0:03 - Fluffy-tailed rodent slaughter is the topic of the day.
15:50 - The Nature of Pet Ownership
18:41 - The Necessity of Pets in Europe
39:06 - A New Alliance: Elon and Ron Paul
51:44 - Gender Equity and Its Discontents
54:23 - Working with Reality vs. Manipulation
1:04:13 - The Cost of College and Reality
1:14:01 - Feedback: Worth It or Not?
In this episode, we delve into a sensational story that has captured the public's interest: the fate of Peanut the squirrel and Fred, the raccoon, who were taken from a couple who had raised them in their home. The narrative begins with a vivid portrayal of the couple; a tattooed, charismatic "squirrel dad" and his equally striking partner who have garnered a massive online following due to their unique pet ownership journey. We discuss the emotional turmoil the couple faced when Peanut, an orphaned baby squirrel they took in and cared for, tried to re-enter the wild and ultimately struggled with its survival.
We explore the dramatic events that unfolded when the state intervened, sparked by an anonymous complaint that claimed Peanut's caretakers were unfit. Our discussion centers around the implications of such power dynamics, reminiscent of heavy-handed governmental interference reminiscent of darker historical episodes. I dissect the irony of targeting a beloved, domesticated squirrel for euthanization while an abundance of wildlife and pests in the city persists, highlighting the flawed priorities involved.
The narrative takes a deeper turn as we analyze the reactions from the public and media, examining how the saga has been manipulated by various factions for their own agendas. The mention of social media fame and the couple’s ventures into adult content further complicates the public's perception. We scrutinize the motives behind the complaints, suggesting jealousy and a strange social media rivalry may have fueled these actions from afar, raising questions about the extent to which online persona can influence real-life repercussions.
Transitioning into broader implications, we reflect on the emotional attachment people form with their pets, juxtaposing it with societal attitudes towards animal rights and regulations across different states. I argue that this incident has crystallized a sense of confusion and outrage among the public amid a landscape fueled by increasingly polarized viewpoints, echoing sentiments we see in discussions surrounding political correctness and individual freedoms.
I delve into themes of government overreach and community surveillance, drawing parallels between the Squirrel incident and society’s collective behaviors during the COVID era, suggesting a growing unease with neighbors turning against neighbors. This profoundly affects people's perception of authority and personal freedoms in a world where complaints, whether justified or not, can lead to devastating outcomes.
The episode wraps up with a discussion about the symbolism of squirrels in popular culture and how this situation resonates with larger socio-political themes of freedom versus control. We probe the complexities of human-animal relationships while weaving in observations about modern society’s expectations and perceptions of conformity, ultimately asking listeners to reflect on the implications of this extraordinary, yet all too familiar, story.
[0:00] Yes, yes, good morning everybody. It's squirrel time.
[0:03] Fluffy-tailed rodent slaughter is the topic of the day. And we are going to talk all things squirrel-related. Peanut, the dead squirrel, and Fred the raccoon have both been, they don't say euthanized, it wasn't euthanized, they were killed. And this is really, really something. So, just a brief overview of it. There's a squirrel dad. He's a young hot guy with a heavily tattooed and I don't believe entirely authentically boobed wife. He's got his tats as well. And this guy Longo witnessed the squirrel's mom get hit by a car and baby peanut was orphaned. So he took the baby squirrel in and raised it over the next eight months. And then he tried to release it to the wild. And what he says is, the owner, I released him in the backyard, and a day and a half later, I found him sitting on my porch, missing half his tail. So here I am, bawling my eyes out, like I failed you as you're human. And I kind of opened the door, he ran inside, and that was the last of Peanut's wildlife career. So that was five years ago, and they've got millions of...
[1:27] Fans. Millions of fans. Now, believe it or not, I looked up what animals you're not allowed to keep as pets in New York. Wolves, foxes, coyotes, coyotes, hyenas, dingoes, especially if they get your baby jackals and other undomesticated dogs. Lions, tigers, leopards, jaguars, pumas, panthers, mountain lions, cheetahs, cougars, bobcats, lynxes, and other undomesticated catty cats. Ferrets, weasels, minx, badgers, wolverines, skunks, and mongooses. Squirrels, raccoons, and bats, bears, elephants, zebras, rhinoceros, giraffes, and hertopotamuses, tarantulas, black widows, and other venomous spiders.
[2:18] So, what happened? So this guy has had the squirrel for seven and a half years, and he wears... Now, listen, I mean, I don't want to sound overly prudish. The guy's got a nice physique and appears to be packing more meat than a factory farm, but he wears these tight yet baggy-at-the-crotch sweatpants to show off his genitals. He wears these muscle shirts, and he's a good-looking guy and a really nice physique and so on.
[2:52] And he looks like he's held in a sneeze with a delicate helium balloon down near his groin, full-on Freddie Mercury levels of sausage fest. And his wife is heavily tatted and wears his very tight clothing, has a nice figure, although for me the tattoo completely ruins it and has the kind of boobs that you would normally see being dribbled at a basketball game. So there's a certain amount of body vanity and salaciousness involved in that, That, you know, muscular guy with giant balls and a soft spot for cuddly animals is like catnip for a lot of women, right? And gay guys, I guess, as well. So, what happened was he's been socially media famous, the squirrel, for quite some time. It does seem to be the case that the guy has an OnlyFans account where he obviously does, I assume, pretty sexually salacious stuff. I'm not going to give you the name, but it's related to the squirrel.
[3:56] So, he made a lot of money from that. and so you know man whore on the internet not the most noble of creatures but you know i guess he's nice to the squirrel so that's it for everyone so there was this woman apparently in texas now of course this is all breaking stuff i can't verify all of this i'm just going to go by what's being said to some degree and this woman um called in multiple complaints into new york from.
[4:27] Texas. And the rumor is, I don't know, she seems to have deleted all of her social media accounts, but the rumor goes something like she was mad that the squirrel had more social media followers than she did. And so she was bragging about going to go and get the rat and things like that. So anyway, but people are up in arms about this. And I find this really fascinating. I really, I just find this so absolutely fascinating. So this is a quote, updated info on the wrongfully euthanized. No, not quite euthanasia. They were just killed. Euthanasia usually has to do with if you can't make it and it's, you know, putting a dog down because the dog is so old. And they weren't old and they weren't sick. They were euthanized. Well, they were killed for reasons we'll get to in a sec. So squirrel, peanut, and raccoon, Fred. it. So, somebody wrote, some ridiculous judge did sign a warrant for a squirrel on a called-in quote complaint by this photog to the DEC for unknown reasons.
[5:28] Uh, so, these people rescued and raised Peanut as an orphaned kit. They had him for seven years. The man created an animal rescue sanctuary as a result, um, had all the application process done, and it was signed. The only thing waiting on approval was an enclosure. This animal was not capable of wild survival. They tried that initially, but Peanut came back with injuries. Some rescued wildlife is not releasable. This is exactly why rehab sanctuaries will keep select animals after rehab capability is maxed. This raid involved making the victims sit outside their home for five hours while these maniacs tore up everything. They were denied the right to call legal counsel. Feds went through closets, leaving a complete mess. They broke soap bottles in the bathroom. They took apart the man's toilet upon escorting him before he could use it, because apparently there could be some important squirrel propaganda hidden in there. I'm assuming in the tank. Please make it make sense. They further questioned his wife's immigration status, Germany, in spite of her having all the necessary documents and ID.
[6:31] Because these psychos descended unannounced and hunted down these ordinarily docile rescues in their normally peaceful home, somebody supposedly got bitten. They used that as a justification for killing them to examine brain tissue for signs of rabies. Let's be clear, they were observed putting on gloves. Was anyone actually bitten? What's really going on here? We all want to know. And so it goes on and on and on. And it is pretty wild, right? So 10 armed agents of the state walk into your house, detain you and your significant other outside your own home, question you like common criminals, then euthanize your pets based on an anonymous complaint after tossing your entire house. So...
[7:18] That's really something. That's really something. So, there are apparently 3 million rats in New York City, 21,000 rat complaints. What does New York pest control do? Kill the one trained squirrel in the entire world. And I don't mean to laugh because it's sad and all of that, but somebody wrote, the fact that Americans are literally like, squirrel! At the end of this election cycle is absolute perfection. So, somebody wrote, if you think Peanut the Squirrel being euthanized against his will is horrific, just know that happens to about 3,000 unborn babies every day in America. The number of John Wick memes, of course, are immense. So, So, yeah, the DEC claims that Peanut bit one of its officials on the hand during the raid, But long ago, the man said he did not witness that and that the official's hands were heavily protected. He said, I watched everyone put gloves on before they entered my house. They had gloves that you get an eagle to land on. He said.
[8:33] So, as somebody else wrote, there was a simple solution to the tragedy, don't make online videos of an animal you don't have permits for. And, of course, inevitably, somebody pointed out, which is true, that Peanut, the squirrel, not to mention Fred, the raccoon, were investigated more than any Epstein client has been. So, what do you guys think is going on here? No, not November. Oof. So, yeah, tell me what you guys think is going on here, because this has become quite a thing. People are thinking, like, they're literally talking about how this might swing the election for Trump, and therefore the squirrel gave his life to, as some people argue, prevent World War III and incipient communism. So, yeah, tell me what do you guys think is going on here? Why do you think this is such a big deal? I'm ambivalent about it as a whole. I'm ambivalent about it as a whole. I can sort of see both sides.
[9:40] Thank you, Cheeseburger Cowboy. I appreciate the tip. And thank you, Think Clearly. I appreciate the tip. And thank you, Aaron, for the tip. I appreciate that as well. Freedomman.com slash donate. Law enforcement going for an easy target. Now, I'd heard, I don't know if this is true or not, but I'd heard that the squirrel was portrayed wearing a MAGA hat. It's a big deal because people love pets more than their children. You know, I mean, a young couple, attractive in their own way, to me it's a bit skeevy, but, you know, I guess some people find that kind of stuff attractive. So a young couple attractive in their own way together for seven years or at least he's had the squirrel for seven years I don't know, y'all gonna have any kids?
[10:38] It just seems, fur-arsed rodent doesn't seem to be much of a substitute for actual children. So I just find it strange. I would assume that given the tattoos and the online sex work, that these are people who had really terrible childhoods. Selective enforcement? Yeah, I suppose so. I suppose so. It's like Jimmy Kimmel making jokes about how Republicans should go and vote after the election. That doesn't seem, that seems a bit of selective enforcement there, to put it mildly.
[11:25] So, yeah, I appreciate the comments and, but i'll sort of go over some of the things that i think are uh important so i think that people are and this is sort of a post-pandemic kind of thing that people are a little edgy, because neighbors or even people in another state this wasn't a neighbor but people even in another state can call in and complain about something you're doing, and then you get raided in this kind of way, right?
[12:04] And I think that's kind of alarming. What was it, that book, Three Felonies a Day, that in America, as is in the case in a lot of places, you can be hit with, you know, know people violate an average of three laws a day so the idea that someone just dislikes you and can just repeatedly phone harass and then these dominoes can be set in motion i mean we saw that over covid there's an extra car in my neighbor's driveway i think they're socializing go get them right uh we know this this is a constant thing this is why you know for me having status in my life it's just not a good idea because uh you know when when they when the Berlin Wall and the East German Wall came down and the NKVD was Russian. The Stasi files, the East German secret police files were like a third of people were informing on friends, family, and neighbors. Like a third of people. A third of people were informing on friends, family, and neighbors. When the government, thank you, Karis, when the government gets more and more power, you can't afford morally compromised relationships.
[13:23] Wrong think, right? Said something wrong, did something wrong. And it is really, really risky, right? Harvey Silvergate, three felonies a day. Yeah, thank you, James. So the against me argument is not just ideological. It is for your protection. I mean, I don't know. Did you guys have any experience or hear of like in your lives or anything like that? Of people going kind of nuts on COVID and lockdowns and all of that kind of stuff. Did you find snitches and snippies and Karens and all these kinds of things? The homeowners association types?
[14:18] So I mean I think there is a certain amount of people just seeing other people happy it bothers them it bothers them, happiness and misery are at war with each other as a whole happiness and misery are at war with each other, so So, yeah, this afternoon, I'm going back with my daughter to a place where we got kicked out over COVID. We ordered food and we sat down to eat at a mall and we got kicked out and had to go and eat in the freezing cold because of our vaccination status. Somebody says was about to be kicked out of my home got yelled at by a colleague at work for not faxing or masking.
[15:17] So I think this is it's like an ancestral memory of various forms of totalitarianism and of course we think of the 20th century variety which tends to be ideological but we can think of course in the past that you said something against the dominant religious doctrine and then you were rated as a blasphemer, as a heretic, as an unbeliever, as a skeptic and all these kinds of things. So being frightened of being snitched upon for relatively unimportant things, that's an ancestral memory.
[15:50] And I think that's kind of what's being kicked up.
[16:00] Somebody says, I had an old lady scold me at the grocery store for not masking. The owner backed me up real time. It was awesome. Somebody says, I have a cousin who was full on enraged at the unvaxxed. I was the only one at that social gathering who wasn't vaxxed. Yeah.
[16:15] You've never made it live before. Hello, everyone. Hello. Thank you. And welcome to our Sunday money. Why are you giving them your patronage? Well, I mean, to be fair, it's been a long time. And, you know, do I blame the private sector for the actions of the government? Right? Do I blame the private sector for the actions of the government? You know, it's tough. I mean, do you think that I don't comply with rules that the government passes? So, for me, lording it over others who comply with government regulations, when I myself comply with government regulations, it would just seem pretty freaking hypocritical of me. That's all. So, I hear what you're saying. I'm going to withhold my patronage. And it's like, okay, well, it would be kind of tough to ask people to donate to me while I comply with government regulations and then withhold my funding from people who comply with government regulations. I mean, come on, man. Have a little kindness to your fellow citizens, right?
[17:37] Lee says, wasn't allowed to be on certain jobs or work for certain companies because I didn't have the vax, couldn't go out to eat anywhere, hard to date. That's true. That's true. I mean, like DEI, it's basically just an assault on fertility, right? Jeff says, I heard a phrase from my boss recently. For some, heat on thee equals not on me. Yeah. Alright, so sorry. I'm gapping out here for a sec, which is, you know, not always ideal on a live stream. So, a lot of people don't understand the relationship that Europeans have with their pets. Right? It's a little hard. So, Europe flourished as a result of pet ownership.
[18:41] So, uh, pet ownership was required. So, uh, particularly, uh, European farming, uh, is essential. Like you have to have pets, you have to have sheepdogs for your sheep and, and you have to have dogs as a whole to guard your livestock. You absolutely, absolutely have to have cats to kill the rats that can poop and pee into your food, uh, and so on. Right. So you need the cats to kill the birds that are eating. So European survival is heavily wired, like it's hardwired into us to protect our pets because it's life or death. Whether your pet survives or not is life or death for you and your family. And I remember when my daughter first started, you know, tadpoles and things like that, right? It's like we have to keep them safe. We can't be responsible for any harm happening. Like it was really like it was from my spine like we have to take care of of this right and this is one of the reasons why in particular european women tend to be easily side diverted into taking care of of pets because the men went out to hunt and the women would often take care of the domestic animals and so taking care of pets is is hardwired and synchronous with taking care of children.
[20:01] Because the children's survival often depended upon the pets, right? I mean, to get the milk, you needed to have the goats and cows and so on protected. And to get the wool and the meat, you had to have the sheep protected so you could stay warm and have enough food to eat. So for European women, and I'm not saying it's only European women, it's the one, the culture that I know the best, of course. But for European women, taking care of animals is side-by-side, cheek-by-jowl with taking care of children, which is why it's so easy to go from taking care of children to taking care of pets. Because the women who equated taking care of pets with taking care of children were the ones whose children tended to survive the most.
[20:44] So, just so you... Yeah, European pets are all case-elected to keep the R-vermin out of your food. That's a great way to put it. A great way to put it. And yeah, that's very clever and accurate and powerfully put. I appreciate that. Damn it, I can't steal it now. Oh my God, I have to respect the property of the product of your brain. DCMOT, that's brilliant. So that is why. And of course, Women in general, particularly in villages, would work together, and this is why women tend to be more horizontally compliant with other women and so on, right? So it's hard for sort of non-European cultures to understand the relationship between the Europeans and our pets. It is a very, very big deal.
[21:43] So, of course, you know, people are confused, like some people are confused. And it's interesting that it was most people on the right who were the ones who got most outraged about all of this. Whereas for me, I'm like, yeah, that's a, that's a cute squirrel, but aren't you a grown ass man? Like, I mean, it just seems like almost like a bizarre fetish to me. Like why you know like the guy was you know obviously he's a bit of a showman i guess so fine with that i mean i'm a little bit of a showman too i'm not complaining about it but i'm just saying what it is but he was like i saw him on tmz he was like crying and his wife was crying and it was like he was our life and it's like no come on come on, come on let's uh let's take a deep breath it is a squirrel of course it's not right in my view that it was taken in this kind of way, but it is a squirrel. It's not a child. And so I just wanted to sort of mention that, that that does seem to be something that is a little intense about it. But here's the thing too, that I think there's also kind of a weird little tickle of reality.
[23:05] That's getting into people's brains. Yeah, he was a revenue stream, sure, but he's going to get more revenue for his animal stuff, right?
[23:18] So, let's see here.
[23:24] Yeah, of course, the endless memes of the squirrel saying that he's in possession of information that will lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Her state claims they were all rabbit. Oh yeah, some lady brought baby raccoons into work in her office. Yeah, for sure. People have alligators in their bathtubs in New York City. Well, I assume so, but they don't try to monetize them on social media, I assume, right?
[23:52] I have a question. How do you explain the COVID stuff dividing down political lines so evenly? Is that the case? Is it the case that the COVID stuff was divided around? Yeah, I think not evenly, but Republicans were more skeptical and Democrats, I shouldn't say. It's not just America, like America is the only place. people on the right were more skeptical and more freedom oriented and people on the left more compliant so the reason is that until we until upb gets wider distribution and anybody who's not distributing upb is contributing to the corruption and decay of the world just just so you know i'm not telling you anything you don't know don't do it for me do it because we either have allegiance to reason or subjugation to authority we either subject our will to reason or we subject our conscience to brute force. Whether that brute force is in the form of theological threats of heaven and hell, or jail and social ostracism and the destruction of your income and reproductive, chances either we reason or we are ordered around. So until UPB is promulgated more widely, and, you know, I got to tell you, I'm actually kind of pissed at, you know, libertarians and former colleagues, they should be pushing UPB. I mean, they should be. They should be pushing UPB, but they won't. They won't.
[25:11] Nobody's written a review of it except a really execrable one by someone from the Mises Institute that got everything completely wrong. So yeah, people are not promoting UPB, and you should be promoting UPB, right? Peaceful parenting and UPB, because universally preferable behavior frees us from the tyranny of authority. So on the right they did not want to subject themselves to the tyranny of scientism of the cult of science and on the left they did want to subject themselves to the tyranny of scientism.
[25:49] And the belief in scientism is far more destructive and horrendous than the subjugation to the universal morality of Christianity. Much worse, to be controlled by the mystery cult of science. So, the worship of science is the abandonment of independent thinking. You have to think for yourself to be an authentic, real, manifested human being. We're.
[26:29] We're either in the prison of other people's lies, or we think for ourselves and break out. And so, the worship of God's handiwork, particularly with the belief that the mRNA vaccines had DNA altering components to them, meant that the religious people didn't want to, at least on the Christian side, they wanted free will, independence of conscience, and a respect for the Nuremberg Code, no forced medical experiments, and informed consent is essential, and so on. So they did want to follow that kind of stuff, and that, I think, was the right conclusion, but the wrong methodology as a whole. But on the left, they, the left has a real, I mean, they have a huge bullying problem, right? And one of the reasons that people follow bullying is they hope to participate in it, right? They hope to be able to participate in the bullying, and they did in COVID, right? So because they followed the cult of scientism so fervently and fervently, they then got to participate in the bullying and attack their fellow citizens, right?
[27:45] Bullying arises out of helplessness. And so when you've abandoned your own capacity to think and reason for yourself, you end up being programmed by malevolent people who you perceive to be in power over you, and then you join them in bullying others. So, I hope that.
[28:06] Makes some kind of sense to you. Thank you for the tip. I appreciate that.
[28:22] So…, Did I lose my thread? I may have lost my thread. Oh, no, I didn't lose my thread. I'm back. I'm back, baby. I'm back. I'm back. So, people have a whiff of accidental reality, right? They have a whiff of accidental reality coming into their lives, and that's why people are freaking out. So, people appear to be absolutely, deeply shocked and horrified that the enforcement of laws involves force. Isn't that strange? I mean, it's not legal to keep raccoons and squirrels as pets. It's not legal to keep squirrels and raccoons as pets.
[29:33] So, that's a regulation. You can agree with the law, you cannot agree with the law, but that's a fact. So, the fact that laws are enforced through force appears to be, for reasons I find somewhat incomprehensible, deeply shocking to be. Wait, are you saying that laws are enforced with force? You know that it's an old saying from wisdom, not just a good idea, it's the law. Like, it's not just a good idea like you should or I'll reason with you. It's like, it's the law. And it's like, yes, law is an opinion with a gun. And it's an opinion, not because all laws are unjust, but because without a universal, rational, moral framework, there's no objective justification for the laws. Yeah, laws are an opinion with a gun. I have said that for 20 years. Well, I've said that for longer than 20 years, but in public for 20 years. So I do find it a little fucking precious that people are just shocked, shocked, oh my God, shocked and appalled. Shocked and appalled that laws are enforced with force.
[30:54] Oh, my gosh. It's just wild. I mean, how absolutely. Oh, he did have a MAGA hat on the squirrel. Yeah, was that it? I don't know. Is that photoshopped? It looks a little photoshopped. Yeah, that doesn't look real. because one of the years is kind of cut off. I think that's photoshopped. I could be wrong. It looks photoshopped to me. But how propagandized do you have to be, to not know this? I mean, does everybody know? If there's a knock on your door, and it's some missionaries, that's one thing. If there's a knock on your door and it's the police, that's a different thing. That's a different thing if you're a woman driving and a guy gestures at you and says hey pull over i want to get your phone number that's one thing if it's the cops with their sirens and they say pull over i need to get your phone number i need to get your id i need to get your name that's a whole different thing.
[32:03] You get a letter from a charity asking for money. That's one thing. You get a letter from the government saying a red light camera caught you speeding and you owe us X amount of dollars. That's a whole different thing. Who doesn't know this? My God, people, you have to put so much work into not seeing, oh my God, there's a nose in front of my face. Well, it's Two ghost noses, unless I close one eye. Two ghost noses. I'm sorry, like, I don't mean to laugh because I know it's serious stuff. But it's like a guy joins the army, then at some point he's like, wait, we gotta... We gotta use guns? Wait, there's coercion involved here? What? Or, uh, I really want to be a surgeon, I just... I don't want to do any cutting, and I don't want to see any blood.
[33:01] Even the smallest laws are upheld with the biggest guns in the universe. There ought to be a law I want a law this should be illegal that should be illegal right like people are what's it Dragon Age, Vanguard or there's a new Dragon Age I think I played the first one for an hour or two found it kind of dull but there's a new Dragon Age out right, and yeah there's a bunch of woke stuff in it, why because Riot Games that makes them got hit with a hundred million dollar fine for lack of diversity DEI stuff, right?
[33:45] It's not organic. They're not just bad business people. It's not just... They're not just... Oh, they just mysteriously went woke. Like every time you see people making bad decisions, always look for legal decisions. I mean my gosh just just go look this stuff up i mean it's really oh my gosh why why would this brotastic culture which makes valorant and and what are they did league of legends or i don't know whatever they got a bunch of games right i mean 93 percent of fps shooters are.
[34:29] Men, right? Of course, it's a bro-tastic, high-testosterone culture, right? And of course, it's going to be a little rough around the edges for some of the ladies. But you see, you can't say that men and women are fundamentally the same and then say that a woman can't handle male culture. That doesn't make any sense. That's like saying, well, these bricks are all identical. But if I put this brick rather than that brick there, the whole building's going to fall down. It's like you can't have it both ways, logically. You can't say, well, men and women are totally interchangeable, but a woman can't handle a bro-tastic high-T culture. It's like then you're saying that they're different. This plug is exactly the same as that plug, but I can't plug into this hole. This plug can't, like it's exactly the same. If it's exactly the same, they're interchangeable, then it shouldn't matter. If they're not interchangeable, then they're not exactly the same, in which case differences in outcome would be expected.
[35:33] So the women at Riot Games were complaining that they saw an email chain rating how attractive the women at the company were. Right, right. Or that there was a very aggressive culture where sometimes meetings would get quite shouty and acrimonious. They just talk over the women. It's like, no, no. If women are the same as men, then women should be able to talk over men just the same way that men talk over women. But if women need special treatment because men are talking over them, then men and women aren't the same. Again, it's all. So it just, it bothers me that there's all of this stuff like, well, why would they let this happen? Why would all this woke stuff end up in this game? And it's like, I don't know, man, you get hit with 100 million. I think it was only 10 million originally was their settlement, with thousands of women, some of whom didn't even work there directly, but were contractors.
[36:35] So they were originally going to settle for $10 million, and I think it was in California, and the government upped it to $100 million. Like, I'm sorry, man, $100 million is an absolute catastrophe for a company. Thank you, Lloyd. So, yeah, it's a catastrophe for a company, so, right? If men and women are equal, then for women can handle a man's environment? Sure. Absolutely. Absolutely. They're basically saying that men and women are twins. Okay? But, but, they have different blood types. It's like, no, no, you can't, I don't think you, I'm not an expert, I don't think you can be a twin and have a different blood type. I mean, identical twins, not fraternal, right? So if men and women are equal, then women can handle a man's environment, no problem. Then the man's environment should not need to be adapted to women at all. But if men need to massively adapt their entire environment and approach because women are so different and delicate, then men and women aren't the same.
[37:49] So, yeah, it's obviously, we all know this stuff. Thank you, Pulsar. I appreciate that. Have you seen Elon's ex-post? He's currently bashing the government over the Skorupina. Yeah, you know, I went through, not that you all particularly care about my emotional state but I went through all kinds of different emotions have you heard the Elon Ron Paul thing?
[38:16] I mean I have no proof of this of course just with regards to I think that what happens is if I was an evil genius you know whatever a business guy I would, I would short a company in the long run and then whip up a bunch of sexist frenzy about that company. And that way, the company's stock would tank and I would make an absolute fortune. Yeah. So, Elon Musk, as you know, if Trump gets his way this week, then Elon Musk is interested in Ron Paul's ideas of cutting government.
[39:07] So boy talk about persistent i mean ron paul i love the guy i mean i think ron paul is is fantastic uh i was not a fan of his presidential aspirations as we know from way back in the day but uh as as a human being ron paul is i mean beyond spectacular i mean an incredible doctor a great writer uh an impressive communicator a charismatic guy and a brave guy an expert politician, a great public speaker, and a great thinker, and a great at economics. Like, the man has got a brain the size of the galaxy, and it seems like a very good-hearted and big-hearted guy. He's 89 years old and still going. Yeah, I mean, it really is. Just, he's an amazing guy. He's an amazing guy. Amazing guy. Oh, it's the Dragon Age was not developed by Riot Games. Is that right? There's no affiliation or check sorry i could could have got that wrong but i'm sure riot games has had its own issues with this stuff and the games that it puts out because of the 100 million judgment so uh thank you for the correction if that is correct then um it is a uh a different silo but same same farm mechanics so i appreciate that thank you um.
[40:30] So, the fact that Ron Paul could be teaming up with Elon Musk for governmental efficiency and Elon Musk has shown some sympathy towards questioning the innate virtue and value of the Federal Reserve, that is really, really something. That is really something. What a storyline. What a storyline. Just amazing. Just amazing. All right. uh so that's very interesting all right i'm just going to go and check comments here there and everywhere did you already talk about tucker carlson's bad little girl part of his speech i don't know what that refers to sorry.
[41:22] Uh search for riot games woke you uh riot games goes full woke as they censor league of legends Okay. So, sorry. The Dragon Age thing is separate, although I'm sure driven. But here's the thing, too. There's a ripple effect, right? So if one company gets hit with a $100 million fine, all the other companies fall in line, right? I mean, that's the deplatforming thing. When I was deplatformed, there were a bunch of topics that went underground for a while, but now seem to be mostly accepted. But the Tucker Carlson, the Wild Tucker riot does seem to have been subject to a lawsuit involving sexual harassment. Yes. I actually, I read the original article and read some of the judgment. He said children need a vigorous spanking. Yeah, I mean, that's not shocking to me. I mean, most people on the right would agree with corporal punishment. So I'm not sure why that's shocking. I assume Dragon Age going woke is just the result of Bioware being Canadian. No, see, the woke virus generally doesn't spread on its own. It spreads through lawfare, right? It's not organic it's imposed it's not like people just like it for the most for the most part right and if you say ah well you know but young people seem to be really into the woke stuff and it's like well yeah but that comes out of it being inflicted through schools and universities right.
[42:43] So um and it's funny how what canada is has a reputation of being uh woke yeah you know i you know i i grew up in a different kind of canada and i also spend time in a different kind of canada if you think canada is just a cluster of cities along the 48th you don't get canada, canada is a lot of people who live outside of the cities and it's a lot of very practical, sensible culture as a whole and this is why canada had a freedom convoy right so, so don't assume that everyone Canadian is just is just woke it is not really the case try not to over generalize about countries as a whole.
[43:31] Yeah, so I mean, if you're a software company, and let's say you have to hire a bunch of women, right? Or whoever, right? Well, I mean, the percentage of women who are hardcore, let's say you're a first-person shooter kind of company, right? So the number of women who are hardcore first-person shooters and expert at coding is very small. Compared like 93% of the players are male. And, you know, how many women, I mean, you can check this out and maybe it's known, maybe it's not as a whole, but how many women voluntarily create level design, right? How many women voluntarily create level designs for first person shooters or, you know, whatever you want to call them, the Fortnite. And, you know, so because a lot of a lot of people end up working for companies because they do amazing level design and they put it out for free and that's their sort of audition that is their their resume so to speak, so if you have to hire a lot of women and you are a hardcore shoot-em-up violent gaming.
[44:45] Company then are you going to get a lot of you know excellent hardcore coder violent video game aficionados out of the general female population uh well no i mean there's a reason candy crush exists right and so uh so you have to hire them so where do you put them well you put a bunch of them in hr which spreads things uh the woke stuff and you'll put a bunch of them in storytelling right you'll put a bunch of them in storytelling. The Serious Sam guy seemed to have escaped that. Serious Sam is, I'm at the end of my mission. All I want is a steak and a massage.
[45:31] Yeah, so it's not organic. It's... It's not really the result of choice. So I always go back, and I haven't said this for a while, so, just, you know, forgive me for some repetition, but something that really influenced me, well, of course, George Orwell's been a fairly big influence on me, although he got demographics completely wrong, but George Orwell's been a big influence on me, and one of the things that I got from down and out in London and Paris, down and out in Paris and London, was he worked as a plongeux and dishwasher and he just went to a whole bunch of poor places and hung around a whole bunch of poor people and some of the people that he hung out with were tramps vagabonds right, and he said you know there was this general perception like why do they keep going from town to town they must have wanderlust they must have gypsy blood they just they just must love walking they just must and it's like well no he said that's that's not like that it's not some cultural thing. It's because most of these towns have a law that you can't be unhoused there for more than three days, or they'll throw you in jail.
[46:50] So why, oh, they have this wanderlust, they love to walk, it's in their blood, it's gypsy this, and it's like, nope, not part of their culture. It's just that they go from town to town, because if they stay in town, they'll get thrown in jail, which they don't want.
[47:09] So, before you start coming up with odd explanations about companies just going woke, right, like it's just something in the air or something they chose, I mean, just have a look at the legal environment that the companies are working in. So, for instance, if a company gets hit with a $100 million fine for not being inclusive enough, then the lawyers at every other company in the space will say, we have to comply with this stuff, or we're going to get hit with a big fine. And if someone just got nuked with a $100 million fine in your industry, and you don't do anything to alleviate the issues that led to that $100 million fine, then you can actually get sued. Again, I'm no lawyer, so this is not legal advice. My understanding is that if, as a chief executive, there's something you have called fiduciary responsibility, which means you can't knowingly take actions that are going to destroy the value of your company. And you can get in serious, I don't know if you get sued or not, but you can certainly get fired. You can get into serious trouble for not doing things that maintain the value, the stock value of your company, right? Or even if it's privately traded, the value of the company, right? Because there'll be private shareholders probably in that situation, right?
[48:36] So this is, um, uh, if you are the CEO of a gaming company, right? Then if you don't take the steps to avoid the kind of issues that got riot nuked for a hundred million dollars, then you could be found liable for fiduciary misconduct, right? Right.
[49:05] But this is the funny thing, right? So if you say that men and women are interchangeable, then it shouldn't matter whether you hire men or women. Someone says, I think sometimes legal counsel can be cowardly too. I mean, sorry, man. Love you to death. That's a completely useless comment. Sometimes people are brave and sometimes people are cowardly. Ooh. Is there a bell curve of courage and cowardice that applies to just about everyone? Huh. So that adds nothing. Sure, of course, right, yeah. I mean, can they be overcautious? Well, I mean, that's like saying some investors are keen on risk and some investors are less keen on risk. It's like, it just doesn't add anything because that's just true by definition. There is a bell curve of courage and cowardice in every profession. I get that. So but but the um uh if if if you as a lawyer again i'm no expert in this but my understanding would be if you as a lawyer give advice and bad things don't happen you're okay you're fine right you've made a you've given quote good advice if you are a lawyer and you give advice and bad things happen then you could be in trouble right right so so if you're a lawyer and you say man you've got to conform the $100 million fine, you can, right?
[50:35] Then if people comply with these requirements and nothing bad happens, then the lawyer looks like it's good advice, right? But if you say, oh, I wouldn't worry about these fines, and then the company gets in trouble, then you get in trouble as a lawyer, right? So, lawyers in general tend to be more cautious. You know, and we saw this with COVID, that people who have regulatory bodies tend to be fairly dictated to by those regulatory bodies, and they don't have as much choice as you might think. So, just a reminder, just a reminder. But I really, again, really do appreciate you pointing out that Dragon Age was not developed by Riot Games. Thank you. I appreciate that. I trusted someone, but it's my responsibility for checking that. So I really do appreciate that fact-checking. Thank you so much.
[51:44] Well, and of course, we all know that this gender equity stuff only goes one way, right? Right? There's no movement for gender equity pay in fashion models, right? There are too many men in prison and not enough women, right? There are too many men in dangerous occupations and not enough women. There are too many male deaths in combat and not enough women. There are too many firefighter deaths that are male and not enough women, right? It's always just, you know, the one way. And, you know, it's not the women's fault and it's not the men's fault. It's the fault of everyone who praises the use of violence.
[52:19] Most of the red, blue versus red is not really state by state. It seems to be more rural versus city, if you look at the county map of the US. Yeah, so, I mean, as I've said before, and I'll probably say again, I would not, in a zillion years, in general, trust anyone who's never had a manual labor job, who's never worked with actual things, right? I just wouldn't. I wouldn't trust anyone who hasn't worked with their hands in the actual world with real world consequences.
[52:52] If all you've done is, you know, lived in the suburbs and gone to school and then traveled a bit and gone to university and read and studied, and then you got a job pushing digits and blobs and bips and burps around on a computer screen and sending emails, it's like, you have no, you have no, you have no impressed relationship to reality. It's all just concepts and manipulation and pushing bits and burps and syllables and it's nothing, there's nothing real. You have to, have to, have to work with your hands in order to be accurate in your thoughts. You have to work with your hands in order to be accurate in your thoughts. And it doesn't have to be your whole life. But you have to have done it. Something you can't talk in and out of is essential for grounding in empirical reality and truth itself. You have to work with things you can't manipulate.
[53:50] If you've never worked with things you can't manipulate, I assume you are just an instinctual manipulator. Which I ask people about their youths, their jobs, and so on, because I want to know if I can take them seriously at all. Right, so if you have only ever been judged by people, then you are a habitual manipulator.
[54:23] Habitual manipulator. If you've worked with things that can't be manipulated, like I couldn't talk the gold into appearing in my pan, right? I couldn't talk the earth into appearing at the bottom of the Pionja drill when I was working up north. I couldn't talk the tent into being warmer. I couldn't talk the snowmobile into working, right? I couldn't talk frostbite out of my hands if I screwed up when it was minus 40 out, right? Somebody who's only worked with people and opinions is drugged, right? The only antidote to the drug of manipulation are the facts of reality. And I can tell, man, I, at this point in my life, you know, I'm 58 years old, I can really, really tell. People who've never worked with actual factual reality. They have a kind of demonic intensity and energy to them, and they have no humility. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed, but if all you've done is manipulated or be manipulated.
[55:34] Well, I have to please my teacher, then I have to please my professor, then I have to please my boss, then I have to please my wife, then I have to please blah, blah, blah. It's like, It's just manipulation. And so people in the city don't work in reality, for the most part, right? And people in the country work in reality. It's fascinating that some men have never driven a nail or changed a tire. Right, right, right. I would love to see these intellectuals assemble furniture. I would love to see these intellectuals drive a snowmobile. I would love, like, their incompetence with regards to actual things is truly staggering. Even sports can help. I can't talk my muscles into growing. I have to move heavy metal in a dark room.
[56:34] Go listen to, by the way, one of the first thrash metal, I think, if not the first thrash metal song in all of rock history was by Queen, believe it or not. Stone Cold Crazy.
[56:48] It's really great. Even the live versions are great. Stone Cold Crazy. It's really fast and really thrashy. And man, they were just all over the place with the musical genre.
[56:59] Yeah, people who aren't competent with material reality have nothing to say to me. With regards to abstract truths my first job was mowing lawn some of the tools are dangerous yeah, yeah when i was uh working up north we had to sometimes get through the permafrost with a, giant handheld flamethrower like tubes on the back strap like to go through that stuff i mean you make one mistake and you get burned you're two days away from a hospital you're probably not going to make it right taking machetes and and hacking our way through i mean you get one thing wrong your machete goes into your leg you're just going to bleed out and die like you have to be really careful and you have to respect reality facts empiricism absolutely metallica did a cover of stone cold crazy yeah they were pretty pretty big fans of queens i think didn't they do no were they at freddie mercury concert no that was somebody else maybe so yeah if you've never worked with consequentialist reality, I really don't care what you think about because it's all self-referential, masturbatory, mechanistic manipulation. It's just a bunch of noise and.
[58:20] Hearing people talk about truth when they've never worked in actual reality is like people telling me all about Japan when they've never been and don't speak the language. There was an old article by, oh gosh, what was his blobby's name? Rope Bonfire. Tom Wolfe. Tom Wolfe was basically just talking about all of these guys, American writers who are writing stuff that they never experienced, right? There was a, what was it, John Irving or someone had written an entire novel set in India, had never been to India.
[58:58] Somebody says, I've done computers for a super long time, but I learned how to change a tire early on, learned recently how to change my oil. You have to learn how to properly lift and secure your car if you're going to do that, yeah? Yeah. I mean, and computers, not too bad, because stuff works or it doesn't. It provides the accurate results or it doesn't it's fast enough for people to use or it's not, so with computers as a programmer there is you can't manipulate the computer into doing what you want you can't complain like anybody who gets a different outcome from whining knows fuck all about the truth oh i thought that the i thought that the i thought that the exam was, was was today not yesterday oh come on please i'll get a note oh i'll comply with what this leftist professor wants and i'll get a good degree and like.
[59:57] Anybody who can get a different outcome by whining and complaining knows nothing about the truth. If that's all they know, right? But you can't whine and complain about the facts of reality, right? If you hack yourself open with a machete because you swung, like every time you swing, you got to swing deep enough to chop things, but not so deep, but not so shallow that it bounces off and hits you, right? As I talked about, sorry, as I talked about with my friend and I the last day that we were up north and we went out to get the last sample because we didn't want to get up at five in the morning and do it the next morning because the plane was coming at 10. So we went and, man, we were this close to dying.
[1:00:45] Somebody says, started farm work in Kentucky at 14, worked construction to pay my way through university. Enjoy physical labor. It's good. It's good. It's good. It gives you humility and has you realize that you live in a world of facts and consequences. And the degree to which you avoid facts and consequences is the degree to which other people are burdened with them. So you can do a circle jerk of bullshit in your supposed job. That just means that people who work with their hands have to be taxed more to subsidize your bullshit. So all of the facts of reality that you avoid have to be doubly paid for by other people.
[1:01:34] I mean, as women, you don't have to... Female intuition, right? Female intuition, there's way too many single moms for that to be a real thing, right?
[1:01:44] But if you choose the wrong father for your children, well, who's going to... Well, we all have to be taxed to pay for that terrible decision, right?
[1:01:59] All right. Questions, comments, issues, challenges, problems. I think sending everyone to college made this worse. We have too many people who make nothing in reality, but think because they have a degree, they have value. Yeah. Well, I mean, I've made this case before, of course, that a college is a massive, massive money and time sink that has to be imposed because you're not allowed to use an IQ test or anything equivalent to hire people. If you were allowed to use an IQ test to hire people, IQ, particularly for complex jobs, an IQ test is by far, by far the best predictor of success in the business world or in any complex job that you hire people for. So you can't use IQ tests for reasons we've gone into before. And so you have to have a proxy called college because you can manipulate the shit out of college, but you can't manipulate the shit out of IQ tests. Right. So, so yeah, college, um, and college is also good because you, you get to people to pay for their own propagandizing, which is really for propagandists is delightful. Normally, propaganda is expensive, but if you can get people to go into $150,000 in debt in order to be lied to and programmed, so much the better. And also, it gets people, the longer you can get young people to avoid paying taxes, the less they understand their society.
[1:03:23] Yes, there are some tests for a few jobs. I think Google has intelligence tests and all of that, but you can't just, you can't say, like, what should happen is people, when their brains have settled into some kind of stability, it's hard, I mean, mid-20s for men might be a bit late, early 20s for women, but at some point when there's a law of diminishing returns in terms of development, you should just take an IQ test or maybe take three IQ tests, and then that's your resume. Your resume is your IQ, because smart people can be taught just about anything. Your resume is your IQ. But of course, you know, people who are less intelligent don't want IQ tests, right? I mean, that's not very complicated, right?
[1:04:14] Somebody says, I went to college for computer science, but then became an electrician. Most of my friends who went to college are childless, renting and struggling. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. I mean, again, it's a war against the intelligent and susceptible to propaganda that they go to college and then they're laden down with debt and expectations and disappointment and abstractions. And if you stay away from tangible reality, you go crazy. Right you have to work with actually the brain is tamed by facts objectivity empiricism and reality because we have why do we have this wildly creative brain because it has to keep these waves of creativity have to are supposed to keep washing up against the blank facts of reality.
[1:05:02] So, when you have the wild creativity of the human mind unconstrained by pushback from absolute empirical reality, we go crazy. Working with manipulative abstractions becomes a form of, in my view, a form of psychosis, a form of detachment from reality. I just use that, of course, in an amateur sense, but it becomes a form of detachment from reality. We go kind of schizo, kind of manic, kind of psycho, just it is a like alienation from the facts of reality is a drug that undoes the basics of the brain. It is an assault upon rationality to live in manipulative unreality, to be what Ayn Rand would call a second-hander or a social metaphysician, someone who doesn't ask, is this true, but Do other people think that this is true? Who doesn't say, is this a fact, but says, will I be punished or rewarded for proclaiming this, quote, fact, right? It is a form of mental ill health that is incredibly destructive, because it's masked by compliance. If everyone's crazy, you all feel sane, right?
[1:06:20] And you need to let reality consistently and constantly stage and intervention in your creativity because creativity untempered by empirical facts turns to madness and manipulation very quickly.
[1:06:39] Yeah, I mean, I took one computer science class, which I barely even showed up for in junior high school, and then became, I mean, I became a very good programmer. I'm a very expert programmer. I was lauded by Microsoft back in the day for being the first person to produce an Access 2000 MDE program when I was out at a conference in Hawaii. And had good partnerships with big companies you'd all know and I was constantly praised and way ahead of the curve for my coding and, the idea that I could be taught that is kind of crazy, freedomain.com slash donate to help out the show we'd hugely appreciate your support remember all donors get and I'll put them out once a week, you'll get the feed for the french revolution uh and if you haven't listened to that you really can't understand what's going on in the world as it stands without listening to this stuff about the french revolution.
[1:07:45] Yeah so yeah hr departments uh they don't deal with tangible factual measurable and i worked in hr departments as a student uh for a couple of years off and on so yeah it's uh it's crazy stuff, you can just say stuff you don't actually have any tangible measurable outcomes, you can't manage what you can't measure and the opposite of vanity is reality right.
[1:08:19] The opposite of vanity is reality you know if you think that you're worth a lot then ask for a lot, oh what does hr even do you know hr is a place where government regulations um that force people to hire largely women uh they have to put them somewhere and a lot of them aren't particularly into you know the sort of hard sciences the stem stuff so hr is a place where parents, push paper around and pretend that they're adding to the value of the world.
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[1:09:31] All right. Any other last comments, questions? I've got a whole bunch of notes, but I don't want to start something big right now because I have a busy, busy afternoon. Don't forget to go to fdrurl.com slash TikTok and sign up for my TikTok account. I would really, really appreciate that. Fdrurl.com slash TikTok. And how's your new novel coming along? Oh, I got a little stuck on the research because it's a time-based novel and I want to make sure I get the research done accurately. So I've gone down a real rabbit hole of researching with how various places looked at various points in time. This is one of the larger, I mean, the only other novel that I've done that has a larger time span is Almost, which also took massive amounts of research. So I'm still in the, I've got the novel outline done. I've got the chapter outline done. I've got the character details done. And I'm just finishing up the research on what to write about. I don't want to just make things up because it's too much work and you can easily be inaccurate. So knowing what this particular place in Canada looked like in 1990 was really, really important. Are you still working on the History of Philosophers series? I don't know what you mean. I don't know what you mean.
[1:10:46] Working on? You mean, will I add more? Yeah, probably at some point. But the next one is Immanuel Kant. And I have probably put in 20 hours into researching along with all the Kant that I read when I was in graduate school and undergraduate. And I just really want to be accurate. So I have a huge presentation on Kant. I've actually paid a researcher and have a researcher who's given me lots of material on Kant. So it's just, it's very big. And I have to sort of look at the cost benefit, right? Just so you know, right? So the cost benefit. If I do a manual Kant, will that drive donations, right? Because I have to, uh, you know, we've got bills and payroll and, and, and paychecks to write and all of that. So, um.
[1:11:34] So I have to be responsible for what brings income to the organization so that the organization can survive and flourish, right? That's the general thing. So just so you know, like you have to sort of, I mean, if you want to know how business decisions are made, you put yourself in my shoes and you say, okay, well, if I spend half a week on Immanuel Kant, is that going to drive income compared to a bunch of live streams and call-in shows and so on that people really like? So now of course if a bunch of people wrote to me and said man i'd subscribe if you did a manual account then that would sort of change the uh the equation so i don't just sort of choose things to do based upon my own preferences i have to choose to do that which is most valuable to you the audience right and there's 23 uh sections in the um history of philosophy series and will i add more before I'm dead, I'm sure that I will. But I do have to make sure income is coming in because, you know, it's tough. You know, I had a bunch of people cancel, of course, and I did write to them and say, you know, no pressure. I appreciate your support. What happened? And every single one of them wrote back is like, man, finances are crushing. Inflation is bad. I'm not getting the raise I need. You know, it's really tough out there. So, you know, and I really sympathize with that, of course. Right.
[1:12:50] But tough out there to some degree means not quite so easy in here. And so I have to do that which is most beneficial to the financial health of what it is that I do right that's my empiricism right that's my empiricism so.
[1:13:07] Do you think the peanut the squirrel stuff has anything to do with financial winter coming and squirrels represent saving up for the winter in dream logic I think that it's if you get overly domesticated the government has total power over you I think that's what the squirrel thing is fundamentally about.
[1:13:25] The squirrel got domesticated and thus was under the control of the government, right? And that's when you get overly domesticated in that sort of mouse utopia experiment. When you get overly domesticated by the powers that be, they have total control over you, right? And so if the squirrel was out in the wild doing its natural squirrel thing, if it was free rather than encased, enslaved, and trained, if it was not manipulated for semi-only-fans profit, then the squirrel was free, it would have survived. But the squirrel got domesticated, was under the power of the state, and therefore didn't make it. So I think it would be more to do with that.
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[1:14:18] I will take feedback from people I've taken advice from or from people who have demonstrated capacity in excelling in something I'm striving for, right? So I was very good at social media, right? I had millions of followers and, you know, I've had a billion views and downloads of very controversial stuff that's abstract philosophy for the most part or applied abstract philosophy. So I was very good at social media. So when people would tell me what I should or shouldn't do with regards to social media, if they had like 20 followers, I'd be like, if you're really good at social media, why do you have only 20 followers?
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