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Sunday Morning Live 3 November 2024

In this episode, I explore the gripping tale of Peanut the squirrel and Fred the raccoon, who were taken from a couple that raised them. We discuss the couple's journey, characterized by their unique bond with their pets and the emotional turmoil they faced when state intervention disrupted their lives. I analyze the implications of governmental overreach and the irony of targeting a cherished pet amid a backdrop of urban wildlife issues. The conversation delves into public and media reactions, the role of social media fame, and how these dynamics shape perceptions of animal rights and individual freedoms. We examine the societal implications of this incident, reflecting on themes of community surveillance, neighborly tensions, and the broader cultural context of freedom versus control, ultimately inviting listeners to contemplate the complexities of human-animal relationships in today's world.

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Transcript
00:00:00Yes, yes, good morning, everybody. It's squirrel time. Fluffy-tailed rodent slaughter is the
00:00:06topic of the day. And we are going to talk all things squirrel-related. Peanut, the dead
00:00:16squirrel, and Fred the raccoon have both been, they're not so euthanized, it wasn't euthanized,
00:00:23they were killed. And this is really, really something. So, just a brief overview of it.
00:00:31There's a squirrel dad. He's a young hot guy with a heavily tattooed and I don't believe
00:00:38entirely authentically boobed wife. He's got his tats as well. And this guy Longo witnessed
00:00:47the squirrel's mom get hit by a car. And baby Peanut was orphaned. So, he took the
00:00:55baby squirrel in and raised it over the next eight months. And then he tried to release
00:01:00it to the wild. And what he says is, the owner, I released him in the backyard and a day and
00:01:06a half later, I found him sitting on my porch, missing half his tail. So, here I am bawling
00:01:12my eyes out like I failed you as you're human. And I kind of opened the door, he ran inside
00:01:17and that was the last of Peanut's wildlife career. So, that was five years ago and they've
00:01:22got millions of fans. Now, believe it or not, I looked up what animals you're not allowed
00:01:33to keep as pets in New York. Wolves, foxes, coyotes, coyotes, hyenas, dingoes, especially
00:01:42if they get your baby, jackals and other undomesticated dogs. Lions, tigers, leopards,
00:01:48jaguars, pumas, panthers, mountain lions, cheetahs, cougars, bobcats, lynxes and other
00:01:52undomesticated catty cats. Ferrets, weasels, minks, badgers, wolverines, skunks and mongooses.
00:02:01Squirrels, raccoons and bats, bears, elephants, zebras, rhinoceros, giraffes, tarantulas,
00:02:11black widows and other venomous spiders. So, what happened? So, this guy has had the
00:02:21squirrel for seven and a half years and he wears, now listen, I mean, I don't want to
00:02:28sound overly prudish, the guy's got a nice physique and appears to be packing more meat
00:02:33than a factory farm, but he wears these tight yet baggy at the crotch sweatpants to show
00:02:42off his genitals. He wears these muscle shirts and he's a good looking guy and a really nice
00:02:49physique and so on. And he looks like he's held in a sneeze with a delicate helium balloon
00:02:56down near his groin, full on Freddie Mercury levels of sausage fest. And his wife is heavily
00:03:02tatted and wears this very tight clothing, has a nice figure, although for me the tattoo
00:03:06completely ruins it and has the kind of boobs that you would normally see being dribbled
00:03:11at a basketball game. So, there's a certain amount of body vanity and salaciousness involved
00:03:16in that, you know, muscular guy with giant balls and a soft spot for cuddly animals.
00:03:26Just like catnip for a lot of women, right? And gay guys, I guess, as well. So, what happened
00:03:35was he's been socially media famous, the squirrel, for quite some time. It does seem to be the
00:03:41case that the guy has an OnlyFans account where he obviously does, I assume, pretty
00:03:50sexually salacious stuff. I'm not going to give you the name, but it's related to the
00:03:54squirrel. So, he made a lot of money from that, and so, you know, man-whore on the internet.
00:04:03Not the most noble of creatures, but, you know, I guess he's nice to the squirrel, so
00:04:07that's it for everyone. So, there was this woman, apparently, in Texas. Now, of course,
00:04:13this is all breaking stuff. I can't verify all of this. I'm just going to go by what's
00:04:16being said, to some degree. And this woman called in multiple complaints into New York
00:04:24from Texas. And the rumor is, I don't know, she seems to have deleted all of her social
00:04:33media accounts, but the rumor goes something like she was mad that the squirrel had more
00:04:39social media followers than she did, and so she was bragging about going to go and get
00:04:44the rat, and things like that. But people are up in arms about this, and I find this
00:04:50really fascinating. I just find this so absolutely fascinating. So, this is a quote, updated
00:04:58info on the wrongfully euthanized. No, not quite euthanasia. They were just killed. Euthanasia
00:05:03usually has to do with if you can't make it, and it's, you know, putting a dog down because
00:05:08the dog is so old. And they weren't old, and they weren't sick. They were euthanized. Well,
00:05:12they were killed for reasons we'll get to in a sec. So, squirrel Peanut and raccoon Fred.
00:05:17So, somebody wrote, some ridiculous judge did sign a warrant for a squirrel on a called-in
00:05:22quote complaint by this faux-tog to the DEC for unknown reasons. So, these people rescued
00:05:31and raised Peanut as an orphaned kit. They had him for seven years. The man created an
00:05:35animal rescue sanctuary as a result, had all the application process done, and it was signed.
00:05:41The only thing waiting on approval was an enclosure. This animal was not capable of
00:05:46wild survival. They tried that initially, but Peanut came back with injuries. Some rescued
00:05:51wildlife is not releasable. This is exactly why rehab sanctuaries will keep select animals
00:05:56after rehab capability is maxed. This raid involved making the victims sit outside their
00:06:02home for five hours while these maniacs tore up everything. They were denied the right to
00:06:07call legal counsel. Feds went through closets, leaving a complete mess. They broke soap bottles
00:06:12in the bathroom. They took apart the man's toilet upon escorting him before he could use it because
00:06:17apparently there could be some important squirrel propaganda hidden in there. I'm assuming in the
00:06:22tank. Please make it make sense. They further questioned his wife's immigration status,
00:06:27Germany, in spite of her having all the necessary documents and ID.
00:06:31Because these psychos descended unannounced and hunted down these ordinarily docile rescues in
00:06:35their normally peaceful home, somebody supposedly got bitten. They used that as a justification for
00:06:41killing them to examine brain tissue for signs of rabies. Let's be clear, they were observed
00:06:46putting on gloves. Was anyone actually bitten? What's really going on here? We all want to know.
00:06:54And so it goes on and on and on, and it is pretty wild, right? So 10 armed agents of the state walk
00:07:02into your house, detain you and your significant other outside your own home, question you like
00:07:06common criminals, then euthanize your pets based on an anonymous complaint after tossing your entire house.
00:07:14So...
00:07:19That's really something.
00:07:23That's really something.
00:07:26So...
00:07:27There are apparently three million rats in New York City, 21,000 rat complaints. What does New York
00:07:33pest control do? Kill the one trained squirrel in the entire world. And I don't mean to laugh
00:07:37because it's sad and all of that, but... Oh, somebody wrote, the fact that Americans are
00:07:42literally like, squirrel! At the end of this election cycle is absolute perfection.
00:07:49So... Somebody wrote, if you think peanut the squirrel being euthanized against
00:07:54his will is horrific, just know that happens to about 3,000 unborn babies every day in America.
00:08:01The number of John Wick memes, of course, are immense.
00:08:08So...
00:08:13So yeah, the DEC claims that peanut bit one of its officials on the hand during the raid,
00:08:17but long ago the man said he did not witness that and that the official's hands were heavily
00:08:21protected. He said, I watched everyone put gloves on before they entered my house.
00:08:25They had gloves that you get an eagle to land on, he said.
00:08:33So...
00:08:37Somebody else wrote, there was a simple solution to the tragedy,
00:08:39don't make online videos of an animal you don't have permits for.
00:08:44And of course, inevitably, somebody pointed out, which is true,
00:08:49that peanut the squirrel, not to mention Fred the raccoon, were investigated more
00:08:54than any Epstein client has been.
00:09:00So, what do you guys think is going on here? No, not November. Oof. So, yeah, tell me what you
00:09:06guys think is going on here, because this has become quite a thing. People are thinking,
00:09:11like, they're literally talking about how this might swing the election for Trump,
00:09:15and therefore the squirrel gave his life to, as some people argue, prevent World War III
00:09:22and incipient communism. So, yeah, well, tell me what do you guys think is going on here?
00:09:28Why do you think this is such a big deal? I'm ambivalent about it as a whole.
00:09:35I'm ambivalent about it as a whole. I can sort of see both sides.
00:09:38Thank you, cheeseburgercowboy. I appreciate the tip. And thank you. Think clearly. I appreciate
00:09:45the tip. And thank you, Aaron, for the tip. I appreciate that as well. Freedomman.com
00:09:53slash donate. Law enforcement going for an easy target. Now, I'd heard, I don't know if this is
00:10:01Now, I'd heard, I don't know if this is true or not, but I'd heard that the squirrel was
00:10:07portrayed wearing a MAGA hat. It's a big deal because people love pets more than their children.
00:10:14You know, I mean, a young couple, attractive in their own way, to me it's a bit skeevy,
00:10:21but, you know, I guess some people find that kind of stuff attractive.
00:10:24So, a young couple, attractive in their own way, together for seven years,
00:10:28or at least he's had the squirrel for seven years, I don't know, y'all gonna have any kids?
00:10:38It just seems, fur assed rodent doesn't seem to be much of a substitute for actual
00:10:49children. So, I just find it strange. I would assume that given the tattoos and the online
00:10:58sex work that these are people who had really terrible childhoods.
00:11:03Selective enforcement, yeah, I suppose so. I suppose so. It's like Jimmy Kimmel making jokes
00:11:11about how Republicans should go and vote after the election. That doesn't seem,
00:11:17that seems a bit of selective enforcement there, to put it mildly. So,
00:11:22yeah, I appreciate the comments, but I'll sort of go over some of the things that I think are
00:11:37important. So, I think that people are, and this is sort of a post-pandemic kind of thing,
00:11:43that people are a little edgy because neighbors or even people in another state,
00:11:51this wasn't a neighbor, but people even in another state can call in and complain about
00:11:55something you're doing, and then you get raided in this kind of way. And I think that's kind of
00:12:06alarming. What was it, that book, Three Felonies a Day, that in America, as is the case in a lot
00:12:12of places, you can be hit with, you know, people violate an average of three laws a day. So, the
00:12:21idea that someone just dislikes you and can just repeatedly phone, harass, and then these dominoes
00:12:26can be set in motion, I mean, we saw that over COVID. There's an extra car in my neighbor's
00:12:30driveway. I think they're socializing. Go get them, right? We know this. This is a constant
00:12:36thing. This is why, you know, for me, having status in my life is just not a good idea,
00:12:40because, you know, when the Berlin Wall and the East German Wall came down and the
00:12:50NK, no, the NKVD was Russian, the Stasi files, the East German secret police files were,
00:12:56like a third of people were informing on friends, family, and neighbors. Like a third of people.
00:13:03A third of people were informing on friends, family, and neighbors. When the government,
00:13:08thank you, Kairos, when the government gets more and more power,
00:13:12you can't afford morally compromised relationships.
00:13:21It's a wrong thing, right? Said something wrong, did something wrong, and it is really, really
00:13:30risky, right? Harvey Silvergate, three felonies a day. Yeah, thank you, James.
00:13:38So, the against me argument is not just ideological, it is for your protection.
00:13:45I mean, I don't know, did you guys have any experience or hear of,
00:13:51like in your lives or anything like that, of people going kind of nuts
00:13:58on COVID and then lockdowns and all of that kind of stuff? Did you find snitches and snippies and
00:14:07Karens and all these kinds of things, the homeowners association types?
00:14:19So, I mean, I think there is a certain amount of people just seeing other people happy,
00:14:26it bothers them. It bothers them. Happiness and misery are at war with each other as a whole.
00:14:33Happiness and misery are at war with each other.
00:14:41So, yeah, this afternoon I'm going back with my daughter to a place where we got kicked out
00:14:48over COVID. We ordered food, and we sat down to eat at a mall, and we got kicked out and had to
00:14:56go and eat in the freezing cold because of our vaccination status. Somebody says was about to
00:15:06be kicked out of my home, got yelled at by a colleague at work for not vaccine or masking.
00:15:17So, I think this is like an ancestral memory of various forms of totalitarianism. Of course,
00:15:24we think of the 20th century variety, which tends to be ideological, but we can think, of course,
00:15:28in the past that you said something against the dominant religious doctrine, and then you were
00:15:35rated as a blasphemer, as a heretic, as an unbeliever, as a skeptic, and all these kinds
00:15:40of things. So, being frightened of being snitched upon for relatively unimportant things, that's an
00:15:49ancestral memory, and I think that's kind of what's being kicked up.
00:16:00Somebody says I had an old lady scold me at the grocery store for not masking. The owner backed
00:16:04me up real time. It was awesome. Somebody says I have a cousin who was full-on enraged at the
00:16:08unvaxxed. I was the only one at that social gathering who wasn't vaxxed. Yeah.
00:16:13You've never made it live before. Hello, everyone. Hello, thank you, and welcome
00:16:20to our Sunday morning. Why are you giving them your patronage? Well, I mean, to be fair,
00:16:25it's been a long time, and do I blame the private sector for the actions of the government?
00:16:42Right. Do I blame the private sector for the actions of the government?
00:16:49You know, it's tough. I mean, do you think that I don't comply with rules that the government
00:16:56passes? So, for me, lording it over others who comply with government regulations when I myself
00:17:03comply with government regulations, it would just seem pretty freaking hypocritical of me. That's
00:17:08all. So, I hear what you're saying, like you're going, I'm going to withhold my patronage, and
00:17:14it's like, okay, well. It would be kind of tough to ask people to donate to me while I comply with
00:17:22government regulations and then withhold my funding from people who comply with government
00:17:26regulations. I mean, come on, man. Have a little kindness to your fellow citizens, right?
00:17:32Lee says, wasn't allowed to be on certain jobs or work for certain companies because they didn't
00:17:38have the VACs, couldn't go out to eat anywhere, hard to date. That's true. That's true. I mean,
00:17:46like DEI, it's basically just an assault on fertility, right? Jeff says, I heard a phrase
00:17:50from my boss recently. For some, heat on thee equals not on me. Yeah. Yeah.
00:17:57All right. So, sorry. Gapping out here for a sec, which is not always ideal on a live stream. So,
00:18:14a lot of people don't understand the relationship that Europeans have with their pets, right? It's
00:18:23a little hard. So, Europe flourished as a result of pet ownership. So, pet ownership was required.
00:18:46Particularly European farming is essential. You have to have pets, you have to have sheep dogs
00:18:53for your sheep, and you have to have dogs as a whole to guard your livestock. You absolutely,
00:18:58absolutely have to have cats to kill the rats that can poop and pee into your food and so on,
00:19:06right? So, you need the cats to kill the birds that are eating. So, European survival is heavily
00:19:14wired, like it's hardwired into us to protect our pets, because it's life or death. Whether your pet
00:19:21survives or not is life or death for you and your family. And I remember when my daughter
00:19:28first started, you know, tadpoles and things like that, right? It's like, we have to keep them
00:19:33safe. We can't be responsible for any harm happening. Like, it was really, like it was
00:19:37from my spine. Like, we have to take care of this, right? And this is one of the reasons why,
00:19:42in particular, European women tend to be easily diverted into taking care of
00:19:50pets, because the men went out to hunt, and the women would often take care of the domestic animals.
00:19:55And so, taking care of pets is hardwired and synchronous with taking care of children,
00:20:01because the children's survival often depended upon the pets, right? I mean, to get the milk,
00:20:07you needed to have the goats and cows and so on protected. And to get the wool and the meat,
00:20:13you had to have the sheep protected, so you could stay warm and have enough food to eat.
00:20:17So, for European women, and I'm not saying it's only European women, it's the one culture that
00:20:21I know the best, of course, but for European women, taking care of animals is side by side,
00:20:26cheek by jowl, with taking care of children, which is why it's so easy to go from taking
00:20:32care of children to taking care of pets, because the women who equated taking care of pets with
00:20:39taking care of children were the ones whose children tended to survive the most. So, just so
00:20:45you... Yeah, European pets are all K-selected to keep the R-vermin out of your food. That's a great
00:20:52way to put it. A great way to put it. And yeah, that's very clever and accurate and powerfully
00:21:00put. I appreciate that. Damn it, I can't steal it now. Oh my god, I have to respect the property
00:21:07of the product of your brain. D.C. Mott, that's brilliant. So, that is why. And of course, women
00:21:17in general, particularly in villages, would work together, and this is why women tend to be more
00:21:22horizontally compliant with other women and so on, right? So, it's hard for sort of non-European
00:21:28cultures to understand the relationship between the Europeans and our pets. It is a very, very big
00:21:39deal. So, of course, you know, people are confused, right? Some people are confused,
00:21:48and it's interesting that it was most people on the right who were the ones who
00:21:53got most outraged about all of this. Whereas for me, I'm like, yeah, that's a
00:22:03cute squirrel, but aren't you a grown-ass man? I mean, it just seems like almost like a bizarre
00:22:10fetish to me. Like why, you know, like the guy was, you know, obviously he's a bit of a showman,
00:22:17I guess. So, fine with that. I mean, I'm a little bit of a showman too. I'm not complaining about
00:22:21it, but I'm just saying what it is. But he was like, I saw him on TMZ, he was like crying, and
00:22:26his wife was crying, and it was like, he was our life, and it's like, no, come on. Come on.
00:22:34Come on. Let's take a deep breath. It is a squirrel. Of course, it's not right in my view
00:22:40that it was taken in this kind of way, but it is a squirrel. It's not a child.
00:22:49And so, I just wanted to sort of mention that. That does seem to be something that is a little
00:22:54intense about it. But here's the thing too, that I think there's also kind of a weird little tickle
00:23:01of reality that's getting into people's brains. Yeah, he was a revenue stream, sure, but he's
00:23:10going to get more revenue for his animal stuff, right? So, let's see here.
00:23:24Yeah, of course, the endless memes of the squirrel saying that he's in possession of
00:23:28information that will lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:23:34Her state claims they were all rabid. Oh, yeah, some lady brought baby raccoons into
00:23:38work in her office. Yeah, for sure. People have alligators in their bathtubs in New York City.
00:23:44Well, I assume so, but they don't try to monetize them on social media, I assume, right?
00:23:52I have a question. How do you explain the COVID stuff dividing down political lines so evenly?
00:23:57Is that the case? Is it the case that the COVID stuff was divided around? Yeah, I think not
00:24:02evenly, but Republicans were more skeptical, and Democrats... I shouldn't say. It's not just
00:24:08America. America's the only place. People on the right were more skeptical and more freedom-oriented,
00:24:13and people on the left were more compliant. So, the reason is that until UPB gets wider
00:24:19distribution and anybody who's not distributing UPB is contributing to the corruption and decay
00:24:23of the world, just so you know, I'm not telling you anything you don't know. Don't do it for me.
00:24:28Do it because we either have allegiance to reason or subjugation to authority.
00:24:35We either subject our will to reason or we subject our conscience to brute force,
00:24:41whether that brute force is in the form of theological threats of heaven and hell
00:24:45or jail and social ostracism and the destruction of your income and reproductive
00:24:50chances. Either we reason or we are ordered around. So, until UPB is promulgated more widely,
00:24:59and I gotta tell you, I'm actually kind of pissed. Libertarians and former colleagues,
00:25:04they should be pushing UPB. I mean, they should be. They should be pushing UPB, but they won't.
00:25:10They won't. Nobody's written a review of it except a really execrable one by someone from
00:25:16the Mises Institute that got everything completely wrong. So, yeah, people are not
00:25:20promoting UPB and you should be promoting UPB, right? Peaceful parenting and UPB because
00:25:26universally preferable behavior frees us from the tyranny of authority. So, on the right,
00:25:33they did not want to subject themselves to the tyranny of scientism, of the cult of science.
00:25:40And on the left, they did want to subject themselves to the tyranny of scientism.
00:25:46And the belief in scientism is far more destructive and horrendous than the subjugation to
00:26:00the universal morality of Christianity. Much worse to be controlled by the mystery cult of science.
00:26:10So, the worship of science is the abandonment of independent thinking.
00:26:18You have to think for yourself to be an authentic, real, manifested human being.
00:26:29We're either in the prison of other people's lies, or we think for ourselves and break out.
00:26:36And so, the worship of God's handiwork, particularly with the belief that the MRNA
00:26:44vaccines had DNA-altering components to them, meant that the religious people didn't want to,
00:26:51at least on the Christian side, they wanted free will, independence of conscience, and respect for
00:26:56the Nuremberg Code, no forced medical experiments, and informed consent is essential, and so on.
00:27:01So, they did want to follow that kind of stuff. And that, I think, was the right conclusion,
00:27:06but the wrong methodology as a whole. But on the left, they have a huge bullying problem.
00:27:16And one of the reasons that people follow bullying is they hope to participate in it.
00:27:26Right? They hope to be able to participate in the bullying, and they did in COVID, right? So,
00:27:32because they followed the cult of scientism so fervently and fervently, they then got to
00:27:39participate in the bullying and attack their fellow citizens, right? Bullying arises out of
00:27:46helplessness. And so, when you've abandoned your own capacity to think and reason for yourself,
00:27:53you end up being programmed by malevolent people who you perceive to be in power over you,
00:27:58and then you join them in bullying others. So, I hope that makes some kind of sense to you.
00:28:13Thank you for the tip. I appreciate that.
00:28:16So, did I lose my thread?
00:28:33I may have lost my thread. Oh, no, I didn't lose my thread. I'm back. I'm back, baby. I'm back.
00:28:39I'm back. So, people have a whiff of accidental reality, right?
00:28:49They have a whiff of accidental reality coming into their lives, and that's why people are
00:28:55freaking out. So, people appear to be absolutely, deeply shocked and horrified
00:29:08that the enforcement of laws involves force. Isn't that strange?
00:29:16I mean, it's not legal to keep raccoons and squirrels as pets. It's not legal
00:29:28to keep squirrels and raccoons as pets. So, that's a regulation. You can agree with the law.
00:29:37You cannot agree with the law, but that's a fact. So, the fact that laws are enforced
00:29:49through force appears to be, for reasons I find somewhat incomprehensible,
00:29:56deeply shocking to be. Wait, are you saying that laws are enforced with force?
00:30:02Right, you know that it's an old saying from wisdom, not just a good idea, it's the law.
00:30:07Like, it's not just a good idea, like you should, or I'll reason with you. It's like,
00:30:10it's the law. And it's like, yes, law is an opinion with a gun. And it's an opinion,
00:30:14not because all laws are unjust, but because without a universal rational moral framework,
00:30:19there's no objective justification for the laws. Yeah, laws are an opinion with a gun.
00:30:24I have said that for 20 years. Well, I've said that for longer than 20 years, but in public for
00:30:2820 years. So, I do find it a little fucking precious that people are just shocked, shocked,
00:30:36oh my god, shocked and appalled. Shocked and appalled that laws are enforced with force.
00:30:50Oh my gosh, it's just wild. I mean, how,
00:31:02absolutely. Oh, he did have a MAGA hat on the squirrel. Yeah, was that it? I don't know,
00:31:07is that photoshopped? It looks a little photoshopped. Yeah, that doesn't look real,
00:31:12because one of the ears is kind of cut off. I think that's photoshopped. I could be wrong,
00:31:16looks photoshopped to me. But how propagandized do you have to be
00:31:25to not know this? I mean, does everybody know? If there's a knock on your door and it's the
00:31:32missionaries, that's one thing. If there's a knock on your door and it's the police,
00:31:37that's a different thing. That's a different thing.
00:31:42If you're a woman driving and a guy gestures at you and says, hey, pull over, I want to get your
00:31:46phone number, that's one thing. If it's the cops with their sirens and they say, pull over,
00:31:52I need to get your phone number, I need to get your ID, I need to get your name,
00:31:56that's a whole different thing.
00:32:02Oh, you get a letter from a charity asking for money, that's one thing. You get a letter from
00:32:08the government saying a red light camera caught you speeding and you owe us X amount of dollars,
00:32:15that's a whole different thing. Like, who doesn't know this? My god, people,
00:32:21you have to put so much work into not seeing, oh my god, there's a nose in front of my face.
00:32:27Well, it's two ghost noses, unless I close one eye. Two ghost noses.
00:32:33I'm sorry, like, I don't mean to laugh because I know it's serious stuff.
00:32:38But it's like a guy joins the army, then at some point he's like, wait, we got to
00:32:45really use guns? Wait, there's coercion involved here? What?
00:32:52Or I really want to be a surgeon, I just,
00:32:54I don't want to do any cutting and I don't want to see any blood.
00:33:01Even the smallest laws are upheld with the biggest guns in the universe.
00:33:08I want to be a law, I'm on a law, this should be illegal, that should be illegal, right?
00:33:12Like, people are, what's it, Dragon Age Vanguard or there's a new Dragon Age,
00:33:18I think I played the first one for an hour or two, found it kind of dull, but
00:33:21there's a new Dragon Age out, right? And yeah, there's a bunch of woke stuff in it.
00:33:26Uh, why? Because Riot Games, that makes them, got hit with a hundred million dollar fine
00:33:37for lack of diversity DEI stuff, right?
00:33:46It's not, it's not organic, they're not just bad business people.
00:33:50It's not just, they're not just, oh, they just mysteriously went woke. Like every time you see
00:33:58people making bad decisions, always look for legal decisions. I mean, my gosh, just, just go
00:34:07look this stuff up. I mean, it's really, oh my gosh, why, why would this brotastic culture,
00:34:11which makes Valorant and, and what are they, did League of Legends or I don't know, whatever,
00:34:17they got a bunch of games, right? I mean, 93% of FPS shooters are
00:34:29men, right? Of course it's a brotastic high testosterone culture, right?
00:34:37And of course it's going to be a little rough around the edges for some of the ladies,
00:34:41but you see, you can't say that men or women are fundamentally the same and then say that,
00:34:45oh, and we can't handle male culture. That doesn't make any sense. That's like saying,
00:34:51well, these, these bricks are all identical, but if I put this brick rather than that brick there,
00:34:56the whole building's going to fall down. It's like, you can't have it both ways.
00:35:00Logically, you can't say, well, men and women are totally interchangeable,
00:35:04but a woman can't handle a brotastic high T culture. It's like, then you're saying that
00:35:09they're different. This plug is exactly the same as that plug, but I can't plug into this hole.
00:35:17This plug can't, like, it's exactly the same. If it's exactly the same, they're interchangeable,
00:35:21then it shouldn't matter. If they're not interchangeable,
00:35:24then they're not exactly the same, in which case differences in outcome would be expected.
00:35:27So, the women at Riot Games were complaining that they saw an email chain rating how attractive
00:35:41the women at the company were. Right, right.
00:35:49Or that there was a very aggressive culture where sometimes meetings would get quite
00:35:53shouty and acrimonious. They'd just talk over the women. It's like, no, no,
00:35:57if women are the same as men, then women should be able to talk over men just the same way that
00:36:01men talk over women. But if women need special treatment because men are talking over them,
00:36:05then men and women aren't the same. Again, it's all, so it just, it bothers me
00:36:13that there's all of this stuff like, well, why would they let this happen? Why would all this
00:36:17woke stuff end up in this game? And it's like, I don't know, man, you get hit with a hundred
00:36:22million. I think it was only 10 million originally was their settlement, where the thousands of
00:36:26women, some of whom didn't even work there directly, but were contractors.
00:36:35So, they were originally going to settle for $10 million, and I think it was in California,
00:36:39and the government upped it to $100 million. Like, I'm sorry, man, $100 million is
00:36:44an absolute catastrophe for a company. Thank you, Lloyd. So, yeah, it's a catastrophe for a
00:36:54company. So, right. If men and women are equal, then for women can handle a man's environment.
00:37:01Sure. Absolutely. Absolutely. They're basically saying that men and women are twins.
00:37:11Okay. But, but they have different blood types. It's like, no, no, you can't, I don't think you,
00:37:18I'm not an expert. I don't think you can be a twin and have a different blood type. I mean,
00:37:21identical twins, not fraternal, right? So, if men and women are equal, then women can handle a man's
00:37:25environment, no problem. Then the man's environment should not need to be adapted to women at all.
00:37:32But, if men need to massively adapt their entire environment and approach because women are so
00:37:41different and delicate, then men and women aren't the same. So, yeah, it's obviously,
00:37:51we all know this stuff. Thank you, Pulsar. I appreciate that.
00:37:56Have you seen Elon's ex-post? He's currently bashing the government over the
00:37:59Scorpina. Yeah, you know, I went through, not that you all particularly care about my emotional
00:38:05state, but I went through all kinds of different emotions. Have you heard the Elon Ron Paul thing?
00:38:16I mean, I have no proof of this, of course, just with regards to, I think that what happens is,
00:38:21if I was an evil genius, whatever, a business guy, I would short a company in the long run
00:38:33and then whip up a bunch of sexist frenzy about that company. And that way,
00:38:39the company's stock would tank and I would make an absolute fortune.
00:38:42Yeah. So, Elon Musk, as you know, if Trump gets his way this week,
00:38:54then Elon Musk is interested in Ron Paul's ideas of cutting government.
00:39:00So, boy, talk about persistent. I mean, Ron Paul, I love the guy. I mean, I think Ron Paul is
00:39:12fantastic. I was not a fan of his presidential aspirations, as we know from way back in the day.
00:39:17But as a human being, Ron Paul is, I mean, beyond spectacular. I mean, an incredible doctor,
00:39:25a great writer, an impressive communicator, a charismatic guy, and a brave guy, an expert
00:39:34politician, a great public speaker, and a great thinker, and a great at economics. The man has
00:39:41got a brain the size of the galaxy. And it seems like a very good-hearted and big-hearted guy.
00:39:48He's 89 years old and still going. Yeah, I mean, it really is. He's an amazing guy. He's an amazing
00:39:56guy. Amazing guy. Oh, is the Dragon Age was not developed by Riot Games? Is that right?
00:40:04There's no affiliation? Oh, check. Sorry. I could have got that wrong. But I'm sure Riot
00:40:09Games has had its own issues with this stuff and the games that it puts out because of the
00:40:13hundred-million-dollar judgment. So, thank you for the correction. If that is correct, then it
00:40:19is a different silo but same farm mechanics. So, I appreciate that. Thank you. So, the fact that
00:40:32Ron Paul could be teaming up with Elon Musk for governmental efficiency, and Elon Musk has shown
00:40:39some sympathy towards questioning the innate virtue and value of the Federal Reserve, that is
00:40:44really, really something. That is really something. And what a storyline. What a storyline. Just
00:40:52amazing. Just amazing. All right. So, that's very interesting. All right. I'm just going to go and
00:41:03check comments here, there, and everywhere. Did you already talk about Tucker Carlson's
00:41:16bad little girl part of his speech? I don't know what that refers to. Sorry.
00:41:23Search for Riot Games woke. Riot Games goes full woke as they censor League of Legends.
00:41:28Okay. So, sorry. The Dragon Age thing is separate, although I'm sure driven. But here's the thing,
00:41:32too. There's a ripple effect, right? So, if one company gets hit with a $100 million fine,
00:41:37all the other companies fall in line, right? I mean, that's the de-platforming thing. When I was
00:41:41de-platformed, there were a bunch of topics that went underground for a while, but now seem to be
00:41:44mostly accepted. But the Tucker Carlson, the Wild Tucker Riot does seem to have been subject to a
00:41:52lawsuit involving sexual harassment. Yes, I actually, I read the original article and read
00:41:56some of the judgment. He said children need a vigorous spanking. Yeah, I mean, that's not
00:42:05shocking to me. I mean, most people on the right would agree with corporal punishment.
00:42:11So, I'm not sure why that's shocking. I assume Dragon Age going woke is just the result of
00:42:17Bioware being Canadian. No, see, the woke virus generally doesn't spread on its own. It spreads
00:42:22through lawfare, right? It's not organic, it's imposed. It's not like people just like it,
00:42:31for the most part, right? And if you say, ah, well, you know, but young people seem to be really
00:42:35into the woke stuff, and it's like, well, yeah, but that comes out of it being inflicted through
00:42:38schools and universities, right? And it's funny how, what, Canada has a reputation of being
00:42:49woke. Yeah, you know, I grew up in a different kind of Canada, and I also spend time in a
00:42:56different kind of Canada. If you think Canada is just a cluster of cities along the 48th,
00:43:00you don't get Canada. Canada is a lot of people who live outside of the cities, and it's a lot of
00:43:06very practical, sensible culture as a whole. And this is why Canada had a freedom convoy, right?
00:43:15So, don't assume that everyone Canadian is just woke. It is not really the case. Try not to
00:43:24overgeneralize about countries as a whole. Yeah, so, I mean, if you're a software company, and
00:43:35let's say you have to hire a bunch of women, right? Or whoever, right? Well, I mean,
00:43:43the percentage of women who are hardcore, let's say you're a first-person shooter kind of company,
00:43:48right? So, the number of women who are hardcore first-person shooters and expert at coding
00:43:55is very small compared, like, 93% of the players are male. And, you know, how many women,
00:44:04I mean, you can check this out, and maybe it's known, maybe it's not as a whole, but how many
00:44:08women voluntarily create level design, right? How many women voluntarily create level designs
00:44:14for first-person shooters? Or, you know, whatever you want to call them, the Fortnite. And, you know,
00:44:20so, because a lot of people end up working for companies because they do amazing level design,
00:44:26and they put it out for free, and that's their sort of audition, that is their resume, so to speak.
00:44:31So, if you have to hire a lot of women, and you are a hardcore, shoot-em-up, violent gaming
00:44:43company, then are you going to get a lot of, you know, excellent, hardcore, coder, violent
00:44:53video game aficionados out of the general female population? Well, no. I mean, there's a reason
00:44:58Candy Crush exists, right? And so, you have to hire them, so where do you put them? Well,
00:45:04you put a bunch of them in HR, which spreads things, the woke stuff, and you'll put a bunch
00:45:09of them in storytelling, right? You'll put a bunch of them in storytelling.
00:45:17The Sirius Sam guy seemed to have escaped that. Sirius Sam is a,
00:45:22I'm at the end of my mission. All I want is a steak and a massage.
00:45:31Yeah, so it's not organic. It's not really the result of choice. So, I always go back,
00:45:41and I haven't said this for a while, so just, you know, forgive me for some repetition,
00:45:48but something that really influenced me, well, of course, George Orwell's been a fairly big
00:45:52influence on me, although he got demographics completely wrong, but George Orwell's been a
00:45:56big influence on me, and one of the things that I got from down and out in London and Paris,
00:46:00down and out in Paris and London, was he worked as a plongeur and dishwasher, and he just went to a
00:46:08whole bunch of poor places and hung around a whole bunch of poor people, and some of the people that
00:46:15he hung out with were tramps, vagabonds, right? And he said, you know, there was this general
00:46:22perception, like, why do they keep going from town to town? They must have wanderlust. They
00:46:25must have gypsy blood. They just must love walking. They just must, and it's like, well, no.
00:46:31He said, that's not, like, it's not some cultural thing. It's because most of these
00:46:35towns have a law that you can't be unhoused there for more than three days, or they'll throw you in
00:46:41jail. So, why, oh, they have this wanderlust. They love to walk. It's in their blood. It's
00:46:54gypsy this, and it's like, nope. It's not part of their culture. It's just that they go from
00:46:58town to town, because if they stay in town, they'll get thrown in jail, which they don't want.
00:47:04So, before you start coming up with odd explanations about companies just going
00:47:17woke, right, like it's just something in the air or something they chose,
00:47:25I mean, just have a look at the legal environment that the companies are working in.
00:47:33So, for instance, if a company gets hit with a $100 million fine for not being inclusive enough,
00:47:38then the lawyers at every other company in the space will say,
00:47:43we have to comply with this stuff, or we're going to get hit with a big fine.
00:47:51And if you don't, if someone just got nuked with a $100 million fine in your industry,
00:47:55and you don't do anything to alleviate the issues that led to that $100 million fine,
00:48:00then you can actually get sued. Again, I'm no lawyer, so this is not legal advice. My
00:48:04understanding is that if, as a chief executive, there's something you have called fiduciary
00:48:10responsibility, which means you can't knowingly take actions that are going to destroy the value
00:48:14of your company. And you can get in serious, I don't know if you get sued or not, but you can
00:48:18certainly get fired. You can get into serious trouble for not doing things that maintain the
00:48:24stock value of your company. Or even if it's privately traded, the value of the company,
00:48:30because there'll be private shareholders probably in that situation.
00:48:36So, if you are the CEO of a gaming company, then if you don't take the steps to avoid
00:48:47the kind of issues that got Riot nuked for $100 million,
00:48:53then you could be found liable for fiduciary misconduct, right?
00:49:05But this is the funny thing, right? So, if you say that men and women are interchangeable,
00:49:08then it shouldn't matter whether you hire men or women.
00:49:10Someone says, I think sometimes legal counsel can be cowardly too.
00:49:19Uh, I mean, sorry man, love you to death. That's a completely useless comment.
00:49:25Sometimes people are brave and sometimes people are cowardly.
00:49:32Is there a bell curve of courage and cowardice that applies to just about everyone?
00:49:36Huh. So, that adds nothing. Sure. Of course. Right. Yeah. I mean, can they be overcautious?
00:49:43Well, I mean, that's like saying some investors are keen on risk and some investors are less
00:49:48keen on risk. It's like, it just doesn't add anything because that's just true by definition.
00:49:54There is a bell curve of courage and cowardice in every profession. I get that.
00:49:59So, but, but the, um, uh, if, if, if you as a lawyer, again, I'm no expert in this,
00:50:09but my understanding would be if you as a lawyer give advice and bad things don't happen,
00:50:13you're okay, you're fine, right? You've made a, you've given quote, good advice.
00:50:18If you are a lawyer and you give advice and bad things happen, then you could be in trouble,
00:50:23right? Right. So, so if you're a lawyer and you say, man, you got to conform the a hundred
00:50:28million dollar fine, you can, right? Then if people comply with these requirements and nothing
00:50:41bad happens, then the lawyer looks like it's good advice, right? But if you say, oh, I wouldn't worry
00:50:47about these fines and then the company gets in trouble, then you get in trouble as a lawyer,
00:50:52right? So, uh, lawyers in general, uh, tend to be more cautious. Uh, uh, you know, and we saw this
00:50:59with, with COVID that, that people who have regulatory bodies tend to be fairly dictated
00:51:03to by those regulatory bodies and, um, they don't have as much choice as you might think.
00:51:10So just a reminder, just a reminder, but I really can really do appreciate you pointing out that,
00:51:22uh, uh, Dragon Age, um, was not, uh, developed by Riot Games. Thank you. I appreciate that.
00:51:31I trusted someone, but it's my, my responsibility for
00:51:35checking that. So I really do appreciate that fact checking. Thank you so much.
00:51:45Well, and of course we, we all know that this gender equity stuff only goes one way, right?
00:51:49Right. That there's no movement for, uh, gender equity pay in fashion models, right? Uh, there's
00:51:56no, there are too many men in prison and not enough women, right? There are too many men in
00:52:00dangerous occupations and not enough women. There are too many male deaths in combat and not enough
00:52:04women. There are too many firefighter deaths that are male and not enough women, right? It's,
00:52:08it's always just, you know, the one way. And you know, it's, it's, and it's not the women's fault
00:52:13and it's not the men's fault. It's the fault of everyone who praises the use of violence.
00:52:19Most of the red, blue versus red is not really state by state. It seems to be more rural versus,
00:52:23rural versus city. If you look at the country map, county map at the US. Yeah. So, I mean,
00:52:29as I've said before, and I'll probably say again, I would not, uh, in a, in a zillion years,
00:52:35in general, trust anyone who's never had a manual labor job, who's never worked with actual things.
00:52:43Right. I just wouldn't, I wouldn't trust anyone who hasn't worked with their hands in the actual
00:52:48world with real world consequences. If all you've done is, you know, lived in the suburbs
00:52:56and gone to school and then traveled a bit and gone to university and read and studied,
00:53:00and then you got a job, uh, pushing digits and blobs and bips and burps around on a computer
00:53:05screen and sending emails like you have no, you have no, you have no impressed relationship to
00:53:12reality. It's all just concepts and manipulation and pushing bits and burps and syllables. And
00:53:18it's nothing, there's nothing real. You have to, have to, have to work with your hands in order
00:53:27to be accurate in your thoughts. You have to work with your hands in order to be accurate in your
00:53:32thoughts. And it doesn't have to be your whole life, but you have to have done it. Something
00:53:37you can't talk in and out of is essential for grounding in empirical reality and truth itself.
00:53:44You have to work with things you can't manipulate.
00:53:50If you've never worked with things you can't manipulate, I assume you were just an
00:53:54instinctual manipulator, which I ask people about their youths, their jobs, and so on,
00:53:59because I want to know if I can take them seriously at all.
00:54:03Right? So, if you have only ever been judged by people, then you are a habitual manipulator.
00:54:23Habitual manipulator.
00:54:27If you've worked with things that can't be manipulated, like I couldn't talk the gold
00:54:32into appearing in my pan, right? I couldn't talk the earth into appearing at the bottom of the
00:54:37pion jar drill when I was working up north. I couldn't talk the tent into being warmer. I
00:54:43couldn't talk the snowmobile into working, right? I couldn't talk frostbite out of my hands if I
00:54:48screwed up when it was minus 40 out, right? Somebody who's only worked with people and
00:54:57opinions is drugged, right? The only antidote to the drug of manipulation are the facts of reality.
00:55:09And I can tell, man, at this point in my life, you know, I'm 58 years old,
00:55:13I can really, really tell. People who've never worked with actual, factual reality,
00:55:19they have a kind of demonic intensity and energy to them, and they have no humility.
00:55:25Nature to be commanded must be obeyed, but if all you've done is manipulated or be manipulated,
00:55:34well, I have to please my teacher, then I have to please my professor, then I have to please my boss,
00:55:37then I have to please my wife, then I have to please blah, blah, blah. It's like, it's just
00:55:41manipulation. And so people in the city don't work in reality, for the most part, right? And people
00:55:46in the country work in reality. It's fascinating that some men have never driven a nail or changed
00:55:53attire. Right, right, right. I would love to see these intellectuals assemble furniture. I would
00:56:07love to see these intellectuals drive a snowmobile. I would love, like, their incompetence with regards
00:56:12to actual things is truly staggering. Even sports can help. I can't talk my muscles into growing,
00:56:24I have to move heavy metal in a dark room. Go listen to, by the way, one of the first thrash
00:56:36metal, I think, if not the first thrash metal song in all of rock history was by Queen, believe it
00:56:42or not. Stone Cold Crazy. It's really great. Even the live versions are great. Stone Cold Crazy.
00:56:53It's really fast and really thrashy, and man, they'd be just all over the place with the musical
00:56:57genre. Yeah, people who aren't competent with material reality have nothing to say to me with
00:57:04regards to abstract truths. My first job was mowing lawns. Some of the tools are dangerous,
00:57:08yeah. When I was working up north, we had to sometimes get through the permafrost with a
00:57:15giant handheld flamethrower, like, tubes on the back, strapped, like, to go through that stuff.
00:57:22I mean, you make one mistake and you get burned, you're two days away from a hospital,
00:57:26you're probably not going to make it. By taking machetes and hacking our way through, I mean,
00:57:31you get one thing wrong, your machete goes into your leg, you're just going to bleed out and die.
00:57:35Like, you have to be really careful, and you have to respect reality, facts, empiricism,
00:57:41absolutely. Metallica did a cover of Stone Cold Crazy. Yeah, they were pretty big fans of Queen's,
00:57:46I think. Didn't they do... no, were they at the Freddie Mercury concert? No, that was somebody
00:57:51else. Maybe. Yeah, if you've never worked with consequentialist reality, I really don't care
00:58:02what you think about, because it's all self-referential, masturbatory,
00:58:11mechanistic manipulation. It's just a bunch of noise.
00:58:15And hearing people talk about truth when they've never worked in actual reality,
00:58:24it's like people telling me all about Japan when they've never been and don't speak the language.
00:58:33Right, there was an old article by... oh gosh, what was his blobby's name?
00:58:41He wrote Bonfire. Tom Wolfe. Tom Wolfe was basically just talking about all of these guys,
00:58:47American writers, who are writing stuff that they never experienced. What was it,
00:58:51John Irving, or someone had written an entire novel set in India, had never been to India.
00:58:58Somebody says, I've done computers for a super long time, but I learned how to change a tire
00:59:02early on. Learned recently how to change my oil. You have to learn how to properly lift and secure
00:59:07your car if you're going to do that. Yeah. I mean, and computers, not too bad, because stuff
00:59:17works or it doesn't. It provides the accurate results or it doesn't. It's fast enough for
00:59:21people to use or it's not. So with computers, as a programmer, you can't manipulate the computer
00:59:29into doing what you want. You can't complain. Anybody who gets a different outcome from whining
00:59:35knows fuck all about the truth. Oh, I thought that the exam was
00:59:43today, not yesterday. Oh, come on. I'll get a note.
00:59:49Oh, I'll comply with what this leftist professor wants and I'll get a good degree.
00:59:57Anybody who can get a different outcome by whining and complaining
01:00:01knows nothing about the truth. If that's all they know. But you can't whine and complain
01:00:08about the facts of reality. If you hack yourself open with a machete, because you swung,
01:00:17like every time you swing, you got to swing deep enough to chop things, but not so deep,
01:00:21but not so shallow that it bounces off and hits you. As I talked about with my friend and I the
01:00:29last day that we were up north and we went out to get the last sample because we didn't want to
01:00:34get up at five in the morning and do it the next morning because the plane was coming at 10.
01:00:38So we went and man, we were this close to dying.
01:00:45Somebody says, started farm work in Kentucky at 14. Worked construction to pay my way through
01:00:49university. Enjoy physical labor. It's good. It's good. It's good. It gives you humility and has
01:00:57you realize that you live in a world of facts and consequences. And the degree to which you
01:01:06avoid facts and consequences is the degree to which other people are burdened with them.
01:01:13So you can do a circle jerk of a bullshit in your supposed job. That just means that
01:01:20people who work with their hands have to be taxed more to subsidize your bullshit.
01:01:24So all of the facts of reality that you avoid have to be doubly paid for by other people.
01:01:34I mean, it's women. You don't have to. Female intuition, right? Female intuition.
01:01:38There's way too many single moms for that to be a real thing, right? But
01:01:45if you choose the wrong father for your children, well,
01:01:49well, we all have to be taxed to pay for that. Terrible decision, right?
01:01:59All right. Questions, comments, issues, challenges, problems.
01:02:04I think sending everyone to college made this worse. We have too many people who make nothing
01:02:08in reality, but think because they have a degree, they have value. Yeah. Well, I mean,
01:02:13I've made this case before, of course, that a college is a massive, massive money and time
01:02:21sink that has to be imposed because you're not allowed to use an IQ test or anything equivalent
01:02:27to hire people. If you were allowed to use an IQ test to hire people, IQ, particularly for complex
01:02:33jobs, an IQ test is by far, by far the best predictor of success in the business world or in
01:02:41any complex job that you hire people for. So you can't use IQ tests for reasons we've gone into
01:02:47before. And so you have to have a proxy called college because you can manipulate the shit out
01:02:51of college, but you can't manipulate the shit out of IQ tests, right? So, so yeah, college.
01:02:58And college is also good because you get to people to pay for their own propagandizing,
01:03:02which is really for propagandists is delightful. Normally propaganda is expensive,
01:03:05but if you can get people to go into $150,000 in debt in order to be lied to and programmed,
01:03:10so much the better. And also it gets people, the longer you can get young people to avoid paying
01:03:17taxes, the less they understand their society. Yes, there are some tests for a few jobs. I think
01:03:25Google has intelligence tests and all of that, but you can't just, you can't say, like what should
01:03:32happen is people when their brains have settled into some kind of stability, it's hard. I mean,
01:03:42mid twenties for men might be a bit late, early twenties for women, but at some point when
01:03:46there's a law of diminishing returns in terms of development, you should just take an IQ test or
01:03:50maybe take three IQ tests. And then that's your resume. Your resume is your IQ because smart
01:03:56people can be taught just about anything. Your resume is your IQ. But of course, you know,
01:04:01people who are less intelligent don't want IQ tests, right? I mean, that's not very complicated.
01:04:14Somebody says, I went to college for computer science, but then became an electrician.
01:04:18Most of my friends who went to college are childless, renting and struggling. Yeah, for sure.
01:04:22Yeah. I mean, again, it's a war against the intelligent and susceptible to propaganda
01:04:27that they go to college and then they're laden down with debt and expectations and
01:04:35disappointment and abstractions. And if you stay away from tangible reality, you go crazy,
01:04:43right? You have to work with actually, the brain is tamed by facts, objectivity, empiricism,
01:04:48and reality because we have, why do we have this wildly creative brain? Because it has to keep
01:04:53these waves of creativity have to, are supposed to keep washing up against the blank facts of
01:04:57reality. So when you have the wild creativity of the human mind, unconstrained by pushback from
01:05:10absolute empirical reality, we go crazy. Working with manipulative abstractions becomes a form of,
01:05:19in my view, a form of psychosis, a form of detachment from reality. I just used that,
01:05:23of course, in an amateur sense, but it becomes a form of detachment from reality.
01:05:28We go kind of schizo, kind of manic, kind of psycho, just it is a like alienation from
01:05:36the facts of reality is a drug that undoes the basics of the brain. It is an assault upon
01:05:45rationality to live in manipulative unreality, to be what Ayn Rand would call a second-hander
01:05:53or a social metaphysician. Someone who doesn't ask, is this true, but do other people think that
01:05:58this is true? Who doesn't say, is this a fact, but says, will I be punished or rewarded for
01:06:03proclaiming this quote fact, right? It is a form of mental ill health that is incredibly destructive
01:06:13because it's masked by compliance. If everyone's crazy, you all feel sane, right?
01:06:21And you need to let reality consistently and constantly stage an intervention in your
01:06:27creativity because creativity untempered by empirical facts turns to madness and manipulation
01:06:34very quickly.
01:06:39Yeah, I mean, I took one computer science class, which I barely even showed up for in junior high
01:06:45school, and then became, I mean, I became a very good programmer, a very expert programmer.
01:06:52I was lauded by Microsoft back in the day for being the first person to produce
01:06:57an Access 2000 MDE program when I was out at a conference in Hawaii. And yeah,
01:07:03I had good partnerships with big companies you'd all know, and
01:07:07I was constantly praised and way ahead of the curve for my coding. And
01:07:14the idea that I could be taught that is kind of crazy, right?
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01:07:46Yeah, so HR departments, they don't deal with tangible, factual, measurable, and I worked in
01:07:52HR departments as a student for a couple of years off and on. So yeah, it's, it's crazy stuff.
01:08:00You can just say stuff. You don't actually have any tangible, measurable outcomes.
01:08:07You can't manage what you can't measure. And the opposite of vanity is reality, right?
01:08:15The opposite of vanity is reality. You know, if you think that you're worth a lot, then ask for a lot.
01:08:23Oh, what does HR even do? No, HR is a place where government regulations that force people to hire
01:08:31largely women, they have to put them somewhere. And a lot of them aren't particularly into,
01:08:36you know, the sort of hard sciences, the STEM stuff. So HR, you know,
01:08:42stuff. So HR is a place where Karen's push paper around,
01:08:48pretend that they're adding to the value of the world.
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01:09:19I got to go, Steph, but thanks for the great stream. Thank you, monsieur.
01:09:34All right. Any other last comments, questions? I've got a whole bunch of notes, but I don't
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01:10:21I've got the novel outline done. I've got the chapter outline done. I've got the character
01:10:24details done. And I'm just finishing up the research on what to write about. I don't want
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01:10:35what this particular place in Canada looked like in 1990 was really, really important.
01:10:39Are you still working on the History of Philosophers series? I don't know what you mean.
01:10:44I don't know what you mean. Working on? You mean, will I add more? Yeah, probably at some point.
01:10:50But the next one is Immanuel Kant and I have probably put in 20 hours into researching along
01:10:56with all the Kant that I read when I was in graduate school and undergraduate. And I just
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01:11:47if you want to know how business decisions are made, you put yourself in my shoes and you say,
01:11:51okay, well, if I spend half a week on Immanuel Kant, is that going to drive income compared to
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01:12:03Now, of course, if a bunch of people wrote to me and said, man, I'd subscribe if you did Immanuel
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01:12:18and there's 23 sections in the History of Philosophers series, and will I add more
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01:12:54and so I have to do that which is most beneficial to the financial health of what it is that I do,
01:13:00right? That's my empiricism, right? That's my empiricism. So,
01:13:07do you think the peanut, the squirrel stuff has anything to do with financial winter coming and
01:13:10squirrels represent saving up for the winter in dream logic? I think that it's if you get overly
01:13:16domesticated, the government has total power over you. I think that's what the squirrel thing is
01:13:21fundamentally about. The squirrel got domesticated and thus was under the control of the government,
01:13:31right? And that's when you get overly domesticated in that sort of mouse utopia experiment, when you
01:13:35get overly domesticated by the powers that be, they have total control over you, right?
01:13:39And so, if the squirrel was out in the wild doing its natural squirrel thing, if it was free,
01:13:44rather than encased, enslaved, and trained, if it was not manipulated for semi-only-fanced profit,
01:13:53then the squirrel was free, it would have survived. But the squirrel got domesticated,
01:13:56was under the power of the state, and therefore didn't make it. So, I think it would be more to do
01:14:01with that. Hey, Seth, when do you know if feedback you receive is worth looking into
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01:14:29social media, right? I had millions of followers, and I've had a billion views and downloads of
01:14:37very controversial stuff that's abstract philosophy for the most part, or applied abstract philosophy.
01:14:43So, I was very good at social media, so when people would tell me what I should or shouldn't
01:14:46do with regards to social media, if they had like 20 followers, I'd be like,
01:14:52if you're really good at social media, why do you have only 20 followers, right? And so,
01:14:57I just empirically look for evidence of competence if somebody wants to instruct me,
01:15:01and if somebody is not successful, then, right?
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