0:00 - Birthday Reflections
5:07 - Technical Glitches
6:05 - Bitcoin and Digital Wealth
10:58 - Interview Insights
14:42 - Defining Concepts
20:58 - Predictions and Validations
31:48 - The Nature of Femininity
40:35 - Core Beliefs and Self-Discovery
45:00 - The Role of Parenting
57:42 - Future Outlook and Resilience
1:04:45 - Closing Thoughts and Farewells
In this special livestream episode, I celebrate my 58th birthday with all of you—what a surreal milestone! We dive deep into a variety of topics, including updates on my work, reflections on age, and amusing anecdotes about my experiences, such as my recent massage that alternated between caressing and near disassembly. As I explore the unexpected challenges of introducing new workout routines, I also engage with my audience, embracing both questions and birthday wishes.
I share exciting news about the Spanish version of my "Peaceful Parenting" program, which is now available at freedomain.locals.com. This condensed adaptation aims to reach and connect with a broader audience. I encourage everyone to share this resource, hoping it resonates with Spanish-speaking communities and creates deeper conversations around parenting.
As we journey through the evening, I touch upon numerology and its curious connections with personal growth and innovation; the discussion widens to themes of success, responsibility, and the perception of age. I reflect on my position in the podcasting space, acknowledging the highs and lows of the past year, and the ongoing challenges of maintaining the show amidst tough economic conditions.
Engaging in a lively dialogue, I dissect the current political climate, the roles of ideology in shaping society, and reflect on the notion of truth-telling in a world often filled with denial. I express my belief that many topics I’ve predicted over the years—ranging from economic trends to social attitudes—have proven insightful, even prophetic, while stressing the importance of free speech and personal responsibility.
The second half of the podcast delves into a myriad of questions—tackling enduring debates like the complexities around forgiveness, the role of parenting in shaping future generations, and the fabric of societal expectations. My conversational tone remains open and inviting as I navigate these issues, always seeking honesty and depth in the discussions.
Wrapping up, I express profound gratitude for the support of all who have followed my work over the years. Whether through challenging norms or evoking thought on difficult subjects, I aim to champion critical thinking and personal empowerment. I invite everyone to remain engaged and reflective as we look toward the future, hoping to spark meaningful discussions that can endure beyond the show. As I prepare to blow out the candles, I feel a renewed sense of purpose and excitement for what lies ahead. Thank you for joining me on this birthday celebration, and for being part of this ongoing philosophical journey.
[0:00] Yo! Flash livestream, which means you get NippleFest. It is the 24th of September, 2024. 2-4-0-9-2-4! And it is my birthday. I am 58 years old, which feels pretty surreal, because I don't look a day over 59.999. 57.999. Rounding up. So, yes, thank you for dropping by tonight for a little bit of celebration. If you'd like to tip ye relatively old philosopher, freedomain.com. You can tip right here on the Appy Apps. I am here to give you any updates that you want. I am here to tell you where things are. Also here to tell you that at freedomain.locals.com, there is the Spanish version of peaceful parenting. The Spanish version of Peaceful Parenting. That's right.
[0:57] Peaceful Parenting with a sombrero is now out. It is the condensed version, so send it to your Espanol friends and we can hopefully get that going in that community as well. The spanish version of peaceful parenting soon to be available at peacefulparenting.com for right now you go to freedomain.locals.com and i really really appreciate you sort of sharing and spreading that news and thoughts and process and action and let's see what people have to say happy birthday thank you dropping by happy birthday thank you dropping by uh what does it see here the number 58 called the world conqueror wants to conquer the world with its new and innovative ideas that come out with considerable force. The 58 slash 4 vibration has enormous growth potential due to the built-in Fibonacci series 5, 8, and 13 slash 4, also known as punk rhythm. It is a number seen in the numerology charts of companies that have overnight success. Well, I think it's fairly safe to say that I have not had overnight success. The combination of the number five, which is the curious mind that seeks, that loves new knowledge. The number eight, which is intellectual strength and discernment. And 13 slash four, which stands for genius and innovation, gives the person a unique blend of mental qualities. Apparently only this year, though. It's all over after this year.
[2:26] 15 slash 8 is often mentally open-minded, hard-working, and thinks out of the box.
[2:32] That's right. I remember when I first emerged from my mother 58 years ago, I thought, now I can think outside the box.
[2:43] I'm going to hell, but at least we'll all be together. At least we'll all be together. Uh, you have the number wrong. I mean, look at the guy, he's 48. I would say, I would say that I was not aging terribly badly. Not aging terribly badly. I went for a massage, or I was gifted a massage for my birthday, and I went, and masseuses have two settings. You know, light caress or human disassembly. It's either like a bunch of mosquitoes landing on your skin or they're trying to turn you inside out by sucking out the bone marrow through the inside of an 1812 cannon. Anyway, I happened to hit on the pendulum of a little too light on the touch there. I like a massage until like little rivulets of blood fall out of my eyes. That's what I like. I like a massage where it's like the ancestors are beckoning and you're like, Like, right on the edge there. Like, whatever's just going to absolutely kill me, just take it back 0.1%. And that's my massage. So, I had a nice massage. And the guy was like, oh, your neck's a little tense here. And, you know, so start doing some of these particular back exercises. So, I started incorporating those into my workout. And let me tell you, it's really sad. Because when you do the same kind of weights for a while, you're kind of okay with them. you throw in one new thing and your body's like, I'm sorry, we don't do that.
[4:08] We're going to need a requisition three to six months ahead of time in order to build up any kind of muscle fiber. All we're going to do is hurt right now. If you step outside of the train track of your regular set of exercises, we will punish you in ways you haven't seen in quite some time. So, very exciting.
[4:30] Happy birthday, Steph. Steph, I remember dialing into your birthday show last year and seems like it was yesterday. Oh, my trouble. Okay, the year has flown by so quickly. You're getting older, but you keep getting better. How do you do it? Your drive and consistency is inspiring. The quality and performance of your interviews and live stream monologues continues to get better as you age. You are an inspiration to us all. I know I speak for thousands of your supporters when I say that you are revered and we love you. Thank you so much, my friend. I kiss you back in cyberspace. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much.
[5:08] Wait, has this not started? Has this not started? Yeah, this has started. This has started. Yes, right. Oh, I've just seen the logo. Well, why are we not running? Why are we not running, it says. Oh, my gosh.
[5:34] Boy, you'd think I'd know how to do this by now. You'd think I'd know how to do this by now. But apparently not. Apparently, I just hit the go live and don't need to turn on my microphone or anything. Isn't that exciting? Sorry about that. A little bit of a hiccup here, but we are good. We are good. We are back. We are live. We are cooking with gas. And thank you, thank you, thank you for dropping by today, 24th of September, 2024. And I'm just going to continue you going. I did a few minutes without realizing that there was a switch, which I had not flippant.
[6:05] So thank you, thank you, thank you for joining me tonight. Happy to take questions, comments, happy to give you an update on where things are as a whole, and love, well, love where Bitcoin's at. A little pump on my birthday, the universe aligning to give us all a tiny smidge of digital wealth. And what are we at? 86, 633 as of now. So welcome, welcome, welcome. And thank you for dropping by. It is a great privilege and a pleasure to chat with you this evening. And if you have comments, questions, I suppose I'm happy to give you an update on the show. I'm happy to give you an update on my life. Should such a thing be of interest to you, I am happy to take questions as a special present to you I will try to turn no questions away.
[6:58] I got a nice haircut I didn't actually although I need one I have these weird little tufties things that come up I have like four square inches of good hair and pretty much has over the course of my life it was always kind of scrubby on top kind of scrubby on the side I get this pubic hair sideburn thing going but there were nice little flows here which I tied back into a ponytail tale many moons ago.
[7:24] I think we got sound cooking. No, still no sound? Gamma, you can do it. There we go. All right, there's your sound.
[7:34] So there you should have sound now. I don't know why. It just didn't seem to switch to the right sound thing.
[7:41] So as far as the show goes, things are cooking along just fine. It's nice doing some external interviews from time to time. That's nice. I just did almost six hours with Keith Knight, so we spread that over the week, last week, and they are being released at freedomain.locals.com and subscribestore.com slash freedomain.
[8:05] So you can find those there. We're going to put them all in one blob, and we covered every topic under sun and moon. He was really, really good at the interviews, in my humble opinion. Great questions and challenging questions, exciting questions. Questions and as is generally my commitment I try not to give answers I've given before I try and that's just part of a brain thing it's a conversation thing do you find that you do this sometimes that you get into these grooves of speaking you just kind of get into these grooves of speaking and it just goes a little bit on autopilot I do my absolute very very best to try I not to have anything like that? I really, really try to make sure that I'm not on autopilot. That's very, very important to me as a whole. So new questions, new answers, new approaches, and I think that you will like that. Anthony says, the interviews were dense with wisdom. I have to give each of them many more listens, especially enjoyed number two. Thank you.
[9:12] How did you find Keith? I'm also curious, how did the interview set up? Did he reach out to you, anyone you'd want to talk to? Well, I mean, I do miss debating. I really did enjoy that debating thing. And I was fairly good at it, I think. But, you know, unfortunately, there just aren't people who will find much profit in debating me because of that sort of, you know, the whole lies and slander stuff. But, yeah, so he reached out to me. I said he had a whole series of questions to ask and all of that. So.
[9:45] Uh let's see here yeah sorry about the sound i really should know this by now but apparently every now and then my brain's just like yeah we're good i don't need to check anything we're fine we're fine we're fine so uh yeah i really do appreciate all of your birthday wishes i will not read through each one will you ever debate andrew wilson i'm not sure that it would be particularly productive so i i would rather debate people i have strong moral disagreements with rather than what would be ontological morals based or maybe metaphysics uh based uh disagreements i would rather debate people who you know vehement like maybe atheists who vehemently disagree with upb or something like that which i've sort of done before but that would be those would be fun Those would be fun debates. But with Andrew Wilson, I think that there would not be enough of a difference for us to have much of an enjoyable or fun debate.
[10:58] So yeah so with regards to the show i'm pretty pleased with where things are i tried to do that sort of year in review and i've done a lot of good shows a lot of great live streams a lot of enjoyable and entertaining conversations i finished of course peaceful parenting and then i worked very hard on the shortened version of peaceful parenting and i've started I did a new book, which I'm really enjoying. It's a fiction work set in reverse to show how little decisions at the beginning lead to big disasters later on. So I'm working on all of that. And the finances of the show are okay. Okay. I mean, we've lost some subscribers. The economy is just brutal on people.
[11:45] And because the economy is brutal on people, they just, they need to eat. Obviously, you know, there's an old saying from, oh gosh, Erasmus, who said, whenever I get any money, I buy books. And after that, if there's any leftover, I aim for food and shelter. And so I do recognize that the economy is bad, trying to cut back on costs on the show to make sure that we stay in the black, which means obviously income above expenses. But yeah it's it's tough it's tough i sympathize and i understand where people are coming from and again if there's anything you could do to help out it's fantastic but obviously food is important and if you have kids their needs are important and all of that so.
[12:30] All right. I think you and Liquid Zulu would have a great debate at UPB. He's an ANCAP with objectivist roots. He endorses natural law. I would reach out to him if that interests you. Yeah, if you'd like to do a debate on ethics, I think that would be great. Where are you on Christianity these days? Did you read that one Catholic book from a while back? No, I have not. Nothing in particular has changed with regards to Christianity. Massive respect for most of the belief system, but I still remain committed to empiricism. And... A pure reason when it comes to philosophy as a whole. So let me just see here, other questions and comments. Yeah, the autopilot thing, it's bad. It is like time deducted from your life. An autopilot in you or me brings out autopilot in other people, which is not a lot of fun for everyone, right? With regards to my life, things are great. My daughter's career, such as it is, is humming along, long and uh marriage is great friendships are great and i was thinking of setting up maybe a meetup in mississauga next month anybody's around that would be fun to meet up and all of that and so the show is going well although again the economics are a little tough i will be renewing my long subscription to free domain on local shortly i appreciate that i appreciate that.
[13:59] And let's see here. I've not been to church. Oh, have I been to church recently? Oh, not too long ago. Somebody says, how to know the difference between an ostensible maxim and an objective maxim? Do you think Ayn Rand would have created axioms if she were male? A part of me wants to question axioms. An ostensible maxim and an objective maxim. So here's Human Communication 101. Never assume that anybody knows what you're talking about. I mean, that's philosophy, right? So if you were to say to me, what is the difference between un-extensible quote maxim and objective maxim? I'm not sure what the definition of extensible is.
[14:43] I'm not sure what the definition of objective is, although I generally know what it is. Maybe it means something different to you. And I'm not sure what you mean by maxim. And then I'm not sure what you mean by axiom. I'm pretty sure I know what you mean by male. and so on right so in general this is sort of human communication 101 particularly with complex abstract topics don't assume anybody.
[15:14] Knows what you're talking about and start with definitions because otherwise people are just going to pick whatever they want to talk about like there's an old thing about talking with the media when the media asks you a question that you don't want to answer you simply reframe it and talk about what you want to talk about, and so when you talk about, well, what's the difference between ostensible and objective maxims, and so on, right? Axioms, my general way of approaching axioms is...
[15:46] That they are beliefs that would be recognizable by everyone without, I mean, unless you are being completely perverse. So Descartes' argument that, look, you exist, you exist, everything else could be a fantasy, but you absolutely exist. I exist. He said, I exist, right? And he writes that down and he sends that to other people. So, an axiom would be something like, when you're having a debate with someone, the axioms would be, I exist, let's say you're having a debate with me, I exist, you exist, objective reality exists between us, we both inhabit objective reality, reason is better than force, language has meaning, and arguments that are in accordance with reason and evidence are victorious over those that are opposed to it. by reason and evidence.
[16:45] So those would be axioms. They don't exist, obviously, in objective reality like a tree does, but an axiom is something that you have to accept in order to move to the next stage of a conversation or a debate, right? I mean, it would be kind of crazy for someone to debate with me and say, Steph, you don't exist. It's like, well, you just referred to me by my name, you are directing an argument at me, and so you have to accept that I exist in order for all of that to work, right?
[17:17] You go for something in Mississauga? Yeah. What would it take to get you back to Australia? Or did we burn that bridge?
[17:28] I loved my time in Australia. I had such a blast in Australia. It was exciting. It was vivid. It was memorable. You know, I will never, ever look back at 2018 and say, gee, I wonder what I was doing that week. Like, I know exactly, you know, some of these weeks, they kind of blur together a little bit. But, oh, another call in. Oh, I do some more Q&A, another live stream. I mean, the content is great and all that, but it does blur a little bit sometimes. And so I love having those bookmarks in time where it's like, yep, we've been doing that. We're absolutely doing that.
[18:05] And I never got paid. It was pretty funny. It was pretty funny. I had these big contracts and so on, and just never got paid. Never got paid never got paid yeah I you know I did the people who are running it were well I'm sure you can come up with your own epithets for me right so mmm, mmm all right so get back to Australia I mean I don't know I don't know I don't I mean, I don't know. It's funny because Australia was six years ago. Gosh, that's wild. So Australia was six years ago. So this is the big question. And I don't know the answer to this, obviously. So I'm curious what you guys think. I'm eager to hear what you guys think. So do you think over time that people are accepting that I was right?
[19:06] Over time, in other words, let's say I came back to Australia, right? Do people think that I'm more right now, six years later, or I'm less right? Because, of course, I made a lot of predictions. I mean, what are the predictions that I made? Well, I made the prediction that Bitcoin was going to be a value. I made the prediction that mass immigration was going to cause a lot of problems. I made the argument that the national debt was not going to be paid down. I made the argument that global warming was not the catastrophe that it was portrayed as since the 90s. You know, it's just a wide variety of sort of predictions and arguments. I made the case in the argument that power corrupts and government power was going to increase and escalate. I made the argument that personal change in your own life is superior to political action. So, I mean, I made tons of arguments about the world and the future and life as a whole. So, I guess that's the question is, do you think that people think that I'm more right or less right now?
[20:33] So that is an interesting question am i a prophet ahead of his time or a crazy guy disproven by the inevitable much of facts right, well i of course said that the welfare state was going to be used to half destroy western civilization i said that single motherhood would increase i said the tensions between the sexes were going to increase.
[20:59] I said that there was going to be more propaganda in the government school system, and so on, right?
[21:12] So, oh, you guys still just getting the rumble thing? What is going on with our tech? What is going on with our tech? I promise you it's running. I really do. All right, let me just take a pause here. Video working. King?
[21:35] Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Video working. All right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, so I said that COVID was going to be a very big deal politically, but I personally did not feel it was that dangerous. From a health standpoint, I, of course, did not take the, quote, vaccines, right? So, I mean, how much did I get right and how much did I get wrong? I mean, I think I bat fairly well. I think I bat fairly well with regards to these things. I also said that a lot of the people who would have opposed me would have opposed me because they were predators upon children. Hey, look at that. Every time you open Twitter, it seems that there's more people being outed for preying upon children. Thank you for watching.
[22:44] I said that dating single moms is probably not an ideal situation, so I did the R versus K selection material, which has been absolutely validated. I said that the welfare state and government spending and borrowing produces an R-selected environment for K-selected people, which means that single motherhood is going to increase. and so on. I talked about femininity being more on the left and masculinity being more on the right and as the divide between the ideologies widens, so will the divide in ideologies between men and women, which is certainly happening, particularly among the young. The young males are getting more right-wing, the young females are getting more left-wing, and so on. So, I mean, what can I tell you? What can I tell you? so i think i think i've done fairly well with regards to these things, but the question is does anyone uh notice or care i also said that uh in in presidential debates they're never going to talk about the national debt i also talked about the national debt driving mental illness because mental ill like rationality is when you come up against limitations and you have to weigh costs and benefits and that's what reason is for right Because the economy is because of things that are limited. Human desires are infinite, resources are always finite.
[24:14] So endless borrowing and money printing is going to drive people crazy because they don't have any limitations.
[24:23] And when you don't feel like you have any limitations, that puts you in the territory of psychosis. Psychotics think they can fly and live forever and talk to Jesus. So all limitations are lifted from their minds. and as you lift limitations from human life, people get more and more mentally ill. I also said, and I did a video many years ago called The Myth of Mental Illness, about how there didn't seem to be much evident for the SSRI sort of theory, and that seems to have been disproven many years later. So, I mean, I don't want to sort of go on and on, but I think we... I also talked about IQ and its relationship to antisocial behavior. That has been pretty well established in social sciences now. The lower IQ, the higher gender tends to be the antisocial behavior. So I think it's been pretty, I think it's been pretty well validated, the stuff that I've talked about. But the question is, you know, when you slander someone, it's very hard to admit they were right. Because if you slander someone who's right, it turns out that you're the asshole. And a lot of people who slander others can't admit that they have fault, right? Because they've raised the escalation too high, right? The punishment is too high, it's too intense. So...
[25:47] I would say that I've, I mean, obviously nobody bats a thousand, but I've done pretty well. I've done pretty well. How old am I? I am 58 years old. 58. I think my head is getting rounder. 58 years old. Tattoos, yes. I was right about tattoos as markers of mental ill health. so, so that's the question right so with regards to going back to some place like Australia well are people willing to admit that I'm right or does being right mean that people hate me more or not hate me but you know hate the truth kind of thing right I don't know, I mean I yeah I did a the truth about Israel and Palestine, I did The Truth About That, talking about how intractable the conflicts were based upon belief systems. I think that's been fairly well borne out, and so on, right? In my experience as someone, people forget the pioneers of ideas and even come back to the source to inform them. I'm not sure what that last bit means.
[27:11] But it is true that society's, you know, mad hatred for people who speak uncomfortable truths means that fewer people will speak uncomfortable truths, which means that society coasts on lies off a cliff, right? That's just the way it is. You keep punishing the truth-tellers, and then you're absolutely flying blind.
[27:35] They're absolutely flying blind. Of course, I talked about how beneficial things like exercise and other things were for things like depression. It seems to be fairly validated. I talked about therapy many, many years ago. I did a whole show with a researcher on how therapy provided more benefits than even a substantial raise, and that does seem to have been validated. So, yeah, I think I've done pretty well as far as predictions. So, yeah, so the problem is that if society just keeps attacking and punishing its pioneers, well, I mean, it's like attacking and punishing anyone who dares start a business. Well, you just end up with nobody starting businesses, and you end up with centralized power, and you end up with a bad economy, right? Somebody says, I can give you the theological reasons behind the anti-human agenda. Suffice it to say, Satan planted the idea in man's heads. The agenda never stopped. Even atheists could see the argument.".
[28:40] Do you think that if fractional reserve banking slash central banking went away, would most problems go away? Well, so it would be a massive realignment of human thinking, but it would absolutely be to everybody's mental health. To everybody's mental health. Sanity would return when limitations return. Power drives men mad and drives women mad. Central banking and fiat currency is such an awesome power. It's really second only to the power of indoctrinating children. The power of indoctrinating children is perhaps the greatest power in the world.
[29:26] So, certainly problems would diminish. Oh, here's another thing, too. I did a, what was it, three or four-part series on female evil back in the day, years ago. And now, I mean, there's this graph going around Twitter, which is that young men's major concern is the economy and how to get a good job and raise a family. And women's, by far, women's major concern, major number one political issue, is the right to kill their own babies.
[29:58] You know ladies you're not coming back from this there will be never be a mystique there will never be pedestalizing there will never be worship in the future that raw, devilish and you know women are propagandized and all of that but so are men but men you know this this this baying bloodlust to kill your own offspring uh is right at the core of modern and female nature and it's really tough man it's kind of hard to love women.
[30:32] Whose only real political concern is abortion and access to abortion and of course none of it makes any sense right my body my choice well what about vaccine mandates that doesn't matter well men we also like my body my choice which means we shouldn't have to be pillaged for taxes and redistribution schemes all the time. Oh, it doesn't matter either, right? So this, yeah, women, talk about destroying credibility, right? Destroying love, destroying worship. Society, after this current era, society will never worship women again, like ever. And personally, I think that's healthy in the long run because women being worshipped does drive dissociation and irrationality and anti-rationality in women. But, you know, in the same way that a lot of three-letter agencies burned up their credibility during COVID, women have taken the worship of the feminine that has built up over tens or hundreds of thousands of years and burned it to the ground in like two generations. It's wild. It's wild. It's wild.
[31:49] A nose rings like a cow sign of mental illness. Yeah, yeah, for sure. You deserve an Alex Jones with right jar. Yeah, maybe. Yeah, maybe. Introduction to female evil shows 4251, 4252 and 4256.
[32:17] Tips on discovering your core beliefs. I'm in cognitive behavioral therapy and this is one of my assignments. Is it safe to say most people are motivated by negative core beliefs that lead them to self-destructive behaviors? Well, do not assign people their own beliefs. Most people's beliefs are assigned to them by their elders. Most people's perspectives and self-image and beliefs are assigned to them by their elders. You don't, have a core belief any more than you invented the language called English. You have a core belief that is inflicted upon you by those in power, both personal, educational, political, and religious. You have a core belief that is inflicted on you by those in power in order to control and subjugate you. Your core beliefs are that which was required for your survival because threats of punishment, time theft, and ostracism were inflicted upon you if you did not follow these lies and pretend that they were true.
[33:34] So what is discovering your core beliefs? What you generally have to do is look and say, what most conveniently served the narcissism and evil of those in power over me when I was a child? Not talking necessarily about your parents, but certainly the educational system as a whole. So what was I forced to swallow and vomit up on a regular basis in order to continue to show my subjugation to the needs and preferences of those in power?
[34:11] So you know i did the show about free speech white males tend to be the most staunch free speech absolutist therefore white males have to be attacked and constantly set against themselves so that this belief does not spread, all right so yeah discovering your core beliefs what did you have to spew in order to survive what did you have to repeat in order to survive, Generally, that's all there is.
[34:41] All right, do you think there's any chance we could outgrow the debt with massive regulation cuts? Well, I would certainly say that one of the core approaches of the people against Hillary Clinton in 2015-2016 was the idea that if you get a businessman into political power, he's going to grow the economy to the point where people are going to get off the welfare state into the workforce, and there's a way then, instead of people taking out of the the system they're putting into the system there's a way to replenish the system and grow the system to the point where the debt could be possibly reduced over time that was the general idea that the debt is growing but we're going to outgrow it and so on right uh but that was all scotched with um you know counter coups and and uh covid and and all sorts of nonsense attacks and and all that kind of stuff so and then uh what happened in 2020 which i think we all pretty much understand So, I think it was definitely worth a shot, but it did not make it. I'm loving this new Steph by UPBAI thing, especially for annoying metaphysical and epistemological questions. Well, I'm very, very glad. Very, very glad. Happy to hear.
[35:53] I had a run-in online, says someone, with who I think is a young woman, one of three in one week. She took four days to ask for money. Not looking good. Says she married the wrong guy, and now she's widowed with two kids. When I said I can't help with groceries, she posts about how sad her kids are that they won't get lunch, asking for money and a guilt trip. Ah well, it was looking nice.
[36:19] Okay, bro, where is your basic sense of self-protection? So you met some young woman. She's got two kids, and you're like, yeah, let's chat. My God, man, where's any pride that you might have? I don't know. I don't know.
[36:50] Um, um let's see here do you think a hard crash landing is still inevitable if trump wins, um i think that people have been so propagandized that the level of violence on a trump victory i mean if i had to guess trump is going to win the popular and then the mail-in votes are gonna, change it and there'll be a lot of upset you know i personally wouldn't want to be you know if i had the choice, maybe 51-49. I wouldn't want to be right downtown in a major U.S. city on the election. Not my particular preference, but of course, everybody can make all their own choices. All right. Thank you for the tip. I appreciate that. Very kind. Tips. Sorry, tips. Steph, you've been the voice of reason and truth and hope for at least a decade. That means so much to me. Thank you. You're welcome. I guess for the first nine years of the show, I was barking, Fucking raving mad. But, fatang, fatang, only biscuit barrel, but, at least for the last ten years I've cleaned up my act and started to become sane.
[37:56] Your abortion talk was shocking. Women want abortion so they don't have to become better people. More than the V-bomb. Yeah, for sure. Happy to make the birthday stream. Hope your day has been great so far. It has. It has. It is astonishing to me now when those who refer to war usually mention innocent women and children. The only truly innocent are the children. The pushback I get about women is really harsh. The mother I had really showed me the truth of this reality. Thank you for you for showing me the truth of war and those who perpetuate it. Yeah, it's a funny thing, you know. It's a funny thing. One of the ways in which femininity is being completely.
[38:45] Acidically, in an acidic manner, is being demystified, is women, I don't think there's been a time in history when women have had greater control over the upbringing of children. It's fair to say, right? I don't think there's been a time in history when women have had greater control, over the raising of children. I mean, tons of single mothers, women stay home, men work. Almost like 98% of early childhood educators are women. Women outvote men by a significant margin. So women have absolutely got their lacquered nails on the till of society, and they are running things from birth to grave, to a large degree.
[39:34] And, um, how are we doing? So women say, well, I'm afraid of men. Men are dangerous. Like, okay, who's, who's raising the men? Who's raising the men? Now if you say oh the men are just born dangerous like when you can't blame them then you can't blame them if we're born that way and if we're not born that way then who is to blame for men being violent young men being violent who is to blame, mothers want to take a lot of pride when their children do well and the shadow cast by that massive self-congratulatory statue is the simple fact in reality, that if you're going to take pride when a man does well, you also are going to have to take some shame when things don't go well, right? Fair to say?
[40:36] Thank you to Michael as well. I really do appreciate that. That is very kind. That is super kind, and I appreciate that. Remember, everybody who signs up will get, everybody who donates will get History of Philosophers for free. So, who's raising these men to be so violent? Oh, the men are just so aggressive. There are so many misogynists around. It's like, okay, were they raised by men or were they raised by women? Are women safer? Are women safer around men raised by women or men raised by men? That's the question. Are women safer around men raised by women or men raised by men? Again, women are far safer, multiple times safer around men raised by men than men raised by women. And they simply won't admit it. They won't say, gee, we're concerned about men and men are dangerous and men are getting more dangerous and misogyny is increasing. And okay, well, then what's changed? Well, women are more in charge of raising men.
[42:04] Women are more in charge, of childhood than ever before. Oh, this guy is really, really bad. Okay, who raised him? Well, he was raised by usually a single mother. He was in daycare, raised by female daycare teachers, and then for his primary school, he was raised by women. He probably didn't meet any kind of remote male authority figure until he was in his early to mid-teens. The personality is set pretty solid by the age of five. Who was responsible for raising these dangerous men as a whole? Almost overwhelmingly, it's women. In general, single fathers produce healthier offspring, healthier children, healthier adults. single fathers produce healthier children than single mothers.
[43:10] So, women and children is where, so this is the Schrodinger's feminist, right? It's that I want to be a strong, independent, powerful woman until responsibility comes, then I'm a victim, right? So, I run to the umbrella or penumbra of childhood when I want to portray myself as a victim. But when I want to gain credibility and I want to have kudos, then I'm a strong, independent woman, right? And all of this is all of this is just all of this manipulation is absolutely falling apart absolutely falling apart and it will never be rebuilt, never be rebuilt and i think that's healthy right the weapon of manipulation is, you're like so if you're a man you can check it's fine you're not on camera so if you're a man Then, thank you for the tip. And thank you for the birthday wishes, of course, right? So if you're a man, a boy, when you're a boy, you know, I used to go out with my friends and we'd climb trees and we'd build forts in the woods and we'd, you know, negotiate about what we could do because we were all broke and restless, right? And didn't want to be home. Most of us had single moms, just didn't want to be home. It was stressful, right?
[44:30] So we'd go out and we'd say, okay, we're going to go garbage picking, we're going to try and put bikes together, assemble bikes, various things. I remember when I was a kid in England, we would go garbage picking and we would pick up the pram wheels and we'd pick up pallets and we'd make go-karts and all this kind of cool stuff. Now, for all of that shit to work, you've got to have reason and evidence. If I said to someone, well, here's what we need to do to build this treehouse, right? We've got to go get this, we've got to get that, somebody's got to get a hammer and nails. then I'd have to make sense.
[45:00] So in order to be listened to as a man, as a boy, you have to make sense.
[45:11] But for a lot of girls, people listen to them because they sympathize, because they're cute, they're pretty, whatever, right? So they just don't have any, this is not healthy for women. They just don't have the same requirements to have to reason things through and make sense, so they don't develop those kinds of muscles, some, right? And all of this mystique is falling apart. All of this mystique is falling apart. Women abuse power. Men abuse power, women abuse power.
[45:42] Somebody says, I think since Trump couldn't fix the economy as much as we needed to grow in 2016, it definitely will be harder now in 2024 with all the immigrants and large debts. Well, I mean, some of the immigrants are economically productive, of course, right? Do you agree that most younger women just aren't ready for marriage, according to themselves, and the men are overly looked at as the problem to appeal to women? Most younger women just... Okay, so for younger women, I mean, I would ask, and I used to ask these kinds of things, and I got into a lot of trouble for it, but hey, that's nothing new, right? So when dating younger women, I would look for, do you know anything about running a household? Were you raised to be a wife? Do you know anything about parenting? And do you have a cookbook? And do you like to cook? cook because look man someone's got to make the food and generally it's not the guy who's working 10 hours a day like eight hours plus an hour commute generally it's not that guy do you have and now how many women do you know who have a cookbook and like to cook and know how to cook right how many women or do they just beep beep beep beep beep beep beep uber uber eats right right?
[46:58] The truth about crusades was a great revisit. It had been too long. Three times the Roman Empire in 150 years. Yeah, yeah. Muslim empire was pretty intense. Do you have any advice or resources for overcoming a childhood of emotional neglect? Yeah, so when someone downgrades you and somebody attacks your sense of self, the only healthy response is anger and And significant anger too. That's the only sane and healthy response is significant anger. How dare you pretend I'm worthless, you selfish son of a bitch. How dare you have a child and then instill in that child the idea that the child is uninteresting, boring, irrelevant, and worthless. You sick son of a bitch.
[47:51] Now, one of the problems with emotional neglect is, so emotional neglect is a way of making sure the child curls into a ball, hides in a hole, and doesn't bother the parent who's selfishly and narcissistically pursuing their own pleasures and doesn't really give a shit about the kid, except for as an occasional status prop, right? So emotional neglect is, you better not bother me. You're about to get fired. I don't care about you. You're worthless. Don't you're hanging by a thread kid okay okay I'll just creep around I won't bother you I won't ask for any help with the homework I won't right I'm watching my shows so the problem is with emotional neglect the first thing to go is anger right like hey lazy boy get out of the lazy boy help me with my homework you're supposed to be a parent you lazy bastard get off your fat ass and come and do some parenting.
[48:53] Jesus, what's the matter with you? You chose to have kids. You chose to keep us. Get off your fat fucking ass and do some parenting. Like, can you imagine? I'm not saying you'd swear at your parent and all that, but, you know, just in terms of the essence of. I mean, can you imagine? Well, no, right? So you have to shed your anger. But being treated as if you're worthless by people who are supposed to be raising you is one of the worst forms of abuse that there is, right? Sexual abuse, neglect, verbal, physical. Worst the least worst so i you know you have to do the opposite of what happened to you as a child in order to fight off remaining a child it's my big insight for the night it's my big birthday present to you you have to do the opposite of what was inflicted on you as a child, and continually in order to never regress back to childhood so you know if you get braces right and you've got a lot of tweaks. I think a lot of people still have to wear those retainers so that the teeth don't go back to their original place.
[50:00] So when I was a kid, I wasn't allowed to reason, I wasn't allowed to speak, and I wasn't allowed to be angry, and I wasn't allowed to be controversial, and I wasn't allowed to be loud. And I wasn't allowed to tell the truth. So how do I make sure I don't ever slide back into childhood, do the opposite of all that shit every day? Every day. Every day. Take that which tempts you to evil and use it to slingshot you to virtue. Whatever the devil tempts you with, fuck the devil by turning it into a virtue. I wasn't allowed to tell the truth. I wasn't allowed to reason. I wasn't allowed to think. I wasn't allowed to speak. I wasn't allowed to debate or argue or negotiate. shade. So fuck that. That's what I'm doing for the rest of my life. Never going back. Never going back. No, thank you.
[50:50] All right. I have been listening and learning from you for almost a decade. Well, thank you. I appreciate that. Is the whatever podcast featuring Andrew Wilson and your guilty pleasure um you know christians versus tarts men versus women smart versus often not so smart i'd like i mean i wouldn't mind seeing those guys getting a real workout and, i will sometimes watch just kind of jaw drop but it very much is the extreme i mean so one of the problems with x or other things it's not a problem with the platform it's just you know you see all of these crazy woke uh teachers uh you know with with all of their crazy stuff going on but not most teachers aren't like that right so it exposes you to the extreme and then you you you end up with skewed statistics so i i think that the whatever podcast they're dealing with a couple of percent at the extreme end of women, but by repeatedly exposing their viewers to that, the number grows in your mind. You think that there's more of those kinds of women than there actually are. Not that there aren't those women, of course, right? But.
[52:17] Steph, do you still plan on taking a trip to Italy and Greece? I would like to. It's, you know, when my daughter is grown and out in the world, things open up a little bit, right? Because she's very peer-oriented at the moment. I mean, she's 16 and it's like, hey, why don't you come spend a couple of weeks with your parents in Europe? And she's like, but peers, right? And I can completely understand that. So I think it will be still a little bit of time before that.
[52:50] All right let's see here, uh i was talking to her before she mentioned the kids i was giving her a chance to show she was better than the type the chat was nice but compassion and empathy does not equal, doormat or gullible the other two blocked as soon as money oh you blocked the other two as soon as money was brought up. I don't expect much. I already block immodest women and the urgent, desperate-sounding women. I am open to marrying if I find anything worth it. Donate it on the website. Well, thank you. But my God, man, and my friends as a whole, and I say this to myself every morning, I say this to myself every morning, so this is not in particular to you. This is something I remind myself of every morning. Up your fucking game. Up your game.
[53:50] So, what do I mean by that? What I mean by that is my big present to you, second of the night. What I mean by that is, you know. You know looking at the profile picture. You know in the first couple of interactions. You know, like that, what everyone is like. and the only way they get further into your heart and mind is because you lie to himself you lie to yourself about what you actually know, I guarantee you you look back there was something in the eyes something in the profile picture something in the about something in the interaction that told you everything you needed to know you just ignored it because horniness and prettiness and desperation or whatever right.
[54:41] You know. Well, she didn't tell me. You don't think? That's like the zebra saying, well, the lion didn't announce himself, so of course I got my ass chewed off. It's like, you don't think that zebras have evolved to figure out where the lions are? You don't think that your ancestors, all the men who successfully reproduced with relatively healthy women in terms of they weren't insane or single moms, you don't think your ancestor, to the long line of balls going back to the time before balls. You don't think that your ancestor males were able to detect healthy from unhealthy women, manipulative from honest women, exploiters from contributors, the lazy and indolent from the hardworking and focused? You don't think that your ancestors were able to determine good from evil, right from wrong, healthy from unhealthy, functional from dysfunctional? Because if any one of them had failed, you wouldn't be here and neither would I. You know everything there is to know about the woman from the first couple of seconds. Now you can choose to ignore that knowledge if you want, but then don't complain to me that you only found out later that she was a chiseling, money-hungry, single mother. Don't even try. Won't do it. I won't do it.
[56:03] Drop the bonbons and do some parenting! Yeah. Seems very common for modern parents to give zero moral guidance to their children. Yeah, for sure. For sure. That's very sad. It also amazes me how cavalier parents are about the things they say to their kids. Oh, yeah, I was talking to an acquaintance and his son went to a party where parents drop the kids off, you know, 15, 16, 17-year-olds, there was alcohol, there was drugs, and it's incomprehensible to me.
[56:40] Here's to the potential meetup well thank you i appreciate that uh or worse that our needs and feelings are an inconvenience dad would literally toss the nearest object to hand no matter the size or weight and throw it at whomever interrupted his nfl college football on tv including a crystal candy dish about 12 centimeters across yeah for sure i mean happy birthday thank you i appreciate that i appreciate that, speaking of someone who may have made it up, speaking to someone who may have made it up, claimed to have been in Roundheel's Harris psychology class when she was bragging of scoring a 78 on her IQ test. No, I don't think so. 105, 110, I can't imagine it was 78. You can kind of guess if a woman will be good or not in the first few minutes and also by looking at her social media. Yeah, for sure. Fish on.
[57:42] What country do you think will be the most insulated from the new world's altar in the next 20 years? I don't know. There's lots of people who do that kind of prepping stuff. All right. Mom involved with someone who dipped out twins at 14, 16, two months, two more later. He was 40 plus, not great genetic potential. Oh, but the emotional intelligence score makes up the difference. Yeah, emotional intelligence is a made-up consolation prize for people who aren't smart. It's very sad. It's very sad. All right, any other last questions, comments? I have a lovely evening of activities planned, but I want to drop in and say hi. And thank you, of course, for another great year of philosophy. I mean, the stuff that we're laying down on the ground is going to be great. I can't wait for the AI to figure out how my stories have been slightly different each time and nobody knows the truth. Well, of course, right? What am I talking to the FBI? Not yet. So, I appreciate that. What kind of cake? Well, you know, because I'm mostly off sugar, I thought I'd have a little indulgence, and I had a mini raspberry strudel tonight. I had a mini raspberry strudel. It's actually pretty good. Would you make another documentary film? I've watched your previous ones, and they were all great. it uh maybe maybe yeah i mean if there was a good topic if there was a good topic.
[59:09] I mean now we're in the uh hey you know anti-racists are the real racists you know boy dei doesn't make much sense wow uh people who are exploitive uh in ideology tend to be manipulative you know sort of the matt walsh territory and all of that so yeah wasn't he like uh, yeah it's really embarrassing to take a day off oh i'm gonna have to take a day off for health reasons and yeah are you planning to stay in canada for the rest of your life don't know, when the economy grows the government will just use that as collateral to borrow even more money well that's certainly that right you think the cheating will be done somebody says i think the cheating will be done now on the republican side so they can get their war with iran, yeah but i so here's a problem in life i guess, Um, so one of the problems that you have when you get into conflict with amoral people is if you have integrity and virtue and you get into conflict with amoral people, they're at an advantage because they will lie and you won't, right? So they will lie and you won't.
[1:00:30] So, it's kind of like, you know, if you have a duel, right? So, how do you kill someone in 19th century Europe, right? Or 18th century, where duels are allowed? Well, what you do is you challenge someone to a duel, and then you cheat. Right? So, instead of going 20 paces, you go 19 and a half, turn and fire. You make sure that the other guy's gun is jammed. you get your servant to shoot from the woods and and hit the guy so that nobody can see where the bullet came from like there's lots of things that you do to cheat and so if somebody's like really eager to have a duel with you then they probably have some advantage either honest or dishonest that, means that you can't win you're just going to get killed so i think that the left as a whole tends to be obviously more secular and less bound by christian ethics so if i had to put a guess i would say that more cheating happens on the left, all right do you bake using dates to replace sugar um i haven't baked in a long time i haven't baked for a long time.
[1:01:57] Uh happy birthday Stef says marie you've changed my life i'm currently making berry strudel enjoy your night well thank you i appreciate that could you speak up i think ancient jones missed, missed it i don't know what that means thank you for spending some time with your supporters on your birthday have a great night with your family thank you who surprised you most that didn't stand up for you when you got deplatformed uh honestly i really wasn't expecting anyone to stand up when i was deplatformed so uh i i i suppose i suppose i was a little surprised at some people not getting even private messages of condolences or help but uh no just uh just gone if you fight fairly by lying they pretend you have no integrity and will start to tell the truth about, innocuous things yeah for sure did you ever learn what a cocked hat was yeah i think it's a tricolor tricolor hat.
[1:02:55] Last question or two. If you have a short answer, keep having the same debate with a Christian friend about forgiveness. She keeps saying forgiveness is for the person giving it and has little to do with the person who should get it. But that is not valid. Because if forgiveness is beneficial to the person who gives it and it does not have to be earned by the person who receives it, then she has the problem in that God requires somebody to say they're sorry and make amends before forgiving that person. So she's saying that God is denying his own benefit. Why would God deny his own benefit if God is all good and all knowing and all wonderful? Then why would God deny his own benefit by failing to forgive people who hadn't earned it? That doesn't make any sense. If God is all perfect, then God is perfect at happiness. And forgiving people who didn't earn it makes you happier. then God is giving up on his own happiness which means God is not perfectly happy which means God has a flaw which means he's not all powerful and all knowing so I don't really understand what she says that she's saying that God could be a better and happier being if he forgave people who didn't earn it, no no.
[1:04:12] Forgiveness is a relationship.
[1:04:16] Forgiveness is a relationship relationship. Otherwise, you could gain ultimate joy by forgiving every evil person in the world, even though you never met them. And you could just forgive them and wave your wand and just be happy and everything would be wonderful. But that's not the way life works. I use Stevia to bake. Tasted great on oat flour cookies. I don't know. I don't like the artificial sweeteners myself. I don't, uh, I don't like the artificial sweeteners. There's nothing that's free.
[1:04:46] Happy as to birthday Steph to the best philosopher alive I hope you have a lovely night from Australia thank you I appreciate that, I remember Peter Schiff defended you publicly when you got deplatformed when it was still risky to defend you that's true that's very true, do you feel more positive about Elon running X now than the previous regime with regards to free speech would you be willing to ever return yeah Elon is absolutely a great guy when it comes to free speech Elon you know it's the white male metric right, Jack Dorsey and questionable categories but uh yeah but elon uh elon is not overseeing every decision that's made about free speech on twitter people are like well you know but that's like expecting your new date to, apologize for the bad old date and it's like no but elon is not going to sit there and saying gee i wonder what Stef posted today i'm sure that's fine let's make sure he doesn't get deplatformed that's not the guy's running three multi-billion dollar companies he's not going to concern himself with my particular account.
[1:05:43] Thank you for the tip, my friend. I appreciate that. All right. Search conquering guilt, FDRpodcast.com, conquering guilt. God operates within a framework. We as Mormons don't claim God is all-knowing and all-powerful. Yes, but if it was beneficial, like God must be adding to the happiness and virtue and positive experience of the universe, right? And so if God would add to the beneficial and positive experiences of the universe and the happiness of the universe by forgiving people who didn't earn it, then God would do that. Otherwise, God would be inflicting pain, which would make him immoral.
[1:06:21] Happy birthday, Steph. Thank you. Hope you're having a great day. And have a wonderful night with the family. Thanks for so many years of philosophy. Thank you. Remember to make a wish when you blow out the candles. Yeah, I like that. Type 2 diabetic, artificial, is my only choice. Oh, I'm sorry about that. All right. Well, thank you everyone so much for a lovely, lovely evening. Freedomain.com slash donate if you're listening to this later. I really would appreciate your help and support. It really doth mean the world to me. Thank you, Matt. I appreciate that. And if you can help out the show, I really would appreciate it. There's lots of great stuff coming your way. A couple of surprises down the road. We're working on one more AI that is replicating the call-in experience. Because apparently I'm just really keen on putting myself out of a job. so, I really really appreciate your time tonight have yourself a glorious and wonderful evening lots of love from up here my friends I'll talk to you soon, bye.
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