0:00 - Welcome to Friday Night Live
14:08 - The Changing Landscape of Relationships
16:12 - The Cost of Eldercare
18:17 - The Importance of Having Children
25:34 - Finding Meaningful Connections
34:43 - Loneliness in Old Age
38:54 - The Impact of Family Dynamics
1:01:11 - Food Preferences and Their Symbolism
1:01:24 - Tax Exemptions for Organized Religion
1:01:48 - Navigating Parenthood and Relationships
1:08:22 - The Dynamics of Female Desire
1:28:51 - Loyalty in the Workplace
1:30:58 - The Reality of Corporate Family Dynamics
In this episode of Friday Night Live, we delve into the intriguing dynamics of modern relationships and societal constructs, particularly focusing on male and female roles in contemporary society. We kick off by addressing the striking financial success of women on platforms like OnlyFans, juxtaposed against the payroll of major sports leagues, sparking a lively discussion on the implications of shifting sexual and economic landscapes. The exploration reveals how the structures of monogamy and marriage, designed to stabilize male desire, have been eroded, leading to a consequential premise: without those structures, a new paradigm of sexual access emerges.
I discuss the historical context of monogamy and its purpose of reducing violence among disenfranchised men, highlighting the consequences of dismantling these norms. The conversation naturally flows into the realities of modern dating, emphasizing how societal changes have inverted traditional roles, with a notable emphasis on male economic contributions contrasted against women’s newfound financial independence. This leads us to unpack the complex nature of desire—how it functions socially for women and what that means for relationships founded primarily on attraction rather than compatibility.
As we tackle listener questions, the focus shifts to practical advice about navigating romantic interactions within friend groups and the impact of perceived social value on attraction. I outline the importance of a woman’s assessment of a partner through the lens of her social circle, highlighting the fundamental truth that genuine desirability cannot be manufactured. The overall message is clear: effective relationships are rooted in genuine interest that transcends social validations.
A candid exploration of societal loneliness is inevitable as we discuss aging, the importance of human connection, and how isolation, particularly for women, can manifest in serious emotional repercussions. I urge listeners to consider the value of building substantial relationships throughout life, not only for personal happiness but as a buffer against the inevitable challenges of aging.
Wrapping up the discussion, we pivot towards a light-hearted yet critical commentary on the absurdities associated with modern food culture and preferences, getting into the quirky debate of food combinations like pineapple on pizza amidst serious dialogue on personal philosophy and ethics.
The episode culminates in a heartfelt call for introspection on our relationships, societal structures, and the often-overlooked emotional needs in our lives. Join me for an engaging, thought-provoking hour where we explore everything from economic shifts to the nature of human connection in a rapidly evolving world.
[0:00] Hey everybody, good evening and welcome to Friday Night Live. Oh my god, it's Friday the 13th. Let it be an unlucky night for the enemies of reason. Let them turn their tails and run like the wind-up toys of NPC anti-rationality that they are. And let's get to your questions straight up. Thank you for your tips in advance. I thank you for your tips. It could be a shirtless day. I worked out for two hours yesterday, so I took today off and spent some time in a hammock.
[0:41] Although I did do a really good show this morning and dug up an old video on heroism from 2008, I think it was, which I absolutely loved and had half forgotten about. Out so all right uh let's get to your questions hey Stef what's your opinion on women on only fans grossing more income in one year than the entire nba no complaints from the usual suspects on wage gaps on this one lol right so um human sexuality and in particular male sexuality has grown to the white-hot supernova furnace that it has because, at least in the West, in sort of Europe as a whole, other places too, it has been constrained in the institution of marriage, right?
[1:30] It has been constrained within the institution of marriage. So an oven can get a lot hotter than an open fire because the open fire radiates directly into the room, whereas an oven is contained and contains the heat within it. So what's happened is a force that was that became strong because it was confined within a monogamous marital structure i don't mean everyone was monogamous but within a monogamous marital structure that has allowed uh male lust to reach the sort of white hot furnace levels that it has reached and then we took all of that structure away way.
[2:16] It's similar to, imagine there's a factory with like a blue hot furnace for doing some crazy stuff. And then the walls collapse. It's like an explosion. And it sort of takes out the factory because the heat is supposed to be contained within the structure. And the heat of male lust is supposed to be contained within the structure of the pair-bonded monogamous socially enforced marital relationship. So what's happened is we've had a breach breach we've had a breach the entire structure that contains somewhat hysterical male sexuality i mean i just i remember man when those hormones hit it was like a mike tyson of obsession flesh obsession straight to the nads because girls went from being like oh does she really have to play to like girls girls girls girls on film so So it was really something. And I guess maybe the madness is starting to lift a little in my late 50s. Just a little.
[3:26] I know, it's wild. And we have kept, of course, because we can't just dial it down, we have kept the white hot lust of male sexuality and female sexuality too, but obviously I know males a little bit more, being one.
[3:45] And so when you look at something like only fans you have the white hot, focus of male sexuality that has been turned from pair bonded monogamy into the kind of sexual access that was primarily previously only available to princes kings pashas and genghis khan and his soldiers and you think about the average exposure to sexual material that young young people have these days you see more sexual material than casanova or the most, prodigious and prolific lover could have ever seen in 10 lifetimes i mean this is messing with the wiring considerably so yeah the numbers are pretty wild somebody posted it here year so um 2023 only fans content creators made 6.6 billion and the combined payroll of the 2023 2024 mba combined payroll was 4.9 billion so 6.6 billion versus 4.9 billion, so i guess it's a lot of ball work uh changes uh changes the equation.
[5:02] You know the general pattern in society, right? So the general pattern in society, and this is why there's progressivism and conservatism left and right for a variety of reasons to do with male and female personality structures, but also because... Thank you, JP, and thank you, Grime Time. Hey, it reminds me of an Alan Parsons song. So what happens is a solution gets put in place. Because there's a massive problem. And then the solution is in place for just enough generations that people no longer really remember about the problem. And then they say, well, what the heck is this solution for? It doesn't make any sense. Why would we have this solution? I mean, the problem isn't around. Let's just, right? So monogamy was put in place to solve the problem of war. I don't know if you know this. So monogamy in general was put in place to solve the problem of war and to solve the problem of revolution.
[6:11] So when in the past the most successful males got all the girls, then the men who were kept out of that equation, the men who did not have any chance of reproduction, generally had to be enslaved or they would rise up and kill those in charge or drive them out or whatever it was, right? Because the genes are like, well, if we're going to die a genetic death, we might as well take the risk and try and get access to women. So when there was a harem and there just weren't women around for the disenfranchised men, the disenfranchised men, either they became slaves or, thank you, Jay, or they had a revolution. And now, of course, what you could do as the ruler, ruler as the sort of the pasha is you could take those men without women and you could assemble them into an army and they'd say well if you want to have women you got to go and conquer said territory over there you can have their women but then of course other people were coming into your area as well so monogamy if i could only do cardio weightlifting i would choose weightlifting I don't like cardio, but I do like weightlifting.
[7:24] So monogamy was like, okay, we are going to not just allow the most successful males to have 50 women or 10 women or 5 women, right? Depends on how successful you are. We're going to parcel the women out to everyone as a whole. And that way, we don't need slaves because people are happy to work for their own families. and we don't have this constant churning of revolutionary muttering in society.
[7:54] So, that is generally... Oh, sorry, let's just fix the camera here a smidge. Oh, my. Doesn't that bother everyone? Is it just me? A little thing on the roof there. I can't manhandle this camera too much because I've got it plugged in because the battery would overheat. So, I've got it plugged in, and if I touch it wrong, the plug comes out because it's kind of got a loose connection. Action things you don't care about but i wish to inform you anyway come on man it can't all just be about you uh your recent uploads have been amazing excited for your new novel i thank you i appreciate that as am i i like taking on a new challenge and this one is a real challenge and a half so all right so what's happened of course is.
[8:47] There is an inverse of the successful male with many females, and now there are successful females with many males, right? So instead of the men being the spoke of the wheel and the women, like the men being the hub of the wheel, the women are the spokes, it's the other way around. And women can now get money from men without risking nearly as much, you know, stalking. And I know it does happen to some degree, but women can now flash their flesh and get money. And men have chosen giving money to digital, quote, perfection in return for having a lovely mid to call their own and have an actual family.
[9:37] So, monogamy has broken. Monogamy has cracked. And, of course, a lot of people who come to the West are young, single males, and they don't have any particular marital prospects. And so, that is a destabilizing factor, to put it mildly.
[9:59] So, yeah, the pattern is, well, we've solved this, we've got this problem, we've put this structure in place, it's solved the problem. and then after a while people say, well, the structure is just old and useless. We don't need it anymore. We don't need it anymore. So they get rid of it. And then the problem comes back and people are like really surprised. Really surprised, right? Well, we haven't seen a mouse around here in forever. We don't need these stinky mousetraps. And then you get rid of all the stinky mousetraps and then the mice come and eat all of your crop, right? So, yeah, we just, it's all just about the relearning. It's all just about the relearning. And people are going to just end up having to learn the hard way. But at least with the documentation we've got going on at the moment, we won't have to do it again. This is the last time we'll have to learn all of these stupid-ass lessons. You know, there's a big push for war at the moment against the nuclear-armed power. A little fucking frightening. A little fucking frightening. And people are like, Like, huh, well, every time people want free shit from the government, the government runs up massive deficits and unfunded liabilities, and then the only way it can save its ass is to go to war. Maybe we should stop wanting to free shit, because that way we'll stop having these fucking wars all the time.
[11:19] That's the story of the devil. The devil gives you free stuff and then steals your soul. The government gives you free stuff and then starts a fucking war. Well, it's all documented and clear and I've been warning about it for 40 years People don't want to listen They don't want to listen, So you get what you get when you don't listen.
[11:48] So the transfer of wealth from men to women has been with the express purpose of having babies right i mentioned this on the show this morning like we have as men you know this size this strength this great analytical engine of intelligence we have energy focus dedication we have all of this great stuff. Why? Because we need to produce about 10 times more than we need to survive in order to have a wife and kids.
[12:34] So we are designed to be these coked up Celsius fuel dray workhorses of infinite productivity so that we can hand over most of our shit to wives and kids. Nothing wrong with that. It's just the way that it is. Gee, men seem to be kind of aggressive. Yes, that's right. Because we have to produce ten times what we need for our own survival. For the sake of keeping women and kids safe, protected, alive.
[13:06] But now we transfer massive amounts of money from men to women without the concomitant request to produce the next generation no not so much anymore that's not a thing we do anymore we just shovel money at women voluntarily and coercively we shovel money at women without requiring hiring any children in return. And the women, a lot of them are like, yeah, that's a pretty good deal because, you know, having a lot of money is fun. Travel is fun. Being sexy is fun. Bagel and latte in Paris. Well, maybe not Paris anymore. Someplace, Warsaw is fun. Bali is fun. Swimsuits are fun. Lattes and cupcakes are fun. Babies and monogamy and breastfeeding is not quite as much fun, so thanks very much. We'll just take the money without giving the babies.
[14:09] And if you don't like that, you just want to use women as birth horses, as broodmares. And it's like, okay, so men can be used as workhorses, but women can't, don't have to have kids. Okay.
[14:32] Good deal, everybody. Well done. Thank you, Chris. Good deal. Well done, everybody. Quick question. Quick question, if you don't mind.
[14:55] How much do you think, it costs for eldercare? Yes, I know. Some people, some of you out there might look at my giant shiny chrome dome and say, eldercare? I just donated to free domain. How much is elder care to put an older person, who's obviously having difficulties, to put an older person in a home, how much is that per month? Full-time care in a home, how much is that per month? Just out of curiosity, how much do you think that is? 9K a month on average in the U.S.? Hmm. Right. 9K a month. You just read about it? Gotta be pretty pricey. Yep. Yep.
[16:06] It is quite pricey. Ah, 500K.
[16:13] What in Zimbabwe dollars? Well, maybe it will be the case. Nine K per month. Yeah, yeah.
[16:25] All right. So it is 20K a month, but according to some reports, you can negotiate it down to $13,000 a month. It is quite something. If you want, let's see. I've learned a lot helping my family get my dad into hospice one of the biggest realizations I've had is that our country is facing a geriatric financial time bomb it is absolutely insane how much elder care costs for my family if we would have someone, 24-7 it's 450,000 a year and I don't believe that's true I think that just seems too high, that just seems too high, somebody says It says, we are paying $16,000 a month in California for my 94-year-old mom for a skilled nursing facility. I pay $2,500 a month for my husband in Canada. I just got a bill for $4,000 for a wheelchair. It never ends. No one ever talks about this. It hits like a brick wall. war.
[17:47] Somebody says, after our mother's savings ran out, a year in 24-hour home care costs. We were forced to put her into a nursing home where she spent her time waiting to die. It's heartbreaking. Crazy. Crazy. So people are like, well, I don't really need to have children.
[18:18] Because why? Why don't you need to have children? What are children for? I mean, they're great pleasure and fun, and it's nice to pay forward the delight and joy of living, and you get to create. People are like, human beings have created AI. I don't know why I did that in a fairly cool voice. Human beings have created AI. It's a miracle. It's like, you know, you can do that just by screwing, right? You can create not AI, but I. You can create intelligence by having sex. It's fun and productive.
[18:52] So, one of the reasons you have kids, I mean, particularly as a woman, is, you know, all of that attention you get when you're young, it's gone in your 40s. And then you end up getting attention from guys who are in their 60s or 70s. And then you end up doing that, riding the Nazgul to get the house stuff. You have children, and you love your children, and you bond with your children, and you're good to your children, in the hope that, and I think it's quite possible for a lot of people, that when you get your old wrinkled ass, unable to go up the stairs, somebody's going to be there who gives a shit. Have you ever had that glimpse? Have you ever had that glimpse? It's a wild thing, man. Do you ever have that glimpse? Where you get a really sudden, freaky sense of how little the average person cares about you when you get older.
[20:01] You know, someone, you live in an apartment building, someone moves in, I don't know, they're like 50 or 60, they move in, down the hall, a couple of doors down, and you don't care. I mean, they get up, they go to work, you say hi to them when you're getting your mail. Maybe they're a little desperate, maybe they're a little clingy, maybe they're a little lonely. But you got your life, you got your friends, you got your family, you got your career, you got your hobbies, you got your sports, you got your stuff. Nobody cares. Man, you gotta find those people who give a shit about you and grapple them to your heart with iron hoops of infinite steel. You gotta hang up, find those people who care about you that you can care about and hang on to them like grim fucking death.
[20:57] Because in this chilly, wintry indifference of the vast majority of the planet who don't give a rat's ass whether you live or die, you've got to find those people and just hang on to them. If you're lucky enough to find someone who cares about you, to use the cliche, you're ride-or-die people. Okay, let me ask you this, right? Let's speak frankly now, because the hour is getting fucking late. How many people do you have in your life who would do just about anything for you? How many people do you have in your life who you would do just about anything for, and who would do just about anything for you?
[21:58] Yeah doctors don't really care somebody says f yeah i had that sense very viscerally when fighting for my life in a hospital bed yeah who cares about you who cares about me you've got two, zero people you could just say i need you to get into this car it's an emergency i can't explain it's going to be dangerous and they're like i'm in how many people do you have who really, really, really care about you, and would go march into hell itself with you should that be necessary.
[22:39] A disaster happens, and they are by your side.
[22:47] You're being attacked. They got your back. You're being ground down. They lift you up. You're down. They come and talk. How many people do you have? Who are your tribe, your people? It's an important question, you know. Because let me tell you a big secret about life that we've kind of lost. You're going to need people. You're going to need people. As you age, as you creak out, you are going to need people. You know, you need people so you don't go mad. You need people because isolation and loneliness causes, to some degree, according to some reports, brain decay. As does hearing loss, apparently, but you need people. To take care of you, to give you comfort, to give you conversation, to receive your wisdom so you don't hoard it and take it with you to the grave. Like Howard Hughes with all of his useless billions.
[24:15] How many people? How many people? So this is on the receiving end. How many people are you, ride and die? For how many people are you there, ride and die? Tell me the last time a friend was in desperate need and you dropped everything, and spent a considerable amount of time helping that person out. Friend, family, someone was in desperate need and you spent a rather massive amount of time, and resources helping that person out. I did a true crime, which was the Turpins, T-U-R-P-I-N-S, the Turpins family. Family, and I read the sister of the criminal who abused these 13 children. Her sister, the father got dementia, and she lived there for two years. I think maybe even a little more. Two to three years she lived there, barely got any sleep, and took care of him as his brain died, long before his body died. Right.
[25:34] You can be as independent as you want when you're young, but I'm telling you, friends, you're really going to need people when you get older. I'm of the age now where I see this with a depth of horrifying intimacy that feels almost like a nightmare that's hard to awaken from. Just how much older people need people. And it's a long-ass time from 40 to 85, or 50 to 85.
[26:14] It's a long-ass time, man, to be alone, to be unwanted, to be uncared for, for people to be indifferent to you. You know, like those chilling stories that come out of Japan, you know, where some old woman who's 178 or something like that dies in her little apartment. Nobody notices until there's a smell some days or weeks later. And there's a whole professional cleanup crew that goes into these places and bags and tags the person. They find some contact information. They call some kid who's far away in the world, some daughter or some son, and they say, hey, mother died. What do you want me to do with her stuff? And they're like, I don't know, just donate it, throw it out, I don't care.
[27:07] Swan says, my landlady is single in her 40s. She's a lovely person, but her life is in my nightmare. Yeah, you know, when I worked in Thunder Bay, Thunder Bay. Spelled Thunder Bay, pronounced Tundra Bay. Tundra Bay. I had this little apartment I lived when I was in town. In from the bush. And I remember coming home from work one evening. So we would go out in the bush and we would get all of the giant, these sort of giant 80-pound sacks of earth that we sort of dug up with drill bits and stuff from the bottom of the, right above the granite. Gold is heavy. It sifts down over time. So it's right above the granite. You're looking for the gold traces. And I would be out in the bush and we would get the big sacks of earth and then we would use these various machines and actually at the end it was just swirling and all of that to try and find the gold. See if there was any indicators of extra gold. So be out in the bush and then we worked in a sort of an empty factory. Just me and like two or three other people sometimes and we would just be swirling and chatting. doing our gold panning. I came home from work.
[28:37] And there was this half-skeletor-style woman, long dead now, of course, looked like that rather skull-faced, scary female at the beginning of Blair Witch Project. And I was coming in, and she kind of lurched in a gin-soaked, drunken, oompa-loompa weave out of her apartment and grabbed under my forearm and wanted to talk, just really, really wanted to talk. And... And... I mean, I'm sometimes ridiculously soft-hearted, strength and a weakness, I suppose, but she pulled me into her little apartment, which had that, she was probably in her, maybe she was 70, and it had that linseed oil and rubbing alcohol, and dusty hard candy on the table kind of stench to it.
[29:39] And it was full of pictures and curios and it was her wedding anniversary.
[29:50] And she desperately, with a hunger I can't, I don't really experience loneliness, but with a hunger that I can't quite understand, she pulled me in, she emphatically insisted that I sit down and she got me some sherry. I don't really drink and I don't really like sherry, but again, ridiculously soft-hearted. Obviously, she was as miserable as human beings can be. And it was her wedding anniversary. And she sat me down and she asked me if I wanted anything to eat, but you know, if it's a really skinny old woman in a bit of a Boo Radley. It wasn't a hoarder or anything, thing but it was really cluttered and I'm like no I'm good I don't I don't want any food older than I am and she sat me down oh I've got to tell you about and I realized of course it was her wedding anniversary and her husband had died some years before and she pulled out her photo album and she just again smoking and drinking and telling me all about and you know when you see drinkers who who are really skinny, you just know they're not eating because there's a lot of sugar and alcohol. You just know they're not eating. And she just wanted to show me all the pictures, and this is so-and-so, and I don't know any of these people.
[31:15] And that void and that hunger that you just grab some 19-year-old kid who's finally back from the bush and wants to go out, to shake his ass at a bar and meet some girls, and you're going to come in and just grab and I remember like, just like pincers like a praying man just hooking onto my arm and you've got to see the, and just the stories and the people and I'm like, holy crap, this is a this is a desperate situation.
[31:50] And she said, and we never had children. Remember that? Just scalding in my brain. And we never had children. Not we couldn't have children. We never had children. And she probably had another 10 to 15 years to go, 70 to 80, maybe 85. She didn't smoke menthols. What do they say about menthols in hospitals? That if you smoke, we'll probably see you here, but if you smoke menthols, we'll definitely see you here in ER. And you see some souls, even if they brush up against you and they have their fingernails digging into your arm, they are a million miles away. They're a million miles away. Something you have to eye-strain through a telescope to catch even a slight flickering glimpse of. they are so lost from humanity.
[32:55] So lonely that all the attention in the world can't fill up that void. And then, for the rest of the time that I lived in Thunder Bay, I had to do the Harlem Shuffle, the Shuck and Jive, the go sideways, get up the stairs, creep in, get my mail at two in the morning when she was. Sometimes you'd hear the Victrola and the smell the smoke from under the door. Because you know when you get old you don't sleep that much it's a long fucking day to be lonely it's a long day to be lost in regret and memories and have nobody who particularly cares whether you're there or not you can choose not to have kids but kids are the best guarantee for particularly for women when you get old that there's going to to be anybody who cares about you at all. Your friends are going to die and move away. People on average change their friend base about every seven years.
[34:06] It was like an animated smoky skeleton hung only on the puppet strings of endless regret. And it was a terrifying, terrifying evening. Every time I'd be like, Like, well, I gotta, no, stay, it's my anniversary. It's like, oh God, oh God. It just puts your heart through the horrifying postmodern juicer of sorrow. Oh my God. Even now, it's almost 40 years ago.
[34:44] And who knows how long she lay in that apartment after she died. Thank you.
[34:58] Since a friend will grow old at the same time and may therefore might face similar problems, kids are the ones best bet as far as this problem goes. Oh, yeah. When you were a bachelor, did you enjoy being alone and doing things by yourself or were you feeling lonely? Is it typical of males to be unfazed on their own and young and females to want connection and less happy alone? I don't really experience loneliness. I mean, obviously, I've been married 23 years and very happily too, so I don't really feel that. Yeah, I've always, people have always had to compete with the enjoyment of my own company. My brain, as you can imagine, is sort of very active and curious and constantly coming up with great ideas and thoughts and so on, right?
[35:48] So, I mean, I remember I used to, when I used to live uh Don Mills and Lawrence I used to go down there was a what's it called uh the Daily Planet used to be I don't know if it's still there was a restaurant at Young Leglington I used to go down there sometimes I remember one night going to they had this really nice pastry and cream cheese little dish and I used to go down there sometimes order that it was real cheap so I couldn't add that in the water and so it came to like all of eight bucks and I could sort of nurse that I remember going down I had this giant book of Voltaire's writings and I remember just going down there and, I've never felt bad about watching movies on my own if that's what sort of has to happen. I would go to discos on my own and meet people and chat with them and talk to girls and all of that. So I don't really experience loneliness.
[36:35] I always have a crowd. It's quite the crowd in here. So, no, I don't really. But I don't think that, yeah, I did draw a little bit on that for the aunt in the present. Although, of course, the aunt in the present is much higher class and more successful. But this was a woman, just back there in Thunder Bay 40 years ago, this was a woman who had no one.
[37:01] And it's wild because that is in particular a torment for women it is in particular a men are better constituted to deal with solitude i mean because we have to be the long-range hunters and so on so men are better constituted to deal with solitude i don't think men experience loneliness as much as women and especially of course for a woman when you're young and reasonably attractive, then you just have endless amounts of attention, and particularly with the internet now. And then, you know, if you talk to older women, it's like, that just turns off like, from torrent to nothing, it doesn't diminish, it's just like one day, you're just like, and they used to have a phrase for this to say, a woman of a certain age, which is just around menopause, little past menopause, you know, mid late 40s, early 50s. And it's just like, and women have written about this and talked about this, and to some degree complained about this, that the excessive visibility they had where the male gaze was upon them and the men were always trying to talk to them or get their attention or give them second glances and so on, which they found annoying at times, but then when it's gone, they miss it to some degree. And it just, man, it's just like that. It just turns off like that.
[38:14] And then suddenly you're invisible. And you're an annoyance. And nobody, the sales clerks don't want to come and help you. And people don't even register your existence. And the best you can hope for is that people notice you enough to walk around you rather than through you. Because they think you're maybe some ghost or something like that. And a matriarch is deeply visible within her own family. But a single woman over 50 is invisible to society as a whole. And we know this in particular because the stories can't be can't be shared, the stories can't be shared.
[38:54] Chris says, my father's mother was similar. She had three sons and then her husband suddenly died in the 60s. They didn't want to spend much time with her. She lived alone until her death around 2008. She lived a miserable, lonely life for decades, though she didn't drink. She kept people away from her by being incredibly defensive and spiteful. Yeah, that's the reject. It's a preemptive strike. They reject other people before they reject you, right? Now, your kids could move away, in which case move with them. And if you have a good relationship, you know, I mean, I don't know, let's say Izzy ends up living in, I don't know, Jakarta or something. Or it's like, okay, well, then my wife and I will just move to Jakarta because we'll just be around family. And we'll be there to hopefully help provide her some help with the grandkids and all of that. So, it's rough, man. And the amount of, you know, people talk about the deferred liabilities, close to $200 trillion of unfunded liabilities. The real unfunded liability is isolation in old age. That is the real, and it's like half of women, soon half of women are going to be single.
[40:01] Half of women are going to be single. And women are so used to the conveyor belt of attention coming to them when they're young that they don't develop the skills to tunnel and borrow and elbow their way into friend groups. Sorry, just as a man, particularly me as a boy, and as a man, I've moved around probably 30 or 40 times to different places over the course of my life. I remember there was one period about over six or seven years, I lived in 18 different places. I remember running up the numbers once. so you just get used to elbowing hey you elbow your way in you just talk to people you you get to know people you you learn how to break into friend groups all this kind of stuff you just learn this stuff as a man but because women is just a conveyor belt of stuff coming your way you don't learn those skills you don't know how to break into friend groups right and women used to take great joy maybe it came out of christianity but women used to take great joy in helping uh communities, in helping the community.
[41:02] In doing charity work, in visiting the old. I mean, I remember a friend of mine's mother did combat some isolation in her old age by volunteering for Meals on Wheels, which brings meals to shut-in seniors. And so she was able to battle that to some degree. But the other thing she did was she also hooked in and praying mantis to her own son because she just wanted the time and the attention. And so she, oh, I'm making food. I'm making hamburger helper. Come on down. Murder, she wrote us on, you know, all that sort of stuff. It's rough, man. The real unfunded liability is what's going to happen to people when they get old. the loneliness epidemic is going to be unbelievable. Women are going to go mad on a regular basis. And when women go mad, they tend to vote in a rather deranged fashion. There is going to be a great market for near-infinite cope for women. And, of course, you know, I roused how much ire back in my days of peak social media when I had a couple of male followers on various platforms.
[42:23] But I was constantly warning women about this. Constantly warning women. It's a long... Who was it i remember because i i did revisit x uh because i people were talking about me and the treats it was crazy man the tweets went like i don't know six million seven million five million or whatever it is people just dimension me and which is why i was a little tempting truth about kamala harris today but anyway um so i used to say you know ladies your, fertility mostly dries up at 40 but you're going to live to be in your 80s what are you going to to do for those long decades right and i remember i remember one woman was like i'm gonna f this person i'm gonna f that person i'm gonna f the other person i'm gonna even f that person's father and his aunt and his dog and i'm gonna f everyone except you and it's like oh really i'm gonna miss out on all that those diseases oh dear what a shame i don't know when horrific people say that they're not going to have sex with you do they view that as something that's going to break your It just seems odd to me, but people are like, you go, girl. I've heard the theory of 50% of women will soon be single. Is this because they're aging out or men are giving up?
[43:38] Well, I mean, it's pretty easy to take down a civilization, right, when you have centralized means of communication, of which the government schools are the most. But it's pretty easy. You just, your terms are acceptable. All you have to do is say to women that they don't need men.
[43:59] All you do is have to say to women, you don't need men. Men are exploiters. Like there was this woman, she was a finalist in Miss Switzerland some years ago, and she was a catwalk coach. Catwalk. Do my little turn on the catwalk. And she was murdered by her husband. I think he's confessed at this point. And he put her in a blender. And there are all of these women posting on social media about, you know, this crazy epidemic of male violence against women. And it's like, okay, can we at least admit that that's a bit of an edge case? That when a man puts a wife in a blender and purees her, that this may not be the majority of men. No, this is emblematic of all, you know. And it's like the women who family annihilate their kids, right? The family annihilators. The women who, you know, the demons told me that my kids were, they were going to steal my kids' souls, so I put them in a car and drove them into a lake. Like, those women are very much outliers in this idea that somehow we can assume something about women's nature as a whole because of these outliers. But no, everyone just, oh my God, this epidemic of male violence, we'd rather spend time with bears.
[45:28] Than men. You just make women afraid of men and you make women contemptuous of men and then they won't pair bond.
[45:37] Yes, if you are lurking in the chat, drop a like. That would be very nice. That would be very nice. But women and men, we very much need each other, and we're very much built to work together. And anybody, you know, I saw this video, mic drop, it was this video of this guy saying, who provides more value, men or women? Women. And then he's like, oh yeah, well, who landed on the moon? Men. And who invented the light bulb? Men. And there was a couple other ones, and she's like, Like, and who gave birth to them? Women! And it's like, oh, God.
[46:23] It's really hard, you know, when you look at the amount of effort that it took to get to the moon, you look at the effort it took for Edison to invent the light bulb and so on. And then you say, yes, but, but, getting semen out of a man, not the most difficult thing for women as a whole to achieve. It's not really like splitting the atom. them, getting semen out of a man and then going through an autonomous process that is managed by your body and you basically just have to sit and hang on to it. Wow. Well, I could do philosophy, or, or I could age and take a dump. Interesting.
[47:05] Giving into the temptation of the truth about Kamala Harris, I know you don't want to get into politics. It is something that would be a benefit to your community, I believe, especially in their conversations with others in their lives. No, I'm... You don't have to sell me on the pluses. You don't have to sell me on the pluses. I get that. I do. I do. I do. I do. You could breathe air and exhale. Yes, that's right. I am a philosopher who's done a massive amount to forward the discipline of philosophy, philosophy and i can digest food wow you know when it gets hot i sweat and that pretty much is like for solving fermat's last theorem pretty much pretty much thank you for your tips of course they are gratefully appreciated let us get to uh razor fist and sticks hex and hammer are fighting about what? Pineapple on pizza? So, pineapple on pizza... I obviously wanted to make my book on ethics as concise as possible, which is not my primary skill. But let's say, as concise as possible, the chapter on the greatest violation of the non-aggression principle is pineapple on pizza did not make it into the final draft.
[48:31] Pineapple is really like coagulated satanic sweat. Wet. Really, pineapple as a fruit is ugly. It tastes as bad on the inside as trying to shove it up your ass feels from the outside. So it really is one of the nastiest foods known to man, because it is this incredible combination of sickly, treacle, cough medicine sweet with a weird sourness to it as well. It would be like if you had to consume the flesh of the person you love the most, over a pentagram it would be something like pineapple on pizza pizza good pineapple evil and much like you can't moderate the two like you don't have a little bit of arsenic as a compromise in your food pineapple it doesn't just kill the taste it makes you want to murder the entire miriam webster category called fruit so pineapple on pizza it's not so much pineapple apple on pizza it's pineapple anywhere except being sacrificed in a giant aztec ritual to save your taste buds that i can do with pineapple uh to shoot it with a very large howitzer would be fine but pineapple as a whole is uh evil and uh.
[49:51] It overwhelms pizza and spreads its evil to the pizza to the point where the pizza, if I was faced with, I don't know, eating roadkill from 1853 or anything that had ever touched a pineapple, I would chow down on the dustiest squirrel I could find or just starve to death. There is a line, there are a few lines I will not cross, and anything that leads to pineapple is just absolutely wrong. There's really only one other food that falls into that category for me which is i love corn on the cob fantastic love corn on the cob corn in a can is like moloch sneezed into a bucket and you have to eat it so yeah it is uh it is one of the few these are the two evil food evil foods, and of course when i was in boarding school there was a giant meat shortage because socialism and we got mountains of shitty white bread and corn which honestly i think about it now like 50 years more than 50 yeah 50 years later 51 52 years later i can still feel my gorge rise at how much of that absolutely shitty shitty canned corn i had to consume and And bred with...
[51:17] Duck butter on it. You know, that really white bread that, if nutrition were swarthy, it is albino bread. Castrated bread, my mother used to call it. Because my mother would have this pumpernickel bread. Do you ever have that pumpernickel bread, which is similar to the hat thrown by that weird guy in the Bond movie that decapitates people? So, a pumpernickel bread is something that is developed and was developed technically to uh to seal up uh massive fissures in an ocean-going vessel and should be used for no other purpose decapitating people or sealing up i mean if they'd had a couple more germans with sandwiches well maybe the people who oppose the federal reserve would have survived the titanic voyage but yeah that is uh my mother was like well that's not real bread here's the real bread i'm like so cardboard indigestible cardboard it's one of the few foods um that you can see going out exactly the same as coming in it your body cannot touch it i mean it's the same thing i had with the uh corn in a can odd job yeah yeah corn in a can it's like it comes out like Like, bend over and you can take out some squirrels and get yourself some fresh roadkill, which is still preferable to pineapple.
[52:46] Corn on the cob with mayo and parmesan cheese. Do you ever have that? They do that in Florida, don't they? Like, you can get this corn when you get it dipped in every unholy thing known to man. And that's fine. Raw corn on the cob, I'm fine with. They're not raw, but, you know, they're boiled a little. That's great. A little bit of salt, a little bit of butter maybe. Mm, that's tasty good eating. You take it off.
[53:08] The carb, and you put it in a can, and it just becomes an evil cult member designed to have your excrement come out of your nipples and armpits. I've actually only lactated evil after eating corn in a can and pineapple at the same time. I actually lactated evil. Pumpernickel bagels go well with Swiss cheese. Margarine is pretty evil as well. Right, yeah. Yeah, I mean, if you could get engine grease and add sunshine satin yellow to it, you would end up with margarine. So, yeah, that is. I mean, on the other hand, if you're out of Vaseline, I think margarine does fairly well.
[53:51] All right. What was the other one? Should steak be medium rare or well done? They both have it right slash wrong. 50-50. Pineapple does not go on main courses. Says, pineapple goes nowhere but in the fiery furnaces of Mount Doom. And a good steak should not be well done. Yeah, I mean, I think the only leather you should get from a cow is its skin not turning its insides into leather by making a good steak well done. No, that's no good. I mean, you can make a steak well done if your shoes are broken and you need to walk across broken glass without damaging your, toes mccain style but uh yeah you don't uh you don't do steak well done there was a babylon b article um study shows 100 of men barbecuing it just pushing meat around on on the grill hoping for the best.
[54:50] When I was a kid, I horrified my father and mother by eating fresh-cooked corn on the cob with no butter or salt, but it was good. And I wasn't greasy afterwards. Yeah, the problem I have with putting butter on corn on the cob is it really feels like you're in hot preparation for a highly illegal sexual action that is going to have you walking like John Wayne for the next ten years of your life. So it just feels a little, I don't know, gay club preparatory in a way that is fairly unholy. Someone I know swears that pineapple on pizza goes well when balanced out by anchovies. That's right. It's the kind of person who takes both cocaine and Quaaludes at the same time. Hey, they balance out. Two wrongs apparently do make a right. Yeah, anchovies. If I wanted the platonic essence of salt injected directly in my veins, well, I guess I'd get a vaccine.
[55:50] Yeah, the anchovies is nasty. I remember as a kid, I do remember as a kid being so hungry once that I did actually eat sardines from a can. Did you ever do that? Although it would be great to have a company that sold sardines in a can in the shape of a japanese subway car but yes sardines in a can are absolutely completely nasty because not only they foul oily salty and evil but also but also not only that but also they have their little skeletons in there of course when i was a kid in ireland we would catch trout and so on to learn how to clean the fish and all of that. You've got to get the bones out. Got to get the bones out. But not with anchovies. Small, evil, have skulls and bones, and you can eat it all, because apparently it just turns you into the jolly green giant. Ho, ho, ho. Tiny fish death.
[56:50] Anyway, let's not go on in my particular... Oh, oh, oh. Now, I did actually... I have to retract something. That's right, my foreskin. I have to retract something. I don't have a big enough winch, But it was my bottom-line foundational fundamentalist Old Testament hatred of Brussels sprouts. Brussels sprouts. Brussels sprouts would be good slingshots to take down a giant, or they're the perfect shape to require the Heimlich maneuver for your enemies. But I did actually have good Brussels sprouts not too long ago. My daughter ordered them and my daughter i'm trying to think for how long but it's been quite for for quite a large number of years she has taken great delight in feeding me foods finding me foods and then feeding me foods that i don't like for instance she will say would you like a piece of apple and it's a it's a pear which is sandy a sludge and i would actually rather get Get a face full of Chernobyl mud, then eat a pear.
[57:57] So she will say that. She also has had for quite some time the goal of getting, I quite like gum. It's a good palate cleanser. And, you know, the aftertaste of just about anything is fairly foul after a while. And gum is a good palate cleanser. But my daughter has been trying for quite some years to get me to actually chew on cinnamon gum. Which cinnamon gum would make me pray for arsenic because it is that foul, cinnamon as a whole I don't know what happened people were like oh a hint of cinnamon no no no back up the cinnamon truck, bury everything in cinnamon it was like the sun dried tomato fetish of the 80s it's like you cannot have anything without an infinity of sun dried tomato, oh my god.
[58:49] All right. Or like those cardboard dinners from the 70s where if you cut through to the bottom and through the cardboard and eat the cardboard, you can't even tell. You can't even tell. Is sweet corn different from corn on the cob? Or is that what you all mean? I don't know what you're talking about, but I'm just talking about corn in a can. Purportedly, Brussels sprouts are actually less bitter in the modern day because of selective breeding than they were years ago. Go so there is you know there's a general theory you know everybody thinks about this at one time and another you're sort of hiking and you see all these berries and and stuff and you're like wow you know we had to go through a whole bunch of trial and error in order to oh the red berries will keep you alive the black berries will kill you and so we had to go and these ones will make you see jesus for 9 000 years so we had to go through this whole experimentation i'm actually fairly convinced that there was a fork in the road that my ancestors took, because at some point over our storied European history, the only food that was left to eat was Brussels sprouts. And I'm convinced that most of my ancestors said, if the only thing that I can eat is Brussels sprouts, please feed me sweet death and throw me in the ground.
[1:00:13] Joe Rogan got arsenic poisoning eating several canned sardines a day. Oh, I'm sorry, I thought he got arsenic poisoning when he confronted his own conscience. Every Swede hates cinnamon gum, I therefore chewed it on principle, but it turns out that I liked it anyway. Well, that's a random freaking sentence, isn't it? Yes, I'm sure sweet corn on the cob, I'm sure it's fine. You can add anything to corn, just don't put it in a can. That's all I'm saying. You know, there's some foods where I'm wrapped. Wrapped in tin become evil. But yeah, cinnamon gum is absolutely foul. And it's the kind of foul that it takes probably three to four lifetimes combined with the massive amount of culinary exorcisms by the high priest Gordon Ramsay to scrub from your taste buds. Because cinnamon gum I can taste three fucking days later. It tastes like the sinful guilt of mass murder, the aftertaste of cinnamon gum. It is nasty, is what I'm saying. All right.
[1:01:11] Enough verbal pyrotechnics in the pursuit of food hell. Let us get to others.
[1:01:25] All right. What are your thoughts, if any, on organized religion not paying taxes? Well, I mean, the goal of the government giving tax exemptions to organized religion is so that they have something to threaten organized religion with, should they not toe the line. So, I do not think it's right. I mean, I would like nobody to have to pay any taxes.
[1:01:49] Voluntarism is the way to go. All right. Stef, new father here. Here when you had your daughter did your wife have any issue with postpartum depression if so how did you go about being supportive through that process uh no we had i think we had a bit of anxiety um some of the first media attacks were coming around that kind of time so there was little of like well uh this is opening a particular uh landscape of hell visage portal uh in the world so there was a little bit of anxiety around that but uh no we were both completely overjoyed to be parents i I mean, it was a long time coming. So we were both completely overjoyed to be parents. And there was no postpartum depression.
[1:02:32] She's like, God, you really want to fall in love with a woman. What should be a great mom? I mean, it is really the most beautiful thing. And I got to tell you. Okay, we can have a little, it's just a couple of us here, right? We can have a little secret. We can have a little secret. I don't know if it's a male thing. I don't know if it's just a me thing. But honestly, my wife's capacity for generosity is something that is so magnificent that I actually can't look at it directly. It's like an eclipse. I cannot look at it directly. She is so thoughtful. She is so kind. She is so considerate. She is so nice. You know, we sort of make jokes about it. I live in Gurley World, which is like this amazing place where everything is clean and nice and beautiful and I don't have to sniff the food before I eat it and things are either repaired or thrown away. Like, do you know, I found this out. Actually, I just found this out today. You can actually repair screen doors, right? Because basically to get out of my house through the back, I have to go through, you know, that very lengthy scene where they're trying to get into the mines of Moria in Fellowship of the Ring. And they have to try all of these various tricks. So when I go outside, especially if I'm carrying something, I had to sort of elbow and I'd grab. Anyway, so apparently you can get these things fixed. I wasn't aware because I spent so much time renting places when I was younger that I never fixed anything.
[1:04:02] So she is so thoughtful, and she is so nice, and she keeps everybody's needs so perfectly balanced in her head. It's like those Bavarian waitresses that can carry 9,000 beer steins all at the same time. She just keeps everything. She knows everything. You know, we were watching a documentary the other day, and they mentioned a date from 2015, July the something 2015. 15 and she's like oh yeah that's when we were doing this and i'm like ah see this is why i don't upset you because mine's like a steel trap she remembers everything everything it's all written down i'm sort of a free-flowing river of things going past and she's like the library of alexandria where everything gets court scribed and recorded forever i did repair screen doors as a kid for a job but it was actually the sliding mechanism which i didn't do your girlfriend is like that it shocks you regularly yeah yeah i mean no she is she is so unbelievably thoughtful you know when we first got married and we lived in a fairly small condo and it but it had a front bathroom and then it had a bathroom by our bedroom and she would get up earlier than me because she's got.
[1:05:21] Whirlpools of interdimensional backrooms here to manage and i don't and she would take all of her of stuff into the small bathroom and get herself ready there even though it was much less counter space and much less convenient because she didn't want to wake me and i'm just like.
[1:05:38] She she makes me feel um it's not her fault and i love her desperately for it but, honestly she makes me feel a little self-absorbed and sometimes a little selfish just because she is just so automatically i shouldn't say automatically it's a virtue she really she She really does all of this wonderful stuff. But she just remembers everything and everyone, and it's so-and-so's birthday, and don't forget to, like, she just remembers everything and everyone and is so immensely thoughtful, while at the same time being very, very strong and great with standards, and she's very tough when she needs to be. But my gosh, the amount that she thinks of and considers other people's thoughts and feelings makes me feel like, you know, You know, that wobble-necked goblin in the movie of The Hobbit. Oh, I mean, I feel a bit like Jabba the Hutt with Princess Leia on a chain. You know, I just feel like I mean, I, but then I mean, I, and she's just constantly like thinking about everything and everyone. And seeing that with her, with kids, it's just, it's a beautiful, beautiful thing.
[1:06:49] Uh is your wife more based than you uh definitely in some things yeah for sure, i mean she's a great combination of really hard-headed practicality along with massive amounts of sentimentality uh and that's it's a really it's a great combo it's a really great combo all right let me get to other questions and comments we're going over to rumble.
[1:07:12] So last week it was mentioned why some people seem to prefer some women seem to prefer married The way it was described to me by women is that married men are less likely to be too clingy, become obsessed, and probably even become a stalker. A lot of single men are single for a reason. Ah, yes. Ah, yes. Men are dangerous. Men are dangerous. Men are dangerous. And it's funny, too, because feminism has done a great job of getting most husbands out of the house, most fathers out of the house. So now with almost all female teachers and almost all female daycare workers and a lot of fathers out of the house for a variety of reasons, you'd think that all of these problems would be getting better and better because there's no toxic masculinity around. But that's the funny thing, right? It's a funny thing. A man cannot learn how to manage his aggression from a woman. A man cannot learn how to manage his aggression from a woman, which is why things are getting wilder and wilder. All right. Agree or disagree, is the 80-20 thing real?
[1:08:23] Is that what you mean, like 80% of women are going for 20% of men? All right.
[1:08:35] Let's see here my hot water heater broke a shower with no hot water is cruel and unusual torture and it's only September, what would it be like in January you donated a free domain anyway well I appreciate that free domain dot com slash donate to help out the show remember you get the history of philosophy series, you get the history of philosophy series for all donations all donations, this month alright right yeah i can't do cold stuff man i really can't i remember as a kid one of the few times it snowed in england i stuck my hand in the snow and i'm like well this is really horrible i can't wait to move to canada against my will but well i have a little stationary bike machine that i exercise on it's in the basement which is cold doesn't matter it's canada it's cold doesn't matter if it's a nuclear shadow overhead the basement is cold and like i even like because i i don't want to get all sweaty right in in a t-shirt so i i will do my cardio um with no shirt on right and so and and i like i have to will myself to sit back the people who do cold showers and so on it's pretty wild i remember i did do the polar bear swim as a teenager with some friends, and I was like, holy crap, I really feel for the Titanic people, the people who had to jump out of the Titanic, because that's cold stuff, right?
[1:10:01] All right. Long-term care insurance is a good choice. Oh, is that right? Okay.
[1:10:11] Stefan, 10 plus year, enjoy your free domain, but only came to Rumble very recently. So for that, I apologize. Happy that you are still fighting the good fight. Well, thank you. I appreciate that. Nice to see you. Don't feel bad about being away. It has allowed me to focus on some of my first loves, which is ethics, abstractions, and literature. My answer is, oh, every time. Sorry about that. It's great to be able to enjoy your own company. Do you think that ability is more of a philosophically existentialist capacity? capacity. I think you just, if you have a good relationship with your own conscience, you really can't suffer much by being alone. If you have a good relationship with your own conscience, the people who are frightened to be alone are the people who have a bad relationship. Cold with intense wind chills is the worst. Oh yeah. I remember, so this is real ancient history for the younger people, but back in the day, yeah, actually there was a thing called a bank that you had to go inside. It was wild, man. Like there was literally a building called a bank and you had to go inside and it was open from like 10 in the morning till three in the afternoon, which meant if you needed any money, and closed on Fridays, a lot of times too. So if you needed any money, you had to line up for approximately four days to get your money.
[1:11:27] At lunchtime, there was no other way. I still remember some cute girl who worked at the bank in Dunmills. So funny, eh?
[1:11:36] So, I remember when I first moved to Montreal. Montreal is cold as a witch's tit, man. It is just... I mean, Ice Planet Hearth goes to Montreal when it wants to get a body chill. And poutine. And secondhand smoke. smoke and so i remember when i first moved to montreal i had to go to a bank to deal with some student stuff some student loan stuff and i i remember woke up and turn on the radio it's like well you don't want to leave your flesh exposed for more than 12 minutes i like it when they get down it's not like for a while like 12 minutes like 12 minutes you're okay 13 minutes and your hand solo i don't know why i'm doing so many sci-fi references tonight they're all just kind of colliding in there i love you i know so jadistan so yeah and i remember i i had um a poncho i had a i had t-shirt a sweater another sweater jacket poncho a scarf and you know you could feel your eyeballs slowly crystal over yeah coldest i ever felt was walking between two buildings at queen's university yeah i used to spend a lot of time at queen's university Not a bad university. I dated a woman who was an engineer there for a while when I was in my 20s. I like the cold more than I like the heat, but if my fingers get cold, my enjoyment drops hard.
[1:13:01] Well, the problem with the cold is the women. Love women. I think I've made that abundantly clear, but the problem with the cold is the women.
[1:13:17] God forbid you know somebody with Raynaud's syndrome. Because apparently, we have this thing as men. It's a bit of a medical anomaly or something like that. But we have this thing as men. I don't know the Latin phrase for it. But in English, it would be referred to as circulation. So we have this thing called circulation. The blood, it moves. Like it goes to your extremities. It brings warmth there. And then it comes back to the heart, gets warmed, and gets oxygenated. And so our, we have Roman and the Glowman, gypsy style blood. It goes places. Women's blood goes to their womb and stands guard. And that's it. Fuck the fingertips. They're expendable. Toes, couldn't care less. Earlobes, I don't care. Although, what was it? I saw a sign the other day. I'm so proud. It's a woman's store. I'm so proud. I can still fit into the earrings I wore in high school. but yeah for for women it's like the the circulation is like it's a giant moat to keep the womb warm everything else is expendable.
[1:14:25] Oh yeah and god forbid you spend a winter with a woman who's lost weight, i'm freezing constantly freezing so i try to empathize with my wife by dressing completely retardedly for winter well that's that's what i do i just dress in a completely retarded fashion for winter so that I can sympathize with her endless bouts of cold. You know, it's a long way from her evolution as a Greek to Canada. Like, it's a long way. Don't tell me I can do it. I can't do it. I'm not doing any more exercise today. So, yeah, I've had, of course, working up north, right? I have some cold. I've had some cold.
[1:15:10] There are far more women in Sweden that want to become nurses compared to India, where they choose to become programmers if they can. Well, as more liberty accumulates to women, they choose more traditionally female occupations. Coldest I've ever been driving a tractor out the air intake portal of an underground gold mine in December. My face was so cold, my teeth hurt. I assume that you were just, but you basked in your male privilege, right? I was doing some research the other day, and there was, in Canada, when the laws were passed to protect children from labor, you could not hire a girl under 14 and under, but you could hire boys 12 and under, because privilege, so much privilege. Black lung is your new privilege. So true, the women at work constantly complain about being cold unless lest it's uncomfortably warm for the men. Yeah. If the women are comfortable, the men are sweating balls, right? Well, I'm comfortable, but I really am not comfortable with that squishy sound every time the men sit down. I am a portable swamp of testosterone.
[1:16:22] Uh, right. I did do, uh, shh, I did answer questions about postpartum depression in my show from a couple of days ago. It's the one where I was sitting on a couch rather than in the studio. So, I did talk about postpartum depression, James. Could you get the number for that? It was the one I did a couple of days ago, the Flash livestream. Everyone's like, please don't Flash me. I like to tease. I don't like to tease. All right, give me more questions, comments, issues, challenges, problems. What did we get here? The whole angle of your philosophy especially considering how observable it is is genius well thank you i appreciate that all right now i'm doing the sticks being nuanced thing i don't know what that means is nuanced mean here's my chest here uh brussels sprouts half and five with bacon till they're soft and a bit blackened are just heavenly oh yeah and there's a nice source you can put on that as well. Kick-ass answer on the steak controversy, Stef. Send that answer to Razor Fist and Six will pat you on the back. He misses you.
[1:17:39] All right. The more social welfare, the more the differences between the sexes become obvious in terms of carrier choices, that is. Yeah, I think that's true. And also, I mean, one of the reasons why women keep voting for crazy policies is that birth control for a lot of women shuts down their fear processing centers considerably so they don't experience threats. They feel safe when they're not safe. They don't have, you know, it's people on the right feel unease at approaching danger a lot more than people on the left. People on the left are like, well, why are you scared? There's nothing wrong. And people are like, bad things are going to happen, man. This is not good. And the people who are uneasy look crazy to the people who feel no fear. You just look paranoid and anxious. Whereas the people who feel no fear look naive and incomprehensibly stupid to the people who are feeling anxiety, right?
[1:18:31] Yes. So the postpartum depression conversation I had was from the 10th of September, 2024, flash live stream. And it is show 5638. You know, I remember doing show 192 or 173 and being like, wow, that's a lot of shows. Yeah, the show is 5638. What should I do for show 6000? That's a good question. What should I do for show 6000? I know what I should do. I should ask for donations. Oh, it's only 11 days till my birthday. You can get me an early present. You can get me an early present, freedomain.com slash donate. And you get some really free tasty goodies.
[1:19:13] All right. Is there only one chance to ask a woman out in a friend group slash community? Example, if I ask a woman out in a group and if it doesn't work out, the other woman won't be interested. Well.
[1:19:29] Female desire is a complicated thing what's that guy the answer is incredibly complicated was that vash with everything's incredibly complicated which means you're about to hear some truly interstellar spectacular iridescent bullshit but um so for a lot of women.
[1:19:52] Desire is social in other words they like why do women go for a good-looking bad boys because their friends will swoon over him so for a lot of women not all women right but for a lot of women attraction is social they don't think am i attracted to this man or will he be a good husband or father to the kids they don't think any of that what they think is, is will my friends say he's so hot right will my friends swoon over him there's a scene in the movie with blake lively i just reviewed last week it ends with us where the mother is like oh why didn't you tell me he's so gorgeous like you know just and women will.
[1:20:38] Judge a man by how they anticipate her friends will judge him and of course women also they don't want to be perceived as gold diggers so if you're an older less attractive man and you're trying to get a younger more attractive woman then she doesn't want to be perceived as a gold digger and so she may not go with you for that standpoint because women want the impossible combination of a young wealthy man right men hit their earnings rights at the age of 45 to 55 so women Women want a guy who's not a criminal, usually, and is young and is wealthy. And it's like, no, that's like saying I want a woman to give me a child at 45 is like saying I want a man to be six figures at 25, right? That's not a thing, right?
[1:21:19] And if you want to get a little bit more of the End of Us review, it's one of these reviews. The show is 5626, and it's one of these shows where, movies where more and more stuff keeps piling up in my head, but I don't want to make too much of a longer review. You so so for a woman she is going to take you to meet her friends and what she really really wants is for her friends when you get up to go to the bathroom for her friends to turn and say oh my god he's so hot right that she wants her friends to envy her again this is some shallow women minutes certainly not all women and so on right so that's not going to work in the long run that's not going to work because you're going to feel cheap you're going to feel ogled you're going to feel um like you're a piece of meat you're going to feel that you are desired for things that aren't your responsibility such as your height and your looks and so on right now there's a little bit of responsibility about looks keep your weight down and you know good skincare routine and so on right but.
[1:22:29] So, one of the most socially orgasmic things for a lot of women is for other women to cream their armpits over her boyfriend.
[1:22:41] So hot, right? I mean, that's a thing. That's not a good foundation for a relationship at all, right? At all. so the only way to get a successful sustained relationship and lord knows i've had both the only way to get successful sustained with relationship with a woman is if she desires you deeply virtually from the get-go and she doesn't care really what other people think if she desires you deeply almost from the get-go or from the get-go and she doesn't really care what other people think if she's an independent thinker who follows her own pleasures lust desires and evaluations and she finds you attractive and appealing obviously to some degree physically but you know your mind your heart your soul your virtues just as you would find her hopefully attractive physically to some degree but that's all going away but her heart her mind her soul her virtues her values that is the only thing you cannot have a woman lust you it's not something that happens women i mean it's just as a man you look at a woman and you know whether you desire her or not physically. You know whether you find her sexy, you know whether you find her hot. It's the same thing with women. They look at you, they know right away whether they have any romantic interest in you. And there's all this game stuff and nagging and it's all, you know, maybe that makes silly, unintelligent women fall for you briefly.
[1:24:06] But that's all just manipulation and nonsense.
[1:24:11] But female desire cannot be generated.
[1:24:18] Female desire cannot be generated. You can't chatter into finding you attractive. Women scan top to bottom, back to front, because the stakes are so high for women. So women scan top to bottom, back to front.
[1:24:39] What other women think is so persuasive for women, right? I recall you being a staunch libertarian, Stef. Do you think there is any legitimate place for economic protectionism? Well, economic protectionism, all of these things are warped by the welfare state. It's the whole question of how does the government save money? Well, if it fires its workers, the workers just go on unemployment, so it doesn't really save money. So if the welfare costs are very high in a society, protectionism will have people go off welfare and into jobs, where at least they're generating some revenue for the government rather than being a net cost and loss to the government so in terms of lowering deficits um protectionism in in terms of it retaining jobs and keeping people off the welfare state is has value if there's no welfare state then there would be no need really for no need or virtue or value in protectionism at all if that makes sense oh nice to dip in dr phil has helped silly people throughout the world with simple slogans. The outside captures, the inside retains. Yeah.
[1:25:52] All right. Any other last questions, comments, issues, challenges, problems? Don't give me your problems. He knows you know, but he's got problems. It's a great song. He knows you know by Marillion. All right.
[1:26:14] Well, of course, women need more social approval of their mates because women tend to work a lot more with other women to raise children. So women need a lot more social approval with their mates. But if a woman doesn't know if she finds you attractive but has to go for the validation of her friends, this is not a self-directed woman enough for you. She's not self-directed enough. She's not an independent thinker enough for you to have a lifelong relationship. You know, it is a long, long time to spend with an NPC. Life is long, man. Life is long. You know, everyone says, oh, life is so short. It's like, it's really not. Life is short if you have a great life and a good conscience. Life is long if you're unhappy, man. Life is long.
[1:27:01] I'm glad it was helpful. I'm glad that the answer was helpful. All right, somebody's typing. Who's typing? Do people have typing? Yes.
[1:27:12] So with a woman, if you ask a woman out in a group, it doesn't work out. The other woman won't be interested. Generally, it's not going to work. Generally, it's not going to work. Because if there's a woman who really likes you and you're compatible, but you end up asking out some other woman because she's just prettier, then you'll lose the respect of the woman you're compatible with right because she won't she'll be like i know the reason that you're asking her out it's just because she's pretty uh and sexy or whatever right so you'll lose the respect of that right what do you think of job hopping to get more pay even if the original company was decent but you but won't give a raise why the fuck would you have loyalty to a company i don't i don't know does the company have loyalty to you see there used to be a deal between the Fezziwig deal, right? There used to be a deal between companies and their workers that you give us hard work and we will do our very best to keep your jobs and all of that. And then, you know, when the international sociopaths took over corporations, it was just like, yeah, we'll move into Mexico. Oh yeah, we'll take them to China. Yeah, we'll move everything to India. Oh yeah, we'll import cheap foreign labor. We'll do X, Y, and Z, right? They always say skilled immigrant labor. And it's like, it's not skilled. Diplomas are mostly crap. app. So no, don't have loyalty to a company. I mean, unless it's someone you know and you get along well and there's a history and all of that, or it's a family company, you're part of the family or whatever, that's fine.
[1:28:38] But corporations will sell you for body parts for six cents on the kidney. Yeah, loyalty from employers is gone. Absolutely. Absolutely.
[1:28:52] I mean, in Canada, or they're just importing cheap labor all over the place. They have no loyalty to the workers.
[1:29:02] Yeah, I wouldn't worry about that too much. Yeah, if the company won't give you a raise, it's because it's being badly managed. And if you can get a better pay elsewhere, absolutely do it. In my humble opinion, yeah. I mean, obviously, you know, you have to balance, right? If you're going to get a bad reference or something, that could be a challenge. And I would certainly give... It might be nice to give... If you like your employer, it might be... It might be nice to give them an opportunity to match or whatever. James says, they push the whole family thing until they need to lay you off after overhiring because they got caught up in the moment. Oh, yeah. Can you imagine some corporate executive who wants to do a merger and the merger is going to eliminate, you know, a third of the workforce? Do you think he's going to be like, well, I could make $10 million from this merger or I could protect everyone's jobs? And you know what he's going to do. Yeah, you know what he's going to do. Yeah, it's all a family until somebody gets a better offer, right? And then it's all gone. Gone, baby! All right. Well, I think we're done for the night. I really appreciate everyone dropping by. If you're listening to this later, freedomain.com slash donate. We'd love to get your support for the show. A little low at the moment. I understand it's a lead-up to an election. People are kind of distracted. Call in to welcome, freedomain.com slash call.
[1:30:30] Would love that. And yeah, we are a family ploy. Yeah, yeah. We are a family, but we'll break up the whole thing and sell body parts to China if necessary. So.
[1:30:41] Yeah. Can you imagine, you sit down at a family dinner, oh, I love you, auntie, but I'm afraid there's a slightly nicer auntie who's slightly younger and slightly less demanding and slightly more affectionate, so I've sold you to China, and we're going to get a Chinese auntie in here.
[1:30:59] That's what corporations are like family my ass right you gotta be kidding me well kids, i'm sorry but uh you know there's some malaysian kids who are going to get better grades so i've sold you to malaysia and i'll be taking the malaysian kids that's how corporations treat you like a family you gotta be kidding me right corporations are a soulless brutal entities that exist solely to make the rich wealthy with while exposing them to no legal risk whatsoever uh if they win they get to keep the money if they screw everyone they don't cost them anything right yeah swap out family members as it suits us yeah that's right yeah treat you like family my god all right like they treat you like the family like the manson family all right thanks everyone have yourself a gorgeous beautiful wonderful evening i'm not sure there's going to be a show sunday morning i may have something that i have to get done sadly but i will let Let everyone know by tomorrow. And lots of love from up here. Thank you everyone for joining me tonight. I will talk to you soon. And thank you for some very enjoyable and fun topics. Bye.
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