0:03 - Welcome to Wednesday Night Live
12:47 - The Scientific Exodus
31:27 - The AI Debate
46:18 - Relationships and Expectations
1:00:01 - The Impact of Childhood Abuse
1:03:24 - The Role of Work in Mental Health
1:08:10 - Future of Employment and AI
The episode kicks off with a casual introduction, setting the stage for an engaging Wednesday night live discussion, where the host invites listeners to participate by submitting questions on a variety of topics. The host expresses a willingness to delve into current events, particularly concerning the tumultuous nature of international markets, as well as personal, philosophical, and economic inquiries.
A significant portion of the episode focuses on a concerning trend within the scientific community, highlighted by a survey from Epoch Health indicating that 75% of U.S.-based scientists are contemplating leaving the country due to changes invoked by the Trump administration's federal research policies. The conversation explores the implications of this potential exodus on scientific credibility and the overall state of U.S. science, discussing how such a trend could be interpreted as the end of an era for American research. The host expands on this notion by critiquing the integrity of the scientific community, discussing issues like the replication crisis and a general loss of public trust in science due to politicization and regulatory bodies’ conformity.
As the discussion unfolds, the host transitions into a commentary on various news topics, from advances in AI capabilities—like distinguishing between types of pastries and even identifying cancer cells—to an unsettling statistic about the prevalence of women aged 18-24 engaging in OnlyFans, which sparks a dialogue on societal trends and the impact of technology on personal choices. The mention of international affairs ties into the domestic situation with the supposed resurgence of a COVID virus and a potential trade war with China, leading to conversations about economic policies and the repercussions of tariffs.
The host shares insights about pressing social issues, including mental health, particularly in the context of men's mental health and suicide rates. One poignant discussion revolves around the language used by men in distress, revealing a need for societal change in how male value and identity are shaped, especially in contemporary society. The theme of familial challenges arises through discussions about coping with addiction in a family member and the balances that must be struck between love and self-preservation.
Throughout the episode, the host engages deeply with listener questions on a range of relationship dynamics, evaluating issues from personal struggles with family interventions in adult relationships to the challenges of parenting amidst evolving societal norms. Analogies regarding scarcity and abundance within family dynamics are used to articulate how to foster better sibling relationships.
The host also addresses topics regarding the effects of AI on future job markets and the resultant societal shifts, speculating on potential economic outcomes such as universal basic income and the role of agriculture in future job landscapes. By reinforcing that history has shown humanity’s adaptability, the host emphasizes how societal shifts can turn challenges into opportunities for growth.
Ending on a lighter note, the host discusses the transition of personal childhood experiences into adulthood, reflecting on the importance of work ethic through anecdotes of their own upbringing and the lessons learned along the way. The closing segment invites participants to consider how their views intersect with broader cultural and social narratives, underlining a commitment to continuous engagement and discussion among the community. The episode wraps up by inviting listeners to donate to support the ongoing conversations and community built around these discussions.
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[0:39] And we are ready to take your questions and comments and issues, problems. Of course, I think it's fair to say that it's been quite an exciting couple of days on the international markets, to put it mildly. So I'm happy to talk about that. Happy to talk about whatever is on your mind, my friends.
[1:11] And if you've got economics questions, any other kinds of questions, personal questions, life questions, philosophical questions, of course, happy to help and chat and do what I can to bring philosophy to bear on the challenges of your life, of your life. All right. So, just while we're waiting for the questions to come in, according to Epoch Health, 75% of U.S. Scientists in NaturePoll consider leaving the country. They didn't want to leave, but now they just might have no choice. From top universities to government labs, researchers are preparing to pack up. Behind the scenes, something bigger is driving the exodus, and one man's name keeps coming up. Is this the end of an era or the start of something better.
[2:12] So whose name do you think is is coming up just just out of curiosity, a majority of u.s. based scientists who responded to a new poll by nature said they are considering leaving the country in response to sweeping changes in federal research policy and funding under president donald trump's administration, of roughly 1,650 readers who completed the poll, which was released on March 27th. More than 1,200 individuals, 75%, said they were weighing a move abroad. The responses collected in early March through Nature's website, social media, and newsletter reflected growing unease across the scientific community following major changes to U.S. Science funding, staffing, and research priorities, according to the survey results. The trend was most pronounced among early career researchers. Among 690 postdoctoral researchers who responded, 548 said they were considering leaving. Among PhD students, 255 out of 340 gave the same response. Europe and Canada were cited as the most likely destinations if they were to leave the country.
[3:27] Interesting the survey results come amid ongoing funding cuts and reorganization at federal science agencies, the Trump administration has eliminated or suspended large segments of federally funded research under a cost cutting initiative led by of course Elon Musk and Doge, thousands of federal scientists have been fired or temporarily reinstated by court orders and more layoffs are anticipated I hate it.
[3:57] Another respondent, a physician scientist at a major U.S. university, said when his NIH grant was cancelled, he reached out to colleagues in Canada. He and his wife, also a scientist, are now seeking positions there. Institutions abroad appear to be responding to the wave of dislocation. The physician scientist said universities in other countries are seeing the disruption in the U.S. As a, quote, once-in-a-generation opportunity, end quote, to attract American talent. Hmm. Interesting. Interesting, interesting, interesting.
[4:36] I gotta tell you, I gotta tell you, I don't think people are going to view this as much of a loss. I really don't. I really don't think people are going to view this as much of a loss. I think that science has almost completely nuked its credibility. I think science has almost completely nuked its credibility. I think the craven nature of the scientists, the conformity, the, I think, fairly brutal enforcement of general standards by regulatory bodies and so on. I think the politicization of science, I think the lockstep global warming stuff, I think a lot of that, and of course, COVID as a whole, I think that's really messed up people a lot, in terms of their respect for science as a whole. Yeah.
[5:48] And of course, I talked about this many years ago with researchers, the replication crisis is a very big deal. The replication crisis is a very big deal. The replication crisis, of course, is that.
[6:07] So much of, I mean, this is true in psychology, this is true in other areas as well, but so much of what was considered gospel has been unable to be reproduced. And the sort of magic thing that was happening, which was, well, we need a scientist. We have to have a scientist because without the scientist, we won't have the facts. We won't have the progress. We won't have the engineering. We won't have all of this sort of stuff. I don't think so. I don't think people are buying that in particular anymore at all, at all. I don't think people are buying that at all. I think all of that has fallen by the wayside.
[6:47] And so I just don't think there'll be the same kind of panic. I just don't think there'll be the same kind of panic at all when it comes to this stuff. Oh no, we're losing to, you know, in a sense, I think it's like, well, and I think what's going to come out of the funding stuff, I mean, what has come out of the funding stuff to some degree, I think is going to get even worse going from forward, where people are just like, I've been funding what? My hard-earned taxes are going to what that kind of stuff so, and what is it that was reading today in America they went 100 years ago they were teaching Latin and Greek in grade school now they're teaching remedial math at university it's rough man.
[7:38] All right. According to the New Yorker, in Japan, an AI system designed to distinguish croissants from bear claws has turned out to be capable of identifying cancer cells. That's interesting. Why not? Why not?
[8:07] I was talking before Trump got in, I was talking about how, you know, there was a lot of smoke and mirrors in Trump's, in the pre-Trump and American economy as a whole. It's all inflated and all of that. So financial analyst Ed Dowd says the stock market Trump walked into with a fraudulent bubble propped up by just seven stocks, inflated housing prices, and phony GDP numbers. I think that's interesting.
[8:41] Now, according to the red-headed libertarian, I think this is coming off pearly things. I mean, I find this hard to believe. I find this hard to believe. 10% of all American women between the ages of 18 and 24 do OnlyFans. Could that be? That seems, I mean, maybe I'm just kind of old-fashioned. That seems kind of hard to swallow. 10% of all American women between 18 and 24 do OnlyFans. Wild. Well, hopefully AI will wipe a lot of that stuff out going forward.
[9:39] Yeah, it seems high. And that's just OnlyFans. That could be other things as well, right? Other platforms. All right.
[10:07] The Green Lives Matter was saying, that's kind of a little chilling. The last time Trump initiated a trade war against China, COVID-19 was purposefully released from a lab in Wuhan, this is according to UltraFrog17 on X, derailing his tariff plan and costing him the election. Now Trump is placing 104% tariffs on China in a position of extreme power, and Fauci is simultaneously telling the media that a new COVID virus might be coming. Coincidence the timeline august 2019 trump claims he is the chosen one called to take on china on trade he's winning handily december 2019 again this is i don't know about this purposefully or not but this is what the the the the x-account claims china purposefully released cover 19 from the wuhan lab anthony fauci was directly connected to the wuhan lab the mainstream media uses every trick in the book to stop Donald Trump at nearly every turn. They made Fauci seem like a saint when he was, anyway, so it's pretty, pretty wild. You never know what the blowback's going to be, right? All right.
[11:29] Lisa Britton wrote a couple of days ago, men are four times more likely to die by suicide. Researchers analyzed the language men used who have attempted suicide, and they found that useless was the most frequent word they said to describe themselves. What can we do to make men feel valued and needed in our modern times? That is a very good question, and I hope that you do not go through phases of feeling useless or immaterial to the world. I promise you, you're not. So I hope that you will, if you know somebody particularly man, it can happen to women, of course, but if you know someone particularly man who's struggling with issues of meaning and so on, I hope that you can reach out and help. Somebody wrote, this is some time ago, I heard someone say they knew a guy named Hunter in college, but he was vegan. So they all call him gatherer and I think that's hilarious, it's kind of true, all right.
[12:48] I think this is true this is from private iras is an interesting account on x he wrote in the state of florida if a married woman is impregnated by an individual other than her husband, the husband is financially responsible for the child unless the cheating partner decides to responsibility isn't that wild, oh somebody says this ruling was overturned in the last few years if paternity is disproven then financial responsibility is negated regardless of marital status. Is that true? Could be. These are in the mazes of the law, but, you know, true or not, it's a pretty chilling approach, right?
[13:41] All right, so let's see. Any questions and comments? Good morning from Melbourne. Good You, This is not my medical advice, but something that's interesting that I read on X from Chris Butcher. He wrote, excess weight isn't just about how you look, it's about what's happening inside. Long before symptoms show up, it's quietly damaging nearly every system in your body. Here's what that extra weight is really doing to you.
[14:20] Joint damage. Every extra pound adds pressure to your joints, especially your knees and hips, he writes. For each pound of excess weight, your knees experience an additional force of roughly four pounds of pressure. Result pain, inflammation, and early arthritis. He also wrote about metabolic dysfunction. Excess fat, especially around the belly, disrupts insulin sensitivity. This leads to blood sugar swing slash insulin resistance, craving slash fatigue, type 2 diabetes. Visceral fat around the organs is the real danger. It's metabolically active and inflammatory. Hormonal disruption. Body fat isn't just stored energy. It's hormonally active. Too much of it Again, tank testosterone, disrupt estrogen balance, increase cortisol slash impact thyroid function. Your body runs on hormones. When they're off, everything feels harder. Sleep struggles, of course, sleep apnea and so on. Interrupted sleep wrecks recovery, hormone production, brain function and mood cravings. Less sleep equals more fat gain equals worse sleep.
[15:17] Cardiovascular strain. Your heart has to work harder to pump blood through more tissue. This raises your risk for high blood pressure, plaque buildup, heart attacks and stroke. Your heart wasn't built to carry chronic overload forever. Mental health and mood, inflammation, hormone imbalances, poor sleep and social stigma all impact mood. Excess weight is linked with higher rates of depression, anxiety, brain fog, low motivation. Mobility and independence. Over time, the weight wears down your joints, limits your movement and drains your energy. What starts as a few extra pounds can end in needing assistance to get off the floor, avoiding stairs and losing your freedom.
[15:55] So, again, it's not health advice for me. I can't verify any of this stuff objectively. I'm not a doctor, but I thought it was a very interesting set of comments. So, whatever you can do to keep your weight at a healthy level is probably well worth doing. All right, let's get back to your questions and comments.
[16:25] Yeah, parental rights are really under a lot of assault these days, right? A lot of assault. I do thank everyone, of course, for, giving me the recommendations for anime, which I think will be interesting to dig into, and I appreciate that. Thank you, thank you, thank you. All right.
[17:18] Yeah, yeah. My daughter did go and see the Minecraft movie with a friend, and she was very concerned that they were going to murder the franchise that she was very emotionally attached to in her childhood. But she said it's fantastic. It was really, really good. Thank you, Anthony. Yeah, she said it was a fantastic movie and I think she's going to put it out as a hearty recommendation. I have not seen it though I will try and catch it at some point soon. All right, questions. Welcome. Let's see, I do have some more questions. I do believe...
[18:10] Somebody wrote what personal criteria do you have to quote defu which is to separate from a family member he said i have a brother who is a recurring hard drug opiates cocaine and who knows what else addict it's been two decades after his last relapse i've lost hope on his recovery he burdens our family, but only emotionally. After the first five years, I stopped any and all financial support. At what point is enough enough? I'd feel guilty to cut him out completely. But it no longer seems beneficial for him anyway. It's never been beneficial for me or my family. I'm so sorry to hear that. That is tough, man. I mean, drug use really does empty people out, hollow them out, and turn them into these just sort of Pac-Man consuming resources from everyone around them so i am really really sorry about that um.
[19:06] What personal criteria do you have? I mean, it's not exactly an algorithm. I'm not saying that you're saying that it is. It's not exactly an algorithm like you put something in like a bubble chat or a flow chat and then something sort of pops out that gives you a sort of good answer. I would say that it's sort of a gut sense of plus and minus i mean i think all relationships as a whole should go through this gut sense of plus and minus but if there is withdrawals you know you can sort of think of of deposits and withdrawals in relationships it's actually not a bad way, to look at it as a whole, but if you look at sort of deposits and withdrawals in relationships, then you can look and say, when was the last time I got a deposit? When was the last time that somebody provided something of surprise and positivity and welcomeness and helpfulness and all of that? um and.
[20:26] To have a self is to be a trader and to have an identity to have a personality to to be independent is to be a trader and if you're not trading you're either exploiting or being exploited now in having a drug addict around for sure you're not if you're not the drug addict if you're in a relationship i'll quote relationship with a drug addict and you're not really you're not in a relationship with the addict, you're only in a relationship with their drug need. You're only in a relationship with the drugs, really.
[21:00] But if it has been a long time since there has been a deposit, you need to be sort of very aware of the withdrawals that are coming out of your environment. And those withdrawals, when they start to become excessive, and, you know, there's a little bit of back and forth, of course, in relationships as a whole, sometimes a little more, a little less. But there needs to be a balance of trade, so to speak. And if it is one-sided, it's not a relationship anymore. It's just conformity and compliance and so on. Thank you for the anime recommendations i appreciate that.
[22:00] All right um let's see here let me just um i want to make sure i haven't read these before, i read these before yeah i think i read that one before around sibling conflict i do get a lot of questions from parents around sibling conflict. What I would sort of strongly say with regards to sibling conflict is that a lot of sibling conflict emerges out of a sense of scarcity.
[22:35] If you as parents are communicating to your children that the family is in a situation of scarcity and this doesn't fundamentally mean of course, finance scarcity or scarcity of space you don't have to be living in a hovel or anything like that But if there is a stress, intention, and conflict, and thank you, Mobius, there's a situation, a sense of scarcity, then sibling conflicts will escalate. So whatever you can do to give your children a sense of abundance and plenty and so on, whatever you can do with regards to that is really, really important to do. Really important to do. Thank you for everything you do, Stefan. Do you feel that there's any hope for Australia socially and economically?
[23:37] I mean, how much money would you put on a turnaround, whatever kind of turnaround you're thinking of? I think that one of the things that I wanted to do in my sort of tour of Australia, and obviously the hoped-for-but-did-not-materialized tour of New Zealand was to gauge, should I put this? I wanted to gauge people's general receptivity towards the truth. Right, which is why the stuff that he talked about, the Aboriginal issues and so on, was all very well sourced from the mainstream academics in the same way that, you know, the IQ stuff that he talked about was well sourced from mainstream intelligence researchers. I mean, 17 big major researchers that I interviewed. And this is sort of true in your relationships as a whole, which is...
[24:47] How do people handle the truth? I mean, how do people handle the truth? They say, well, it's not true and so on. But, you know, if you have, certainly if it's your experience, your thoughts, your feelings, then assuming you're not lying, then that's the truth. How do they handle that truth? How do they handle the truth as a whole? Now, a society that is being engineered to self-destruction is inoculated to react against the truth, to fight against the truth, to get angry, to oppose, to attack, to become hostile and enraged towards the truth. And so one of the things that I wanted to do in those tours was to try and figure out what was society's relationship to the truth. Do you shoot the messenger? Do you get mad? Do you, you know, whatever, right? What are people's responses to that?
[25:42] Well i um i certainly got my answer on that tour and of course there were some people who were very interested in the truth and there were some people we had i remember with lauren southern having these great q a's i think you can probably still find them online somewhere having these great q a's after the um speeches but uh people as a whole certainly in the mainstream and and the academics and and so on the media uh we're not at all friendly to the truth or even curious about it. If you can't tell the truth, you can't fix anything. So that's why the truth is so often censored when a society is targeted as a whole. All right. Somebody says, my in-laws, mostly mother-in-law, never approved of the life choices my wife and I made in regards to our kids. Now my wife and I get divorced. Oh, sorry about that. And I have the feeling part of the reason is that my in-laws have been working on her to get her back. Now they have put the kids into a private school without my approval. What are your thoughts on when the influence of parents on their adult kids is too much? I think it undermined our marriage and gave my wife a way out rather than to work on herself. I'm sorry to hear about that. And certainly losing some, you know, authority, control, and that over your own kids is very tough.
[27:08] It's very tough.
[27:15] I mean, you know, honorable parents, honorable in-laws work to make sure that the marriage is as strong as humanly possible, in particular for the sake of the grandchildren, right? So that should be the central focus, right?
[27:45] All right. Somebody says, in the 90s, as a cynical teen, I found most people had a very negative feeling towards being made to do actual thinking, no doubt part of the plan. Hmm. Hmm.
[28:04] Yeah. Yeah, I was talking to someone today, just sort of outside the show, who was asking that sort of, why is it that why is it that we focus so much on conformity uh why is it that we want to please the group we want to please people as a whole and i said well look we're we're only we're foundationally designed to get to sexual maturity and reproduce i guess sort of that's what's been whittled forward over the millennia over the well hundreds of millions billions of years for life so whatever gets us to adulthood and gets us to reproduce is the good, right? So if breaking out of conformity threatens that, which it often will, right? If you grow up in some tribe where XYZ is believed, and if you don't believe it, you're less likely to reproduce, you could be marked as a heretic by the witch doctors, you could be cast out by the political leaders or the tribal leaders, the women just might not reproduce with you, or raise your kids because you're sort of outside the norms of society.
[29:26] Oh, bit shoot's been banned in the UK? Yeah, they're really going hard on free speech, right? So, we are designed to reproduce.
[29:40] And so conformity raises a lot of times often will raise the odds of being able to reproduce right, so that's a plus um on the minor side if all we do is conform then we don't have enough progress in our societies we stagnate and then we're often taken over by other societies which allow more, individualism, rationality, and progress, if that makes sense. Good evening, Douglas. Nice to have you by. Thank you for dropping by tonight. All right, let's see here.
[30:24] Do-do-do, do-do-do-do, do-do-do-do. Yeah, it's funny how Trump said it's a good time to buy, and then he pumped the entire market. So I think there's a 90-day break on some of these tariffs, which makes sense, right? So the tariffs are imposed, and people don't want to react to the tariffs, right? Other countries don't want to react to the tariffs and make changes in policies and then find out that the tariffs aren't happening or he crumbles or doesn't have the political will or his party turns on him. So people are going to wait, right? They're going to wait and see if this stuff is actually going to work or not, if the tariffs are actually going to happen. And so some people, of course, came to Trump and said, we want to work on tariffs. Other people, I think China and Canada retaliated. Other people are sort of waiting and seeing. So he's going to give the best deals to those who come sooner.
[31:28] And he's going to put a pause on so that people have a chance to negotiate their tariffs rather than just react, right? To de-escalate. Makes perfect sense to me.
[31:50] All right. Let's get to your questions comments, my uncle and aunt age 70 says Rachel don't like AI and they think it's not really could they think, it really could take over and replace humans. I think that you've got an extra knot in there. They said it doesn't follow Isaac Asimov's three rules of robotics. Why are some older people scared of AI? Um...
[32:40] I mean, AI is responsive. You should send them my presentations on AI. You can go to fdrpodcast.com, do a search for AI, and send them my presentations. AI is reactive. It's basically just a word guesser. So the idea that it's going to develop its own rational Skynet consciousness stuff is not another thing. So they're probably believing a bunch of hype that's coming out of the... The marketers, right? All right. Rob Berville says.
[33:20] Stef, the way that YouTube banned you seems unjust. But did YouTube have any reasonable option but to ban you? If YouTube had not banned controversial figures like you, it likely could have been the end of the YouTube platform, as the politicians would start attacking the platform pretty hard. YouTube have a gun on their head. Do they comply to the government in the same way that we all comply and pay our taxes? Your thoughts, please. Yeah, it's a perfectly reasonable supposition that part of my bans were as a result of pressure from various government agencies or actors. So, in which case, I don't have any particular issue with what they did. And honestly, I don't look back and say, gee, I wish I was still on YouTube. I really don't. I really don't. All right. Somebody says, good evening, Stef. I started playing Minecraft last year, but I missed out on the era of your Let's Play videos with Izzy. Do you two still play? We don't. We don't. She's 16. She has other activities and so on, right? Thank you for the tip, Roberville. Roberville, sorry. I appreciate that.
[34:35] All right. Somebody says hey Stef just joining my question is what is your opinion on being in a relationship but always having always having the nagging feeling of should I stay or should I go, it will be our two-year anniversary soon no marriage or kids both mid-20s she's a nice girl given the sexual abuse she suffered as a young child by the hands of a living boyfriend of her mother sorry to hear that her family is a mess along the same lines when I brought up these concerns and saw how that would translate into raising kids, she'd be careful to not let her parents be too involved. What is always striking to me about the situation was that her parents divorced didn't notice anything was wrong, and it took her dad's new wife to raise questions. Her mother had custody. It goes deeper, but this is just broad strokes. I haven't been the best boyfriend. We've been on the rock twice already with me taking a break, which lasted a day, And then she caught me texting a girl, not sexually, but one who I had a quick online relationship with. But it ended up not working because the conversation and interest were not there. Apologies for the ramble.
[35:56] Well, it might be time to have a sit for this one. So, has she gone to therapy for her sexual abuse? Is she an untreated victim of sexual abuse?
[36:20] If she is an untreated victim of sexual abuse, It seems to me quite unlikely that you will be able to have a positive and productive relationship as a whole. Sorry. I mean, that's a very, very big issue. She went to a few appointments. Yeah, I don't... I mean, I don't know the... And don't talk about it here, of course, so I don't know about the extent and depth of the sexual abuse she suffered. But I would not assume that she's going to be able to just deal with this on her own. Obviously, this is just my humble advice, right? But if I were in your shoes, I would tell her that she must go to talk to a specialist in dealing with sexual abuse.
[37:23] She suffers from anxiety, but I think it stems from her ability to not trust the people around her. Sure, but given that she's in her mid-20s, the issue is not that she doesn't trust the people around her. That's not the issue. The issue is that she doesn't trust her own judgment. It's not that we don't trust people. It's that we don't trust ourselves. That's the important thing to really understand about this. It's not that we don't trust others. It's that we don't trust ourselves, because if we trust ourselves, to make good decisions about who's in our life, then we're fine, right?
[38:01] But I suppose my question would be, what's wrong with finding a girl without that kind of traumatic history? And what's wrong with that? If things are kind of stalled with that kind of stuff, what's wrong with finding somebody who has a more stable history and doesn't have all of this stuff to overcome? Because here's the thing, I mean, if she is an untreated victim of severe or significant sexual abuse, that's going to have a spillover into your own romantic and sex life, and that's a lot. It's a lot to sit with. Somebody says, my dad's mom died when he was a baby. Do you think it is better for a boy to be raised only by a father or only by a mother? Well, statistically, children do better when raised by a single father than by a single mother. So, I can't, I'm not sure of all of the reasons why, but statistically that does seem to be the case.
[39:30] All right.
[39:39] Let's get back to your questions and comments. Now, of course, it could be that, yeah, it could be that as somebody who, a single dad has more resources if he's able to stay at home so it could be socioeconomic to some degree but, yeah generally single dads do a better outcome job than single moms, In some sort of older religions, if there's a sort of family separation, then the moms get the kids until about the age of seven, and then the kids go to the dad. Her mothers were generally considered to be better in early childhood, and then the dads are better later in childhood. All right, let me see if there's any other questions or comments.
[41:08] This woman wrote um because the question the question still sort of sits around as a whole men not approaching women anymore. How do we fix that? This woman wrote, just curious, what actually makes a guy approach a woman? I'm 25 female, and I consider myself attractive. I think I'm fairly pretty. I take care of myself, feel good about how I look, but I never get approached. I'll notice guys making repeated eye contact with me, but it never goes beyond that. Honestly, both of my past relationships started because I made the first move. So I'm wondering what makes a guy actually go for it and approach someone. Also is there a way to give off i want to be approached energy i'm not really into dating apps and i'd love to meet someone in person i'm not against making the first move but i'd love for someone to approach me for a change um and this is in response to a man saying unless a woman gives me an irrefutable sign she wants my attention i will never in a million years approach her because nowadays we are taught that women want to be left alone and we are perceived as a nuisance at best, and a threat at worst.
[42:17] So, this woman wrote, story time. When I was 22, my best friend and I were at a bar in Charleston. She was very cute, well-endowed, outgoing blonde, and I made the comment that I wish I could attract the attention of men the way she does. She said, that's because I approach them and flirt with them, and you just sit at the bar being quiet with that intimidating, resting bitch face of yours. All you have to do is smile at them or do something that doesn't make them think you're going to bite their head off. I couldn't argue with her, and she wasn't the first one to point out that I had a snobby, intimidating look. I wasn't snobby at all. I was actually just crazy shy and awkward around people I don't know. So I asked her, what the hell am I supposed to do? Just pick some dude at the bar and wink at him? She screamed, yes. I said, fine, I'll do it, but it's not going to work, and I'm going to feel like an idiot. So I scoped out a cute guy sitting on the opposite side of the bar. I looked at him, he looked at me, and then I smiled and winked at him. In 30 damn seconds, he was sitting next to me buying me a drink, and we ended up dating for a few months. So, yes, ladies, for most men, all they need is some indication that you are open to being approached by them, and that they won't get kicked in the crotch for the effort.
[43:25] I think that's also a thing, of course, at the moment, which is, what if you're being videoed, and, you know, it happens to blow up on social media, and you're a creep, who is, You know, the woman just wants to sit there and enjoy blah, blah, blah. And it's been very much a sigh up from the media as a whole, right? It's been very much a sigh up for the media as a whole. And nothing of the media is accidental. Certainly the mainstream media, like nothing, nothing. Yeah. Uh nothing is accidental so a programming it appeals to women's vanity to be exasperated at how many men approach them and it definitely does um lower the birth rate to intimidate men into leaving women alone and i'm just here with my girlfriends i'm not here to get picked up stop being so desperate all that kind of stuff right.
[44:38] All right. Starting a PhD is associated with a considerable worsening of mental health. After entering their program, students start seeking a lot more psychiatric medication for managing that bad mental health. Yikes. Yikes.
[45:18] All right. Let's see what else do we have, ah thank you for the tip i appreciate that, did i ever watch emily w king social media posts of women complaining about men approaching her hate men who do it unless she thinks you're attractive is she on x emily w king let me have a look, Alright, I will go have a look.
[46:18] And of course it's not particularly organic what happens on social media right so when, if China wants to lower the birth rate in the west then what it does is it promotes all of these can you believe this creep approached me stuff right, Stef, how do you think the future of society will look given that so many men are finally waking up to women's behavior? So many men are now refusing to get married to a woman after she's had her fun. Well, it's not female nature. It's female nature plus the state, plus taxation, plus the welfare state, plus old age pensions, plus free health care, plus, plus, plus, right? Alimony, child support, right? Okay.
[47:15] Somebody says even in the 90s a friend's a friend made the mistake of hooking up for a one-night stand her girlfriend's convinced her she was assaulted he was arrested charged went to trial jury came back after 30 minutes not guilty cost him 100 000 canadian well that's tough, but yeah i mean you're really taking your life in your hands if you sleep around that way. He's not good. He's not good. All right. See if I have any other questions, comments, issues, challenges. What is on your mind? I'm happy to help.
[48:20] All right, what else do I have here? Here's a Kamalo Anthony story I'm quite fascinated by, but we'll go into that another time. All right, let's see here. Let me check over here too for questions. All right. Go in once, go in twice. Questions, comments. Yeah, there's oil down to 50, 55 bucks a barrel. Wild, right?
[49:30] I do love how um, people are complaining that trump is you know you said this and now you're doing that you said this and now you're doing the other um that's all crazy stuff of course he's going to have to be flexible and of course you don't signal everything that you're going to do right, All right.
[50:12] Let's just see if you had any. Have you ever attended a Toastmaster meeting, Stef? I have not. Hey, Joe, nice to see you. I've not attended Toastmaster, but I had an employee once who wanted to get more into sort of sales and marketing, and I suggested that they join Toastmaster so that they get more used to sort of public speaking and so on, right? It's an old Seinfeld joke that people are more afraid of public speaking than death. In other words, if you're at a funeral, you'd rather be in the coffin than giving the eulogy. And of course, we tended to avoid public speaking because usually public speaking was you having to defend yourself against an angry mob. So it was pretty, pretty dangerous trying to avoid those kinds of things. But if you can get used to public speaking and I have a whole, I had a whole video I did like 15 years ago, how to be a good public speaker and so on, which is basically the idea that, you know, if you have Bob and Sally, two friends that you think would get along and really hit it off, maybe be a couple and you introduce them to each other, you're only caring about what Bob thinks about Sally and what Sally thinks about Bob. You're not thinking what both of them thinking about you or either of them thinking about you. And so when you're giving a speech, you care about the ideas connecting with the audience. You're not thinking about, well, what does the audience think of me? You're thinking about, what does the audience think of these ideas? It really helps.
[51:37] Somebody says, honest question. Do women actually get anything from seeing photos of the male member? I constantly hear stories of guys sending these kinds of photos to women. I assume there must be some marginal success rate if guys keep doing that. But as a guy, I don't want to see mine, my mind. I don't know. I can't imagine anyone else either. So why do guys keep sending dick pics? I couldn't honestly tell you. That's either above or below my pay grade, but certainly beyond my wheelhouse. I could not possibly tell you why men send dick pics to women. I assume that it has something to do with a scattershot. Right like i had uh there was a guy i knew many years ago from england who basically would just go up to girls and bars and say well that's it you're pulled and just try and get them to sort of go elsewhere and snog which is sort of make out or whatever right and he said you know like yeah 19 times out of 20 you just get a drink thrown in your face or slapped the woman just rolls her eyes but you know that one time and he is pretty efficient you know it's pretty efficient.
[52:48] What's your take on residential schools our conservative MP in BC has a movement to keep to have him resign because based on statements that residential schools weren't a genocide or downplaying and I'm curious what your thoughts are on it, well I mean it was a government program it was a government program that was designed to take the native children from the native environment, which has, I mean, I've been up on the reservations, it's pretty rough on kids, to put it mildly. So the residential schools was a government program to attempt a forced integration of native children into sort of white, European, Protestant, largely Protestant society as a whole. I mean, there was certainly Catholic stuff there as well. So, yes, I think that taking children from their parents and trying to force integrate them into other cultures is bad. government programs as a whole are morally bad. So I think that we should learn our lesson and not try social engineering through state power.
[53:57] Somebody says, I'd love to know more about the creation and implementation story of the angels from the future. They were my favorite part. Possible cataclysm prequel. Certainly possible. Certainly possible. Somebody says, my question is about the nature of sophistry in art. When obscuring the philosophical message out of titillating, disturbing, and thought-provoking aesthetics is an end that justifies the means. That is why I expanded on the context. Oh, sorry. Okay. That was the person who's giving me a lot of messages about anime. Thank you Boa appreciate the tip freedomain.com to help out the show.
[54:42] Alright, people never heard of a negotiation strategy make a big threat to scare people into negotiation yeah sure, sorry about the typo in my above comment I can't believe If Izzy is already 16, I have a two-year-old girl and a 10-week-old baby boy. Congratulations, Rachel. That's beautiful to hear. Love, love to hear it. Love to hear it. Congratulations. The more Free Domain listeners who become parents, and the more parents who become Free Domain listeners, the more meaningful and better my life is as a whole. I did see a very sad tweet of a woman who has two twins two twins and she's going back to work after three months oh my god it's just horrendous people say well we can't afford blah blah blah of course you can of course you can just god lord i'd rather live in a trailer park and spend time with my child or children, then go take some email job and not spend time with my own offspring. It's very sad. Like 90, 95%. Like 75% of the time you spend with your kids is done by the time they're 12 or 13 and like 90, 95% of it by the time they're 18.
[56:12] Ikr so i don't know what that means oh i know right oh i know right my niece turns 27 at year's end yeah is he's going to be gosh she's going to be 17 in six months how's your throat Stef Yeah, not bad. Not bad. I had a virus hit my ear, and it's cleared, but it's just taking some time to recover. So I'm sort of going back to regular volume. I checked with the doctor, and it's fine. So I'm going back to regular volume. It's going to take a little bit of time for the discomfort to pass. Things were kind of just swollen and messed up in my ear. But it's fine. It's just part of the joy of life as a whole.
[57:02] All right going once going twice, to do, somebody says i live next to one of the wealthiest reservations in the entire united states Due to the casino and the ban on gambling in the four surrounding states, they make a huge amount of money and distribute massive amounts to the tribe members. We're talking free health care, dental housing, 75K turning 18, large bi-yearly lump sum payments, the drug issues, laziness and listlessness are unbelievable. Socialism doesn't work. Yeah. Yeah, it's horrible. It's horrible. What goes on? I mean, child abuse as a whole, but in certain communities, and I would say, what is it? Let's see here. Let's see here, what have we got?
[58:27] Child sexual abuse is a severe and concerning public health problem globally but some children are at higher risk of experiencing it the harms caused by colonization and particularly the intergenerational legacy of residential schools would presumably increase the vulnerability of indigenous children in former british colonies, among 282 indigenous participants in canada recruited from prime panels childhood sexual abuse was reported by 35 percent of boys 50 percent of girls and 50 percent of trans and gender non-conforming participants these rates are substantially higher than global meta analytic estimates 7.6 percent of boys and 18 percent of girls so that's you know four times two two and a half times. Yeah, it's just horrendous. It's really terrible. Now, of course, they have to make it, you know, white people's fault, blah, blah, blah. That's sort of inevitable, right?
[59:34] And I don't know, in terms of the history of the residential schools, I don't know, how much the residential schools were in response to the amount of abuse that was going on in the reservations.
[1:00:01] Indigenous children under the age of 15, 7% of the overall population of 14-year-olds and younger. but in 2011 almost half of children in foster care were indigenous.
[1:00:31] It is very tough very tough to grow up, it is very tough to grow up in the indigenous society for children.
[1:00:54] Alright, let's see here, yeah sorry i'm getting a page through looking looking for a lazy chart, uh inuit uh of course is also a big a big issue, Suicide among the Inuit in Nunavut occurs at a rate of about 110 deaths per 100,000 people, which is about 10 times the rate in the rest of Canada. Among young men aged 15 to 24 in Nunavut, the suicide rate is more than 500 per 100,000, close to 50 times the national rate for this group. Crazy.
[1:02:05] The study on this very high suicide rate among the Inuit. The study also makes a strong association between suicide and childhood physical, sexual, and emotional abuse. Almost half of the suicide group were abused in childhood compared to almost a third of the comparison group, when separated out 15.8% of the suicide group experienced sexual abuse in childhood compared to 6.7% of the comparison group yeah it's very very rough, All right, let's get to the last questions. Somebody says, credit to my dad for doing one thing right. After about age 10, no allowance given, but did chores like mowing the lawn or snow shoveling to earn pocket cash. Had fly out at age 12, earned my money, respected money, and what came with it?
[1:03:25] Somebody says age 16 worked Saturday mornings cleaning an auto body shop 18 pumped gas cleaned car wash yeah I mean work is good work is good, to consume without producing is I think pretty bad for mental health as a whole, all right, all right any other last questions or comments happy to hear, I love this woman. This is a very famous tweet. This woman said, just bought him food, slept with him, and then sent him home in an Uber. Let's see how men like it.
[1:04:32] It certainly is the case that Trump makes politics interesting again. It certainly is the case.
[1:04:49] Somebody says, has anyone tried creating a gentleman's club that's technically open to everyone, but just has a really heavy door? Or quite funny. I like panic hands. That's a new title for those who are panicking. It's funny, of course. All the people who wanted to completely destroy society over COVID are now completely panicking over tariffs. I don't know.
[1:05:15] But it's confusing for people. They don't understand, I mean, whatever you say about Trump, he definitely is very keen on putting Americans first, right? He's very, very keen on protecting America, and he really wants the 5 million toasted manufacturing jobs to come back and all of that. So it is very confusing. They don't quite understand what does it mean that there's a politician who actually is really caring about, you know, you can agree with him, right or wrong, but he really does care about America and the American middle class and the American workers and so on. So it's very confusing. It's sort of like if you've had a couple of exploitive relationships and then you come across someone really kind, people just get kind of messed up. Like, what the hell's going on? How could this be? How could this be? How can someone be kind? There's something weird going on. All of that, right? Now, of course, if they switch to tariffs and they can eradicate the income tax, there's some talk, you know, believe it when you see it, right? There's some talk of eliminating the income tax for people making under $150,000. Oof.
[1:06:26] Oof. Wild.
[1:06:36] Ah, countdown to AFD ban. All right, let's see.
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[1:07:40] All right. If somebody says, I want an American-made toaster made of solid seal that is so durable and heavy you have to deliver it with a forklift. Nice. Freedomain.com slash call. Yeah, private call-ins, of course, more than welcome. Public call-ins more than welcome as well. It's your choice, free or paid. Paid is nice because it's totally private and we can talk about, you know, details, numbers, finances, particularly if it's sort of a business call.
[1:08:11] That can be very helpful. I just did a business call the other day with someone. She was very helpful. Helped them get their business sort of sorted. I mean, I've had a lot of experience in the business world now. A lot of experience in the business world by now. All right. Just any other last questions or comments?
[1:08:35] All right. Excuse me how rude my apologies Do do do do do do do do do. All these people who were like uh the stock market is down 10 all that kind of stuff right Crazy. Somebody says, how will people make a living once most of the office jobs are replaced by AI and physical jobs will be much lower paid since all the layoffs from the office start to switch to manual labor jobs? Will there be universal basic income in rich countries and back to individual animal farm, agricultural living in the country? How will people in the city manage? Will the real estate prices crash when people lose their jobs en masse? Well, I'm sorry, why do you care? Why do you care? What does it matter to you? What can you do about it? And why do you care? Who knows? I mean, maybe you're asking for some sort of investment scenario or whatever.
[1:10:03] You know as a whole I mean it's just my particular perspective so take that for what it's worth as a whole for me I care about as much about other people losing their jobs as they cared about me losing my platforms. Now, I'm not saying this has to be your approach, but I'm certainly telling you that my perspective is, did people rally en masse and say, gee, we've got to go with stuff to new platforms and keep his show going and so on right now of course i'm not saying everybody of course but you know a lot of people as a whole uh so the great thing about having the world not really care about you as much as you don't have to care about the world as much and i really did care about the world perhaps to an unhealthy degree for a lot of my career and being free of that is it's really really nice really nice but i mean you know people will just they'll figure things out. I mean, in the 1900s, early 1900s, like 80% of America was involved in agriculture. Now it's like 2% and people will just figure things out.
[1:11:28] I'd just like to think about how the software will look. I use AI to make software, so I don't think it would be a threat to me. For sure. All right. Well, I will stop here. I really, really do appreciate everyone's time tonight. FreeDomain.com slash donate to help out the show. Really would appreciate that. And if you've got more anime suggestions. Oh, Alex Jones is on Tucker. Yeah, yeah. Your stream last week kind of blew my mind being able to buy a house in the 70s and pay it off in two years i spent two years saving for a new used truck and i thought it was doing well yeah, so yeah freedom.com slash donate to help out the show really really do appreciate everyone's time care and attention and thoughts tonight um and uh if bit shoot is being banned in the uk you maybe go over and donate a little, show them some love. They are fighting an interesting fight. So lots of love from up here, my friends. I will talk to you on Friday night. Have yourself a wonderful, wonderful evening. And lots of love from here. Bye.
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