SHOW REVIEW: ADOLESCENCE

Stefan Molyneux

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Transcript

00:00:00Good evening, good evening. Welcome, welcome, welcome to your Wednesday Night Live, 23rd

00:00:06of April 2025. Voice has almost returned to normal. I've had, I don't know, like five,

00:00:12six weeks of messed up voice ear stuff, but it seems to be almost back to normal. So that's

00:00:18obviously a big relief and very good for me, for you, for the world as a whole, I do hope

00:00:23and believe. Oh, I don't have my hat. Oh, well, that's fine. We can do the forehead

00:00:29dome. We can do the forehead dome. All right. So I have a lot of great topics tonight. Of

00:00:36course, I'm completely thrilled and overjoyed, blessed and honored to get your questions

00:00:42as well. Here's a little bit of trivia. The first man to fly an airplane and the first man

00:00:50on the moon lived 56 miles apart in Southwest Ohio. Cleveland rocks, Ohio, Ohio, Ohio, Ohio.

00:01:00It was an old, uh, old, um, sorry. I shouldn't laugh. Um, Drew Carey, the Drew Carey show,

00:01:09Ohio, Ohio, Ohio, Ohio. Ohio and Cincinnati were my introductions to America through sitcoms.

00:01:14WKRP in Cincinnati. Loved, loved, loved that show when I was a kid, loved that show when

00:01:21I was a kid. Uh, very funny. And I ended up, you know, kind of in the vicinity of being

00:01:28a DJ, if that makes any sense. So. Drew Carey show intro. Yeah. That guy is tortured, man.

00:01:37Drew Carey is tortured. Oh, I say this with sympathy, of course, but definitely he is with

00:01:45the torture. All right. So what else? Um, okay. Let me see if you can, see if you can guess

00:01:54this number. Okay. I don't even know how to ask this too well. All right. Um, the Black

00:02:01Plague has a what percent approval rating among Americans. The Black Plague, the Black Plague

00:02:11has a what percent approval rating among Americans. I, uh, I was surprised because sometimes people

00:02:22just guess like they don't know. They don't know. However, however, Black Plague, two relatively

00:02:30negative words, I suppose. Shouldn't be hard to figure out whether or not.

00:02:36Ah. Is that the disease with the buboes? Yeah. Bubonic plague. Uh, thank you for the tip. Of

00:02:45course, freedomain.com slash donate to help out the show. I'd really appreciate it. Uh, it's

00:02:49a low donation month, mostly because I've been kind of under the weather. So my shows have

00:02:54not been spectacular, focused, dedicated, but I know the difference. So I really appreciate

00:03:00you guys' patience as I recover from this ear bug from hell. Um, so yeah, the problem has

00:03:07been that when I talk, I can hear a buzz in my ear. So it's been a little tough to be vocally

00:03:12committed and to have lengthy shows. So let's see here. Did you see the study on 1 million

00:03:22kids cutting sugars and additives raised test scores by 15.7% or 10 IQ points? Yeah. If

00:03:27you could email me the study, I'd appreciate that. I have doubt. I have doubt. All right.

00:03:36Yeah. It was the disease with the buboes. He used to be a libertarian beacon, Drew Carey. Now he's got

00:03:44that weird Bart Barker extended microphone on the price is right. Can you imagine going from

00:03:49libertarian wunderkind to how much did this cost? Diseases have approval ratings. Right. So,

00:03:59um, the black plague has a 9% approver rating among Americans.

00:04:11So if you are in fact a manifestation of a horrible vomity lymph node back of the rat off the ships from

00:04:21China plague that kills 25 to 30% of the population, if you're that still one out of 10 people are going

00:04:29to go, yay, he's my boy. He's my guy. He's the guy. Love that guy. Black death, black death. Maybe

00:04:38they think he's a WWF fellow. I don't know. I don't know. Anyway, so just, you know, if people don't

00:04:45like you, if, if, if you should go through the difficult experience, I may go through this someday.

00:04:54Okay. If you go through the difficult experience of people not liking you, uh, as long as you can keep

00:04:58it to, uh, around one in 10, then you are at the same popularity level as the black plague.

00:05:08Hopefully that gives you some perspective, uh, uh, email, you know, just, uh, email it to host,

00:05:16host host host at free demand.com. All right.

00:05:31Tyler Cohen, Tyler Cowen is an economist. I think he's childless. I don't know why I read that or

00:05:36that it even matters. Um, but tell me what you think of this. So Tyler Cohen wrote,

00:05:45a lot of people do not want to admit it, but when it comes to the COVID-19 pandemic,

00:05:50the elites by and large actually got a lot right. Most importantly, the people who got vaccinated

00:05:56fared much better than the people who did not. We also got a vaccine in record time against most

00:06:00expectations. Operation Warp Speed was a success. Long COVID did turn out to be a real thing.

00:06:05Low personal mobility levels meant that often lockdowns were not the real issue.

00:06:10Most of that economic activity was going away. In any case, most states should have ended the

00:06:14lockdowns sooner, but they mattered less than many critics have suggested. Furthermore,

00:06:18in contrast to what many were predicting, those restrictions on our liberty proved entirely,

00:06:23entirely temporary.

00:06:29Wow.

00:06:29That's really something.

00:06:41That's really something.

00:06:44I think he's a free market economist.

00:06:48Wild.

00:06:49The elites by and large actually got a lot, right?

00:07:05Can you even say, uh, what can you even say?

00:07:14What can you even say?

00:07:15Yeah. You know, we were talking the, uh, I think it was a week and a half ago,

00:07:19it was a week and a half ago with the Douglas Murray, Dave Smith debate. We were talking about

00:07:23expertise, expertise. And I would sort of amend that. I was talking about people who have,

00:07:29who expose themselves to contradictory information and are able to have some standard by which they

00:07:37can overcome confirmation bias, right? It's pretty, pretty important. It's why people on the right

00:07:41generally have a much better rounded worldview than people on the left.

00:07:48It's not necessarily because the perspective of people on the right is inherently more rounded.

00:07:53It's because if you're on the right, I mean, you grew up in government schools, you

00:07:58can't really help but have exposure to the mainstream media.

00:08:01Yeah. So you have, uh, you have that worldview kind of hammered into you, you know, nails through

00:08:10the forehead. And then you find some exposure to some other kind of arguments or thinking or way

00:08:18of viewing the world and so on. And you have a bigger, wider, more rounded perspective because

00:08:25of that, right? Whereas if you're on the left, then you're raised in the left, the media is the

00:08:31left, the news is the left, school is the left, and you can just chug along with no real exposure

00:08:40to any arguments that go outside your particular bubble. But yeah, they got it right. I mean,

00:08:52the, the, the, um, Royal College estimates were way off. The elites almost unanimously and with quite a lot of

00:09:03pressure were said it was a, uh, not a lab leak, but natural, of natural origins and, and completely

00:09:13dismissed the lab leak, though there were countless people to whom it was completely obvious that the

00:09:18most likely explanation, like by far, there wasn't even a close second was the lab leak. And as I

00:09:24mentioned before, if they had accepted that it was a lab leak, then lockdowns don't really do much

00:09:28good, right? Because if it's already, if it's designed to infect human beings, then I don't know

00:09:33what distancing and lockdowns and all of that sort of stuff is really supposed to do, right?

00:09:36Those restrictions on our liberty proved entirely temporary. Oh, snap the edge of the table off.

00:09:53Those restrictions on our liberty proved entirely temporary.

00:09:59temporary. Okay. Let me ask you this, my friends. Let me ask you this.

00:10:12Were there losses that you experienced during the pandemic that were not particularly temporary?

00:10:22temporary. For instance, uh, did you have a business or a job that did not survive the pandemic?

00:10:37Well, the lockdowns, and I understand there would have been, as he's, as Dr. Cohen is saying,

00:10:43Cowan, Cowan is saying, some of this would have diminished anyway. But, you know, in Canada,

00:10:50of course, a lot of the big box stores were allowed to stay open, but the smaller stores were not.

00:10:58Uh, people lost their jobs, in particular, if they didn't want to get vaccinated.

00:11:02Um, and I think that the American military is bringing some people back now,

00:11:07but that seems pretty significant, right? That seems pretty significant.

00:11:16It's, uh, wild.

00:11:28I mean, if you, and you, of course, you could say that the, you know, the lockdowns were gone,

00:11:32and the travel restrictions are gone, and so on. But those restrictions on our liberty proving

00:11:37entirely temporary, boy, it takes a guy who's got tenure, who can't get fired. It takes a guy to say,

00:11:42well, the restrictions just, uh, proved entirely temporary. It's wild, man.

00:11:57It's wild. How people, um, can just say that kind of stuff.

00:12:01Safe and effective. Well, haven't the odds for a lot of people who took the COVID vaccines,

00:12:11haven't the odds of getting COVID gone up? I mean, if you follow the great Dr. Naomi Wolf,

00:12:20as she's gathered together teams to go through the Pfizer documents and other documents to try and

00:12:23figure out the safety slash danger profile, got it right. That is just wild to me.

00:12:38Absolutely wild.

00:12:41Just not much curiosity or anything like that, right?

00:12:43Remember, you'd go to restaurants, and you'd wear your mask until you got to the table,

00:12:55and you'd sit down and take your mask off because, you know, five to six feet, five to seven feet,

00:13:01virus. Patterns. Sedimentary layers of death virus. Below four to five feet. Ah. Wild.

00:13:11Wild.

00:13:13Yeah, it's, um, it's very tough for people who have tenure to understand entrepreneurs.

00:13:29I mean,

00:13:30the IQ drops for the kids who couldn't go to school and socialize was unbelievable, right?

00:13:43So, according to a study,

00:13:57let me just get to the summary here. No, I can't get to the summary. Unfortunately,

00:14:11it's going on. Yeah, children born during the pandemic show

00:14:17lower IQs.

00:14:22Children's IQ dropped during the lockdown.

00:14:27And it's not small.

00:14:29Some people have said

00:14:40half a standard deviation, standard deviation.

00:14:49Wow.

00:14:50Wow.

00:14:50So, that's pretty important.

00:15:01Seems pretty important.

00:15:04All right.

00:15:06So, I think for me, an expert is also someone who, um,

00:15:12has a standard by which they can be wrong

00:15:15and hold themselves to their standard, right?

00:15:21As Mike Cernovich wrote,

00:15:22in 2007, the, quote, economist Tyler Cowen and his co-blogger claimed that there wasn't going to be a recession.

00:15:28And they marked people discussing subprime lending and credit default swaps as being hysterics.

00:15:33They got the most important issue of their careers wrong.

00:15:36Now, I get it.

00:15:46We can all be wrong.

00:15:51I've certainly made mistakes in my life, publicly and privately.

00:15:54No question.

00:15:57But, holy crap.

00:16:01One of the concepts, this is

00:16:02Taleb's argument, sort of skin in the game.

00:16:06I don't listen to people who don't have skin in the game.

00:16:08So, why would I listen to somebody who talks about lockdowns

00:16:11when they can't get fired, get paid no matter what,

00:16:14and work from home?

00:16:22Like Fauci.

00:16:22This is from Dr. Simon Godek.

00:16:25When Fauci joined the National Institute of Health in 1968,

00:16:30only about 6% of American children had a chronic condition.

00:16:33By the time he became director of NIAID in 1984,

00:16:40that number had nearly doubled to 11.8%.

00:16:42Now, after 40 years of his leadership,

00:16:46over 60% of U.S. children suffer from at least one chronic illness.

00:16:4960%.

00:16:5060%.

00:16:5460%

00:16:59of children.

00:17:02Yeah, you got laid off thanks to the pandemic.

00:17:14Yeah.

00:17:15Inflation to inflation.

00:17:16Yeah, that's right.

00:17:17That's right.

00:17:17In a couple of years,

00:17:1840% of all the dollars ever created were printed, right?

00:17:20You know,

00:17:26a tenfold increase in 40 years,

00:17:30a tenfold increase in chronic childhood health conditions,

00:17:34if that's not enough for people to take to the streets,

00:17:36I don't know what is.

00:17:38I mean, I got to tell you,

00:17:39like, I mean,

00:17:41I'm only 59 this year, right?

00:17:4359 this year.

00:17:44I knew almost no sick children when I was young.

00:17:56I knew almost no sick children when I was young.

00:18:00I remember one kid.

00:18:02Oh, this is really rough, man.

00:18:03This is really rough.

00:18:05He was an amazing soccer player.

00:18:08Amazing soccer player.

00:18:10Like, to make the ball dance.

00:18:11You know, like how they have those,

00:18:12often these Asian guys who look like

00:18:14they're floating

00:18:14when they do this sidestep thing.

00:18:16I mean, he could just, you know,

00:18:18twirl it like Beckham

00:18:19and bend it like the solar system.

00:18:22And he,

00:18:24against policy,

00:18:26he did a flip in a pool

00:18:28and hit his head

00:18:30and was underwater for too long

00:18:32and never recovered.

00:18:34That was a brain damage thing.

00:18:36It was really, really tough.

00:18:38And he stayed in the school

00:18:39and he was like,

00:18:41he made a lot of us pretty cautious.

00:18:44Pretty cautious

00:18:45because you see something like that

00:18:46and you're like,

00:18:47everything could change

00:18:48like in a split second

00:18:49if you make a bad decision.

00:18:51Everything.

00:18:52And there was that.

00:18:53I had a friend

00:18:54when I was in junior high school

00:18:56who was in a wheelchair

00:18:58and he didn't make it to high school.

00:19:00I had another friend,

00:19:04my best friend,

00:19:05when I came to Canada

00:19:07at the age of 11 or 12,

00:19:10died into sleep.

00:19:11He had a congenital heart defect

00:19:12that nobody knew about.

00:19:15Other than that,

00:19:19you know,

00:19:21I mean,

00:19:21knew a couple of kids

00:19:22who had asthma and so on,

00:19:23but not.

00:19:26It was tiny.

00:19:27I mean,

00:19:27I assume it was less than the

00:19:28sort of 9% thing, right?

00:19:30It was tiny.

00:19:31It was tiny.

00:19:35So when you preside over,

00:19:40or,

00:19:41I mean,

00:19:41I'm not saying it's all causal

00:19:43to Dr. Fauci,

00:19:46but if you are in charge

00:19:48and there's a tenfold increase

00:19:49in childhood chronic health conditions,

00:19:54I mean,

00:19:58the way I think,

00:19:59I'm not talking about Dr. Fauci here,

00:20:01I'm just talking about

00:20:02general elites.

00:20:05Honestly,

00:20:05I think,

00:20:05I think a lot of them

00:20:06in the health field

00:20:08are so fucking cold-hearted.

00:20:12I think they just view kids

00:20:13as like crops.

00:20:16You know,

00:20:17you plant illness

00:20:18in kids

00:20:19and the government

00:20:20pays you

00:20:20for endless

00:20:21medical interventions.

00:20:25Endless medical interventions.

00:20:28And this is a big change for me

00:20:30from when I was younger.

00:20:31I mean,

00:20:31I viewed,

00:20:32you know,

00:20:33Western medicine as legit

00:20:34and,

00:20:35I mean,

00:20:35medicine is fine.

00:20:36It's sort of medicine

00:20:37plus the state.

00:20:40Oof.

00:20:40I think they view children

00:20:53as a kind of crop.

00:20:54Well,

00:20:54if they're unwell,

00:20:55then you can print money

00:20:56through the state.

00:21:03Matt Walsh.

00:21:05He always sounds like

00:21:06he's swallowing his voice a little.

00:21:07Well,

00:21:08I should talk,

00:21:08right?

00:21:09He wrote,

00:21:10the birth rate in 1850

00:21:11was almost 300 births

00:21:12per 1,000 women

00:21:14of childbearing age.

00:21:15In 1950,

00:21:16it was 106.

00:21:17Today,

00:21:17it's 55,

00:21:18half of what it was

00:21:1920 years,

00:21:2075 years ago.

00:21:2120% of what it was

00:21:22175 years ago.

00:21:24We need to start

00:21:25taking this problem seriously

00:21:26before we march

00:21:28into our own extinction.

00:21:36Now,

00:21:36of course,

00:21:37survivability,

00:21:38you know,

00:21:39one in three,

00:21:39sometimes kids

00:21:40one and two

00:21:41sometimes

00:21:41didn't make it

00:21:42to their fifth birthday,

00:21:43so I get

00:21:44that there was

00:21:44a certain amount

00:21:45of infant mortality

00:21:46or excess mortality

00:21:47that was being made up

00:21:48for in the past,

00:21:49but

00:21:50it's rough.

00:21:55I know,

00:21:56Trump's talking about,

00:21:56what,

00:21:565,000 bucks,

00:21:59give women

00:21:59who give birth

00:22:005,000 bucks.

00:22:02Not only will that not work,

00:22:03it'll do the opposite

00:22:04of working.

00:22:04Okay.

00:22:04Amish kids

00:22:16don't suffer

00:22:16the ailments

00:22:16common in our

00:22:17advanced society.

00:22:18Listen,

00:22:18I mean,

00:22:19maybe you're right.

00:22:20I did look up

00:22:21at one point,

00:22:22you know,

00:22:22the argument

00:22:23that the Amish

00:22:23don't have autism

00:22:25because they don't

00:22:25get vaccinated

00:22:26and so on.

00:22:27I would

00:22:28look up

00:22:30counter-arguments,

00:22:31please.

00:22:32I'm begging you

00:22:33as a whole.

00:22:34Look up

00:22:34counter-arguments.

00:22:36We all have

00:22:36a confirmation bias.

00:22:37We like to look up

00:22:38things that support

00:22:39our perspectives

00:22:40and I understand that

00:22:41and that's human nature

00:22:42and,

00:22:42you know,

00:22:43after a certain amount

00:22:43of experience,

00:22:49it kind of makes sense,

00:22:50right?

00:22:50I don't go and check out

00:22:51the flat earth

00:22:52theories anymore.

00:22:53but

00:22:57just look up,

00:22:59right?

00:23:04Just look up

00:23:04the counter-arguments,

00:23:05right?

00:23:06Look up the counter-arguments.

00:23:07Maybe they're valid,

00:23:08maybe they're not,

00:23:09but really do try

00:23:10to make sure

00:23:11that you don't just

00:23:12do confirmation bias

00:23:13as best you can.

00:23:19And they tried

00:23:20in Hungary,

00:23:20they tried

00:23:21these baby bonuses.

00:23:22I think it was in

00:23:23Hungary.

00:23:24If you have four kids,

00:23:25you'd have to have

00:23:25pay income tax again.

00:23:34But I honestly,

00:23:35I don't think,

00:23:36I don't think

00:23:38that we can improve

00:23:38the birth rate

00:23:39until

00:23:40there is

00:23:42a certain amount

00:23:44of,

00:23:46we really can't

00:23:48improve the birth rate

00:23:49until

00:23:50there's much more

00:23:51of a free market

00:23:53in education

00:23:55and entertainment.

00:23:58So right now,

00:23:59it's the

00:24:00anti-natalists

00:24:01who are

00:24:02in charge

00:24:03of the education

00:24:04and the media

00:24:06as a whole.

00:24:11So,

00:24:12until we

00:24:14can find some way

00:24:16to get more

00:24:18of a free market

00:24:18education

00:24:19and media

00:24:19society,

00:24:20then

00:24:21it's just

00:24:23not going

00:24:24to work.

00:24:25Because the

00:24:26hammering,

00:24:27the message

00:24:27is so

00:24:29insistent,

00:24:30so relentless.

00:24:31I mean,

00:24:32you remember this,

00:24:32what was it,

00:24:332019?

00:24:34Five,

00:24:35five years ago

00:24:35plus,

00:24:36where I put out

00:24:37the infamous,

00:24:38I was quite proud of this,

00:24:39voted the worst tweet

00:24:40of all time,

00:24:41the infamous

00:24:41Taylor Swift tweet.

00:24:42just pointing out

00:24:45that,

00:24:46yeah,

00:24:47she's 30.

00:24:48I hope she has kids

00:24:48because 90% of her eggs

00:24:49are already gone.

00:24:52I think she'd be a fun mom.

00:24:54She should have kids.

00:25:03Because,

00:25:04of course,

00:25:04the opposite

00:25:05of pronatalism

00:25:06is short-term hedonism.

00:25:07It's more fun

00:25:11to go to college

00:25:13than to raise a baby

00:25:15in the short run,

00:25:16right,

00:25:16in the immediate,

00:25:17in the moment,

00:25:18right?

00:25:19Go to some keggers,

00:25:20show up to some classes,

00:25:21try and learn

00:25:22something about

00:25:24World War II

00:25:25through one bloodshot eye

00:25:26at 8.30 in the morning.

00:25:33It's more fun

00:25:33in the short run.

00:25:36It's,

00:25:37and of course,

00:25:38the reason why

00:25:39I was reading about this

00:25:40with regards to China

00:25:41because they had

00:25:42that one-child policy

00:25:43now there.

00:25:44Population is falling

00:25:45off a cliff.

00:25:46It's brutal.

00:25:49Population is falling

00:25:49off a cliff

00:25:50and it's really,

00:25:51really hard to reverse

00:25:52because your entire culture,

00:25:54your entire society

00:25:55starts to adapt itself

00:25:56to

00:25:56not community,

00:25:59not families,

00:26:01not

00:26:01communities

00:26:05where there's

00:26:05just a bunch of,

00:26:06like,

00:26:06when I was,

00:26:08when I was a kid,

00:26:12I could,

00:26:14I could go outside

00:26:15into the neighborhood

00:26:16at least 10 kids

00:26:18to play with.

00:26:20At least.

00:26:21Often more.

00:26:24We had no money.

00:26:25Maybe somebody

00:26:26would have a soccer ball

00:26:27or

00:26:27whatever,

00:26:29but we would,

00:26:30I would be able

00:26:32to go out

00:26:32of my apartment,

00:26:36the flat

00:26:36that my family lived in,

00:26:38I'd be able to go out

00:26:39and there were

00:26:41always kids

00:26:41to play with.

00:26:42Now,

00:26:43if you live

00:26:43in the suburbs,

00:26:44friends of mine

00:26:45were telling me

00:26:45about this,

00:26:45right?

00:26:46If you live

00:26:46in the suburbs,

00:26:47they,

00:26:47what do they call them?

00:26:48Bedroom communities?

00:26:50And bedroom communities

00:26:51are,

00:26:52you know,

00:26:52people take their kids,

00:26:54they drop them off

00:26:54at daycare,

00:26:55they go to work,

00:26:55they spend their time

00:26:56at work,

00:26:57they come back,

00:26:57they pick up their kids,

00:26:58then they've got to,

00:26:59you know,

00:27:00have dinner and bathe

00:27:01and maybe there's

00:27:02some homework involved

00:27:03if it's school

00:27:03or whatever.

00:27:04And kids,

00:27:05you know,

00:27:05maybe there'll be some,

00:27:06maybe a bit on Sunday afternoon,

00:27:07some kids will be out.

00:27:08But I'm telling you,

00:27:09man,

00:27:11you know,

00:27:12I mean,

00:27:13I mean,

00:27:14obviously,

00:27:14I've mentioned this

00:27:15once or twice

00:27:17on the show

00:27:17that I had a pretty rough

00:27:19upbringing at home,

00:27:21but socially,

00:27:23ah,

00:27:24socially,

00:27:25it was

00:27:27paradise.

00:27:30It was paradise.

00:27:34I think women

00:27:39lose a lot of status

00:27:40when they have kids.

00:27:41Childless women

00:27:41are so desperate

00:27:42to say how much better it is.

00:27:43Also,

00:27:43parents seem to spend,

00:27:45says Squiglet,

00:27:46seem to spend

00:27:47all their time

00:27:48complaining.

00:27:48I was utterly shocked

00:27:49how wonderful my kids are

00:27:50and how much joy they bring.

00:27:51Yeah.

00:27:52Yeah,

00:27:52very true.

00:27:53Very true.

00:27:53Right,

00:27:55so parenting is a blast.

00:28:03So,

00:28:05if the government,

00:28:09I'm not saying it should,

00:28:10but if the government

00:28:10were to gain control

00:28:12of the media

00:28:13and it was like

00:28:14a pro-natalist

00:28:15government,

00:28:16they would just start

00:28:18pounding those messages

00:28:18and I mean,

00:28:19people just,

00:28:20you know,

00:28:20most people just follow

00:28:21the social cues,

00:28:22right?

00:28:22Most people just follow

00:28:23the social messaging.

00:28:24Social messaging.

00:28:29Oh,

00:28:30the exemption

00:28:30only applies

00:28:31to the mother's income,

00:28:32no income tax.

00:28:33Yeah.

00:28:34Yeah.

00:28:36I mean,

00:28:37it's wild.

00:28:39It'll come back.

00:28:47Somebody wrote,

00:28:48your name has been

00:28:48on the socials lately

00:28:49via Mike Cernovich

00:28:50regarding the

00:28:51Jordan Peterson

00:28:54psychologizing the right.

00:28:55From a philosophical standpoint,

00:28:56how do these attacks

00:28:57on those who dare talk

00:28:58about sacred cat topics?

00:29:00Blah,

00:29:00blah,

00:29:01destabilizing.

00:29:02Well,

00:29:02I don't,

00:29:03you know,

00:29:05saying that those

00:29:05who disagree with you

00:29:06are sociopaths

00:29:08or psychopaths

00:29:09is not an argument.

00:29:12I mean,

00:29:12if you disprove

00:29:15their arguments

00:29:15and then they continue

00:29:16to sort of repeat

00:29:17and escalate

00:29:18and don't respond,

00:29:18then you can,

00:29:19you know,

00:29:20start,

00:29:20you can't,

00:29:20I mean,

00:29:21you can't really

00:29:21diagnose people

00:29:22from a distance.

00:29:23I don't think

00:29:24professionals are really

00:29:25supposed to do that.

00:29:25I think that was

00:29:26actually something

00:29:26that was first

00:29:28brought up.

00:29:29Is that the

00:29:29Goldwater rule?

00:29:31You're just not

00:29:31supposed to,

00:29:32as a psychologist,

00:29:32you're not supposed

00:29:33to diagnose

00:29:36people

00:29:36that you aren't

00:29:37treating,

00:29:38right?

00:29:38You can't diagnose

00:29:39from a distance

00:29:39and that came up

00:29:40with Nixon.

00:29:40It also,

00:29:41of course,

00:29:41came up with Trump

00:29:41again,

00:29:42anybody who kind

00:29:43of stands out

00:29:43or anyone

00:29:44who's anti-communist.

00:29:46And hard leftists

00:29:47generally define

00:29:49opposition to their

00:29:51beliefs as

00:29:52either corruption,

00:29:53like foundational

00:29:54moral corruption,

00:29:55even though they

00:29:55don't often know

00:29:57what a woman is,

00:29:58they apparently know

00:29:58what good and evil

00:29:59is in its foundations.

00:30:00So if you disagree

00:30:01with hard leftists,

00:30:02then you're either

00:30:03a,

00:30:06insane

00:30:08or

00:30:09irredeemably evil.

00:30:14And that's just

00:30:14kind of a,

00:30:15to me,

00:30:15that's just a kind

00:30:16of massive selfishness.

00:30:20It's a massive

00:30:21kind of selfishness.

00:30:22All right.

00:30:36I like,

00:30:37if you're on X,

00:30:38I'm sure you know this,

00:30:39but I do like

00:30:41the fact that

00:30:41if you have

00:30:42a tweet that's hard

00:30:43to understand

00:30:44or you have doubts

00:30:45or skepticism about

00:30:46that you can just

00:30:46push that little

00:30:47grok icon,

00:30:48explain this post.

00:30:51Interesting.

00:30:52Blindluck posted,

00:30:55it baffles my mind

00:30:56that after 42 months

00:30:57of interest-free

00:30:58extensions,

00:30:595.3 million people

00:31:00are in default

00:31:00on their student loans.

00:31:04Yeah.

00:31:07A woman named

00:31:08Emily Logan-Stedman

00:31:10wrote this.

00:31:11She said,

00:31:12I borrowed

00:31:12$128,606.84.

00:31:15I've paid

00:31:17$97,858.26.

00:31:21I still owe

00:31:22$100,482.57.

00:31:27She says,

00:31:28I wouldn't trade

00:31:29in my law degree.

00:31:29I left law school.

00:31:30I'm fortunate to have

00:31:31almost always

00:31:32had a job

00:31:33that allows me

00:31:34to make the max

00:31:34required payment.

00:31:35Clerking did not

00:31:36allow that,

00:31:36but still,

00:31:37come on.

00:31:39Those numbers

00:31:40are really

00:31:42kind of shocking

00:31:42for me.

00:31:46That you can

00:31:47pay

00:31:48almost $100,000

00:31:49on $128,000

00:31:51and still owe

00:31:52$100,000.

00:31:56Holy crap.

00:31:57Why

00:32:01pay off?

00:32:06I don't know.

00:32:06I think it's very cool.

00:32:07I'm still quite

00:32:08fascinated by AI.

00:32:15Interest accrual

00:32:16outpacing

00:32:16principal reduction.

00:32:17Yeah.

00:32:19Yeah.

00:32:216% interest rate.

00:32:23At 6%,

00:32:24the annual interest

00:32:25on $128,000

00:32:26is $7,700.

00:32:28Yeah.

00:32:30Phew.

00:32:30Yeah.

00:32:35So,

00:32:36about $28,000

00:32:37of her payments

00:32:38have gone

00:32:38towards the principal.

00:32:39The remaining

00:32:40almost $70,000

00:32:41have gone

00:32:41towards interest.

00:32:44I'm,

00:32:45yeah,

00:32:47federal student loans

00:32:48can take

00:32:4810 to 25 years

00:32:49to pay off.

00:32:51A standard

00:32:5210-year plan

00:32:52for Emily's loan

00:32:54at 6% interest

00:32:54would require

00:32:55monthly payments

00:32:56about $1,400

00:32:56over 10 years

00:33:00she'd pay

00:33:00about $171,000

00:33:02with $42,000

00:33:03and change

00:33:03going to interest.

00:33:07Yeah.

00:33:13Yeah,

00:33:13it's wild.

00:33:14I am,

00:33:16I'm a big fan

00:33:19if you're in debt.

00:33:20It's just,

00:33:21it's not financial advice

00:33:22to you,

00:33:22I'm just saying,

00:33:23if I'm in debt

00:33:24when I've been in debt,

00:33:25I will,

00:33:26you know,

00:33:27sell a kidney

00:33:27to put more down

00:33:28on the principal

00:33:29because it's magic.

00:33:32Absolute magic.

00:33:35Absolute magic.

00:33:36Now,

00:33:41if that's the max

00:33:42required payment,

00:33:43then she's not allowed

00:33:44to put down

00:33:45more money

00:33:46on the principal.

00:33:47I assume that's

00:33:48what she's saying,

00:33:48right,

00:33:49that there's a maximum

00:33:49payment

00:33:50that you can do.

00:33:58But yeah,

00:33:59that's some pretty

00:33:59wild stuff.

00:34:00Yeah.

00:34:00So,

00:34:16initial loan amount

00:34:17$128,600.

00:34:19Total payments made

00:34:20$97,858.

00:34:22Remaining balance

00:34:22$100,000.

00:34:23Payments are monthly fixed.

00:34:25There are no extra payments

00:34:25or changes in terms.

00:34:27Yeah,

00:34:27like there's some mortgages

00:34:28that let you pay

00:34:3013 months in a year

00:34:31and the extra month

00:34:32goes straight on the principal.

00:34:33Huge difference, right?

00:34:34Principal,

00:34:35paying down the principal

00:34:36is economic superpower.

00:34:39It's wild

00:34:40how much it saves you.

00:34:48Hmm.

00:34:52Wow.

00:34:52Some pretty intense math

00:34:53going on here.

00:34:55Come on,

00:34:56agroch me amadeus.

00:35:00Oof.

00:35:03So,

00:35:04I think what she said,

00:35:05so the groch

00:35:06worked it out.

00:35:07Initial loan amount

00:35:08$128,606.

00:35:10Interest rate

00:35:106.7% annual.

00:35:11Monthly payments

00:35:12$906.

00:35:15Payments made

00:35:15108 months

00:35:16or nine years.

00:35:17Total term

00:35:17282 months

00:35:18or 23.5 years.

00:35:23Yeah.

00:35:25And I assume

00:35:26that that's the maximum.

00:35:27So,

00:35:28she's been paying

00:35:28for nine years.

00:35:29It's about 14 and a half

00:35:30years left.

00:35:32The 6.7% rate

00:35:33is consistent

00:35:33with federal graduate

00:35:34loan rates

00:35:35from the early 2010s.

00:35:36Rate could vary slightly.

00:35:39Yikes.

00:35:40That's a

00:35:40kind of terrifying.

00:35:43Now,

00:35:43of course,

00:35:44putting

00:35:44women in particular,

00:35:46men too,

00:35:46right?

00:35:47But

00:35:48putting

00:35:49women in particular

00:35:50into

00:35:52debt

00:35:54is a great way

00:35:55of killing the birthright.

00:35:59It's a fantastic way

00:36:00to kill the birthright.

00:36:01You can't quit.

00:36:05You can't quit.

00:36:07Or if you do have kids,

00:36:09you've got to hand them over

00:36:09to the daycare,

00:36:10the state,

00:36:11whoever,

00:36:11right?

00:36:11That's really something.

00:36:23Crush your monthly expenses.

00:36:26James says,

00:36:27I paid off my student loans

00:36:28early when I could,

00:36:29not sure what she means

00:36:29with a maximum payment.

00:36:31I don't know.

00:36:33But I mean,

00:36:33I think we know

00:36:34what she means

00:36:34by a maximum payment.

00:36:35It means that you're

00:36:36on this treadmill forever.

00:36:37I mean,

00:36:41when I was dating,

00:36:44I avoided women

00:36:45with debt.

00:36:46I mean,

00:36:46I don't know

00:36:46if that's even possible

00:36:47anymore.

00:36:49But

00:36:50I would avoid

00:36:51women in debt.

00:36:55I just

00:36:55did not want

00:36:57that burden.

00:37:02I did not want

00:37:03that burden.

00:37:03And it's one thing

00:37:04to be in debt

00:37:05for something

00:37:05that's going to

00:37:05grow in value.

00:37:07If you go in debt

00:37:08for maybe a house

00:37:09or whatever,

00:37:09right?

00:37:09Something that's going

00:37:10to hopefully

00:37:10gain in value,

00:37:11go in debt

00:37:12to buy Bitcoin

00:37:13if that's what you did.

00:37:15But

00:37:15yeah,

00:37:18James,

00:37:18can you look that up

00:37:18if there are some loans

00:37:19that you have a maximum

00:37:20payment and you just

00:37:21can't pay more?

00:37:21Like you can't,

00:37:22like they're designed

00:37:23to lock you in

00:37:23for a quarter century.

00:37:25That's rough,

00:37:26man.

00:37:26That's brutal.

00:37:28Oh,

00:37:28and please don't forget,

00:37:29speaking of finance,

00:37:31finances,

00:37:31freedomain.com

00:37:32slash donate.

00:37:33I really would

00:37:34appreciate your help.

00:37:35Freedomain.com

00:37:35slash donate.

00:37:36I am committed

00:37:37to doing better shows.

00:37:38I apologize

00:37:39for the last couple

00:37:39of weeks.

00:37:40I am returning

00:37:42to my native roots.

00:37:44We'll get there.

00:37:45We'll get there.

00:37:48Sideswipe health,

00:37:48sideswipe health issues

00:37:50are rough.

00:37:52Rough.

00:37:53What did the dog say

00:37:53when he sat

00:37:54on the sandpaper?

00:37:54Rough.

00:37:55Oh,

00:37:58as a father,

00:37:59as a dad,

00:38:00I can make it,

00:38:00I can make it

00:38:01these joketh.

00:38:07All right.

00:38:10Somebody wrote,

00:38:11the middle class trap,

00:38:12$3,000 a month

00:38:13house payment,

00:38:14$1,200 a month

00:38:16car payments,

00:38:17$2,000 a month

00:38:17childcare,

00:38:18$900 a month

00:38:19student loan payment,

00:38:20$1,000 a month

00:38:21credit card payment.

00:38:22Congrats.

00:38:22You're stuck

00:38:23for the next

00:38:2320 plus years.

00:38:31The student loan

00:38:32stuff is a big deal.

00:38:34It's a big deal.

00:38:36Only 38%

00:38:36of student loan

00:38:37borrowers are up to date

00:38:38on their payments,

00:38:38even after a 3.5

00:38:40year payment pause.

00:38:424 million borrowers

00:38:43are between

00:38:43three and six months

00:38:44behind.

00:38:455 million

00:38:45are nine or more

00:38:46months behind.

00:38:49Yikes.

00:38:50Yikes.

00:38:50And the majority

00:39:00of these unpaid,

00:39:0283% of the debtors

00:39:04in default

00:39:05are women.

00:39:10Ouchies.

00:39:12But again,

00:39:13it's more fun

00:39:14in the short run.

00:39:14It's hedonistic

00:39:15and more fun

00:39:15in the short run

00:39:16to go join

00:39:18a sorority,

00:39:19to go have

00:39:20some fun

00:39:21and all of that,

00:39:22right?

00:39:30I mean,

00:39:31there's a reason

00:39:33they don't teach

00:39:33you financial literacy

00:39:34in schools,

00:39:35right?

00:39:37Joe says,

00:39:37Steph,

00:39:38when you put out

00:39:38your resume

00:39:38and had

00:39:39chief technical

00:39:40officer experience,

00:39:41why do you think

00:39:42you didn't get

00:39:42any calls?

00:39:43Do you think

00:39:43that's when

00:39:44the H-1B

00:39:44import started

00:39:45taking off?

00:39:45It could have

00:39:46been a diversity

00:39:47thing.

00:39:47It could have

00:39:47been like,

00:39:48obviously,

00:39:48I have a very

00:39:49white male

00:39:50kind of name.

00:39:50It could have

00:39:51been a diversity

00:39:51thing.

00:39:52I don't know.

00:39:53And I did get

00:39:54a few,

00:39:54but it was

00:39:56rough.

00:39:57I mean,

00:39:57I ended up

00:39:58getting a great

00:39:58job after a

00:39:59while,

00:39:59but I got

00:39:59that through

00:40:00contacts,

00:40:00through people

00:40:00I'd already

00:40:01worked with

00:40:01before.

00:40:03Man.

00:40:03it was crazy,

00:40:08man.

00:40:08I mean,

00:40:09I had

00:40:10more success

00:40:11getting jobs

00:40:13when I was

00:40:14a waiter

00:40:14than when I

00:40:15had a decade's

00:40:17worth of

00:40:17top-level

00:40:18business

00:40:18experience.

00:40:19And not

00:40:20just top-level,

00:40:21like management

00:40:23experience,

00:40:25product design

00:40:25and implementation,

00:40:27coding,

00:40:28sales,

00:40:28marketing,

00:40:29presentations.

00:40:30I was the

00:40:31guy,

00:40:31you know,

00:40:32I'm pretty

00:40:32outgoing,

00:40:33and I was

00:40:33the guy

00:40:34that I

00:40:35would be

00:40:35sent down

00:40:35to Vegas

00:40:36to do

00:40:37presentations

00:40:37and chat

00:40:38up with

00:40:38people in

00:40:38the booth

00:40:39and all

00:40:39of that.

00:40:39Like,

00:40:40I just,

00:40:40I can't,

00:40:41I wouldn't

00:40:41say I did

00:40:41it all,

00:40:42but I did

00:40:42a lot

00:40:42in the

00:40:43business

00:40:43world.

00:40:44A lot

00:40:44in the

00:40:45business

00:40:45world.

00:40:50Are you

00:40:53going to

00:40:54dip into

00:40:54the

00:40:54Oblivion

00:40:55remake?

00:40:56Are you?

00:40:57Are you?

00:40:58I will

00:41:00probably

00:41:00dip in,

00:41:01but I

00:41:01don't

00:41:01think I'll

00:41:02be able

00:41:02to play

00:41:02it.

00:41:04Somebody

00:41:05wrote,

00:41:05I don't

00:41:05know if

00:41:06this is

00:41:06true or

00:41:06not.

00:41:07Let's

00:41:07ask

00:41:08Grok,

00:41:08is it

00:41:09true?

00:41:10Ist

00:41:10truthiness?

00:41:16Yeah,

00:41:17probably

00:41:17not.

00:41:19Rome

00:41:19Total War

00:41:20has now

00:41:20been cited

00:41:21in over

00:41:21200

00:41:21divorce

00:41:22proceedings.

00:41:24I've

00:41:24never

00:41:24played

00:41:24it.

00:41:26I've

00:41:26never

00:41:26played

00:41:27it.

00:41:28That's

00:41:29pretty

00:41:29funny.

00:41:39I.O.

00:41:40Research

00:41:41has

00:41:41written

00:41:41What does

00:41:46that mean?

00:41:47GWAS?

00:41:47Sorry.

00:41:48I should

00:41:48probably know

00:41:48what this

00:41:49means.

00:41:50Oh,

00:41:50genome-wide

00:41:51association

00:41:51study.

00:41:53A

00:41:53genome-wide

00:41:54association

00:41:54study of

00:41:55273,157

00:41:57individuals

00:41:58from UK

00:41:59Biobank

00:41:59identified

00:42:00106

00:42:01genetic

00:42:01variants

00:42:02associated

00:42:02with

00:42:02socioeconomic

00:42:03status.

00:42:05Genetic

00:42:05inheritance

00:42:06explained

00:42:06up to

00:42:0640%

00:42:07of the

00:42:08intergenerational

00:42:08transmission

00:42:09of

00:42:10occupational

00:42:10status.

00:42:11Let's

00:42:22see.

00:42:26Analyze

00:42:26the post.

00:42:27Should have

00:42:28done this

00:42:28before.

00:42:28Just struck

00:42:29me now.

00:42:34Yeah,

00:42:34seems to be

00:42:35valid.

00:42:36It's pretty

00:42:36wild.

00:42:37Let's

00:42:37And that's

00:42:42from

00:42:422023,

00:42:43April 29th,

00:42:442023.

00:42:47What was

00:42:53the first

00:42:53game console

00:42:54you played

00:42:54on?

00:42:55It was

00:42:55the Atari

00:42:56and I'm

00:42:56not proud

00:42:58that I know

00:42:58this number.

00:42:59I'm not

00:42:59proud.

00:43:00It was

00:43:00the Atari

00:43:012600.

00:43:04The Atari

00:43:052600.

00:43:06I

00:43:06was it?

00:43:10Well,

00:43:11hang on,

00:43:12hang on,

00:43:13hang on,

00:43:13Eric Clapton

00:43:14style.

00:43:16I,

00:43:17well,

00:43:18there was

00:43:19an Atari

00:43:19400

00:43:20with 8K,

00:43:224K?

00:43:224K,

00:43:23I think,

00:43:234K or

00:43:248K of

00:43:24RAM.

00:43:25An Atari

00:43:25400

00:43:27that I would

00:43:28occasionally be

00:43:29able to

00:43:29take home

00:43:31on the

00:43:33weekend.

00:43:36and I

00:43:40played on

00:43:40that.

00:43:41Star Raiders,

00:43:42great game.

00:43:44Was it a

00:43:44couple of

00:43:45months ago?

00:43:45I can't even

00:43:46remember how I

00:43:46ended up here.

00:43:47Every 10

00:43:48years,

00:43:49I will

00:43:49download an

00:43:50emulator and

00:43:50get old

00:43:51operating systems

00:43:52running again,

00:43:52you know,

00:43:53just because

00:43:53it's,

00:43:54I find it

00:43:55fun and

00:43:55nostalgic.

00:43:56And I

00:43:57got,

00:43:58I got

00:43:59old,

00:44:00the old

00:44:00Atari,

00:44:01the blue

00:44:01screen ready,

00:44:03right?

00:44:03The old

00:44:03Atari.

00:44:04Started off

00:44:05with a

00:44:05notepad,

00:44:05but if you

00:44:06put the

00:44:06basic module

00:44:06in there,

00:44:07you could

00:44:07start programming,

00:44:08which is

00:44:08kind of

00:44:08what I

00:44:08did.

00:44:10So I

00:44:10played,

00:44:11I probably,

00:44:12Star Raiders,

00:44:12a couple other

00:44:12games,

00:44:13of course,

00:44:13but I

00:44:14played,

00:44:15they had a

00:44:15pretty bad

00:44:15version of

00:44:16Asteroids,

00:44:18but I

00:44:18played the

00:44:18Atari 2600,

00:44:20that's the one

00:44:20I actually had

00:44:21at home.

00:44:21I got it

00:44:22real cheap

00:44:22from a guy

00:44:23who was moving

00:44:24to South

00:44:25Africa,

00:44:25and he

00:44:27gave it to

00:44:27me real

00:44:28cheap.

00:44:29And of

00:44:29course we

00:44:29would circulate

00:44:30the cartridges

00:44:31to play

00:44:32with.

00:44:33But I

00:44:34think that

00:44:34was the

00:44:34first game

00:44:34console I

00:44:35played on.

00:44:36My first

00:44:37game was

00:44:37Pong.

00:44:38Yeah,

00:44:38my uncle

00:44:38had Pong.

00:44:39Yeah,

00:44:39my uncle

00:44:40had Pong.

00:44:41That was

00:44:42probably the

00:44:42first one I

00:44:42ever played

00:44:43at home.

00:44:45It's a

00:44:45little dull.

00:44:47But I

00:44:47remember,

00:44:48I remember

00:44:52the Space

00:44:54Invaders.

00:44:54It was at

00:44:55a bowling

00:44:56alley and

00:44:57I was just

00:44:57like,

00:44:57greatest

00:44:58thing

00:44:58ever.

00:45:03All right.

00:45:06Was Pac-Man

00:45:07really the hype

00:45:08in the 80s?

00:45:09I mean,

00:45:10for girls,

00:45:11yes,

00:45:11not really

00:45:12for guys.

00:45:12We were all

00:45:13Defender,

00:45:14which was like,

00:45:14playing the game

00:45:15Defender was like

00:45:15having a bag

00:45:17of killer bees

00:45:18lowered on your

00:45:19head and tied

00:45:20around your neck.

00:45:20Okay,

00:45:31somebody says,

00:45:32on my mortgage,

00:45:32you can only

00:45:32overpay by 10%

00:45:33a year.

00:45:34Also,

00:45:34if you pay off

00:45:34early,

00:45:35there is a

00:45:35percent penalty.

00:45:36You can

00:45:37overpay when

00:45:38you remortgage

00:45:38though.

00:45:39That's

00:45:39interesting.

00:45:41James says,

00:45:41there are some

00:45:42loans out there

00:45:43that have

00:45:44prepayment

00:45:44penalties.

00:45:45They don't

00:45:46exist for

00:45:46federal student

00:45:47loans,

00:45:47but do exist

00:45:48on private

00:45:48student loans

00:45:49and refinance

00:45:49private loans.

00:45:50Okay.

00:45:53Jared says,

00:45:54being unhireable

00:45:55after being

00:45:56an entrepreneur

00:45:56is probably

00:45:57hiring managers

00:45:57fear that

00:45:58you'd start

00:45:58a new company

00:45:58at the first

00:45:59sign of

00:45:59irritation.

00:46:00Better to

00:46:01have someone

00:46:01who's terrified

00:46:01to quit.

00:46:02You're right,

00:46:03and actually,

00:46:03I think that's

00:46:04a great point.

00:46:04Well said.

00:46:05I thought you

00:46:06were going to

00:46:06go with that

00:46:07you'd need a

00:46:09very,

00:46:09very high-level

00:46:10person to

00:46:10hire someone

00:46:11like me.

00:46:11Like,

00:46:12basically,

00:46:12I only reported

00:46:13to the chief

00:46:14technical officer

00:46:15or the board

00:46:15as a whole.

00:46:16Sorry,

00:46:16I only reported

00:46:17to the CEO,

00:46:18the chief executive

00:46:19officer,

00:46:19and so,

00:46:21and I don't

00:46:21think that chief

00:46:22executive officers

00:46:23are necessarily

00:46:23going through

00:46:24monster.com

00:46:24looking if they

00:46:25just probably

00:46:25have headhunters

00:46:26or that kind

00:46:26of stuff,

00:46:27right?

00:46:27But it could be

00:46:28that people

00:46:29wouldn't want

00:46:30to hire me

00:46:30because they

00:46:30thought I might

00:46:31take their jobs.

00:46:32I'll be better

00:46:32than them,

00:46:33right?

00:46:33Which is actually

00:46:34what you want

00:46:35if you're a manager.

00:46:35You want to hire

00:46:36someone to replace

00:46:36you,

00:46:37right?

00:46:39I have not

00:46:40watched any anime

00:46:40yet,

00:46:41sorry.

00:46:42Donkey Kong?

00:46:43It was supposed

00:46:44to be Monkey Kong,

00:46:44right?

00:46:45I think that was a

00:46:45typo,

00:46:45because there's

00:46:46no donkey in

00:46:47it.

00:46:48I never

00:46:48particularly got

00:46:49into Donkey Kong

00:46:50and the jumping

00:46:51barrels kind of

00:46:51dull.

00:46:55There was a,

00:46:57and this was

00:46:57really wild,

00:46:59there was an

00:47:01Eastern Front

00:47:01game.

00:47:02Gosh,

00:47:03let me see

00:47:03here.

00:47:03I need to

00:47:07get it.

00:47:07I think it

00:47:08was called

00:47:081942.

00:47:16Yeah,

00:47:17Eastern Front

00:47:171941.

00:47:20It was wild.

00:47:21Created by

00:47:21Chris Crawford.

00:47:25It was wild.

00:47:27Scenario

00:47:28editor in

00:47:28assembly language

00:47:29source code.

00:47:30It was one

00:47:31of these games

00:47:31where

00:47:32you,

00:47:35it was a

00:47:36strategy game.

00:47:39Let me see,

00:47:40if there are

00:47:40pictures here.

00:47:41Flashbacks!

00:47:43Flashbacks.

00:47:45I'll throw it

00:47:45in the chat.

00:47:46But

00:47:47it was a

00:47:49game where

00:47:49the longer

00:47:50it took

00:47:50for you

00:47:51to make

00:47:52your move,

00:47:53the better

00:47:54move the

00:47:55computer would

00:47:56make.

00:47:56Okay.

00:48:02it was

00:48:03really

00:48:04quite

00:48:04addictive.

00:48:05Trying to

00:48:06oh,

00:48:07those

00:48:07Russians

00:48:08trying to

00:48:08get all

00:48:08of that

00:48:09stuff

00:48:09done

00:48:09in the

00:48:10game.

00:48:11It was

00:48:11great.

00:48:11All right,

00:48:11sorry.

00:48:12I'm not going

00:48:13to go down

00:48:13this giant

00:48:13rabbit hole

00:48:14of video

00:48:15game

00:48:15nostalgia.

00:48:17Nostalgia.

00:48:19It's actually

00:48:19kind of funny.

00:48:20Every now and

00:48:20then my wife

00:48:21has a

00:48:21strange

00:48:22kind of

00:48:23she just

00:48:25sounds

00:48:26Australian

00:48:26from time

00:48:26to time.

00:48:27And I

00:48:28don't know

00:48:29why.

00:48:29It just

00:48:30happens.

00:48:31It just

00:48:31happens.

00:48:35What's that

00:48:35old joke?

00:48:36You know,

00:48:36do you know

00:48:37that somebody

00:48:37in the office

00:48:38has been

00:48:38possessed

00:48:39by an

00:48:39owl?

00:48:39Who?

00:48:40Oh,

00:48:40all right.

00:48:52Have you ever

00:48:52watched the

00:48:52movie The

00:48:53Departed?

00:48:53I never

00:48:54have.

00:48:54It looks

00:48:54pretty grungy.

00:48:58Steph,

00:48:58why do you

00:48:59think so

00:48:59many women

00:48:59are unhappy

00:49:00in their

00:49:00marriages?

00:49:01I know so

00:49:01few happily

00:49:02married women.

00:49:04Hmm.

00:49:05Hmm,

00:49:06I say.

00:49:07Hmm.

00:49:08Boy,

00:49:09I really

00:49:09can't get

00:49:09people to

00:49:10donate today.

00:49:11If you

00:49:11can,

00:49:11if you

00:49:11could,

00:49:12I'd

00:49:12appreciate

00:49:12it.

00:49:12Freedomain.com

00:49:13slash donate.

00:49:13Or if you're

00:49:14listening to

00:49:14this later,

00:49:14I would

00:49:15appreciate

00:49:15that as

00:49:15well.

00:49:16Freedomain.com

00:49:17slash donate.

00:49:20I know so

00:49:21few happily

00:49:21married women.

00:49:22It's a big

00:49:27question.

00:49:28It's a big

00:49:29question.

00:49:31I mean,

00:49:32by definition,

00:49:32I guess,

00:49:33right?

00:49:33It's a big

00:49:34question.

00:49:34And

00:49:34I think,

00:49:38I think my

00:49:39first thought

00:49:40would be

00:49:40that

00:49:42women a

00:49:45little bit

00:49:46more than

00:49:46men tend

00:49:47to be

00:49:48a bit

00:49:49hive-mindy

00:49:50and a

00:49:51bit

00:49:51suggestible

00:49:53or

00:49:53they score

00:49:55very high

00:49:55in trade

00:49:56agreeableness.

00:49:57I mean,

00:49:58there's been

00:50:00times over the

00:50:00years where I

00:50:01thought I

00:50:02could actually

00:50:02benefit from

00:50:03scoring slightly

00:50:04higher in the

00:50:05trade agreeableness,

00:50:06but then I

00:50:07just wouldn't be

00:50:07me now,

00:50:08would I?

00:50:08So I

00:50:13would say

00:50:14that if

00:50:15women,

00:50:17if you're

00:50:18happy in your

00:50:19marriage and

00:50:20there are

00:50:21women complaining

00:50:22about their

00:50:22marriage,

00:50:23I think most

00:50:24women,

00:50:25if their

00:50:26friends are all

00:50:26complaining about

00:50:27their marriages,

00:50:28I think there's a

00:50:28lot of women

00:50:29who would say,

00:50:30who would feel

00:50:31the need or

00:50:31feel the urge

00:50:32to agree with

00:50:34that.

00:50:34yeah,

00:50:35my husband

00:50:35does this,

00:50:36that,

00:50:36and the

00:50:36other,

00:50:36right?

00:50:37As opposed

00:50:37to,

00:50:38you know,

00:50:38if there's a

00:50:39bunch of

00:50:39women,

00:50:40what do they

00:50:40call it,

00:50:40a stitch and

00:50:41bitch or a

00:50:42hen party or

00:50:43something,

00:50:43if there's a

00:50:44bunch of

00:50:44women complaining

00:50:45about their

00:50:45husbands and

00:50:46then you,

00:50:47as a woman,

00:50:48say,

00:50:50oh no,

00:50:50my husband's

00:50:51great,

00:50:52do you feel

00:50:54that chill run

00:50:54through the air?

00:50:55you're saying

00:51:05Donkey Kong was

00:51:06named because

00:51:07the Japanese

00:51:07developers thought

00:51:08donkey was

00:51:08American slang

00:51:09for stubborn?

00:51:12Really?

00:51:14No,

00:51:15I'm not sure

00:51:15that's it.

00:51:16It's too close

00:51:17to monkey.

00:51:18I'm going to go

00:51:18with mine.

00:51:19You could be

00:51:19right.

00:51:19I'm going to go

00:51:20with mine.

00:51:21I'm going to go

00:51:22with mine.

00:51:25Now,

00:51:26hit me with a

00:51:27why.

00:51:29Sorry,

00:51:30like you know

00:51:30what a why

00:51:31looks like.

00:51:32Hit me with a

00:51:33why.

00:51:35If you

00:51:36would like

00:51:37a review

00:51:38of the

00:51:39Netflix

00:51:40four-part

00:51:41series

00:51:41shot in

00:51:43nauseating,

00:51:44vomit-inducing,

00:51:46steady

00:51:46continue cam,

00:51:48the show

00:51:48Adolescence.

00:51:52Adolescence.

00:51:55if you

00:51:57would like

00:51:59that.

00:51:59There are

00:52:00things to

00:52:00talk about.

00:52:00Even if you

00:52:01haven't seen

00:52:01it,

00:52:01there'll be

00:52:02spoilers aplenty,

00:52:02but even if you

00:52:03haven't seen

00:52:03it,

00:52:03there's things

00:52:04to talk

00:52:05about it

00:52:05that I

00:52:05think are

00:52:06quite

00:52:06interesting.

00:52:15We've got

00:52:15a bunch of

00:52:15yeses,

00:52:16one no.

00:52:16okay,

00:52:24all right,

00:52:25looks like

00:52:25we're down

00:52:26for that.

00:52:28So,

00:52:29Adolescence is

00:52:30a very

00:52:31sort of

00:52:32heavily

00:52:32promoted

00:52:33story

00:52:34about

00:52:35a

00:52:3613-year-old

00:52:36boy

00:52:37who

00:52:38murders

00:52:38a girl,

00:52:40stabs her

00:52:40to death,

00:52:41and

00:52:42it is

00:52:44a shot

00:52:45in,

00:52:47it's shot

00:52:48continuously.

00:52:49There are

00:52:49no cuts.

00:52:50It's wild.

00:52:51I mean,

00:52:52it's like

00:52:53orchestrating

00:52:54ballet from

00:52:55space or

00:52:55something like

00:52:56that.

00:52:56It's just

00:52:56wild.

00:52:58And the

00:52:59acting,

00:52:59of course,

00:53:00is fantastic.

00:53:00The technical

00:53:01brilliance is

00:53:02fantastic.

00:53:02The script

00:53:03is at

00:53:03times brilliant,

00:53:04at times just

00:53:05kind of clunky,

00:53:06and it

00:53:08is torture

00:53:09porn.

00:53:10It is

00:53:11torture porn.

00:53:12And

00:53:14there's no

00:53:15answers.

00:53:17It's not,

00:53:18you know,

00:53:18they sort of

00:53:19point out the

00:53:19incel stuff.

00:53:20Andrew Tate gets

00:53:21mentioned a couple

00:53:21of times,

00:53:21but it doesn't

00:53:22really focus

00:53:23nearly as

00:53:23heavily on

00:53:24that as I

00:53:24thought it

00:53:24was going

00:53:25to.

00:53:27And

00:53:28of course,

00:53:30you know,

00:53:30knife crime in

00:53:30the UK is

00:53:31up like,

00:53:31what,

00:53:31240% over

00:53:32the last

00:53:3310 years.

00:53:34And

00:53:34of course,

00:53:36they have to

00:53:37make it a

00:53:37white kid,

00:53:37right?

00:53:38I mean,

00:53:38you almost

00:53:39can't expect

00:53:40anything different

00:53:41at this point.

00:53:41but the

00:53:45first show

00:53:47is the

00:53:48arrest and

00:53:49the booking,

00:53:50more or less.

00:53:51The second

00:53:52show is the

00:53:54cop and his

00:53:54partner going

00:53:55through a

00:53:56British school

00:53:56looking for

00:53:57clues.

00:53:57the third

00:53:58show is

00:54:00sort of a

00:54:00cat and

00:54:01mouse game

00:54:01between the

00:54:02young murderer

00:54:03and his

00:54:04psychologist or

00:54:07a psychologist

00:54:07who's come to

00:54:08write a report

00:54:08on him.

00:54:09And then the

00:54:10fourth episode

00:54:12is, you know,

00:54:14the sort of

00:54:14absolutely

00:54:15horrifying,

00:54:16horrible,

00:54:16miserable day

00:54:17of the

00:54:18family as

00:54:18the trial

00:54:19is drawing

00:54:21near.

00:54:23And again,

00:54:24I mean,

00:54:24these are,

00:54:25it's,

00:54:25and it's,

00:54:26I thought,

00:54:27I thought there

00:54:28would be some

00:54:28mystery.

00:54:30I really thought

00:54:31there was going

00:54:31to be some

00:54:31mystery.

00:54:32Like,

00:54:33did he do

00:54:33it?

00:54:33Did he not

00:54:33do it?

00:54:34Because he

00:54:34claims that

00:54:34he didn't

00:54:35do it and

00:54:35so on.

00:54:36But they

00:54:37have him

00:54:37on video.

00:54:38This is in

00:54:38the first

00:54:38episode.

00:54:39So again,

00:54:39there's some

00:54:40spoilers here,

00:54:40but it's,

00:54:42it's pretty

00:54:42clear at the

00:54:43beginning that

00:54:44they have him

00:54:45on video and

00:54:46I mean,

00:54:48the kid won't

00:54:48admit it,

00:54:49but they

00:54:50have him

00:54:50on video.

00:54:51So there's

00:54:52no mystery.

00:54:54I mean,

00:54:55there's about

00:54:55as much

00:54:55mystery as

00:54:56there is in

00:54:56Crime and

00:54:56Punishment,

00:54:57where Raskolnikov,

00:54:59I mean,

00:55:00you're standing

00:55:01over his

00:55:01shoulder as

00:55:02he cudgels

00:55:03Lisa Vetter

00:55:04and the

00:55:05porn broker,

00:55:08axes them,

00:55:10axes them.

00:55:14Now,

00:55:14the filmmakers

00:55:15themselves,

00:55:16have said

00:55:18that they

00:55:19didn't want

00:55:20an answer,

00:55:21right?

00:55:21So they

00:55:21didn't want

00:55:22to say,

00:55:22oh,

00:55:22he became

00:55:23a murderer,

00:55:23like Menendez

00:55:24style,

00:55:24right?

00:55:25In the

00:55:25Menendez

00:55:25brothers,

00:55:26which I

00:55:27did a show

00:55:27on some

00:55:27time ago.

00:55:28In the

00:55:28Menendez

00:55:28brothers,

00:55:29of course,

00:55:29they were

00:55:30tortured and

00:55:31raped according

00:55:31to their

00:55:32claims,

00:55:32seems to

00:55:33be some

00:55:33evidence by

00:55:34their parents

00:55:34and others,

00:55:35and that's

00:55:36why they

00:55:36became

00:55:37matricidal

00:55:39and

00:55:39fratricidal.

00:55:44Well,

00:55:44yeah,

00:55:45sorry,

00:55:45I'll get

00:55:46your

00:55:46comments

00:55:46in a

00:55:47sec.

00:55:48Now,

00:55:50technically,

00:55:51it's very

00:55:51good.

00:55:51I mean,

00:55:52there's this

00:55:52existential

00:55:53horror throughout

00:55:54the whole

00:55:54thing.

00:55:55It's like

00:55:56crime and

00:55:57punishment,

00:55:57plus Kafka,

00:55:58plus David

00:56:00Mamet,

00:56:01brittle dialogue,

00:56:02plus oblique

00:56:02references,

00:56:03plus denial,

00:56:04plus projection.

00:56:05Like,

00:56:05it's a horror

00:56:06show.

00:56:06I mean,

00:56:07it's a horror

00:56:07series.

00:56:09series.

00:56:12It's a horror

00:56:13series.

00:56:14And they

00:56:15said,

00:56:15the makers,

00:56:17and then the

00:56:17guy who

00:56:18plays the

00:56:18father,

00:56:18I think,

00:56:19was also

00:56:19involved in

00:56:19the creation

00:56:20of the,

00:56:21I mean,

00:56:21an insanely

00:56:21talented guy.

00:56:23Oh,

00:56:23the Menendez

00:56:24Brothers are

00:56:24premium shows.

00:56:25Yes.

00:56:26So if you go to

00:56:26premium.freedomain.com,

00:56:28you can sign up

00:56:28there and you can

00:56:29get the Menendez

00:56:30Brothers shows.

00:56:32And they're

00:56:33very good.

00:56:34Very,

00:56:34very powerful.

00:56:36Yeah,

00:56:36premium.freedomain.com,

00:56:37you can sign up

00:56:38for those.

00:56:39Just go to

00:56:39freedomain.com

00:56:41slash donate.

00:56:41You can sign up

00:56:42for a subscription.

00:56:43And also you can

00:56:44go to

00:56:45fdrurail.com

00:56:46slash

00:56:47locals.

00:56:50It's a

00:56:51horrible show.

00:56:52It's beautifully

00:56:53done in its own

00:56:54horrifying way.

00:56:55It is,

00:56:56you know,

00:56:58it's a

00:56:59torture fest.

00:57:00Like,

00:57:00the family

00:57:01is just

00:57:02tortured.

00:57:03And it's

00:57:05completely horrendous

00:57:06as far as that

00:57:07goes.

00:57:07I mean,

00:57:08it's a morality

00:57:08play,

00:57:09right?

00:57:10It's a morality

00:57:10play.

00:57:13And

00:57:13there are no

00:57:14answers.

00:57:17And they very

00:57:17specifically said,

00:57:19we don't want him

00:57:20to have been a

00:57:20murderer because he

00:57:21was molested by

00:57:21his uncle

00:57:22Johnny or

00:57:23whatever.

00:57:25And the

00:57:26cop's partner

00:57:27says

00:57:28very clearly

00:57:30that you're not

00:57:32going to get an

00:57:32answer as to why

00:57:32he did it.

00:57:35But I think

00:57:36there is an

00:57:36answer.

00:57:36I think the

00:57:38answer is

00:57:39in the

00:57:40series.

00:57:42And nobody's

00:57:43talked about

00:57:43it.

00:57:45Let me

00:57:46monopolize

00:57:47the answer.

00:57:51Remember,

00:57:52I mean,

00:57:52it's too late.

00:57:53I mean,

00:57:53I said spoilers

00:57:54earlier,

00:57:54but nothing

00:57:56that I'm

00:57:57talking about

00:57:59here

00:57:59spoils.

00:58:01Watching the

00:58:02movie,

00:58:02it's not

00:58:02like giving

00:58:03the ending

00:58:03of The

00:58:03Sixth Sense

00:58:04or that

00:58:04famous

00:58:04Siskel and

00:58:05Ebert

00:58:05conflict over

00:58:06The Crying

00:58:06Game.

00:58:09But

00:58:09somebody says,

00:58:12I love how

00:58:13Netflix and

00:58:14Hollywood always

00:58:15portrays troubled

00:58:16children having

00:58:17perfect caring

00:58:18parents.

00:58:19By the way,

00:58:19that therapist

00:58:20in that show

00:58:20was really

00:58:20something else.

00:58:21But she

00:58:21wasn't trying

00:58:22to give him

00:58:22therapy.

00:58:23She wasn't

00:58:23trying to fix

00:58:24it.

00:58:24She was just

00:58:25assessing him.

00:58:29Just assessing

00:58:30him.

00:58:32So the

00:58:36answer

00:58:36as to

00:58:40what happened

00:58:40is in

00:58:41the second

00:58:42episode.

00:58:46The answer

00:58:47to what

00:58:47happened

00:58:48in general

00:58:49is in

00:58:50the second

00:58:50episode.

00:58:51And nobody's

00:58:51talking about

00:58:51this.

00:58:54So in

00:58:55the second

00:58:56episode,

00:58:58they go

00:59:00to school

00:59:01and the

00:59:02school

00:59:02is hell.

00:59:07The

00:59:08school

00:59:08is hell.

00:59:12You've got

00:59:13teachers

00:59:14snarling at

00:59:15students,

00:59:15students

00:59:16bullying each

00:59:17other.

00:59:20You have

00:59:21teachers

00:59:22snapping at

00:59:25the children

00:59:25and only

00:59:26playing videos

00:59:27of lessons,

00:59:28not even

00:59:28teaching directly.

00:59:29you have

00:59:30inconsequential,

00:59:32boring,

00:59:33useless,

00:59:34pointless,

00:59:36brain rot,

00:59:37empty habit,

00:59:39garbage neuron,

00:59:40nothing burgers

00:59:41being hurled at

00:59:42these kids in

00:59:43slow motion

00:59:43digital mind

00:59:45frack.

00:59:45the teachers

00:59:53have no

00:59:55particular

00:59:56capacity to

00:59:56manage their

00:59:57own emotions.

00:59:58The females

01:00:00are syrupy and

01:00:01sentimental,

01:00:01the males are

01:00:02aggressive and

01:00:02escalate in

01:00:03general.

01:00:08And it's

01:00:09hell.

01:00:09so the

01:00:16children,

01:00:17what are

01:00:17they taught?

01:00:19Well,

01:00:21what they're

01:00:21not taught

01:00:22is how to

01:00:24think.

01:00:27They're not

01:00:28taught how to

01:00:28think,

01:00:29they're not

01:00:29taught how to

01:00:30reason,

01:00:30they're not

01:00:31taught how to

01:00:31analyze,

01:00:32and they

01:00:32don't seem

01:00:33to have any

01:00:34modeled,

01:00:35better

01:00:37behavior as

01:00:39a whole,

01:00:39like emotional

01:00:40behavior,

01:00:40people with

01:00:41maturity and

01:00:42self-restraint

01:00:42and so on,

01:00:43right?

01:00:43The teachers

01:00:44are just

01:00:44universally

01:00:45impatient,

01:00:46and I

01:00:47think everyone's

01:00:47had that

01:00:48experience in

01:00:48school where,

01:00:49whether it's

01:00:50teacher burnout

01:00:50or something

01:00:51like that,

01:00:51but the

01:00:51teachers who

01:00:52just,

01:00:56they don't

01:00:58care.

01:00:59They don't

01:00:59care,

01:00:59they're hostile,

01:01:00they view the

01:01:00kids as

01:01:01enemies.

01:01:03It's

01:01:04rough.

01:01:05But you

01:01:09have,

01:01:09I mean,

01:01:10I certainly

01:01:10remember,

01:01:13I remember

01:01:13teachers like

01:01:14that,

01:01:14just escalating,

01:01:15burnt out,

01:01:16tense,

01:01:17stressed,

01:01:17aggressive,

01:01:18on the

01:01:20edge,

01:01:21there too

01:01:21long,

01:01:22not happy to

01:01:22be there,

01:01:23trapped.

01:01:23They feel

01:01:23trapped,

01:01:24I think they

01:01:24feel trapped.

01:01:25Maybe they

01:01:26are.

01:01:35So, to

01:01:41me,

01:01:43the real

01:01:48essence of

01:01:48adolescence is

01:01:50an absolute

01:01:51condemnation of

01:01:53the school

01:01:54system.

01:01:54that the

01:02:03students are

01:02:06bullied,

01:02:07and the

01:02:10teachers are

01:02:10bullied by

01:02:10each other,

01:02:11the teachers

01:02:11are bullies,

01:02:14and there's

01:02:16no education

01:02:17going on.

01:02:17It's just,

01:02:18it's a

01:02:18holding pen

01:02:18of semi-cacked

01:02:21insanity for

01:02:23years and

01:02:24years and

01:02:24years.

01:02:25Nobody wants

01:02:26to be there,

01:02:26nobody's

01:02:27enjoying it.

01:02:27I mean,

01:02:28I didn't get

01:02:29a massive

01:02:30amount of

01:02:30how to

01:02:30think,

01:02:31but there

01:02:32were some.

01:02:34There was

01:02:34definitely

01:02:34some.

01:02:36Definitely

01:02:36some.

01:02:38There were

01:02:39some debates,

01:02:40some, you

01:02:41know,

01:02:42challenging

01:02:42questions,

01:02:43some arguments,

01:02:44some,

01:02:45some principles

01:02:45floating around.

01:02:53But it's

01:02:54all in

01:02:56the second

01:03:00episode.

01:03:02I mean,

01:03:02the dad

01:03:04has a real

01:03:05temper,

01:03:06for sure.

01:03:08And the

01:03:08dad says

01:03:09how he

01:03:09was,

01:03:10you know,

01:03:11beaten by

01:03:11his own

01:03:11father,

01:03:11and he

01:03:12said he'd

01:03:12never do

01:03:12that to

01:03:12his kids,

01:03:13and he

01:03:13didn't,

01:03:13although

01:03:14obviously

01:03:15he would

01:03:15get angry

01:03:16and get

01:03:17loud,

01:03:17and as

01:03:18it was

01:03:19memorably

01:03:19pointed out

01:03:20in the

01:03:21show,

01:03:22he tore

01:03:23down a

01:03:24shed,

01:03:24because he

01:03:24was angry

01:03:24about

01:03:25something.

01:03:30And of

01:03:31course,

01:03:31that doesn't

01:03:32make,

01:03:33it doesn't

01:03:33make a

01:03:33massive amount

01:03:34of sense

01:03:34to me

01:03:36that

01:03:38the father

01:03:42who was

01:03:42violently

01:03:43beaten

01:03:44by his

01:03:45own father

01:03:46is not

01:03:47a murderer,

01:03:48but his

01:03:48son,

01:03:49who he

01:03:49does not

01:03:50hit

01:03:50becomes

01:03:51a

01:03:51murderer.

01:03:58I have

01:04:00some

01:04:01significant

01:04:02questions.

01:04:05For me,

01:04:06just sort of

01:04:06psychologically

01:04:07and so

01:04:07on,

01:04:08it really

01:04:08doesn't

01:04:08make a

01:04:08whole lot

01:04:09of sense.

01:04:13It really

01:04:14does not

01:04:14make a

01:04:14whole lot

01:04:14of sense.

01:04:19and I

01:04:21think a

01:04:21lot of

01:04:22it has

01:04:22to do

01:04:22with

01:04:23the push

01:04:26for censorship,

01:04:26right?

01:04:28The push

01:04:28for censorship

01:04:29that ordinary,

01:04:31nice,

01:04:32though quirky

01:04:34kids and all

01:04:34of that,

01:04:35while they're

01:04:36just online,

01:04:37and they

01:04:38just get

01:04:38radicalized.

01:04:39Just get

01:04:40radicalized.

01:04:41Things just

01:04:41go kind of

01:04:41crazy.

01:04:43They fall

01:04:44down rabbit

01:04:44holes.

01:04:44They red

01:04:45pill the

01:04:4680-20 rule

01:04:47that's repeated

01:04:47a couple of

01:04:48times.

01:04:51Jimmy says,

01:04:52yes,

01:04:52my wife is a

01:04:53schoolteacher

01:04:53and the

01:04:53crap she

01:04:54has to

01:04:54push.

01:04:54Insane.

01:04:55She's

01:04:55completely

01:04:55done.

01:04:57Yeah,

01:04:57it's rough,

01:04:58man.

01:04:58Very rough.

01:05:00Very rough

01:05:01indeed.

01:05:11So,

01:05:12I mean,

01:05:12this is part

01:05:12of the

01:05:13kind of

01:05:14dystopian

01:05:14stuff that's

01:05:15going on

01:05:15in the UK

01:05:15at the

01:05:16moment,

01:05:16where,

01:05:16what,

01:05:16are they

01:05:16arresting

01:05:1720 people

01:05:17a day

01:05:18for social

01:05:18media

01:05:18posts?

01:05:24It's,

01:05:25yeah,

01:05:25so this

01:05:25idea that

01:05:27young boys

01:05:29in particular

01:05:30are just

01:05:30these kind

01:05:30of powder

01:05:31kegs,

01:05:32and they

01:05:32just,

01:05:32you know,

01:05:33they,

01:05:34as the

01:05:34parents say

01:05:35at the

01:05:35end,

01:05:35right,

01:05:35like,

01:05:36we thought

01:05:36he was

01:05:36here,

01:05:37he was

01:05:37in his

01:05:37room,

01:05:37we thought

01:05:37he was

01:05:38safe,

01:05:38we got

01:05:39on the

01:05:39computer.

01:05:41And the

01:05:41idea that

01:05:42somebody can

01:05:42be talked

01:05:43into murder,

01:05:46like,

01:05:47I don't know,

01:05:47maybe there's

01:05:48some,

01:05:48I don't

01:05:48really know

01:05:49much about

01:05:49the dark

01:05:50web or

01:05:50whatever,

01:05:50but maybe

01:05:51there's

01:05:51really awful

01:05:51creepy stuff

01:05:52on there,

01:05:53but that the

01:05:55idea that

01:05:55you're average,

01:05:56not particularly

01:05:56tech savvy,

01:05:58little boy,

01:06:04is going to

01:06:06just fall down

01:06:07a rabbit hole,

01:06:07get radicalized,

01:06:09and stab a

01:06:10girl 14 times.

01:06:11I don't

01:06:12really think

01:06:13that's how,

01:06:13I mean,

01:06:14I'm obviously

01:06:14not a

01:06:14psychologist,

01:06:15pretty sure

01:06:16that's not

01:06:16how murderous

01:06:18personalities

01:06:18work.

01:06:24I don't

01:06:24think that's

01:06:25how those

01:06:25kinds of

01:06:26murderous

01:06:26personalities

01:06:26work.

01:06:29At all.

01:06:30I think

01:06:31it requires

01:06:32a lot

01:06:32of,

01:06:33a lot

01:06:35of violence

01:06:35early on,

01:06:37a lot of

01:06:37brutal violence

01:06:38early on,

01:06:39which does

01:06:40not seem

01:06:40to be the

01:06:40case with

01:06:41this kid

01:06:41at all.

01:06:43A lot

01:06:44has been

01:06:44said about

01:06:44the boys

01:06:45acting,

01:06:45and it

01:06:46is,

01:06:46of course,

01:06:47incredible.

01:06:48I mean,

01:06:48the kid is

01:06:49just an

01:06:49amazing

01:06:49actor.

01:07:00The nice

01:07:01kid's getting

01:07:01seriously

01:07:01corrupted by

01:07:02the internet

01:07:02narrative,

01:07:03maybe preamble

01:07:04for online

01:07:04censorship.

01:07:05Yeah,

01:07:05I mean,

01:07:05I think it's

01:07:06justification at

01:07:07the moment,

01:07:07which is why

01:07:07they're pushing

01:07:08this stuff in

01:07:08schools.

01:07:09It is

01:07:09saying,

01:07:10well,

01:07:10unless we

01:07:10gain control

01:07:11of these

01:07:11narratives on

01:07:12the internet,

01:07:12we're just

01:07:12going to end

01:07:13up with a

01:07:13bunch of,

01:07:14you know,

01:07:15stabby boys

01:07:15roaming around.

01:07:21So,

01:07:22yeah,

01:07:22that's,

01:07:23I think,

01:07:23one of the

01:07:23reasons why

01:07:24it went the

01:07:26way that it

01:07:26did,

01:07:26and why it's

01:07:27being pushed

01:07:27so much,

01:07:28right?

01:07:32But,

01:07:33yeah,

01:07:33if you're

01:07:33watching it,

01:07:34really look

01:07:34in detail

01:07:35at,

01:07:37really look

01:07:40in detail

01:07:41at the

01:07:41second episode

01:07:41and what's

01:07:42going on

01:07:42in that

01:07:42school.

01:07:44That school

01:07:44is hell.

01:07:45Hell.

01:07:47All right,

01:07:48Wilford Riley

01:07:49on X

01:07:49writes,

01:07:50it's worth

01:07:51noting that

01:07:51alimony is

01:07:52only granted

01:07:52in 9.1%

01:07:54of marriages.

01:07:56After an

01:07:57initial,

01:07:57sorry,

01:07:58after an

01:07:58initial split

01:07:59of assets,

01:08:00one-third or

01:08:00more of which

01:08:01now come for

01:08:01the women,

01:08:02divorce rape is

01:08:02pretty rare.

01:08:03Well,

01:08:03you do have

01:08:04to pay child

01:08:04supports because

01:08:05they're your

01:08:05kids,

01:08:06but.

01:08:13Secretary

01:08:14Linda McMahon

01:08:15wrote,

01:08:17the most

01:08:18recent

01:08:18Nations

01:08:19report card

01:08:19shows that

01:08:2040% of

01:08:218th graders

01:08:22cannot even

01:08:23read at the

01:08:24basic level.

01:08:24One of the

01:08:25worst results

01:08:25we've seen.

01:08:27Nearly 70%

01:08:28of 8th graders

01:08:29are not

01:08:29proficient in

01:08:30reading.

01:08:31What we are

01:08:31doing is

01:08:32simply not

01:08:32working.

01:08:32I mean,

01:08:33that's also

01:08:33partly

01:08:33multi-language,

01:08:34right?

01:08:35Every

01:08:35additional

01:08:37language that

01:08:38you add to

01:08:38the educational

01:08:39system takes

01:08:39away resources

01:08:41that can be

01:08:41used or

01:08:42could be

01:08:42used for

01:08:43educating

01:08:45children better,

01:08:45right?

01:08:50What

01:08:50percentage of

01:08:51people on

01:08:51food stamps

01:08:52are overweight?

01:08:54What

01:08:55percentage of

01:08:56people on

01:08:57food stamps

01:08:57in America

01:08:59are overweight?

01:09:01is that

01:09:04the wife

01:09:05of Vince

01:09:05McMahon?

01:09:06Really?

01:09:08All right.

01:09:08I assume

01:09:10you're not

01:09:11trolling.

01:09:11I will

01:09:12absolutely,

01:09:15completely,

01:09:16totally,

01:09:16and humbly

01:09:16believe you.

01:09:19Believe.

01:09:21Believe.

01:09:24It's sort of

01:09:25annoying to keep

01:09:26repeating that.

01:09:27my apologies.

01:09:34This is a

01:09:35report from

01:09:36the Wall

01:09:36Street Journal.

01:09:37America

01:09:37doesn't have

01:09:37a hunger

01:09:38problem.

01:09:39About

01:09:39three-quarters

01:09:40of adult

01:09:40food stamp

01:09:41beneficiaries

01:09:41are overweight

01:09:42or obese.

01:09:44Only three

01:09:44percent are

01:09:45underweight.

01:09:46more Americans

01:09:49of all

01:09:49income levels

01:09:50die from

01:09:50illnesses

01:09:51caused by

01:09:51overindulgence

01:09:52than by

01:09:52hunger if

01:09:53the government

01:09:54keeps subsidizing

01:09:55more people

01:09:55to eat

01:09:56more junk.

01:09:59Over the

01:10:00past 15

01:10:00years,

01:10:01food stamp

01:10:01enrollment

01:10:01has swelled

01:10:02as eligibility

01:10:03standards eased

01:10:04through waivers

01:10:05of work

01:10:05requirements while

01:10:06Congress and

01:10:06the USDA

01:10:07boosted

01:10:07payments.

01:10:08There are

01:10:08now 50%

01:10:08more people

01:10:09on food

01:10:09stamps than

01:10:10in 2008,

01:10:11and payments

01:10:12have nearly

01:10:13trickled.

01:10:16I don't

01:10:21know,

01:10:21things that

01:10:21don't work.

01:10:22Things that

01:10:23just don't

01:10:24work.

01:10:27What's

01:10:27interesting is

01:10:28also China's

01:10:30got an

01:10:30interesting way

01:10:31to deal

01:10:31with their

01:10:31low birth

01:10:32rate.

01:10:33On February

01:10:34the 1st,

01:10:34there's a

01:10:34new law

01:10:35in China.

01:10:35If you

01:10:35divorce,

01:10:36the woman

01:10:37only gets

01:10:37marital assets

01:10:38in proportion

01:10:39to the

01:10:39amount of

01:10:39money she

01:10:40has

01:10:41contributed,

01:10:42which is

01:10:44quite

01:10:45interesting.

01:10:46because men

01:10:51are very

01:10:51scared to

01:10:52get married,

01:10:52once you've

01:10:53seen a

01:10:53generation of

01:10:54men get

01:10:55taken apart

01:10:55by family

01:10:56courts.

01:10:59China's

01:10:59new law

01:11:00affected

01:11:00February 1st

01:11:01changes

01:11:01divorce

01:11:01asset

01:11:02division,

01:11:02allocating

01:11:03marital

01:11:03assets based

01:11:04on each

01:11:04spouse's

01:11:04financial

01:11:04contributions,

01:11:06aiming to

01:11:07curb

01:11:07exploitive

01:11:08divorce

01:11:08settlements

01:11:08often

01:11:09linked

01:11:09to

01:11:09gold

01:11:09diggers.

01:11:12Yeah,

01:11:13so the

01:11:13broader

01:11:14demographic

01:11:14strategy

01:11:15has

01:11:15declining

01:11:16marriage

01:11:16rates

01:11:16down

01:11:1720.5%

01:11:17to

01:11:186.1

01:11:18million

01:11:18in

01:11:192024

01:11:19threatened

01:11:19birth

01:11:20rates.

01:11:22So,

01:11:23the law

01:11:26reflects

01:11:26China's

01:11:26unique

01:11:27land

01:11:27ownership

01:11:27system

01:11:27where

01:11:28the

01:11:28state

01:11:28owns

01:11:28urban

01:11:29land

01:11:29and

01:11:29leases

01:11:29it

01:11:29for

01:11:2970

01:11:30years,

01:11:30complicating

01:11:31traditional

01:11:31expectations

01:11:32like

01:11:32buying

01:11:32a

01:11:33house

01:11:33for

01:11:33a

01:11:33fiancee,

01:11:33which

01:11:34some

01:11:34women

01:11:34exploited

01:11:34in

01:11:35divorce.

01:11:35it's

01:11:37amazing

01:11:38how

01:11:38quickly

01:11:39things

01:11:40can

01:11:40move

01:11:40in

01:11:41a

01:11:41dictatorship.

01:11:48Yes,

01:11:49it really

01:11:49is

01:11:49Vince McMahon's

01:11:50wife.

01:11:50Nice to

01:11:51know.

01:11:51Nice to

01:11:52know.

01:11:53Why is

01:11:53junk food

01:11:54cheaper than

01:11:54healthy stuff

01:11:55and of

01:11:55course more

01:11:56available?

01:11:56We could

01:11:57grow fresh

01:11:58veggies and

01:11:58fruit indoors

01:11:59with

01:11:59hydroponics.

01:11:59I don't

01:12:06know that

01:12:06junk food

01:12:07is cheaper

01:12:07than the

01:12:07healthy

01:12:07stuff,

01:12:08but a

01:12:09banana is

01:12:09pretty

01:12:09cheap,

01:12:10right?

01:12:15So,

01:12:16I mean,

01:12:17it's,

01:12:18I assume

01:12:19to some

01:12:19degree,

01:12:20junk food

01:12:20is,

01:12:21it's

01:12:22cheaper to

01:12:23store,

01:12:23it's

01:12:23cheaper to

01:12:23transport.

01:12:24You can

01:12:24kind of

01:12:25jam a

01:12:25bunch of

01:12:26calories

01:12:26into a

01:12:26smaller

01:12:26footprint,

01:12:28so to

01:12:28speak.

01:12:30Somebody

01:12:30says,

01:12:31when I

01:12:31asked my

01:12:31midwife about

01:12:32the intelligence

01:12:33benefits of

01:12:33breastfeeding,

01:12:34she said she

01:12:35wasn't allowed to

01:12:35talk about it

01:12:36because it

01:12:36made some

01:12:36women feel

01:12:37bad.

01:12:38That seemed

01:12:38wrong to

01:12:38me.

01:12:39Well,

01:12:39you and

01:12:40me both,

01:12:40although I

01:12:41understand that

01:12:42some women

01:12:42might feel

01:12:43bad if they

01:12:43didn't

01:12:43breastfeed.

01:12:46And it

01:12:47turned out

01:12:47that it was

01:12:47very important.

01:12:53Well,

01:12:53and these

01:12:53days,

01:12:54right,

01:12:54even

01:12:55fornication

01:12:56is a

01:12:58problem.

01:12:59you don't,

01:13:00right,

01:13:00I mean,

01:13:00these accusations,

01:13:01these lawsuits,

01:13:03and so on,

01:13:04I mean,

01:13:04it's rough,

01:13:05man.

01:13:06So even

01:13:06with

01:13:09not marrying

01:13:11the woman and

01:13:12just sleeping

01:13:12around with

01:13:13her,

01:13:14you know,

01:13:14if you

01:13:15start to

01:13:16make some

01:13:16money later

01:13:16on in

01:13:17life and

01:13:17she finds

01:13:17out about

01:13:18it and

01:13:18she's got

01:13:18the wrong

01:13:19people around

01:13:19her or

01:13:20she's got

01:13:20the wrong,

01:13:20you know,

01:13:21you're doing

01:13:21something

01:13:21political that

01:13:22some people

01:13:23don't like,

01:13:23right.

01:13:30All right,

01:13:30any other

01:13:30last questions,

01:13:31comments,

01:13:32issues,

01:13:32challenges,

01:13:32problems?

01:13:33I'm here to

01:13:34serve,

01:13:34happy to

01:13:34help.

01:13:34For those

01:13:35of you who

01:13:35posted your

01:13:36questions on

01:13:36Locals,

01:13:36I will get

01:13:37to those

01:13:37tomorrow.

01:13:37Thank you

01:13:38for your

01:13:39questions.

01:13:39I will get

01:13:40to answering

01:13:40those tomorrow.

01:13:41I really do

01:13:41appreciate your

01:13:42great questions,

01:13:44great questions.

01:13:46He said,

01:13:46rankly,

01:13:47praising and

01:13:48rubbing with

01:13:49scented oils

01:13:50the bald feet

01:13:52of the listeners.

01:13:53B-A-L-L-E-D.

01:13:54Actually,

01:13:55somebody sent me

01:13:56a message that

01:13:56said that the

01:13:57reason why foot

01:13:58binding became

01:13:58popular in

01:13:59China was because

01:14:00there was some

01:14:01empress who had

01:14:01a club foot.

01:14:08All right,

01:14:09well,

01:14:09thanks everyone

01:14:09so much for

01:14:10dropping by

01:14:10tonight.

01:14:11Thank you

01:14:11for the tips.

01:14:13I appreciate

01:14:14that.

01:14:14fredomain.com

01:14:15to help out

01:14:16the show.

01:14:16It's just like a

01:14:17week or so

01:14:17left in the

01:14:18month.

01:14:18If you could

01:14:18help me out,

01:14:19I would really

01:14:19appreciate it.

01:14:20Again,

01:14:21sorry for the

01:14:22slightly lower

01:14:22energy shows

01:14:23over the last

01:14:23couple of

01:14:24weeks,

01:14:24but we're

01:14:24back.

01:14:26I'm at least

01:14:27halfway on the

01:14:27road to recovery,

01:14:28which I appreciate,

01:14:29and thank you

01:14:30for your patience

01:14:30as my inner

01:14:32ear stabilizes.

01:14:35And I will

01:14:35talk to you

01:14:37Friday night?

01:14:38No,

01:14:39no,

01:14:39not this Friday

01:14:39night.

01:14:40Sorry,

01:14:40we're back

01:14:40Sunday.

01:14:41Friday night I

01:14:41can't.

01:14:42I have something

01:14:42else.

01:14:43So,

01:14:43I will not

01:14:44be doing a

01:14:45show this

01:14:45Friday night.

01:14:46So,

01:14:47if you see

01:14:48me,

01:14:49I've now

01:14:50possessed you.

01:14:51If you see

01:14:51me Friday

01:14:52night live,

01:14:53it's just a

01:14:53possession.

01:14:54So,

01:14:55I hope you

01:14:55enjoy that.

01:14:56I won't charge

01:14:57you extra.

01:14:57All right,

01:14:58have a glorious

01:14:58evening,

01:14:59everyone.

01:14:59Thank you so

01:15:00much.

01:15:00Take care.

01:15:00Bye.

01:15:01Bye.

01:15:02Bye.

01:15:03Bye.

01:15:04Bye.

01:15:05Bye.

01:15:06Bye.

01:15:07Bye.

01:15:09Bye.

01:15:10Bye.

01:15:11Bye.

01:15:12Bye.

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