 So in looking it turns out that the biggest news story right now the biggest news story in America right now and over the last few days I've been avoiding it because it's kind of stupid but it is it's big and I think I actually think it says a lot about the culture and the world in which we live and that is the cage fight. You know Elon has you know has challenged Zuckerberg to a fight Zuckerberg has accepted and they are supposedly going to engage in a physical I guess no rules whatever cage fight with you know sometime sometime not not not clear exactly when and how it's going to proceed. Elon Musk's mother is trying to cancel it is trying to dissuade the parties from doing it but Elon and Zuck keep doubling up on it and he keep recommitting to actually doing it right and no this you know everybody's talking about it yeah it's a joke really is it a joke um not clear at all it's a joke um it's uh we'll see it hopefully it's a joke I think it would be great if it was a joke but but no I mean this is headlines everywhere uh Lex you know the both Zuckerberg and I guess um uh uh Elon Musk have been training with uh with uh uh Lex Friedman who is a jiu-jitsu I guess Zuckerberg is jiu-jitsu uh Elon Musk is just big and strong that I guess is the is the idea of this battle but these guys seem serious they seem like they want to do it and indeed both of them you know take this this idea of fighting it out seriously it appears that way um and it's just and everybody's excited about it everybody thinks this is fantastic everybody thinks this is uh you know this is this is wonderful and it's it has to do with I mean this is really a an indication of where we are in the culture right I mean the reality is that um you know what we needed it was not so much a documentary on what is a woman it's kind of self-evident and obvious in the context of the way the documentary was done what we really need is a is is some real thought and what is a man and what is masculinity and and because the real problem in our culture much more than with women the real problem in our culture is not women it's men it's on the one hand the wimpy nature of man and the other part of it is this false sense of in order to counter the wimpy nature we need to come you know we need to come buff and we need to be able to fight um supposedly this all started because Zuckerberg is launching in a a competitor to twitter they can have a facebook twitter thing as if twitter is not complicated enough as if twitter doesn't have enough features there already they can add a twitter-like feature to compete with uh with uh with uh to compete with twitter uh I guess in London like that there was exchange of words and there was a challenge to fight and they are talking about fighting Dana White uh is suggested hosting it now I hope it's all a joke certainly the media is not taking it as a joke there are you know significant articles all over the place about this um and it's and it fits kind of the new persona that Elon Musk has really brought since he took over twitter uh it kind of a tough guy CEO um takes no bs uh you know fires whoever needs to be fired uh and and and talks everything up talks talks talks and uh says whatever comes to his mind a bit of a caveman mentality Jennifer's right and it seems like that is spreading throughout Silicon Valley everybody's kind of competing and saying oh if Elon can do this maybe I should too maybe I can't too I need to be a man after all I need to stand up and and and do stuff so you're getting you're getting more and more of this and I think this is really is a a question of kind of the crisis of manhood and what does manhood represent and these guys just being rich just being smart just being amazing amazing creators of value is somehow not enough it's somehow you know they they have to it has to manifest as something visceral and and and and physical because we live in a culture where sadly we don't associate masculinity with value creation wealth creation great business achievements I mean I wish we did I wish we did so it's um I hope it doesn't happen it's pathetic it's ridiculous uh it's it's an expression of weakness it's an expression of a lack of manliness uh to fight for no reason is stupid um and uh to to to degrade every issue one has to a physical confrontation confrontation is again weakness weakness it's a diversion for everybody else but what is it for them and to do this in public is just like they're begging for attention as if they don't have enough what's the point thank you for listening or watching the Iran book show if you'd like to support the show we make it as easy as possible for you to trade with me you get value from listening you get value from watching show your appreciation you can do that by going to iranbrookshow.com slash support by going to patreon subscribe star locals and just making a appropriate contribution uh on any one of those uh any one of those channels also if you'd like to see the iran book show grow please consider sharing our content and of course subscribe press that little bell button right down there on youtube so that you get an announcement when we go live and for you those of you who already subscribers and those of you who already supporters of the show thank you i very much appreciate it