Sunday Morning Live 8 September 2024
In this episode, I delve into philosophical questions and personal reflections inspired by listener inquiries and recent events, particularly the Turpin family's true crime story. We discuss the challenges of achieving happiness amid profound wrongdoing, the implications of moral failure, and the importance of a strong moral compass in a deceptive culture.
I also reflect on the tension between personal ambition and societal expectations, sharing experiences of backlash when raising standards. Our conversation touches on evolving social norms regarding relationships and the impact on individual growth.
We conclude with insights on aging, encouraging listeners to embrace life’s complexities and pursue fulfillment. Self-reflection and open dialogue on morality and human connections are central themes throughout the episode.
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In this episode, I delve into philosophical questions and personal reflections inspired by listener inquiries and recent events, particularly the Turpin family's true crime story. We discuss the challenges of achieving happiness amid profound wrongdoing, the implications of moral failure, and the importance of a strong moral compass in a deceptive culture.
I also reflect on the tension between personal ambition and societal expectations, sharing experiences of backlash when raising standards. Our conversation touches on evolving social norms regarding relationships and the impact on individual growth.
We conclude with insights on aging, encouraging listeners to embrace life’s complexities and pursue fulfillment. Self-reflection and open dialogue on morality and human connections are central themes throughout the episode.
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00:00:00good morning everybody let me tell you let me tell you let me tell you so this
00:00:06morning it's nice out it's sunny I know it's a little chilly 11 degrees but it's
00:00:11nice out and I was like how the hell can I do this show without being in the
00:00:16studio word to your mater and I just can't figure it out because I can't be
00:00:25walking and doing a live stream and I and read the questions that's the
00:00:29problem maybe I'll get James in my ear to read off the questions but that's a
00:00:34little little tricky a little tricky so really really whatever I can do to not
00:00:39be in the studio I'm like thrilled beyond words to do I just for donors and
00:00:44it'll probably go out to the mainstream at some point I finished a true to a
00:00:48two-part true crime series on the Turpin family that's t-u-r-p-i-n the Turpin
00:00:55family where in what was it 13 children aged 2 to almost 30 were kept chained
00:01:01and bound and attacked and starved and so on and you should you can get check
00:01:09that out you can subscribe free domain locals calm for that and we'll get it
00:01:15out to subscribe start today James if you don't mind get it out to subscribe
00:01:19start today but it is really really quite fascinating good morning you could
00:01:25use it could you could use a treadmill that's interesting that's interesting
00:01:29could use a treadmill but I think that the walking in the thumping of the
00:01:33treadmill sound would would be a little crazy making
00:01:37part one was intense it's a thing to subscribe for yes well part two gets
00:01:42even wilder gets even wilder and you know every now and then I really do feel
00:01:48like the spirit bone marrow of the brain universe opens up and spews language out
00:01:53of me like a hand puppet of a lava god I guess there would be one instant that
00:02:00would be one instance of it and the speech that I gave yesterday I read a
00:02:05lot of books and all of that and then I tried not to get lost in the details
00:02:08right because I mean that's sort of a circular statement but there's lots of
00:02:13people who talk about the details of this crime I read a bunch of books
00:02:16watched a bunch of documentaries made a bunch of notes but I really wanted to
00:02:19sit with the philosophy of the Turpin situation and
00:02:27now it's and and the ending is something that will blow your mind will blow your
00:02:33mind even bigger than the work I did on the French Revolution
00:02:38all right let me get to your questions and let's see this show should be a
00:02:42requirement at universities love the work you do
00:02:47yes but that's like saying that a monk a monk who hand writes things should be a
00:02:53requirement at a printing press like no no it's a whole different thing it's a
00:02:57whole different thing
00:03:01yeah people I mean it's very easy to take over a culture you just program
00:03:05people to hate the truth you just call the truth prejudice and bigotry you get
00:03:10them to hate the truth and if you can get people to hate the truth they have
00:03:13no defense against lies and they can be easily taken over
00:03:17all rights
00:03:23let's see is it possible says John is it possible to reach a point at which
00:03:29happiness becomes impossible this could be caused by regret or an
00:03:34inability to cope with your life examples could be people who have
00:03:38inflicted pain on children dictators who have killed millions of people or people
00:03:41sentenced to life in prison
00:03:46is it possible to reach a point at which happiness becomes impossible yes yes
00:03:52there certainly is such a point and sadly it is very easy to predict
00:04:00the heart hardens into a void when restitution becomes impossible do not do
00:04:06the kinds of wrongs for which restitution becomes impossible
00:04:12there's no control said there's no edit undo for certain things once you have
00:04:18harmed someone to the point where
00:04:23they would accept no compensation for the wrong you have done then happiness
00:04:30becomes impossible I I don't know hysterical
00:04:36yeah maybe maybe I have a rabid sensitivity to doing wrong if I do wrong
00:04:45right there's a line from an old bare-naked ladies song I actually saw
00:04:50them once live in New York I was there on business and saw them live in New
00:04:54York pretty good show pretty good show I couldn't tell you I was wrong right I
00:05:02couldn't tell you I was wrong let me just make sure
00:05:06I get the right lyrics I won't sing it because nobody wants to try and sing
00:05:10Stephen Page except Stephen Page
00:05:15oh apparently there are a bunch of people who have
00:05:22it's a it's a really really good song
00:05:27and I couldn't tell you that I was wrong chickened out grabbed a pen and a paper
00:05:33sat down and I wrote this song I couldn't tell you that you were right so
00:05:38instead I looked in the mirror and I watched TV late awake all night
00:05:44right we've got these chains hanging around
00:05:49our necks people want to strangle us with them before we take our first
00:05:52breath afraid of change afraid of staying the same when temptation calls
00:05:55we just look away and it's really a powerful song because it comes from a
00:06:01comic band a comedy band and most comics have an undertow of sadness and
00:06:06depression and that's where the comedy comes from they're trying to elevate
00:06:09themselves as they fall into a well forged from the maternal indifference of
00:06:15their own prehistories usually but
00:06:18when I do wrong it it haunts me it haunts me and I need to find a way to
00:06:27make it right
00:06:30as quickly and as much as possible
00:06:36I don't do it perfectly now the problem is so here's a problem with that so
00:06:40that's a plus yay plus we like the plus but there is a problem with that
00:06:46who can who can guess what the problem is with that
00:07:01oh it's the mic a little loud
00:07:06I can turn it down I have a backup recording here but I can certainly turn
00:07:10it down I can de-do the mic
00:07:17all right how's that any better just to let them in though
00:07:24if that's any better
00:07:28so
00:07:31what is the problem with being very sensitive to doing wrong and wanting to
00:07:37make it right as quickly as possible
00:07:41because it's caused a lot of problems
00:07:46it's caused a lot of problems over the course of my life not so much lately not
00:07:52so much lately but it's caused some problems over the course of my life yeah
00:07:56even people will take advantage so
00:08:00because I'm maybe a bit oversensitive to doing wrong and and therefore if
00:08:06there's a conflict I will take excessive ownership for that conflict and then I
00:08:11will apologize and which means that the other person only has to wait it out
00:08:17right the other person only has to wait it out they just have to wait out until
00:08:21I feel bad and I come and apologize and then they'll be like they can accept my
00:08:26apology and so on right
00:08:30it's sort of like if you get drugged before a boxing match the person just
00:08:35has to wait for you to fall over and then they can claim victory right so a
00:08:39sensitive conscience is a very good thing it's a great thing around good
00:08:43people it is a massive weakness it is a giant hole by which the noxious vapors
00:08:49of your guilt will be extracted along with your soul to be consumed by
00:08:54sociopaths in your environment so you've got to be really really careful if you're
00:08:57very morally sensitive which is a good thing again around good people but you
00:09:02need to be surrounded by other morally sensitive people otherwise there's just
00:09:05this big giant laser mark on your forehead to be exploited
00:09:11exploited that's right
00:09:15they can just wait because you're tortured or upset or challenged by a bad
00:09:19conscience and they're not and so what that means is that they can just wait
00:09:25out your discomfort and then you will crumble so to speak right
00:09:31and of course what I did was I said to myself well I'm just being really
00:09:37responsible and I will oh gosh oh the blindness oh the blindness actually it's
00:09:44worse than blindness because blindness doesn't lead you off a cliff you're
00:09:47cautious when you're blind this is like ah a mall no no it's a cliff edge the
00:09:53blindness because I'm like well you see choir boy stance you see if I if I take
00:09:59moral responsibility in my life and I apologize and I'm I'm just halo I'm just
00:10:04so responsible and then then this this this attitude this approach this
00:10:10maturity will will will march over into the other person's soul that reform it
00:10:15in the image of a strong conscience and I will just spread it like margarine on
00:10:21a stripper's ass I will just spread it to the other person they will they will
00:10:26be around my responsibility and moral sensitivity and it will it will like
00:10:30spores like bacteria it will spread like a cold really it will spread to the
00:10:37other person and they shall becometh like me oh god oh the naivety oh the
00:10:46naivety I I sympathize with it I really do boy that optimism got me through a
00:10:51lot in life and got me out of a pretty terrible situation as a child that
00:10:55optimism super good for me in my childhood not not so good for me in my
00:11:0320s not so well is there no chance
00:11:10see when you're young oh boy you know when you have when you have the capacity
00:11:14to change hello when you have the capacity to change when you're young
00:11:21it's so easy to think that other people themselves have also the capacity to
00:11:29change you know apparently when Freddie Mercury started singing for the band
00:11:34Queen he was originally a roadie and they had a singer when it was kind of
00:11:38half a band called smile Freddie Mercury began singing and the band members were
00:11:43like well you got a lot of stage presence and a lot of confidence but you
00:11:47sound like a dying bull and it took him a while to get his voice under control
00:11:50he was obviously very excited and wanted to show off and to learning to use the
00:11:54delicacy of his voice took quite some time and I mean from the hard rock
00:12:01growls of hammer to fall to the quasi Mexican banjo of who needs you an
00:12:08amazing vocal vocalist obviously one of the greatest that has ever lived and so
00:12:15it took him a while right he didn't sound good at the beginning when Bono the
00:12:20singer for you too also great voice at least when he was younger I think he
00:12:24wrecked it quite a bit but when Bono was younger and first started singing he
00:12:28didn't really know what he was doing and it said it took him a while to figure
00:12:31out how to actually do it
00:12:34so they have great voices that are latent and you just start singing you
00:12:40work on singing you keep singing and then you get better and better right oh
00:12:44yeah an absolute an absolute turbo cuck when it comes to Ireland a man who has
00:12:51ascended from the Emerald Isle to the airless stratosphere of the globalists
00:12:56and watches all the people scurry and he was very big into protecting Ireland in
00:13:00the past doesn't really care about it now now it's absolutely appalling
00:13:04absolutely appalling wretched wretched these people will go down as the least
00:13:09excusable cowards in human history as a whole but that's their choice to make
00:13:13not mine
00:13:16so if you have a latently great singing voice and you just start to work on it
00:13:21you think oh well I'll just give people my tips I just do it like this or try
00:13:27this or approach this you know like I remember when I was in theater school
00:13:31and I was in the second year of the National Theater School in Montreal and
00:13:35we had people who had auditioned and got into first year came to the theater
00:13:40school for a couple of days and I put one of them up was a young a young man
00:13:45super talented young man I mean could play guitar he did gymnastics he was a
00:13:49really great singer and all of that and
00:13:54he was singing something from Phantom of the Opera and let your soul take you
00:14:03where you long to be that note right
00:14:06really it's quite a high note to fit to hit full voice and it's like halfway
00:14:11between baritone and tenor and so I can hit that note but it's pretty uncertain
00:14:16and I'm not saying it's super pleasant I can hit it the way that Floyd
00:14:20Merriweather can hit an abdomen so but he was just like just his voice floated
00:14:25up and he did it and he was just trying to explain it to me like well here's how
00:14:28you hit that note man you just you think a little higher and you just kind of
00:14:31rest and settle down on top and I'm like yeah I don't think that's it I think you
00:14:38just have a better singing voice than I do I don't think I don't think that if I
00:14:43just if I just mentally think Neil Armstrong just float on top just come
00:14:46just float a little bit down from the top of the note and it'll be fine it's
00:14:49like well no but you can sing that note and my voice doesn't go that high very
00:14:54easily and and if your voice doesn't go that high easily you really shouldn't do
00:14:59it if it's not easy for you to do as a singer it's probably going to be quite
00:15:02unpleasant for the kid you hit the strain right
00:15:07crying tears of blood as the audience cries tears of blood from their ears
00:15:12it's just I just I don't have you have the voice I don't have the voice right I
00:15:18mean like oh I've never had any sort of particular physical flexibility like I
00:15:22had lumbago as a kid so my my bones grew faster than my tendons right and so I'd
00:15:28have to take these these crazy baths too because otherwise it was just you know
00:15:32painful and you know when you get jimmy legs and your legs just can't relax and
00:15:35you're like it's terrible on a plane and it's bad I have to stretch like
00:15:39crazy before I get on a plane and I still have to stretch every day I have
00:15:47to stretch every day and I've never been able to touch my toes never and you know
00:15:52I had a friend when I was younger super flexible like he could literally put his
00:15:55his nose to his knees like he was he could like fold over like a like a paper
00:16:00clip like a staple and he was just like well you just need to stretch more you
00:16:05just need to do this it's like no I don't have the tendons you know
00:16:08stretching is bullshit I mean I don't know if you know this stretching is
00:16:11bullshit tendons don't stretch it's a lie now you can get a little bit more
00:16:15comfortable with the discomfort and so on but tendons don't stretch stretching
00:16:20is it's fine and it's a good thing to do for warm-ups and I do it every day I
00:16:24stretch every day for like 10-15 minutes before going to bed I I gotta put my
00:16:28heels down on the stairs I gotta stretch my quads I gotta stretch my glutes and
00:16:33all of that and so I just I it's one of the things I do as part of sort of
00:16:38self-care or just helps me sleep if I don't stretch them I like to get Jimmy
00:16:41legs and I can't sleep so I stretch and he was just like well you just and the
00:16:46number of people over the course of my life if they've noticed for whatever
00:16:49reason that I'm not flexible they're like oh you
00:16:53should really work on that it's like well your eyes aren't blue you should
00:16:56really work on that you know your your height is not my close to six feet you
00:17:01should really work on that it's like the guys with with great hair saying
00:17:07well I don't know I just eat a lot of carrots maybe you should eat more
00:17:09carrots it's like no this is just jeans man you happen to be born with great
00:17:13hair good for you I mean I guess that's fine good for you you happen to be born
00:17:17with great hair I had about eight to ten minutes of good hair in my late teens
00:17:24and so good for you but this idea that you can transfer your qualities to
00:17:30others I mean I know I'm because I'm I'm transferring ideas and arguments
00:17:34and so on yes absolutely to people who are receptive and care and want it it's
00:17:39wonderful but the idea that you can just transfer your virtues to other people
00:17:43who are exploiting your virtues well that
00:17:50that doesn't work because you're rewarding them you're rewarding their
00:17:54corruption with your virtues if you're exploited if you're taking advantage off
00:17:58if you are ground down and insulted then you're transferring you're
00:18:04transferring your submission to people who enjoy dominating you and you're
00:18:09actually just making them worse you're just you're just making them worse you're
00:18:12just making them worse all right
00:18:22well it's like all the teachers right all the teachers I mean hit me with a
00:18:27why if you ever had a teacher who insulted you for not being interested in
00:18:30what he or she was doing
00:18:36I'm rereading my old intellectual journal from when I was 25
00:18:42some good stuff in there but also the frustration that the teachers and
00:18:45professors that was rough man that was rough yeah the teachers are all like
00:18:50what's the matter with you ADHD yeah you're boring you're boring the subject
00:18:56matter is ridiculous I hate being here and you suck
00:19:02but you can't say that you can't win against that you can't do that right
00:19:11so you just have to shut up and it's even like in in the past when I was a
00:19:16student everything was just boring now it's literally toxic I mean half of
00:19:21education is child abuse against you know demographics or race or you know
00:19:26if you're a male or whatever it's just horrible and it's just horrible
00:19:32you can't get philosophy genes and hair genes in the same organism well have you
00:19:37ever seen Nietzsche had a mustache that looked like he was given oral sex to a
00:19:43chipmunk's tail and who else Bertrand Russell kept his hair didn't he
00:19:50I can't remember John Locke didn't keep his hearing sadly when he was older but
00:19:53probably a result of endless untreated infections but yeah there's a couple of
00:19:57philosophers who kept their hair
00:20:02so yeah you can't you can't transfer a conscience to other people the moment
00:20:07you try
00:20:11to transfer a conscience to someone they will just oh somebody who feels bad and
00:20:17will make apologies great
00:20:22my high school history teacher taught us all about a healthy dose of socialism
00:20:26being good I got a perfect score in the class by regurgitating Marxist history
00:20:30yeah we all just got to be trained seals regurgitating the lies that are told us
00:20:37I did a fairly bitter and angry podcast yesterday
00:20:48fairly bitter and angry because somebody was a woman was writing about how
00:20:52wonderful
00:20:54authoritarian parenting was now she didn't mention peaceful parenting but she
00:20:59mentioned that she came from a family of 16 in other words there were three
00:21:03biological children when she was a kid three biological children she was one of
00:21:07those three and her parents adopted 13 children her parents adopted 13 children
00:21:11which could be considered a tad excessive by Liberace hey that's a
00:21:17little gaudy or Elvis well there's a little bit too much fat in that banana
00:21:21peanut butter and mayonnaise sandwich
00:21:27so yeah it's
00:21:31it's terrible because she's saying what we want to teach our kids want to teach
00:21:35our kids that bad decisions have negative consequences we got to teach
00:21:40our kids
00:21:41consequences and we do that by if they don't do what we like we punish them so
00:21:46bad decisions have negative consequences
00:21:51right and then you're going to send your kids off to a school where the bad
00:21:55teachers never get fired
00:21:58and a boring curriculum never gets corrected
00:22:02and then they're going to hear about politicians who lie their asses off and
00:22:07get reelected and then they're going to hear that they were born a million
00:22:12dollars in debt because the boomers didn't want to pay for all the warfare
00:22:14welfare social programs their little heartless hearts desired
00:22:20and then they're going to see that
00:22:23corporate CEOs can strip mine the company bear and retire with all their
00:22:29money intact and then they're going to see that particularly if you're on the
00:22:34left you can do just about every wrong thing in the known universe and never be
00:22:38prosecuted at all
00:22:40but if you're on the right feels like sometime death penalty for parking
00:22:44ticket so
00:22:47the society society at the moment oh and also then they're going to see in high
00:22:52school and they're going to see that
00:22:55there are girls young women who get pregnant out of wedlock and get eighty
00:23:01two hundred thousand dollars worth of free benefits from the government
00:23:11idea idea oh and then they're going to see that everyone who bade like a bunch
00:23:15of rabid vampire wolves are all the unvaccinated a completely welcome in the
00:23:21house nobody ever talks about it again they wanted the right stripped away from
00:23:24people who wanted bodily sovereignty
00:23:27and private medical decisions and they're going to see that all the people
00:23:32who made those terrible decisions perfectly welcome everybody's fine never
00:23:35talk about it again
00:23:43my gosh
00:23:45my gosh
00:23:47no no but we got to teach you that
00:23:50that bad decisions have never get negative consequences so so that you
00:23:55will never fit into the society that literally rewards bad consequences
00:24:00and
00:24:01well it literally rewards bad choices and punishes good choices
00:24:05oh oh did you do the three things you need to do to get out of poverty did you
00:24:09get and hold a job for a year did you finish high school and did you not have
00:24:13a child outside of wedlock
00:24:15oh well then you're going to be taxed at fifty to sixty percent and really if you
00:24:19count unfunded liabilities were taxed at over a hundred percent because they
00:24:22can't be paid off
00:24:25so you get to be a tax surf if you make good decisions and you get all the free
00:24:30stuff in the known universe if you make bad decisions
00:24:35yeah the left stood up and applauded Roman Polanski yeah yeah accused
00:24:42child sexual assaulter
00:24:44yeah yeah boy but if you make those bad decisions boy you should just be
00:24:50punished and that's fine I mean I agree not punishment but I agree that yeah you
00:24:54should teach kids the bad consequences of bad decisions I get that but you
00:24:59should also tell them that that's not how modern society works at all modern
00:25:03society works in the exact opposite way
00:25:07I mean white Western European civilization spent trillions of dollars
00:25:13to end slavery and it cost tens of thousands of lives to end slavery and
00:25:18now who is the only group blamed for slavery right no good deed goes
00:25:22unpunished you really need to teach them that's you really need to
00:25:31teach them bad because that's the way society runs these days and has for many
00:25:39years
00:25:41oh boy negative consequences you just you want to you just bad decisions
00:25:45leading to negative consequences I mean how you going to teach them how to live
00:25:48in the world where the exact opposite principle applies in general
00:25:57all right let me just see if you have any of the comments tips of course
00:26:00welcome free-demand.com slash donate or here welcome as a whole things are a
00:26:05little lean at the moment it is my birthday month but things are a tiny bit
00:26:09lean at the moment and I sympathize with that I no no no I no no no no it's a
00:26:14tough economy so but anything you can spare would be most gratefully and
00:26:18humbly appreciated
00:26:22if I wasn't Christian I would feel like a real mark paying for things and trying
00:26:25to work for a living not knocking up girls paying taxes etc
00:26:29yeah this is one of the slight challenges of Christianity is because
00:26:34you reward is in the afterlife you care a little bit less about the evils of the
00:26:39present not all but some not all but some
00:26:45yeah it's like everybody bags on Christians because they're the group who
00:26:50are claimed that they love their enemies they don't attack people for criticizing
00:26:53them and so on right
00:26:54yeah
00:26:56yeah
00:26:58yeah
00:27:00you know it's really really important important to teach your children that
00:27:04bad decisions have negative consequences and that way everybody can objectively
00:27:10understand what happened to the black lives matter movement after the summer
00:27:13of love in 2020
00:27:19yeah
00:27:22who remembers if you don't like censorship build your own platform then
00:27:25Pavel Durov gets arrested for not censoring now he's been released now I
00:27:29don't know if he was charged but I think he's been released now
00:27:33one of my high school friends died of a drug overdose over a year ago says Val
00:27:37his parents took no responsibility and blamed it all on the disease called
00:27:40addiction they set up a non-profit organization that will essentially pay
00:27:44for more people like their son to get that one last overdose
00:27:48it's insane how evil these parents are
00:27:53I was reading this data I think it's true I don't know that is totally I
00:27:57don't know that is objectively true but somebody was making the case that wait
00:28:01times in Canada for health care kill as many people per capita as the opioid
00:28:07epidemic in America just waiting but 10% of
00:28:13deaths in America in the health care system are dr. era right
00:28:20he got released for telegram will now moderate group chats yeah they took the
00:28:23privacy language out of telegram
00:28:27God forbid people exchange ideas without being controlled
00:28:36he's an out on bail can't leave France or may not
00:28:39yeah yeah they took the privacy language out of telegram I just assume that
00:28:45everything is monitored at all times and so on right
00:28:48all right
00:28:56so I used to do these truths about with regards to school shootings right
00:29:10so this was posted by Colin rug
00:29:13and the truth of this again
00:29:19I it seems true it seems to be reported by credible agencies news outlets and so
00:29:25on so
00:29:28provisionally seems accurate obviously take it with a grain of salt the time
00:29:32tends to not be kind to early narratives but he wrote this just in the mother of
00:29:37Appalachian shooter cult gray called the school on the morning of this
00:29:43evil warning them of an quote extreme emergency
00:29:48according to Washington Post to obtain text messages the mother appeared to
00:29:51have advanced warning of what was happening
00:29:53the text message from Marcy gray to her sister read I was the one that notified
00:29:59the school counselor at the high school sick
00:30:02I told them it was an extreme emergency and for them to go immediately and find
00:30:05my son to check on him
00:30:07a call log shows that Marcy gray had a 10-minute phone call with the school
00:30:10just 30 minutes before the tragedy unfolded
00:30:15a counselor told the Washington Post wrote a counselor told gray during the
00:30:19call in that her son had been talking about a school attack that morning
00:30:23the school then looked for gray but there was confusion between gray and
00:30:26another student with a similar name
00:30:29the administration and the administrator left the classroom after neither student
00:30:32was president present
00:30:34the attack happened moments later
00:30:39according to Colin the school was contacted just one week before the
00:30:43incident by gray's grandmother who was concerned about his mental state
00:30:50just one week before the tragedy the grandmother met with the school
00:30:52counselor to request help sounds like he started therapy days before the
00:30:55incident this was completely avoidable according to Colin
00:30:58rug the Washington Post report also says that called gray spent months begging
00:31:03for mental health help
00:31:04according to Marcy's sister who said the adults around him failed him
00:31:10right
00:31:13now of course the school should have just evacuated and gone in lockdown the
00:31:16moment they got the call from the mother
00:31:21from the Washington Post
00:31:24text also shows that the school and family were in contact about his mental
00:31:28health a week before the attack and that brown told the relative the teen was at
00:31:32the time having homicidal and suicidal thoughts
00:31:42my gosh
00:31:46I mean it's impossible that anybody would let a school shoot have school
00:31:49shooting happening on an election year but oh my gosh
00:31:53oh my gosh
00:32:02yeah
00:32:08yeah
00:32:12just appalling
00:32:17just appalling and that this doesn't call and cause an entire rewrite of the
00:32:21entire system
00:32:24I just like it wasn't a thing when I was young
00:32:28it wasn't really a thing until Columbine in the 90s
00:32:35and this goes back of course to
00:32:40mad in America
00:32:42it's really really important book to read mad in America and I'm going to
00:32:45roughly butcher the thesis sorry if I get parts of it wrong but the thesis of
00:32:48the book mad in America is you know when we got antibiotics infections went down
00:32:53you know when we figured out
00:32:58that scurvy was the result of a lack of vitamin C we put a bunch of lemons and
00:33:03limes which is why the British sailors were called limey's we put a bunch of
00:33:05lemons and limes on the ships and we stopped people stopped dying from scurvy
00:33:14so when we have an advance
00:33:17in medical science you know I'm gonna go with the standard narrative seems to be
00:33:22true I know people argue with it but the when the smallpox vaccine went on
00:33:27which was 17 years to get everyone on board smallpox was no longer a thing
00:33:32when you actually have an advancement in medical science
00:33:39the problem gets a lot better right the problem gets a lot better when people
00:33:45started washing their hands before surgeries post-op infections went way
00:33:50down
00:33:59but the argument is we have all of these drugs that are supposedly there to help
00:34:06people with mental health issues so if we have all of these drugs that are here
00:34:12to help us with mental health issues
00:34:13why do mental health issues keep increasing
00:34:17and it's a very very important question
00:34:25it's the ozempic question
00:34:31I'm going to say this with no medical training no medical knowledge as a
00:34:36complete analogy
00:34:38but everybody wants a pill but most pills or many pills come from the devil
00:34:43himself
00:34:47everybody wants a pill
00:34:52maybe you're depressed because you're in a situation of abuse maybe you're
00:34:57depressed because you're surrounded by sociopaths maybe you're depressed
00:35:00because you can see the way society is going and haven't found a way to live
00:35:04with it maybe you're depressed because
00:35:07you are barred from getting jobs
00:35:10for various reasons
00:35:14discriminatory reasons maybe you're depressed
00:35:17because your children are being indoctrinated in schools maybe you're
00:35:22depressed for any variety of reasons and it seems to me fairly fucking important
00:35:29to get to the base of those reasons
00:35:34maybe it's fairly important to get to the essence of those reasons
00:35:39but people don't want that
00:35:46what they want is a pill
00:35:53an excuse
00:35:59maybe you overeat because he was sexually abused as a child I talked to a
00:36:07very wonderful black woman recently in a call-in show and she was sexually
00:36:13assaulted by black men to the point where she starved herself she simply
00:36:16stopped eating because she wished to reduce her curve so she'd be less
00:36:19attractive
00:36:24nope just take a pill
00:36:30maybe overeating or under eating is the result of
00:36:33sexual abuse
00:36:40maybe the boys have ADHD because the entire curriculum revolves around that
00:36:45which is beneficial to two groups of people propagandists and girls
00:36:54maybe boys are built more to learn by doing
00:36:58maybe we were evolved to be hunters and farmers and soldiers and to be in
00:37:03motion and in action
00:37:07I felt like when I was a kid school was like a physical prison that I had to
00:37:10break free by sprinting as hard and as long as I could whenever I wasn't in
00:37:16school I exercised I was on the cross-country team I was on the water
00:37:21polo team I was on the swimming team I played soccer I was on I did tennis
00:37:26tournaments I just had to move
00:37:30one of my nightmares
00:37:33as a child was to lie in a coffin and have concrete poured over me gave me the
00:37:40shudders
00:37:43because that's what school felt like I was just trapped and had to sit and shut
00:37:49up and pretend to care about in threat of punishment I had to pretend to care
00:37:54about stuff I was completely indifferent to you know there's this old meme it's
00:37:58like history in school
00:38:01you know history is a hobby wow
00:38:04stuff that is so absolutely fascinating
00:38:12there's something wrong
00:38:14with our relationship with food in the modern West
00:38:19and of course the studies in general are corrupted and paid for
00:38:23and we've had to make up for the lack of quality home cooking because women
00:38:29are in school so we've needed more instant meals
00:38:34which means add sugar to everything freeze everything
00:38:39kids are bored restless
00:38:42they don't want to go outside social trust is collapsed as we talked about
00:38:45before in the Putnam studies
00:38:48kids stay home women are anxious they don't have a strong connection with
00:38:52either their children or other parents in the neighborhood
00:39:05it's hell
00:39:09it's hell
00:39:13distracting your mind with screens while refusing to move your body is a recipe
00:39:17for
00:39:19almost every material and spiritual disaster that can be conceived of
00:39:30our relationship with food
00:39:34and exercise
00:39:37is late-stage mass utopia
00:39:42you know the food pyramid
00:39:45bought and paid for by special interest groups
00:39:49and of course I think as a whole the powers that be
00:39:53like you low-key like you lethargic
00:39:59like you to
00:40:01hand spanky yourself into the virtual coma
00:40:07like you to get
00:40:09your kicks and thrills from pushing pixels rather than building forts in the
00:40:13woods
00:40:19they love to have you never learn how to negotiate because all the rules are
00:40:24set for you by school and video games
00:40:35no
00:40:37just take a pill
00:40:39just take a pill
00:40:42just take a pill
00:40:46I mean everybody knows they need to eat less and exercise right everybody knows
00:40:50they need to eat less and exercise more everybody knows that but they don't
00:40:54want to do it
00:40:55they don't want to do it
00:41:01and they don't want to do it because they can get a pill and they don't have
00:41:05to pay for the pill as a whole right there's so much subsidies in these kinds
00:41:08of areas they don't have to pay for the pill and of course if they don't take
00:41:11the pill the government has to spend what half a million to a million
00:41:15per year on chronic health conditions and the number and amount of chronic
00:41:19health conditions I mean this is
00:41:21RFK jr.'s gig and it's a good gig it's a reasonable gig is a powerful gig which
00:41:27is the amount of chronic health conditions
00:41:34it's just staggering
00:41:38it's just staggering
00:41:41how many people do you know
00:41:43in your life no that's a little odd because who knows how many people you
00:41:47know what percentage of people in your life are dealing with chronic health
00:41:51conditions
00:41:54what percentage of people in your life are dealing with chronic health
00:41:57conditions
00:41:59I'm trying to think I don't
00:42:02because I'm an older parent a lot of my friends are younger chronic health
00:42:06conditions
00:42:10I suppose it depends on on how many extended family members you have and
00:42:16particularly older people
00:42:21chronic health conditions
00:42:26so some people are saying 10 to 20 percent 0 percent 0 percent 75 plus or
00:42:31plus 75 and I'm maybe I mean I'm probably about 10 to 20 percent now some
00:42:36of them are just older there's older people and there's just stuff that's
00:42:39going to happen
00:42:42and of course a lot of people don't really talk about it but it's a big
00:42:45issue there's the chronic health conditions are just crazy
00:42:57all my friends are 20 to 30 though well that's yeah that certainly is going to
00:43:00help a little right
00:43:02about 30 percent or so I would say obesity and addiction to tobacco slash
00:43:06alcohol
00:43:06tobacco and alcohol are definitely going down like the coolness of tobacco and
00:43:10alcohol is going down it's been going down for a long time with regards to
00:43:13tobacco but finally we're breaking the back of the black hearted obsidian beast
00:43:18that kills people wantonly called alcoholism
00:43:21finally finally finally my gosh the drinking culture when I was younger was
00:43:27just
00:43:28insane
00:43:31pro-drinking pro-drinking party party party
00:43:35hangovers are funny falling over when you're drunk is funny
00:43:38stupid things
00:43:40when
00:43:42you are young
00:43:46the drinking culture
00:43:48now when I was fighting tooth and nail last time I got drunk I was 21
00:43:54I tried drinking
00:43:57in my I was 17 or so I tried for a couple of weekends and I'm like well
00:44:03this blows
00:44:05I don't get this magical altered state of consciousness I'm basically just me
00:44:08but physically disoriented
00:44:11yay spins yay gotta pee again yay and then the next day is just a total
00:44:16write-off
00:44:17I mean there's no endless gray afternoon like the Sunday after drinking with a
00:44:23hangover
00:44:28somebody says I had a chronic debilitating illness and it was the
00:44:32saddest time in my life felt like I was watching my life waste away
00:44:36we'd use is going up is that the case is that the case
00:44:43I mean alcohol and weed are the two ultimate loser drugs at least with
00:44:46nicotine you get a stimulant
00:44:49and this is another reason why one of the reasons that immigrants come in I
00:44:59think in particular in England is that the drinking culture in England is so
00:45:02crazy that it's tough to find anybody who's willing to work and work well
00:45:07Scotland's drinking culture is awful my husband lost so many of his family due
00:45:10to alcohol and cigarettes
00:45:13to me you know alcohol in particular it is taking a long slow acid pee on the
00:45:25Mona Lisa of your own body
00:45:27it's poison it's poison it is alcohol is poison
00:45:37somebody says I hate that part of drinking culture I enjoy having a large
00:45:40variety of wines and liquors and usually drink eight milliliters of
00:45:43alcohol a week people who pound 24 pack a beer each weekend are depressing
00:45:48well we can certainly talk about beer culture in men but what I find is is is
00:45:55far less challenged is wine culture in women
00:46:01I mean the woman with the glass of wine usually red wine in her hand in social
00:46:07media is ubiquitous and the drinking culture for women is constantly promoted
00:46:12wine moms you know wine aunts you know materialism useless purchases and
00:46:21self-poisoning through alcohol is constantly pushed
00:46:26oh yeah whenever I would criticize weed you know you say to an alcoholic you
00:46:31drink too much is like yeah it's a problem you say to a weed addict you
00:46:34smoke too much weed and they're like here comes the wall of stupid text
00:46:44so many dating profiles have girls each photo with some different alcoholic
00:46:47drink
00:46:50I don't really talk that much about my brother I mean it's not his fault that
00:46:53I'm semi-prominent right semi-charmed kind of life
00:46:58huge flex among women for sure
00:47:01weed is obviously the drug of choice for the elites who want to dose our
00:47:11population right weed video games pornography it's the trifecta of keeping
00:47:16people pacified
00:47:22yeah I mean isn't this whole joy campaign among leftist politicians just
00:47:27about drinking it seems to be it seems to be
00:47:30yeah it's very sad
00:47:37why is that a meme I don't know exactly why it is a meme
00:47:43I think that one of the reasons why alcoholism is promoted not just to women
00:47:50but by women is alcohol signifies leisure and sexual
00:47:56availability because alcohol is a disinhibitor right you know the old
00:48:00thing of like liquor up front poker in the rear but you know that whole thing
00:48:05about getting a woman drunk in order to have sex with her so alcohol is a
00:48:08disinhibitant right disinhibitor sorry so it reduces a woman's judgment in the
00:48:14same way that birth control pill a trophies a woman's sense of fear and
00:48:19anxiety and danger right so birth control pills are one of the reasons for
00:48:25various things going on in Europe at the moment right
00:48:30so for a woman showing that you can drink particularly during the day wine
00:48:36with lunch right so wine with lunch is a status among women because it says that
00:48:40they don't have to go back to work
00:48:49so
00:48:52it also signals if a woman is posing with
00:48:57wine or alcoholic drinks then she's signaling that she will drink which
00:49:02means she's more likely to sleep with you sooner so it's a mating it's an
00:49:06R-selected mating display
00:49:10Val says
00:49:13I would argue alcohol has its place in society I believe Ed Dutton did a piece
00:49:16a show on alcohol as a selection pressure in social evolution races that
00:49:20recently introduced alcohol have significantly more problems Native
00:49:23Americans Irish
00:49:25what the hell does that mean alcohol has its place in society what does have its
00:49:30place in society mean are you saying that evolutionarily speaking it was
00:49:35safer to drink alcohol than water
00:49:37yes of course of course
00:49:42of course
00:49:43James can you look up birth control pill reduces women's capacity to sense
00:49:47danger
00:49:51so
00:50:00it's a signals leisure it's it's like long nails signal leisure I don't have
00:50:04to work with my hands white dresses signal leisure I don't have to worry
00:50:07about getting dirty well-done hair signifies leisure I don't have to do any
00:50:11physical labor for women signifying leisure is signifying status because it
00:50:18means that they're so hot and attractive and manipulative and sexy that men will
00:50:21pay their bills
00:50:29so alcohol has its place in yeah I mean I've talked about this I talked about
00:50:33this some months ago so just touching it briefly here
00:50:37that I read I used to I used to be fascinated by reading diaries from
00:50:43people in the past I find diaries absolutely fascinating this is like a
00:50:45little window into something that otherwise would be completely lost to
00:50:49history
00:50:50and it's like I watched the beginning of I've never watched the show before
00:50:56little house on the prairie and there's a somewhat emotionally incontinent dad
00:51:03and a dog that can't doesn't make it across the river and so on and of course
00:51:07all of these things because it was written by the daughter and I'm sure all
00:51:10of these things happened I mean probably not exactly as they were but all these
00:51:13things happened and all of these tiny events that came and went big in a
00:51:18family invisible to the world as a whole all of these tiny events were then
00:51:23recorded written down serialized made into a TV series that was very popular
00:51:29Michael Landon was at London this is the star the producer and and and all that
00:51:34and director I mean very very talented guy
00:51:37it's very very talented here and all of these little tiny slices then just get
00:51:42saved forever is one of the reasons I'm a little bit of a want my thoughts to be
00:51:46recorded because thoughts are in passing they just go gone dead buried with you
00:51:49but there's a way that you can you know write them into the constellations of
00:51:56the sky like all the disparate things that happen you can draw lines between
00:51:59them and and keep them alive so I was reading this diary of a barge worker in
00:52:06the 19th century in England and he said like I didn't want to drink I don't want
00:52:09to drink alcohol but I can't get the energy milk doesn't give it to me and
00:52:12it's a little it's easy to get sour milk water doesn't do it enough the only thing
00:52:16that gives me the energy to do my barge work is is alcohol now you don't know if
00:52:20he was like a real alcoholic who's like well I tried I tried right but uh so
00:52:24does alcohol have its place in society again I don't know what that means
00:52:31I don't know what that means
00:52:34you
00:52:38Victorian women used arsenic laced makeup to whiten the skin to say they
00:52:42didn't have to be on the Sun all day yeah that's right yeah that's right
00:52:48for a woman to be physically incapable of labor is very high status right
00:53:05Denisa says there was a 34 year old man from Canada that used to talk to me all
00:53:09through middle school and high school I blocked him on everything but now for
00:53:13whatever reason it's haunting me that he might still be preying on girls he was
00:53:17never inappropriate but clearly was a predator I'm struggling with whether I
00:53:19should do something about it or not oh that's tough I'm so sorry and why
00:53:25didn't you tell your parents I mean I guess he knew that you wouldn't tell
00:53:28your parents which is why he was willing to to talk with you
00:53:35you
00:53:37yeah long nails hair weaves excessive makeup is also a status symbol as well
00:53:42because it says you'd not out in the Sun having to sweat right
00:53:48if you don't trust yourself with alcohol then don't drink at least if you don't
00:53:52trust who you're with don't women's friends acts as chaperones anymore now
00:53:55the daughter of the lady who wrote Little House on the Prairie is super
00:53:59influential in American libertarianism well that's cool
00:54:03all right let's get to your other question any tips forthcoming if you
00:54:08haven't tipped for a while I would really really appreciate it thank you
00:54:11thank you very much
00:54:14all right let's get to a question on potential
00:54:26hi Steph how did actualizing your potential look like for you did you have
00:54:30to build up your self-esteem and belief in yourself Nietzsche says it is often
00:54:35our potential that scares us no it is not our potential that scares us and I
00:54:40would disagree with our mustachioed friend it is not our potential that
00:54:45scares us
00:54:51it is other people's response to our potential that scares us and with good
00:54:56reason too with good reason if you become great at what you do you
00:55:02harm the vanity of others
00:55:07and when you harm the vanity of others
00:55:12they will come for you you have to think about it in terms of mating or sexual
00:55:16selection right so the guy who's the most attractive
00:55:23earns the hatred of the less attractive men because he's raising the standard
00:55:27and he's getting the best women or the best woman so the guy who's very
00:55:33attractive and in particular thank you for the tip in particular if he is both
00:55:38attractive and nice if he's attractive and psychotic then you probably don't
00:55:43want to mess with him but if he's attractive and nice and the jocks are
00:55:47hated by the nerds but the jocks in general are mentally healthier than the
00:55:52nerds they're not just healthier in body they're healthier in mind because
00:55:56of the self-discipline and coordination and team sports and self-confidence and
00:56:00so on right and they move the nerds sit and whine the athletes talk and move
00:56:06they're better at negotiating they're better at reasoning with people they
00:56:10have more self-discipline and so on right so this hatred of the jock is that
00:56:16you get the the nerds are smart and the jocks are dumb right that's just
00:56:21propaganda and it's a cope and nerds indulge in that propaganda so they don't
00:56:27have to go out and start exercising they feel superior we're the smart ones and
00:56:32they're there they're the jocks and it's like no athleticism is not negatively
00:56:37correlated with IQ at all as far as I know in fact I think it's positively
00:56:40correlated although I'm happy to be corrected on that if anybody can find
00:56:43the data this is going off some long-ago memories back when I was studying IQ
00:56:47quite a bit
00:56:49so the resentment towards the excellent is foundational and we understand it is
00:56:56a reproductive strategy right it's a reproductive strategy to
00:57:02spread hatred and lies against those who are better than you at something in some
00:57:09important manner that is important right so the nerds don't want to compete with
00:57:16the jocks so they spread the lie that the jocks are mean racist bigoted
00:57:21homophobic dumb abusive drunken like they just spread all these lies and you
00:57:27can see this everywhere everywhere because you know the nerds end up
00:57:30writing the movies right the nerds end up writing the movies and so movies are
00:57:35just long one long absolute vampire howl at the physically beautiful and the
00:57:45athletically successful just one long absolute low-rent trashy howl of rage
00:57:51and anger at revenge of the nerds you know there's a Ted
00:57:57McGinley or whatever like all of the jocks are just stupid and they smash
00:58:01beer cans on their head and they hate minorities and they and they they beat
00:58:06up their girlfriends and you know but it's the soft sensitive soulful Brendan
00:58:10Lee a crow guy the goth guy he's the real he's the real nice one he's the
00:58:14one you come on man it's just sad I mean it's just sad it's such a pathetic cope
00:58:21I mean I get that the life of the mind is cool but there's nothing wrong with
00:58:30working with the body working on the body helping the body out because I
00:58:35don't I don't know what anyone's beliefs are really and unless they're exercising
00:58:41I don't know because we know that exercise makes people it makes ideology
00:58:47change right exercise changes people's political orientation so I don't know if
00:58:56you're a leftist or just physically weak and you can't protect yourself and so
00:59:01you run to the government I don't know if you're a leftist because you're
00:59:05unattractive and you want to marry the government because you can't get
00:59:07resources from a man or if you're a leftist for some ideological reason
00:59:11until people exercise I don't know what they believe and they don't know what
00:59:15they believe either it's just a cope
00:59:20so I was in the position of being an attractive young man of being a good
00:59:29actor of being a really good athlete now I'm no excellent athlete but I was
00:59:36pretty good for for high school I came in seventh and swimming in Canada in
00:59:39Ontario so it's not bad right I mean particularly considering how little
00:59:44chance I had to practice because of home chaos and job so I did pretty well
00:59:50and I have a pleasant speaking voice I can sing a little I'm tall higher taller
00:59:57than average and so on right so you know as a young man I was a fairly reasonably
01:00:03high status specimen and so on and I've got a quick wit and I'm funny and I'm
01:00:10good at debates and so all of these things and and you feel this tall poppy
01:00:15syndrome right as you get better as you get more successful as you aim high you
01:00:20get this resentment of the the troggs in the vicinity right they hate you they'll
01:00:25undermine you they mad at you they trash-talk you they put you down and
01:00:29it's a lot of what's happening that and even if you get the girl even if you get
01:00:34the girl and you're out of the market you get married you you're out of the
01:00:38market they still hate you because you're still raising the standards and
01:00:41they're terrified that the girl they get was fantasizing about you couldn't get
01:00:46you and therefore they're left with leftovers right
01:00:52actualizing potential is a risky risky business man because the amount of
01:00:56resentment and hatred it brings about from people is enormous
01:01:01is enormous
01:01:05now if you actualize your potential economically say and then you jump to
01:01:10the support of the powers that be then you're safe from the hurt right
01:01:26so actualizing my potential
01:01:30is like threading a needle
01:01:34in a plane crash
01:01:36right you want to actualize your potential but not to the point where
01:01:42you bring the hatred of the average and below average down upon you like a ton
01:01:45of bricks because although you may be a hundred times better than them at
01:01:48something you know ten of them
01:01:51or five of them will physically overpower you and beat you up
01:01:55so the range of the intellect the differences in the intellect are far
01:01:59greater than the differences in the body right so
01:02:03I can be a hundred times as intelligent as someone
01:02:07but if they sucker punch me I'm still going down and my brain is damaged right
01:02:10so
01:02:17yeah and and girls do the same thing too right so the girls are like
01:02:20she was so beautiful but oh so boring I'm wondering what am I doing here now
01:02:26that's not a girl but it's a girly man guy from simply read so
01:02:33does anyone out there really care about the colors in your hair
01:02:38my little golden baby where have all your birds flown now
01:02:45yeah so the girls all put out this dumb blonde thing right
01:02:51I want a burger and some fries and a coke
01:02:56uh ma'am this is a library oh sorry I want a burger some fries and a coke
01:03:04right so yeah the dumb blondes and and all of that that the good-looking people
01:03:08are just vacuous empty and dumb and dull and and so on I mean these are
01:03:12just it's all put out there right it's all put out there
01:03:16I'm very sad
01:03:24so with regards to my potential I remember when I first started really
01:03:29writing I wrote a book called The Jealous War
01:03:31about the first world war which has always been a topic of
01:03:35fascination for me and the words just came pouring out
01:03:41easy easy writing has never been difficult for me
01:03:44well with one exception uh so oh that exception being character like
01:03:52when you have 20 characters in a scene as a novel it's very tough in a movie
01:03:55it's easy because they can just all be in the background but in a novel
01:03:58it's tough so
01:04:05it was very easy and I remember being quite surprised at
01:04:09how easy it was and how the language flowed I mean you can see this that the
01:04:13analogies and metaphors just can come tumbling out of the brain
01:04:16my brain in almost a pre-assembled format it's almost like a
01:04:21beat poetry or something like that and that's just really cool and for me it's
01:04:25cool to just for me it's like I scrunch up a piece
01:04:28of paper I throw it and it lands in a complex origami pattern
01:04:31like Edward James Olmos in Blade Runner just wow how did that happen
01:04:37cool let's see if we can do that again and now I've been doing it for over 40
01:04:40years uh it is uh it is working so
01:04:45the the visuals and the language all just kind of come flowing out for me
01:04:48it's a really beautiful thing for me I'm very very blessed to have this ability
01:04:52I try to I did not earn the ability and therefore
01:04:56I try to put it to as good a use as possible because I'm so
01:05:01good at languages or language I'm also great I don't know
01:05:04like 17 different computer languages and so on so I'm pretty good
01:05:07at all that kind of stuff as well
01:05:11so you just have to start doing stuff and accept when you do it well
01:05:18and also accept that when you do something well that serves no one in
01:05:22power so if you do something well that helps those in power you will
01:05:27get promoted and praised right so I mean Stephen King writes well and
01:05:32provokes a sense of prickling horror in the minds of the masses and people
01:05:37who are frightened are easier to rule so he's promoted
01:05:40and and paid handsomely to turn into what looks like a lesbian aunt
01:05:44complaining about Trump on a regular basis so
01:05:49if but if you have great powers of communication
01:05:53and you do not serve the powers that be then you become an enemy to be
01:05:56underwrite right
01:06:06all right so no it's not a potential that scares us
01:06:11it is the rage of
01:06:16the envious that scares us
01:06:22I mean this is one of the reasons why if you're an abusive relationship you're
01:06:25isolated right so if you have a girlfriend who's kind
01:06:28of nasty and weird and controlling then she doesn't want you hanging with
01:06:32your friends and she certainly doesn't want to hang with
01:06:36a positive helpful friendly nice
01:06:41encouraging supportive girlfriend right so if you've got some sort of mean
01:06:45girlfriend who's putting you down and then you hang with a friend and his
01:06:50girlfriend is like really nice and positive and so on
01:06:52your girlfriend is going to get really vengeful and petty and and resentful
01:06:58right because she doesn't want you seeing the opposite of her
01:07:01she doesn't want to see you seeing a higher standard
01:07:05and I mean maybe some girlfriends would be like oh wow they seem to be a lot
01:07:09happier she's really supportive I should really work on that but that's not very
01:07:11common in fact it's a largely a mythological
01:07:14beast or creature
01:07:17but
01:07:23she's gonna resent she's gonna hate that girl oh she's so fake she's so phony
01:07:27she's so this she's so that and so she's clearly warning you to stay
01:07:30away from her so that you don't raise your standards and you don't look over
01:07:33and say well crap she's really nice what the hell
01:07:37why who am I stuck with right she doesn't want that right
01:07:41so even being in a healthy relationship is dangerous
01:07:46right being in a healthy relationship is dangerous
01:07:49because people see your healthy relationship and those people in
01:07:53dysfunctional relationships
01:07:58get resentful and if they can't avoid you they will
01:08:02lie about you undermine you try to destroy your reputation oh you think
01:08:05you're so perfect but let me tell you what I heard right you think you you
01:08:08think he's so great let me tell you what I heard
01:08:10right and just they just make up lies and so even happiness and joy
01:08:15is dangerous because of the resentment
01:08:21of people who are lords mayors and masters of trash planet
01:08:30you ever notice this
01:08:33you ever notice this this is why I cannot thank you for the tip this is why
01:08:38I can't be around people who have dysfunctional relationships I can't
01:08:41I can't there's this somebody posted this on twitter
01:08:46not too long ago they said um
01:08:51my husband met me at a restaurant was so happy to see me that the couple
01:08:54at the next table broke up yes right exactly exactly you can't be too
01:09:01happy around dysfunctional people you can't be too much in love around bitter
01:09:04people you can't be too liberated around
01:09:07claustrophobic and self-controlled people
01:09:13what is the resentment against me I mean it's just the price you have to pay
01:09:24I mean do people really hear my reports of my marriage
01:09:28hear my interactions live with my daughter
01:09:32and think well that's a bad guy it's not the case at all
01:09:36it's not the case at all
01:09:39when you raise the standard of humanity
01:09:46you provoke pathological anxiety in those who will not meet that standard and
01:09:52they will attempt to attack you and often quite successfully
01:09:58you
01:10:03actualizing your potential you have to do it bit by bit
01:10:07you know it's it's like an army an army you can say oh we're just going to
01:10:11conquer the whole thing and it's like no you got to go bit by bit and establish
01:10:14your supply lines because if you go too far your supply lines get cut off and
01:10:17you're isolated right napoleon style hitler in russia
01:10:20style so you have to take your potential bit by
01:10:24bit and adjust it's like weight loss you can't just lose it all
01:10:26in my humble opinion i'm no nutritionist but this is sort of what
01:10:29i've heard if you lose it all the problem is your
01:10:32body goes into starvation mode so you lose a bit consolidate lose a bit
01:10:35consolidate that seems to be the way to do it at least that's the way that i've
01:10:38done it and you know it's worked for me so
01:10:40it's not advice to anyone else it's just what's worked for me
01:10:43you know lose five or ten sit there for a while lose five or ten sit there for
01:10:45a while so
01:10:49actualizing your potential is just bit by bit
01:10:53right the story of icarus is real right icarus wanted to fly as high as he could
01:10:56put wings on flew too close to the sun sun melted the wax on his wings he
01:11:01plummeted to his death right
01:11:11achieve your potential at great peril and if your potential is not just for
01:11:19yourself but if you achieve your potential
01:11:22and
01:11:28it has an impact on other people's self-esteem
01:11:33man that's rough that's rough on them
01:11:40so there's there's two strategies right in life which is to be as great as you
01:11:47can be or to indulge your lowest instincts and
01:11:53attack anyone who does better
01:11:59so i didn't have to build up my self-esteem and belief in myself
01:12:02i did things that for me were amazing some of the poetry i wrote the books
01:12:07early books i wrote worked like 30 plays and i just thought they were great
01:12:11and some some better than others of course right and when i finally sort of
01:12:13hit did hit my potential uh i thought i was really doing some
01:12:18amazing stuff and the amount of in they'll try to get
01:12:24you with indifference and then they'll try they'll get you with hostility right
01:12:27but rarely direct hostility it's usually sort of around the back right
01:12:35i mean i had i had a friend when he met the woman who was going to become my
01:12:40wife he just completely freaked out now he'd never had a successful
01:12:42relationship and he could see the quality of woman that she was and he
01:12:46just i couldn't speak he was normally very
01:12:49eloquent he just completely freaked out because
01:12:51something looming comes in that changes your standards you know changing
01:12:53standards is a very dangerous business it's a very dangerous business because
01:12:57everyone thinks they're the best and when it turns out they're not a lot
01:13:01of times they get really resentful and hostile so
01:13:05everyone talks about the upside of improvement and raising your standards
01:13:08very few people talk about the danger and risk
01:13:11of blowback now that's what i love about the hobbit
01:13:15blew my mind when i read that book because normally it's like well we get
01:13:20the pirate's treasure and everything's great and we killed the dragon and
01:13:22everything's great it's like nope now there's a fight over the treasure
01:13:26right and this is you've achieved gold in your life now everyone comes to
01:13:28pillage you right i mean the simple examples of course are
01:13:32the endless disasters that strike in the hearts and homes of people who
01:13:35win the lottery terrible terrible stuff
01:13:41what's your take on working for the government as a public servant so i can
01:13:43keep the wife at home to raise the children
01:13:51isn't that a false dichotomy why can't you get a job in the private sector
01:13:55oh the woman who had the older guy no my mom knew he mailed things to my family
01:13:59home wow
01:14:03that's terrible what about your dad i guess he's absent right which is
01:14:07right anybody who wants the father out of the household almost certainly wants
01:14:10to prey on the children uh it took me all the 25 minutes to use
01:14:13ai to pull up the ungodly amount of psychological and physiological health
01:14:16effects of habitual weed use it's well documented for everyone with the
01:14:18internet yeah for sure
01:14:33steph why does it annoy me so much when men say the wife rather than my wife
01:14:37really annoys me i have no idea why i think i share your annoyance i'm not
01:14:41sure exactly why the wife it's yeah because it's a category
01:14:47rather than a person so it indicates a relationship with a category rather than
01:14:51the individual who inhabits that category so that's probably it
01:14:56you
01:15:01a woman says i was on birth control for 20 years
01:15:05looking back now it's like looking back on someone else's life i don't identify
01:15:10with the decisions made at all yeah for sure
01:15:19uh so the woman who was um the older guy was
01:15:23in contact with she says i'm not close to my mom and basically everything she
01:15:26did raising me was insane and i don't respect her at all
01:15:29but it's still annoying at me independent of my mom that he is still
01:15:32out there and i did nothing as an adult to stop him
01:15:35but if he didn't do anything illegal or inappropriate
01:15:39how would you stop him
01:15:45i think you're the first joke you're the first person ever to make a joke
01:15:50i'm all for sports but i think water polo must be hard on the horses yeah
01:15:53nobody's ever made that joke before excellent
01:15:59no wonder all the guys at the gym hate me yeah
01:16:03getting good at things is a pretty transferable skill i've never seen any
01:16:06evidence that people are all only good at one thing and everyone
01:16:10is good at something
01:16:14well but frankly you're a woman right
01:16:18so um with with men we we tend to be really good or really bad
01:16:24uh women tend to be clustered more around the middle
01:16:28no you posted an article on birth control reducing stress reactivity yeah
01:16:33when out jogging the number of people who give you evil looks is insane yeah
01:16:36for sure old joke what do you call three bronze
01:16:38all standing in a row a wind tunnel yeah what do you what's the
01:16:43same between a blonde and a bottle of beer both empty from the neck
01:16:46right well i mean blonde is very attractive right it's golden hair it's
01:16:50very attractive blonde and blue white right so you have to trash that right
01:16:57i find the characters in atlas strike to be very relatable and inspiring they're
01:17:00excellent at everything they do and they constantly think about the
01:17:03morality of their actions
01:17:06yeah um i found them inspiring but not relatable but
01:17:10not anything to do with you i'm just telling you my experience right people's
01:17:14horrible behavior towards me for my potential has really
01:17:16adversely impacted my life yeah
01:17:23a question for you do you have a hard time remembering the epic things you
01:17:26said if you don't record them i improvise music and sometimes i create
01:17:29something amazing but i forget to record it and easily forget about it
01:17:31so it has gone to the ether yes that is true that is a big
01:17:35big problem i mean you've seen me gap out sometimes and i go one too many
01:17:39branches of tangents off the main topic and like what the hell was i talking
01:17:42about so yes absolutely uh it is a big thing the number of songs that have come
01:17:47out of jam sessions where somebody recorded like
01:17:50the song american woman by the guess who burton cummings great singer
01:17:54this that came out of somebody just happened to record something they jammed
01:17:57at live and said hey you should make a song out of this this happens all the
01:18:00time all the time so yeah just record
01:18:04everything you can always erase it right
01:18:09people with dysfunctional relationships don't want to believe happy
01:18:11relationships exist yeah that's right i mean i'm telling you if if y'all could
01:18:16be around my family for a day i mean most people
01:18:20were like wouldn't even know they wouldn't comprehend it they just
01:18:22wouldn't comprehend it how much laughter and fun and affection
01:18:27i mean i just wouldn't understand it
01:18:34what was it robert smith of the cure recorded him and his wife and he said
01:18:38we sound like a bunch of insane people in an asylum
01:18:47well this is one of the reasons why i really got
01:18:52um objectivism right hatred of the good for being the good
01:18:57but it's not just evil it is a reproductive strategy
01:19:01if you can like if you can drive out the handsome tall and rational
01:19:08then your short anti-rational ugliness uh you
01:19:12change the whole scale right
01:19:18thank you so much staff perhaps i feel a lot of fear to actualize my potential as
01:19:22i am treating the people in my life like my parents despite having only
01:19:25loving nurturing friendships in my life well if you have loving nurturing
01:19:30friendships in my life why haven't they talked to you about this
01:19:40yeah tall poppy syndrome is real hide and keep a low profile to avoid getting
01:19:43target cost us a life never lived yeah see i
01:19:46don't i don't agree with that either if you're given potential you have to
01:19:50try and find a way to maximize it without
01:19:52being destroyed by the resentful
01:20:08i heard a man introduce his wife this is kelly my wife he explained
01:20:12to me in private why he did that she is a person in her own right in addition to
01:20:15her relationship with him what
01:20:21i'm sorry i don't understand that she's a person in her own right in addition to
01:20:25her relationship with him no she's not i'm not am i a person in
01:20:30my own right independent of my relationship with my wife
01:20:33no i'm not like hoarding a part of myself out of the marriage i'm not
01:20:37you know i mean what what do you mean she's a person in her own right in
01:20:41addition to her relationship with him no you're a married you're on flesh
01:20:44you're like two trees that have grown together trying to be individualists
01:20:48my god you the the life that you blend together
01:20:51their finances health care concern family children
01:20:55i mean you are one flesh
01:20:59i mean if my wife were to say uh uh well i introduce you as steph my husband
01:21:04because i recognize that you are an individual with your own personality
01:21:08and preferences and existence outside of the marriage i'm like
01:21:12no i'm not no i'm not you know first thing i uh do when i wake up in the
01:21:18morning is um hey how can i benefit my family how can
01:21:22i work with my family how can i make things better with my family
01:21:27i don't know i it seems to me odd that you would want to
01:21:34you know it's like doubles tennis i don't know if you've played doubles
01:21:36tennis or double pickleball or double record sports or whatever i've even
01:21:39played double squash which was quite complicated
01:21:41so in doubles tennis you'd say well i have my own tennis game completely
01:21:45independent of what you're doing it's like no you don't
01:21:47it's doubles tennis you're literally working with each other and everything
01:21:50you do is based upon in part what the other person is doing
01:21:54there's no independent game you're a team
01:22:00i'm on a relay race team but i'm my own runner completely independent i have an
01:22:05old no you're not you're part of a team
01:22:09i don't i don't understand and i'm sorry if i'm missing something obvious but
01:22:16what does that mean
01:22:20uh Steph got rejected by a woman last week feels kind of crappy
01:22:23but no big deal thanks to what i've learned from you thank you very much
01:22:26regular donor well thank you i appreciate that
01:22:28i appreciate that and i'm sorry to hear that i really am
01:22:32i really am and got rejected by a woman last week
01:22:36okay so you feel you say i got rejected the language is important
01:22:41right the language is important
01:22:46so let me let me ask you this
01:22:52let's say that you are an art expert and you find
01:22:57a monet
01:23:01painting
01:23:04at a garage sale and the guy's like hey man 10 bucks take it off my hands you're
01:23:08like great and then you take the monet painting to
01:23:12a variety of places a pawn shops saying i want some money or
01:23:16a variety of places art shops or whatever galleries
01:23:20and you show them the painting let's say you don't tell them it's a
01:23:24monet you show them the painting say how much it would give you this is this
01:23:26you get where'd you get this at a garage sale it's worthless ah forget it right
01:23:33and then you take it to one art gallery where the guy's like
01:23:37holy crap that's an original monet
01:23:43goosebumps 10 million dollars
01:23:5110 million dollars now do you feel that you are
01:23:59just your painting is being rejected you're being rejected
01:24:02no what's happening is
01:24:05the people don't recognize the quality now i understand there's limitation say
01:24:10well they just recognize it as a monet and blah blah blah right
01:24:16but if you say i'm rejected then you're putting other people in a
01:24:21position of sovereign and value judgment and they're rejecting you
01:24:24and you feel lesser because of that
01:24:30but what if you say she did not recognize my quality
01:24:36right you understand this is dunning kruger 101
01:24:40it takes quality
01:24:44to see quality
01:24:47it was after i took almost two years of acting training that i realized how
01:24:55great marlon brando was you know there are people i saw fuzzy
01:25:01footed prince did a live concert where he was doing um
01:25:06you know a live concert and he did a live concert and he did a live concert
01:25:11and he did a live concert and he did a live concert and he did a live concert
01:25:15where he was doing um play that funky music
01:25:20wide boy and he just guitars away right and it's like yeah that's a cool solo
01:25:24right and i was looking through the comments and one guy was like i playing
01:25:27i've been playing guitar for 40 years i kind of understand what he's doing like
01:25:30it's so incredibly great and what eric clapton say what does it
01:25:33feel like to be the world's best guitarist i don't know you have to ask
01:25:36prince go watch prince do the guitar solo after
01:25:40resurrected uh jeff lynn and george harrison's kid
01:25:45and tom petty doing while my guitar gently weeps while my guitar gently
01:25:48weeps watch prince do a guitar solo it's it's
01:25:51incredible i mean unbelievably gives you goosebumps right
01:25:53and i'm not a guitarist i mean i tried to learn a guy learned one song at the
01:25:56guitar i'm like that this is not for me and it takes quality to appreciate
01:26:02quality
01:26:05so it matters
01:26:08how you describe it to yourself and you want to be accurate
01:26:15you want to be accurate are you rejected by
01:26:23someone who genuinely appreciates quality
01:26:30so a woman can be single into her 30s because she has high standards and
01:26:34genuinely recognizes quality and hasn't met the right guy
01:26:37it could be the case not common could be the case
01:26:42so i mean i think i've written some great novels
01:26:45and um people in general i got one novel published but people in general did not
01:26:50want to publish them and i had that challenge right why don't
01:26:53they want to publish my novels i love them it's the kind of i write the
01:26:57kind of stuff that i would absolutely love to read
01:27:00i listen to audiobooks of my own novels uh
01:27:03fairly consistently because i just you know i mean i love
01:27:07the stories and i appreciate my voice acting so to speak
01:27:10and so it's great stuff i get goosebumps the scene between
01:27:17rachel and her brother-in-law in the parking lot after the men's rights
01:27:19conference oh just gives me goosebumps and other things
01:27:27the moment when mary and just paul realizes that
01:27:32her material success is never going to make her happy and she
01:27:37decides to destroy herself i mean amazing to me
01:27:40goosebumps wendy's introduction in almost
01:27:45tom's frustration
01:27:49with his friends the whole comic scene with the welsh guy and
01:27:56shakespeare oh you know i love it i absolutely even
01:28:00as the battle of the gardens the scene where the kids are playing veering in
01:28:04between war and play amazing stuff to me just love it love it
01:28:08but i'm you know in terms of like publishers
01:28:11i'm the only one of it anyone who loves it so
01:28:18what do i what do i say to myself do i say well i guess i'm just mistaken it's
01:28:22not good it's not good but i can't do that
01:28:25because the empirical evidence to me is that it is good so then what i have to
01:28:28do i have to go and look at the other books that the publishers are
01:28:32publishing and saying do i like those books
01:28:35and the answer almost invariably is they're beautifully written horror shows
01:28:42they're beautifully written absolute horror shows
01:28:49it is pretty
01:28:54it is seductive syllables of semi-satanism he said because alliteration
01:29:03is cool so you're rejected by a woman are you
01:29:07directed by a woman what what is rejected what is rejected
01:29:13what is rejected the sense of life that is in my books i think is very positive
01:29:17thank you james the sense of life in my books is very
01:29:19positive
01:29:22there's depth there's power there's characterization there's humanity there's
01:29:26richness and most books these days most novels i
01:29:32can't do modern novels they're either like
01:29:35trashy empty stuff or it is deep horror
01:29:42so you're either scratching on the silly surface or you go deep into hell
01:29:46that that's it that's all there is and that's something that uh
01:29:50paul mccartney said about modern music is it's either empty pop or
01:29:53hell on earth right
01:29:57there's no emotional richness in the modern novels
01:30:02uh i know really now i was thinking of one
01:30:07exception but
01:30:10so uh are my novels being rejected maybe no sorry the novels have
01:30:17certainly been rejected the question is why
01:30:19now if they're publishing novels i love and they don't like my novels
01:30:26well that's different right now of course just poor
01:30:30was rejected because it's a critique of socialism as well as i think a great
01:30:33story as a whole
01:30:39and the god of atheists though it received the most stellar review from a
01:30:43professional reviewer who said literally we now
01:30:46finally have in our hands the great canadian novel which i've been waiting
01:30:48for my whole life this is what a professional phd literature reviewer
01:30:52gave a review of that novel was never published because it is about corruption
01:30:56within the family people don't want to write about that i
01:31:00want to read about that
01:31:09so are you being rejected
01:31:14because you lack quality or because the other person lacks quality
01:31:19but it has to be one of the two i mean assuming the woman's single if the
01:31:22woman has quality and you are quality
01:31:28then she should not reject you she won't reject you if you are quality
01:31:32and the woman has quality if you're both quality
01:31:35you know moral honest decent then you will
01:31:38connect so what what are you being rejected for what what is being
01:31:42rejected well if she's quality and you're not quality you have to work to
01:31:45raise your quality
01:31:48but that should be inspiring i mean obviously there's a balance like you
01:31:52feel bad and inspiring right
01:31:56what does rejection mean what are you being rejected for i mean
01:32:01i i think i think i have some credibility when i'm talking about
01:32:05experiencing being rejected by the world
01:32:09i think i think i think i have this on my resume
01:32:13one or two places that i've had to deal with
01:32:16hostility and rejection from the world okay is the world a quality
01:32:25are people willing to lie about me in ferocious and psychotic ways
01:32:29are they quality people no so what am i being rejected by
01:32:35all the people who couldn't go one website over like somebody posted one of
01:32:39my a slide from one of my old presentations
01:32:41from 2014 thing got six and a half million views on
01:32:44twitter and of course the comments are all the same hey whatever happened to
01:32:48that guy hey that guy it's like okay so i was not quality enough
01:32:56for people to follow right okay that's fine i mean if i have a
01:33:01favorite singer let's say and the singer ends up being kicked off his label and
01:33:06comes up with his own website does this mean i completely forget about him no
01:33:09my favorite artist or whatever it is right i'll just go there right
01:33:14so am i being rejected and and then you say okay well
01:33:19if i was rejected by like 95 97 of my audience
01:33:23didn't follow me over so if i'm rejected by those people
01:33:27the question is okay who do they accept who are they following now
01:33:30and is the other people that they're following now of higher quality than me
01:33:34producing better content richer content more honest content deeper content
01:33:38more rigorous and consistent content with integrity
01:33:42um well no
01:33:46you're out of sight out of mind for people who have no capacity to pair bond
01:33:49right this woman says i hate waking up if my
01:33:51husband isn't there it's really unsettling you have to hunt him down and
01:33:54check he's okay very nice
01:33:58wow i believe he was implying she had a name and it was not
01:34:01my wife yeah you you missed what i was saying
01:34:09let's see here says i don't know stuff i just wish i could have broken away from
01:34:12the wounds inflicted upon me in my childhood and accessed my
01:34:17potential i just have a sense of disconnection with people and it seems
01:34:19like everyone every time i tried to do to really reach
01:34:22out and connect with people i just end up getting attacked
01:34:26compassion hijacked all the things i just really feel at a
01:34:29loss
01:34:33so wounds is a morally neutral term you weren't wounded
01:34:37you were tortured by evildoers you're not a victim of a wound you're a victim
01:34:42of evil
01:34:45right i mean you could theoretically cut yourself accidentally that's different
01:34:48from being stabbed that those though both produce wounds
01:34:53so if you feel like
01:34:57you're trying to connect with people and just end up getting attacked it's
01:35:00because you lack compassion for yourself and you refer
01:35:04to the wounds rather than the evildoers
01:35:14does your wife introducing the man next to her as her husband not seem to imply
01:35:18you might be mistaken for a different man
01:35:20she would be seen with hypothetical here miguel her lover
01:35:29yeah the homeless guy saying Steph is bad at philosophy homeless guy judgment
01:35:32carries no weight yeah so i mean when people critique me
01:35:35and they just do it really badly like really badly
01:35:39then why would i take their criticism seriously right
01:35:43if there's any place left to be cancelled from maybe the next novel can
01:35:46include russians lol oh those russians in europe and america
01:35:53there's a growing feeling of hysteria so
01:35:59uh my first novel was about i was hugely influenced in my teens by russian
01:36:04writers
01:36:09but uh yeah my first novel my first real novel was revolutions which you can get
01:36:13at free domain nft.com free domain nft.com
01:36:17was about russia because i recognized that the west was going in the same
01:36:22direction that russia was in the 19th century i wanted to write about that
01:36:29oh the woman is this the guy who was rejected she's very smart and kind but i
01:36:33do suspect i did not make the cut physically i'm very fit and pretty tall
01:36:36but no pretty face saw her previous guy and some other signs
01:36:39and that's the conclusion so bullet dodged probably
01:36:41i guess the suck comes from the fact i came close to finding quality but turned
01:36:45out i didn't
01:36:49i came close to finding quality but turns out i didn't
01:36:55so she rejected you because of
01:37:02factors beyond your control which is the shape of your face right
01:37:07so she's rejecting you for entirely shallow reasons that have nothing to do
01:37:13with your quality of character right i mean imagine if my wife had
01:37:18rejected me because i was bald you know all of the happiness of the
01:37:22last 22 years the richness the success the love the
01:37:26family the like would all be gone oh because he's talking bald
01:37:32right so why would a woman reject a man
01:37:38for not being super handsome because she has bonded with her peers rather
01:37:44than a man
01:37:47so it's really absolutely terrifying the degree to which
01:37:51women will judge a man based upon how he will appear to her friends
01:37:56and this is one of the reasons why women end up in these terrible
01:37:59relationships and and you see this like all the time
01:38:03in movies aimed at women oh it's appalling it's just
01:38:06wretched these movies aimed at women
01:38:11like this even happened in the movie um it ends with us or
01:38:15it stops with us i can't remember it ends with us the one with um
01:38:22Blake Lively and so she brings her boyfriend over to her mother and it's
01:38:26like oh he's so gorgeous oh my god why didn't you tell me how gorgeous
01:38:30like the female validation right so if a woman is going to choose
01:38:38the father of her children based upon whether her friends think he's
01:38:43hot well you wouldn't want to have children with a retarded woman it
01:38:48probably would be amoral to immoral
01:38:52maybe you need a pen name no i don't think it was a pen name
01:39:00anger but humperdinck was a famous singer and a good singer too
01:39:05i came close to finding quality but turned out i didn't
01:39:09okay before before you commit to a woman meet her friends before you find
01:39:14yourself interested in a woman sit down with her friends meet her friends
01:39:18evaluate her friends are they moral reasonable happy for her
01:39:22are they in stable relationships are they weird are they shallow do they
01:39:27drink too much like meet a woman's friends
01:39:31a woman's friends and a man's friends are a reflection of his values
01:39:35manifested in the friend in the flesh so you can lie about what you believe but
01:39:38you can't lie about your friends they're there they do what they do
01:39:44before you commit to anyone meet their friends you can't judge them by their
01:39:48family because they didn't choose their family they choose whether they're in
01:39:50touch with their family didn't choose their family
01:39:52but meet her friends meet her friends does she have good friends
01:39:57are they decent people moral people stable people do they support her care
01:40:00about her
01:40:02no
01:40:08grifter yes i'm just a grifter so grifter is like spewing
01:40:13it's just an npc word oh you're spewing prop you're spewing false you're spewing
01:40:17hatred a grifter and spewing there's a whole
01:40:20list of this uh npc words they're just npc words
01:40:23that are there to activate people's hostility hostility to the truth
01:40:30yeah such a grifter yeah such a grifter and that's why i tell all the most
01:40:35convenient truths that people pay the most money for yeah such a grifter
01:40:39somebody says most of the great authors i read in school were boring but
01:40:42steph's work is authentic gripping and blew away the mandatory curriculum
01:40:45and of course the message of reason upb and peaceful parenting tops the usual
01:40:49lefty lefty tropes well thank you
01:40:57yeah was jesus christ injured or was he wounded
01:41:01no he was tortured he was assaulted
01:41:07free domain nft.com yeah yeah for sure maybe a novel set
01:41:10during red october i'm working on another novel right now
01:41:15it's great fun but i'm taking on a real challenge
01:41:19a real challenge real challenge i really i can't write the same books over and
01:41:23over again i don't know how mainstream authors do but
01:41:32it ends with us yet i know do you think me doing the me plus thing
01:41:37might be a major factor in failing to connect with people
01:41:39man forget about connecting with people connect with yourself
01:41:42you can't connect with people except by going through yourself
01:41:46whatever you lie to you about yourself keeps you distant from people and when i
01:41:51say lie to you i say this with all sympathy lying about ourselves was
01:41:55essential for survival right so when i was told
01:41:58i was bad as a little kid i had to accept that and
01:42:01and live like that because otherwise i would um
01:42:07i would be a further attacked assaulted rejected and maybe killed
01:42:12listen listening to david gilmore's new album i have not
01:42:15listened to it i know that he's uh taking his guitar to a new level at 78
01:42:19his daughter's efforts are no token effort either yeah uh i'm obviously a
01:42:23huge fan of david gilmore an underrated vocalist too obviously
01:42:27fantastic guitarist but and also an amazing vocalist
01:42:31so i will have a listen i have not i really don't get a chance
01:42:34really to listen to music that much these days but i'll certainly give it a
01:42:37try thank you i broke down and went to a movie beetle
01:42:41juice a sequel oh yeah a good uh good clean
01:42:45fun
01:42:53all right any any last donations support for lonely
01:42:59shaggy bearded philosopher guy lonely because
01:43:03i'm just doing the show on my own in the studio um
01:43:06she's kind as an angel but i know a friend of hers that's quite the bitter
01:43:09person right this is making sense she's as kind
01:43:12as an angel
01:43:16yeah well women who are super kind won't be able
01:43:21to protect your children right please please don't just be with
01:43:26women who are super kind a super kind woman will be taken
01:43:29advantage of by others from here to eternity and will not be
01:43:33able to protect your children you need women
01:43:36who have a knowledge of the immorality of the world and the dangers
01:43:41of the world
01:43:44naive women get your children kidnapped i'm donating next week on the free
01:43:50domain website freedom.com thank you freedom.com thank you joe
01:43:54appreciate that look forward to that i'm just going to sit here and wait for
01:43:57that because i've got time my gosh what is that
01:44:0218 to 24 yeah 16 days left only two days left
01:44:05only two weeks and change left to be
01:44:1157 years old ah aging is glorious i absolutely love it
01:44:17i absolutely love it i relish it i enjoy it it is a beautiful beautiful thing to
01:44:21age sweet and tasty
01:44:27all right i think we may be drawing to a close any of the last
01:44:30topics questions suggestions curiosities if you're listening to this later
01:44:35freedom.locals.com great stuff is going up there thank you
01:44:38simph i appreciate that stay strong brother figure out what
01:44:43you may have been forced to lie about that you still believe right this is
01:44:47right adulting and and self-knowledge is figuring out
01:44:51what you were forced to lie about that you may still in fact believe
01:44:55beats the alternative yeah no aging is fantastic
01:44:59aging is absolutely wonderful everybody talks about the negatives nobody talks
01:45:03about the absolute pluses of aging of which there are very very many
01:45:13all right going once going twice what else do i have to mention
01:45:17about you yeah donations i'm sorry i'm a little behind on getting these out
01:45:21donations this month get you the history of philosophers series
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01:45:42what are the pluses of aging uh wisdom stability
01:45:45your major decisions are largely behind you uh confidence
01:45:48lack of insecurity i know who i'm going to spend the rest of my life with i know
01:45:51what i'm doing for the rest of my life maybe some financial stability if you've
01:45:54managed to save money uh there are massive pluses of aging like
01:45:58because i'm going back and reading about my mind at 25
01:46:04and i'm like man man did i ever have a lot of questions
01:46:09that have been answered decades ago for me now
01:46:12aging is fantastic i don't aging i never have to take an exam again for the rest
01:46:16of my life i never have to figure out what it is i'm going to do with my life
01:46:19i never have to figure out whether i'm going to have an audience for what it is
01:46:22that i do um i am planning on adding more
01:46:25philosophers to the series but the next one is
01:46:28emmanuel kant who is massive and it's just taking a while
01:46:36all right uh so yes we will get to more philosophers for sure but i'm gonna
01:46:42need like i don't know a week to get i've got a
01:46:44whole series of notes and researchers helped me get together notes about
01:46:48emmanuel kant so uh but that's just it's uh it's uh it's a tough thing to
01:46:54to pull together and because because it's adding
01:46:5725th to a 24-part series i have to work on that which generates income for
01:47:05the costs right the cost of the show so payroll and overhead and media and
01:47:11servers and bandwidth and you name it right
01:47:15so i have to do that which is the most responsible for
01:47:21the finances of the show and what is the most responsible for
01:47:23the finances of the show is the kind of work that i'm doing here
01:47:26not you know adding one more to the 24-part series history of philosophers
01:47:31because i have to say to myself as i have to do okay how does this help
01:47:34the income of the show and so
01:47:39i can't justify that from a cost benefit standpoint at the moment so
01:47:43but yeah kant is a very and and i have a very complicated relationship with
01:47:46emmanuel kant so after emmanuel yeah i think that the last one should be me
01:47:51i think i'll do that at the end i'll do that at the end
01:47:57of my life and the series all right i think we're done for dips
01:48:02looks like we're done for dips well thank you everybody so much
01:48:06for your very kind support and wonderful absolutely fantastic
01:48:10questions and comments it really is a highlight of my day does it continue
01:48:14to get better as kids get older i can't imagine it getting better from
01:48:17here yeah i mean there's there's a you know
01:48:21a point in the teenage years where they start focusing more on peers than
01:48:24parents that's a little bit of a hiccup which i
01:48:26you know can understand and it's actually healthy but it certainly is a
01:48:28bit of a change but yeah it's it's a it's wonderful all the way along
01:48:32all right have yourself a glorious glorious sunday thank you so much for
01:48:35dropping by today you know it's funny because
01:48:37i'm like i've got a couple of notes for the shows but because your questions the
01:48:40comments are so great and your interaction with you guys is so much
01:48:43fun i really really do appreciate making these shows so easy and for me at least
01:48:48the time flies i hope it does for you as well all right have yourselves a
01:48:52glorious glorious afternoon lots of love from up here
01:48:54talk to you soon