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The conversation shifts to parent-child relationship dynamics, emphasizing the parent's influence on healthy interactions and the effects of societal pressures on modern relationships, especially regarding women's life choices. I underscore the need for honesty and shared values in relationships while addressing broader societal challenges and the importance of fostering open discourse in an increasingly polarized environment.
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In this episode, I explore the philosophy of self-defense in light of a recent stabbing incident involving a teenager, discussing Texas laws and the concept of "reasonable force." I highlight the tragic implications of such events on youth and the importance of personal safety strategies.
The conversation shifts to parent-child relationship dynamics, emphasizing the parent's influence on healthy interactions and the effects of societal pressures on modern relationships, especially regarding women's life choices. I underscore the need for honesty and shared values in relationships while addressing broader societal challenges and the importance of fostering open discourse in an increasingly polarized environment.
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00:00Well, good morning, everybody. Hope you're doing well. It is Stephen Molyneux from Freedomain,
00:05freedomain.com slash donate, freshly shaven like an irradiated peach. We are here to talk
00:11philosophy on this fine 13th of April 2025. That would be Sunday, Charity Sunday. And
00:21I hope you're doing well. Hope you're having a wonderful week. And remember, you can support
00:26the show at freedomain.com slash donate. And also, of course, you can sign up for call-in
00:33shows at freedomain.com slash call, freedomain.com slash call. You can do public call-in shows,
00:40which are free. You can do private call-in shows, which are paid, where you can get into details.
00:44And I can certainly be a little bit more blunt one-on-one. So if that's of interest and of
00:49value to you, freedomain.com slash call. Now, are you interested in the stabbing,
01:03the Anthony Carmelo stabbing? I think he said he's not alleged that he did it. This is the
01:10young man, I think he's 17, who stabbed this teen boy in the chest. And I find it quite
01:21interesting, more from a sort of philosophy of self-defense question. I find law, of course,
01:30is codified philosophy. It's UPB in action in its sort of ideal state. So I do find it quite
01:36interesting and helpful. But hit me with a why if you'd like to talk about that, or of course,
01:41whatever else is on your mind. I'm thrilled and happy to chat about.
02:06All right.
02:17And I find this one is quite interesting. I mean, obviously, there's some racial elements and so
02:38on. So we can talk about that if you have any other questions. All right. So let's look at this.
02:52Now, of course, usual caveats, I'm not a lawyer. This is not legal advice. This is just my sort of
02:58opinions on the law. So in Texas, self-defense says you can use reasonable force to protect yourself
03:06or others or their property. So reasonable force is important. You can use force at a reasonable
03:14level, a proportional level. Deadly force is justified if a person reasonably believes it is
03:18necessary to prevent serious injury or death. Castle doctrine. No duty to retreat when defending
03:25oneself in one's home, vehicle, or workplace. Protection of others. You can use force to protect
03:30others if they believe it is a necessity. And protection of property. Reasonable force can be
03:35used to protect property. But deadly force is generally not justified for property protection
03:39alone. So that's the general idea. Now, you can't claim self-defense, in my understanding,
03:49again, obviously, non-lawyer, amateur understanding. You can't claim self-defense under a number of
03:55circumstances. One is if you are not lawfully in a place, right? So if you are trespassing and
04:03somebody tries to remove you, you can't claim self-defense. If you are engaged in a crime,
04:07of course, you can't claim self-defense, all that kind of stuff. So self-defense requires that you
04:15be in a legally tenable or stable situation, that you are not disobeying the law and then claiming
04:24self-defense. Now, there's another one that's interesting. And again, I'm no expert on this,
04:28but it's something to do with provocation. In other words, you can't easily, and this is a gray area,
04:36I'm sure, but you can't easily just go up to someone, you know, start verbally harassing them,
04:43instigate verbal conflict, dare them to hit you, punch me and see what happens. Punch me, man,
04:49hit me. If you are provoking, if you are engaged in provocation, and this, I guess, would be verbal,
04:56then it is tougher to argue for self-defense. So apparently there's, I mean, rumors or not,
05:08there are videos floating, apparently there are videos of some of this altercation,
05:12so it'll be interesting to see how this plays out. But
05:17mutual combat immunity. Yeah. So if you both get involved in a fistfight and you both agree to
05:28the fistfight, then it's kind of like you can't claim assault in a boxing ring, right? So I think
05:35that's another issue that happens as well. Let me just see here. What?
05:45So this is a response AI. She could be valuable or not. In Texas law, provocation refers to actions
06:03or conduct that incite or provoke another person to respond with aggression or violence.
06:07self-defense. It is often discussed in the context of self-defense and the justification for using
06:12force. Specifically, provocation can affect the legal assessment of a person's actions in a
06:18self-defense claim. If a person provokes an attack, they may not be able to claim self-defense if they
06:24subsequently respond with force. However, if the provocation is not severe enough to justify the
06:30other person's violent response, the provoker may still have a valid self-defense claim if they
06:34reasonably believe they're in imminent danger. In legal terms, provocation can also relate to the
06:40heat of passion defense in homicide cases where a defendant may argue that they acted out of a
06:44sudden and intense emotional response to provocation, which can mitigate the severity of the charge.
06:50So again, this is a lot of gray area. If someone makes a yo mama joke, right? That's not,
06:56I don't think that would be reasonably considered provocation. If you can't just go beat someone up for
07:02making a yo mama joke or something like that. But it would be interesting to see, I mean, the whole
07:08thing, of course, is just ridiculously tragic. The whole thing is just absolutely ridiculously tragic.
07:16You know, if somebody is, because it was a track meet that was going on, and my sort of understanding of
07:26it is, um, yeah, Austin Metcalf was the guy who was stabbed and killed. And what's that from a couple of
07:44days ago? Yeah, Anthony Carmelo allegedly told his arresting officers, I'm not alleged, I did it.
07:53Now, is, um, if you, if you are in somebody else's tent, I think these tents are set up because the
08:02track meets are sort of all day. And if you are in somebody else's tent, it seems, uh, that's not a great
08:08place to be, uh, sort of hanging out in someone else's tent, but, uh, don't, don't take matters
08:14into your own hands. Call an official, call someone else. Yeah. It's very sad.
08:21It's very sad. I'm surprised no videos came out with everyone having smartphones now. Yeah.
08:26Yeah, for sure. And if people are like, um, you know, if according to some police reports,
08:32it's like the, the, the, the stabber or the guy who says he stabbed allegedly, uh, said, you know,
08:40touch me and see what happens, hit me and see what happens and, and all of that. And, uh, he had,
08:44uh, I think, I mean, he had a knife on him. I don't think he was supposed to have a knife at school.
08:47I don't think he was supposed to be in the tent. I don't think he was actually at the school where
08:50the track meet was. So who knows? Who knows? It'd be interesting to see what videos, what videos come
08:57out. But I would say, uh, yeah, don't, don't, don't get involved in these kinds of altercations.
09:04Don't, don't, uh, just don't do it. It's a really bad idea. It's a really bad idea. You never know.
09:11And it's not necessarily a race thing, right? But you just, you don't know who's just really
09:15volatile. Who's had the worst possible day. Who's, uh, doing some sort of dare who might be,
09:20you know, trying to get into some gang and has to pick a fighter. You just don't know.
09:24You just don't know. You just don't know. And, uh, yeah, just stay out of fights as a whole.
09:43All right. Let's see here. Carmelo Anthony. Sorry, not Anthony. Carmelo. Carmelo Anthony.
10:06I think I got that backwards. Carmelo Anthony. My apologies.
10:17All right. Let's get to your questions.
10:24Um, somebody asks, is there ever a time when a relationship between a parent breaks down
10:32that it is the fault of the child or is the child always right?
10:36Hmm.
10:42Well, I mean, it could be nobody's fault. I mean, if there's some brain degenerative thing,
10:48some Alzheimer's or something like neurological, that could be, uh, that could be a problem.
10:55And there's nobody's fault. The relationship is just going to break down because of biological
10:59causal factors. So, uh, it doesn't, I mean, I know that may sound a little bit, uh, um,
11:05I think the default position is that the parent is responsible. I think that's the, that's sort
11:19of the default position that makes sense because the parent has defined the relationship. The
11:24parent has taught the child. The parent has modeled interactions, hopefully with the mother
11:28or father. So, um, in general, I would put the onus at all times on the parent. Although I can
11:38certainly imagine some circumstances where it may not be the parent's fault, but it's, it's hard to
11:46really come up with those because the preponderance of evidence would be that it's the parent who's
11:50trying to find the relationship and all of that. So, uh, let's see here. What else do I have for
12:08y'all? A lot. I'm sure. A lot.
12:20As somebody wrote, the biggest betrayal feminism has committed against women is convincing them
12:28that they have time. Yes. The devil leads you step by step in, in, in the fog and leaves you
12:36abandoned with no road back. That's sort of the, that's the great temptation is that each little
12:41compromise adds up to a complete disaster. You know, like it's usually not your first cigarette
12:46that gives you lung cancer, but at one point that one will. So I do think that this idea that,
12:54oh, you can freeze your eggs. You've got time is down the road and so on. Just deferring youth and
13:00fertility and the commitment to having children, just getting you to defer all of that, defer all
13:04of that, defer all of that is really, um, is really tough. And that's those little compromises,
13:11just people don't, you know, it's funny because people don't tell you a lot of times,
13:16it's forbidden, right? It's forbidden. But what they'll say is just discouraged. You got to be
13:20careful. Maybe it's not the right idea. Maybe it's not the wise thing to do. Maybe it's not this
13:24way. And it's just gives you those little excuses of procrastination and deferral. And that I think
13:29is what really, what really gets you. Ray Dalio, a Bridgewater founder wrote 60% of the US population
13:39has below a sixth grade reading level. It's tough to be productive. Yeah. And I think Tim Cook from Apple
13:45was saying one of the reasons they go to China is they have all of these, you know, amazing,
13:48excellent machinists and engineers and so on. It's just a huge, uh, a talent pool to draw from.
13:54And that's, uh, that's really tough. I mean, how do you 60% of the US population has it below
14:00sixth grade reading level? That seems okay. Is that, that seems high. That seems high. Let's see.
14:08Where is that coming from? If you haven't used this feature on X where you can grok the tweet,
14:15it should usually give you some, some sources.
14:21It's really amazing. It's like a live fact checker in a way. I mean, it's not perfect,
14:25but it's pretty good, right? And the literacy claim. Yeah. This literacy claim aligns with the
14:342022 APM research lab report, which found that 54% of Americans aged 18 to 74, about 130 million
14:42adults have literacy skills below a sixth grade level. Ouch. Well, I guess it's true. I mean,
14:51uh, but imagine, imagine how bad things would be if the government didn't run the, uh, educational
14:57system, right? Crazy. Oh yes. Thank you for the tips. I appreciate that. I appreciate that.
15:10All right.
15:15The right to stand your ground versus the ability to just walk away.
15:18There is morally correct. And then there is staying safe. Yeah. I mean, you know, there is
15:25the old statement. It's better to be judged by 12 than carried by six, but it's better to stay out
15:29of those situations, right? This is something that, um, has been known for a long time. Like you can
15:34beat the rap, right? You can, maybe you can beat the murder rap with self-defense. You can beat the
15:40rap, but you can't beat the right. There's still going to be years out of your life and massive amounts
15:44of money. And I assume considerable amounts of stress, all that kind of stuff. So, uh, what's
15:53your opinion on some saying that the young man proved self-defense because he asked, is he okay
15:58to the police afterwards? Doesn't this just show he was worried about himself and being arrested for
16:04murder? I don't, I don't, I mean, I can't read the guy's mind. I don't know what he meant by that.
16:09Uh, somebody said, a guy who tried to fight me in a bar years ago happened to live in my building
16:19complex. We ran into each other and made peace. While speaking, he told me he loves a good fight
16:24and that him and his people have ways of getting around the law. I told him he still has to live
16:29with that on his conscience. And he just said, I sleep like a baby. Crazy. Yeah. Yeah. I mean,
16:35when you get involved in some sort of violent conflict or potentially escalating violent
16:42conflict, because a big problem is, is, is the disparity in skill sets. You know, if somebody's
16:48been through 20 bar fights and you're just getting riled up for the first time, that's not good.
16:56You know, that's not good. That's not good. I mean, just, just the skill disparity is, is pretty
17:06important. So, um, yeah, don't, don't get, don't get involved in fights. Just avoid as much as
17:12possible. It's not, not that hard to avoid fights. All right. Somebody says, good morning,
17:21Stefan and community. Good morning. Why do individuals who have many examples of pride
17:26getting in the way of relationships and daily encounters? How can one not see it?
17:31Why do individuals who have many examples of pride getting in the way of relationships and
17:34daily encounters? Yeah. Yeah. Pride tends to isolate, right? I mean, if, if you're just very
17:39proud and won't admit fault and won't compromise and won't work with people, um, pride and vanity,
17:45it tends to really isolate people as a whole. So I assume that, um, people would often rather
17:51be right in splendid, splendid isolation than be self-critical and thereby gain community.
18:01Do, do, do. All right.
18:07I used Grok for a pizza recipe. It told me to bake at 850 degrees for 30 minutes. Really?
18:21Daniel Penny beat the wrap, but went through such a terrible time in the media. Such a brave
18:29dude. I mean, Kyle Rittenhouse as well. For sure. It's, um, it's not a fun ride, to put it mildly.
18:41Oops. I hit the end instead of page down, and now I'm at the very bottom. Below the bottom.
18:46There we go. All right.
19:05Yeah, those before and after pictures of makeup are really something.
19:09Yeah, really, really something. Somebody wrote to put a 10,000% tariff on makeup.
19:14And, uh, in England, an elderly man who's hard of hearing said he couldn't understand someone
19:26and asked them to speak English or speak clearly, and he got warned that there's a potential hate crime.
19:36Wow.
19:36Now, is this true? In America, you're six times more likely to be killed by a doctor than a gun.
19:43Let's see here.
19:47The statistic stems from comparing medical error deaths estimated in 250,000 annually by a 2016
19:53Johns Hopkins study to gun deaths, which were around 46,728 in 2023, yielding a ratio of about 5.35,
20:00close to the claimed 6%. However, medical error estimates vary widely, but some studies suggesting
20:06as low as 22,000 deaths, making the claim contentious due to inconsistent data.
20:11Hmm.
20:15Hmm.
20:16All right. Let's get back to your questions and comments.
20:34I think of the old saying on a gravestone, here lies John Doe. He had the right of way.
20:39I remember this one. I used to bike or I used to bike all the time in my twenties to get around.
20:45And I mean, you, you can be in the right of way, but you know, you're a lot more vulnerable
20:49than somebody in a 6,000 pound can with wheels on it. No makeup on women is sexy. I think it shows
20:59a certain amount of confidence for sure. It's appealing and pleasant to see for sure.
21:08And don't forget to help support the show if you can at freedomain.com slash
21:16donate freedomain.com slash donate. All right. Now I do of course have questions that I asked for
21:22for yesterday, but let me just see if you've got any other questions or comments.
21:43If 60% of America can't read with comprehension, what else can they not do with comprehension?
21:50Well, I mean, is that by design? Is that by nature? Is that by coincidence?
21:57I know my thoughts, but I'm sure you have yours.
22:08Long questions.
22:09Okay.
22:13Somebody writes, Steph, when you have your call in shows, what's your method of making notes?
22:25Do you make handwritten notes, use digital text files, draw mental maps or something else?
22:31Sometimes the stories are so complicated, but you always keep such a good track of them,
22:34even the small facts. Also, when you come up with the title for a show, do you approve it with a caller?
22:38I don't. I approve it with a caller now. But I try to be, you know, obviously honest and accurate to
22:44the core of what is being talked about. Yeah. So I have, when there's complicated family situations,
22:52I'll draw a family tree. Sure. I mean, if there's like marriages and remarriages and step parents and,
22:57and so on, step siblings, especially if there's big age gaps, which can be quite important,
23:03then I will definitely, I'll draw a little family tree. And that usually doesn't come out beforehand.
23:10That comes out during the course of the conversation. No, normally I'm not, but normally I'm not making
23:16notes. I'm just really, really focusing on trying to listen as well and as deeply as humanly possible.
23:23That's really my goal when it comes to the call-in shows.
23:36And I sort of have an, I have a bit of an instinct for asking questions. So I'll ask a question,
23:41even to me, it seems a little bit out of left field, but usually it's a marker
23:44for something that I can circle back to later and deal with in a more detailed way. So you'll hear me
23:51say in call-in shows. So this is why I asked this earlier. Now, I don't always, sometimes I do,
23:56but I don't always know why I asked the questions earlier and then it pays off later.
24:00I mean, I've been doing it for so long now. It's kind of an instinct,
24:03I guess, maybe I had it to some degree from the beginning.
24:05Out of all your call-ins, what do you think is the biggest culprit as to why relationships go
24:21awry? Well, the biggest culprit is people who want relationships without being direct and honest,
24:26right? This is the real-time relationships thing. You talk about your thoughts and feelings in the
24:30moment as you're moving forward. And I think the biggest problem that people have in relationships
24:34is that they hide themselves from the other person in order to gain some sort of approval,
24:43to not be yourself. In order to gain approval is to dig the grave of the relationship really from
24:48the very beginning. That's why, you know, you can't have a relationship
24:58without direct honesty. All you're doing is having a compliance self-erasure fest.
25:12Somebody says, I went on two dates with a girl and we had great chemistry.
25:15...comparable on virtues and what we are looking for and had a lot of fun together. She surprised me
25:21a few days after our last date and indicated because I'm not a Christian, she did not want
25:26to move forward. I was taken aback given we discussed scripture, objective morality,
25:30and even my openness to going to church. I've given her space these past few weeks,
25:35but I'm curious if you think her objection is insurmountable.
25:38I'm not sure what you mean. I mean, what would it matter what I think? If she thinks her objection
25:49is insurmountable, then that's what counts, right? Tell me how old you guys are. How old, just in case?
26:00How old are you? It's one thing if the girl's like 20, that's one thing. If she's like late 20s,
26:09early 30s, she probably is not going to want to invest a lot into, yeah, 24. So she's probably
26:16thinking of settling down relatively quickly and she probably doesn't want to invest a lot of time
26:24in somebody who might not end up being a Christian. Yeah, you're late 20s. She's mid-20s, yeah.
26:33Yeah. So if she wants to settle down and raise her kids as Christians, then she probably isn't going
26:39to want to get together with a guy that may or may not end up being a Christian, which I'm sure we can
26:46we can understand, right? We can understand all of that. All right, let's see here.
26:57Oh yeah, my IQ topics. I mean, I did the IQ topics. I interviewed all the experts. I really don't think
27:03there's anything left to say about all of that stuff. I generally will, I mean, it's not like I'm
27:12doing a lot of presentations on the Roman Empire or the Crusades or, you know, the stuff that I,
27:19George Floyd, and so I do the topics and, or crime stats or whatever. Like, I'll do the topics,
27:25I'll dig in, and then, you know, I'll generally move on, right?
27:29So, somebody says, there are people consciously and unconsciously using diagnosis and trauma
27:42as a shield and permanent excuse for the way they behave and therefore feel that they must always
27:50be forgiven while continuing to behave erratically and generally unpleasant. They blame and guilt the
27:55other person for not accepting the treatment by saying their love was insufficient. Oh, there's
28:02more. Otherwise, they would understand, accept, and appease the bad behavior. It is trauma they
28:07unfortunately have inherited, therefore can only be blameless for their behavior. But the partner can
28:13and will be held fully accountable and responsible to figure out and administer the correct treatment.
28:18Otherwise, the logical answer is always they did not love enough, as otherwise they would
28:25have understood and heal the condition. This, of course, is not always true, but quite problematic.
28:30Yeah. Is it possible to reason with people like that, or is it something you could say to checkmate
28:33their behavior? Usually the big question is right at the beginning. I mean, for me, the purpose of
28:45identifying sort of childhood trauma and so on is to overcome it and not have it be part of your core
28:53identity. I mean, I don't in general think of myself in sort of any current context. I mean,
29:01I'm 59 this year, right? So I don't in any current context think of myself as, you know, the eternal
29:06victim of a neglected and abused childhood. I mean, I have a wonderful marriage and good friends and a
29:14lovely relationship with my daughter. And so for me, it's kind of hard to get into that mindset that,
29:21you know, the stuff that happened like 40, 50 or more years ago is sort of essential to my identity.
29:28So it's not really a, not really. So I think, I think that the purpose is not, I mean, I think
29:33you have to have sympathy for what happened to you as a kid, if you had a bad childhood, for sure.
29:37But I think you want to try and avoid as much as possible, making it part of your core identity
29:42identity or essential to sort of who you are, if that makes sense.
29:52All right.
29:59And people can, I mean, it is sort of, I think, a well-known phenomenon in self-knowledge circles
30:05that people can definitely end up in love with their own diagnoses, so to speak.
30:12You know, I am a hat and that just becomes their thing, right?
30:20And I don't think that's great.
30:24For me, at least, the purpose of, thank you, Joseph.
30:27The purpose of healing is to return to a state of wholeness, right?
30:31You break your arm, you want to get back to the state where, um, where your arm is if
30:38it was never broken, if that makes sense, if it was never broken.
30:44And, uh, yeah, I think the purpose of sort of mental health, psychological healing, closure,
30:49progress, is to get to a place where you are as close, well, not only were you not damaged,
30:58but you became stronger because of the damage, right?
31:00So, if you break your arm, maybe you end up falling in love with doing weights as part of
31:04rehab, and you end up with a stronger arm than if you'd never broken it, and I think that's
31:08pretty important.
31:12If you can judo or jujitsu this stuff in, from a weakness into a strength, I think that's the
31:18best you can do with these kinds of things as a whole.
31:21Somebody says, would you say it's reasonable to make it work with a Christian girl as a
31:24non-religious man?
31:25What are your thoughts on it?
31:26As in, if the two are a great match on everything aside from belief in God, would it still be
31:31better for two Christians to be together?
31:33I think so, yeah.
31:34I mean, the challenge, of course, is the kids, right?
31:40Yeah.
31:41I think the challenge is the kids, right?
31:45Because you're going to have a different set of metaphysics and epistemology, right?
31:52So, your non-Christian metaphysics and epistemology, I mean, even if you end up with the same ethics,
31:57which I'm sure you would be very similar, but if you have a different methodology, then
32:03it's going to be quite confusing for the kids.
32:04All right, somebody says, hello, back in 2018 or so, you had a great presentation on Christianity
32:15in the Middle East, pre-Islam on YouTube.
32:18Is there an archive of your old work?
32:20Yes.
32:20So, you go to fdrpodcasts.com, fdrpodcasts.com, and you can do the search for there, and then
32:28when you click on the shows that you find below, there should be video archives.
32:31Why do people throw shite back in your face that happened years ago?
32:43Hmm.
32:45Hmm.
32:47Right.
32:51I mean, I think for two reasons.
32:53You know, there's a lot of people who don't seem to exist in a state of time.
32:58Like, they get stuck.
33:01In a certain time.
33:05A sort of good fictional example of this is the young man in Glass Menagerie.
33:19Gosh, what's his name again?
33:21Jim O'Connor.
33:22Yeah.
33:23Jim O'Connor.
33:24Who, or I guess a more coarse example would be Al Bundy from Married with Children, who
33:33kind of got stuck in his high school football glory days and didn't quite move on.
33:38And of course, Jim O'Connor in Glass Menagerie is somebody who's stuck in the successes and
33:47all of that that he had in high school.
33:49So, some people kind of get stuck in time and they don't really progress or move forward.
33:56And that's, so for them, it's all very vivid.
33:59It's all very real.
34:02And it doesn't progress.
34:04You know, things are supposed to be in your mind and, you know, you kind of, they recede
34:10into the past.
34:11They become less important.
34:12They minimize it.
34:12They go over the horizon.
34:14But some people, they just stay in this loop and they don't really move forward in time.
34:23Thank you for the tip.
34:28I appreciate that.
34:29Somebody says, funny you brought up women wasting time earlier.
34:32Saw this tweet last night.
34:34I get the sense that this tweet invites people to think the feeling of time slipping away
34:38is just a phase, basically detaching you from your instincts.
34:40Yeah, this woman, Madison, wrote, nobody is more stressed than a 25 to 32 year old thinking
34:46they're running out of time.
34:48Yeah.
34:49Well, I mean, it's a, it's a real thing.
35:01All right.
35:02All right.
35:10Uh, so I didn't quite get that, that text.
35:17Um, somebody writes, I can blame what I went through, making my challenges worse slash harder
35:22to deal with.
35:22I can also go down.
35:24What ifs ad infinitum, ad nauseum.
35:27If only, uh, were I different, then I would not be me.
35:31Maybe things would be better or maybe worse.
35:33I can't change what happened.
35:35What I can do is decide what to do about it now.
35:37Namely, work on helping others and not concentrating on myself.
35:41Feels great.
35:42That charity and kindness is empathy I gained.
35:44This I do.
35:45Thank God for.
35:46That's nice to hear.
35:49Uh, Floridian says, people running out of, people running out of your time is extremely
35:53important.
35:54I started a family late in a career.
36:00Later, light, I started a family late in a career, light, and feel as though some of
36:07my tractors and society in general managed to convince me that my 20s weren't important.
36:13Oh, detractors.
36:14Okay.
36:15Yeah.
36:16Yeah, for sure.
36:17Uh, uh, time's, time's ticking away.
36:19Time moves on, whether you like it or not.
36:22And there is no return to yesterday.
36:30Um, and make hay while the sun shines, right?
36:45All right.
36:48I'll wait for those questions and stick with yours.
36:50Thank you for the tip.
36:53I appreciate that.
36:55Oh, it's voice transcription.
36:58And you can't blame voice transcription because you got a proofread, right?
37:01Don't blame technology for your failure to proofread.
37:07In my humble opinion.
37:08All right.
37:23Hello, Douglas.
37:24Nice to see you.
37:25Thanks for dropping by.
37:25Bye.
37:25Yeah, the NGO stuff is pretty wild.
37:40That doe just digging up.
37:42There's a lack of oversight and all that.
37:44It's just wild.
37:44Um, I thought this was interesting because tungsten and gold have almost identical weights.
37:55Fake gold bars and coins made from tungsten cannot be identified by the usual method of
37:59density testing and ultrasound has to be used instead.
38:02Isn't that wild?
38:03I did not know.
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38:27Yeah, World of Engineering is a good, is a good follow for sure.
38:33the speed of sound on mars is about 250 meters per second that's slower than on earth where
38:47sound travels through the air at about 340 meters per second i remember that as a kid
38:53when i first saw people playing soccer in a big distance that they'd click the ball
38:58and only then would i later get the sound i still remember that
39:01um workers in rural japan built a new train station in just six hours between the last train of the
39:17night to the first one the next morning the new structure replaced a 75 year old wooden station
39:22building in hatsushima a quiet coastal city coastal area in erida city all components of the new
39:30station were 3d printed in advance and assembled on site on march 25th 2025 in what west japan railway
39:37company says is a world first yeah you know it's funny um
39:44we don't remember and i suppose this is the podcast world to some degree right but it's hard for people
39:55to remember just how easy it used to be to get things done
40:02somebody says uh listening to you as i do my sunday shopping in a local canadian walmart definitely can
40:20see how different beliefs and attitudes in terms of upbringing and culture affect what we would call
40:23a polite society and our ability to have one yeah for sure isn't the doge savings just going to the
40:28military industrial complex yeah yeah what is trump now it's like a trillion dollar pentagon budget
40:35crazy is there a point to getting things done if the train station is too unsafe to use
40:41but i don't think it is and people just people just used to be able to do stuff now it's like
40:47paperwork bureaucratic red tape environmental studies you name it right just goes on and on
40:54and uh people just kind of give up right do you ever have this sort of feeling
40:59you have some sort of business idea or something and then it's like you start looking up all the
41:03things that you're going to have to go through to try and make it work and it's like oh maybe maybe not
41:18they wrote to all the visionary can we all finally agree that using hand dryers in public restrooms was
41:22a bad idea um that's my closest thing to face is you know just rubbing my hands uh on those dryers
41:30never feels like it's going to work i usually just give up and wipe it on my back
41:38did you know that stars are among the first objects to form in the early universe interesting
41:54it's a good uh it's a good life tip when you get a new job save down the job description
42:06and use the points listed under responsibilities to add that experience to your resume when the time
42:10comes it's good
42:15if science is influenced by politics or business it's not science
42:19it's politics and business very true the human body produces about 25 million new cells
42:26every second isn't that wild
42:34the human body produces about 25 million new cells
42:42now this was not true humans first contact with electricity was electric fish
42:47i think it means electric eels no i mean i would assume lightning predated that by quite a bit
42:52a life tip this is good if you can't see the lorries what was it was a tongue twisted when i was a kid
43:01red lorry yellow lorry red lorry yellow lorry red lorry yellow lorry that means a truck in england if you
43:06can't see the trucks mirrors they can't see you very true very true
43:11one million earths could fit inside the sun isn't that wild
43:26if you folded a piece of paper in half 42 times it would reach the moon if you folded it 103 times
43:31it would be thicker than the observable universe
43:34um that was kind of a little minor con that um people used to do when i was in boarding school
43:40is they'd say you know uh they'd bet you uh i bet you you know 10 pence that
43:46you can't fold a piece of paper more than seven times in half and of course you cut you couldn't right
44:00all right
44:01uh oh sorry somebody said i meant
44:15oh you meant a lot of the economy seems to be virtual or remote now because the public spaces are
44:20physically unsafe in america yeah that's true
44:27interesting fact the 30 pieces of silver judas received in the new testament is not the same as 30
44:32ounces today it was the equivalent of a year's salary at the time oh interesting what are your
44:38thoughts on bonnie blue having sex with 1057 men in one day she said that she started watching porn at
44:45age 11 i mean i i i have no words i have no words for that
44:56all right those air dryers spread germs around so trees are more important than people's lives
45:03interesting um somebody writes hi steph when you do call-ins are you able to get a general sense of
45:10whether or not a caller will implement your advice or not and if you have a sense they won't how do
45:15you push through to keep doing what you do um well of course you know 99 of the shows i've done have
45:22been public call-ins over the last 20 years so obviously i do want the person to if i've got
45:27good advice and they agree with it i do want them to follow it but it's not essential because
45:32um because um because the good advice goes out to everyone as a whole right so that's it's it's not
45:43uh that the value of the advice exists whether or not someone is following it individually
46:00i thought this is interesting uh it's a life tip set a two minute delay for every email you send
46:23in outlook you can set your outgoing email to be automatically delayed a couple of minutes using
46:26the automation rules so if you hit send early accidentally or forget to include an attachment
46:31you can go to your outbox and edit the email before it actually sends clever clever
46:49did you know originally celsius degrees were meant to be reversed with water boiling at zero degrees and
46:53freezing at 100 that's an engineer i suppose anyone know any jokes about sodium nah funny funny funny
47:16um
47:23all right let's see here what do we have for your questions and comments
47:37uh thank you for your support at freedom.com donate all right more questions
47:57more questions comments i can do uh can only do an hour today i have a bunch of other stuff which i need to
48:03get to get done but i'm afraid not that i don't want you guys to think anything takes priority over you but
48:22going once going twice
48:33yes okay i'll wait for that
48:53what's coming my way
48:53how's your ear doing um it's better you know the tinnitus is down i still get a little bit of a buzz when
49:01i talk but it's getting better thank you
49:16um does society fix itself it doesn't need leaders however the suppression idea of ideas how
49:30uh i wouldn't say that society fixes itself i would say that uh yeah i would say that
49:39uh people need to be led to better reason better arguments better ideas and i think
49:48where censorship is at these days which is still quite strong i think you have to put out first
49:53principles teach people how to reason and let them take it from there now censorship does usually only
49:59focuses on conclusions rather than methodology
50:07let's see here is it true that you'll know when you find the right woman uh it certainly was the
50:10case for me yeah it certainly was the case for me and it's when you look at the person and you say well
50:14i i can't do better than this there's no upgrade from here
50:26uh yeah if you have a dream analysis free domain.com call
50:30free domain.com call a dream analysis is better in a conversation because there's usually
50:35a whole heap of background and other things that are needed for that
50:45all right okay well i will stop here i really do appreciate everyone's time today thank you so
50:49much for dropping by tonight sorry for these slightly shorter shows but um we will get back
50:54into the lengthy one soon and i do have some really good shows coming up coming out this week
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