Wednesday Night Live 14 May 2025
In this episode, I analyze the interplay between personal experiences and the current political climate, focusing on the influence of the baby boomer generation on shifting ideologies in Canada and Australia. I discuss the exploitation of societal divisions, particularly between genders, and reflect on how technology impacts dating culture. High-profile fraud cases, like Charlie Javis's, serve as cautionary tales in this narrative. I challenge societal norms surrounding relationships and encourage a re-evaluation of familial obligations. Finally, I advocate for a return to truth and accountability in navigating the complexities of our world....
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In this episode, I analyze the interplay between personal experiences and the current political climate, focusing on the influence of the baby boomer generation on shifting ideologies in Canada and Australia. I discuss the exploitation of societal divisions, particularly between genders, and reflect on how technology impacts dating culture. High-profile fraud cases, like Charlie Javis's, serve as cautionary tales in this narrative. I challenge societal norms surrounding relationships and encourage a re-evaluation of familial obligations. Finally, I advocate for a return to truth and accountability in navigating the complexities of our world....
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00:00:00And yes, why not? Why not, in fact, hit the record on the video as well. All right, there we go.
00:00:07It's been a year. It's been years, NoDoom. Yeah, that's right. That's right. I'm going to start again here. Welcome.
00:00:11Sorry, I forgot to hit the record. It's the 14th of May, 2025, and we are
00:00:17doing our thing
00:00:19tonight,
00:00:20philosophy, and
00:00:22you know, I've been following politics so much lately.
00:00:26You know, like an alcoholic who just watches videos of
00:00:30a distillery, an ex-alcoholic who just watches videos of a distillery. I've been
00:00:36sneaking in and watching a little politics lately.
00:00:40I have a few thoughts, but I don't know. I just don't know. I don't know if
00:00:47y'all are interested in politics anymore, or if it is just a
00:00:51let bygones be bygones kind of thing. I just don't know.
00:00:55I just don't know. So you can let me know.
00:01:03Doom, aren't we there already? Or at least those in power would have us believe. No, Doom is nice because
00:01:13Doom is nice for me because I already know the weapons.
00:01:16You know, if I look at a new game, it's like, oh,
00:01:20complicated, and weapons, and so on. Like sometimes when I play Defense Zone 3, every now and then it's a tablet game
00:01:27when I'm doing something really boring like cardio,
00:01:32because I already know the weapons. But if it's like, oh, there's a new tower defense game, and it's like, oh no, I
00:01:39have to try and figure out the weaponry. It's not that it's too complicated. It just takes too long.
00:01:45You know,
00:01:47mortality, I'll be 59 this year.
00:01:51Mortality is looming. It's in the rearview. You know, death.
00:01:56Death is catching up, baby.
00:01:58And you can see the end of the movie.
00:02:01You can see the end of the movie. You know, you ever watch these movies where it's like,
00:02:07oh, this is the final scene. Like you just, you get the feeling. No, I'm not the final scene.
00:02:10I've still got hopefully 20 years to go, but I
00:02:14can feel it. I can feel it. Well, if you have politics, you know what? I'll dip in. What the hell?
00:02:22What the hell? I'll dip in. You can tell me what your questions are with regards to politics.
00:02:30To politics. There's quite a lot that's going on.
00:02:34It's quite a lot, quite a lot going on.
00:02:44Oh, freedomain.com slash donate. Oh, yes. Let's do a little bidness.
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00:03:03I'd like to thank Academic Agent on X,
00:03:07who wrote, Stefan Molyneux's only crime was being early.
00:03:10And Zayto Nietzsche said, he's going to come back like Gandalf the White any day now.
00:03:16Stefan, the universally preferable.
00:03:18And there was a picture of Gandalf the White with my face on it, which gave me a chuckle.
00:03:23It gave me quite a chuckle.
00:03:26And I appreciate that. It's nice.
00:03:28Nice to see that the knowledge of the Molyneux has not completely left the mind of man,
00:03:35has not completely left the mind and soul of man.
00:03:38Canada and Australia just had elections.
00:03:41Why did the population both swing hard left?
00:03:44Well, I don't know about Australia, but I can tell you that
00:03:53in Canada, it's the boomers, right?
00:03:55The boomers have a lock on leftism.
00:03:57The boomers are the reason why the liberals got into power.
00:04:00If you look at the young and the middle-aged, it is significantly consistent.
00:04:06It is significantly conservative.
00:04:09And so the boomers are keeping the left in power.
00:04:13Well, in America, it's two groups.
00:04:15It's the boomers.
00:04:16And also it is young to middle-aged, unmarried, and particularly middle-aged, unmarried women,
00:04:26which is why the left is continually sowing division between men and women, right?
00:04:33It's continually making women paranoid of men, you know, sleeping with the enemy.
00:04:37Men are going to turn on you, and they're going to dump you.
00:04:41And if you have their babies, they're going to abandon you,
00:04:43and they're going to leave you with nothing.
00:04:46And so this continual hyper-paranoid ooga-booga feminism is designed to have women
00:05:00steer clear of men.
00:05:02And then women...
00:05:03So a woman's...
00:05:05This is just my theory, right?
00:05:06A woman's neurological system is calmed by male assertiveness, right?
00:05:14And when women don't have men, they stay in a state of two things.
00:05:20They stay in a state of anxiety, and they stay in a state of pathological altruism.
00:05:26The pathological altruism is supposed to be for your children,
00:05:30but it then spreads, as I've talked about in my novels, to two other areas of life.
00:05:35And the generalized anxiety means that women feel nervous, particularly as they age,
00:05:40and they're single, they feel nervous and anxious, and they then turn to the government
00:05:46to calm their nervousness and their anxiety, which is why they want guaranteed, made-up,
00:05:53cubicle jobs, and they want old-age pensions, and they want free health care, and they just...
00:05:58They want it, right?
00:05:59They're concerned.
00:06:01So unfortunately, when you sow bitterness between the sexes, the reward you reap,
00:06:07which is considerable, is massive amounts of political power.
00:06:12So women who are single don't like the free market.
00:06:16And women who are married like the free market.
00:06:25Women who are single want bigger government because it gives them the same sense of security
00:06:28that a man would give them.
00:06:29And women who are married want smaller government because a larger government
00:06:36interferes with their husband's, usually their husband's, income, right?
00:06:39And therefore, the reason...
00:06:40So a woman who's single wants bigger government because it gives her more resources.
00:06:43A woman who's married wants smaller government because it gives her family,
00:06:47through her husband, in general, more resources.
00:06:52So that's the sad thing.
00:06:57And this is why, in particular for white women, it's this constant, constant, constant propaganda
00:07:06of white man bad, right?
00:07:07There's white man bad.
00:07:08Stay away from white men and blah, blah, blah, right?
00:07:10And that way, they will generally stay single, stay paranoid, stay jumpy.
00:07:16And into the arms of the government they go, to the expense of everybody else.
00:07:25Yes, yes, yes.
00:07:29All right.
00:07:32Yes, refugees.
00:07:33Yeah, the South African refugees.
00:07:35I mean, that's real mask off, right?
00:07:37Episcopalian church, no longer working the government to resettle refugees.
00:07:41That's totally mask off.
00:07:43And of course, Lauren Southern, back in the day, and myself back in the day,
00:07:47we're talking about this kind of stuff in South Africa.
00:07:49And it is really mask off in that way, right?
00:07:55I mean, to not see it now, you'd have to be poking your eyeballs out with
00:08:02blue octopus tentacles.
00:08:03For men, if you smile at the wrong woman, she'll have you up on charges.
00:08:10Oh, come on, man.
00:08:11That's bullshit.
00:08:13You can smile at a woman.
00:08:15You're not, I mean, you can smile at a woman.
00:08:18I smile at women.
00:08:20I smile at men.
00:08:21I'm a pretty friendly and positive fellow.
00:08:23And if you smile at the wrong woman, she'll have you up on charges.
00:08:27I don't see how that is possible.
00:08:31And maybe I've missed a whole bunch of things.
00:08:33Maybe there, but please don't spread absolute falsehoods like this.
00:08:39Please be fucking responsible about the things you put out into the world.
00:08:44A woman, if you smile at a woman, she cannot have you up on charges.
00:08:50I don't know what that means.
00:08:52So for men, if you smile at the wrong woman, she'll have you up on charges.
00:08:55Or if you marry, she'll cheat and take you for half.
00:08:57Oh, that's the propaganda.
00:08:59My apologies.
00:09:00My apologies.
00:09:01I premature elaboration.
00:09:04I jumped the gun about Omega.
00:09:06I'm very sorry.
00:09:07You're sorry.
00:09:07I thought that this is what you were saying.
00:09:09But for men, this is the, this is the propaganda, right?
00:09:13I appreciate that correction.
00:09:15I apologize for that.
00:09:17This is the propaganda, right?
00:09:19I appreciate that correction.
00:09:20I apologize for my harsh tone.
00:09:23And you were totally in the right.
00:09:24I jumped the gun.
00:09:25Sorry about that.
00:09:26Says for men.
00:09:26So this is the propaganda for men.
00:09:28If you smile at the wrong woman, she'll have you up on charges.
00:09:30Or if you marry, she'll cheat and take half your money.
00:09:32And lifelong child support for the rest of your life about covers it.
00:09:34Yeah, that is the propaganda.
00:09:35And, you know, it's tough.
00:09:38I don't know if you do guys hit me with a why.
00:09:40If you do, do you do?
00:09:43Sorry, hit me with the why.
00:09:44I don't.
00:09:45But do you do online dating?
00:09:48Do you do digital, digital dating?
00:09:51Not for most teenage boys, digital dating is just masturbation.
00:09:56But for you, do you do digital dating?
00:09:59See digits, phalanges.
00:10:03Yes, I washed bones once or twice.
00:10:06Now, is this true?
00:10:09This is true.
00:10:09I was watching a guy give a speech about digital dating.
00:10:14And he was saying it takes 500 swipes to get.
00:10:21Even a coffee date takes 500 swipes for a man, even to get a coffee date.
00:10:28And half of those coffee dates will ghost or flake and not or not show up.
00:10:32And you just won't have the coffee, right?
00:10:34This is what he was saying.
00:10:37True or not, I don't know.
00:10:39This is what the guy was saying.
00:10:42It seems to be about right.
00:10:44So if it takes 500 swipes to get a potential coffee date,
00:10:47and one out of two of those is going to ghost or flake,
00:10:50then it takes a thousand, a thousand, a thousand swipes to get one coffee date.
00:11:01That's wild.
00:11:05That's wild.
00:11:06I'm completely mad.
00:11:07So, I mean, how does that feel as a man?
00:11:19How does that feel?
00:11:21And this is why I don't understand why people, again,
00:11:24I mean, why you all don't talk to people in person.
00:11:26I don't, I mean, you can't be batting less than that.
00:11:32You can't be batting worse than that.
00:11:38I mean, talking to a woman in person,
00:11:41it's not going to, you're not going to talk to a thousand women before you get a coffee.
00:11:47So, I mean, that would be, that always was my approach in general.
00:11:51I think, I'm trying to think, so this is going back real deep into the vaults of time,
00:11:55but I think I was on a message board.
00:12:00It was not really a dating app, but it was a message board.
00:12:02And I was always sort of reminded there used to be these chat lines,
00:12:05you know, 1-900 chat to women kind of thing.
00:12:08And I remember the Simpsons parodying it.
00:12:10I think it was with Apu.
00:12:11Are there any women here?
00:12:15It's all just dudes talking to each other.
00:12:19My gosh.
00:12:27So, I remember being on a chat board,
00:12:34kind of just when I was single, that was kind of designed for dating.
00:12:37And I remember chatting with a couple of women and, you know,
00:12:41I have a fair amount of typey-rizz, and this is long before you.
00:12:45I don't, I think there were pictures.
00:12:46Yeah, I think there were pictures.
00:12:49You know what?
00:12:49I might actually still have the picture.
00:12:54I might actually still have the picture that I used on my dating app.
00:13:00Oh my gosh, I was just thinking about this.
00:13:02I think I might.
00:13:04I'm still waiting for foundational aging to kick in.
00:13:09You know, I mean, it's going to happen, right?
00:13:11And every now and then, like, if I see a picture of myself in full sunlight,
00:13:14I'm like, oh, Mount Rushmore, what have the years wrought upon you?
00:13:19Okay, Windows, do you feel like giving me any previews,
00:13:21or is that just a bridge too far?
00:13:24No, just useless pictures.
00:13:30Yeah, I had a photographer who took pictures of me.
00:13:34Sort of way back in the day,
00:13:35because I just needed a bunch of thumbnails and stuff.
00:13:42That's me shaking my fist at the European Union.
00:13:46Nice.
00:13:48I was like, when in Brazil, I gave a speech
00:13:50where I called that political corruption and hypocrisy
00:13:53to a large audience full of politicians.
00:13:57My sense of survival instinct has not always been
00:14:01the super highest in the known universe.
00:14:04But I think I have used it to fairly good effect as a whole.
00:14:09You've aged incredibly well.
00:14:11You know, not bad, right?
00:14:12I mean, that picture was almost 30 years ago, and not too bad.
00:14:18I mean, I will credit my wife to some of this.
00:14:21She taught me about face creams and all of that,
00:14:26which is, you know, nice and helpful.
00:14:28So I sort of try to recommend that.
00:14:31Thank you, Lloyd.
00:14:32I appreciate that.
00:14:34He said, I just got a solid job offer from a good company
00:14:36with a small pay bump.
00:14:37Thanks for the shows and advice
00:14:38about how to assess career roles and companies.
00:14:40You are very welcome.
00:14:41I'm very glad to have helped that.
00:14:45Faith Goldie, whatever happened to her?
00:14:48She kind of despawned from the universe,
00:14:50like I'm one to say, like I'm one.
00:14:51Oh, whatever happened to that person
00:14:52who seemed to have vanished from public view?
00:14:57Can you imagine?
00:14:58Can you imagine?
00:15:01Unstinkable.
00:15:04Unstinkable.
00:15:06Oh my gosh.
00:15:08Here's an old picture.
00:15:11Oh, that's interesting.
00:15:12So this is the picture that I got taken from, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:15:20So this is a picture I got taken for the cover
00:15:24of my novel, Revolutions, when it first got published.
00:15:30Let's see here.
00:15:31This is a, this is, this is pre, this is before,
00:15:36this is before I met my wife.
00:15:38My gosh.
00:15:39And you should get the novel Revolutions.
00:15:41You can get it at freedomainnfts.com.
00:15:45This was the author of cover photo for Revolutions.
00:15:50Oh, I was a little heavier back then.
00:15:53She's so heavy.
00:15:55She's so heavy.
00:15:56She's so heavy.
00:15:57She's so heavy.
00:15:57She's so heavy.
00:15:58She's so heavy.
00:15:58She's so heavy.
00:15:59She's so heavy.
00:15:59She's so heavy.
00:16:01He's so heavy.
00:16:03I'm down like 40 pounds from my max.
00:16:05Crazy, man.
00:16:07Crazy, crazy.
00:16:12Oh, let me not get lost in nostalgia.
00:16:15Leather.
00:16:15Yes.
00:16:16Yes, that's right.
00:16:17Had a leather jacket and everything.
00:16:19Full, full Billy Idol enabled.
00:16:24This is going to be nothing to the podcast, to the podcast population.
00:16:28Nothing.
00:16:30Whatsoever.
00:16:32All right.
00:16:34I might have used it for a Lew Rockwell profile pic, yeah, back in the day.
00:16:44All right.
00:16:45Let's get to your recent messages.
00:16:48Yeah, I might have used it a couple for a couple of books.
00:16:52Air Force One is not ready.
00:16:54Yeah.
00:16:55Yeah, they can't.
00:16:57The amount of knowledge that we've lost is crazy.
00:16:59You know, like one of the reasons, like the Concorde had to be scrapped
00:17:04because people couldn't maintain it.
00:17:06They just, we just lost the skills.
00:17:08I don't really think we could actually go back to the moon.
00:17:11And part of it is, you know, a non-meritocracy.
00:17:14I mean, I don't know if you know this, that one of the reasons why
00:17:17Genghis Khan was so incredibly successful as a warlord, you know,
00:17:20he can, he ended up controlling like, what, 24, 23, 24% of the entire world's economy.
00:17:27And I've heard reports he was born as a slave, but I think his father was a chieftain,
00:17:32but he was poisoned and he swore revenge.
00:17:35But one of the reasons why Genghis Khan was so successful was he promoted raw meritocracy
00:17:42in his military.
00:17:43He didn't care.
00:17:45I don't care who you are or where you're from as long as you ask them.
00:17:50So he didn't care about lineage or aristocracy.
00:17:55He was just like raw meritocracy.
00:17:58And that gave him a fairly unparalleled fighting force.
00:18:04And because of that, he was able to be as powerful as he was.
00:18:13And raw meritocracy wins out every time.
00:18:16And this is why the West won against China originally, sort of back in the day,
00:18:20the opium wars and so on, because the West was doing more, promoting more meritocracy stuff.
00:18:29And because the West was promoting more meritocracy and China was more about entrenched
00:18:34bureaucracy and China, of course, like China, they actually had the knowledge of seagoing
00:18:41vessels, like vessels that could cross entire oceans, but they were so negative and hostile
00:18:49to that kind of change that the guy who had invented it, you know, they killed him.
00:18:55They burned all of his plans.
00:18:56They forbade anyone from attempting to reproduce his experiments.
00:19:00And that was it.
00:19:03That was it for their progress.
00:19:08And the societies that ossify and calcify and stop producing, like stop basing things
00:19:14on meritocracy, those societies, well, they start progressing and they get taken over
00:19:22by other societies that focus on meritocracy.
00:19:25You get a successful society based upon meritocracy, and then that society hardens and calcifies
00:19:32and people want the unearned, so they stop working with meritocracy.
00:19:35And then what happens is they get taken over by countries and cultures which have more
00:19:41raw meritocracy.
00:19:44And that's the tragic cycle of societies as a whole.
00:19:51It's really sad.
00:19:53If we could just, I mean, we would be exploring the galaxy if we'd stayed on meritocracy,
00:19:58but instead we went against meritocracy and we went straight into promotion by politics
00:20:06rather than promotion by excellence.
00:20:09And the meritocracy used to exist in the software sphere or square.
00:20:15Now the last remnants of meritocracy exist really only in online media.
00:20:23And I would say, of course, that it is nice to see Tim Poole.
00:20:28What is he, number one news app now?
00:20:30Tim Poole, number one news app.
00:20:32And that is very impressive and good for Tim.
00:20:35He's obviously done a great job.
00:20:37I mean, a bit of a centrist, per my tastes, and I don't watch the show, but I will say
00:20:42congratulations to him for getting to that spot.
00:20:50All right, let me get back to your questions and comments.
00:21:02Oh yeah, that picture, that was actually back in my corporate days.
00:21:05Yeah, that picture was back in my corporate days.
00:21:15All right.
00:21:18I'm happy to take your questions and comments and donations at freedom.com slash donate.
00:21:23I'm very appreciated, very much appreciated.
00:21:29And if you have questions, we can go a little spicy, a little spicy tonight, if you like.
00:21:39Have you heard the story of Charlie Javis?
00:21:45At 28, she sold her company to JP Morgan for $175 million, except the company was pretty
00:21:51much faked.
00:21:52It was pretty much faked.
00:21:56She originally created a platform called PoverUp, because she wanted to lift people up from
00:22:01poverty.
00:22:02PoverUp, you see.
00:22:04And she said, oh, no, no, it helps underprivileged communities access credit at lower interest
00:22:09loans, blah, blah, blah.
00:22:10Oh, we've raised $300,000, active partnerships, except it turned out that the company was
00:22:14never incorporated.
00:22:15And they never lent anything out or facilitated any loans.
00:22:22And then she tried to address the federal student aid system, and she streamlined it
00:22:31and all of that.
00:22:32That was her sort of big thing.
00:22:33And she said, oh, yeah, 4.5 million users in four years, $20 million in funds raised,
00:22:40and a partnership with major institutions.
00:22:41I mean, it's total Theranos stuff, right?
00:22:43I mean, guys and pretty, she's not super pretty, but guys and sort of pretty girls
00:22:50with bedroom eyes.
00:22:51I mean, it's not a good combo for investors.
00:22:53I mean, it's completely ridiculous.
00:22:54All of the big names involved in Theranos who just got completely taken in by the blonde
00:22:59stick insect of fraud.
00:23:05And also, this woman said that, oh, Peter Thiel offered me $100,000 or whatever, but
00:23:09I decided I didn't take it, right?
00:23:11So this woman, she pitched JP Morgan, she pitched this company called Frank.
00:23:20Frank knew more about their students than any lender, colleague, college, or employer.
00:23:24So JP Morgan said, we'll buy it for $175 million.
00:23:29So for her, she was going to get 10 million up front, 20 million retention bonus, a managing
00:23:33director position at JP Morgan, blah, blah, blah.
00:23:36So of course, JP Morgan decided to do due diligence, right?
00:23:41They wanted to verify Frank's, the woman's company's 4.5 million user base.
00:23:47She refused, said, no, no, no, it's privacy.
00:23:50I have privacy concerns.
00:23:51It's like, lady, if they buy your company, they're going to be able to go through all
00:23:54the data.
00:23:55There's no such thing as privacy concerns.
00:23:56The real reason, Frank had fewer than 300,000 users.
00:24:01So that's not good.
00:24:02What is that, 7% or 8% of what she's claiming?
00:24:06So she was desperate to close this deal.
00:24:07So she paid $18,000 to create millions of fake accounts, spent $105,000 on backup, fake
00:24:14data, and then destroyed all the evidence minutes after verification.
00:24:19Then of course, JP Morgan tried using the customer database.
00:24:22This is from Business Hustles on X, 28% of emails were delivered compared to the usual
00:24:2799%, 1.1% open rate compared to the typical 30% investigation revealed the fraud.
00:24:34And there were earlier signs.
00:24:37So I won't sort of get into all of that.
00:24:39I mean, the company used stock photos as actual users.
00:24:43So crazy.
00:24:46And she was arrested in April, 2023 for cancer fraud, SEC charges, criminal charges by DOJ,
00:24:53faced up to 110 years in prison.
00:24:55She pleaded not guilty.
00:24:56And then the trial was done.
00:25:00She was found guilty of a bunch of stuff and sentencing is in August.
00:25:04And of course, who knows what's going to happen.
00:25:13So, very sad.
00:25:21I don't know why due diligence should just be right up front.
00:25:26Particularly if people have certain characteristics.
00:25:35All right, let me get to your comments.
00:25:55All right, let's get to your questions.
00:25:58Yeah, she was featured on Forbes 30 under 30.
00:26:00Yeah, for sure.
00:26:01Steph, since Kanye didn't get canceled for his new controversial song,
00:26:04any chance you can re-release Dona Only, the Truth About Nazism presentation?
00:26:08Well, regardless of, I think Kanye got canceled pretty hard.
00:26:12But the Truth About Nazism was an NFT.
00:26:21So it was sold and the person who has it can do whatever they want, I suppose, with it.
00:26:27But it's not mine anymore.
00:26:29He's not mine in that way anymore.
00:26:33So it's not mine to release because it was sold as an NFT.
00:26:42I might still be sitting on the Truth About IQ.
00:26:47I don't know, man.
00:26:48I don't know.
00:26:48I just don't know.
00:26:55All right, let me see.
00:26:56What else do I have?
00:26:58Edward Dowd says, I'm often asked if the COVID juice, COVID shots, caused people to change or
00:27:06go crazy.
00:27:07Can't say definitively, but something went off the rails in the UK with new psychiatric
00:27:11PIP disability claims.
00:27:1422 and 23.
00:27:16That's 2022 and 2023.
00:27:18We're up over 100% with a 14 standard deviation from trend.
00:27:24I mean, I think that the COVID shots do cross the blood-brain barrier.
00:27:27And are they having any effect on people's thinking?
00:27:30Well, Mike Cernovich wrote, meta executives, sorry, meta executive warned fake engagement
00:27:38on Instagram app could be in the range of 40%.
00:27:42Ouchies.
00:27:44Ouchies.
00:27:45Ouchies.
00:27:47Ouchies.
00:27:52Are there any movies that you guys are looking forward to being a part of?
00:28:05Or watching?
00:28:15Which do you think is the spiciest presentation you're sitting on?
00:28:22I don't know.
00:28:24I mean, it's funny.
00:28:25You know, it's funny.
00:28:26So, I mean, this is a strange thing.
00:28:28This is a strange thing about, I mean, if you don't mind, if I get personal for a couple
00:28:34of minutes, I hope you don't mind too much.
00:28:37But this is a strange thing about the world that is.
00:28:46I mean, all of the stuff that was absolute dangle your nuts off the cliff edge over bottomless
00:28:55pits of razor blades, all the stuff that was unbelievably spicy 10, 15 years ago, does
00:29:03not seem that spicy now.
00:29:06I mean, I know that's kind of the point, right?
00:29:07The kind of the point is somebody's got to break the ice.
00:29:10I like to think that maybe I broke the ice on some of the spicier stuff because it would
00:29:13sure it wouldn't.
00:29:15Maybe I'm just gaslighting myself.
00:29:16I don't know.
00:29:19I don't know.
00:29:20But maybe I'm gaslighting myself because part of me says, well, since I did all of this
00:29:25spicy stuff way back in the day, like all the super spicy stuff that kind of paved the
00:29:29way it broke the ice, I don't know, whatever, right?
00:29:31For this topic to be, or my cancellation, my deplatforming kind of allowed people to
00:29:37sort of talk about this stuff more or raise people's interest in it more.
00:29:41Because I mean, one possibility is I kind of burnt up my whole large parts of my income
00:29:47and my reach and my reputation.
00:29:49I burnt all of that up for nothing.
00:29:51You know, like I was just too early and I was like some guy who, you know, tried to
00:29:57sail across the Atlantic from Ireland to Newfoundland and just sunk on the way and
00:30:03nobody knows and it doesn't matter.
00:30:05And it was all just a complete waste, right?
00:30:09Or, you know, it's a little bit more comforting.
00:30:13There's no real way.
00:30:17There's no real way to know this because there's no null hypothesis here, right?
00:30:21But the other thing is to say, well, I brought a lot of attention to very spicy and controversial
00:30:28issues and that helped people become aware of them.
00:30:38And then, partly because of my reach and then partly when I deplatformed, people took these
00:30:48arguments or ideas more seriously, right?
00:30:52I'll never know.
00:30:55Obviously, I'll never know.
00:30:57I'll never know if I simply kept my mouth shut for another 10 or 15 years.
00:31:03I'll never know if I would just catch the wave now or whether I had something to do
00:31:09with the waves that are happening now.
00:31:12I'll never know for sure.
00:31:15For sure.
00:31:16So, it is wild to me because, you know, I've spent some time on X, particularly sort of
00:31:29recovering from this ear thing.
00:31:30I've spent some time on the couch and just waiting to get better.
00:31:34So, I look at what's being posted on X and, I mean, of course, it's also a free speech
00:31:44platform, right?
00:31:45So, 2006 to 2016, 2005 to 2015, 2007 to 2017 or whatever was an era of absolutely glorious
00:31:58free speech, like unbelievably glorious free speech.
00:32:01It was incredible, incredible.
00:32:04And then, because free speech was working and doing its thing, which it's supposed to
00:32:09do, well, what happened?
00:32:15What happened was everyone started to get deplatformed, who was telling sort of any
00:32:21truth that went against the fundamental interests of people in power, and sometimes even worse
00:32:26than deplatformed, right?
00:32:28So, when I look at what's going on on X these days, it's mind-blowing.
00:32:40Like, how many spicy takes are just floating across the platform?
00:32:43I know people are still getting deplatformed from time to time or suppressed or whatever,
00:32:47right?
00:32:47Follower counts are kind of going up and down.
00:32:50You can look at Dom DeLuca for things like that, or other people, but I look and I'm
00:32:55like, I don't know if I have anything to do with this at all.
00:33:02I don't know if I have anything.
00:33:04I'll go to my grave not knowing whether I had anything to do with this at all, whether
00:33:08I was just an early casualty that nobody remembers really, or whether I flamed out
00:33:13in self-sacrifice to light the way for others.
00:33:15I don't know.
00:33:15I don't know.
00:33:16I'll never know.
00:33:17I'll never know.
00:33:18I mean, it doesn't really matter.
00:33:20You know, the past is the past.
00:33:23I made the decisions I made.
00:33:24I don't particularly regret the decisions I've made, so what does it matter, right?
00:33:30It's like, whether I paved the way or flamed out inconsequentially is kind of irrelevant
00:33:36because there's no going back, right?
00:33:39There's no control Z for big decisions, right, for the most part.
00:33:43Unless I were to go back and disavow things that I knew to be true, which I'm not going
00:33:48to do.
00:33:49I mean, I'd rather fade completely into the woodwork.
00:33:56I'd rather fade completely into become like a little rose in a giant wallpaper forever
00:34:02and ever.
00:34:02I'd become inconsequential, become a gnat in the wind.
00:34:04I'd rather completely fade from human view than claim to not believe something that I
00:34:11know to be true.
00:34:13Chris says, I believe you were definitely not an insignificant catalyst for the pursuit
00:34:19of truth.
00:34:19That's my gut feeling.
00:34:20Yeah, probably, probably, probably.
00:34:33Yeah, I have this, since, yeah, let me just talk about this stuff, the sort of personal
00:34:40thoughts.
00:34:40Every month or two, I have this sort of idle thought.
00:34:43I have this sort of idle thought, you know, the Scopes Monkey trial, which was largely
00:34:49a publicity stunt, and Colter's written a bunch about this, but I have this sort of
00:34:53thought that, you know, if I were hauled up or there was a court case about, I don't know,
00:35:01IQ or something like that, and I were to go through all of the facts, the reason, the
00:35:05evidence, the data, the proof, the charts, the, you know, whatever, right, that the case
00:35:10would be made, the case would be clear, right?
00:35:15But, okay, let me ask you this, right?
00:35:17Let me ask you this.
00:35:20Let's say it's some controversial topic, doesn't have to be anything in particular,
00:35:23but let's say it's some controversial topic, and, you know, some expert were to make the
00:35:29case with great power and vigor and backup and data and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,
00:35:35right?
00:35:35Let's say someone were to do that, right?
00:35:41What percentage of people do you think would change their minds?
00:35:52What percentage of people do you think would change their minds?
00:35:58I'm curious what your thoughts are on that.
00:36:04I don't know.
00:36:06Well, I won't tell you my gut feeling, I'm curious what your thoughts are.
00:36:10Zero?
00:36:10I don't go with zero.
00:36:13I don't go zero.
00:36:13I mean, there would be no point being a philosopher if it was zero.
00:36:18Not that that's an argument, I'm just saying that you can't expect me to say that it's
00:36:21zero, given everything I've done for the cause of philosophy, there's just no way that I
00:36:26would make that zero.
00:36:29Couldn't be.
00:36:32So we've got zero, says someone can't make that zero, right?
00:36:35Couldn't be.
00:36:38So we've got zero, says someone 10%, two to four percent, five percent.
00:36:46I'm curious what you guys think.
00:36:48It's a fairly important question in life as a whole, right?
00:37:06Ah, what do you say?
00:37:14What do you say?
00:37:16Ten percent.
00:37:18If any such case would be allowed to be put on 40%, call me an optimist.
00:37:22Well, I mean, we would assume it would be live streamed and blah, blah, blah, right?
00:37:2720%, but 75% wouldn't tell anyone and 5% would.
00:37:30I think 10% says someone does make sense, maybe a little lower, but if people suspect
00:37:34the tides and power dynamics are changing on a topic, they might just go along with it.
00:37:40So this is sort of my feeling is that I don't, I mean, this is just, we're just pulling these
00:37:47numbers out of our armpits.
00:37:48I mean, yours may be much more valid than mine.
00:37:50My sort of sense is that maybe 15% of people would accept the case, but fewer than half
00:37:55of that would actually repeat it.
00:37:58Right.
00:37:59So I think 15% of people would say, okay, that's, that's a case that's laid out in, in
00:38:03sort of very powerful ways.
00:38:07But most people, of course, scan their social environment for the acceptability of certain
00:38:13hard ideas and arguments.
00:38:16They don't look at the truth of things.
00:38:19They look at the danger of things, right?
00:38:23They don't say what is true.
00:38:25Right.
00:38:25They don't say what is true.
00:38:27They say what is punished.
00:38:32So I think that there are people who will accept the truth.
00:38:35And I would say about 15%, probably I would guess, right?
00:38:39That they will accept the truth if it's laid out in a sort of clear, rational, consistent
00:38:43manner.
00:38:44But the question is, if you accept a particular truth, then the question becomes, can you
00:38:52say anything about it?
00:38:52Can you discuss it?
00:38:53Can you talk about it?
00:38:59Will you promote it?
00:39:03I mean, so let's take the, the DIFU argument, right?
00:39:08The DIFU, FU stands for family of origin, and DIFU is if you stop spending time with
00:39:14or being in contact with your family of origin.
00:39:17In general, it's your parents, doesn't necessarily mean siblings or anything like that.
00:39:20Right.
00:39:21Now, the DIFU argument is based upon everything that I was told when I was growing up.
00:39:29There's no inconsistency there whatsoever.
00:39:31When I was, I mean, when I was growing up, and I haven't made this case in years, so
00:39:35you know, if you've heard it before, forgive me, I'll try to keep it relatively brief.
00:39:38So the DIFU argument was based on everything that I was told growing up.
00:39:42So what I was told growing up was that if a woman is dissatisfied in her marriage, the
00:39:50guy is just kind of self-centered.
00:39:51He's, you know, he just, maybe he goes to the pub too much.
00:39:54Maybe he doesn't, he's not really considerate of her.
00:39:59What is it in, in the bridges of Madison County?
00:40:01The woman is upset because the men leave the house and the door, the screen door bangs
00:40:07and startles her every time.
00:40:08So, so if there's just sort of, you know, little sort of minor irritations in your relationship,
00:40:14then you can fuck off to eternity and never look back.
00:40:20And that's what I was told that, and there was, I can never remember the woman who talks
00:40:26to the walls and then ends up running a cafe in the Mediterranean in Greece or something
00:40:32like that.
00:40:32Right.
00:40:33And so what I was told was that if you're just kind of dissatisfied and you feel you
00:40:38can do better and you're just not particularly enjoying your relationship, then you can just
00:40:45leave, right?
00:40:46If there are kids, you can just leave.
00:40:49You can just leave if you're just dissatisfied.
00:40:54Now, I've never, that I can recall, ever recommended leaving your parents.
00:41:00If you're just kind of maybe a little bored and dissatisfied, that's not the thing that
00:41:06I've ever, because, you know, parents are very important.
00:41:09And, and, and look, we're all boring from time to time.
00:41:11You know, you have to, to have any kind of community, you have to be able to put up with
00:41:17some annoyances and shortcomings because I'm annoying, you're annoying, we all have
00:41:21shortcomings and so on.
00:41:23Right.
00:41:23Like when I'm, I went on a long drive with my family today and, you know, I was talking
00:41:27about various things and I'm like, is this interesting?
00:41:29Is this enjoyable?
00:41:30Is this, you know, cause I want to, I don't want to be annoying or boring, but you know,
00:41:33we all are annoying and boring from time to time.
00:41:36So having that as a standard is not reasonable.
00:41:38It's not rational, not sustainable.
00:41:41So I was told when I was growing up that if, if you're not satisfied or happy in a consistent
00:41:50way, in a relationship that you voluntarily chose, you should leave because this is, you
00:41:57know, the Kramer versus Kramer, right?
00:42:00I mean, what's, what's the big sin that Dustin Hoffman's character has in Kramer versus Kramer,
00:42:04which is a movie I literally paid to watch three times when I was in, in my early teens.
00:42:09So, um, what he, he just, he stays late, he stays late at work.
00:42:18That's his big crime.
00:42:20Is he abusive?
00:42:21Is he neglectful?
00:42:22Is he violent?
00:42:24No, at least when she's leaving.
00:42:26Right.
00:42:27And, and what does the Meryl Streep character says, you know, I'm afraid that I'm going
00:42:30to throw myself out of the window if I live here one more day.
00:42:33Well, what was so bad?
00:42:34Well, I mean, he, he worked hard to provide, you know, they had a nice apartment in New
00:42:38York, which is very expensive.
00:42:39Uh, they had a kid, but you see, she just was, she was going to throw herself out of
00:42:44the window.
00:42:49She was going to commit suicide if she had to stay in the same apartment with him and
00:42:57their son.
00:42:57And, and, you know, we, we can sort of go over a million of these movies of women who
00:43:03were just, I'm dissatisfied.
00:43:05It's just not really working for me.
00:43:07I don't feel enriched.
00:43:08I want to go be a girl boss somewhere.
00:43:10Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:43:10Right.
00:43:18That's really, yeah, it's a very sad movie.
00:43:20I watched it, um, and I watched it again, actually.
00:43:23So what I was told, and I was told, uh, in no uncertain terms that if the relationship
00:43:31is abusive, you must get out.
00:43:34If the relationship is just kind of unsatisfying, the guy's kind of talking, you know, he mansplains
00:43:40things, uh, uh, he, he, he works too hard, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
00:43:49uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
00:43:53um, uh, he's not into the woman's deep and rich in her life and, and so on.
00:44:00Uh, then she can have affairs.
00:44:01She can leave.
00:44:02And, you know, it's always the same kind of story.
00:44:04There's some, a woman who's got a husband who's, you know, kind of boring or not really
00:44:08emotionally available and blah, blah, blah.
00:44:10And so she, she leaves him.
00:44:12She moves downtown, uh, and there she's down by the beaches, uh, and she's in a loft apartment
00:44:20and she just happens to run into this super sexy, you know, abs, pecs, and man bun
00:44:27sculptor.
00:44:27He's a sculptor man.
00:44:28And he's just fascinated by her and they have mind blowing sex.
00:44:33And then they order in coffees and somebody's always coming in with croissants.
00:44:37And, and, you know, you never have plastic bags in these movies.
00:44:42There's always a paper bags with carrots and French loaves coming out.
00:44:48Right.
00:44:51And she's immensely rewarded and she has the best orgasms of her life.
00:44:59And, you know, the, the Carrie Bradshaw stuff, right.
00:45:02The Carrie Bradshaw stuff where there's this endless cavalcade of, you know, hot, talented,
00:45:08brilliant guys, uh, worshiping her and it's satanic, right.
00:45:11It's straight up satanic.
00:45:13And it's a complete lie.
00:45:16It's a complete, I mean, what was their Samantha in, in sex in the city?
00:45:20Samantha ends up dating this unbelievably.
00:45:23Godlike hot model.
00:45:24She's in her mid late forties or whatever.
00:45:26And he's in his early.
00:45:27Come on, man.
00:45:28I mean, it's just, it's just satanic.
00:45:29It's leaving.
00:45:30It's having women, uh, get addicted to this.
00:45:33Grass is greener, man.
00:45:35You leave your boring husband.
00:45:36You're going to end up running this really cool cafe on the Mediterranean and go swimming
00:45:40every morning with the dolphins.
00:45:41And it's just like, come here, come here.
00:45:43It's like the OnlyFans guys go into the university saying, you know, you should join OnlyFans.
00:45:47What?
00:45:47I don't think my dad would appreciate that.
00:45:48Well, he'll appreciate it when you buy him a Lamborghini or what is it?
00:45:51Sophie rain is now dancing around in the private jet.
00:45:54The 10 million men have paid for that repulsive.
00:46:00But then a lot of these, uh, men are trapped in dead bedroom marriages.
00:46:03What are they?
00:46:04You know, it's just terrible.
00:46:05So now all these movies were like.
00:46:10Breadcrumbs leading women away from security and stability and saying, oh yeah, there's
00:46:15all this great stuff out here for you, man.
00:46:17And there's a sort of famous exchange on X of one woman who says, uh, you know, I want
00:46:22to leave and there's going to be all these men out there for me and blah, blah, blah,
00:46:25blah.
00:46:25And then another woman is like, yeah, I left my marriage 20 years ago.
00:46:28Haven't really had any, anything since.
00:46:30And it was the worst mistake of my life.
00:46:36And every time she bounces out of one relationship, there's some other, you know, what did Carrie
00:46:41Bradshaw date?
00:46:43Mikhail, Mikhail Baryshnikov, like one of the most talented, best looking athletic,
00:46:51you know?
00:46:51I mean, I think he smoked a lot, but he had abs like a map of the Andes and he's a brooding
00:46:57sculptor and he brings her to Paris, but then he ignores her.
00:47:00And then Mr. Big, right.
00:47:01I mean, he's gone and he's married and he's got a young hot thing, but they end up just
00:47:07coming back together and right.
00:47:08Blah, blah, blah.
00:47:09Right.
00:47:10So it's, it's a straight up, it's straight up satanic offering, which is to say to these
00:47:14women.
00:47:15And I don't think the same thing happens with men as much, right.
00:47:18But to see, um, to, to say to these women, well, if you leave the security of a stable
00:47:25pair bonded relationship, there's going to be all of these PDD oiled up glistening sculptors
00:47:31with man locks and abs who are just going to, very coarse phrases are rolling around
00:47:42in my head.
00:47:44Who are going to finger snap you into orbital orgasms of the gods.
00:47:48Right.
00:47:49And that's, you know, this was also Erica Young, right.
00:47:52The, the fear of flying was the name of the book, The Simplest Fuck.
00:47:55Right.
00:47:56This was a big thing in the seventies.
00:47:58Also, Judy bloom wrote a book called wifey about a woman who's got a husband who says,
00:48:04you know, Hey man, we, we get married.
00:48:10So I love you.
00:48:11I don't need to keep telling you because I'm here.
00:48:14I'm paying the bills.
00:48:15I'm staying.
00:48:17So I don't have to keep telling you that I love you.
00:48:20And she has a Shep, I think was her ex lover.
00:48:26And she keeps thinking about Shep when she's having sex with her husband and he was cool
00:48:31and he was affectionate and he was perfect and pulling around that way.
00:48:34Or in the, in the novel jaws, chief Brody and his wife.
00:48:38Right.
00:48:40I still remember I read the movie jaws, sorry, I read the movie.
00:48:42I read the book jaws a couple of times when I was in my teens.
00:48:45And I remember the scene where chief Brody's wife has taken, I don't know, Xanax or Ambien
00:48:53or Prozac or some, no, not Prozac.
00:48:56I was too early, but what's the mother's little helper stuff.
00:49:00Anyway, she's taken something to help her sleep and he wants to have sex and he's got
00:49:03his hand on her belly and he's rotating up towards her breasts.
00:49:08And she says, well, I've already taken some drugs to sleep, but I guess you can go ahead
00:49:12And he's like, no, I'm not very big on banging corpses.
00:49:15And she says, well, that was uncalled for, you know, that kind of stuff.
00:49:17Right.
00:49:18And she's all fantasizing about her ex lover.
00:49:20Who's the Richard Dreyfuss character, right.
00:49:23Her ex lover was cool and hot and hip and blah, blah, blah.
00:49:26Right.
00:49:27And so again, this is just, she's unsatisfied, unsatisfied.
00:49:34And almost all these women left relationships.
00:49:39Almost all these women left relationships where there was no abuse, no neglect.
00:49:46The guys were nice, affectionate, stable, loved them, but they just wanted more.
00:49:54And that's the satanic thing, right?
00:49:55That's the satanic thing.
00:49:57Just one more.
00:49:59I mean, this is the garden of Eden.
00:50:01Oh, by the way, hit me with a why, because I'm getting there.
00:50:03Right.
00:50:04I said, this is going to be short.
00:50:05I lied.
00:50:05Sorry.
00:50:06It wasn't lying at the time, but I realized I'm lying now.
00:50:08Hit me with a why, if you find this topic interesting, because I want to tie it into
00:50:11the defuse stuff and all of them, what's going on in the world right now.
00:50:15But I think it's really, really important to just understand how much programming has
00:50:18gone into women's heads, which is if you're dissatisfied, if there's just, it's not quite
00:50:22working for you, there's no spark.
00:50:23There's no click, which inevitably is going to rise and fall at times over the course
00:50:27of a marriage.
00:50:27I mean, I'm very happily married.
00:50:30My wife and I are very passionate with regards to each other, but I'm not going to say that
00:50:34every week is like her honeymoon.
00:50:36I mean, that's just not realistic.
00:50:38That's like comparing every day to your very best day and feeling miserable, right?
00:50:45Feeling miserable.
00:50:47It's wretched.
00:50:49Freedomain.com slash donate.
00:50:51Help make this the very best day.
00:50:54Actually, no, really do.
00:50:55Okay.
00:50:56So Garden of Eden, right?
00:50:58Garden of Eden.
00:50:59Everything's perfect.
00:51:01Everything is perfect.
00:51:02The weather is perfect.
00:51:03The temperature is perfect.
00:51:04The habitat is perfect.
00:51:06God is right there.
00:51:07The bliss is perfect.
00:51:08The love is perfect.
00:51:09Everything's perfect.
00:51:11So what does Satan come along?
00:51:12He says to Eve, ah, you know what?
00:51:15You could have more.
00:51:16I mean, literally it's paradise.
00:51:18It literally is paradise.
00:51:21God in his infinite wisdom has created the perfect environment, the perfect, perfect
00:51:26environment for Adam and Eve.
00:51:33Couldn't be happier.
00:51:34What does Satan come along?
00:51:35He says, hmm, you think you've got it all, but you don't because you see there's that
00:51:42apple over there and apple of the tree of knowledge, good and evil.
00:51:45The one that God said, you know, don't eat.
00:51:47You've got one job.
00:51:47Don't eat the apple, right?
00:51:50And that's what Satan does.
00:51:52He takes a great situation and makes you dissatisfied.
00:51:56Do we do this?
00:51:57Do we do that?
00:51:58And listen, I get, this is part of why civilization, you know, hey, this is a really
00:52:01nice cave, but it's not a hut.
00:52:03Hey, this is a really nice hut, but it's not a barn.
00:52:05Hey, this is a really nice barn, but it's not a house, right?
00:52:07So I get that we get dissatisfied.
00:52:10That's where progress comes from.
00:52:11I get all of that.
00:52:13But my God, you've got to rein in dissatisfaction in order to have a happy life or you're
00:52:17fucked beyond measure.
00:52:19You got to rein in your dissatisfaction in order to have a happy life or you're toast.
00:52:23You're toast.
00:52:23You'll never be happy, ever.
00:52:25Like, I mean, I've had this adjustment, you know, I was, because I eat well, I exercise
00:52:30and all of that and keep my weight down and blah, blah, blah.
00:52:33Right.
00:52:33So I thought, ah, you know, I'm going to sail until I'm not going to have any real
00:52:36health issues, maybe my seventies, my eighties or whatever, but you know, I've had some
00:52:40health issues.
00:52:41So I've had to adjust that.
00:52:42Right.
00:52:43I mean, most people in there, by the time they hit their late fifties, they've had a
00:52:46couple of health issues.
00:52:48So I've had a couple of health issues and I've had to adjust my expectations because
00:52:51I thought, well, you know, if I eat well and exercise and I'm happy and I'm productive
00:52:56in the world and I have a job that has meaning and blah, I'm going to be bulletproof.
00:52:59It's like, but I'm not bulletproof.
00:53:01Right.
00:53:02I mean, pretty healthy, pretty healthy, but not bulletproof.
00:53:05So I had this fantasy, right?
00:53:06You got to adjust your expectations.
00:53:10Sucks.
00:53:10But you got it.
00:53:11I mean, the alternative is to just be dissatisfied.
00:53:14Right.
00:53:16I mean, I'll tell you this, I mean, straight up, man, never been dissatisfied in my
00:53:19marriage.
00:53:21I mean, she's perfect for me.
00:53:22I'm perfect for her.
00:53:23Never been dissatisfied in my marriage.
00:53:25Never felt like, oh, there's more.
00:53:27There's a Peter DeOyled abfest of a man bun out there doing sculpture.
00:53:32Who's going to rub paint on my ass?
00:53:36So.
00:53:40I was told that relationships that you voluntarily chose, if you're just kind of
00:53:45dissatisfied, it's totally good.
00:53:48It's healthy.
00:53:48It's right.
00:53:49It's the right thing to leave because out there is fulfillment and lovely cafes you
00:53:55can run on the Mediterranean and there's sculptors and Mikhail Baryshnikov and like,
00:54:01there's all of this amazing stuff out there.
00:54:03So, you know, if you're just kind of dissatisfied, oh God, there was some Michael
00:54:08Caine movie as well, where the woman knocks down a wall or something like that.
00:54:13It's just some other, some other damn movie where, Educating Rita or something like
00:54:16that, where the woman is dissatisfied.
00:54:23You know, she looks at her boyfriend and her boyfriend is eating noisily or is checking
00:54:29her watch, his watch too often when they're at a social engagement.
00:54:32Or what is it in, in the Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston movie, The Breakup, he forgets
00:54:39to bring lemons for her dinner preparation.
00:54:44And she, this means you don't care.
00:54:48This means you don't love me.
00:54:50This means blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, right?
00:54:52I'm going to get out, I'm going to find someone who really cares about, really loves
00:54:55me.
00:54:57So if you're just kind of bored and dissatisfied, or your boyfriend isn't kind of paying you
00:55:02enough attention, your husband's not paying you enough attention, get out, get out.
00:55:05This is relentless propaganda, relentless propaganda.
00:55:14We did miss the donor portion Sunday and I'm sorry, I was actually unwell yesterday, so
00:55:18I couldn't do it.
00:55:19I was hoping to do it yesterday and maybe I'll do it tomorrow or Saturday.
00:55:23I won't do it tonight, though.
00:55:25I'm still, I usually have about an hour, half hour, 40 on my voice.
00:55:29I don't want to, so that's a great question and I will make up for it this week.
00:55:33So, so I was told, and this is, you know, nobody ever criticized my mother for leaving
00:55:39my father, nobody, nobody.
00:55:41And of course I lived in the matriarchal manners.
00:55:44I lived in the single mother beehive of eternal state-sucking queens, right?
00:55:51So nobody, nobody in the family, nobody in the church, nobody in my private schools or
00:55:58my public schools, nobody in the three countries that I lived in, nobody said that this was
00:56:05a bad decision or a bad idea to be a single mother.
00:56:08Nobody.
00:56:09And if there was abuse, you had to get out, sleeping with the enemy stuff, right?
00:56:15You had to get out.
00:56:17Okay.
00:56:18So that's what I was told.
00:56:20And these are relationships that you voluntarily choose.
00:56:22Nobody forced you into them.
00:56:25So then when I said, gee, why wouldn't this apply that, why wouldn't this apply to
00:56:33relationships you never chose?
00:56:34Why wouldn't this apply to relationships you never chose, never invited into your life?
00:56:42If simply being dissatisfied is a damn fine reason to leave, because there's way better
00:56:47things out there for you, which I was told with no doubt, no uncertainty.
00:56:54And it wasn't even like, I love reading movie reviews from a young age to be straight up,
00:56:59right?
00:57:01I thought I was going to do it.
00:57:01To be straight up, right?
00:57:03I thought I was going to do something in the arts for the longest time.
00:57:06And I did some stuff in the arts, but...
00:57:08So I remember...
00:57:14Oh, Doom the Dark Ages is unpacking.
00:57:16Maybe that'll be the donor live stream.
00:57:19It's me playing.
00:57:20So I remember when movies came out and the women were unsatisfied and tended to leave
00:57:27the relationship, I would read the reviews.
00:57:31And nobody ever said, well, this was a bad reason to leave.
00:57:34Or, you know, it was always like, oh, you go, girl, you're empowered.
00:57:37You know, if that relationship is not totally satisfying to you, then you should move on.
00:57:42Because women seem to be rather uniquely programmable in terms of dissatisfaction.
00:57:48I think, I think, right?
00:57:49Because you sort of see women with regards to decor, right?
00:57:54The women are like, it's got to be more pillows and you got to have the right vase over here.
00:57:58And it's beautiful.
00:57:59I'm not complaining about it.
00:58:00But men, you know, they'll eat delivery pizza while watching a big screen TV that's mounted
00:58:12on the box it came in while on a futon they found on the street, no matter how much money
00:58:17they have, right?
00:58:18So, women tend to be uniquely programmable with regards to dissatisfaction.
00:58:28And again, that drives a lot of male achievement.
00:58:30So, I'm not, you know, this house is warm enough.
00:58:32This money income is not high enough.
00:58:34We don't have enough.
00:58:35It drives a lot of male achievement.
00:58:36So, I'm not even complaining about that.
00:58:38I'm just saying that it is kind of a fact that women seem to be uniquely programmable
00:58:42with regards to dissatisfaction.
00:58:43And again, there's a lot of male achievement.
00:58:46And again, there's lots of exceptions and goes the other way too, right?
00:58:52So, I was told, and everyone agreed, everyone agreed.
00:58:57It was everywhere.
00:58:58Everyone agreed.
00:59:00Nobody criticized my mom or the dozens of other single moms that I knew in three different
00:59:05countries for leaving their parents, their husbands.
00:59:09Nobody ever criticized movies for talking about how things were just, the grass was
00:59:12always greener and you get all of this great stuff if you leave your husband, right?
00:59:15Which is a lie.
00:59:16It's a lie.
00:59:18In general.
00:59:18In general.
00:59:22So, everything that I was raised with, I was like, okay, well, if you can leave and it's
00:59:30good for you to leave and it's productive and makes you happier for you to leave a
00:59:33relationship you voluntarily chose, even if there are kids, if you're just kind of
00:59:36dissatisfied, why wouldn't that apply to the family?
00:59:40Which is a relationship you didn't even choose.
00:59:44So, it would be like saying, like, so, so saying a relationship you chose, you can leave
00:59:50and it's good to do so if you're dissatisfied because the grass is greener on the other
00:59:53side of the fence, having that statement, and then saying, but that should never apply
00:59:56to unchosen relationships, is like saying a woman who chose her husband should, and
01:00:03it's good for her to leave if she's just kind of dissatisfied, maybe a little bored,
01:00:06maybe they're going through a dry spell or whatever, so she should leave that because
01:00:10she gets the well-oiled, glistening ab sculpture down by the beach, so it's good.
01:00:17If she voluntarily chose a marriage, she should leave it for the sake of her own self-actualization
01:00:24or whatever.
01:00:26It's generally, it's orgasms, they just sell orgasms, right?
01:00:29This guy's great in bed, really attentive, goes down like the Poseidon, right?
01:00:37So, if a woman voluntarily chooses a marriage, voluntarily chooses a husband, she's just
01:00:44kind of bored and dissatisfied, it's great for her to leave because she'll get much better
01:00:47things out of it and it's a good thing and it's a positive thing.
01:00:49However, a woman who was forced into an arranged marriage can never leave.
01:00:53Like, do you see how, morally, that's completely insane.
01:00:57Like, that's absolutely insane.
01:00:59So, if a woman says, well, I chose my husband but I feel like leaving because I'm unsatisfied
01:01:08and you say, that sounds like a good idea, but then a woman says, I was forced into an
01:01:13arranged marriage at the age of 15 and I want to leave my husband, you say, my God, you
01:01:20can't.
01:01:20Anyone who suggests that it might be good for you to leave the husband that you never
01:01:26chose, that you were forced into the relationship, that would be insane, right?
01:01:35I mean, that would be beyond deranged, right?
01:01:37The woman who chose her relationship can leave if she's unhappy, but the woman who never
01:01:45chose her relationship can't ever leave, no matter what, and anyone who suggests that
01:01:50she could leave or even tells her that she could leave is running a cult.
01:01:54Like, it's morally deranged, right?
01:01:55We understand that.
01:01:57So, hit me with a why if this makes sense as a whole.
01:02:08Now, of course, in general, the reason why women were happy with the, I can leave my
01:02:15husband to go and get the sculpture down by the beaches, that's, you know, women prefer
01:02:20that, they like that, they think that's good, right?
01:02:26But, particularly with regards to mothers, if you were being abused by a family of origin,
01:02:32if you were abused in the past, if they continue to abuse you, of course, I've never told
01:02:36anyone to leave their family, I'm just saying you can, right?
01:02:39You're not obligated, you're not chained, you're not shackled, right?
01:02:43You can leave an abusive family of origin.
01:02:47I've never told anyone to leave their abusive family of origin, that's not, because I don't
01:02:52tell people what to do, I don't tell them what to do.
01:02:54That's not, because I don't tell people what to do, but, you know, if some woman came to
01:02:58me and said, like, you know, came to me in Canada and said, oh, I was in this arranged
01:03:03marriage and I can't leave, I would say, you can.
01:03:08I'm not saying you should, but you can.
01:03:11This is Canada, you're not obligated to stay in an arranged marriage, right?
01:03:14You can leave, right?
01:03:17And what have I always said with regards to the family of origin issues, that if you have
01:03:21an issue with your parents, your mother, your father, both, sit down and talk with
01:03:26them, you know, bring up your issues, give them a chance to respond, you know, have a
01:03:30number of conversations, talk to a therapist, right?
01:03:32Especially if you're going through a family separation issue, I've always promoted a
01:03:36therapy, having a therapist on your side and blah, blah, blah, right?
01:03:45All eminently reasonable and true.
01:03:52So, if people are going to say, you can't leave abusive relationships, then they have
01:04:00to go back and undo everything that I was told for 30 years in my childhood and youth.
01:04:14I mean, just logically.
01:04:17And it is a true statement that you do not have to have abusive people in your life.
01:04:27That is a true statement.
01:04:29You do not have to have abusive people in your life.
01:04:32If a woman called me up and said, my husband is abusing me, I would say, you don't have
01:04:37to stay, you know?
01:04:38But if you do decide to leave, you know, get a therapist and make sure it's safe and, you
01:04:43know, maybe have a conversation with him, if it's safe, see if you can rescue things,
01:04:45see if you can save things, right?
01:04:52I mean, in the movies that I saw, there was never that conversation that happened between
01:04:58the dissatisfied wife and her husband.
01:05:00There was never that conversation that happened.
01:05:03She just, I got to throw myself out the window.
01:05:05I've got to leave.
01:05:06Run, run, run, right?
01:05:07I've got to get out.
01:05:16So what I talked about from the very beginning was eminently in line with society's values,
01:05:23was eminently reasonable, and I never told anyone to leave their family.
01:05:32And I suggested, if it's safe, sit down and have a conversation.
01:05:35Always recommended that.
01:05:37Sit down, have a conversation.
01:05:38See if you can work things out.
01:05:39See if you can be heard.
01:05:41See if you can maybe get apologies.
01:05:42See if you can maybe find ways to change things and, right, move in a better way going forward.
01:05:46This was always said at the very beginning.
01:05:49No exceptions.
01:05:50Well, one exception.
01:05:52I always have to put in the one asterisk.
01:05:54I remember where I was when I had this.
01:05:56I call in with a guy who was drinking himself to death, and he had four kids.
01:06:01Every time he saw his parents, he would get involved in blackout drinking,
01:06:05and it was extremely dangerous for his health.
01:06:08And so I said, stop seeing them.
01:06:11Get to a therapist and stop seeing them until you can figure out how to be with them without
01:06:15getting blackout drunk, which was, and I think he drove, if I remember rightly, too.
01:06:18So it was a really, really bad situation.
01:06:20And one time, one time, 20 years, right?
01:06:23Which I don't regret at all, and I think was the right thing for him.
01:06:28So all of that, eminently reasonable.
01:06:32A lot of it twisted and distorted, of course, by whatever, whatever, right?
01:06:36And listen, I'm, you know, this is my understanding of everything that I said and did,
01:06:41and my reasoning and my arguments and my perspectives.
01:06:44And is this, and tell me if I've got anything wrong or you remember anything differently.
01:06:51Perfectly happy to hear.
01:06:53Let me know if I have a, I don't know what, perfectly accurate.
01:06:57Do I have a reasonably accurate?
01:06:59Hit me with a Y or N.
01:07:02Do I have a reasonably accurate view of what I've talked about for 20 years?
01:07:14Let me know.
01:07:15And as I'm sort of waiting for that to come in, what I'm seeing now is not seeing parents
01:07:28is a really common thought.
01:07:34It's discussed openly.
01:07:35It's discussed objectively.
01:07:37It's discussed rationally.
01:07:41And I'm like,
01:07:49why, why did I get special treatment?
01:07:54Because, you know, as a philosopher, you're kind of, your job is to be first.
01:07:58Right.
01:07:58Because, because you, you work from first principles rather than from empiricism,
01:08:02which means it's really your only chance to be original.
01:08:07If you work with empiricism, everyone else gets to see the same things.
01:08:09If you work from first principles, like everyone can see the theory of relatively now,
01:08:14you can even put planes up with atomic clocks and see that they lose time when
01:08:17they fly fast around the world.
01:08:20So, but if you work from first principles, you get to be truly original.
01:08:23If you work empirically, a lot of other people are going to see it at the same time.
01:08:28Like the first pill costs a billion dollars.
01:08:31The second pill is a buck.
01:08:32Right.
01:08:37So, sort of, there's an example of a case that I made that was considered, you know,
01:08:42just the worst conceivable thing in the known universe back in the day.
01:08:48And now is discussed very openly with almost no controversy.
01:08:57I don't know.
01:09:06Maybe there's something about me that is just especially enraging to people.
01:09:10I think there is.
01:09:11I mean, I think objectively there is.
01:09:14Right.
01:09:16What was it?
01:09:17I mean, it's what the guy said on X, that my only crime,
01:09:21Steph's only crime was being too early.
01:09:23Right.
01:09:27But I think there is, I stomp on the toothpaste tube.
01:09:38Then everybody says, we've got to get the toothpaste back in.
01:09:40And he's a bad guy.
01:09:40And then everyone just uses the toothpaste.
01:09:42It's not a great analogy, but I think you sort of understand.
01:09:45Ironic philosophers who are too early become the late philosopher.
01:09:49You know, there is that aspect too, right?
01:09:51There's that aspect too.
01:09:57So I think, you know, I mean,
01:10:00I like to think that there are things that are uniquely lovable about me.
01:10:04I think so.
01:10:05I mean, for those who, you know, want the truth and virtue and so on.
01:10:08Right.
01:10:10But I think that there are aspects about me that for some people
01:10:21bring great affection and perhaps loyalty.
01:10:24But there are things about me that for other people bring massive rage and attack.
01:10:34But it's not enraging for everyone.
01:10:35Nothing you ever said has made me respond with anger.
01:10:38Yeah.
01:10:40Yeah.
01:10:42Yeah.
01:10:47Somebody says, oh, this is regarding your parents.
01:10:49No admittance of childhood abuse or neglect or attempts at leveraging her wishes.
01:10:54Over any care, what I think or feel about anything.
01:10:58Sorry, that's a bit confusing.
01:11:00Yeah.
01:11:00Taking herself out of my life before I kick them out.
01:11:03It's not been any loss of my life, to be honest.
01:11:06I'm not sure it's you.
01:11:07It's the arguments that hit deep in people's cores.
01:11:12Well, I suppose, you know, when a new idea comes along, you know,
01:11:14one of the things that I talk about in real time relationships,
01:11:18as well as peaceful parenting is that parents have generally assumed that
01:11:22society is always going to herd wayward children back to them.
01:11:24Right.
01:11:24The child tries to get away.
01:11:26Society will attack and shame.
01:11:27Oh, she's your mother.
01:11:28Oh, she's your father.
01:11:29And bring the children back no matter what.
01:11:31Right.
01:11:32Force the children back, ostracize the children into going back or make the
01:11:35children feel bad enough that the children just feel like they have to go back.
01:11:44I mean, I, you know, people say to me, Steph, you're still so angry at your mother.
01:11:47And it's like, not really.
01:11:48No.
01:11:49I actually was watching a part of a documentary called The Savage Peace,
01:11:55which was about what happened to the German population after the end of the
01:12:01Second World War went up as a 12 million were, well, anyway, it was just absolutely
01:12:05horrendous, especially what happened when the Russian soldiers were given
01:12:08free pass to rape all the German women from like eight to 80.
01:12:13It was just absolutely horrendous.
01:12:15Right.
01:12:16Not like the kids were responsible for any of this stuff.
01:12:18And of course, this was the environment that my mother was in.
01:12:25And I have great sympathy for what my mother went through as a child.
01:12:30I'm sure that what she went through as a child was about as bad as any human
01:12:34being could possibly conceive of.
01:12:41It doesn't fix my childhood, but it gives me some sympathy for what she went through.
01:12:45And of course, I didn't know any of this until quite recently.
01:12:53So, no, I'm not.
01:12:56And people say, well, you know, Steph, you're angry at your mother, and therefore
01:13:00you have these negative views of family.
01:13:01And it's like, I love my family.
01:13:03The family I chose, my wife and my daughter, the family that I chose.
01:13:06We just spent the entire day together.
01:13:10And it was wonderful.
01:13:12My daughter and I are going to go for a bike ride tonight and chat for an hour or two.
01:13:16It's lovely.
01:13:19She was sitting behind me in the car, my wife was driving, and she just occasionally
01:13:22puts these tiny tickles on the top of my little fuzz on my head.
01:13:26I'm like, it was very funny.
01:13:29It's very funny.
01:13:29So then I, of course, take out my watch and reach back to try and grab her legs.
01:13:32And she scoots all over the backseat.
01:13:33It's really, it's really fun.
01:13:35So, I don't know.
01:13:38Somebody says, I agree the arguments can be gut-wrenching, especially because of the
01:13:41straightforward and empirical nature of your show.
01:13:43Yeah.
01:13:44Yeah, so, I think a lot of parents treat children badly because they assume that no matter how
01:13:51badly they treat their children, society is going to herd them back, as often was the
01:13:55case of the parents who are abusive or negative or destructive or harmful or toxic or whatever,
01:13:59that those parents themselves got herded back to their own parents by societal ostracism
01:14:02and, oh, but it's your family and all of that, right?
01:14:04And, you know, I get called cult-like and it's like, but the idea that you can't possibly
01:14:09get out of abusive relationships and have to stay in them forever, no matter how bad
01:14:12they are, isn't that kind of cult-like?
01:14:15That seems to be much more cult-like than have a conversation with people and talk to
01:14:19a therapist if you have family issues.
01:14:23And, you know, some families have taken great advantage of what I've talked about.
01:14:26I mean, I've had conversation, I remember I had a conversation over the phone with a
01:14:31therapist.
01:14:32I remember I had a conversation a while ago with a mother who was thanking me for what
01:14:37I had done in terms of her family.
01:14:39I talked to one of her kids, the kids got them all into therapy, family therapy and
01:14:43so on, and there was massive progress and, you know, real reconciliation and apologies
01:14:48and hugs and that's beautiful.
01:14:50Absolutely beautiful.
01:14:52Absolutely beautiful.
01:14:54That's, I mean, the idea that there could be family reconciliation and healing is the
01:14:58most beautiful thing that I could think of.
01:15:02You know, if parents treated kids badly and then they apologize, make restitution, figure
01:15:06out how not to have it happen again, go to family therapy and everybody connects and
01:15:09there's trust and beautiful, I couldn't be happier.
01:15:12I think that's, to me, that's always the very best outcome.
01:15:15Always.
01:15:16In particular because, you know, the kids need their grandparents.
01:15:21I mean, it's a shame that my daughter will not meet my mother.
01:15:25It's a shame.
01:15:31But now it's just a topic that people talk about and it's quite common and it's well
01:15:37understood and people talk about it with great sympathy and nobody's damning the kids and
01:15:42the people who make this, the people who make these arguments are not attacked as cultish
01:15:50or it's just, I don't know.
01:15:52I gotta tell you, occasionally it does twist my grits a little bit.
01:15:55I tell you, just be honest with you.
01:15:57I mean, I want to be direct and clear with you.
01:15:59I mean, it does twist my grits sometimes to see topics that I got absolutely flambéed
01:16:04for just discussed with no particular controversy.
01:16:09My God.
01:16:10My God.
01:16:15My God, what have I done?
01:16:24All right.
01:16:24Let me see if you have any more questions or problems.
01:16:44Well, and you know, I mean, my reputation got pretty, pretty savaged for talking about
01:16:49things that are fairly commonplace now.
01:16:54Again, on X, you know, the stuff that I talked about that people were just like, this is
01:16:58the most appalling, horrifying, terrifying, negative, destructive thing in the known universe
01:17:02and people are just talking about it now like it ain't no thing.
01:17:05But of course, nobody ever circles back and says, oh yeah, you know, I'm sorry.
01:17:10Sorry about that.
01:17:11My bad.
01:17:12Shouldn't have done that.
01:17:14Shouldn't have done that.
01:17:15Near, far, wherever you are.
01:17:32All right.
01:17:45And the last questions are, you are a Canadian icebreaker, Stef.
01:18:00It would be ideal for you to get the credit, but the effect is what counts.
01:18:03Hopefully you can take solace in that.
01:18:05Yes, I do.
01:18:07And you know, I get that there's a plus and an honour in being first.
01:18:14But sometimes I wish the price was just a smidge lower.
01:18:19All right.
01:18:22Somebody says, my son will probably never meet my mum or dad.
01:18:24They won't discuss or apologize for my childhood.
01:18:26My wife's parents have checked out and in some ways worse.
01:18:28I'm sorry to hear that.
01:18:29I really am.
01:18:30I mean, I can't imagine.
01:18:32I mean, if my daughter has issues with me, I mean, I ask her, you know, am I doing well?
01:18:38Anything I can do better or anything I can change?
01:18:40Anything like that, right?
01:18:44You're at the top of the normal distribution curve of truth.
01:18:46The average is five to 10 years behind.
01:18:49Well, I think it used to be a lot longer, right?
01:18:51Used to be a lot longer.
01:19:00I think people are enraged by you because you precisely strip lies away.
01:19:04Generally, the practical logic and moral principles you stand for, they would agree with,
01:19:10but refuse to manifest in themselves.
01:19:12Maybe because of what their conscious mind would do to them.
01:19:15Yeah.
01:19:16I've never, honestly, I've never really gotten why it's so hard for people to apologize.
01:19:22I don't, I've never really gotten, like, maybe this is, you know,
01:19:26my Christian upbringing, like we all fall short of the glory of God, right?
01:19:34We all fall short of the glory of God.
01:19:35We all fall short of morality.
01:19:38I'm a pretty good guy.
01:19:39I still have things to apologize for.
01:19:42And I just, I just don't get why it's so hard for people to apologize.
01:19:47I don't, I don't understand it.
01:19:50I don't.
01:19:50Maybe I'll do a whole show on this.
01:19:52Or do you think low IQ people can be manipulative?
01:19:55Oh, yeah.
01:19:56I mean, in fact, manipulation tends to concentrate upon low IQ people,
01:20:00because they can't win arguments.
01:20:01So they just have to be emotionally manipulative.
01:20:03Yeah, for sure.
01:20:04For sure.
01:20:09No, it's funny.
01:20:10I honestly think that if I could undo the last 20 years and be reincarnated in the present,
01:20:16I could make the arguments that I made back then.
01:20:18And people would be like, well, yeah, that's obvious.
01:20:25All right.
01:20:26Do you think part of the reason that the same or similar subjects are more readily accepted
01:20:30is because of less empiricism present in the other personalities?
01:20:34What?
01:20:35Maybe if people frame the facts as their opinion,
01:20:38then the audience may pick and choose their allegiances instead of feeling morally compelled to act.
01:20:44Oh, because I sort of make the case from reason, evidence, and first principles?
01:20:53Yeah, I don't know.
01:20:54Yeah, I mean, I think that one of the flaws, so to speak,
01:20:59is that I am very sort of rational and empirical,
01:21:02make the case from first principles.
01:21:04And therefore, it's not an opinion.
01:21:07It has a kind of compulsion to it or a compulsion behind it
01:21:14that is different than if it was just my opinion.
01:21:21And maybe I would have been wiser to put forward as an opinion,
01:21:32but because it was unarguable from first principles.
01:21:36Like, you know, the IQ stuff.
01:21:37I interviewed 17 or 18 world experts on it from the left and the right and whatever.
01:21:42I obviously didn't want to put forward anything that wasn't valid or wasn't true, right?
01:21:47So I always had sources for my presentations and all of that.
01:21:53And maybe if I'd put things more forward as,
01:21:55oh, this is just an opinion, this is kind of work for me,
01:21:57as opposed to, you know, here's the rational and moral arguments from first principles
01:22:01and all of the evidence and all the science and all that,
01:22:04maybe there would have been less blowback.
01:22:06But then it also is not a, you know,
01:22:09I hate making a weaker case when there's a stronger case to make, right?
01:22:17I just, I'd rather keep my reputation with my conscience
01:22:25than sacrifice it for the approval of corrupt people.
01:22:28Like, I'd rather have a good reputation with myself
01:22:30and a bad reputation in the world than vice versa.
01:22:33Because I can ignore the world, I can't ignore my own conscience.
01:22:36So I'd much rather have a good relationship with my own conscience
01:22:39than be approved of by the people eager to squeal on their neighbors
01:22:43for having three cars in the driveway during COVID.
01:22:47You know, the vile specimens that always think they are Oscar Schindler
01:22:52when they probably would end up being Nazis.
01:22:59I don't see any more ways people could be outraged.
01:23:01I don't know if there is anything further to unmask that you haven't covered.
01:23:05Is that my lack of imagination?
01:23:06Oh yeah, there's more.
01:23:07Yeah, there's more.
01:23:08There's more.
01:23:09Oh yes, there's more.
01:23:11But I've worked, we worked the black seam together.
01:23:18So I've worked in the trenches under shellfire since I was 15 years old.
01:23:25And then I quit when I was 56, 55, 56.
01:23:30Quit politics.
01:23:31Because I did 40 years.
01:23:33I did 40 years in the trenches, fighting hard.
01:23:35I mean, I didn't just emerge in this sort of political realm
01:23:39when I started becoming a public figure.
01:23:40I mean, I've been arguing politics all the way from high school
01:23:43through theater school through,
01:23:46I guess one of the reasons they turned on me in theater school
01:23:48is because they recognized, they realized
01:23:49that I was like a free market capitalist and so on.
01:23:52And they were mostly a bunch of hard lefties as far as I saw.
01:23:56So I fought through theater school.
01:23:57I fought through English degree.
01:23:59I fought through a history degree.
01:24:00I fought in my graduate school.
01:24:04I fought to get companies to do the right thing when I was employees.
01:24:07I fought to do the right thing when I was a manager and business owner.
01:24:11And it was just battles, man, just battles.
01:24:15And then I became a public figure and I was just like,
01:24:18after 40 years, man, that was good, man.
01:24:21You don't keep soldiers into their dotage, right?
01:24:25So yeah, there's absolutely more stuff that I could say.
01:24:30Probably even more controversial than I did in the past,
01:24:32but unfortunately the world generally only punishes the truth tellers
01:24:38and maybe you get rewards.
01:24:41Maybe rewards accrue to your great-grandchildren.
01:24:47So there's no point forever being so far ahead
01:24:53that all you end up with is arrows in the back
01:24:55and your face in the mud.
01:24:58No, I did my 40 years.
01:25:00I did my 40 years and I'm very happy to have done it.
01:25:03I regret nothing.
01:25:06Really, I regret nothing.
01:25:08And yeah, there's more, but that's going to be for others.
01:25:11I don't want to take all the glory myself.
01:25:14It's going to be for others.
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