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Tuesday Night Live 26 November 2024

In this episode, I discuss living authentically amidst societal pressures, sharing a personal story about self-perception and the layers we conceal. The conversation shifts to Bitcoin, analyzing market trends and the complexities of cryptocurrency, while expressing skepticism about relying on historical patterns for predictions.

I critique gender roles in relationships, emphasizing the importance of mutual respect, and explore modern dating dynamics faced by ambitious women. The episode concludes with a focus on nurturing supportive connections and personal accountability, offering insights on navigating societal challenges and fostering growth.

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Transcript
00:00:00Good evening, everybody. 26th of November, 2024. It's the rare Tuesday night live.
00:00:08I'm afraid we are not doing Wednesday or Friday. We should be back Sunday?
00:00:14Sunday, chatty Sunday. And yes, I'm wearing a hat. Do you know why?
00:00:20Okay, I want you to think of the least...
00:00:22No, you know what? Let me give you any hint. I'm not going to give you any hints here.
00:00:26So where did I get this? Where did I get this?
00:00:32Spoiler, not a hair transplant. That's why I got the hat on.
00:00:35So where did I get that little gash on my head?
00:00:42You're trying to act like we don't know you're bald.
00:00:44Yeah, I think the hat, you know, it's the hat. It's like it's got the logo, right?
00:00:48So the hat is nice with the logo.
00:00:50Was this a salt dux? That is a fine question. It is not, in fact, a salt dux.
00:00:55I got a puppy. I did not get a puppy. Fun though that would be.
00:01:00A fun though that would be.
00:01:07No, it was not. It was not such. Brain biopsy. It was...
00:01:11No, that would be a little wider and I don't think they'd do it.
00:01:14Walking through the woods? Hidden tree branch hiking.
00:01:17The mother of all paper cuts.
00:01:19Yes, in fact, my thinking was so fast.
00:01:23This is the sonic wave from going past, not just the speed of sound, but the speed of light itself.
00:01:32Yes, it's tragically not manly. I'm afraid it's nothing quite as manly as anything like that.
00:01:39No, so normally when I'm outside for a walk, particularly in, you know, Canadian late November,
00:01:46you are, you're wearing a hat, right? So not likely to be that.
00:01:51No, it's completely retarded.
00:01:53So I, I tuck normally like I'll, you know, I've got a pair of glasses, right?
00:01:59I tuck it here. I just sort of tuck it in there.
00:02:01So what I did was I took off a sweatshirt or a hoodie, which had one of my glasses in there.
00:02:12And I guess one of the corners as I took it off, you know, it's a tight, tight on the neck, right?
00:02:17I got a big head. So one of my glasses scratched my head. Isn't that?
00:02:22I feel like Les Nesman, you know, like now time for more music and Les Nesman.
00:02:27With his constant band-aids of his mystery danger life outside of WKRP in Cincinnati.
00:02:33So isn't it funny that I was really into a radio show, not to mention the Eric Boghossian.
00:02:39No, Peter Boghossian played the guy in talk radio or whatever it was.
00:02:44It's the last neighborhood in America.
00:02:46And so it's kind of funny to me that I was really into radio show comedies and dramas when I was younger.
00:02:53And not that I did much on the radio, but it's become talking microphone head time.
00:03:00So, all right. Questions, comments, issues, challenges, people.
00:03:04Yeah. So, you know, it's pretty easy to not get fussed about Bitcoin.
00:03:10Like, what's it at now? 129 and change. Yeah, 129, 332.
00:03:16So, so I guess it's down like 10K from its height or something like that. Right.
00:03:22So, yeah, whatever. Right. What was it up at? 138, now 129. So, yeah, 9, 9K or whatever.
00:03:29So when you check it, it's actually pretty easy. You just just, you know, with one weird trick.
00:03:33Right. All you got to do is think it's every time you check it, think, oh, I bet you it's dropped 5K.
00:03:39And if it's dropped only 2K, you feel good. Right. So it's fine. Don't worry about it.
00:03:44Don't worry about it. Of course. I mean, we all know why the price is going down.
00:03:50I mean, the reality is that the price is going down because people are willing to sell it for that much. Right.
00:04:00People are willing to sell it for that much. That's really why the price is going down.
00:04:07So what can I tell you? What can I tell you?
00:04:14So Bitcoin's last three cycle peaks all happened in November or December and were spaced four years apart.
00:04:21So previous cycle highs, 10th November 2021 went to, this is US 69K. 17th December 2017, it went to 19.8K.
00:04:32And 29th November 2013, Bitcoin went to 1242.
00:04:39So if that pattern continues and I get, I get that you cannot predict future prices of assets based upon past cycles.
00:04:48You can't predict it. Right. So this is just a theory.
00:04:52So this is from APSK32 on X. Bitcoin has followed a power curve for nearly 15 years.
00:04:59The power curve or law forms a nice support line that he says I consider to be the intrinsic value of the network.
00:05:06Each cycle, Bitcoin explodes above the support trend line and then returns to it during the cycle bear.
00:05:11The percentage amount that the price rises above the support line gets smaller with each cycle.
00:05:16Last cycle in spring 2021, the bull market started early, but we ended up with a double top to put us back on the four year timing.
00:05:23We've never been as early as we are right now. This time could be different.
00:05:27We have the ETFs, a favorable political environment and Saylor or MSTR borrowing every loose dollar on the bond market to buy more Bitcoin.
00:05:36But this time doesn't have to be different. We could pause or correct for months while still aligning with previous cycles.
00:05:41Be careful with all the new option products available to you. The cycle that says this person, I'm not endorsing it.
00:05:47I'm just reading you what they wrote. You could be right about your MSTR.
00:05:50I bet price target and still lose all your money by misjudging the typing.
00:05:54The timing, sorry, the timing. So what can I tell you?
00:06:03So to me, it's pretty interesting that people are snapping up Bitcoin and the price is going down.
00:06:15I personally think that's very interesting. That indicates to me a robustness in the market.
00:06:25The main sellers are the miners who probably have to pay significant electrical bills in order to continue mining.
00:06:31Yeah, maybe, maybe, maybe. So, I mean, if I had all the time back that I've uselessly checked the price of Bitcoin, I'd basically be immortal.
00:06:49So, it's interesting. I mean, there are no smooth transitions, right? And we are potentially changing from an old cycle of manipulated money to a new cycle of non-manipulated money.
00:07:13That is quite powerful. It's quite a powerful situation to be in. That is very, very interesting. And there are no smooth transitions of paradigms, right?
00:07:24I mean, there was no smooth transition from the end of slavery to the rise of the proletariat, right?
00:07:33There was no smooth transition from the gold standard to the non-gold standard. There was no smooth transmission.
00:07:40I mean, even if you ever want to find something interesting, look up why coins have ridges. It's quite an interesting story.
00:07:47There is no smooth transition. There was no smooth transition from manual labor in fields, in farmer's fields, to more automated labor.
00:07:58There is no smooth transition. It's brutal, it's ragged, there's a long tail, and there is a great deal of upset.
00:08:07If big wallets hold, for the most part, and mining puts out relatively few coins, how can Saylor buy so much consistently?
00:08:17Because he's willing to offer more. He's willing to offer more. And look, people need their fiat, right?
00:08:24I mean, Tristan Tate was talking about how he got debanked, and he's figured out how to have a life without a bank.
00:08:32I assume that has something to do with crypto. He didn't go into details.
00:08:35But there are people who will trade crypto for fiat because they need to pay their bills. They need to pay their property taxes.
00:08:43They need fiat to make their way in the world. They need to pay their personal taxes, right?
00:08:49So they need their fiat to make their way in the world, so they have to sell crypto for fiat.
00:08:57And that would be, I assume, is where the opportunity is coming from.
00:09:04And people have, of course, their different time preferences.
00:09:09So for a lot of people, they look at, you know, 130,000 Canadian or 135,000 Canadian per bitcoin, and they want to enjoy spending money.
00:09:23And so they either try and find a way to spend the bitcoin directly, or they sell the bitcoin for fiat, and then they buy things with fiat.
00:09:31Remember, there's older people who got into bitcoin, and they want to enjoy.
00:09:37They want to enjoy some of the things that their bitcoin can buy. To some degree, they have to transfer that to fiat.
00:09:43So, you know, people have made a lot of money from it going.
00:09:49Bitcoin is, I think, is it 12? I thought it was 14. It could be something like that.
00:09:53But it's been the fastest rising asset in all of human history, and really once in a generational opportunity to get back at the boomers for all of their financial shenanigans, right?
00:10:05The boomers transfer money from the younger generations to themselves, and then we transfer it back with bitcoin.
00:10:12It's a lovely, lovely, lovely thing.
00:10:16So.
00:10:24Yeah, there was some woman who invested $10 into meme coins and lost $240,000. That's pretty wild.
00:10:31That is, that is pretty wild.
00:10:34In the US, the top 1% of earners pay nearly 40% of income taxes, and the top 10% pay nearly 76%.
00:10:49The bottom 50% of income earners pay less than 3% of income taxes.
00:10:59It's just appalling how much money is transferred from brilliant people who maximize it to greedy voters who destroy it.
00:11:15So, the productive geniuses of the world are continually generating more and more and more value, which is continually stolen by the endless greedy poors of the bottom 50%.
00:11:29It's a race, right? It's an absolute race.
00:11:33It's an absolute race, and historically, the poor have always taken over, consumed, and eaten the rich.
00:11:43It's like people in poor neighborhoods who just start shoplifting, and then they're like,
00:11:47Hey, how come I have to take three buses to get to a grocery store?
00:11:50Because you steal!
00:11:53All right, I thought this was funny.
00:11:55Owen Wilson has made around $217,838,000 from his movies.
00:12:02He averages around 3,500 words per movie in 47 movies.
00:12:06That's about $1,324 per word.
00:12:11Wow was 102 of those words.
00:12:15Owen Wilson has made roughly $135,072 from saying,
00:12:22Wow.
00:12:29So, whether this stuff is true or not, it's hard to say, but the titles are
00:12:35Workers lost $3.7 trillion in earnings during the pandemic.
00:12:38Women in Gen Z saw the biggest losses.
00:12:41The world's billionaires got richer by $3.9 trillion during the pandemic.
00:12:45So, again, it's all from the young to the old.
00:12:48Bitcoin is the other way around.
00:12:51Bitcoin is the other way around.
00:12:56There's a good tweet here.
00:12:57It says, Social media has deluded women into believing rich men are far more common and attainable than they really are.
00:13:03The fact remains that rich men will always be a small minority of men,
00:13:07and as such, rarer than beautiful women.
00:13:10It's true.
00:13:11Very, very rich guys are more rare than beautiful women.
00:13:15Most women will never marry a rich man.
00:13:17That is a reality, right?
00:13:19That is a reality.
00:13:22Approximately 5.5% of men in the West have a net worth of a million dollars or more.
00:13:28Now, that's net worth.
00:13:29That's not accessible cash.
00:13:31It's just whatever your assets are.
00:13:33About 5.5% of men in the West have a net worth of $1 million or more.
00:13:37And, of course, women want young guys, fresh-faced, abs, you know, all of that sort of stuff.
00:13:43But, generally, young guys are brokies.
00:13:46I know I was.
00:13:47Young guys are brokies.
00:13:49So, it says, between the ages of 18 to 40, 0.46% of all men have a net worth of $1 million or more.
00:14:06And, of course, a lot of those men would have inherited the money.
00:14:08Maybe parents died young or something like that, or some aunt or grandmother died young and left the money, right?
00:14:13Very few men who are 20 have a net worth of $1 million or more because they worked for it, right?
00:14:20That's just not how it works.
00:14:23So, women who are looking for a man 40 and under, an adult male 40 and under, who with a net worth of $1 million or more,
00:14:34and, of course, it's, you know, more common around 40 than it is around 18, of course, right?
00:14:38So, women who are looking for a guy with a net worth of $1 million or more, between the ages of 18 to 40,
00:14:45are looking at less than one man in 200.
00:14:50And, they want six foot tall, they want handsome, thick hair, they want...
00:14:58Actually, a lot of women do find bald men to be very attractive because they have common sense and taste.
00:15:05So, they're looking for less than one guy in 200, right?
00:15:11Less than one half of one percent, just looking for a net worth of $1 million or more.
00:15:15Now, of course, I'm not saying that a net worth of $1 million or more is just, but that's not what people are thinking about.
00:15:20The women thinking about the guys with, like, private helicopters and stuff like that, that's, like, crazy.
00:15:24That's, like, Mark Zuckerberg levels of nagging the population about climate change with a $350 million fucking yacht.
00:15:33It's unbelievable. That's the ultimate let them eat cake situation.
00:15:37Oh, you people, like, as he resists the urge to blink sideways, nagging people about climate change while having a $350 million yacht or something like that.
00:15:49$150 million yacht that's 350 feet long or something like that. This is crazy, right?
00:15:54Now, if a woman is looking for a guy in the West who has assets of $5 million or more, which means he might have more disposable income.
00:16:05Having a net worth of $1 million or more, it might mean some retirement savings plans and a $600,000 condo, which doesn't give you a lot of access to ready cash, right?
00:16:16So, if you want rich to be $5 million or more, those men in the West make up 0.18% of the Western population.
00:16:24What's that? Less than one man in 500. Between 18 and 40, it is 0.01%, right?
00:16:36That's what? 1 in 10,000? Yeah, it's 1 in 10,000.
00:16:39So, 1 in 10,000 men between the ages of 18 to 40 have a net worth of $5 million or more.
00:16:54Now, more than 1 in 10,000 women is beautiful. So, stunningly beautiful women are far more common than wealthy guys.
00:17:11So, he says almost all of those people with a high net worth of boomers living in a house they bought for nothing.
00:17:16Right, but no. No, because I don't know if you missed this, but we're talking about 18 to 40-year-olds. They're not boomers, right?
00:17:28All right. So, yeah, it's really, I mean, women are just completely delusional about this.
00:17:35It's completely delusional about whether they're going to get a rich guy.
00:17:39And we can blame this for, we can blame a lot of this on these sort of Fabio-covered, I guess he's a bit dated now, romance novels, right?
00:17:55The romance novels with the Darcys who have the giant estates and the Christian greys and all of this sort of stuff.
00:18:02It is really, really sad just how much this twists women and deludes them in terms of what they can expect, right?
00:18:15It's just, it's wild. Absolutely wild.
00:18:21As of November 24th, Bitcoin did 30x after the 2016 halving. It did 8x or rose 8 times in value after the 2020 halving.
00:18:39So far, it's gone up 0.5 times after the 2024 halving, right?
00:18:44So, just remember this, right? Again, it's lowering, but not by that much, right?
00:18:48So, Bitcoin did 30x increase in value after the 2016 halving, 8x after the 2020, only 0.5x, gone up 50%, right?
00:18:57So, it went up 3000% and then 800% and so far it's only gone up 50%, 2016, 2020 and 2024.
00:19:09And that's really something.
00:19:13Robert Bortens wrote, K-12 public schools spend $17,280 per pupil. It's US.
00:19:21Homeschooling costs about $1,000 a year.
00:19:24Only about 33% of public school students are literate, about 99% of homeschoolers are literate.
00:19:29Incredible. Incredible.
00:19:33See, the way that I view government education is it holds children hostage so that incompetent people can get paid a lot of money and not get fired and get summers off, right?
00:19:44That's really basically all that it is.
00:19:53So, Mike Cernovich wrote something interesting.
00:19:57I want to know what you guys think of this.
00:19:59He wrote, if you played your cards right, your 30s are when the compound gains of social networks kick in with a 10x or more bump in 40s.
00:20:09You'll have too many opportunities to capitalize on.
00:20:12If you hung around with losers in your 20s, sorry, that was a huge mistake.
00:20:19Now, I personally went from hanging around with people who didn't succeed to hanging around with people who did succeed about 25 years ago.
00:20:34About 25 years ago, gosh, I was in my early 30s, right?
00:20:38About 25 years ago, I gave up on hanging out with people who weren't doing much with their lives, who weren't ambitious, who weren't succeeding in their careers, who weren't moving up, who weren't starting their own businesses or writing books or anything.
00:20:54I just kind of gave up on the copy-paste people, you know, the Groundhog Day people who kind of lived the same in their 40s that they did in their 20s.
00:21:02And people who don't work to further their career, who don't work to upgrade or whatever it is, right?
00:21:09I just kind of gave up and that didn't make a big, big difference.
00:21:12Thank you for the tip, by the way.
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00:21:19And thank you.
00:21:21Thank you for all of that support.
00:21:23It really does mean the world to me and I really, really, really do appreciate it.
00:21:29So, have you had or have you gone through that process of changing away from people who don't make much money to people who make some money?
00:21:45Have you gone through that process?
00:21:47And it doesn't necessarily mean money.
00:21:49It could just be success of any kind.
00:21:52Have you gone through that process of dumping the people who are not successful and not even trying to be successful to people who are at least trying to be successful?
00:22:00Whether they do or do not succeed is a different matter.
00:22:16So, that's a big transition and I think Mike is right about this.
00:22:20I think Mike is right about this.
00:22:24That it really, really is important to try to hang around with people who are trying.
00:22:33Trying to do something better with her life.
00:22:40Trying to do something better with her life.
00:22:43And it is really important.
00:22:52It is really important.
00:22:55All right.
00:22:57Been listening to your investment roundtable again, Steph.
00:22:59Do you have an opinion on buying gold and silver as investments?
00:23:03I mean, they are investments.
00:23:06And you know, I put this all just my personal opinion.
00:23:11None of this is investment advice.
00:23:12Do your own research.
00:23:13Everything I say is nonsense.
00:23:15But I used to be much more into diversification and now I'm not.
00:23:19You can take it back.
00:23:21I used to be like, well, get your fingers in a bunch of different pies.
00:23:23Spread your risk.
00:23:25Blah, blah, blah.
00:23:26Harry Brown used to have, what, 25% cash, 25% stocks, 25% bonds, 25% gold.
00:23:34Of course, this was all pre-crypto.
00:23:36And I just, no.
00:23:40No, no, no.
00:23:41I'm much less into diversity.
00:23:43Diversification.
00:23:44Well, I'm much less into diversification than I used to be.
00:23:48So, that's just my particular opinion.
00:23:51Steph, what do you think is the common rate of 9 out of 10 women?
00:23:54What do you think salary-wise is the equivalent man?
00:23:579, 10 women as rare as 100K salary men.
00:24:01Do you mean a woman who's a 9 or a 10?
00:24:03So, a woman who's a 9 or a 10, you're talking about the top 20% of women.
00:24:07You're talking about there are five women.
00:24:09The most attractive one is a 9 or a 10 because it's the top 20% of women, right?
00:24:16Thank you, Lloyd.
00:24:17So, a 10 is the top 10%.
00:24:24A woman who's a 10, now, you could say, no, no, no.
00:24:26That's the very, okay, but what about 9 to 10?
00:24:289.5 or whatever.
00:24:29So, 10 is everything above 9, which is the top 10% of women.
00:24:35So, a man who's in his 20s who makes, say, 100K Canadian, just go Canadian,
00:24:45is probably a 9.9, a 9.8 or a 9.9.
00:24:54But there really is no comparison between a man's wealth and a woman's beauty.
00:24:59I know, like, your daddy's rich, your mama's good-looking, the old summertime song,
00:25:04but there really is no comparison because a woman's beauty,
00:25:11a woman's physical beauty lasts a short amount of time in a healthy relationship.
00:25:20A woman's physical beauty, right?
00:25:22So, she's young, she's beautiful.
00:25:24Keep young and beautiful.
00:25:26It's your duty to be beautiful.
00:25:28Keep young and beautiful if you want to be loved.
00:25:32So, she is at her hotness, and then she gets engaged, she gets married,
00:25:41and she starts pumping out the pups, right?
00:25:43She starts having babies, and having babies is hard on a woman's skin,
00:25:50it's hard on her elasticity, it's hard on her subcutaneous fat,
00:25:54it's hard on her abdomen, it's hard on, obviously, her privates.
00:25:59So, her physical beauty is designed to snag the man, and then, right?
00:26:07Have you seen the cast of Baywatch, the original Baywatch?
00:26:09Have you seen the cast of Baywatch lately?
00:26:11And I'm not hating on it, of course, right?
00:26:14But women age out, right?
00:26:18I mean, I'm doing okay, right?
00:26:21Still, you know, fairly solid jawline, wrinkles, not too bad, right?
00:26:27And I'm pushing 60, right?
00:26:32Not too bad, got a little muscle, and so on, right?
00:26:35Skin's relatively tight, I don't have any cellulite, right?
00:26:40I don't quite have abs, but relatively lean around the middle, right?
00:26:43So, not too bad, right?
00:26:45My wife is also aging beautifully, as far as I'm concerned.
00:26:49I'm scarcely the most objective person,
00:26:51because I think she's the most gorgeous creature on the planet.
00:26:56As Keynes said, in the long run, everybody dies.
00:26:58Well, but Keynes didn't have any children.
00:27:01So, in the long run, we're all dead, is Keynes and his friends,
00:27:07not the general, right?
00:27:11So, a man who's going to make money is going to make more and more and more money,
00:27:19and then, when he dies, he's going to give his family a million dollars or more
00:27:25because of his life insurance, right?
00:27:30So, that is like a woman who starts off less attractive
00:27:35and becomes an absolute goddess after she's dead.
00:27:38She gets more and more attractive over the course of life,
00:27:40and then becomes an absolute goddess after she's dead.
00:27:43Necrophilia jokes can be inserted here, but it would be kind of chilly, right?
00:27:47You wouldn't want your girlfriend to give you the cold shoulder
00:27:49or to ghost you or anything like that.
00:27:52So, there really is no equivalent, because a man's wealth gains over time.
00:27:56A man can invest his wealth and no longer have to work to continue to gain his wealth,
00:28:02which is a sexual market value,
00:28:04whereas a woman starts off strong, ends up weak.
00:28:07A man starts off weak, ends up strong.
00:28:09So, there's a crossover, right?
00:28:12So, there really is no particular comparison between male earnings and female beauty.
00:28:26All right, let's see here.
00:28:30I used to hang out with people who were into drinking, smoking pot,
00:28:33see someone watching televised sports every night, etc.
00:28:35I'm happy I moved past those friendships.
00:28:37Those people stayed the same into their 30s.
00:28:39Yes, yes.
00:28:41If you ever want to see something that will run a shiver of glacial chill through your testicles,
00:28:47do what I do.
00:28:49Do what I do and occasionally go.
00:28:51Do you know that there are these gaming cafes or gaming restaurants?
00:28:54So, you go to a gaming cafe, you go to a gaming restaurant,
00:28:57and you can see a group of guys and maybe a plump girl or two
00:29:01playing Dungeons and Dragons in their 30s and 40s.
00:29:04Now, don't get me.
00:29:05I'm not hating on the D&D.
00:29:06Love me the D&D.
00:29:08Love me the D&D.
00:29:09Didn't really have anything to do with it until my daughter began enjoying something kind of like that,
00:29:15just sort of role-playing stuff that we did.
00:29:17And so, we played it.
00:29:18We played it with some friends.
00:29:19She's done her own Dungeons.
00:29:20It's been a great and fun exercise.
00:29:23But if I were, without being a kid or without it involving kids or whatever,
00:29:30doing this stuff voluntarily with friends with no sort of family or kids involvement later on in life,
00:29:38I would consider that negative.
00:29:42A negative, right?
00:29:43So, that is not good.
00:29:48Somebody says,
00:29:49So good to watch you live.
00:29:51Thank you for joining me live.
00:29:52My brother Jason introduced me to your great work in 2015.
00:29:56Simply am not able to thank you enough.
00:29:58You are welcome, welcome, welcome.
00:30:00There is a way to thank me at freedomain.com.
00:30:04Oh, you knew it was coming.
00:30:05You knew it was coming.
00:30:08In my experience as Chris, Mike C is right.
00:30:10I've done better with my life in some ways,
00:30:12but maintaining relationships with the old go nowhere friends seems to be like dead weight and holds me back quite a bit.
00:30:18Yeah.
00:30:20Yeah, because when you get older, you realize that you are in fact going to be judged and you are judged by the company you keep.
00:30:29This was an old saying back in my day.
00:30:33Back in my day.
00:30:37A man is judged by the company he keeps.
00:30:39You will be judged by the company you keep.
00:30:45All right.
00:30:46Somebody says, in 2017, April 1st, you gave the most amazing 30-minute talk.
00:30:52How you showed the dark forces, even black matter CIA stuff, Mars travel and Chewbacca joke, finishing it all with April Fools.
00:30:58Amazing.
00:31:00Hey, you know what?
00:31:01Let's make a note of that and maybe we should remaster that one and try that.
00:31:06I'll just leave a note here because that would be fun.
00:31:12That would be fun.
00:31:14Yeah, I like the April Fool stuff.
00:31:16I did one where I said I was running for office and put forward my entire political plan and then at the end, right?
00:31:23So it was fun.
00:31:24It was fun.
00:31:27Twer fun.
00:31:28Twer true.
00:31:30All right.
00:31:31Let's get back to your.
00:31:35Yeah, there was in suits.
00:31:36There was the young guy was told by the older lawyer, like, just, you know, if your friend's still doing drugs post-college, like, dump him.
00:31:43He's a deadbeat.
00:31:44Right.
00:31:45Move on.
00:31:46Move on.
00:31:47Cut him loose.
00:31:50I work with some guys in their 30s who were childless and collect slash make Legos.
00:31:54Very weird to me.
00:31:55Yeah.
00:31:56Yeah, it is weird, right?
00:31:58For how consistently I get rejected by women, I wonder if those D&D guys were right all along.
00:32:02I don't know what that means.
00:32:04I do not know.
00:32:05I am a lost as to what that means.
00:32:08I do not know.
00:32:09What do you mean by that?
00:32:12Do you know that there?
00:32:14Okay.
00:32:16In terms of China, right in China.
00:32:22How much in American dollars?
00:32:24How much worth of empty cities, abandoned skyscrapers and fake European towns that nobody lives in are there?
00:32:32What is the value of the built and never lived in or built and abandoned, built and empty
00:32:43real estate in China?
00:32:45What would you guess?
00:32:47You sounded like Borat there for a moment.
00:32:53God, I dislike that guy.
00:32:56Sasha Baron Cohen.
00:33:00I'm glad he didn't play Freddie Mercury as the rumors had it.
00:33:07Attacking Christians.
00:33:08Wow.
00:33:09You are so brave.
00:33:14Oh, it's sad.
00:33:16Sad, sad, sad.
00:33:19That is edgy as a bucket of Jell-O.
00:33:29There are $170 billion worth of empty cities, abandoned skyscrapers and fake European towns.
00:33:36Isn't that wild?
00:33:40Ordos, 161 billion ghost city built for a million people, currently 90% empty.
00:33:46Built during the coal mining boom, looks like a science fiction movie set.
00:33:49Most apartments are owned by investors who never lived there.
00:33:54Yunming's ghost district's population size of Madrid, 15 skyscrapers demolished in 2021,
00:34:00unfinished since 2013.
00:34:02Empty kindergartens, abandoned hospitals, just amazing.
00:34:06Paris of the East in Tunjiang, complete with Eiffel Tower, Paris streets and buildings replica,
00:34:13empty Champs-Elysees, planned for 10,000 residents, current population 1,000, too expensive for locals,
00:34:19mostly tourist attractions.
00:34:22China's Manhattan in Jaipur, 50 billion investment, empty skyscrapers, no rush hour traffic,
00:34:29promotional video mock New York City.
00:34:31Ironically, it's deserted.
00:34:34The Little London, the replica of London City, red phone boxes, fish and chip shops,
00:34:38English pubs, Victorian architecture, people, nope, another failed replica city.
00:34:44Wild.
00:34:48Property is a safe investment, Chinese people can't invest abroad very easily,
00:34:53real estate drives economic growth, middle class parks money in empty homes,
00:34:58construction is encouraged by the government because it fakes GDP growth, right?
00:35:04Now, are environmentalists railing against this?
00:35:09Are they saying, I mean, think of the amount of nature's scarce and precious resources
00:35:13destroyed by this kind of crap, right?
00:35:19It's just terrible.
00:35:22Are environmentalists demanding that the Chinese government stop subsidizing
00:35:29and giving tax breaks to these investors?
00:35:33Are they demanding that the tax and capital investment structure and incentive structure
00:35:38and subsidy structure change so that, nope, they don't care, they don't care.
00:35:43Because it's just all about turtles and plastic straws for Westerners, right?
00:35:50Attack the Westerners, ignore, I mean, India is by far the biggest polluter
00:35:57when it comes to oceans and nobody, right?
00:36:04It's just all, the environmentalists for the most part are about literal definition
00:36:11of the term useful idiots, as you can imagine.
00:36:15And if they were to get their unholy way and bring in full communism,
00:36:19as Yuri Besmanov was pointing out, yeah, they're useless idiots, we don't get in their way,
00:36:25but then we line them up against the wall when we get power.
00:36:33Can you remaster I Had a Dream from 2017? I listened to that one talk more than 50 times.
00:36:39Yeah, if you can give me a show, if you can give me a show number,
00:36:45because looking for dream gets me all the dream analyses, so 2017 might, right?
00:36:50They don't care because that people is already largely subdued, yeah, for sure, for sure.
00:36:54Thoughts on the Gladiator 2 cast, LOL?
00:36:57I never actually had, I saw Gladiator a couple of days ago,
00:37:00I'd never actually seen the original Russell Crowe movie, but I did see it,
00:37:04and it was a good movie, man, it was a good movie.
00:37:06Good, good, sword in sandals, swashbuckling.
00:37:10And Joaquin Phoenix plays a soul-sick person like nobody else, right?
00:37:16Nobody else.
00:37:22Guilt, including about the environment, is only used against white people, yeah.
00:37:26Yeah, unfortunately, the world is that if you show you care about something,
00:37:31a bunch of sociopaths will come spiraling in to exploit you based upon that which you care about.
00:37:37You know, it's pretty important to not say in general, and certainly to strangers,
00:37:42what you really care about.
00:37:47So...
00:37:51I mean, the next moral empire will be composed of people,
00:37:56if it's going to survive, the next moral empire is going to be composed of people
00:38:01who recognize that most people who demand you care about something
00:38:08do so to have power over you.
00:38:11They do so to have power over you, not because they care about the same things.
00:38:15Oh, you care about the environment? Great, fuck you, pay the taxes.
00:38:19They don't care about the environment.
00:38:21Have the environmentalists talked about the Russia-Ukraine war
00:38:24and demanded a peaceful resolution no matter what,
00:38:26because of the amount of environmental destruction that war has created,
00:38:30let alone what's going on in Syria, let alone what happened in Yugoslavia in the 90s, right?
00:38:35I mean, has anyone?
00:38:37Have the environmentalists chained themselves to the Pentagon
00:38:40and demanded an end to these wars or to the UN?
00:38:43They don't care. They don't care.
00:38:46Plus, that might be risky, right?
00:38:49It's really sad.
00:38:51Yeah, it's a good movie for sure.
00:38:53Somebody says, I've applied to over 120 jobs this year,
00:38:56including entry-level ones for which I was well-qualified.
00:38:59I got only one and left because they paid me half of what we agreed upon.
00:39:02I'm not in a position to become an entrepreneur
00:39:04and I have no actionable entrepreneurial ideas.
00:39:06Do you have any advice?
00:39:11Look, man, okay, EJ, how old are you?
00:39:15Just type straight in, how old are you?
00:39:19That's what I need to know.
00:39:21Because I'll give you the truth.
00:39:23I'll tell you how to get a job, but I first need to know how old you are.
00:39:31You're 26, okay, all right.
00:39:34How many of your friends are in a position to give you a job?
00:39:44How many of your friends or family are in positions to give you a job?
00:39:52Just give me a number.
00:39:57Because you've been an adult for eight years.
00:39:59Eight years.
00:40:02If you sent an email about a private conversation, never heard back,
00:40:06fill out the form again.
00:40:07I really, really apologize.
00:40:09I mean, occasionally people will fall through the cracks
00:40:11and I really, really do apologize for that.
00:40:17So, yes, please fill out the form again
00:40:19and I really do apologize since you slipped through the cracks.
00:40:24Unless it's one I decided not to do,
00:40:26in which case I should have emailed you back
00:40:28and I apologize for that as well.
00:40:30So, the guy says, I'm 26 years old.
00:40:33There's only one person I know who's in a position to give me a job
00:40:36or get me a job, but I'm trying to move out of state.
00:40:38Okay.
00:40:40So, why don't you have any friends who can get you a job?
00:40:47Who can recommend you?
00:40:48Maybe they're hiring managers themselves
00:40:50or maybe they know hiring managers or something like that.
00:40:53Or do you have all of these friends just based upon people
00:40:56you hung out with in high school or university?
00:40:58You know, doofuses, stoners, losers, music addicts, avoidance addicts,
00:41:04underachievers, underperformers, endless travelers,
00:41:07people who've got nothing to offer you.
00:41:11Do you just have sentimental bullshit friendships
00:41:14with people who aren't successful?
00:41:15Well, then you can't get a job.
00:41:17Filling out forms?
00:41:19I don't think I've ever got a job from filling out a form.
00:41:22Ever.
00:41:23And I've had, I don't even know how many dozens and dozens and dozens of jobs.
00:41:27Never have I got a job from filling out a form.
00:41:30It's always been a reference.
00:41:33Always.
00:41:34I got my job in the daycare because a friend of mine
00:41:36had that job before me and recommended me.
00:41:38I got a job at Pizza Hut because a guy I knew
00:41:40worked at Pizza Hut and recommended me.
00:41:42Same thing with Swiss Chalet, right?
00:41:45Okay, there was one job I got at a restaurant,
00:41:48a high-end seafood restaurant downtown.
00:41:50I got that just by, but I had to, I went in.
00:41:53I didn't just fill out a form.
00:41:54I went in and chatted with the guy so he could see,
00:41:57you know, and all of that, right?
00:42:02So, you see, friendships are there for two reasons
00:42:07in your 20s and 30s.
00:42:08Two reasons.
00:42:10Find a good woman, get a good job.
00:42:13That's it.
00:42:14Everything else is bullshit.
00:42:15There's plenty of times for friendships based on values
00:42:18and virtues and so on when you become a father
00:42:21and you have a good career.
00:42:23Yeah, yeah, so then in your late 30s, mid-late 30s,
00:42:2540s, 50s, you can have all of the hedonistic friendships
00:42:28that you want.
00:42:29But when you're a young man, you cultivate relationships
00:42:37to help each other get started in life.
00:42:44You cultivate relationships so that you can provide value
00:42:48and get value.
00:42:49So, let me ask you this.
00:42:51When you had a job, did you try and help your friends
00:42:54get jobs, right?
00:42:57When you had a job, did you help your friends try
00:43:02to get jobs?
00:43:03Or did you just say, good luck, friends of mine,
00:43:07off you go, go fill out some forms.
00:43:10I'm sure you'll be fine.
00:43:12Did you move heaven and earth to get your friends jobs?
00:43:19I know I did.
00:43:20Sorry to be that annoying guy, but when I did,
00:43:22when I got a job, you know, I passed along my daycare job
00:43:26and I was done to it to a friend of mine's younger brother.
00:43:29Gave him a recommendation.
00:43:30He was a great kid, worked out.
00:43:32I worked as a teacher's assistant once and then I got a job
00:43:34working up north and I handed it across to someone I knew,
00:43:38made that recommendation, helped people get work.
00:43:41Of course, when I was a hiring manager, I hired friends.
00:43:44I mean, I hired strangers as well, but I hired friends.
00:43:48And I made recommendations.
00:43:49And if I wasn't hiring, I'd know someone in the business world
00:43:52who was hiring and say, man, you got to, like,
00:43:54you can't just be a piece of paper.
00:43:57It won't work.
00:44:00It won't work.
00:44:01You have to cultivate relationships to get jobs.
00:44:05Go to the gym.
00:44:06Talk to people who are successful.
00:44:08Get to know them.
00:44:09Be friends with them.
00:44:10Do them a favor or two.
00:44:11I don't know.
00:44:12Spot them when they exercise.
00:44:14Get to chatting.
00:44:15Hey, I'm looking for work.
00:44:16Do you know anyone?
00:44:17Do you know anything?
00:44:18Oh, yeah, my friend's buddy is a guy who's looking.
00:44:21My God!
00:44:27Somebody says, every friend I've had, I've legitimately tried
00:44:30to move heaven and earth to help them find any form of a job.
00:44:33I can't say the same about those friends.
00:44:35And now I only have one friend, close friend left.
00:44:38Okay, so stop having one friend.
00:44:40Go make new friends.
00:44:42And you can't ask for value if you're not going to provide value.
00:44:46Have a shared tribe where you exchange value, time, information, everything.
00:44:53Stop having hedonistic friendships and start having practical friendships.
00:45:08Part of your job interview, part of your career preparation
00:45:13is cultivating relationships.
00:45:17After I took my time, like after I quit the business I co-founded
00:45:20and I took a year and a half off or whatever to work on novels,
00:45:25I wrote The God of Atheists and Almost in that time,
00:45:28I went back.
00:45:30I wanted to go back to work and so I just worked my contacts
00:45:33and I ended up getting a great job from people that I'd worked with
00:45:36before in the business world.
00:45:39Ask people.
00:45:41Most people will like to help you.
00:45:43And then, when people have helped you,
00:45:46help them or their friends back.
00:45:48Exchange favors, exchange positive references,
00:45:51exchange contacts and information and value.
00:45:55Don't go it alone.
00:45:57You will lose because you're competing against people who know someone.
00:46:10Network.
00:46:12Network and help people.
00:46:14If you help people, they'll help you back.
00:46:16If you don't help people, you're invisible and you're just another pile of paper
00:46:20which people have to...
00:46:21Like most jobs are found through contacts, right?
00:46:24Most jobs are found through contacts.
00:46:26The I sent an email in doesn't do shit.
00:46:32Cultivate your contacts.
00:46:34Oh, well, that's just shallow and I'm just using people.
00:46:36Yeah.
00:46:37Yeah.
00:46:38Guess what?
00:46:39Who cares?
00:46:40You're using me right now to get some wisdom.
00:46:42I'm using you to get some donations.
00:46:44So what?
00:46:47Not using people is for family.
00:46:55Steph just described all my friends growing up.
00:47:02Now, you make contacts and work with people and...
00:47:07I live in rural New England and I'm mostly applying to Texas jobs.
00:47:20So you're telling me why everything I'm telling you can't work, right?
00:47:24So this is why you can't get a job.
00:47:26You can't get a job because you're a yes-but person, right?
00:47:30I'm telling you how to get a job and you're like,
00:47:32well, but I'm applying to a job on the other side of the country.
00:47:36How am I supposed to get contacts?
00:47:45Steph, rather than saying thank you for the advice, that's really helpful.
00:47:51You're telling me why it completely doesn't apply to you.
00:47:54Okay, so I'm telling you how to get a job.
00:48:00And you know the seven degrees of separation thing, right?
00:48:03If you have a group of, let's say, ten people that you exchange value with,
00:48:10right, even while you're in New England, right,
00:48:13then you say, I'm looking for a job in Texas.
00:48:15Do you know anyone who knows anyone?
00:48:17You know, put out the drums in the night, put out the request,
00:48:20but you don't know what's going to come back.
00:48:23Go to Texas Network, got it, thanks.
00:48:28No.
00:48:30I mean, you can certainly do that, but it's not necessary.
00:48:34So do you know anyone who's hiring in your neck of the woods,
00:48:41that you have a friend who you would recommend, right?
00:48:44Someone you know who you would recommend for a job somewhere in New England.
00:48:49You want to go to Texas, whatever, right?
00:48:52So then what you do is you just try and get your friends hired.
00:48:54And then you say, I'm looking for a place in Texas.
00:48:56Maybe they know someone, maybe they don't.
00:48:57Maybe they know someone who knows someone.
00:48:58I don't know.
00:49:00But if you are trying to cold call without any kind of reference
00:49:03or introduction, you're going to fail.
00:49:07Life is about relationships.
00:49:11Life is about relationships.
00:49:16And if you have not been cultivating your relationships,
00:49:21you must cultivate them.
00:49:24You must cultivate your relationships.
00:49:26And it is nakedly partisan, and you've got to provide value.
00:49:29You can't just ask for value.
00:49:33I mean, if I were in your shoes and there was a company in Texas
00:49:38that I wanted to work for,
00:49:48then what I would do is I would find a company in Texas
00:49:50that I wanted to work for, and I would try to, like,
00:49:54they do online seminars or whatever,
00:49:56or even if they just have LinkedIn, TikTok, Instagram,
00:50:01Facebook, YouTube, whatever, and I would come up
00:50:04with the most brilliant questions and suggestions
00:50:07that I could possibly make.
00:50:09Because those companies review all of their comments, right?
00:50:12And I would do research into the company and into the space,
00:50:15and I'd try and rack my brain to come up with some
00:50:17intelligent stuff, and I would just post intelligent stuff.
00:50:25And then they would say, wow, that's a great idea.
00:50:27That's really interesting, right?
00:50:29And then you'd say, oh, thank you, I appreciate that,
00:50:31and you'd post another brilliant comment or question
00:50:33or whatever suggestion.
00:50:34Like, wow, that's really great.
00:50:36Who are you, right?
00:50:38And then you just, God, you just work it.
00:50:42Show your value.
00:50:43Stand out from the crowd.
00:50:44Don't just be another blob in their email folder.
00:50:48I mean, do you know how many video game designers
00:50:51got their start by creating free levels?
00:50:53Like, just shareware levels, and here's a cool Doom level.
00:50:55Oh, it's another cool Doom level.
00:50:57Wow, we've got to hire this guy.
00:51:00God, shake your money maker.
00:51:01Work your mojo.
00:51:02Work your magic.
00:51:05Show them that you have something of value to offer them.
00:51:11Because a lot of people think they're doing something
00:51:13when they're just sending out resumes.
00:51:15Spoiler, in general, you're not.
00:51:18You're not.
00:51:20You're just not.
00:51:21They're just kind of wasting time.
00:51:23Wasting time, killing time, all that.
00:51:27Oof, that's a bad idea, man.
00:51:31That's a bad idea.
00:51:37Ah.
00:51:42Do you think male earnings can have something of an equivalent
00:51:45with a beautiful woman that is highly prepared
00:51:47for being a homemaker, cook, mother, and homeschooler?
00:51:53Well, I mean, there's some really pathetic thing
00:51:55that happens in the dating world in the modern world.
00:51:59It happened back in the day with me,
00:52:01so I don't think it's particularly new.
00:52:04But women get annoyed that a man doesn't wife them
00:52:08and they don't do anything wifely.
00:52:11Like, my now wife acted as a wife while we were dating,
00:52:20and that's why I asked her to marry me.
00:52:23Because what women do is they just feed me,
00:52:26take me out on dates, I don't really do anything,
00:52:28I'm not going to help you out, I'm not going to do stuff that's homely,
00:52:31I'm not going to do any of that stuff.
00:52:33But don't worry, after you marry me, I'll be a great, productive,
00:52:36great homemaker, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:52:38It's like, no, no, no, I could absolutely tell how great my current,
00:52:41my wife, my current wife, my only wife,
00:52:43I could tell how great my wife was at being a wife
00:52:45because she did wife stuff while we were dating.
00:52:50I mean, the boy, the man, is supposed to be doing husband stuff
00:52:57while they're dating, right?
00:52:58He's supposed to be providing and protecting
00:53:00and taking her out and buying her flowers,
00:53:02so he's supposed to do the husband stuff.
00:53:05But she's like, well, I just have to sit here, look pretty, and put out.
00:53:13And then they say, well, men just won't commit.
00:53:15To what? What will you commit to?
00:53:17What is a man supposed to commit to?
00:53:19How is he supposed to wife you if you don't wife?
00:53:28I mean, it's like saying, you know,
00:53:30I want you to put me as the lead in your movie, Mr. Scorsese.
00:53:34I want you, okay, well, I guess you're a good-looking guy, but can you act?
00:53:39Well, I'm not going to show you that.
00:53:41I want you to put me as the lead in your movie.
00:53:43I'm not going to audition.
00:53:44I've got no resume.
00:53:46I've got no history.
00:53:48I'm good-looking.
00:53:49Make me a movie star.
00:53:50It's like, no, no, no, I mean, good-looking people,
00:53:52especially in the entertainment industry, are a dime a dozen.
00:53:55You've got to have that pixie dust.
00:53:57You've got to have that magic.
00:53:58You've got to have, you know, stage presence, screen presence, whatever,
00:54:01like, you know, how desperate Quentin Tarantino is to have screen presence,
00:54:05and the man has literally negative screen presence.
00:54:08He repels as much as Rosie O'Donnell at an orgy, right?
00:54:14So it's bizarre to me.
00:54:18You know, I mean, whatever job you want,
00:54:22you have to put a resume in and go for interviews,
00:54:25and you have to have proven that you can do that job already.
00:54:28Now, if a woman hasn't been married before or if she's been married before
00:54:32and either quit or got fired because she's divorced,
00:54:36they're saying, I want you to invest $1 million or $2 million in me.
00:54:41Give me access to your finances both now and forever.
00:54:45If we get divorced, I'll just sue you for or take you to court for money,
00:54:49and trust me, bro, trust me, I'll be a great wife.
00:54:52It's like, no, just do wife stuff.
00:54:55Like, show that you can do wife stuff.
00:54:57Show that you enjoy doing wife stuff.
00:54:59Show that you appreciate doing wife stuff.
00:55:01Show that you want to do wife stuff.
00:55:03And then, lo and behold, like magic, like magic, you will get wifed.
00:55:11So it's really sad that the sort of narcissism and entitlement and smugness
00:55:16and all I have to do is be pretty and put out.
00:55:19Okay, well, that's maybe enough for a fling.
00:55:22That's maybe enough for hooking up.
00:55:25Not enough to wife because you're auditioning for the role of mother to my children.
00:55:31You got to show me you're good with kids, right?
00:55:35You don't show me you're good with kids if I just have to keep taking you out for dinner.
00:55:39It doesn't show me that you're good with kids.
00:55:40Bring me over.
00:55:42Bring me over.
00:55:44Bring me over to where your nieces or your nephews are.
00:55:46Show me how good with kids you are.
00:55:49At the park, if a ball comes rolling, show that you're good with kids.
00:55:53Show that you know how to talk with kids.
00:55:56It's not complicated.
00:55:58I'm not asking for you to adopt for three years so I can vet you for being a mom.
00:56:03Just show the kids like you.
00:56:05Show that you like kids.
00:56:06Show you know how to interact with and talk with kids.
00:56:09It's not complicated.
00:56:11No, just take me to the club.
00:56:13All right.
00:56:19Crazy.
00:56:20But I just got my teeth whitened.
00:56:22Yeah.
00:56:23I did a glow up.
00:56:24I did a glow up.
00:56:25So, you know, wife me.
00:56:27It's like not marrying a plastic mask.
00:56:30I'm marrying someone who's going to take care of my household, educate and raise my children
00:56:34and be a great support network for my financial ambitions.
00:56:37If that's the kind of marriage you want.
00:56:45I mean, how many people who've worked for FDR do you think came in out of nowhere?
00:56:49I just got a resume.
00:56:50Yeah, it just landed on my inbox, landed on my desk.
00:56:53Come on, man.
00:56:58People added value and I hired them.
00:57:00All right.
00:57:02Somebody says, I follow Chris Williamson, a guy who reminds me of a younger version of you.
00:57:07I found it interesting how he mentioned in a vlog recently that he, quote,
00:57:10hasn't been able to visit his parents in years because he's been so busy with his podcast in Texas.
00:57:16Yeah, right.
00:57:17His parents are in the UK, so maybe a nine-hour flight.
00:57:19If you really love someone, you'd move heaven and earth to see them.
00:57:22A nine-hour flight is nothing.
00:57:23I find it interesting how people spin these stories to themselves to avoid confronting their parents.
00:57:30I can't even tell you the number of times people are on calls with me and I say,
00:57:36do you spend much time with your parents?
00:57:37And they say, well, no, because they're like a couple of hours away.
00:57:42And I'm like, OK, are you in contact with them?
00:57:45Well, no, they live far away, blah, blah, blah.
00:57:47I'm like, I had a guy from Australia call me and say he couldn't be in contact with his parents
00:57:52because they were quite far away.
00:57:54I'm like, bro, I'm literally on the other side of the freaking planet and you and I are having a conversation.
00:57:59Like, it's just, it's ridiculous.
00:58:01The excuses that people make.
00:58:04And you are not in a good social situation if people let you get away with excuses.
00:58:10Steph, tips to cultivate relationships.
00:58:12I realize I've been neglecting it.
00:58:13Well, Joe, the way you cultivate relationships is you provide value and you see who provides value back.
00:58:21And if people provide value back, then you escalate the provision of value.
00:58:23And if people don't provide value back, you move on.
00:58:29Somebody says, this woman says, all the jobs my husband has had are because someone he knows vouched for him.
00:58:35Every time he's just applied for stuff, crickets.
00:58:37Contacts referring him, the job is his.
00:58:39Yep, that's right.
00:58:42Contacts equals contracts.
00:58:44Yep.
00:58:45Yep.
00:58:47Posts on locals engage with communities.
00:58:49Communicate the job isn't going to come to you.
00:58:51You go and get the job.
00:58:52Do work.
00:58:53Get work.
00:58:55Why won't a man commit to a promiscuous and lazy woman?
00:58:58It's a mystery.
00:58:59Yeah, I don't, I mean, a man is supposed to provide for a woman and be very hardworking.
00:59:04And if a woman is not equally hardworking, like, here's the thing, ladies.
00:59:10Let me tell you how it is.
00:59:11You want a wealthy, successful guy.
00:59:16You want a guy who does well.
00:59:19Well, well, well, well, well, well, three holes in the ground.
00:59:23So a guy who does well, knows what he wants, is ambitious, is hardworking, is dedicated, has integrity, keeps his word, and works hard.
00:59:35So the idea that he's just gonna, what, pay for you to go for lunch, and go to the gym, and not do much work, and supervise maids, and shit like that.
00:59:45What are you, the queen of Sheba?
00:59:47You want a guy who works hard?
00:59:48Work hard!
00:59:50It's not complicated.
00:59:52If you want a guy who works hard, work hard.
00:59:55Work hard to make him happy.
00:59:56Work hard to make him successful.
00:59:58Work hard to listen to him.
00:59:59Work hard to provide value.
01:00:01Work hard to make his life easier and better.
01:00:03It's not complicated.
01:00:04What he's bringing to the table is a lot of money, so that you get to pursue being the mother and wife of your dreams.
01:00:08Fantastic!
01:00:09You get to remodel the kitchen 15 times a week, if you want.
01:00:12The value he's providing is simple, obvious, clear.
01:00:16It's a bunch of numbers, a bunch of commas, and most importantly, either a dollar sign, or hopefully, BTC.
01:00:25So he's providing a massive amount of value.
01:00:27What do you have to provide?
01:00:30Glow-ups and VJJ.
01:00:36So you want a guy who knows how to evaluate value, which is why he's successful.
01:00:41You want a guy who knows how to evaluate value, value you for something you share with half the population of the entire fucking planet.
01:00:51Well, I want a guy who knows how to really evaluate value and negotiate well for mutual advantage.
01:01:03And what I bring to the table is a nose.
01:01:06It's like, you know that noses are like all over the place, right?
01:01:10Like, if what you bring is undifferentiated, you cannot get a successful man.
01:01:22Because a successful man is already differentiated from all the less successful or unsuccessful men.
01:01:30Just provide value.
01:01:39Be hard-working.
01:01:41And if you don't want to be hard-working, that's fine.
01:01:43Then get yourself a lazy-ass man who's going to make 35K a year and live with that.
01:01:48Because you don't want to be hard-working.
01:01:51That's fine.
01:01:52But the idea that lazy women want a hard-working man is absolutely incomprehensible.
01:01:58And how you look from the hard-working man's side of the table, it's a complete clown show.
01:02:06It's a complete clown show.
01:02:09Well, he won't commit.
01:02:11It's like, are you hard-working?
01:02:13No.
01:02:14Well, why would he want to fund your lazy ass?
01:02:16Because here's the thing.
01:02:18If you're lazy, right?
01:02:20Men want sex, right?
01:02:21If you're lazy, what's going to happen when you're secure?
01:02:26Well, lazy means you're going to gain weight.
01:02:30Lazy means you're not going to exercise.
01:02:32Lazy means he's going to have to hire even more people to do the things that you're not going to do.
01:02:37Like laundry and cleaning and child raising.
01:02:41And because sex is work, sometimes you're going to be too lazy or bothered or upset or whatever for sex.
01:02:49And it's like, okay, so he ends up just funding a lump in the sheets.
01:02:55Hey, there's my wife.
01:02:57She's like a little mound under the eiderdown.
01:02:59Haven't seen her in three weeks.
01:03:02And she's gained 50 pounds.
01:03:04Why would you want to fund that?
01:03:07Bizarre to me.
01:03:09Bizarre to me.
01:03:14Somebody says, I think most women lose their looks with age.
01:03:17By the way, tips, anyone?
01:03:19Really, tips?
01:03:21A couple of tips would be nice.
01:03:22Working hard here.
01:03:23Working hard.
01:03:24Adding value.
01:03:25I'm literally telling you all how to get a job and how to elevate your careers for the rest of your life.
01:03:29Come on.
01:03:30Do it.
01:03:31Do it.
01:03:32You know it's the right thing.
01:03:33Somebody says, I think most women lose their looks with age.
01:03:35But Taylor Swift seems like she gets better looking with age.
01:03:38Do you have any thoughts on why this staff, her legs look phenomenal.
01:03:42And I personally thought she looked like a geek in her early 20s.
01:03:48Well, it's her job.
01:03:51Right?
01:03:53I knew someone who was part of the management team for a famous pop star.
01:03:58And he was telling me about how she'd taken some time away from the spotlight.
01:04:03And the amount of work she had to do to get back in shape, to get the glow up and so on was just immense.
01:04:10So it's her job.
01:04:12Look, if someone paid you $20 million a year, if you got a six pack abs, would you do it?
01:04:19Of course you would.
01:04:20It's her job.
01:04:22And she has people to do everything for her.
01:04:26I'm not begrudging her that.
01:04:27She obviously works hard, makes a lot of money.
01:04:29She has people to do everything for her.
01:04:31What does she have to focus on?
01:04:33She has to focus on not gaining weight and performing.
01:04:37I don't think she's writing while she's doing this eras tour, right?
01:04:41Eras.
01:04:42Not just one, but many.
01:04:44Boy, that's a pretty megalomaniacal.
01:04:46It's an entire era.
01:04:48An epoch, if you will.
01:04:49It's like, no, you're just a tall woman singing breathy songs about women who don't get married.
01:04:56So it's her job.
01:05:00So she gets, you know, what's it?
01:05:02Jennifer Lopez has like $20,000 worth of machines that she does every day to keep her skin fresh.
01:05:08So she has the very best skin care.
01:05:10She has the very best personal trainers.
01:05:12She has the very best cooks and all of her meals are regulated.
01:05:16And that's her job.
01:05:18Her job is to look great, right?
01:05:21Thanks, Adam.
01:05:22Her job is to look great.
01:05:23So good for her.
01:05:24I don't have a problem with it, but yeah, nothing wrong with that.
01:05:28Her job is to look great.
01:05:30I mean, I think she's pretty.
01:05:33Too pouty for me.
01:05:34I don't actually find her, for some reason, it could just be a taste thing.
01:05:38I do not find her sexy at all.
01:05:42Too smirky and all of that.
01:05:44And too immature.
01:05:47I mean, a woman, was she in her mid-thirties or something like that?
01:05:49Oh, no.
01:05:51How old is Taylor Swift?
01:05:55How old is she?
01:05:58Why?
01:05:59Why do I have to keep refreshing?
01:06:00Everything on the browser is like twice.
01:06:02Yeah, she's 34 years old, right?
01:06:06So at 34 years old, she should be more mature.
01:06:09And she just seems kind of goofy.
01:06:11And she's got this half-nerd thing going on and all of that.
01:06:17Oh, yeah, Lindsay Lohan has definitely, I would imagine, gone under a whole whirling gigablade of knives.
01:06:24I don't know, right?
01:06:25I'm just guessing, right?
01:06:34So, I mean, yeah, so it's her job to look good.
01:06:37And she does her job.
01:06:39And she doesn't have distractions.
01:06:41And she's got an entire team that helps and makes her look good.
01:06:45Again, it's not a big problem, right?
01:06:51Thoughts on career women in leadership positions, i.e., managers, that are in their late twenties, early thirties and single.
01:06:56I believe the amount of stress they're under makes them unattractive to men.
01:06:59Even though they're usually very intelligent and attractive, can these types of women be brought to see the light?
01:07:05Well, we either have equality in job opportunities for men and women, or we have a continuation of the human race.
01:07:13You can't have both.
01:07:15If women do what men do, they don't have kids.
01:07:17And then that's it.
01:07:18You get one generation of semi-equality, although women still don't do the physically demanding and dangerous jobs as a whole,
01:07:24but you get one generation of semi-equality, and then that's it for the planet, right?
01:07:29That's it for the planet.
01:07:30It's all over.
01:07:32So the problem, of course, with men, we don't like to share our women.
01:07:38Like, we don't.
01:07:39We don't like to share our women.
01:07:40We like for it to be a monogamy, and you know how they talk about the work husbands.
01:07:45So the problem is, for men, is that if your wife and the mother of your children has a boss,
01:07:53then your wife will say yes to another man while often saying no to you, right?
01:08:01Your wife will say yes to another man while often saying no to you.
01:08:06Now, for men, it's not so bad, usually, because we have male bosses and so on, although it can certainly happen.
01:08:11But let's say that you are trying to seduce your wife.
01:08:15You're being sexy all day, trying to seduce your wife, and then her boss calls her,
01:08:20and she's got to do work, and it's got to be done right now.
01:08:23Well, she's going to stop doing sexy, fun playtime with you,
01:08:27and she's going to go and satisfy her boss's requirements,
01:08:30and you, as a husband, feel massively diminished.
01:08:34Oh, it's just insecure.
01:08:35It's like, no, no, it's a real thing.
01:08:37In the hierarchy, you're below her male boss, right?
01:08:41In the hierarchy, you are below her male boss.
01:08:48Doesn't work.
01:08:49Doesn't work.
01:08:50Doesn't work.
01:08:51Doesn't work a thousand times.
01:08:52Doesn't work.
01:08:58Hey, you passed your driver's test.
01:09:00Good for you.
01:09:01Good for you.
01:09:02Well done.
01:09:06Let's hook Steph up for Thanksgiving.
01:09:08I make about $35,000 a year, and I try to donate $50 per live stream.
01:09:11There's 28 people here.
01:09:13If you all match my $50 donation, that's $1,400.
01:09:15Don't forget that Steph has employees.
01:09:17We're capitalists here.
01:09:18The price signal matters.
01:09:19Oh, thank you.
01:09:20I appreciate that.
01:09:21That's very kind.
01:09:22I really do appreciate that.
01:09:23That is very, very kind.
01:09:27Yeah, Taylor doesn't do it for me.
01:09:28She is good looking, but in no way activates any sexual response for me.
01:09:32Well, maybe a touch of disgust now I think about it.
01:09:37Yeah.
01:09:39Yeah.
01:09:41She is, and again, I'm not trying to pick on her or anything like that,
01:09:45because I'm, you know, whatever, but to me, it is sterile.
01:09:51It is sterile.
01:09:53I mean, the odds of her having kids is virtually zero, right?
01:09:59I can't say that for sure.
01:10:01Maybe she will, or maybe she'll freeze her eggs,
01:10:03and maybe she'll have them later or something like that.
01:10:06But when does this stupid tour end?
01:10:12When does the tour end?
01:10:19It seems like it's been going on since the dawn of time, hasn't it?
01:10:26December 8th.
01:10:28And it's amazing to me.
01:10:29I don't know how she does.
01:10:30She's doing a show in Vancouver Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
01:10:34And she does, I think, fairly lengthy shows, right?
01:10:38And I just find that's wild because, I mean, how does she keep her voice?
01:10:45I mean, I know she's not a real belter.
01:10:47She's more of a breathy singer.
01:10:48But nonetheless, I mean, to keep your voice.
01:10:53Length of Ira's tour.
01:11:04Two hours long.
01:11:05Yeah, at least two hours long, right?
01:11:11I don't know.
01:11:13Sixth worldwide tour.
01:11:18So she announced it in 2022.
01:11:22So, yeah, it's been a couple of years, right?
01:11:26A couple of years.
01:11:28March 2023.
01:11:30So, yeah, close.
01:11:31I mean, it's coming, like, a year and a half or whatever, right?
01:11:34And when does it end, right?
01:11:38She's just going on May 2024 onward.
01:11:40But when does it end?
01:11:44It doesn't feel.
01:11:45So, I mean, there's so much money that is going on here.
01:11:50It looks like December 8th.
01:11:52That's the last one.
01:11:53Maybe that's it.
01:11:55Anyway, so, yeah, it's pretty wild.
01:11:57There's so much money involved in this.
01:11:58What is it, a billion dollars for this tour?
01:12:00So much money involved in this that it's nuts.
01:12:04It's nuts.
01:12:12Thank you, Lee.
01:12:13I appreciate that.
01:12:15Taylor Swift wants kids and is reportedly eager to start a family with her boyfriend,
01:12:18Travis Kelchi, excited about motherhood.
01:12:22Wants to have a child before she turns 40.
01:12:25Yeah, and look, maybe the tour is like she gets it out of her system,
01:12:28settles down and have kids and all of that.
01:12:30I mean, I personally think she'd be a fun mom,
01:12:32as sort of mentioned in that famous tweet from many years ago.
01:12:34Do you think the earth is intelligently designed?
01:12:36I do not.
01:12:37Is she sponsored by ozempic and amphetamines?
01:12:39Oh, come on.
01:12:40I don't think.
01:12:41I don't know.
01:12:42She seems to be too clean for that as a whole.
01:12:44I don't think that she would be that way.
01:12:46I don't think she would be that way inclined.
01:12:49I've never heard any particular drug use or anything like that.
01:12:52I mean, I think she was very skinny at one point,
01:12:54and I don't know if she had any kind of particular self-consciousness about her eating,
01:13:00and I think she talked about that in one of her…
01:13:03that she has real self-consciousness about eating and so on.
01:13:05There's a lot of pressure for that stuff, but…
01:13:10She's just a singer with a song.
01:13:15All right.
01:13:17I respect you don't.
01:13:19I respect you don't,
01:13:21but I've always thought the amount of devil worship was strange.
01:13:24I don't know what that sentence means.
01:13:27I know you don't like politics, but it's hard for us to talk about Taylor Swift
01:13:30and not think of the videos I saw of the Canadian Prime Minister at her concert.
01:13:34Yeah, he was dancing around handing out friendship bracelets
01:13:37while Montreal was half on fire from riots and protests.
01:13:41Yeah, that's…
01:13:43I mean, the allegations coming out against that guy are just jaw-dropping,
01:13:46and who knows if they'll turn out to be true.
01:13:48We probably will never know.
01:13:50I mean, I'm innocent till proven guilty, but it's wild stuff.
01:13:54It's wild stuff.
01:13:57All right.
01:13:58Any other last questions, comments, issues, challenges, problems?
01:14:09What are some tips you have to practice assertiveness,
01:14:11i.e. standing up for oneself in heated situations without getting emotional?
01:14:15Sending you a donation on FDR.
01:14:18Oh, it's Middle East stuff, the riots in Montreal.
01:14:22So, assertiveness…
01:14:26Assertiveness…
01:14:31Assertiveness…
01:14:35You don't take things personally, right?
01:14:38I mean, people claim that they hate me.
01:14:40They don't hate me.
01:14:41I'm actually a ridiculously likable fellow, right?
01:14:43So, they don't hate me, right?
01:14:45They hate the effects that my arguments have on their lives, right?
01:14:51I mean, if you're a tremendously abusive parent,
01:14:54and you're too vain and corrupt to apologize to your children
01:14:58for the wrongs you did to them when they become adults,
01:15:00then you hate the fact that I will point out that that's not very honorable behavior,
01:15:04and your kids don't have to see you if you're relentlessly abusive,
01:15:07and they're adults, right?
01:15:08So, you don't hate…
01:15:10It's not personal to me, right?
01:15:12It's not personal to me.
01:15:15That's number one.
01:15:16Number two, assertiveness to me is a deep understanding
01:15:21that almost nobody knows what they're talking about.
01:15:25Almost nobody knows what they're talking about.
01:15:28They're just repeating slogans.
01:15:30They've been trained to hate you or to love you.
01:15:33They're doing what they're told.
01:15:34They're programmed themselves.
01:15:36They don't have any thoughts of their own.
01:15:38They don't have any particular ideas or virtues or reasoning of their own.
01:15:43They've never thought through anything,
01:15:45and they're just stuffed full of propaganda.
01:15:55So, most people…
01:15:57I mean, this is the Socratic thing, right?
01:15:59You've got all these people who claim to know what's good and right
01:16:02and all of that, right?
01:16:08They don't know.
01:16:10They don't know what's good and right.
01:16:11They don't really know anything other than what propaganda language
01:16:15is stuffed into their ears at the expense of their own thinking.
01:16:18So, with regards to assertiveness,
01:16:20my general assumption in going to any particular conflict or disagreement
01:16:24with someone is they don't know what they're talking about.
01:16:30And I can just be patient, right?
01:16:34What do you mean?
01:16:35What's your definition, right?
01:16:37Help me understand this.
01:16:38This doesn't seem to fit with that, right?
01:16:41They don't know what they're talking about.
01:16:50They're just repeating slogans
01:16:56with no understanding of anything.
01:17:02So, I view them as like, you know,
01:17:06kids thinking they're Mike Tyson punching at my knees.
01:17:09I mean, there's no need to get that upset.
01:17:11No need to get that mad.
01:17:12I mean, occasionally I will, for whatever reason,
01:17:14but if you've got UPB,
01:17:18you know ethics in a way that nobody else does, right?
01:17:24All right.
01:17:25I respect you don't believe the earth is intelligently designed,
01:17:27but in Hollywood and the powers that be,
01:17:29I see a lot of devil worship.
01:17:30You sang Freddie Mercury there,
01:17:32but his album cover for Solo was a fallen angel breaking chains.
01:17:35Ha ha, have a good night, mate.
01:17:36Your biggest problem is your most famous days
01:17:38will be when you're long gone to see it.
01:17:39Night, mate.
01:17:40Oh, actually, I mean, I just did a movie review.
01:17:43It'll go to donors tomorrow, probably.
01:17:46I did a movie review with my daughter of the movie Wicked,
01:17:51and in it I point out all the reasons
01:17:55in which the movie Wicked is just Satan worship.
01:17:58It's just Satanism.
01:18:02What's an area of relationships you haven't really explored,
01:18:05whether it's interpersonal or intrapersonal?
01:18:09Interpersonal, interpersonal, intrapersonal.
01:18:11I can't think of anything.
01:18:12I mean, if there was something that I hadn't done,
01:18:18I would explore it if it had value.
01:18:21That's what I really like about getting questions,
01:18:23is it opens my mind up to new topics
01:18:25that I haven't usually done much to deal with or to talk about.
01:18:31All right.
01:18:32Well, listen, I really do appreciate everyone's time tonight.
01:18:34Thank you so much.
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