to how anxious you are. You get anxious about being anxious, and that spirals the anxiety. And so it's when I first started dealing with anxiety, I was really annoyed by the fact that if I'm not thinking about it, I'm never anxious. It's only once I start thinking about it, then I get anxious. And I'm like, that's dumb. We're hitting pause for a moment. There's plenty more ahead, so don't go anywhere.

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• 13:48Tom Bilyeu?

  Thanks for staying tuned. Now let's get back to it. But that's exactly how confidence in the markets work. And that's why it's banger line, this idea that a market can absorb anything but a lack of confidence.

• 14:02Speaker 01

  All right, let's jump over to the White House now where Trump hosted the Saudi Crown Prince yesterday, who decided to increase his investment in the US to $1 trillion. That doesn't even sound like a real number anymore.

• 14:15Speaker 02

  Thank you very much.

• 14:16Tom Bilyeu?

  Well, thank you, Mr. President. In fact, pause it for a sec. Sorry, you just said something that I was thinking about that this morning.

• 14:24Tom Bilyeu?

  I don't even know what the number is after a trillion.

• 14:28Tom Bilyeu?

  And we're already at 38 trillion. It does not take long to get to 1,000 trillion, which is a new number that I don't even know what the fuck it's called. That's wild. All right, sorry.

• 14:39Speaker 05

  ...for about nine decades and we've been working together for a long time. But today it's a very important time in our history because there is also a lot of things that we're working on in the future. We believe in the future of America. We believe in what you're doing, Mr. President, really creating a lot of good things, a good foundation to create more economical growth, more business in America. And it will also your work for the world peace. I believe, Mr. President, today and tomorrow, we're going to announce that we are going to increase that 600 billion to almost 1 trillion dollar of investment, real investment and real opportunity by details in many areas.

• 15:21Speaker 05

  And the agreement that we are signing today in many areas in technology, AI, in materials, magnet, etc., that will create a lot of investment.

• 15:32Speaker 04

  So you are doing that now. You're saying to me now that the 600 billion will be 1 trillion?

• 15:38Speaker 05

  Definitely, because what we are signing to facilitate that.

• 15:40Tom Bilyeu?

  Pause it for a sec. Drew, this is a race to the midterms. This is a race to the midterms because he's really getting people to commit a lot of money. All of them, they're way too smart to not. All of them will have some sort of get out of jail free clause if they don't like the next administration or if Trump becomes a lame duck. So they're going to be just like all the caveats in the universe. But if he can get some of this stuff going by the midterms, oh my God. But he is going to have to focus relentlessly on jobs for the middle and working class, jobs for the middle and working class. If he pulls that off, oh my God.

• 16:25Tom Bilyeu?

  And we really do have a race. I'm shocked at people's read on my read of Mom Donnie. Socialism is on the rise dramatically and he represents that. So you've got this like battle to either return to our capitalistic roots to become China or to become socialist in a non-Chinese way. And I can walk through the difference if people care, but that is the like thing that's happening right now. And it matters a lot. And it all has to start bearing fruit by the midterms.

• 17:04Speaker 01

  Are you saying that it's it's a race between true, let's call it true capitalism, state sponsored capitalism and then socialism?

• 17:11Tom Bilyeu?

  Yes.

• 17:12Speaker 01

  Got it. Okay.

• 17:13Tom Bilyeu?

  Trump wants state sponsored capitalism. Tom wants actual capitalism, huh, which might be the dark horse. And then obviously the young want the young and especially foreign born want socialism. And I'm I am going to, whether we do a deep dive about it or not, I am now hell bent to learn about Venezuela. It's terrifying. It's terrifying. I did what I call a hook storm in the deep dive on Venezuela. And I was like, I cannot believe these numbers are true.

• 17:52Speaker 01

  Hmm.

• 17:52Tom Bilyeu?

  In in the eighties, the Bolivar, the now completely worthless Bolivar, was worth more than the US dollar. Americans were leaving America to go live in Venezuela for economic opportunity. And now?

• 18:10Speaker 01

  Wow.

• 18:10Tom Bilyeu?

  Now it is an absolute shit show because guess what they did, Drew? They nationalized their largest and most successful industry. And then they put out in like the eighties, eighties or nineties, they put out a thousand price restrictions. Sound familiar? Rent freezes, grocery store, buses, shit like that. And created shortages and everything, basically immediately. And then the country just over like 25 years just completely imploded. It's so wild. And even though that happened, like the real implosion happened in like the 2010s.

• 18:50Speaker 01

  Mm hmm.

• 18:50Tom Bilyeu?

  That's yesterday. People are still voting for the same policies.

• 18:56Tom Bilyeu?

  That, that, that one is where I'm like, hold on, I'm in the matrix, I'm the only non-MPC.

• 19:04Tom Bilyeu?

  And this is just like meant to fuck with me or something.

• 19:07Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 19:08Tom Bilyeu?

  I mean, this is crazy.

• 19:09Speaker 01

  People are struggling, especially in the middle class. And while Trump is, the economy is great. Everybody's giving the US money. People still can't buy houses. Grocery prices are still high. Eggs aren't thirteen dollars anymore, but gas still isn't two ninety-nine. Like, there's still certain things that are pulling strings on the economy, housing being the biggest one.

• 19:29Speaker 01

  And while we are advocating for push on a national level, federal level, I think at the state and local levels, we can do a lot more, whether it's regulation, rollbacks with housing, so we can build more houses or something. But I'm curious to see how Trump walks that line between I'm doing all these deals that makes the US a good investment, but how is that quote unquote trickling down to the people who are actually going to be voting for him, the people who actually have to go inside that booth?

• 19:59Tom Bilyeu?

  Look, he's really trying to bring back a ton of manufacturing. If he does that, then there's going to be a lot more jobs for the working class. That would be a huge win.

• 20:09Tom Bilyeu?

  Tariffs are never going to cover the shortfall, but they're certainly an interesting play in that it is a tax. And it will cause a little bit of inflation, which, given that you're in the situation where you ironically need some brakes on all the bubbles that are forming in the stock market, but you can't change the interest rate. So you like have to throw sand in the gears somehow. It's really, it's really fascinating. I think it's too little, too late, but it is. He's trying things. Now, that one, obviously I credit to Besen. But. It'll be interesting to see if it, if he can cash any of these checks before the midterms.

• 20:53Tom Bilyeu?

  Because if he can slow the growth in the stock market without causing a depression, you're already in a stealth recession. But if he can slow that down without putting us into a depression, if he can bring back manufacturing jobs so that the working class have jobs, if he can deregulate housing, and by the way, a big part of when I say that the working class has jobs, they also have negotiating power. So they can get their real wages up. That would be huge. And then we have to find some way to sensibly handle

• 21:33Tom Bilyeu?

  the rapid robotification of the very jobs that we're just starting to bring some back.

• 21:39Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 21:39Tom Bilyeu?

  So we'll have to see how that plays out. That has one of those countervailing economic forces. We'll see. We'll see. But if he can get things, if he doesn't get things moving by the midterms, it's game over.

• 21:51Speaker 01

  Uh, do you think that's why he's pushing for those $2,000 tariff checks?

• 21:54Tom Bilyeu?

  Yes.

• 21:55Speaker 01

  Literally just trying to buy some.

• 21:57Tom Bilyeu?

  It's a bribe, man. But here's the thing, if you're going to insist on printing money,

• 22:03Tom Bilyeu?

  better to put it in the hands of the people and let them do what they're gonna do. But the bad news is they're just gonna speculate, so it'll create bubbles. It's not like people run out and buy groceries with the stimulus checks. We know from COVID, they go buy stocks, Bitcoin, meme coins, because it's liquidity. So this is why, shout out to Ralph Paul, longtime friend of the show, amazing guy. Uh, he talks about liquidity is all you need to pay attention to. And if you do stimulus checks like that, you flood the system with liquidity. Now, liquidity always chases a return. And so people, but the problem is it's, oh gosh, you're putting money in the hands, rightly, yes, more, love.

• 22:45Tom Bilyeu?

  I'm just saying, because you have not also educated them, you create a knock on effect, which is they YOLO into GameStop. Now, I know you made some duckets off GameStop, but ooh, not where I want to see people put that money.

• 22:57Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 22:58Tom Bilyeu?

  Um, so, uh, now, how will society read that starting January 1st, people get a quote unquote Trump account when they're born? So if you've got a baby, cross your legs hard, because that baby, if it comes out January 1st or later, uh, it gets a Trump account. And I'm a big believer in what that could become.

• 23:21Speaker 01

  According to Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, he just designated the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist and transnational criminal organization.

• 23:32Speaker 01

  This bans them from buying or acquiring land in Texas and authorizes the Attorney General to sue to shut them down. I understand the fear of foreigners taking over America. I understand the fear of the way that Israel took over Palestine, that other countries will take over America. Making them a foreign terrorist seems like a line to me that's a bit aggressive. How do you feel about that line?

• 23:56Tom Bilyeu?

  I don't know enough about the Muslim Brotherhood to know if that's like the most out of pocket shit ever, or if I should be clapping. I have no idea. So yeah, to your point, should they be designated a terrorist organization? I do not know enough to comment on that. So what I do know enough to comment on is countries need to protect their values. So if the Muslim Brotherhood presents a threat to our values, you need to do something. It may not be designating them as a terrorist organization. That really may be out of pocket, but yeah, you have to do something aggressive.

• 24:35Speaker 01

  And we had this conversation when we were bringing up Dearborn, Michigan, which was kind of the home of all the old power plants before they got exported to Mexico and Canada. There is something for the place where cheap land is. That's where the foreigners will go. They'll hunker down, they'll commerce amongst themselves, they'll kind of build up their own prosperity. We have to take accountability, I feel like in America to say, we can't outport jobs, we can't export jobs, we can't not feed into communities. Then when communities get desolate and cheap and rundown, another migrant group comes in, buys up that land, builds it up, and then becomes a voting majority in there. And then say, wait, wait, wait, you guys aren't allowed to take that over.

• 25:19Speaker 01

  It seems like the government has left it, put a for sale sign on it and turned their back on it. And they just, they thought maybe other Americans were going to buy it. I don't know what happened. What, there has to be some accountability on that side, right? We can't get mad that other people are taking advantage of our cheap land overlooked towns when we're not taking advantage of our cheap land and overlooked towns.

• 25:38Tom Bilyeu?

  So I'll take a different approach to that. And I will say that your obligation is to make sure that the people that you're inviting into your country, share your values and they assimilate. If you did dumb things and you let people inside your country, now you have a bigger problem because now you need to, whatever you do, you need to be doing as a policy. So that if you're willing to put a policy that affects everybody, born here, not born here, great, then yeah, I'm all for doing it at the level of policy. But the real beef that I have is that we have not paid attention to our values. We have not inculcated our children with what I'll call American values.

• 26:22Tom Bilyeu?

  We have not paid attention to the demographic of teachers that have such a huge impact on our children. Like, none of that has been conscious at the national level. So therein lies the problem. We are, we have a very distressing number of people in America that hate America. And so I have a very big problem with that. And I would say it's an all hands on deck. You don't become an authoritarian dictatorship to combat that problem. That to me is you're just, you're becoming the monster that you're fighting against. But yeah, you do need to, for instance, you've got to secure the border. Yay, we did that. But will Trump be, will the Republican Party be in power in another three years? It's not looking good right now.

• 27:07Tom Bilyeu?

  So will the borders just swing back open? Very possible. So there I'm like, oh, like you've definitely got some worry to do along those lines. We don't care about assimilation. We have a bizarre narrative forming where we're like, but wait, we're all immigrants. And it's like, okay, hold on. When, back when we were immigrants, it was you had a nation where if you sent somebody over here, they were like 80% likely to die in their first year. So that's very different than a government that's like

• 27:43Tom Bilyeu?

  crippled by debt. Huge entitlements, huge entitlements. And now you're a target for people to come in and use your sort of open mindedness against you.

• 28:00Tom Bilyeu?

  We're acting as if we don't have a culture now. We've had a culture for 150 years. So all of that stuff is just completely disingenuous, in my opinion. And so now it's like, well, if you don't care what America looks like in 50 years, yeah, well, then fling the borders open, let anybody in. Don't worry about assimilation and just do your thing and it'll become what it becomes. And if it shatters into a bunch of smaller ethnically divided sort of mini nations, then it is what it is. That's not my vision. My vision is I like the United States of America. I want all 50 states to still be all 50 states. I want the federalist system that I grew up with. All of that is lovely and I think is worth defending.

• 28:46Tom Bilyeu?

  I want freedoms. I see them eroding all around the world, including aggressively in Western Europe, which is crazy to me. So yeah, I think that that is worth fighting for. And I can tell that we're going to get sucked deeply into this as a culture in the coming five to 10 years. It is going to play out horrifically across Europe because they are now waking up to what it means to have people in your country that don't believe in your country. And it ain't going to be good. We're hitting pause for a moment. There's plenty more ahead, so don't go anywhere.

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• 30:31Tom Bilyeu?

  Thanks for staying tuned. Now, let's get back to it.

• 30:33Speaker 01

  Let's go to Japan. Japan is in a very precarious situation. On one side, they are under crippling debt. I would say they're probably the most first country debt written nation. They're probably leading the way that way. And then on the other side, China is now kind of breathing down their necks. But starting with the debt of it all, we talked about this briefly a couple of months ago, about the Japanese yen carry trade and how money was cheap in Japan. They were able to lend it, rates were near zero. It was basically you get yen, you can then invest it in other places, make your profit, pay it back in yen. You're basically paying 0 to 1% interest rates on that. Interest rates are now picking up on these things.

• 31:16Speaker 01

  Now that's breaking the global markets and Japan is one of the... Now Japan is having to pay its own debts off. So now it's selling some of its foreign investment. And Japan is one of the biggest investors in America. And that's how it's kind of impacting us. That was a bit of a speed run. Let me know if there was any holes on that. And what is the second order consequences of this? Because it does seem like Japan is now hunkering down, trying to fight inflation in their own internal prospects. Now they can't do as much foreign investment anymore.

• 31:45Tom Bilyeu?

  Yeah, so the second and third order consequences is that what you were just describing is known as the yen carry trade. People borrowed very cheap money, invested largely in American assets. The American assets paid more interest than they paid interest to carry the yen. And so they got to keep the spread. And for decades, like 40 years, yen stayed really low, very cheap. And now it's finally beginning to rise. And Japan is trying to pull itself out of a crisis-led deflationary spiral.

• 32:25Tom Bilyeu?

  Crisis-led deflation, bad. Innovation-led deflation, good. So they're in a crisis-led deflationary spiral. They're trying to print so much money that they actually get inflation, that it overcomes people's tendency to save. And so now they're like pumping, pumping, pumping money into the economy, but that's going to have effects in terms of the bonds. To be honest, I am shocked that it's not impacting the shorter-term bonds, but so far it's not, at least not nearly as much. So right now, the Japanese government isn't in sort of any increased crisis. I think people are freaking out, and I'll get to what they're freaking out about in a second. They're freaking out for Japan when Japan isn't who you have to worry about right now.

• 33:08Tom Bilyeu?

  Right now, what you have to worry about is the yen-carry trade. Now, the reason that the yen-carry trade becomes problematic is as the interest rates go up, because people are saying, well, wait a second. There's so much liquidity in the system. You're gonna have to pay me more money if you want me to put my money into your long, long, long-tail bond. And so to get people to put money into that 40-year bond, then now the rate is going up. And so now people are like, well, hold on a second. That might have been exactly how I was doing my yen-carry trade,

• 33:48Tom Bilyeu?

  was to put it way out on the 40-year time horizon to get that super-low rate. And now people are realizing I'm gonna have to sell some of my American assets to go pay off my yen. And so the yen is actually getting stronger as well. So now you've got a currency problem where you're like, oh, I could be in a position where the value of the yen starts skyrocketing against the dollar. And so even just the, yes, I can still sell for dollars, and the dollars are looking great, but the dollar-to-yen currency exchange not looking great, and I'm super in trouble. And so it's pulling liquidity out of the US system and sending it basically back to Japan.

• 34:30Tom Bilyeu?

  And so if people are no longer able to get that sort of fake cheap Money out of Japan, where's it going to come from? And anywhere else that tries to run this, people are going to be a little bit skeptical. Like if Zimbabwe was like, hey, we've got really low rates as well. People are like, yeah, but you also hyperinflate your currency. So that's going to be tough to replicate. And so that could create a sucking sound out of the public markets here in the US. To the tune of like, it's less than 10%, I think, for the most part. When you start looking at how many people are running the trade, but somewhere call it 15% and less. Still could be very, very problematic. Is it going to be a cataclysm?

• 35:15Tom Bilyeu?

  No, but it's going to, one, your system is so fragile. Anything like this could end up having a contagion effect. And that would be problematic in and of itself. Japan will be fine still for a while. Watch the rates, they're climbing steeply. And if it starts affecting the short term, because I think they refinance most of their debt in nine years or less. So if it starts impacting that duration, then Japan would be in trouble. Because then their interest rates will go up and you'll get the exact problem we have, which is fiscal dominance. Where you can't raise or lower the rates anymore. Because if you raise the rates, the debt becomes unbearable. If you lower the rates, you re-flood the system with liquidity and you get the bubbles forming everywhere. This honestly, okay, this is like, I'm now out of my depth.

• 35:59Tom Bilyeu?

  Nobody should, this is like one of those, hey, just run intellectual models with the following information. It's possible that the yen carry trade starts sucking some of the inflation out of our own stock market. Would actually, wouldn't be terrible. If it did it in a slow way, that's probably better than, it is better than a rupture. Like if something bursts and you reprice rapidly, that's way worse than this happening slowly over the next, say, 24 months. Where people get a chance to calmly reposition. That's a much better scenario. And that seems to be more how it's playing out. It's growing steeply, but only at the real, real tail end of the curve, uh, tail end of the duration. So hopefully this gets people to react now.

• 36:48Tom Bilyeu?

  And that we'll see more and more people start unwinding these in a more orderly fashion.

• 36:51Speaker 01

  Yeah, the OG poster is saying that the exposure is upwards of 20 trillion dollars. So it's one of those things where it might not hit immediately on one country or another, but it's one of those things if this person starts selling and that person starts selling and you can kind of see that.

• 37:08Tom Bilyeu?

  Yeah, it's massive. The good news is that's global.

• 37:12Speaker 01

  Yeah, globally.

• 37:12Tom Bilyeu?

  Now, the bad news is we're a very globally interconnected economy. So it's one of those the contagion could just like whipsaw around. One of the things I didn't realize is in reading about the crash in 1929, a lot of the American crash was because the Europeans were struggling so much that now there's fewer people buying your assets here in the US. And so there is like the, just how do all the different countries interrelate? It gets very complex, very fast.

• 37:44Speaker 01

  And then on the flip side of that, Japan is now warning citizens to avoid China as Beijing escalates retaliation. This is from Mario Narofol. It seems that the political tensions are starting to kind of heighten up in there. China is also cautioning students studying Japan about heightened risk. China accounts for 27% of Japan's inbound tourism and hosts 37% of the country's international students. So Japanese firms are pulling back investments. Chinese firms are facing trade restrictions. It seems that these are tensioning and all this came from the Japanese PM saying that if China were to attack Taiwan, that would be an existential threat for Japan and they would have to respond.

• 38:27Speaker 01

  It seems to me that just by saying that China's reaction makes it feel like they were planning on doing that. I don't know if they're planning on doing it this year or next year. I don't know what the timeline was, but it seems like they were planning on, they're eyeing Taiwan a lot more than we might think.

• 38:43Tom Bilyeu?

  Xi has spoken openly about reunifying with Taiwan. Someone needs to fact check me on this, but I believe he said, "I will reunify with Taiwan by 2027."

• 38:56Tom Bilyeu?

  Bro, that's like right around the corner. So um eh like it's a big deal. Now, I didn't realize that Japan was so sensitive to Taiwan. I knew we were sensitive to Taiwan because so much of our chip manufacturing is from Taiwan, but I did not realize that Japan had this kind of beef. Now China, as I've said several times here on the show, China absolutely hates Japan because they had real beef in like in and around World War II. And yeah, uh China has a long ass memory and they really uh are gonna be quick to react to anything that Japan says. So this this will be one to watch. Yeah.

• 39:41Speaker 01

  Yeah, we've had ongoing conflicts in Russia and Ukraine, and that seems to be the litmus test that everybody thought like, okay, seeing how that China's paying attention to how the world reacts to that because if Russia ends up winning, but okay, you can't just take more territory now in 2025. Okay, bet, let's do it.

• 39:55Tom Bilyeu?

  Yeah, well, so um the most interesting argument that I've heard from Andrew Bustamante around what's gonna actually happen with China and Taiwan is that they'll deal with it the way that they dealt with Hong Kong, that first it will be administrative because right now Taiwan is actually divided. So I don't know if it's exactly 50 50, but they have a uh I think a president that is pro the US and they have or pro independence, I should say. And then they have a Congress that is pro reunification with China. It's either that or flipped. And I didn't realize that they were divided like that. I didn't realize that some people wanted to reunify

• 40:36Tom Bilyeu?

  with China. And the fascinating thing is knowing the history. So um Chiang Kai-shek, I believe, was the name of the guy that founded Taiwan. He was fighting with uh Mao over

• 40:49Tom Bilyeu?

  What ends up becoming the People's Republic of China? And so they're colliding, huge civil war, is the Communist Party going to win or not? And the Communist Party ends up just thrashing Chiang Kai-shek. And so he flees with his army to Taiwan, thinking, all right, we're going to regroup for a minute. Then we're going to come back and we're going to retake China. And then it just never happens. So given that, I was like, wait, so the idea of people in Taiwan wanting to reunify with China would be a bit like if the, I mean, to be, I guess this is revealing my bias.

• 41:27Tom Bilyeu?

  But if you think of it as if the North and the South in our civil war fought and the North ended up fleeing and the South won and they run all of America. And then the North is like, actually slavery is not that bad. So we want to reunify with you guys. I'd be like, whoa, I did not see that one coming. If the South were saying, actually, no, we are gonna like, take the little bit of the North that they still remain in. And the North is like, yeah, yes, please. I'd be like, whoa, wait a second. What, what were you guys fighting for ideologically then the first time? So I don't know if just enough time has gone by that they're looking at China and how miraculous China's last 40 years have been. And they're like, we want some of that.

• 42:09Tom Bilyeu?

  And they think that it's going to keep going on and personal liberties are a small sacrifice. I don't know. I don't know enough about Taiwanese politics to know what they're thinking. But that one really shocked me, man. That one really shocked me. And look, I think I can just very credibly be accused. I have a Western mindset, a Western lens. I look at China and I see something I don't want. But that doesn't mean that the Chinese people aren't loving it. So it could be that. And maybe many people in Taiwan are like, no, bro, I don't have a fucking American mindset. Get out of here. I'm way more closely aligned with China. I want a strong government. I don't want the separation. But woo, like for me, I'm just like, yo, that is like a turkey voting for Thanksgiving. I'm just like, I don't understand what is happening here.

• 42:52Speaker 01

  When I first heard this situation, I thought it was similar to like the Puerto Rico, where we just need strategic bases in that region. Where we have a bunch of bases in Japan, Taiwan being quote unquote neutral will at least help us get closer to China if we need to. North Korea, who knows what they're up to. So I felt like that's what this came down to. Taiwan having a little bit of break, America kinda separated them just to kinda say, okay, now we can have a presence there need be. We have Japan where I think that's like our second or third most military bases outside of America. So it's like we have these strategic strongholds in that region. Is there something else there other than like men playing political animal? Us just trying to get as many pieces on the risk board as possible?

• 43:35Tom Bilyeu?

  Like, why does the US care?

• 43:37Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 43:37Tom Bilyeu?

  About Taiwan or Japan?

• 43:39Speaker 01

  About Taiwan, yeah.

• 43:40Tom Bilyeu?

  Taiwan largely for us is the, they control the chips. That would be the most problematic part. Uh, it just influences so much of our modern way of life. We have got to rush to be able to manufacture these in the US. At some point, either China's gonna diplomatically pressure Taiwan because right now we cut off Taiwan from sending chips to China. So you can imagine that China at some point either, and look, it's very possible that they've already had the breakthrough that they need and they're gonna be building their own chips and they just don't care anymore. But if they do, you could see them diplomatically pressuring Taiwan to stop sending them to us. And so this is where you really don't want that to play out.

• 44:22Tom Bilyeu?

  And then militarily, if they're like, no, no, no, we will do an amphibious invasion or whatever. And we're just going to strong arm Taiwan back into the fold. Then obviously at that point, you're at real risk. Now China may say, listen, US, play nice and we'll keep sending you chips. But um, I don't wanna put myself in that position. So we need to get independent from that very, very quickly. But yes, so from having alliances in the region hugely important for us. We've been a um, a unipole power now for a long ass time since like the late eighties, early nineties. So this is just, again, it's Thucydides' trap. This is just a very bitter pill to swallow for somebody that's used to being a hegemonic power,

• 45:07Tom Bilyeu?

  suddenly having to share the stage. And having them go, you're going to get out of our region altogether militarily, everything. And that certainly puts you in a much weaker position. So yeah, that we don't want to see that happen. We don't want to see an ounce of our influence be diminished. We don't want to see our military have to be removed. We don't want any trade changes. Like, we want to control the terms of everything. And that has been declining now for decades with China.

• 45:38Speaker 01

  All right, listen, in the culture, there's been a lot of things happening. First, there's this super viral tweet about men and their career and their care. So, men do not care about careers, ladies. I'm sorry, they just don't.

• 45:51Tom Bilyeu?

  About your careers.

• 45:53Speaker 01

  About your career, ladies. I'm sorry, they just don't. They will date a waitress at Applebee's over a corporate exec if they treat them right and make their lives easier.

• 46:00Tom Bilyeu?

  I think this is one of those that like goes viral every so often. Because yes, this is so self-evidently true that I don't even understand. Like, who's confused? Are guys confused by that? Women confused by that? So, yeah, like, the, and this is one of those times I so wish my wife was either here in the feed. The most tumultuous time that my wife and I went through, from my perspective, it wasn't for her, but from my perspective, was when she decided she wanted to be an entrepreneur. And I was like, whoa, I have to like completely remap like my thinking about our relationship and how we're together and like what this means. So, yeah, if she thought I was gonna be like, oh, my God, this is amazing. Being married to an entrepreneur is the best.

• 46:43Tom Bilyeu?

  It was like, that was a wild miscalculation on her part. Now, I ended up realizing, I want my wife to live a life that she feels fulfilled and she loves and she's excited. And I want her to become the woman that she wants to become. But we 100% had to navigate, like, well, hold on, because there are things that I expect from a wife. And if I'm not getting them, then I'm not going to be satisfied in my marriage. So, we've got to map out like how we get. Both of us in a position where we're both happy because marriages are huge compromises. And if we're not getting the things that we want. So here's a PSA for women and I get how distressing this is. But the number one thing that you are valued for are your looks. They are signs of fertility.

• 47:25Tom Bilyeu?

  And if you don't understand that there is a gigantic algorithm running in a man's brain for that, life is gonna be a never ending string of confusion. Once you understand that, then it's like, okay, got it. So I'm gonna have maximum social power when I'm young. That's just the way that this goes. Assuming that I'm beautiful and PS if you're not, and then you remain unbeautiful and you're old. Like that's really a double whammy. Uh, but there certainly are other things like looking after somebody, being nurturing, taking care of. Like those are hugely valued aspect from men to women. So if you think of it from, we're gonna come together as a unit to survive a very harsh environment

• 48:07Tom Bilyeu?

  where we have to raise children together, then you'll get, okay, we're gonna divvy up these tasks. Now, I think men and women are equal, but they are valued for very different things. And this is just an acknowledgement of that. A guy is not attracted to a woman who can garner resources. And in fact, that might be a collision for him because the higher the bar the woman sets for, you need to out earn me, which will just be the standard dynamic. In fact, here's a stat that ought to freak you out. In a marriage, if a woman starts making more money than the man, the use of erectile dysfunction medication triples.

• 48:50Speaker 01

  He can't get it up.

• 48:50Tom Bilyeu?

  That's one of those where I'm like, ladies, I need you to hear that again. He cannot get an erection because you make more money than him.

• 49:00Tom Bilyeu?

  That's real. So, uh, brace yourselves. Men need to feel powerful. They need to feel that they are doing the thing. They need to feel that they are providing and taking care of you. And that this has become so clouded in our modern discourse. I, I weep for people because I'm like, dude, life is, if you've got a moral framework that says life shouldn't be that way, but you constantly encounter that life is that way. One, it's just constantly triggering. And two, it will be a never ending cavalcade of confusion. You're just gonna be like, what, what is going on? I, I make all this money. I've got this big, beautiful house and I can't find anyone to date me. And I want to be like, you would have a way easier time finding someone to date you if you

• 49:45Tom Bilyeu?

  had a terrible apartment and he felt like inviting you back to his just nice apartment was like making you happy and excited, uh, that you were making no money. So when he buys you like, uh, uh, you know, I used to think that Red Lobster was like the fanciest restaurant in the world, that he takes you to Red Lobster and you're like, oh my God, like I'm eating wonderfully. Like, that gives him the ability to feel the way he wants to feel without having to be in the top 1%. So by you, like, a woman who is tall, wealthy, extremely intelligent, ambitious, you're a fucking nightmare. That is not what guys are looking for. Because now they have

• 50:28Tom Bilyeu?

  to be even taller, even more ambitious, even more successful, making even more money in order to impress you. And so their level of anxiety is going to be through the roof because they're like, am I really going to be able to find somebody? Is she really going to stay with me? Is she always looking over my shoulder at the next person? And then to make it worse, like, all the like psychotic things that have happened to culture now with dating apps and stuff where women are like the three sixes or whatever, like, it's just, oh my God. Yeah.

• 50:58Speaker 01

  So anyway, is that one of the things where it's? It comes down to the man wants to feel impressive, like he wants to feel like he can impress his woman.

• 51:07Tom Bilyeu?

  Yes, of course.

• 51:08Speaker 01

  That's the, that's the, because it seems like that's the common thread of all this, is that?

• 51:11Tom Bilyeu?

  Nature has hardwired a man to be judged by his ability to provide access to more resources than she would otherwise have. So if she's already got, I mean, just think of the height thing. If you're a six foot woman and you will only date guys that are taller than you, or guys will only date women shorter than them. It's like, well, you just wildly narrowed your field and theirs. So that's tough. Now, it is what it is. Tall women should not be embarrassed. They should be as tall as they can be, like do your thing. But if you want to know if you just narrowed your dating pool, yes, dramatically, dramatically.

• 51:51Speaker 01

  I don't know, because I'm conflicted in this, because like, yes, I get that. But that's also under the assumption that there's going to be like this great reckoning where there's just going to be a bunch of 50 year old cat ladies who are like, oh snap.

• 52:02Tom Bilyeu?

  There's going to be a great reckoning. There, there are already, dude, the number of videos you can find where women are crying because they're like hitting 40 and they never had kids and they never found a man. And all of a sudden they're turning invisible because men, uh, you can look at a graph, this has been studied many times. Look at a graph, what age do women find attractive? It's two years above them and two years below them, no matter how old they are. So if they're 50, they find 52 year olds down to 48 year olds attractive. What age does a man find attractive? No matter what age he is, the answer is 22. So a guy could be 75, he finds a 22 year old attractive. He could be 16, he finds a 22 year old attractive. So it just isn't true for women. So, um, already, like, that's just a bitter pill to swallow.

• 52:46Tom Bilyeu?

  Women, when you're young, you feel like your youth is going to last forever and you're the one person that's escaped the curse. And then all of a sudden you realize that 40 year old guy is making a ton of money. He's dating a 26 year old. And you're fucked. And now you could date a six year old, but you, you are going to struggle.

• 53:04Speaker 01

  These are, these are the two graphs. So this is the, a woman's age, this is the age of the man who looks best to her. And how it kind of, so if she's 22, 23, and then once she's 50, a 46 year old.

• 53:14Tom Bilyeu?

  Uh huh.

• 53:14Speaker 01

  And then when you go to men, it's 20, 20, 21, 22, 25.

• 53:18Tom Bilyeu?

  Just straight, straight cliff.

• 53:21Speaker 01

  That's funny. All right. Well, it's going to be a rude awakening then.

• 53:24Tom Bilyeu?

  Uh, yeah. So this is why I say you're having a biological experience. Don't try to run from that. Try to understand what that means. Try to map your life out based on that. I mean, listen, here's the really uncomfortable thing that uh, if anybody wants to clip me maliciously, I'm about to give you some gold here. Uh, that women of old used to teach their daughters. You get a man when you're young and beautiful. And then you start having children and now you guys are connected forever. And that's the play. Watch Titanic. This is what the whole uh, theme of that setup is. Is that the mom is like, I'm broke. You're young and beautiful. You need to marry this rich, successful guy.

• 54:08Tom Bilyeu?

  And then the whole family is set up forever. You've got to do it now while you're young. So that you can get a high caliber man. And that just, it is what it is. And then of course, the young guy who has nothing, it's such a modern story. But back then that would have been like, gasp, everybody clutches their pearls like, what are you doing? You're gonna throw your whole life away on like this good for nothing guy? Like if you want to fall in love, fall in love with somebody rich, don't fall in love with some fucking hobo kid. Like that's wild. So that's nature.

• 54:44Speaker 01

  The plot of materialist.

• 54:47Tom Bilyeu?

  It's the plot of reality because remember we were hardwired on the savanna where if a guy could go out and get a kill. If he could collect more wood for the winter, whatever, you were actually more likely to survive. If your guy was a better hunter, better fighter, then when the village got raided, you were less likely to get carried off and raped. Like there were real consequences. And so those, just because in the world, those consequences don't really exist anymore. Doesn't mean that we don't still have the algorithms running in our brain. And so there's this wild mismatch. It's why people eat Oreos. It's like Oreos taste good because from an evolutionary perspective, if you found something that was sweet and salty at the same time.

• 55:27Tom Bilyeu?

  You better eat as much of that as you can because oh buddy, it's got everything you need to survive the winter. So you would shove that stuff in your face as fast as you could. And now when you can just go to the grocery store and get as much of it as you want. You turn into a 600 pound person that is fusing to the fabric of your couch. Now, we are not evolutionarily wired for the level of abundance. So we have these mixed matched cues, but we still have them. And so if you don't realize that you have them, and so you just go, I'm hungry. Therefore, I'm going to eat instead of going, maybe I'm bored, maybe I'm stressed. And I have to have rules in my life because I understand I'm having a biological experience. And that leads somewhere bad.

• 56:09Tom Bilyeu?

  Then you're, you're going to be an absolute mess because you are not mapping what is real to your behavior. And so this is where I'm just like, I'm, I really am sad. Young people already have it bad because they are just getting bombarded with socially retarded messaging. Where it's like, girl, you don't need no man, like,

• 56:32Tom Bilyeu?

  good luck with that. We are meant to pair bond. And so that's a big part of this. And we're living in an age where people think getting, finding somebody later and later in life is better. And I didn't really think about this for a long time. I just happened to meet the woman of my dreams when I was 24. So I didn't think about how lucky I got because I did not intentionally seek somebody out when I was young. If anything at the time, I would have had the exact opposite thought. No, no, no, I don't want to get married right now. So, um, that's where I'm like, oh, we should probably have cultural messaging around. Yeah, you do want to get married when you're young. In fact, we should have cultural messaging around. You want to get married when you're young. You want to pair bond. You want to be in a committed relationship.

• 57:17Tom Bilyeu?

  You want to grow together. You want to shape each other.

• 57:22Tom Bilyeu?

  I'm never going to tell people that they ought to have kids, but from an algorithm standpoint, you really need to look at that because not having kids can be amazing. My wife and I absolutely love not having kids. But it's not the path that nature wants us to walk. And so we have to be very cognizant of that.

• 57:42Speaker 01

  Infinite Amp said 30% of men get ED by 40 years old. Stop lying to women.

• 57:45Tom Bilyeu?

  30% of men get what?

• 57:46Speaker 01

  ED by 40 years old.

• 57:48Tom Bilyeu?

  Erectile dysfunction. Got it, got it.

• 57:50Speaker 01

  Stop lying to women because you can't get it out.

• 57:51Tom Bilyeu?

  Hold on, well, easy there, chief. I'm not struggling in that department. Okay, well, here's what I would say to that. If, if you can see in the data that everything is fine, fine, fine, fine, fine. Woman starts making more money and then the rate triples. You could say, no, Tom, listen, that's correlation. It's, it's just mapped to age. Maybe that's worth looking at the data to see because this certainly is partly a. Erectile dysfunction is a sign of early heart disease. Now, I will say, uh, once women understand that men want to feel powerful, I think they will have a much better understanding of sex and what turns a man on. Um, so you can ignore that and think that I'm lying to women, but they will be very confused about what turns their man on.

• 58:36Tom Bilyeu?

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