0:07 - Podcast Kickoff
22:15 - Transition to Bitcoin Discussion
22:49 - Importance of Investing
45:05 - Networking for Job Search
51:40 - The Dynamics of Relationships
1:01:37 - The Value of Hard Work
1:06:33 - The Role of Appearance in Careers
1:08:10 - The Impact of Women's Career Choices
1:15:53 - Assertiveness in Conversations
1:18:46 - Closing Remarks and Gratitude
In this episode, we delve into the nuances of living authentically in a world often dominated by superficial expectations and societal pressures. I open the discussion by sharing a personal anecdote that leads into a broader commentary on self-perception and resilience. The hat I’m wearing sparks a conversation about how we sometimes hide our true selves, and it becomes a metaphor for the layers we often put on in our daily lives.
As we shift gears, the topic turns to Bitcoin, examining the current market trends and the implications of price fluctuations. I recount the historic peaks of Bitcoin's cycles and express skepticism about the tendency to predict future movements based solely on past patterns. This leads into a discourse on the interplay of federal decisions, ETF approvals, and market sentiment, highlighting the inherent complexities of cryptocurrencies that lend to both opportunity and risk.
We further explore the socio-economic ramifications of such market shifts, juxtaposing them against the broader historical narrative of wealth distribution. I outline how the economic landscape appears rigged against the younger generation while touching on the cyclical nature of financial prosperity and hardship, illustrating the rising disconnect between value generation and taxation.
The conversation then diverts into more personal territory, discussing relationships and societal expectations, particularly as they pertain to gender roles and definitions of success. I critique the unrealistic standards placed upon women and the often misguided perceptions of men seeking partners who align with traditional roles. This analysis engages with the broader theme of personal value contribution in relationships, emphasizing the need for mutual respect and effort on both sides.
Tackling the intricacies of dating and partnership, I analyze the dynamics of attraction in the modern world, inviting questions about societal attitudes towards beauty and success. I confront the paradox where many women with high aspirations struggle to connect personally with men due to the stress and obligations of their careers, leading to broader reflections on lifestyle choices and personal sacrifice.
The episode culminates in a reflection on the importance of surrounding oneself with the right company. I stress the necessity of nurturing connections based on shared goals and mutual support rather than superficial friendships. This sentiment resonates through various anecdotes, reminding listeners that true growth often comes from engaging with those who inspire and challenge us, rather than clinging to old ties that no longer serve our aspirations.
Engaging with listeners’ questions, I offer insights into assertiveness and the importance of standing firm in one's beliefs, particularly in the face of societal pressures. The exchange is lively and reflective, illustrating a pathway for listeners to navigate their own challenges while underscoring the necessity of critical thinking in an era rife with misinformation.
As we close, I emphasize the value of self-reliance and personal accountability, reinforcing the idea that while societal structures play a role in shaping our experiences, it is ultimately our choices that define our destinies. Through candid stories and philosophical musings, this episode serves as a guide for those seeking to better understand the world around them, encouraging a proactive approach to life’s myriad challenges.
[0:00] Good evening, everybody. 26th November 2024. It's the rare Tuesday night live.
[0:08] I'm afraid we are not doing Wednesday or Friday. Should be back Sunday. Sunday, chatty Sunday. And yes, I'm wearing a hat. Do you know why? Okay. I want you to think of the least... Now, you know what? Let me give you any hint. I'm not going to give you any hints here. So where did I get this? Where did I get this? Spoiler, not a hair transplant. That's why I got the hat on. So where did I get that little gash on my head? You're trying to act like we don't know you're bald. Yeah, I think the hat, you know what's the hat? It's like it's got the logo, right? So the hat is nice with the logo. Was this a salt ducks? That is a fine question. It is not, in fact, assault ducks. I got a puppy. I did not get a puppy. Fun, though, that would be. A fun, though, that would be.
[1:07] No, it was not. It was not such. Brain biopsy. It was not. No, that would be a little wider, and I don't think they'd do it. Walking through the woods? Hid a tree branch hiking. The mother of all paper cuts. Yes um in fact my thinking was so fast this is the sonic wave from going past not just the speed of sound but the speed of light itself.
[1:32] Yes uh it's tragically not manly i'm afraid it's it's nothing quite as manly as anything like that no so normally when i'm outside for a walk particularly in you know canadian late november you are um you're wearing a hat right so not likely to be that no it's completely retarded so i um i tuck normally like i'll you know i've got a pair of glasses right i tuck it here i just sort of tuck it in there so what i did was um i took off a sweatshirt, or a hoodie which had one of my glasses in there and I guess one of the corners as I took it off you know it's a tight tight on the neck right I got a big head so one of my glasses scratched my head isn't that I feel like Les Nesman you know like now time for more music and Les Nesman, with his constant band-aids of his mystery danger life outside of WKRP in Cincinnati, so isn't it funny that I was really into a radio show not to mention the Eric Boghossian no Peter Boghossian played the guy in talk radio or whatever it was it's the last neighborhood in America and so it's kind of funny to me that I was really into radio show comedies and dramas when I was younger and not that I did much on the radio but it's become talking microphone head time.
[2:59] So, all right. Questions, comments, issues, challenges, people. Yeah. So, you know, it's pretty easy to not get fussed about Bitcoin. Like, what's it at now? 129 and change? Yeah, 129, 332. So, I guess it's down like 10K from its height or something like that, right? So, yeah, whatever, right? What was it up at? 138, now 129. So, yeah, 9K or whatever. So when you check it, it's actually pretty easy. You just, you know, with one weird trick, right? All you got to do is think it's, every time you check it, think, oh, I bet you it's dropped 5K. And if it's dropped only 2K, you feel good, right? So it's fine. Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. Of course, I mean, we all know why the price is going down. I mean, the reality is that the price is going down because people are willing to sell it. for that much, right? People are willing to sell it for that much. That's really why the price is going down. So what can I tell you? What can I tell you?
[4:14] So Bitcoin's last three cycle peaks all happened in November or December and were spaced four years apart. So previous cycle highs, 10th November 2021 went to, this is US, 69K.
[4:27] 17th December 2017, it went to 19.8K. And 29th November 2013, Bitcoin went to 1,242. 42. So if that pattern continues, and I get, I get that you cannot predict future prices of assets based upon past cycles, you can't predict it, right? So this is just a theory.
[4:51] So this is from APSK32 on X. Bitcoin has followed a power curve for nearly 15 years. The power curve or law forms a nice support line that he says I consider to be the intrinsic value of the network. Each cycle, Bitcoin explodes above the support trend line and then returns to it during the cycle bear. The percentage amount that the price rises above the support line gets smaller with each cycle. Last cycle in spring 2021, the bull market started early, but we ended up with a double top that put us back on the four-year timing. We've never been as early as we are right now. This time could be different. We have the ETFs, a favorable political environment, and Saylor or MSTR borrowing every loose dollar on the bond market to buy more Bitcoin. But this time doesn't have to be different. We could pause or correct for months while still aligning with previous cycles. Be careful with all the new option products available to you this cycle. This says this person. I'm not endorsing it. I'm just reading you what they wrote. You could be right about your MSTR or IBIT price target and still lose all your money by misjudging the timing. The timing. Sorry, the timing. So.
[6:00] What can i tell you so to me it's pretty interesting that, People are snapping up Bitcoin and the price is going down. I personally think that's very interesting. That indicates to me a robustness in the market. The main sellers are the miners who probably have to pay significant electrical bills in order to continue mining. Yeah, maybe. Maybe. Maybe.
[6:39] So i mean if if i had um if i had all the time back that i've uselessly checked the price of bitcoin i'd basically be immortal so it's uh it's interesting i mean there is no there are no smooth transitions right and we are potentially we are trans uh we are, we are changing from an old cycle of manipulated money to a new cycle of non-manipulated money. That is quite powerful. It's quite a powerful situation to be in. That is very, very interesting. And there are no smooth transitions of paradigms, right? I mean, there was no smooth transition from the end of slavery to the rise of the proletariat, right?
[7:33] There was no smooth transition from the gold standard to the non-gold standard. There was no smooth transmission. I mean, even, you know, if you ever want to find something interesting, look up why coins have ridges. It's quite an interesting story. There is no smooth transition. There was no smooth transition from manual labor in fields, in farmer's fields to more automated labor. There is no smooth transition. It's brutal. It's ragged. There's a long tail, and there is a great deal of upset. If big wallets hold for the most part and mining puts out relatively few coins, how can sailor buy so much consistently?
[8:16] Because he's willing to offer more. He's willing to offer more. And look, people need their fiat, right? I mean, what was it Tristan Tate was talking about how he got debanked and he's figured out how to have a life without a bank. I assume that has something to do with crypto. He didn't go into details, but there are people who will trade crypto for fiat because they need to pay their bills. They need to pay their property taxes. They need fiat to make their way in the world, they need to pay their personal taxes, right? So they need their fiat to make their way in the world. So they have to sell fiat for crypto. Sorry, so they have to sell crypto for fiat. And that would be, I assume, is where the opportunity is coming from.
[9:06] And people have, of course, their different time preferences. So for a lot of people, they look at you know 130 000 canadian or 135 000 canadian per bitcoin and they want to enjoy, spending money and so they either try and find a way to spend the bitcoin directly or they sell the bitcoin for fiat and then they buy things with fiat remember there's older people who got into bitcoin and they want to enjoy they want to enjoy some of the things that their bitcoin can buy to some degree they have to transfer that to fiat so you know people have made a lot of money from it going uh bitcoin is i think is it 12 i thought it was 14 could be something like that but it's it's it's been the fastest rising asset in all of human history and really want once in a generational opportunity to uh get back at the boomers for all of their financial shenanigans right the boomers transfer money from the younger generation to themselves and then we transfer it back with Bitcoin. It's a lovely, lovely, lovely thing. So.
[10:24] Yeah, there was some woman who invested $10 into meme coins and lost $240,000. That's pretty wild. That is, that is pretty wild.
[10:39] In the U.S., the top 1% of earners pay nearly 40% of income taxes, and the top 10% pay nearly 76%. The bottom 50% of income earners pay less than 3% of income taxes.
[11:02] It's just appalling how much money is transferred from brilliant people who maximize it to greedy voters who destroy it. So the productive geniuses of the world are continually generating more and more and more value, which is continually stolen by the endless greedy pause of the bottom 50%. It's a race, right? It's an absolute race. It's an absolute race. And historically, the poor have always taken over, consumed, and eaten the rich. It's like people in poor neighborhoods who just start shoplifting, and then they're like, hey, how come I have to take three buses to get to a grocery store? Because you steal! All right, I thought this was funny. Owen Wilson has made around $217,838,000 from his movies. He averages around 3,500 words per movie in 47 movies. That's about $1,324 per word. Wow was 102 of those words. Owen Wilson has made roughly $135,072 from saying, Wow. Wow.
[12:29] So whether this stuff is true or not it's hard to say but the titles are workers lost 3.7 trillion dollars in earnings during the pandemic women and gen z saw the biggest losses the world's got richer by 3.9 trillion dollars during the pandemic so again it's all from the young to the old Bitcoin is the other way around. Bitcoin is the other way around.
[12:55] There's a good tweet here. It says, social media has deluded women into believing rich men are far more common and attainable than they really are. The fact remains that rich men will always be a small minority of men and as such rarer than beautiful women. It's true. Very, very rich guys are more rare than beautiful women, most women will never marry a rich man. That is a reality, right? That is a reality.
[13:22] Approximately 5.5% of men in the West have a net worth of a million dollars or more. Now, that's net worth. That's not accessible cash. It's just whatever your assets are. About 5.5% of men in the West have a net worth of $1 million or more. And of course, women want young guys, fresh-faced, abs, you know, all of that sort of stuff. But generally, young guys are brokies. I know I was. Young guys are brokies. So it says, between the ages of 18 to 40, between the ages of 18 to 40, 0.46% of all men have a net worth of a million dollars or more. And of course, a lot of those men would have inherited the money. Maybe parents died young or something like that, or some aunt or grandmother died young and left the money, right? Very few men who are 20 have a net worth of a million dollars or more because they worked for it, right? That's just not how it works.
[14:23] So women who are looking for a man 40 and under, an adult male 40 and under, who with a net worth of a million dollars or more, and of course it's more common around 40 than it is around 18, of course, right? So women who are looking for a guy with a net worth of a million dollars or more between the ages of 18 to 40 are looking at less than one man in 200. And they want six foot tall. They want handsome, thick hair. They want... Actually, a lot of women do find bald men to be very attractive because they have common sense and taste. So...
[15:07] They're looking for less than one guy in 200, right? Less than one half of 1%. Just looking for a net worth of a million or more. Now, of course, I'm not saying that a net worth of a million or more is just, but that's not what people are thinking about. The women thinking about the guys with like private helicopters and stuff like that. That's like crazy. That's like Mark Zuckerberg levels of nagging the population about climate change with a $350 million fucking yacht. It's unbelievable. That's the ultimate let them eat cake situation. Oh, you people, as he resists the urge to blink sideways, nagging people about climate change while having a $350 million yacht or something like that. $150 million yacht that's 350 feet long or something like that. This is crazy, right? Now, if a woman is looking for a guy in the West who has assets of $5 million dollars or more, which means he might have more disposable income. Having a net worth of a million dollars or more, it might mean some retirement savings plans and a $600,000 condo, which doesn't give you a lot of access to ready cash, right? So, if you want rich to be $5 million or more, those men in the West make up 0.18% of the Western population. What's that? Less than one man in 500.
[16:30] Between 18 and 40, it is 0.01%, right? That's what, one in 10,000? Yeah, it's one in 10,000. So one in 10,000 men between the ages of 18 to 40, One in 10,000 men between the ages of 18 to 40 have a net worth of $5 million or more. Now, more than one in 10,000 women is beautiful. So, you know, stunningly beautiful women.
[17:05] Are far more common than wealthy guys. So he says almost all of those people with a high net worth of boomers living in a house they bought for nothing. Right, but no, no, because I don't know if you missed this, but we're talking about 18 to 40 year olds. They're not boomers, right? All right. So yeah, it's really, I mean, women are just completely delusional about this. It's completely delusional about whether they're going to get a.
[17:45] We can blame a lot of this on these sort of Fabio-covered, I guess he's a bit dated now, romance novels, right? The romance novels with the Darceys who have the giant estates and the Christian Grays and all of this sort of stuff. It is really, really sad. Just how much this twists women and deludes them in terms of what they can expect, right? it's just, it's wild. Absolutely wild.
[18:26] As of November 24th, Bitcoin did 30 times, Bitcoin did 30x after the 2016 halving. It did 8x or rose eight times in value after the 2020 halving. So far, it's gone up 0.5 times after the 2024 halving, right? So just remember this, right? Again, it's lowering, but not by that much, right? So bitcoin did 30 times increase in value after the 2016 halving eight times after the 2020 only 0.5x gone up 50 percent right so it went up 30 or 3 000 percent and then wait it went up yeah 3 000 and then 800 and so far it's only gone up 50 2016 2020 and 2024 and that's really something uh robert bortens wrote k-12 public schools spend 17,280 dollars per pupil to us homeschooling costs about a thousand dollars a year only about 33 percent of public school students are literate about 99 percent of homeschoolers are literate incredible incredible see the way that i view government education is it holds children hostage so that incompetent people can get paid a lot of money and not get fired and get Summers off, right? That's really basically all that it is.
[19:53] So Mike Cernovich wrote something interesting. And this is, I want to know what you guys think of this. He wrote, if you played your cards right, your 30s are when the compound gains of social networks kick in with a 10x or more bump in 40s, you'll have too many opportunities to capitalize on. If you hung around with losers in your 20s, sorry, that was a huge mistake. Now, I personally went from.
[20:24] Hanging around with people who didn't succeed to hanging around with people who did succeed about 25 years ago. About 25 years ago, gosh, I was in my early 30s, right? It's about 25 years ago, I gave up on hanging out with people who weren't doing much with their lives, who weren't ambitious, who weren't succeeding in their careers, who weren't moving up, who weren't starting their own businesses or writing books or anything. I just kind of gave up on the copy-paste people, you know, the Groundhog Day people who kind of lived the same in their 40s that they did in their 20s, and people who don't work to further their career, who don't work to upgrade, or whatever it is, right? I just kind of gave up, and that did make a big, big difference. Thank you for the tip, by the way. Freedomain.com slash donate to help out the show would be massively, deeply, and humbly appreciate it. And thank you. Thank you for all of that support. It really does mean the world to me. And I really, really, really do appreciate it.
[21:29] So have you had or have you gone through that process of changing away from people who don't make much money to people who make some money? Have you gone through that process? It doesn't necessarily mean money. It could just be success of any kind. Have you gone through that process of dumping the people who are not successful and not even trying to be successful to people who are at least trying to be successful? Whether they do or do not succeed is a different matter.
[22:15] So that's a big transition and I think Mike is right about this I think Mike is right about this that it really really is important to, try to hang around with people who are trying trying to do something trying to do something better with her life trying to do something better with her life This is a production of the U.S. Department of State.
[22:50] And it is really important. It is really important.
[22:56] All right. Been listening to your investment roundtable again, Stef. Do you have an opinion on buying gold and silver as investments? I mean, they are investments, and, um, you know, I put this all just my personal opinion. None of this is investment advice. Do your own research, everything I say is nonsense. But I used to be much more into diversification, and now I'm not. You can take of that. I used to be like, well, I'll get your fingers in a bunch of different pies, spread your risk, blah, blah, blah. Harry Brown used to have, what, 25% cash, 25% stocks, 25% bonds, 25% gold. Of course, this was all pre-crypto. And I just, no, no, no, no, I'm much less into diversity, diversification, well, I'm much less into diversification than I used to be, so let's get, that's just my particular opinion. Stef, what do you think is the common rate of nine out of ten women? What do you think salary wise is the equivalent man, nine, ten women as rare as 100k salary man? Do you mean a woman who's a nine or a ten? So a woman who's a nine or a ten, you're talking about the top 20% of women, you're talking about there are five women, the most attractive one is a nine or a ten, because it's the top 20% of women, right? Thank you, Lloyd. So.
[24:21] A ten is the top 10%. A woman who's a ten, now you could say, no, no, no, that's the very, okay, well, what about nine to ten? Nine and a half, whatever. So, ten is everything above nine, which is the top 10% of women. So a man who's in his 20s, who makes say 100K Canadian, just go Canadian, is probably a 9.9, a 9.8 or a 9.9. But there really is no comparison between a man's wealth and a woman's beauty. I know, like, your daddy's rich, your mama's good-looking, the old summertime song. But there really is no comparison. Because a woman's beauty, a woman's physical beauty.
[25:15] Lasts a short amount of time in a healthy relationship. A woman's physical beauty, right? so she's young she's beautiful keep young and beautiful it's your duty to be beautiful keep young and beautiful if you want to be loved so she is at her hotness and then she gets engaged she gets married and she starts pumping out the pups right she starts having babies. And having babies is hard on a woman's skin, it's hard on her elasticity, it's hard on her subcutaneous fat, it's hard on her abdomen, it's hard on obviously her privates. So her physical beauty is designed to snag the man. And then, right, have you seen the cast of Baywatch, the original Baywatch? Have you seen the cast of Baywatch lately? And I'm not hating on it, Of course, right? But women age out, right? I mean, I'm doing okay, right? Still, you know, fairly solid jawline, wrinkles, not too bad, right? And I'm pushing 60, right?
[26:30] Ugh, right? Not too bad. Got a little muscle and so on, right? Skin's relatively tight. I don't have any cellulite, right? Still relatively, I don't quite have abs, but relatively lean around the middle, right? So not too bad, right? My wife is also aging beautifully as far as I'm concerned. I'm scarcely the most objective person because I think she's the most gorgeous creature on the planet. As Keynes said in the long run, everybody dies. Well, but Keynes didn't have any children. So, in the long run, we're all dead, is Keynes and his friends, not the general, right?
[27:13] So, a man who's going to make money is going to make more and more and more money, and then when he dies, he's going to give his family a million dollars or more because of his life insurance, right? So that is a woman who that is like a woman who starts off less attractive and becomes an absolute goddess after she's dead she gets more and more attractive over the course of life and then becomes an absolute goddess after she's dead necrophilia jokes can be inserted here but it would be kind of chilly right you wouldn't want your girlfriend to give you the cold shoulder or to ghost you or anything like that so there really is no equivalent because a man's wealth gains over time. A man can invest his wealth and no longer have to work to continue to gain his wealth, which is a sexual market value. Whereas a woman starts off strong, ends up weak. A man starts off weak, ends up strong. So there's a crossover, right? So there really is no particular comparison between male earnings and female beauty.
[28:26] All right, let's see here. I used to hang out with people who were into drinking, smoking pot, says someone watching televised sports every night, etc. I'm happy I moved past those friendships. Those people stayed the same into their 30s.
[28:39] Yes, yes. If you ever want to see something that will run a shiver of glacial chill through your testicles, do what I do. Do what I do and occasionally go. Do you know that there are these gaming cafes or gaming restaurants? So you go to a gaming cafe, you go to a gaming restaurant, and you can see a group of guys and maybe a plump girl or two playing Dungeons and Dragons in their 30s and 40s. Now, don't get me. I'm not hating on the D&D. Love me the D&D. Love me the D&D. Didn't really have anything to do with it until my daughter began enjoying something kind of like that, just sort of role-playing stuff that we did. And so we played it. We played it with some friends she's done her own dungeons it's been a great and fun exercise but if i were without being a kid or without it involving kids or whatever uh doing this stuff uh voluntarily with friends with no sort of family or kids involvement uh later on in life uh i would consider that uh negative a negative right so that is uh not good somebody says so good to watch you live thank you for joining me live my brother jason introduced me to your great work in 2015 simply i'm not able to thank you enough you are welcome welcome welcome there is a way to thank me, at freedemand.com slash jenade oh you knew it was coming you knew it was coming.
[30:07] In my experience as chris mike c is right i've done better with my life in some ways but maintaining relationships with the old go nowhere friends seems to be like dead weight and holds me back quite a bit yeah yeah because when you get older you realize that you are in fact, going to be judged and you are judged by the company you keep this was an old saying back in my day. Back in my day. A man is judged by the company he keeps. You will be judged by the company you keep.
[30:45] All right. Somebody says, in 2017, April 1st, you gave the most amazing 30-minute talk, how you showed the dark forces, even Black Matter, CIA stuff, Mars travel, and a Chewbacca joke, finishing it all with April Fool's. Amazing. Thank you. Hey, you know what? Let's make a note of that, and maybe we should remaster that one and try that. I'll just leave a note here, because that would be fun. That would be fun. Yeah, I like the April Fool stuff. I did one where I said I was running for office and put forward my entire political plan and then at the end, right? So it was fun. It was fun. T'were fun. T'were true. All right, so let's get back to your...
[31:34] Yeah, there was in suits, there was uh the the young guy was told by the older lawyer like just you know if your friend's still doing drugs post-college like dump him he's a deadbeat right just get move on move on cut him loose i work with some guys in their 30s who were childless and collect slash make legos very weird to me yeah yeah it is weird right for how consistently i get rejected by women i wonder if those dnd guys were right all along i don't know what that means i do not know i am a lust as to what that means. I do not know what you mean by that. Do you know that there, okay, in terms of China, right, in China.
[32:21] How much in American dollars, how much worth of empty cities, abandoned skyscrapers, and fake European towns that nobody lives in are there? What is the value of the built and never lived in or built and abandoned, built and empty real estate in China. What would you guess? You sounded like Borat there for a moment. God, I dislike that guy. Sacha Baron Cohen. I'm glad he didn't play Freddie Mercury as the rumors had it.
[33:06] Attacking Christians, wow, you are so brave. Oh, it's sad. Sad, sad, sad. About as edgy as a bucket of jello.
[33:29] There are $170 billion worth of empty cities, abandoned skyscrapers, and fake European towns. Isn't that wild? Ordos, a 161 billion ghost city built for a million people, currently 90% empty. Built during the coal mining boom, looks like a science fiction movie set. Most apartments are owned by investors who never lived there.
[33:54] Yunming's Ghost District's population size of Madrid. 15 skyscrapers demolished in 2021, unfinished since 2013. Empty kindergartens, abandoned hospitals, just amazing. Paris of the East in Tunjang, complete with Eiffel Tower, Paris streets and buildings replica, empty Champs-Élysées, planned for 10,000 residents, current population 1,000, too expensive for locals, mostly tourist attractions. The China's Manhattan in Jaipur, 50 billion investment, empty skyscrapers no rush hour traffic promotional video mock new york city ironically it's deserted right the little london the replica of london city red phone boxes fish and chip shops english pubs victorian architecture people nope another failed replica city wild, a property is a safe investment chinese people can't invest abroad very easily Really real estate drives economic growth, middle class parks money in empty homes, construction is encouraged by the government because it fakes GDP growth, right? Now are environmentalists railing against this? Are they saying, I mean think of the amount of nature's scarce and precious resources destroyed by this kind of crap, right?
[35:19] It's just terrible. Are environmentalists demanding that the Chinese government stop subsidizing and giving tax breaks to these investors? Are they demanding that the tax and capital investment structure and incentive structure and subsidy structure change so that, no, they don't care. They don't care because it's just all about turtles and plastic straws for westerners right attack the westerners ignore i mean india is by far the biggest polluter when it comes to, oceans and nobody right it's just all i just the environmentalists for the most part are about literal definition of the term useful idiots, as you can imagine. And if they were to get their unholy way and bring in full communism, as Yuri Besmanov was pointing out, yeah, they're useless idiots. We don't get in their way. But then we line them up against the wall when we get power.
[36:32] Can you remaster I Had a Dream from 2017? I listened to that one talk more than 50 times yeah if you can give me a show if you can give me a show number, because looking for dream gets me all the dream analyses so 2017 might right they don't care because that people is already largely subdued yeah for sure for sure thoughts on the gladiator 2 cast lol i never actually had i saw gladiator a couple of days ago i'd never actually seen the original russell crowe movie but i did see it and uh it was a good movie man it was a good movie good good sword and sandals swashbuckling and joaquin phoenix plays a soul-sick person like nobody else right nobody else.
[37:21] Guilt including about the environment is only used against white people yeah yeah unfortunately the world is that if you show you care about something a bunch of sociopaths will come spiraling in to exploit you based upon that which you care about. You know, it's pretty important to not say in general and certainly to strangers what you really care about.
[37:46] So, I mean, the next moral empire will be composed of people, if it's going to survive, the next moral empire is going to be composed of people who recognize that most people who demand you care about something do so to have power over you. They do so to have power over you, not because they care about the same things. Oh, you care about the environment? Great, fuck you, pay the taxes. They don't care about the environment. Have the environmentalists talked about the Russia-Ukraine war and demanded a peaceful resolution no matter what because of the amount of environmental destruction that war has created, let alone what's going on in Syria, let alone what happened in Yugoslavia in the 90s, right? I mean, has anyone? Have the environmentalists chained themselves to the Pentagon and demanded an end to these wars or to the UN? No, they don't care. They don't care. Plus that might be risky right it's really sad yeah it's a good movie for sure somebody says i've applied to over 120 jobs this year including entry-level ones for which i was well qualified i got only one and left because they paid me half of what we agreed upon i'm not in a position to become an entrepreneur and i have no actionable entrepreneurial ideas do you have any advice.
[39:10] Look man okay ej how old are you just type straight in how old are you, that's what i need to know because i'll give you the truth i'll tell you how to get a job but i first need to know how old you are.
[39:30] You're 26 okay all right how many of your friends are in a position to give you a job? How many of your friends or family are in positions to give you a job? Just give me a number. Because you've been an adult for eight years. Eight years. If you sent an email about a private conversation never heard back, fill out the form again. I really, really apologize. I mean, occasionally people will fall through the cracks and I really, really do apologize for that. So yes, please fill out the form again. And I really do apologize if you, I mean, since you slipped through the cracks. Okay. Unless it's one I decided not to do, in which case I should have emailed you back and I apologize for that as well. All right. So the guy says, I'm 26 years old. There's only one person I know who's in a position to give me a job or get me a job, but I'm trying to move out of state. Okay.
[40:40] So why don't you have any friends who can get you a job, who can recommend you, who maybe they're hiring managers themselves, or maybe they know hiring managers or something like that. Or do you have all of these friends just based upon people you hung out with in high school or university? You know, doofuses, stoners, losers, music addicts, avoidance addicts, underachievers, underperformers, endless travelers, people who've got nothing to offer you. Do you just have sentimental bullshit friendships with people who aren't successful? Well, then you can't get a job. Filling out forms? I don't think I've ever got a job from filling out a form, ever. And I've had, I don't even know how many dozens and dozens and dozens of jobs. Never have I got a job from filling out a form. It's always been a reference. Always. I got my job in the daycare because a friend of mine had that job before me and recommended me. I got a job at Pizza Hut because a guy I knew worked at Pizza Hut and recommended me. Same thing with Swiss Chalet, right? Okay, there was one job I got at a restaurant, a high-end seafood restaurant downtown. town. I got that just by, but I had to, I went in. I didn't just fill out a form. I went in and chatted with the guy so he could see, you know, and all of that, right?
[42:01] So you see, friendships are there for two reasons in your 20s and 30s. Two reasons. Find a good woman, get a good job. That's it. Everything else is bullshit. There's plenty of times for friendships based on values and virtues and so on, when you become a father and you have a good career. Yeah, yeah. So then in your late 30s, mid-late 30s, 40s, 50s, you can have all of the hedonistic friendships that you want. But when you're a young man, you cultivate relationships to help each other get started in life.
[42:44] You cultivate relationships so that you can provide value and get value. So let me ask you this. When you had a job, did you try and help your friends get jobs? Right? When you had a job, did you help your friends try to get jobs? Or did you just say, good luck, friends of mine, off you go. Go fill out some forms. I'm sure you'll be fine. Did you move heaven and earth? To get your friends jobs. I know I did. Sorry to be that annoying guy. But when I did, when I got a job, I passed along my daycare job and I was done to it to a friend of mine's younger brother. Gave him a recommendation. He was a great kid, worked out. I worked as a teacher's assistant once and then I got a job working up north and I handed it across to someone I knew, made that recommendation, helped people get work. Of course, when I was a hiring manager, I hired friends. I mean, I hired strangers as well, but I hired friends. And I made recommendations. And if I wasn't hiring, I'd know someone in the business world who was hiring and say, man, you can't just be a piece of paper. It won't work.
[44:00] It won't work. You have to cultivate relationships to get jobs. Go to the gym, talk to people who are successful, get to know them, be friends with them, do them a favor or two, I don't know, spot them when they exercise, get to chatting, hey, I'm looking for work, do you know anyone, you know anything? Oh, yeah, my friend's buddy is a guy who's looking, my God!
[44:27] Somebody says, every friend I've had, I've legitimately tried to move heaven and earth to help them find any form of a job. I can't say the same about those friends. And now I only have one friend, close friend left. Okay, so stop having one friend. Go make new friends. And you can't ask for value if you're not going to provide value. Have a shared tribe where you exchange value, time, information, everything. Stop having hedonistic friendships and start having practical friendships.
[45:06] Part of your job interview, part of your career preparation is cultivating relationships. You know, after I took my time, like after I quit the business I co-founded and I took a year and a half off or whatever to work on novels, I wrote The God of Atheists, and almost in that time, I went back, I wanted to go back to work, and so I just worked my contacts, and I ended up getting a great job from people that I'd worked with before in the business world. Ask people most people will like to help you and then when people have helped you help them or their friends back exchange favors exchange positive references exchange contacts and information and value don't go it alone you will lose because you're competing against people who know someone Mmm.
[46:09] Network. Network and help people. If you help people, they'll help you back. If you don't help people, you're invisible and you're just another pile of paper, which people have to, like most jobs are found through contacts, right? Most jobs are found through contacts. The, I sent an email in, doesn't do shit. Cultivate your contacts. Oh, well, that's just shallow and I'm just using people, yeah, yeah, guess what? So what? Who cares? You're using me right now to get some wisdom. I'm using you to get some donations. So what? Not using people is for family. Stef just described all my friends growing up.
[47:01] Now you uh make contacts and work people and i live in rural new england and i'm mostly applying to texas jobs so you're telling me why everything i'm telling you can't work right so this is why you can't get a job. You can't get a job because you're a yes, but person, right? I'm telling you how to get a job and you're like, well, but I'm applying to a job on the other side of the country. How am I supposed to get contacts?
[47:45] Stef rather than saying thank you for the advice that's really helpful you're telling me why it completely doesn't apply to you okay so i'm telling you how to get a job, and you know the seven degrees of separation thing right if you have a group of let's say 10 people that you exchange value with, right? Even while you're in New England, right? Then you say, I'm looking for a job in Texas. Do you know anyone who knows anyone? You know, put out the drums in the night, put out the request, but you don't know what's going to come back. Go to Texas and network. Got it. Thanks.
[48:28] No. I mean, you can certainly do that, but it's not necessary. So do you know anyone who's hiring in your neck of the woods that you have a friend who you would recommend, right? Someone you know who you would recommend for a job somewhere in New England. You want to go to Texas, whatever, right? So then what you do is you just try and get your friends hired. And then you say, I'm looking for a place in Texas. Maybe they know someone, maybe they don't. Maybe they know someone who knows someone. I don't know. but if you are trying a cold call without any kind of reference or introduction you're going to fail life is about relationships life is about relationships, and if you have not been cultivating your relationships, you must cultivate them, you must cultivate your relationships and it is nakedly partisan and you've got to provide value You can't just ask for value. I mean, if I were in your shoes and there was a company in Texas that I wanted to work for.
[49:47] Then what I would do is I would find a company in Texas that I wanted to work for, and I would try to, like, they do online seminars or whatever, or even if they just have LinkedIn, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, whatever, and I would come up with the most brilliant questions and suggestions that I could possibly make. Because those companies review all of their comments, right? And I would do research into the company and into the space, and I'd try and rack my brain to come up with some intelligent stuff, and I would just post intelligent stuff. And then they would say, wow, that's a great idea. That's really interesting, right? And then you'd say, oh, thank you. I appreciate that. And you post another brilliant comment or question or whatever suggestion, like, wow, that's really great, you know, who are you, right? And then you just, God, you just work it. Show your value. Stand out from the crowd. Don't just be another blob in their email folder. I mean, do you know how many video game designers got their start by creating free levels? Like just shareware levels, and here's a cool doom level. Oh, it's another cool doom level. Wow, we got to hire this guy. God, shake your moneymaker, work your mojo, work your magic. Show them that you have something of value to offer them.
[51:10] Because a lot of people think they're doing something when they're just sending out resumes spoiler in general you're not you're not you're just not you're just kind of wasting time wasting time killing time all that oof it's a bad idea man it's a bad idea Yeah.
[51:41] Do you think male earnings can have something of an equivalent with a beautiful woman that is highly prepared for being a homemaker, cook, mother, and homeschooler? Well, I mean, there's some just really pathetic thing that happens in the dating world, in the modern world. It happened back in the day with me, so I don't think it's particularly new. But women get annoyed that a man doesn't wife them when they don't do anything wifely. Like my now wife acted as a wife while we were dating and that's why I asked her to marry me. Because what women do is they just, you know, feed me, take me out on dates. I don't really do anything. I'm not going to help you out. I'm not going to do stuff that's homely. I'm not going to do any of that stuff. But don't worry, after you marry me, I'll be a great and productive and great homemaker and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. It's like, no, no, no. I could absolutely tell how great my current, my wife, my current wife, my only wife, I could tell how great my wife was at being a wife because she did wife stuff while we were dating.
[52:49] I mean, the boy, the man is supposed to be doing husband stuff while they're dating, right? He's supposed to be providing and protecting and taking her out and buying her flowers. So he's supposed to do the husband stuff. But she's like, well, I just have to sit here, look pretty, and put out.
[53:12] It's really, and then they say, well, men just won't commit. To what? What will you commit to? What is a man supposed to commit to? How is he supposed to wife you, if you don't wife? I mean, it's like saying, you know, I want you to put me as the lead in your movie. Mr. Scorsese, I want you, okay, well, I guess you're a good looking guy, but can you act? Well, I'm not going to show you that. I want you to put me as the lead in your movie. I'm not going to audition. I've got no resume. I've got no history. I'm good looking. Make me a movie star. It's like, no, no, no. I mean, good looking people, especially in the entertainment industry or a dime a dozen, you got to have that pixie dust. you've got to have that magic, you've got to have, you know, stage presence, screen presence, whatever. Like, you know, how desperate Quentin Tarantino is to have screen presence, and the man has literally negative screen presence. He repels as much as Rosie O'Donnell at an orgy, right? So.
[54:16] It's bizarre to me, you know, I mean, whatever job you want, you have to put a resume in and go for interviews, and you have to have proven that you can do that job already. Now, if a woman hasn't been married before, or if she's been married before, and either quit or got fired because she's divorced, they're saying, I want you to invest a million or two million dollars in me, give me access to your finances, both now and forever. If we get divorced, I'll just sue you for or take you to court for money. And trust me, bro, trust me, I'll be a great wife. It's like, no, just do wife stuff. Show that you can do wife stuff. Show that you enjoy doing wife stuff. Show that you appreciate doing wife stuff. Show that you want to do wife stuff. And then, lo and behold, like magic, like magic, you will get wifed. So it's really sad that the sort of narcissism and entitlement and smugness and all I have to do is be pretty and put out. Okay, well, that's maybe enough for a fling. That's maybe enough for hooking up.
[55:24] Not enough to wife. Because you're auditioning for the role of mother to my children. You got to show me you're good with kids, right? You don't show me you're good with kids if I just have to keep taking you out for dinner doesn't show me that you're good with kids bring me over bring me over bring me over to where your nieces or your nephews are show me how good with kids you are at the park if a ball comes rolling uh show you show that you're good with kids show that you know how to talk with kids, it's not complicated i'm not asking for you to adopt for three years so i can vet you for being a mom just show the kids like you show that you like kids show you know how to interact with and talk with kids it's not complicated no just take me to the club all right, crazy but but but i just got my teeth whitened yeah i did a glow up i did a glow up so uh you know wife me it's like not marrying a plastic mask i'm marrying someone who's going to take care of my household educate and raise my children and be a great support network for my financial ambitions if that's the kind of marriage you want.
[56:44] I mean how many people who've worked for fdr do you think came in out of nowhere i just got a resume yeah just landed on my inbox landed on my desk come on man, people added value and i heard them all right ah somebody says i follow chris williamson a guy who reminds me of a younger version of you. I found it interesting how he mentioned in a vlog recently that he, quote, hasn't been able to visit his parents in years because he's been so busy with his podcast in Texas. Yeah, right. His parents are in the UK, so maybe a nine-hour flight. If you really love someone, you'd move heaven and earth to see them. A nine-hour flight is nothing. I find it interesting how people spin these stories to themselves to avoid confronting their parents.
[57:29] I can't even tell you the number of times people are on calls with me and I say, do you spend much time with your parents? And they say, well, no, because they're like a couple of hours away. And I'm like, okay, are you in contact with them? Well, no, they live far away, blah, blah, blah. And I'm like, I had a guy from Australia call me and say he couldn't be in contact with his parents because they were quite far away. I'm like, bro, I'm literally on the other side of the freaking planet and you and I are having a conversation. Like, it's just, it's ridiculous. The excuses that people make. And you are not in a good social situation if people let you get away with excuses. Stef, tips to cultivate relationships. I realize I've been neglecting it. Well, Joe, the way you cultivate relationships is you provide value and you see who provides value back, right? And if people provide value back, then you escalate the provision of value. And if people don't provide value back, you move on, right?
[58:29] Somebody says, this woman says, all the jobs my husband has had are because someone he knows vouched for him. Every time he's just applied for stuff, crickets, contacts referring him, the job is his. Yep, that's right. That's right. Contacts equals contracts. Yep. Yep. Post on locals, engage with communities, communicate the job isn't going to come to you. You go and get the job, do work, get work. Why won't a man commit to a promiscuous and lazy woman? It's a mystery. Yeah, I don't, I mean, a man is supposed to provide for a woman and be very hardworking. And if a woman is not equally hardworking, like here's the thing, ladies, ladies, let me tell you how it is. You want a wealthy, successful guy. You want a guy who does well well well well well well three holes in the ground so a guy who does well knows what he wants is ambitious is hard working is dedicated has integrity keeps his word and works hard.
[59:34] So the idea that he's just gonna, what, pay for you to go for lunch and go to the gym and not do much work and supervise maids and shit like that. What are you, the queen of Sheba? You want a guy who works hard? Work hard! It's not complicated. If you want a guy who works hard, work hard. Work hard to make him happy. Work hard to make him successful. Work hard to listen to him. Work hard to provide value. Work hard to make his life easier and better. It's not complicated. What he's bringing to the table is a lot of money so that you get to pursue being the mother and wife of your dreams. Fantastic. You get to remodel the kitchen 15 times a week if you want. The value he's providing is simple, obvious, clear. It's a bunch of numbers, a bunch of commas, and most importantly, either a dollar sign or hopefully BTC. So he's providing a massive amount of value. What do you have to provide? Ah, glow ups and vajayjay.
[1:00:34] So so you want a guy who knows how to evaluate value which is why he's successful you want a guy who knows how to evaluate value value you for something you share with half the population of the entire fucking planet well um i want a guy who knows, how to really evaluate value and negotiate well for mutual advantage. And what I bring to the table is a nose. It's like, you know that noses are like all over the place, right? Like if what you bring is undifferentiated, you cannot get a successful man because, a successful man is already differentiated from all the less successful or unsuccessful men.
[1:01:38] Just provide value. Be hardworking. And if you don't want to be hardworking, that's fine. Then get yourself a lazy ass man who's going to make 35k a year and live with that. Because you don't want to be hardworking. That's fine. But the idea that lazy women want a hardworking man is absolutely incomprehensible. And how you look from the hardworking man's side of the table, it's a complete clown job.
[1:02:07] It's a complete clown show well he won't commit it's like are you hard-working no well why would he want to find your lazy ass when he can get because here's the thing if you're lazy right men want sex right if you're lazy what's going to happen when you're secure well lazy means you're going to gain weight lazy means you're not going to exercise lazy means he's going to have to hire even more people to do the things that you're not going to do, like laundry and cleaning and child raising. And because sex is work, sometimes you're going to be too lazy or bothered or upset or whatever for sex. And it's like, okay, so he ends up just funding a lump in the sheets. Hey, there's my wife. She's like a little mound under the eider down. Haven't seen her in three weeks. And she's gained 50 pounds why would you want to fund that bizarre to me bizarre to me.
[1:03:14] Somebody says i think most women lose their looks with age by the way tips anyone really tips, a couple of tips be nice working hard here working hard thing providing value i'm literally telling you all how to get a job and how to elevate your careers for the rest of your life come on do it do it you know it's the right thing somebody says i think most women lose their looks with age but taylor swift seems like she gets better looking with age do you have any thoughts on why this staff her legs look phenomenal and i personally thought she looked like a geek in her early 20s well it's her job.
[1:03:51] Uh, it's, I knew someone who was a part of the management team for a famous pop star. And he was telling me about how she'd taken some time away from the spotlight and the amount of work she had to do to get back in shape, to get the glow up and so on was just immense. So it's her job. Look, if someone paid you $20 million a year, if you got a six pack abs, would you do it? Of course you would. Like it's her job.
[1:04:23] And she has people to do everything for her. I'm not begrudging her that. She obviously works hard, makes a lot of money. She has people to do everything for her. What does she have to focus on? She has to focus on not gaining weight and performing. I don't think she's writing while she's doing this eras tour, right? Eras. Not just one, but many. Boy, that's a pretty megalomaniacal. It's an entire era, an epoch, if you will. It's like, no, you're just a tall woman singing breathy songs about women who don't get married. So it's her job. So she gets, you know, what's it, Jennifer Lopez has like $20,000 worth of machines that she does every day to keep her skin fresh. So she has the very best skincare. She has the very best personal trainers. She has the very best cooks and all of her meals are regulated. And that's her job. her job is to look great right? Thanks Adam her job is to look great so good for her, no problem with it but yeah, nothing wrong with that her job is to look great, I mean I think she's pretty, too pouty for me I don't actually find her, for some reason it could just be a taste thing I do not find her sexy at all, too smirky and all of that and too immature.
[1:05:46] I mean a woman And was she in her mid-thirties or something like that? Oh no. How old is Taylor Swift?
[1:05:55] How old is she? Why? Why do I have to keep refreshing? Everything on the browser is like twice. Yeah, she's 34 years old, right? So at 34 years old, she should be more mature, and she just seems kind of goofy, and she's got this like half nerd thing going on, and all of that. Oh yeah, Lindsay Lohan is definitely, I would imagine, gone under a whole whirling gigablade of knives. I don't know, right? I'm just guessing, right?
[1:06:34] So, I mean, yeah, so it's her job to look good, and she does her job, and she doesn't have distractions, and she's got an entire team that helps and makes her look good. Again, it's not a big problem, right? Thoughts on career women in leadership positions, i.e. managers that are in their late 20s, early 30s, and single. I believe the amount of stress they're under makes them unattractive to men, even though they're usually very intelligent and attractive. Can these types of women be brought to see the light? Well, we either have equality in job opportunities for men and women, or we have a continuation of the human race. You can't have both. If women do what men do, they don't have kids. And then that's it. You get one generation of semi-equality, although women still won't do the physically demanding and dangerous jobs as a whole, but you get one generation of semi-equality, and then that's it for the planet, right? That's it for the planet. It's all over. So the problem, of course, with, men, we don't like to share our women. Like we don't, we don't like to share our women. We like for it to be a monogamy and you know how they talk about the work husbands. So the problem is for men is that if your wife and the mother of your children has a boss.
[1:07:53] Then your wife will say yes to another man while often saying no to you, right? Your wife will say yes to another man while often saying no to you. Now, for men, it's not so bad usually because we have male bosses and so on, although it can certainly happen.
[1:08:11] But let's say that you are trying to seduce your wife, you're being sexy all day, trying to seduce your wife, and then her boss calls her and she's got to do work and it's got to be done right now. Well, she's going to stop doing sexy, fun playtime with you and she's going to go and satisfy her boss's requirements and you as a husband feel massively diminished. Oh, it's just insecure. It's like, no, no, it's a real thing. In the hierarchy, you're below her mail boss, right? In the hierarchy, you are below her mail boss. Doesn't work. Doesn't work. Doesn't work. Doesn't work a thousand times. Doesn't work. Hey, you passed your driver's test. Good for you. Good for you. Well done.
[1:09:06] Let's hook Stef up for Thanksgiving. I make about 35K a year, and I try to donate 50 bucks per live stream. There's 28 people here. If you all match my $50 donation, that's 1,400 bucks. Don't forget that Stef has employees. We're capitalists here. The price signal matters. Oh, thank you. I appreciate that. That's very kind. I really do appreciate that. That is very, very kind. Thank you. Yeah, Taylor doesn't do it for me. She is good looking, but in no way activates any sexual response from me. Well, maybe a touch of disgust now I think about it. Yeah, yeah, she is, and again, I'm not trying to pick on her or anything like that, because I'm, you know, whatever, but to me, it is sterile, it is sterile, I mean, the odds of her having kids are, is virtually zero, right, I can't say that for sure, maybe she will, or maybe she'll freeze her eggs, or maybe she'll have them later, or something like that, But when does this stupid tour end? When does the tour end?
[1:10:18] It seems like it's been going on since the dawn of time, hasn't it? December 8th. And it's amazing to me. I don't know how she does. She's doing a show in Vancouver Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. And she does I think fairly lengthy shows right and I just find that's wild because, I mean how does she keep her voice I mean I know she's not a real belter she's more of a breathy singer but nonetheless I mean to keep your voice a length of era's tour.
[1:11:03] Two hours long. Yeah, at least two hours long, right? I don't know. Sixth worldwide tour. So it started, she announced it in 2022. So yeah, it's been a couple of years, right? A couple of years. March, oh, March 2023. So yeah, close. I mean, it's coming. I have a two and a half, like a year and a half or whatever, right? And when does it end, right? It's just going on May 2024 onward. When does it end? It doesn't feel... So, I mean, there's so much money that is going on here. It looks like December 8th. That's the last one. Maybe that's it. Anyway, so yeah, it's pretty wild. There's so much money involved in this. What is a billion dollars for this tour? so much money involved in this that it's nuts it's nuts.
[1:12:12] Thank you, Lee. I appreciate that. Taylor Swift wants kids and is reportedly eager to start a family with her boyfriend, Travis Kelce, excited about motherhood. Wants to have a child before she turns 40. Yeah. And look, maybe the tour is like she gets it out of her system, settles down and have kids and all of that. I mean, I personally think she'd be a fun mom, as I sort of mentioned in that famous tweet from many years ago. Do you think the earth is intelligently designed? I do not. Is she sponsored by Ozempic and Amphetamines? Oh, come on. I don't think, I don't know. She She seems to be too clean for that as a whole. I don't think that she would be that way. I don't think she would be that way inclined. I've never heard any particular drug use or anything like that. I mean, I think she was very skinny at one point, and I don't know if she had any kind of particular self-consciousness about her eating. And I think she talked about that in one of her, that she has a real self-consciousness about eating and so on. There's a lot of pressure for that stuff, but. She's just a singer. with a song. All right. I respect you don't. I respect you don't, but I've always thought the amount of devil worship was strange. I don't know what that sentence means.
[1:13:29] I know you don't like politics, but it's hard for us to talk about Taylor Swift and not think of the videos I saw of the Canadian prime minister at her concert. Yeah, he was dancing around, handing out friendship bracelets while Montreal was half on fire from riots and protests. Yeah, that's, uh, I mean, the allegations coming out against that guy are just jaw-dropping, and who knows if they'll turn out to be true, we probably will never know. I mean, I'm innocent till proven guilty, but it's, uh, wild stuff. All right, any of the last questions, comments, issues, challenges, problems?
[1:14:09] What are some tips you have to practice assertiveness, i.e. standing up for oneself in heated situations without getting emotional? Sending you a donation on FDR. Oh, it's Middle East stuff, the riots in Montreal. So assertiveness, assertiveness, assertiveness.
[1:14:34] You don't take things personally, right? I mean, people claim that they hate me. They don't hate me. I'm actually a ridiculously likable fellow, right? So they don't hate me, right? They hate the effects that my arguments have on their lives, right? I mean, if you're a tremendously abusive parent and you're too vain and corrupt to apologize to your children for the wrongs you did to them when they become adults, then you hate the fact that I will point out that that's not very honorable behavior and your kids don't have to see you if you're relentlessly abusive and they're adults, right? So you don't hate, it's not personal to me, right? It's not personal to me. That's number one. Number two, assertiveness to me is a deep understanding that almost nobody knows what they're talking about. Almost nobody knows what they're talking about. They're just repeating slogans, they've been trained to hate you or to love you, they're doing what they're told, they're programmed themselves, they don't have any thoughts of their own, they don't have any particular ideas or virtues or reasoning of their own, they've never thought through anything, and they're just stuff full of propaganda.
[1:15:54] So, most people, I mean, this is the Socratic thing, right? They've got all these people who claim to know what's good and right and all of that, right? They don't know. They don't know what's good and right. They don't really know anything other than what propaganda language is stuffed into their ears at the expense of their own thinking. So with regards to assertiveness I just my general assumption in going to any particular conflict or disagreement with someone is they don't know what they're talking about, and I can just be patient right, what do you mean well what's your definition right help me understand this I don't wait this doesn't seem to fit with that right.
[1:16:46] No no no do not they don't know what they're talking about. They're just repeating slogans, with no understanding of anything. So, I view them as like, you know, kids thinking they're Mike Tyson punching at my knees. I mean, there's no need to get that upset. No need to get that mad. I mean, occasionally I will, for whatever reason, but I just, most people, I mean, if you've got UPB, you know ethics in a way that nobody else does, right?
[1:17:24] All right. I respect you don't believe the earth is intelligently designed, but in Hollywood and the powers that be, I see a lot of devil worship. You sang Freddie Mercury there, but his album cover for Solo was a fallen angel breaking chains. Ha ha. Have a good night, mate. Your biggest problem is your most famous days will be when you're long gone to see it. Night, mate. Oh, actually, I mean, I just did a movie review. It'll go to donors tomorrow, probably. I did a movie review with my daughter of the movie Wicked. And in it, I point out all the reasons in which the movie Wicked is just Satan worship. It's just Satanism. What's an area of relationships you haven't really explored, whether it's interpersonal, interpersonal, or intrapersonal? Interpersonal, interpersonal, intrapersonal. I can't think of anything. I mean, if there was something that, that I hadn't done. I would explore it if it had value. So that's what I really like about getting questions is it opens my mind up to new topics that I haven't usually done much to deal with or to talk about.
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