Stop F*#cking with the Economy!

Stefan Molyneux

Sunday Morning Live 17 November 2024  In this episode, I delve into the connections between authority, societal norms, and personal accountability, using insights from my book "The Present." We discuss a scene where honesty affects a totalitarian power figure, illustrating how vulnerability can inspire compassion. I share my experiences with authority, critique modern governance and financial instability, and advocate for decentralized systems like Bitcoin.   Through personal anecdotes, I explore the impact of economic fluctuations on family planning and relationships, emphasizing the importance of negotiation skills. I conclude by urging listeners to maintain personal integrity and question societal norms, fostering a community that values truth and critical thinking.  GET MY NEW BOOK 'PEACEFUL PARENTING', THE INTERACTIVE PEACEFUL PARENTING AI, AND AUDIOBOOK!  https://peacefulparenting.com/  Join the PREMIUM philosophy community on the web for free!  Also get the Truth About the French Revolution, multiple interactive multi-lingual philosophy AIs trained on thousands of hours of my material, as well as targeted AIs for Real-Time Relationships, BitCoin, Peaceful Parenting, and Call-Ins. Don't miss the private livestreams, premium call in shows, the 22 Part History of Philosophers series and much more!  See you soon!  https://freedomain.locals.com/support/promo/UPB2022

Transcript

00:00:00Good, good, good, good, good, good, good.

00:00:03And that's it for the show.

00:00:04Be good.

00:00:05Be good, be good.

00:00:06Johnny, be good.

00:00:07So, what are we, just after 11am, 17th of November, 2024, and it is time for our Sunday

00:00:12morning philosophy.

00:00:13Chitty, chatty, bing, bang, bongo, bongo, fill your boots, okay, fatang, fatang, ole

00:00:20biscuit barrel, and away we go with the scat of the gods.

00:00:25So, questions, comments, issues, challenges, problems, more than welcome and gratefully

00:00:28accepted and we have a question to start.

00:00:34Steph, in your book, The Present, there is a scene where Rachel is honest with the policeman

00:00:39and as a result, he lets her leave the city.

00:00:42I find this scene confusing.

00:00:44The policeman is a government employee who is there to keep people from leaving the city

00:00:48so that they will die waiting for help from the government.

00:00:50Spoiler!

00:00:52In that case, why would Rachel, explaining that she would die if she doesn't leave, convince

00:00:56him to let her go?

00:00:58Is the policeman so naive that he doesn't understand his role?

00:01:00To me, it feels like explaining to a Nazi guard that you cannot get on the train because

00:01:04you would die in the camp.

00:01:05Am I missing something, or perhaps I am too cynical?

00:01:08Thanks.

00:01:09Hmm.

00:01:10Right.

00:01:11Well, in my experience, if you are honest, open, and vulnerable with people in authority,

00:01:25they tend to less misuse their positions of authority.

00:01:33Look, there are people who join, let's just say, some totalitarian, because it's pretty

00:01:39totalitarian towards the end in my novel, The Future, so there are people who join the

00:01:49police force in a system that is sliding towards totalitarianism, right?

00:01:54There are people who join the police force because they want to do the right thing and

00:01:57maintain order in society and catch the bad guys, and those people tend to have doubts

00:02:04and misgivings as they're going forward, right?

00:02:10So I gave the policeman nothing's accidental, right?

00:02:13I made him kind of like a ginger, in a way, as white as can be, and that's because that's

00:02:18more associated with Ireland, Ireland at least in the past, and is even now to a large degree

00:02:23somewhat skeptical of the value of authority, because they were conquered and invaded particularly

00:02:28by the British so many times.

00:02:30So you have to be dehumanized in order to be brutalized.

00:02:39So she humanizes herself to him, and he begins to have that thing where it's like, am I the

00:02:45bad guy?

00:02:46Could I be the bad guy?

00:02:47He also realizes that he might be serving some malevolent entity, and therefore maybe

00:02:53he should leave, plus he also wants to leave himself, because his own family is in the

00:02:58North, right?

00:03:02You're not helpless when it comes to authority.

00:03:05In my life, just as a whole, when I have been honest, open, vulnerable, and according to

00:03:12respect that you have when people who have uniforms and guns have power over you, although

00:03:20I've had potentially extremely negative interactions with people in authority, I have just found

00:03:26that when I'm open and honest, I've never walked out of going into a bad situation with

00:03:34somebody in authority.

00:03:35I've never walked out worse off.

00:03:38Just be honest and direct, and humanize yourself, right?

00:03:44And it's not a guarantee, right?

00:03:49And of course, what I'm writing about in the future is not Nazi Germany.

00:03:56It's not fascist Italy with the ex-Marxist Mussolini in charge.

00:04:00It is not National Socialism in Germany.

00:04:02It's not Bolshevism in Russia.

00:04:06It's not Pol Pot in Cambodia.

00:04:09It's not North Korea.

00:04:10It's not China under Mao, particularly after the thousand flowers bloom of the 60s.

00:04:16It's not that, right?

00:04:17It's not that.

00:04:20So don't assume that you are helpless in the face of authority once authority has been

00:04:27completely compromised, right?

00:04:28So it's one thing to join a police force that slides into totalitarianism.

00:04:32It's another thing that once the police force is already totalitarian, then you join.

00:04:39Does that make sense?

00:04:41It's one thing to join a club and then find out that they're criminals.

00:04:45It's another thing to join a club when you already know that they're criminals.

00:04:48It's two really completely different types of personalities.

00:04:55Somebody says, can confirm, just got exempt from a $500 fine by speaking honestly to a

00:04:59government clerk.

00:05:01Some are psychos, but many are just people, yeah, yep, yep, yep, yep.

00:05:09I mean, I won't get into the stories, but I've had my run-ins.

00:05:19I got my entire career started, and I've mentioned this on the show before, I keep it brief,

00:05:24my entire sort of professional career, like I was doing temp work and I worked with spreadsheets

00:05:29and word processors and all this kind of stuff.

00:05:32I worked with all of this stuff, and I remember just getting tired of that, wanting something

00:05:36as a programmer.

00:05:38I ran out of money, have you ever had this situation where you're just out of money?

00:05:43Because normally, there's some place you can bounce, some place you can land, someone you

00:05:46can borrow from, but in the early 90s, there was just a brutal recession.

00:05:51And then, gosh, how old was I, oh boy, let's see here, yeah, so in the mid to late 90s,

00:06:01there was another recession, they just come along.

00:06:04One of the things that I'm completely thrilled about with regards to Bitcoin is the opportunity

00:06:07that our children might not have to be constantly kicked in the fucking gonads by bullshit

00:06:13financial manipulations.

00:06:16I fucking hate that, just about more than anything on this planet, I hate the fact that

00:06:20you can't make any fucking plans because they keep fucking around with the monetary system,

00:06:25they keep printing more, they yank all of the capital out of sight of the entrepreneurs

00:06:30by using it to hose down people dependent on the government with free shit.

00:06:35I hate the fact that they fuck around with interest rates, I hate the fact that it's

00:06:38just constant manipulation and the rules change and you can't plan and it's just, it's like

00:06:42trying to play basketball when they keep dialing up and down the fucking gravity.

00:06:47It's just an impossible, the amount of energy and time and concentration that just gets

00:06:51completely fucking wasted because they keep fucking around with the monetary system.

00:06:57This is one of the reasons why when Bitcoin came along, I was like, okay, this has got

00:07:01some potential because a decentralized store of value is something that can't be fucked

00:07:07around with and I fucking hate that they, sorry for all the swearing, I fucking hate

00:07:11that they fuck around with the monetary system all the time.

00:07:17And so yeah, in the late 90s, I was out of money and I was living in a place that was

00:07:21$270 a month because I lived in one room in a house with five other people and I was just

00:07:29out of money and I had tapped out my friends and nobody else could lend me money.

00:07:36And I had a woman who was helping trying to find work but there was no work out there

00:07:40and I just called her up and I still remember her name and I was just like, you know, I'm

00:07:44desperate, I'm totally desperate here, like I'm running out of money, I might end up on

00:07:48the street and I just want to work with computers, that's all I want, please, I'll clean computers,

00:07:54I'll move computers, I'll dust under computers, I just want to be around computers, I'm desperate

00:07:58for work, please, please, please, is there anything that you can do?

00:08:02And a naked appeal is very powerful.

00:08:05I don't know if you've ever been on the receiving end of a naked appeal, but it's very powerful.

00:08:12And she got me an interview and I got a job and I started my career as a COBOL programmer

00:08:16and then I started my own company and it was all from there.

00:08:27So you know what they do to fiat currency is what they do to the language is that they

00:08:31constantly redefine stuff.

00:08:33So you can't keep up with the current definitions and therefore you're paralyzed.

00:08:42So it's like words are getting redefined in real time in the middle of a debate, you can't

00:08:46do anything, you can't win, you can't manage anything, you can't predict anything and I

00:08:52just, the fact that they fuck around so much with the money is really the worst and greatest

00:09:02and deepest evil that is around.

00:09:05The capacity to fuck around with money and interest rates is so fundamentally evil that

00:09:11it is the soil from which most other evils grow.

00:09:23Yeah, I would not assume that people in authority are just automatically, you know, terrible

00:09:28people who have no compassion and so on, right?

00:09:30I mean, a lot of them believe the propaganda and they go into what they're doing for genuine

00:09:37reasons of wanting to make the world a better place and wanting to make things better, except

00:09:46maybe in, well, what is it, in the UK now they're arresting people at four in the morning

00:09:52for year old social media posts.

00:10:04Somebody says, arbitrary, quote, exceptions for select individuals in Bitcoin will implement

00:10:09universal standards, yeah.

00:10:13Exceptions in the financial system, arbitrary decision-making, counterfeiting, bailouts,

00:10:17two-tier justice, too big to jail, regulations to prevent corruption.

00:10:22Yeah, I mean, it's something I talked about years ago, and you can just say this when

00:10:26anybody proposes a, there ought to be a law, right?

00:10:30There ought to be a law.

00:10:32There ought to be a law.

00:10:34And when people say there ought to be a law, then say, okay, who's the person or group

00:10:40or ideology that you're the most terrified of, right?

00:10:43Let's say it's Nazis, right?

00:10:45Okay, so when you propose a law, if you're like the most terrible people, Nazis, right?

00:10:51Or communists, or whatever, right?

00:10:52The most terrible people.

00:10:54So when you propose a law, you have to understand that the most terrible people will end up

00:11:01in charge of that law.

00:11:02Like the people who are the most terrible for you will most likely end up in charge

00:11:05of that law.

00:11:07You are handing power to your most dangerous enemies when you propose, in general, laws.

00:11:12Now, I'm not talking about the basic UPB laws, right?

00:11:15Rape, theft, assault, and murder bans there, too.

00:11:17But if you want to tax the rich, I want you to imagine the most evil rich people being

00:11:24in charge of the tax code, because kind of that's the way that it rolls.

00:11:28Whatever you want.

00:11:30Whatever you want to do that involves the initiation of the use of force will attract

00:11:34the worst people that you can imagine to be in charge of it.

00:11:39Well, you know, we've got to have the government educate the children.

00:11:42Okay, I want you to imagine the most hideous ideology you can think of, and that gaining

00:11:46control over the minds, life, hearts, health, and souls of hundreds of millions of children

00:11:52in your society.

00:11:59Because that's how it's going to go.

00:12:01That's how it always goes.

00:12:06That's how it always goes.

00:12:07I want the government in charge of health care.

00:12:11Next stop, Wuhan.

00:12:14Come on, man.

00:12:16Uh, somebody said, I had a great job in oil and gas, and then Biden shut things down.

00:12:21Now they open things back up again.

00:12:22Politicians just messing with the economy all the time.

00:12:25Yeah, I mean, I loved my gig in many ways.

00:12:28I mean, it was a tough gig.

00:12:29Don't get me wrong.

00:12:30But working up north was great, because you got room and board paid for because it was

00:12:36elk meat in a tent.

00:12:37So you got room and board paid for.

00:12:39You didn't have to spend.

00:12:40They just deposited your money in your bank account in Toronto, and then they just paid

00:12:44for everything when you worked up north.

00:12:46So there was really no better way to save money.

00:12:49And I liked working in the outdoors.

00:12:51I liked working with my muscles.

00:12:54I liked the struggle sometimes.

00:12:58Occasionally it was, you know, when you sometimes we'd stay in the tent, it was hailing really

00:13:02badly.

00:13:02But one time the boss from Toronto came up.

00:13:04He's like, come on, guys, let's go.

00:13:06Come on, let's go.

00:13:07And we went out there and fucking thudding hail like golf balls into my brain.

00:13:11And it was just like, that was an ugly day, man.

00:13:13You could not embrace that suck, Kamala Harris style.

00:13:16You just could not embrace that suck.

00:13:18And so, yeah, it was rough.

00:13:21It was rough.

00:13:22But for the most part, it was a great job.

00:13:23So what happened was, I had that job for a year and a half after high school, and then

00:13:28I had it for another summer, and then nothing.

00:13:32Because the tax rules had changed.

00:13:34You could no longer deduct exploration from your tax.

00:13:39So all the stuff I trained for, all the stuff that I'd become good at, all the stuff that

00:13:43made me a lot of money, gone.

00:13:45Because the fucking rules changed.

00:13:48Just the rules changed.

00:13:50Thank you, Ed.

00:13:51Just the rules changed.

00:13:52Fuck you.

00:13:53We're changing the rules.

00:13:55Oh, no, capital gains is up.

00:13:56No, capital gains is gone.

00:13:57No, we're going to tax this.

00:13:58No, we're not going to tax that.

00:13:59No, the interest rates are up.

00:14:01No, no, they're down.

00:14:02No, we're going to do this.

00:14:03We're going to block the housing supply increase.

00:14:04Now we're going to take money to build houses.

00:14:06We're not really going to build houses.

00:14:08Fuck you.

00:14:09We're dialing physics, not just gravity.

00:14:11It's like the rules of physics.

00:14:12Try to play baseball.

00:14:13We're going to dial up air resistance.

00:14:14We're going to dial up gravity.

00:14:15We're going to dial down momentum.

00:14:17We're going to dial up inertia.

00:14:19Good fucking luck playing baseball.

00:14:22We live in the exploitive, predatory dreams of schizophrenic physics dialers.

00:14:30You know, this is why people think, is this a real life?

00:14:38Is this just fantasy?

00:14:39This is why people think, do we live in a waking dream?

00:14:41I don't know the difference between dreams and reality, because in dreams,

00:14:46there are no consistent physics, and in a state of society, there are no consistent rules.

00:14:52We live in the dreams of megalomaniacal madmen and madwomen.

00:14:57Everything that we need to predict our future is dialed up and dialed down.

00:15:05Only 10% of people used to go to university,

00:15:07so university usually meant you're in the top 10% of intelligence.

00:15:10Now, half of people go to university in some places,

00:15:13and university is now just a test of conformance and compliance,

00:15:16and who's going to sue you for something when they get a job at your company?

00:15:20For something when they get a job at your company?

00:15:26So you have a degree, and the degree is eroded as worthless by the lowering of standards down

00:15:32in the future.

00:15:33Like in your future, they erode even the value of your degree by lowering standards in the present,

00:15:38so your degree walks away.

00:15:39Those standards are still by how it's judged.

00:15:42You can't say, oh, but when I went, it was much more rigorous.

00:15:45Nobody cares.

00:15:47Want to save your money?

00:15:48Fuck you.

00:15:50Over the last, what, half decade, seven years,

00:15:5420%, 25% of the value of your money is gone.

00:15:59Gone.

00:16:02Want to save your grain?

00:16:03Release the rats.

00:16:06Want to save your water?

00:16:08I'm going to piss in it.

00:16:11Want to save anything?

00:16:15Too bad.

00:16:18Too bad.

00:16:19Want to work hard?

00:16:20Too bad.

00:16:25And now, of course, there's this self-censorship, right?

00:16:29They've made the stakes of wrong think so high

00:16:33that everybody watches everything they say.

00:16:36The secret police is now in the unconscious of blowback for accidental honesty.

00:16:41Oh, shit.

00:16:42I said something true.

00:16:43Oh.

00:16:43I said something that up until 5.217 years ago

00:16:50was accepted by everyone as self-evident.

00:16:53Now, if I say it, I'm fucked.

00:16:56Fired, lost, broken, destroyed.

00:17:07Right.

00:17:08So somebody says, whenever I use the argument that evil people can get in charge and misuse the law,

00:17:11people always say, well, we have to make...

00:17:14we have to...

00:17:18make sure to keep the bad people out and then continue.

00:17:21That's why we have to censor Nazis, right?

00:17:23Because the Nazis censors.

00:17:26So we have to use Nazi tactics to make sure that we don't end up...

00:17:29we have to put Nazis in charge to make sure that we don't end up with Nazis.

00:17:41Ugh.

00:17:44So you can't...

00:17:44and it's constantly destroying human capital, right?

00:17:47Rules changes are constantly destroying human capital.

00:17:50So I learned a lot about how to look for gold up north.

00:17:56I learned a lot about how to look for gold up north.

00:17:59And those almost two years worth of knowledge and experience

00:18:05was completely destroyed by some bullshit government rule change.

00:18:08So then I had to go work in restaurants and then I had to...

00:18:11right?

00:18:15So you're constantly accumulating this guy in the oil and gas.

00:18:17You're constantly accumulating skills and knowledge, which make you more efficient.

00:18:21And then they change the fucking rules and you can't use that anymore.

00:18:26I mean, think of how much work accountants put into learning the tax code.

00:18:30And now they're good at the tax code.

00:18:31And then the tax code changes and they all have to go and spend endless weekends

00:18:35learning about the new tax code.

00:18:37Whereas their old knowledge, right, like they just upped the capital gains tax in Canada,

00:18:43which means all of the financial advisors, all of the accountants, all of that,

00:18:48they all had to change their strategies, learn new strategies, deal with like...

00:18:52because before they had developed strategies for a lower capital gains tax,

00:18:55capital gains tax goes up.

00:18:56So you've got to change all your strategies.

00:18:58All your old knowledge is fucked and you've got to spend an endless amount of time

00:19:03Somebody says, I'm guessing the constant changing of rules is to prevent anyone

00:19:06from gaining enough money slash power to challenge the corrupt system.

00:19:11Well, the people who were in charge of the physics of your mind,

00:19:16the physics of your mind, the social rules, the economic rules, the tax rules,

00:19:19the legal rules, that's the physics of your mind.

00:19:21That's what we genuinely have to navigate.

00:19:24And that's what we're going to do.

00:19:25And that's what we're going to do.

00:19:26And that's what we're going to do.

00:19:27And that's what we're going to do.

00:19:28That's the physics of your mind.

00:19:29That's what we genuinely have to navigate.

00:19:32So the real predators are the initiation of the use of force for disobedience, right?

00:19:37Those are the wolves in the city at the moment, right?

00:19:39We don't have the wolves and the bears in the city,

00:19:41but the physics of the mind, they're constantly getting changed.

00:19:44That's what we have to navigate, right?

00:19:49That's what we have to navigate.

00:19:50It's sort of like you develop a fighting style in boxing

00:19:53based on the fact that you can't bite.

00:19:56Oh, thank you so much.

00:19:56Welcome.

00:19:57Izzy has brought me...

00:20:00Food.

00:20:01You know what?

00:20:01I'm going to recreate that meme, Izzy.

00:20:03I'm going to tip it.

00:20:04I'm going to tip it to show the audience

00:20:06and it's going to slide all over my keyboard.

00:20:08Oh my gosh.

00:20:09Wait, let's talk for a moment about how the blueberries

00:20:12are like the size of my palm.

00:20:13Like, what the heck?

00:20:14Why do you get, why do you get,

00:20:15did you get those from the bowling alley?

00:20:16No, I...

00:20:17Bowlberries.

00:20:18Wait, come closer if you're going to talk,

00:20:20but not in camera.

00:20:20You can come to here.

00:20:22To there.

00:20:23Right.

00:20:23Okay.

00:20:24They're basically just pumpkin puree pancakes.

00:20:26I put some honey on them

00:20:27because you're like off sugar or something.

00:20:28I don't even know.

00:20:29Yeah, I'll do some honey.

00:20:30Yeah, I'll do some honey.

00:20:31And then blueberries.

00:20:33Now, do you know...

00:20:33I've made these before.

00:20:34I didn't even use the recipe.

00:20:36I'm not going to lie.

00:20:37Just kind of eyeballed it.

00:20:38I don't even really know how pancakes are made.

00:20:40I just whipped up some egg whites

00:20:42and then some flour, pumpkin puree, milk,

00:20:46a little bit of honey for sweetness

00:20:48and then the egg yolk.

00:20:49And then I folded it in so it's fluffy.

00:20:51Now, one of the things

00:20:52that was the most touching for me recently

00:20:54in terms of food that you provided,

00:20:56it's really quite beautiful.

00:20:56Hang on.

00:20:57Let me just get a little...

00:20:58I'm glad you put a napkin.

00:20:59It's quite moving for me.

00:21:00Okay.

00:21:00So one of the things that was most beautiful

00:21:02is that mom and I went to the dentist recently.

00:21:06Oh, yeah.

00:21:07And you were very kind and thoughtful

00:21:10of the food that you gave me after the dentist.

00:21:12I didn't have an appointment.

00:21:13So I went to a Tim Hortons

00:21:15and was just doing some schoolwork.

00:21:16I had to get my math done.

00:21:17They were there for like two hours.

00:21:18It was ridiculous.

00:21:19Anyways, I'm done in an hour and a half.

00:21:20And I thought I'll walk around the intersection.

00:21:22And it's not like a mall.

00:21:23It's like a strip mall.

00:21:24Around a parking lot.

00:21:26And I see a little convenience store.

00:21:29And I think it's not like I just had a coffee or anything.

00:21:32So I go in because I thought,

00:21:33you know, maybe for later,

00:21:34I could get a drink or something.

00:21:36My paycheck came in like,

00:21:37you know, I can spend money now.

00:21:38Ka-ching!

00:21:38Yeah, right?

00:21:39Anyways, I don't get a drink,

00:21:41but I do see peanut brittle.

00:21:42And I think this would be the funniest thing ever.

00:21:44So I buy peanut brittle.

00:21:47And you guys kind of like,

00:21:49oh, I got a snack for you.

00:21:51Yes, your teeth are now clean.

00:21:52Let's weld them together with glue and peanuts.

00:21:55Because you always talk about peanut brittle

00:21:56and how it's like...

00:21:58It's tooth glue.

00:21:59Yeah.

00:21:59In fact, they're still working on some peanut brittle

00:22:01I had when I was eight.

00:22:02They still occasionally just work on it in the back.

00:22:04It's just that it's wild.

00:22:06That's funny.

00:22:07Anyways.

00:22:08I don't know how to eat this.

00:22:09And also the nicest thing is then

00:22:12you wouldn't believe how much

00:22:13my listeners enjoy listening to me eat.

00:22:15Yeah, I'm eating a blueberry.

00:22:18I should try a toss.

00:22:19Should I try a toss?

00:22:20You can throw it at me.

00:22:21No, I think...

00:22:23Should I try a toss?

00:22:24Oh, my God.

00:22:25It's because I said I put honey on it.

00:22:29Okay.

00:22:29Maybe try this one.

00:22:30It doesn't have any.

00:22:31All right.

00:22:32Now, is this too high stakes for me?

00:22:33Really?

00:22:34Because this is really going to come down to...

00:22:35Guys, if he does it, you have to donate.

00:22:36Oh, crap.

00:22:38Okay, hang on.

00:22:38Give me another one.

00:22:40That one's kind of dry, right?

00:22:41I feel I got it.

00:22:43Whoa, I don't got it.

00:22:44Hang on.

00:22:46Oh, yeah, baby.

00:22:48This is the kind of quality content

00:22:50that people come for.

00:22:51Oh, it's like underneath.

00:22:54Oh, I'm sure we imported some New York rats

00:22:56to keep the basement clean,

00:22:57so I'm sure that'll be fine.

00:23:01Somebody says being trawled through kindness.

00:23:02That's the best.

00:23:03There's a spider back here.

00:23:04What?

00:23:05It's like one of those spindly ones with the...

00:23:07Oh, I got it.

00:23:08The spider?

00:23:09No, the blueberry.

00:23:10Oh.

00:23:10It's just underneath the spider.

00:23:11You know what?

00:23:11The blueberry...

00:23:12Like, the spider is down here.

00:23:13Like, I'm sure food is coming sooner or later.

00:23:15And then a giant blueberry rolls into the environment.

00:23:17I risked my life for this thing.

00:23:19It's got hair on it.

00:23:20I'm going to put it in your coffee.

00:23:21Ah!

00:23:24That's nice.

00:23:25Do you want to try a throw?

00:23:26I'll just tell people whether you got it or not.

00:23:28Not with the one from the floor.

00:23:30I'm putting it not on the plate.

00:23:31I'm putting it...

00:23:32Oh, God.

00:23:33It's mixed in.

00:23:34It's not.

00:23:35Okay, throw.

00:23:36All right.

00:23:36Here we go.

00:23:37Here we go.

00:23:39Oh, my God.

00:23:40That went...

00:23:41Oh, right there.

00:23:42Right there.

00:23:42I'm not eating off this stinky floor.

00:23:44All right.

00:23:45One more.

00:23:47You know what?

00:23:47I'm going to try a throw with a pancake.

00:23:49I don't feel it.

00:23:50Not too high.

00:23:53Oh, magnificent.

00:23:54Oh, my God.

00:23:55Magnificent.

00:23:56Magnificent.

00:23:57All right.

00:23:58Can I try a bite of the pancake?

00:23:59Yeah, yeah.

00:23:59Go for it.

00:24:00Is there anything you wanted to say to the audience?

00:24:04How are they?

00:24:05They aren't even bad.

00:24:06They're not bad?

00:24:07Nice.

00:24:08They're not a bad tryer.

00:24:09You should try some...

00:24:09We should put some almond peanut butter on it.

00:24:11Oh, no.

00:24:11Actually, that might not be bad.

00:24:14Oh, my God.

00:24:16I'd punish you with 100.

00:24:18I'd punish you with a hug if we weren't on camera.

00:24:21There we go.

00:24:24Looks like philosophy doesn't grant hand-eye coordination.

00:24:27Oh, yeah?

00:24:28Turn on your webcam.

00:24:29Let's see you do it with a low ceiling.

00:24:31See, if it's high, it's okay.

00:24:32Because if it's high, you've got time to track it.

00:24:34The ceiling is like...

00:24:35That guy talks like an expert.

00:24:36I think he could.

00:24:38Should I try one more?

00:24:39A throw?

00:24:40Throw.

00:24:40Go.

00:24:42Oh, nice.

00:24:44Okay, bye.

00:24:46That's great.

00:24:48All right, talk amongst yourselves.

00:24:51Talk amongst yourselves.

00:24:54Having a teenager is like having permanent trolling stand-up in your life.

00:24:59It is absolutely hilarious.

00:25:02Well, you heard, of course, her.

00:25:03I mean, if you're a donor, I did a show with Izzy where she imitated me for about five minutes,

00:25:07and I ended up on the floor.

00:25:09It was so funny.

00:25:11You know, having a teenager...

00:25:14Oh, wait.

00:25:15What's going on with my face?

00:25:17I have something on my face?

00:25:18No.

00:25:20No.

00:25:20So, yeah, having a teenager is a very humbling experience because they know all of your foibles

00:25:25and picadillos and quirks and all of that.

00:25:29It is pretty funny.

00:25:31So, all right.

00:25:32Let's get back to...

00:25:34Yeah, so if you learn a particular fighting style based on boxing or whatever, right?

00:25:40And what are the boxing rules?

00:25:41Like you have to wear gloves.

00:25:43You can't hit below the belt.

00:25:44You can't kick.

00:25:45All right, so you learn a particular boxing style.

00:25:47Let's just say they change the rules completely.

00:25:49Then all the new people coming in know all of these new rules.

00:25:52You have to try and adjust your fighting style to their rules.

00:25:57What was it like?

00:25:58Andrew Tate just...

00:25:59Was it yesterday?

00:26:00Challenged Jake Paul to a fight?

00:26:03Call him out, man.

00:26:05What is wrong with everyone?

00:26:07Well, we could take on the powers that be and all of their injustice and immorality,

00:26:11or we can put knuckle sandwiches into people's eyeballs and call ourselves rebels.

00:26:17I'm calling you out, man.

00:26:18We could kick your ass.

00:26:24It's...

00:26:25I mean, I don't know.

00:26:26Are we just too retarded to continue as a species in any fundamentally productive way?

00:26:34It's hard to know.

00:26:35It's hard to know.

00:26:37But yeah, I really am quite sorrowful about all of the skills that I've learned over the years.

00:26:42Now, some of those are just going to fall away, right?

00:26:44I get that, right?

00:26:46Some of those are just going to fall away based upon moving forward in the world, right?

00:26:51I mean, things are going to progress, new computer languages, new approaches.

00:26:54I went from VBA to VB to .NET to...

00:27:00Like, I went all of these things, right?

00:27:01I get all of that.

00:27:05Somebody says, Joe.

00:27:06Hello, Joe.

00:27:07The constant rule changes also takes away incentives to learn more.

00:27:11I remember I was going to read a book to learn more about oil and gas,

00:27:13but decided not to read it since Biden might get it.

00:27:16Get in, right?

00:27:17That book is now sitting in my garage.

00:27:18Yeah, yeah, for sure.

00:27:20I mean, the amount of...

00:27:22I mean, we could have interplanetary colonies if it wasn't for all these rule changes, right?

00:27:27I mean, there's no way you'd build a spaceship to go to Mars

00:27:29if gravity kept changing based on the whim of bureaucrats.

00:27:32You couldn't possibly do it.

00:27:33So the amount of paralysis that's happening, this is why people don't want to have kids.

00:27:36People don't want to have kids because they have no fucking idea what the rules are going to be

00:27:40five seconds from now.

00:27:41They have no idea.

00:27:43They have no idea.

00:27:44Also, I mean, it takes a long time to kill the birth rate and nobody knows how to return it.

00:27:51Like nobody knows how to return it.

00:27:52Even Viktor Orban in, was it Hungary?

00:27:54Has been trying to reverse it.

00:27:56Well, a woman has four kids.

00:27:57She never has to pay income tax again.

00:27:58They're trying to reverse it.

00:27:59Nobody knows how to reverse it.

00:28:01Because the problem is, you know, let me ask you this.

00:28:05Let me ask you this.

00:28:08Let me ask you this.

00:28:09If you don't have kids, why not?

00:28:12If you don't have kids, why not?

00:28:19I'll give you a moment.

00:28:20That is good, man.

00:28:21I'll give you a moment to answer that.

00:28:24Teenage daughters will feed your body and starve your vanity.

00:28:33So I'm reading a novel to my family.

00:28:40This novel has an outrageous Italian character.

00:28:43So I put on the Italian accent, you know, like some cliched Mario character.

00:28:49And when my daughter imitates the Italian accent, it is so funny.

00:28:52It is really, really hilarious.

00:28:54It's a very, very great blessing to see a mind reach such amazing manifestation,

00:29:01particularly with humor.

00:29:02Very funny.

00:29:04Difficulties finding a partner?

00:29:06For sure.

00:29:06Yeah, that had a lot to do with it.

00:29:08For sure.

00:29:09For sure.

00:29:10The women that I knew in university, they wanted to, I remember one of them ended up going.

00:29:16She became a bartender in Europe.

00:29:20She got some horrible disease.

00:29:21And it was just horrible.

00:29:24It was just horrible.

00:29:26Another one wanted to go, hey, it would really cool.

00:29:28I want to go busk in the back streets, in the farm streets, in the little villages of Ireland.

00:29:32I want to spend a summer busking in Ireland.

00:29:35It's just like, the fuck?

00:29:37Completely useless.

00:29:39Waste of life.

00:29:42What was, what did other?

00:29:44Travel was a big one.

00:29:45Travel was a big one.

00:29:46Because travel is sexy, right?

00:29:47Travel is sexy for women.

00:29:50What is often sexiest for women is feeling high status and feeling desired.

00:29:55Feeling desired.

00:29:56Men don't really know what it means to feel desired because very few women.

00:29:59I mean, unless you're at the very, very top, right?

00:30:00Very few women are just lusting after us, at least in the white community.

00:30:04I think it's a little different in other communities.

00:30:08So, travel and the sexiness of foreign travel and men lusting for you in foreign places.

00:30:14It's very sexy for women and all of that.

00:30:16So, yeah, there was a big travel thing.

00:30:18There was, I want to go on to higher education thing, which means being broke into your 30s

00:30:25and all of that, right?

00:30:27So, I really love how you don't take yourself too seriously, Steph.

00:30:34So many people take themselves so seriously and it's so tiring.

00:30:37Yeah, I take morals very seriously.

00:30:39The rest of life is mostly comedy.

00:30:43Too expensive, women extremely leftist and being raised by a toxic mother.

00:30:46I don't know how to appreciate a good girl when I had her.

00:30:49I didn't know how to appreciate a good girl when I had her.

00:30:52Waiting until I retire so I could be home with them.

00:30:54My wife has health issues that make infant care unsafe for her alone.

00:30:57Oh, I'm sorry to hear that.

00:30:59I don't feel as if I'm ready there.

00:31:00I believe I will be within two years, probably one year.

00:31:02I'm young, building my value as fast as I can and so on.

00:31:06Yeah.

00:31:08Yeah.

00:31:10So, one of the reasons it's so hard to turn around the birth rate is

00:31:20once boys have seen their fathers fucking disemboweled by the court systems,

00:31:26false allegations, threats, jail, threats of jail for like the only debtor's prison

00:31:34that exists is for, in many places, is for non-payment of alimony and child support.

00:31:40You can't go to jail for blowing your bills except when women's needs and preferences

00:31:47are involved.

00:31:48In that case, fuck you, you go to jail, right?

00:31:50I mean, so what happens is you owe alimony, child support, you lose your job because someone's

00:31:55fucking with the rules or COVID or you don't want to get vaxxed or something like that or both.

00:31:59And then you can't pay your bills.

00:32:02Your wife gets you charged.

00:32:03You get thrown, your ex-wife gets you thrown in jail.

00:32:08And your dad's thrown in jail.

00:32:13And then what, right?

00:32:15Then you're in jail.

00:32:17You're in jail.

00:32:19I'm no lawyer, but this is as far as I understand it, right?

00:32:23Your child support and spousal support obligations continue to pile up.

00:32:28Then you get out of jail.

00:32:30You have a much bigger bill than when you went into jail.

00:32:32And now you've got to try and get a job when you've just been in jail.

00:32:36And your life is done.

00:32:39Women can like, well, disemboweling is the wrong word because at least disemboweling,

00:32:43you're dead fairly quickly.

00:32:47Women can absolutely destroy men through the power of the state.

00:32:50Now men can do it to women too, of course, right?

00:32:52We understand this, right?

00:32:53I'm not saying it's one-sided, but it's a little bit more one-sided than the other.

00:32:58So once you've seen that, I mean, I remember

00:33:01sitting in a restaurant in the now vanished Don Mills Mall.

00:33:06My mother had a piece of paper and she was writing her wishlist of everything

00:33:08that my dad was going to be forced to fund.

00:33:17It was a big list.

00:33:20It was a big list.

00:33:23So once you see that, like this mask off, like the naked

00:33:30shock face of cold-hearted women, not all women, of course, lovely women out there,

00:33:35but like the particularly the blame men, no responsibility, cold-hearted

00:33:40Pac-Man with a chainsaw eating up the balls kind of women.

00:33:44It's a little tough to trust and love now, isn't it?

00:33:46Like I was reading a tweet this morning about some guy said to an elderly woman who lost

00:33:51her husband 10 years ago.

00:33:53So what do you miss about him the most?

00:33:54She said, well, he used to get up earlier than I did.

00:33:57And every morning he would make sure that the covers were up around my neck.

00:34:01So I'd be warm when I woke up.

00:34:03I mean, that's tenderhearted.

00:34:04That's beautiful.

00:34:04That's lovely.

00:34:05My wife is exactly along those lines.

00:34:07She's so incredibly thoughtful.

00:34:09She's so incredibly thoughtful about my comfort, my happiness.

00:34:14It's honestly, it's really the most amazing and beautiful thing in the world.

00:34:18I try to do my best in reciprocation, but she just is so automatically thoughtful and

00:34:25considerate and caring.

00:34:26It's just amazing.

00:34:28So once the court system is embedded with this misandry, it makes the cost-benefit calculation

00:34:36of marriage.

00:34:37And even if it wasn't your father, you know, someone whose father went through this

00:34:41and you can't, right?

00:34:44It takes a long time for things to go wrong.

00:34:46And by the time they go wrong, it's almost impossible to have them go right again without

00:34:51a massive wrenching change.

00:34:55My wife and I are trying to conceive.

00:34:56Ah, good for you.

00:34:57Good for you.

00:34:58Good luck.

00:34:59Good luck.

00:35:00Divorce court scared me away from marriage for a long time.

00:35:04Steph, I still don't understand why a woman would choose to leave a man when she has

00:35:07small children.

00:35:08Why would she choose to do that alone?

00:35:10I understand that this happens, but it makes no sense to me.

00:35:14So divorce happens out of a failure to negotiate.

00:35:21What we have here is a failure to negotiate.

00:35:25It's a failure to negotiate.

00:35:26So people who don't know how to negotiate only know how to escalate.

00:35:33If you don't know how to negotiate, all you have is escalation.

00:35:37Negotiation versus escalation.

00:35:39I feel like I'm about to wrap something, maybe a Christmas present, because that's

00:35:42the closest I get to wrap as a Caucasian speckled egg.

00:35:48So if you can't negotiate, all you can do is escalate.

00:35:53So you want your way.

00:35:55You get incredibly angry.

00:35:56You get incredibly frustrated.

00:35:57And what happens is the man who's frightened of the woman's temper because you grew up

00:36:02with an aggressive mother, the woman escalates a bit.

00:36:04The man complies.

00:36:05The woman escalates more.

00:36:06The man complies more.

00:36:06The woman escalates more.

00:36:08The man complies more.

00:36:09And then eventually, she looks at him as a cringing coward.

00:36:12He looks at her as a demonic bitch, and they separate.

00:36:17Incremental compliance breeds escalating bullying.

00:36:26And a lot of times, a woman who escalates is looking for pushback because we outsource

00:36:35our self-restraint to some degree to other people.

00:36:39We are social animals, which means almost every aspect of our personalities is shared

00:36:43with others.

00:36:44I share my thinking with you, the audience, with other people in my life.

00:36:49I share my sense of self-protection.

00:36:51I share my self-esteem.

00:36:52You have to surrender your self-esteem to others in order to fall in love because they

00:36:56have to be able to give you objective feedback because they can see you better than you can

00:36:59see yourself in many ways.

00:37:00Right?

00:37:04So, a woman who leaves a man oftentimes is escalating out of desperation because she

00:37:13doesn't know how to negotiate, and she doesn't know how to back down.

00:37:17Because once you start to escalate, you can't back down.

00:37:22Once you weaponize the justice system, you can't lose power.

00:37:24Right?

00:37:26So, once you start to escalate, you can't back down.

00:37:30It's called calling your bluff, right?

00:37:33Right?

00:37:35You start throwing tough words around with a guy in a bar, and then he calls you out,

00:37:39you end up out in the parking lot in some stupid fight because you don't know how to

00:37:43de-escalate.

00:37:46Knowing how to de-escalate is really, really important with yourself and with others.

00:37:50This is basic anger management, right?

00:37:51Knowing how to de-escalate.

00:37:53And the best way to de-escalate is not to escalate in the first place.

00:37:56Right?

00:37:57I mean, the entire First World War, I've got the truth about the First World War was

00:38:01because, I mean, the First World War was a family fight because almost all the leaders

00:38:05were related to each other.

00:38:06So, it was a family fight where things escalated and people wanted to save face without backing

00:38:13down.

00:38:16And they couldn't back down, they couldn't de-escalate, so you end up with a war.

00:38:20I mean, I would argue Ukraine and Russia is the same kind of thing, right?

00:38:23A lot of war arises out of provocations that escalate because people don't know how to

00:38:30back down.

00:38:33Now, of course, it's easy to not back down if you're not the one personally paying the

00:38:37price, but you're just dragging other people out of their village huts to go and fight

00:38:40for you.

00:38:45Sorry, hit me with a why, because I'm just looking.

00:38:47No donations yet.

00:38:48We've been off 45 minutes, which is fine.

00:38:50I'm just, if the topic is not interesting to you, then let's move on to another topic.

00:38:58If none of this is donation worthy, which is fine, I'm not blaming you.

00:39:01I'm just saying that if none of this is donation worthy, then let's move on to other topics.

00:39:07Somebody says,

00:39:11The laws are not great.

00:39:12If I could snap my fingers and fix the laws, I think the birth rates would increase.

00:39:15Well, sure, but there is no snapping your fingers and change the law, because the law

00:39:20is money printing for lawyers, right?

00:39:23So once lawyers have adapted themselves to the law, they will resist any changes that

00:39:29diminish their billing hours, right?

00:39:31Do lawyers want the law to be simple as a whole?

00:39:35Well, of course not, because the simpler the law is, the less you need a lawyer.

00:39:38The more complicated the law becomes, the more you need a lawyer, which is why lawyers,

00:39:42a lot of them, will steadfastly resist any simplification of the legal code.

00:39:48Of course, right?

00:39:51Right, if you're paying someone to translate,

00:39:56they don't want you to be able to learn the language yourself, right?

00:40:04Inflation is making 20 to 30-somethings feel like they can't afford a kid.

00:40:09Well, so, I mean, this is the problem too.

00:40:11So you grow up in the boomer household, and there's lots of money, because

00:40:15housing prices were lower and inflation wasn't quite as bad, except in the,

00:40:19what is it, 70s were pretty bad for inflation.

00:40:22So you grew up in a boomer household, and one of the things that was great for me was growing up

00:40:28poor.

00:40:29I didn't like it at the time at all, but it was pretty good, because everything after that is

00:40:32an improvement, right?

00:40:34And so if you grew up in a nice four-bedroom house on a half acre, and you've got maybe a

00:40:40pool in the backyard, there are two cars, then you go out into the world, you're broke

00:40:44relative to that kind of lifestyle.

00:40:45So people feel broke, even though they're the third or fourth wealthiest generation

00:40:50in the 13-billion-year history of the universe, or 14-billion-year history of the universe.

00:40:56They feel broke because they have less money relative to their parents.

00:41:00But of course, you don't want to compare yourself at the age of 25 to your parents at the age of

00:41:0850 or 55, because 45 to 60 or 50 to 55, the sort of peak earning years for people as a whole.

00:41:15So you don't want to sit there and say, well, I feel poor because I have a lot less than my

00:41:20parents.

00:41:21What you want to do is compare yourself at 25 to your parents at 25.

00:41:25So sit down and talk with them and say, what was your life like at 25?

00:41:30I wouldn't want my daughter to think about my life now, I would want my daughter to think

00:41:35about my life at the age of 25.

00:41:38So that she'd feel wealth.

00:41:39So it's an IQ test.

00:41:41Feeling broke when you grew up with a relatively middle-class family, feeling broke is just

00:41:47an IQ test, because you have to compare yourself to your parents at your age, not your parents

00:41:52when they were older.

00:41:57Couldn't her peers or social circle have potential for toxic influence in that regard, though?

00:42:01Yes, for sure.

00:42:02So, boys have some susceptibility to peer influence for sure, but women seem to have

00:42:09it slightly more.

00:42:11And so, women who make bad decisions often want to recreate those bad decisions in others

00:42:18so they don't feel like they screwed up alone, whereas a lot of men will say, don't do what

00:42:22I did.

00:42:23So what happens is, women, and you see this all over on social media, a lot of women will

00:42:30say, it's better out of a problematic relationship, especially with kids.

00:42:36And you see all these movies where, you know, the seller got her groove back, and it's kind

00:42:40of an older one, right?

00:42:40The Bridget Jones diary where this, you know, tubby, bushy single mom, this tubby single

00:42:46mom has two multimillionaires who are super handsome vying for her hand.

00:42:51I mean, it's all completely mad.

00:42:54And the thing is, though, that men know that this Marvel, DC Universe, Superman crap is

00:43:00just a fantasy.

00:43:00We know that.

00:43:02We know that war movies are just fantasies, because you shoot at guys and you hit them

00:43:11every time, they shoot at you and miss every time.

00:43:12Like, that's not a real thing, right?

00:43:15The people who you're shooting at are probably about as skilled as you are, so it's pretty

00:43:18much 50-50.

00:43:20For the most part, right?

00:43:22So, you know, the guys running through the hail of gunfire and taking out their machine

00:43:26gun nest and like, I mean, we know that that's nonsense.

00:43:29We know that that's luring us in to get killed.

00:43:31We know that that's a pathway to slaughter.

00:43:36It's the devil saying, oh, you'll be totally safe, and you'll be a hero, and people will

00:43:40worship you, and you'll get medals, and you'll get ticker tape parades when all you get is

00:43:44mustard gas and a bomb on your shelter in the mud.

00:43:48And then rats eating your body.

00:43:49That's what you get.

00:43:50That's what you get.

00:43:51What you're offered is glory.

00:43:52What you get is splatter.

00:43:56But we know this stuff is fantasy, right?

00:43:59But women genuinely think that they leave their husbands and they move downtown, and

00:44:06a really sensitive, beautiful guy with abs who sculpts clay with his bare hands and listens

00:44:14to an unchained melody by the Everly Brothers is just going to introduce orgasm so plentiful

00:44:22it's like the population of China.

00:44:26And it's going to be dreamy and beautiful and wonderful, and he's going to be a great

00:44:30guy, and he's going to want to take care of her and her kid, and she's going to slide

00:44:34into this absolute hot pocket of delight and chivalry, and this guy's going to be super

00:44:39hot and sexy, and he's going to have weird amounts of mystery money, and he's going to

00:44:44have abs without exercise, and he's just going to be fantastic.

00:44:48And a guy that dreamy and beautiful and wealthy and hot and sexy and perfect is, out of all

00:44:54the women he could possibly get, he's going to choose the slightly tubby single mom who's

00:44:59traumatized from a bad marriage.

00:45:00That's just how it's going to be.

00:45:02It's straight up demonic.

00:45:03It's straight up demonic.

00:45:05Inviting you to paradise and then removing the drug that exposes you to hell, right?

00:45:12Come in here.

00:45:13It's beautiful.

00:45:14Oh yeah, that sounds great.

00:45:15Yeah, I'll leave everything, right?

00:45:19I mean, there was a movie many years ago called The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

00:45:24I really was missing a word.

00:45:25The Unbearable Lightness of Being Naked.

00:45:27It was one of these Euro trash, sexy, sexy movies, and in it this guy gets involved in

00:45:32this torrid affair with this woman.

00:45:34He leaves his wife and kids.

00:45:35He goes to the apartment so they can be together, and she's cleaned out and she's gone, right?

00:45:40Because she's a sadist.

00:45:41And what sadists do is they promise you paradise and then you give up the good and they deliver

00:45:48you to hell.

00:45:52Right, they promise you paradise, you give up the good, they deliver you to hell.

00:46:00That's what sadists like doing.

00:46:01They like getting you to betray your values with the promise of sense pleasure, right?

00:46:09And then you give up the good for the promise of sense pleasure.

00:46:13And then you get nothing.

00:46:15You're left with nothing.

00:46:15You know, they enjoy that.

00:46:17They love that.

00:46:18That gives them a diamond hard boner of eternity.

00:46:24They absolutely love disassembling your virtues based upon your greed for the material.

00:46:30And the material is the flesh too.

00:46:32They promise you a lot of sex.

00:46:33They promise you a lot of wealth.

00:46:34They promise you a lot of fame.

00:46:36They promise you a lot of prestige.

00:46:37They promise you a lot of prominence.

00:46:41And then they have to deliver it to some people, right?

00:46:46They have to deliver it to some people, otherwise the promises ring hollow.

00:46:49But they only deliver that one person in a hundred to the fame and money in order to

00:46:54trick the 99 into giving up their virtues.

00:46:57And there's a great line in the movie, Heretic, the new Hugh Grant movie, about propaganda,

00:47:07right?

00:47:08About propaganda.

00:47:11And she says, why do you keep doing this to us?

00:47:13And the propagandist says, why do you keep letting me?

00:47:19Why do you keep letting me lie to you and promise you all of these wonderful things?

00:47:27It's actually the first half of the movie is a great meditation on faith.

00:47:30It really is a great meditation on faith.

00:47:35Why do you keep letting me?

00:47:39Evil survives on demand.

00:47:43Evil is a pull economy.

00:47:44It's not a push economy.

00:47:45Evil is a pull economy.

00:47:47Like a con man relies on people being greedy for the unearned.

00:47:52That's what a con man relies on.

00:47:54If people get over their greed for the unearned, evil fades away.

00:48:01Of course, people will offer you lots of free stuff.

00:48:03Sure.

00:48:03Absolutely.

00:48:04They'll offer you lots of free stuff.

00:48:09But you have to participate, right?

00:48:11You have to invite the vampires in.

00:48:13The devil can't force you.

00:48:14The devil can only tempt you.

00:48:16You have to say yes.

00:48:17You have to step and follow.

00:48:19You have to bow and kneel.

00:48:20You have to abandon virtue for the sake of temporary pleasures.

00:48:27And then the pleasures fade away, turn to ash and nothing.

00:48:32And all that's left is the regret.

00:48:35And then the only way that you can ever feel good again is corrupting others in turn.

00:48:40And that's a very temporary goodness, right?

00:48:44The only way that you can ever feel good again after being corrupted is corrupting others in

00:48:47turn, and that's how it spreads, the virus.

00:48:50And the resistance to virus is saying no to the unearned at all times, under all circumstances,

00:48:56no matter what.

00:48:57Saying no to the unearned.

00:48:59So for me, if the price of staying on social media was lying, then I will not have earned

00:49:11my prominence through virtue.

00:49:15You follow, right?

00:49:16If, for me, staying on social media required that I lie, then my prominence on social media

00:49:26would have been unearned.

00:49:28Because I would have lied about lying.

00:49:32I would have simply avoided topics without telling you I was avoiding topics, right?

00:49:37So that's why I said I'm not doing politics anymore.

00:49:39I'm done with that.

00:49:41I wasn't lying to you about what I was no longer going to talk about.

00:49:46You gotta look.

00:49:48And this is a tough question for everyone.

00:49:51What do you want that is unearned?

00:49:57What do you want that is unearned?

00:49:58That is what is going to get you.

00:50:02Do you want a hot girlfriend without earning it through some means or another, right?

00:50:11Do you want a good woman without having to earn a good woman by being good yourself?

00:50:16Do you want money without the years of 80 hours a week that it takes to get it, usually?

00:50:28What do you want that is unearned?

00:50:35Or what do you take value in now that you did not earn?

00:50:43Are you tall?

00:50:44Are you good looking?

00:50:45Did you inherit money?

00:50:47Do you have just a fierce wit that you were kind of born with?

00:50:51Do you take pride in the unearned?

00:50:53That is what will be used to disassemble you.

00:51:02The only pride is virtue.

00:51:04Everything else is corruption.

00:51:08The only pride is virtue.

00:51:10Everything else is corruption.

00:51:12Somebody says, oh, Anne says, hello, Anne.

00:51:17Are you okay?

00:51:18Is there, there is a growing trend of single by choice women getting sperm donors and raising

00:51:23their child solo.

00:51:24My neighbor's son has no father and his grandfather lives on the other side of the world.

00:51:26My husband is the only male role model in his life.

00:51:30That's dangerous.

00:51:31That's dangerous.

00:51:32That's dangerous.

00:51:35That makes sense.

00:51:36I've split up before because my partner agreed to be single by choice.

00:51:39I've split up before because my partner agreed to everything I said and I felt like it was

00:51:42in a relationship with myself.

00:51:44Yes.

00:51:46Compliance is one of the biggest.

00:51:51Thank you, Fiona.

00:51:52Compliance is one of the biggest sabotages in the known universe.

00:51:55Thank you, David.

00:51:57If you really want to destroy someone, comply with them.

00:52:03Content is very interesting.

00:52:05Yeah, the best place, freedomain.com slash donate is the best place.

00:52:11I made more at this age than my dad at his age and he already had three kids.

00:52:15Yeah, for sure.

00:52:19My parents for sure had it easier than me, not to mention my grandparents.

00:52:22Everything was cheaper and jobs paid more.

00:52:25Sure.

00:52:26And you can compare the strengths of their economy to the weaknesses in your economy

00:52:30or you can compare the strengths in your economy to the weaknesses of their economy.

00:52:35If you can work from home, you've made a fortune.

00:52:41If you can work from home, you've made a fortune.

00:52:44You don't need the car.

00:52:45You don't need the insurance.

00:52:47You don't need the repairs.

00:52:48You don't need the gas.

00:52:50You don't need the oil.

00:52:51You don't need the clothes, right?

00:52:53You don't lose all that time in traffic.

00:52:56You don't have the risk of traffic accidents.

00:52:59If you can work from home, you're already better off than your parents were in just

00:53:03about every metric.

00:53:05Plus, you can spend time at home.

00:53:06You can have lunch with your wife.

00:53:07If she can work from home, you can have lunch with your kids.

00:53:09If they're home, you can work from home.

00:53:12Can you work on the internet, right?

00:53:14Can you work on the internet?

00:53:15If you can work on the internet, you are way better off than you were in the past.

00:53:21Did you get access to being an expert in AI?

00:53:24Your parents didn't have that.

00:53:25So there's so many opportunities now that didn't exist for your parents, which is way,

00:53:30way better.

00:53:35I've always thought it was weird to feel poor when we have little rectangles in our

00:53:38pocket with almost infinite knowledge.

00:53:40Yeah, it's a very good way to put it.

00:53:42That's an interesting way to look at it.

00:53:43My parents had kids when they were my age with a house.

00:53:45However, they were also massively in debt.

00:53:47Took them like 15 to 20 years to get out of that debt, right?

00:53:52Started watching the World War I movie, All Quiet on the Western Front.

00:53:55Absolutely brutal.

00:53:57Right.

00:53:58Well, of course, a lot of war movies that are aimed at the West are programming men

00:54:02not to fight.

00:54:04Right.

00:54:04Like in the 80s, there was two movies.

00:54:09One was called Threads.

00:54:09The other was called The Day After about nuclear war.

00:54:12It turns out at least one of them that I know of was funded by the Soviets in order to,

00:54:16like the communists in Russia, was funded in order to break the will of the West to

00:54:21fight.

00:54:25Mom and dad broke up because mom wanted to open the marriage.

00:54:31Right.

00:54:33I'm sorry about that.

00:54:37It sounds like you're saying most women don't have a decent grasp on reality and are delusional.

00:54:40I've considered that but always thought it was a bit arrogant of me to assume that.

00:54:43I've always assumed there must be something obvious I'm missing.

00:54:46Surely I can't be this different.

00:54:48No, no, I'm not saying that women are more susceptible to delusions as a whole.

00:54:55Men and women both have their delusions.

00:54:57Men are deluded by status.

00:55:03And women are deluded by vanity.

00:55:07Men are deluded by status.

00:55:09Women are deluded by vanity.

00:55:10We both have our weaknesses, right?

00:55:16Yeah, he told them the walls had metal so they won't be able to call out.

00:55:19They knew the pie smell was...

00:55:21Once they knew the pie smell was from a candle, it was like...

00:55:24So he's saying...

00:55:25So, sorry, in the movie Heretic, he says, oh, my wife's baking a blueberry pie.

00:55:29They can smell the blueberry pie.

00:55:30And then it turns out he's got a candle with blueberry that they can see, right?

00:55:34And they don't make a run for it, right?

00:55:36So this is the problem of being polite, right?

00:55:39Well, we don't want to be too upsetting.

00:55:40We want to be polite.

00:55:41We want to be nice, right?

00:55:43Wanting to be nice is one of the greatest dangers in the world.

00:55:46I'm done.

00:55:47I'm not kidding about this.

00:55:48Wanting to be nice is playing Russian roulette with evil people.

00:55:53Sooner or later, you're going to get a chamber to the head.

00:56:01Yeah, so they assume that the pie existed because they can smell it in the same way

00:56:07that they assume God exists because they have faith, right?

00:56:12I do really, of course, dislike the fact that people only bag on Mormons, right?

00:56:23Like, women are all kinds of tough with white males, right?

00:56:26Because they know that we're pretty chivalrous and all of that,

00:56:28but they're not tough with other ethnicities and cultures and religions, right?

00:56:36I appreciate the tip.

00:56:38Our parents' generation couldn't invest in Bitcoin or alts.

00:56:42Even the stock market was way harder to invest in back then.

00:56:44Yes, very true.

00:56:46Thank you for the tip.

00:56:48Are cults successful because they offer unearned community and love,

00:56:52then when you're inside, they do the switcheroo?

00:56:53Yeah.

00:56:54So, everybody feels special, and you want others to agree.

00:56:59Now, if other people just walk up to you and say how special you are, how wonderful you are,

00:57:04what a hidden gift you are, how many talents you have,

00:57:06right, then they're just gearing up to steal from you.

00:57:12They're just gearing up to steal from you.

00:57:16Because you want the unearned, right?

00:57:17You want a community based upon some innate nature,

00:57:21rather than gaining a community by providing value to the world, right?

00:57:31So, in my book, Art of the Argument, the Art of the Argument,

00:57:35artoftheargument.com, you really should get it.

00:57:38I do talk about a woman who does not save for her old age,

00:57:43but instead does wonderful things for 40 years in a community, right?

00:57:47She organizes help for the poor.

00:57:49She delivers food to the unwell.

00:57:51Kids are always welcome at her house.

00:57:53She takes care of people, and all of that.

00:57:55And she does that instead of saving a lot of money for her old age,

00:57:58but she's built up a lot of social capital,

00:58:00so when she gets old, people will take care of her, right?

00:58:02I mean, I don't charge for this stuff.

00:58:09I don't charge for this stuff.

00:58:11So, I'm generous, and in return, with some occasional reminders, of course,

00:58:17but I'm generous, and in return, you guys help me out, right?

00:58:21So, that's nice, right?

00:58:34So, provide value, and then you can ask for value.

00:58:38People who want the unearned.

00:58:40Government workers, in general, want the unearned.

00:58:43People who go on strike and then attack strikebreakers want the unearned, right?

00:58:48People who want welfare want the unearned.

00:58:50They want to be taken care of without having to provide value back to their community, right?

00:58:57So, it's not so much that communities have disintegrated.

00:59:00It's that you don't need your community anymore.

00:59:02So, once you give welfare to people, then they don't need their community.

00:59:05Once they're atomized, the community can be broken up, right?

00:59:08So, between wives and farmers, 80% of the U.S. worked from home until the 1960s.

00:59:23Oh, that's interesting.

00:59:24That's interesting.

00:59:26It's a very good way to put it.

00:59:28I don't have any argument with that.

00:59:32Some religious people are against gambling because they consider it unearned money,

00:59:35but how is that different from investing slash trading the financial market?

00:59:39Aren't they all games of chance, basically?

00:59:43No.

00:59:43No, I don't like gambling as a whole because gambling is win-lose, right?

00:59:48Thank you, Chris.

00:59:49Gambling is win-lose.

00:59:52So, when you invest in the stock market, in general, right?

00:59:56Of course, sorry.

00:59:57I'm not going to say you guys are too smart for the usual caveats, right?

01:00:00So, when you invest in the stock market, you're handing over money to people who are going to use

01:00:04it to hire people and build services and products that make people's lives better and so on, right?

01:00:13So, it's win-win, right?

01:00:16You give them money, they grow the economy, they make things better and more efficient,

01:00:20they make people happier, and then they give you some of the profits back in terms of either

01:00:25dividends or the rise in the stock price, which you can use when you sell it, right?

01:00:29You get that when you sell it, right?

01:00:31So, in the stock market, as a whole, it's an investment in the increase of capital.

01:00:36When you are gambling, though, you are winning and the other person is losing,

01:00:41and both of you, like, the net is less because the house takes its cut, right?

01:00:46I mean, unless you're just gambling straight across the table with someone in some private fashion, right?

01:00:51So, gambling is not a very honorable way to make a living.

01:01:02It teaches you win-lose, and also the other issue, particularly with face-to-face gambling,

01:01:09is it tends to strip mine and exploit prior trauma.

01:01:15So, when you grow up, particularly with violent parents, but even verbally abusive parents,

01:01:19when you grow up with violent parents, aggressive parents, you have to learn to read them

01:01:26really closely while giving nothing away emotionally from yourself, right?

01:01:30You have to have that prison mask, right?

01:01:32You don't respond.

01:01:33You control your responses.

01:01:35You minimize your responses because once they're in your brains, they tend to hurt you,

01:01:39so you shield yourself from sadistic or abusive people who have power over you, right?

01:01:45So, you learn to read other people really well while masking your own emotions,

01:01:48so if you're across the table playing poker, you've got to read the other guy

01:01:51while masking your own emotions, so you're exploiting prior trauma, which is not great.

01:02:04I was talking about typing up my resumes with my dad.

01:02:07He had to use a typewriter.

01:02:08I can use Microsoft Word and ChantGBT to check my work, right?

01:02:11But, of course, the form of the resume was part of your resume, right?

01:02:17So, when I learned how to type on a manual typewriter, not even electric, you'd get these

01:02:22Arnold Schwarzenegger pinky muscles from having to hit those L keys, and to center a title,

01:02:30right, you had 40 characters, right?

01:02:33So, you'd count up the title.

01:02:35You'd subtract half.

01:02:36You'd go half in.

01:02:37You'd start, like, you'd go through the whole thing, right?

01:02:39You'd subtract half.

01:02:40You'd go half in.

01:02:40You'd start, like, you'd go that part in.

01:02:42You'd start typing, so it was centered.

01:02:43You couldn't just control E there, right?

01:02:45It's amazing.

01:02:46I mean, when I first got a hold of a, I was on a pet 2K computer when I first got hold

01:02:51of a word processor, and I was like, oh, my God, this is going to change everything,

01:02:55and then I had an Atari 800.

01:02:57I had ZOAC 4.

01:02:59I had a word processor there where I wrote a bunch of stuff, and then I had an Atari ST,

01:03:05which had a great word processor, and then I finally bought a 286 with a 40-meg hard

01:03:10drive and used WordPerfect 5.1.

01:03:11Reveal Codes was hieroglyphics of the gods, and it was just amazing.

01:03:16It's amazing, and now, of course, and I got into this way back in the day, voice dictation.

01:03:23I got into voice dictation when you had to pause between each word, and I was like, oh,

01:03:28my God, it's incredible.

01:03:29Now, I've got a very well-trained voice dictation system from Dragon Naturally Speaking, which

01:03:33is a great company and great product.

01:03:35They don't pay me anything for saying that, but I'm just telling you it is, and if you're

01:03:39not doing voice dictation, I don't know what you're doing with your life.

01:03:42Yeah, so if you're playing poker, let's say you're playing in a poker tournament.

01:03:45Well, you win $1,000, the other guy loses, and the house takes its cut, right?

01:03:52So it's a net negative, right?

01:03:54Somebody says, most of the shares in the economy are fake.

01:03:5883% of all shares in the US economy are owned by Seed and Company.

01:04:02I don't know what that means.

01:04:04I don't know what that means.

01:04:06I don't know what Seed and Company is.

01:04:07Is that BlackRock?

01:04:08I don't know.

01:04:11Oh, sounds so frustrating.

01:04:12Oh, yeah, if you make one mistake on the typewriter, right?

01:04:16If you make one mistake on the typewriter, there were typewriters that had whiteout built

01:04:21There were typewriters that had whiteout built in with ribbons, or you had to paint it whiteout

01:04:26and then type, wait for it to dry, blow it over, and all of that.

01:04:30So your resume, if it was a genuine typed resume, well, you would never do an original

01:04:36because you'd photocopy them and so on, right?

01:04:39But a typed, error-free resume in the age of manual or even electric typewriters was

01:04:47an incredible thing because it meant that you could really calculate and plan and figure

01:04:51things out.

01:04:51It was something.

01:04:55Is ignoring people who are threatening or intimidating considered nice or prudent?

01:05:00What I mean is, will a threatening person get a high if you don't call them out?

01:05:05Because this seems lose-win.

01:05:07If you correct the person, you face potential physical violence.

01:05:09If you ignore his rudeness, you can camouflage yourself.

01:05:13Just don't be in situations where that happens, right?

01:05:18Just leave those situations.

01:05:23My dad worked on one of the early computers.

01:05:25It took up a whole room, and he had to change the valves, yeah?

01:05:28Yeah.

01:05:30I remember taking a computer course in junior high.

01:05:33We had to fill out cards.

01:05:36You would fill out cards in Assembler, and then they would run the cards through the

01:05:39machine, and it would say whether it worked or not.

01:05:45Not very helpful.

01:05:46I remember my teacher had sleeves so folded.

01:05:50I'm sure he ironed them, you know, like he would fold up his sleeves, and they were so

01:05:54perfect.

01:05:57Ah, thank you.

01:05:57Seed technically owns most of the publicly issued stock in the United States.

01:06:02Thus, most investors do not themselves hold direct property rights in stock, but rather

01:06:05have contractual rights that they are part of a chain of contractual rights involving

01:06:08Seed.

01:06:09Securities held at the depositor's trust company are registered in its nominee name,

01:06:12Seed & Co., and recorded on its books in the name of the brokerage firm through which

01:06:17they were purchased.

01:06:17On the brokerage firm's books, they are assigned to the accounts of their beneficial

01:06:21owners.

01:06:21Seed owns all of the issued stock in the United States.

01:06:23The other 17% of all issued stocks is owned by directly registered holders through the

01:06:28direct registration system.

01:06:30Yeah, I don't think that's—none of that's really true.

01:06:35Yeah, none of that's really true.

01:06:40Yeah.

01:06:41Because you have the right to the shar—they're just holding it for you.

01:06:43Like an online place where you put some crypto, they are holding the crypto for you, but it's

01:06:49your crypto, right?

01:06:51Most people, when they buy stocks, they don't want actual stock certificates mailed to their

01:06:56house, right?

01:06:56They just want to have the stock in their portfolio, so you need a mechanism by which

01:07:01that happens.

01:07:03So, yeah, Seed doesn't own it.

01:07:06It holds it for you, right?

01:07:07It holds it for you.

01:07:09It holds it for you, right?

01:07:12If you hand your drink to your friend because you want to go talk to some woman at a bar,

01:07:16he doesn't own that drink now.

01:07:17He's just holding it for you.

01:07:19So, you know, that seems like misinformation to me.

01:07:26So, I think you're wrong, and you should be more skeptical of these kinds of things.

01:07:33The idea that only 17% of stocks is owned by people and that—so, let's just say technically

01:07:39owns most of the publicly issued stocks.

01:07:41Yeah, for sure.

01:07:41When you buy Fondra 500 shares in IBM, you don't get a stock certificate mailed directly

01:07:46to your house.

01:07:47Somebody holds it for you, but that doesn't mean that you don't own it because you have

01:07:51the legal right to buy and sell it, which means that you own it, right?

01:07:53In the same way, if you have your crypto on an exchange, you can buy and sell it.

01:07:56They can't buy and sell it for you.

01:07:58You can buy and sell it.

01:08:00They'll execute that for you because it's easier and more convenient than having the

01:08:04highly difficult and dangerous risk of meeting people who might have knives in a parking

01:08:08lot.

01:08:09It's happened to two people I know where they got chased through a parking lot trying

01:08:11to sell or buy crypto in person.

01:08:13So, yeah, it's not right.

01:08:19And try not to spread that kind of stuff as a whole.

01:08:22Be skeptical and don't spread stuff that isn't true.

01:08:25All right.

01:08:35Haven't seen you since the YouTube purge.

01:08:36Good to see you back.

01:08:42Well, that's a little narcissistic if you don't mind me saying so.

01:08:46I'm not back.

01:08:47You're back.

01:08:50It's like I close my eyes for five seconds and I open them and I say,

01:08:53wow, I'm sorry I had to dematerialize you for five seconds.

01:08:56I'm very glad that you've rematerialized now.

01:08:58It's like, no, no, no.

01:08:59You were gone.

01:09:00You're back.

01:09:01I've always been here doing my thing.

01:09:03So just a little nitpicky thing.

01:09:16All right.

01:09:24Sorry.

01:09:24I'm just catching up on the.

01:09:27I've heard the futures markets described as zero sum.

01:09:30Every winning trade has a loser on the opposite side of the trade.

01:09:33Isn't that win lose?

01:09:39Well, I would assume not.

01:09:43Because let's say you're talking about what are the pork bellies futures or soybean futures

01:09:48or something like that.

01:09:49So you are, I wouldn't say placing a bet or making a gamble, but you are saying that

01:09:58you are making money on your predictions of future productivity.

01:10:04So if you think that there's going to be a bunch of soybeans, then some of that money

01:10:09is going to flow through and help with the production of soybeans, right?

01:10:14So futures are guessing, sorry, it's doing research and trying to figure out the future

01:10:19productivity of things, which is actually helpful for those things, right?

01:10:23So it's not, and you end up with, you're guessing basically the future prices of things,

01:10:31because if there's an excess of pork bellies, then the price is going to go down.

01:10:35So you are making hopefully an educated or informed decision on the future prices

01:10:41of things, which is a great market signal.

01:10:44It's a great market signal.

01:10:47So if you are a pork belly producer and everyone is saying that the price of pork bellies is

01:10:53going down, then you might produce fewer of them.

01:10:55So it's a way of calibrating how things get produced.

01:10:59Whereas if you're a pork belly producer and everyone's betting that the price of pork

01:11:03bellies is going to go up, that's going to give you a sign that you should produce more

01:11:08pork bellies.

01:11:09So it's a finely calibrated way to ensure that the production of things matches anticipated

01:11:14future demand.

01:11:15And the amazing thing about the market is it provides you all this information for free.

01:11:20So the pork belly producers just watch his pork belly, sorry, the pork belly producer

01:11:25watches pork belly prices, and he can figure out whether he should produce more or fewer

01:11:29pork bellies based upon the futures market.

01:11:31He gets that information, which is an immense amount of research and prediction and estimation

01:11:35and all of that.

01:11:37He gets all of that for free just by looking at the futures prices.

01:11:40So no, it is an incredibly productive way to make sure that production matches anticipated

01:11:47demand.

01:11:47So there was something you said a while back about how it hurts to reason when you've been

01:11:52abused.

01:11:52That really struck a chord with me.

01:11:53Yeah, it's very painful to reason when you've been abused because you realize how reasonable

01:11:58you were, how much fun it would have been to reason with your parents instead of being

01:12:00abused and so on, right?

01:12:01Yeah, for sure.

01:12:11And so it's called hedging, right?

01:12:13So it is a way of minimizing risk as well, right?

01:12:22Yes, that's true.

01:12:28Oh, regarding seed?

01:12:30Yeah, seed technically owns.

01:12:32It's like, no, it doesn't own.

01:12:35It holds for you, right?

01:12:36It holds it for you, right?

01:12:40It holds it for you.

01:12:43If you reserve a car at a rental place, you don't own the car.

01:12:46They're just holding it for you.

01:12:49And we do that because it is easier to buy and sell through an intermediary than it is

01:12:55to do it all yourself, right?

01:12:56If you have 500 shares of IBM, right, and you actually have the stock certificate, then

01:13:03somebody's got to believe that you have the stock certificate.

01:13:06You've got to mail it to them.

01:13:07Are they going to pay you?

01:13:08It's really risky and complicated, whereas if you have it centralized, it's much more

01:13:12efficient to buy and sell.

01:13:14So it's not a rip-off.

01:13:17It's not weird.

01:13:18It's just the most efficient way to do things.

01:13:27All right.

01:13:29Any other last questions, comments, challenge, issues, problems?

01:13:40Not my happiest number to look at today.

01:13:41I'll be straight up with you.

01:13:43You know, honesty and directness.

01:13:46I do put work into these shows.

01:13:48It's not just top of the head yapping, right?

01:13:52I do try and figure out some topics.

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01:14:05Thank you, Deus X and John John.

01:14:09Content is very interesting.

01:14:11I appreciate that.

01:14:15It was more because my mother abused and humiliated me with her superior reasoning skills.

01:14:19Adults can do that.

01:14:20Ah, I have personally found children to be extraordinarily rational, extremely rational.

01:14:28It's not superior reasoning skills.

01:14:33Superior reasoning skills instruct you, right?

01:14:35If somebody disproves something that I say, it instructs you.

01:14:38So if it turns out that, I mean, I know that I'm right regarding this 87% of stocks are

01:14:42owned by one company.

01:14:43And the reason you've never heard of that company is they're simply providing

01:14:46owned by one company.

01:14:47And the reason you've never heard of that company is they're simply providing a business

01:14:52to consumer and business to business service.

01:14:53So you don't really hear of them because they don't really matter in the transaction.

01:14:56They're just a convenient bookmark for you to buy and sell things.

01:14:59So if I'm reasoning with this person about this company that holds stocks to facilitate

01:15:06trading, holds them for people without the legal right to buy and sell them themselves,

01:15:09they're just, it's just a holding pattern, right?

01:15:11Just like if you put stuff in a storage locker, the storage company doesn't own it.

01:15:15They're just holding it for you, right?

01:15:17So if you say that the value of a storage company is the goods that are stored there,

01:15:26that would be an incorrect valuation because they don't own the goods that are stored there,

01:15:30right?

01:15:30So that's sort of like this company.

01:15:32So let's say that this guy's wrong and I'm right about this.

01:15:35He's learned something helpful and useful and he won't say things that aren't really

01:15:39true anymore, right?

01:15:40Because I was kind of surprised, like there was some company owns everything that I've

01:15:44never heard of.

01:15:45I'm saying, well, that makes sense, right?

01:15:47So have I decimated him?

01:15:49No, it's win-win, right?

01:15:51Because he now is no longer going to say things that are misleading.

01:15:55So that's a positive, right?

01:15:57So he's not going to say things that are wrong and misleading.

01:15:59So that's a plus, right?

01:16:00And you've heard something interesting.

01:16:01So the net, it's a net positive for everyone, except maybe his vanity or maybe his sense

01:16:07that he feels bad for promoting things that aren't true, which I'm sure he's done in other

01:16:13situations with this information or others.

01:16:15So how is that a loss?

01:16:21Superior reasoning skills, like thinking this out, how could it pass?

01:16:24And I taught him also, how can it be possibly true that only 17% of stocks are owned by

01:16:28people and the rest is owned by some giant corporation, right?

01:16:31That it's just teaching skepticism, like that can't be true.

01:16:35Especially if it's a corporation nobody's heard of, right?

01:16:40So it's just teaching skepticism and all of that, right?

01:16:43And I've had to have that taught to me a bunch of times, right?

01:16:47So sometimes you'll see something that seems kind of outlandish, like, well, that's wild.

01:16:51It's wild if it's true, but it's, you know, and then there's a community notes, which

01:16:54says this is not true and so on, right?

01:16:59So learning skepticism is very important.

01:17:02We'll donate after the stream.

01:17:04Great show today.

01:17:05Appreciate that.

01:17:06Steph says, this lady, my husband seems to have difficulty negotiating and tends to get

01:17:10very upset if I suggest something he doesn't agree with.

01:17:13He's also agreed to things and then resented them at a later date.

01:17:16I found staying calm really helps, but I'm not really sure what else to do.

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01:17:25We'll do a call-in.

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01:17:28Don't take it personally.

01:17:30Don't take it personally.

01:17:31If I dated some woman who grew up in Japan and spoke fluent Japanese, I wouldn't take

01:17:35it personally or having anything to do with me that she spoke Japanese.

01:17:40Let's say she occasionally forgot herself and spoke to me in Japanese.

01:17:43I wouldn't take it personally.

01:17:45She just grew up speaking Japanese, right?

01:17:50So don't take it personally if your husband lacks negotiating skills, right?

01:17:58Negotiation is a language, and we learn that language by being reasoned with as children.

01:18:04Negotiation is a skill set.

01:18:05It's a language.

01:18:07We see our parents negotiating with each other.

01:18:09We see our parents, we experience our parents negotiating with us.

01:18:13You see parents negotiating with friends, and so you learn that language.

01:18:18So he was not only not taught that language as a child, he was not only not taught that

01:18:24language, but also he was punished for trying to reason, right?

01:18:29So if people are bullies and you try to reason with them, they'll fuck you.

01:18:33They'll attack you, right?

01:18:37By the way, Bitcoin's probably going to stay here for a while because they need to even

01:18:40it out after a big rise so they can stay within the margin of risk of a lot of their investors,

01:18:44in my humble opinion.

01:18:45No prediction.

01:18:45I don't know what that means, but it's just a general thought.

01:18:49So don't take it personally.

01:18:54Your movie reviews are great.

01:18:56What do you think about doing such of classical horror movies?

01:19:00Send some suggestions.

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01:19:10So yeah, don't take it personally.

01:19:13He just was bullied as a child for trying to reason, and he was punished for reasoning,

01:19:17and he was bullied.

01:19:18So all he knows is compliance.

01:19:21And the other thing that's true as well is don't blame him for what you chose him for.

01:19:29Are you telling me that you didn't know that he had difficulty negotiating when you dated

01:19:35him, when you got engaged to him, before you got married?

01:19:37You chose him because he was compliant, and now you're annoyed that he's compliant.

01:19:46I mean, you get that it's kind of funny, right?

01:19:48It's like choosing a woman because she's curvy, and then, even though she hasn't gained any

01:19:53weight, calling her fat.

01:19:54It's like, you chose her for that, right?

01:19:57You chose her for that.

01:20:00So.

01:20:02All right.

01:20:03Well, I really appreciate everyone's time today.

01:20:05If you're listening later, of course, I was a bit lean today, a little lean.

01:20:09I was hoping for a slightly better after the election, but it's a little lean.

01:20:14I guess we have to wait for the better economy.

01:20:16I guess we have to wait for the better economy to kick in.

01:20:18That's fine.

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