Name: Polygamy Has Had a Bigger Impact on Culture Than We Realize
Uploaded: 2025-02-14T19:00:58.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Polygamy Has Had a Bigger Impact on Culture Than We Realize' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-02-14. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Polygamy Has Had a Bigger Impact on Culture Than We Realize' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-02-14. Transcript available.

i think i've heard you say that you want to have kids at some point oh yeah i
would like to have
some kids man i started this campaign uh it's called 2020 wife that means like
2025 but it's
like the this is this is the year i get a wife oh this is i see so that is i
thought you meant you
were going to get 25 wives oh no now look i'd be willing to have more than one
wife but we would
need a change in the law for that fear hey i could be a dual citizen you'd have
to be a dual citizen
with i think afghanistan okay maybe iran i'm willing i could do it man you'd
also have to
convert to islam oh really well how long does christianity doesn't doesn't look
kindly on
multiple wives can you do can you convert to islam online or not bring that up
i'm not the right person to ask that how to convert to islam oh good and there's
a 1 800 number
there is scroll up scroll down hey oh it's an 866 number damn that's great does
that mean you have
to pay for it i'm sure they hit you with something man converting it is on this
very easy process and
can be done online in privacy okay if now that makes it sound very suspect the
fact that it has to be
just tell someone right oh yeah no one can know yeah yeah if it sounds like
somebody is recruiting i think
a better route for you if i can offer some advice yeah it is isn't is to just
have one wife i think
that there's that stood the test of time as a way of doing things right no
actually i i look i should
be very recent time i think most human societies have been polygamous have
actually had really yeah it's
like 95 of known human societies have been polygamous and almost always i don't
i'll get the word wrong
it's polygamous i think which means men are allowed to have multiple wives but
not the other way around
wow right very rare to find the other way around and which is one of the
reasons why i don't this is
a fact that like blew my mind i'm going to try on you okay see what you think
um we have twice as many
female ancestors as male ancestors okay twice as many ancestors and an ancestor
means what across
human history right an ancestor means somebody that existed yeah so twice as
many females existed as
men there are twice as many women in human history as there are men twice as
many the modern yes modern
humans have approximately twice as many female ancestors as male ancestors this
is due to a number of
i love the fact that you're checking everything i say this makes me feel much
more confident about
saying it because then you're gonna check yeah good because we yeah we're
trying to do a little bit
better job that's one of my goals this year is just to have a better um because
sometimes i just assume
everything is true right and a lot of this stuff is just helpful information
but i don't understand
though right so how can you have twice as many females so you're just saying
that two-thirds of the
people that have ever existed have been female yeah wow but that i guess it
makes sense because
you know there's mother earth right so obviously she's gonna want more kind of
babes around hanging
out on her and then you're gonna have like there's gonna be um and females are
the producers they have
like a they have the womb and they're the makers they're like the recipe they're
the chefs so you need
like more you know life is about creation so i think it makes sense that you're
gonna have more women around
probably right does that make any sense you think no okay um i just i just
think women are the ones
who like keep things together sure so i think you're gonna need more of that
probably to keep the world
functioning okay oh i actually the idea do you know why they have more though
yeah oh sorry jesus no i like
you were guessing i don't i mean i don't hate your idea as a certain like the
idea that mother earth like
wants more mothers around that's i think it's kind of beautiful idea yeah i
think it checks out to me
why aren't we googling this that's a good question i mean who wants a bunch of
dudes loitering around
anyway someone's gonna call the police every time i may i say something you
have this guy googling it
right whereas you say stuff yeah google his stuff like there you go right there
look at that lady right
there like are there more women because mother earth wants likes women better
oh for sure oh she's
obviously gonna have a probably so like definitely i don't know maybe mother
earth is very jealous and
she doesn't want women around could be the other way around yeah it could be
like wouldn't mother earth
want lots of men that's what i would think too if she was straight but men are
just men are just they're
just loitering around they're jerking off in the parking lot or whatever you
don't want that i don't think
that's a that's not what you want you want some babes around i think can i give
you an alternative
theory yeah why which is that um you because you societies uh being polygamous
right you don't need
that many men oh yeah uh in order to have a lot of children it's like the nba
it's like nba players
kind of thing what do you mean like a lot of those guys have who has the most
kids in the nba
bring that up wow they get some why are they nba players well known for having
lots of children
i think they're promiscuous type of you know so it's like calvin murphy there
we go 14 children
so i'm just saying yeah these guys can definitely where you see on tinder as
well you see on these apps
this um it's kind of like a winner takes all type thing and yeah that's the
guys at the top that's
what scott galloway was saying that like the top one percent of men right
whatever the numbers but
what's interesting about that is like that's human that's basically human
history i actually showed
that tinder data to an evolutionary psychologist only studies that whole
history of humanity and he's
like yeah that just looks like human history to me which is high status men
mating with multiple women
and therefore we are kind of reproduced but 50 of men across human history didn't
didn't have kids at all they didn't reproduce now what that meant was there's
all kinds of
implications for that like one is first of all um i'm reading this book by neil
stevenson now um
it's called seven eves and that we basically have to kind of send out a few
people to survive
and this is passing comment because the earth's going to be destroyed the seven
eves seven eves yeah
okay um there's this passing comment there which is like most of the colonists
will have to be female
right and of the reason for that is the ones we're talking about which is you
need a lot of wombs
to keep the human race going but you don't need as many men right right there's
this guy actually
he's i can quote him directly this guy roy baumeister who says we have a penile
surplus
which is a kind of brutal way of putting it but it's like we just don't need
that many men right
now one consequence of that is this is going to get me back to your skydiving i'm
going to loop this if i'm successful here if if i'm successful i'm going to
loop this back to skydiving
zero percent chance of looping things okay let me try it i believe in you so um
okay yeah
so 50 of men have not reproduced in human history so half the men have kids
half of them don't have kids
and it's the lower status men who are not going to have kids right because the
higher status men
have multiple wives they're actually if you like they're over consuming and
they can afford to do it
correct and so if you're a low status man there's a good chance that you're
just not going to reproduce at
all right you're going to be an evolutionary dead end your dna is not going to
go anywhere and are
under those circumstances you will risk almost anything to raise your status go
to war go exploring
turn to crime do anything to try and get yourself up that hierarchy so you have
a chance of reproducing
if you stay down there you ain't going to have kids you're cooked right and so
you've got to get
there so you take risks oh yeah you risk your life because actually if you die
who cares who cares you only
got a 50 50 chance of having a kid anyway right you don't have any kids already
and if you're down
there it's not 50 50 it's maybe like you're almost certainly not going to have
a kid so so you take
crazy risks to raise up the hierarchy and one consequence of that is men on
average are more risk-taking
than women even today
that is men on average is men on average are more risk-taking than women on
average are more risk-taking than women
that are more risk-taking than women on average are less risk-taking than women
on average are more risk-taking than women