0:04 - Welcome Back to X
0:08 - Journey to Reason
1:00 - A Daughter's Persuasion
4:15 - Launching Peaceful Parenting
6:17 - Nostalgia and Reflection
8:22 - The Cult Debate
10:06 - Abusive Families
13:31 - Tough Love for Kids
16:29 - Politics and Philosophy
16:59 - Free Parenting Resources
19:13 - The Upside of De-platforming
22:12 - Parenting Insights
25:50 - Saving the World Conversations
27:47 - Grandparents in Parenting
32:24 - Screen Time Challenges
34:31 - The Challenge of Parenting
36:51 - The Impact of De-platforming
40:22 - Philosophical Freedom
41:48 - Reconnecting with the Past
43:47 - The Journey of a Philosopher
45:15 - Thank You for Forgetting
52:27 - Deep Philosophical Insights
1:01:51 - The Practicality of Philosophy
1:07:43 - Dating in a Complicated World
1:22:49 - The Nature of Love vs. Lust
1:51:58 - The Value of Truth and Donations
In this episode, I make my return to X after an extended hiatus, which has sparked insightful discussions and reflections. I touch on my de-platforming years ago, examining how societal reactions to certain topics have shifted and how I navigated my absence from the public dialogue. The conversation dives deep into my motivation for coming back, largely influenced by my daughter, who made a compelling case for the importance of reasoned discourse and the return to platforms where we can engage in intellectual dialogue.
We discuss the essence of my past work and how it relates directly to modern parenting philosophies, particularly my recent book "Peaceful Parenting," which aims to provide free resources for parents wishing to raise compassionate, reasoned children. I share my humbling calculation of how my philosophies may have contributed to fewer abuses against children over the past two decades, reflecting on the far-reaching impact of our conversations on familial relationships.
There's also an interactive portion where I welcome questions and engage with the audience on various topics. I explain my philosophy of parenting that emphasizes modeling the behavior we want to see in children, drawing parallels to my own experiences as a father. The importance of understanding the root causes of children’s behavior and emotions is a central theme, alongside being a hands-on parent who embraces the complexities of this journey.
The conversation broadens to touch on the societal landscape and how political discourse has evolved during my absence. I discuss the implications of modern ideologies and their effects on interpersonal relationships, especially regarding how women and men interact within today’s societal framework.
Listeners inquire about practical advice for parenting, relationships, and navigating the challenges that come with raising children in a world saturated with screens and external influences. I uphold the idea that being more engaging than the distractions our children face is a fundamental challenge for parents today. Lastly, I share my thoughts on potential collaborations and future discussions, emphasizing the importance of fostering reasoned conversations in an increasingly polarized world.
This episode is packed with reflections, insights, and a renewed call for community engagement, all framed within the context of returning to a platform that prioritizes honest discussion. Join me as we explore these profound topics together and ignite the dialogues about love, parenting, relationship dynamics, and the pursuit of truth in our lives.
[0:00] We can hear. Oh, my God. We're alive.
[0:05] That's right. I basically spent the last half decade doing straight cocaine.
[0:09] Just kidding. That didn't happen at all. All right.
[0:13] Hello. Hello. All right. Hey, Rati. You can hear me. You can hear me. Excellent. Molly Meme. That's right. Five long years. All right. Welcome back. We missed you. Everyone is so excited. you've come back to X. I appreciate that. I like to think that X has come back to me like a boomerang ex-girlfriend. All right. Back status check. I just wanted everyone to know that either it's me or it's fairly bad AI that went bald. I don't know. We're still working on which and what and how and why.
[0:48] What changed your mind on X? Yeah, hit me with your questions, man. Hit me. Hit me with your questions. I'm happy to answer most, if not anything, that is on your mind.
[1:01] What made you, what changed your mind on X? So for those of you who don't know, I was de-platformed about a half decade ago from most digital media platforms. I think my kidney tried to leave me and my house turned on me like a rabid Venus flytrap. And one of the places I was kicked off from was in the summer of 2020 was x because i was talking about i don't know elections in the pandemic and you know the usual bugaboos that people get freaked out about because apparently apparently speech you hate is just hate speech and should be banned you know the old thing that everything i like should be massively subsidized and everything i dislike should be banned the hyper estrogen emotionality of the modern hysterical framework of blanche dubois mindsets.
[1:48] So uh i um had a sort of standard for coming back which was you know i have a standard like if people wrong me in my life and i wrong people in my life i sort of have the standard an apology restitution and a commitment by which it's reasonable to believe said misdeeds are not going to happen again right that's generally how i've given advice to people over the years it's the advice i try to implement. In my own life, it actually works pretty well. My daughter, those of you who've been around for a while, I started this show. Oh, I'm so old. Oh, my God. I started this show in 2005.
[2:28] My daughter was not even close to being a glimmer in her daddy's eye and now she's gonna be 17 this year yes that's right it's a time slice it's a time flash so my daughter is um uh as you can imagine whip smart and uh a very good debater arguer as teenage teenagers tend to be and she made what to me was an irrefutable case. She just made an irrefutable case. I can get into that another time. And I will always try to bow to reason, evidence, and logic, and steel myself to follow reason wherever it happens to lead. Sometimes that's to a beautiful sunlit upper plain of Mount Everest-style view of beauty. Other times it's a landmine and a toe-eating World War I trench, which is kind of what happened when I was in politics. So my daughter made a great case. I couldn't argue against it. And then she reminded me that I'm supposed to organize my life according to reason. And if I can't disagree with someone, I should implement what they say. And so that is what happened.
[3:41] That is what happened. So there we are. There we are. So just wanted to let everyone know about that and again if you have questions or issues I'm certainly more than happy.
[4:00] To hear what is on your mind. And of course, it is lovely to see everyone here live. I want to get, you know, openly passionate, honest, and vulnerable and say.
[4:13] Boy, does it ever really, really, really mean the world to me.
[4:16] The kind words that were pouring in since I posted last night about my book, Peaceful Parenting, which I hope that you will check out. It's free at PeacefulParenting.com. I even have programmed an AI for you to interact with. If you have parenting questions, I loaded it up with a whole bunch of podcasts and articles and, of course, the whole Peaceful Parenting book. And you can ask that AI in almost any language known to man and God and a few to demons alone. And I hope that you will check that out. It's free. It's a free resource I'm providing to help improve the parenting. And I just wanted to say, you know, honestly, openly, and with great humility, I really, really, really do appreciate all the kind words that have come pouring in since I posted last night. It is beyond beautiful, beyond beautiful to just see what philosophy has done for so many people, to their love lives, to their careers, and in particular, of course, most close and dear to my own TIE fighter ventricles is that what it has done to people's parenting and to the quality of what's happened. In general, I have done a sort of back of the napkin calculation that the work I've done over the last 20 years has resulted in 1.5 billion fewer assaults on children, just sort of mathematically and based upon the number of listeners and the number of people who are interested in this kind of stuff.
[5:37] So that is incredibly beautifully humbling for me and i just thank you all so much for giving me your your kind thoughts and experiences about how philosophy has helped your life for the better thank you thank you thank you so much for all of that now let me just see here i want to just make sure that i am getting the updated chat uh because it was not it was not happening all right So let me get, if you have questions, comments, issues, I'm of course perfectly thrilled to be, to tell you my thoughts and respond to what it is that you are saying.
[6:17] Somebody writes, it's been a minute. I used to download you regularly on a podcast I can't even remember the name of. Free domain. Freedom is the main thing, the main thing, and freedom should be your domain, should be where you live. Utopia, Y-O-U-topia, which means have as many voluntary positive and moral relationships in your life as you can stand, and hopefully you can stand quite a few. 20th anniversary this November. That's right. The inimitable James, who I work with, reminds me it's the 20th anniversary. It's funny because I was doing philosophy for over 20 years before I went public with it, which is why I kind of hit the ground running. I was like the Beatles in Munich. And now it's been almost 20 years that I've been doing it. So let's see here.
[7:01] I loved your rendition of the cave allegory on Mike Cernovich's documentary, Hoaxed. Thank you. I appreciate that. That was so very, and that kind of got me spurred to do my own documentaries. For those of you who don't know, I did a documentary on Poland. I did a documentary in Hong Kong, where I faced down the rather fascist government apparatus with the anti-communist protesters and took tear gas to the face and coughed up half a lung and went back for more because I guess I come from a fairly Marshall family background. And I did also a documentary, a long series on California called Sunset and the Golden State. These are all free. You can get them at freedomain.com slash documentaries so we're very happy you're back please read crime statistics to us it's a it's a it's a bedtime story that will have you never sleep again that will never uh welcome back mr molyneux we love you thank you we love you you've been missed appreciate that good evening chris what was the argument case she made i'll get into that another time.
[8:08] Uh, Stef returns when Israel gets attacked. Coincidence? Um, yes, I think, I think it is, in fact, actually. Are you still staying away from politics? I mean, I can talk about that a little bit more. I just want to get through the initial questions and see if people have big objections.
[8:22] Uh, I'm just happy you're back. The world needs reason more than ever. I think that's certainly true. I think that is certainly true. Peaceful parenting is the path to world peace. Absolutely behind you and all of that.
[8:33] Happy to see you back. Um, thank you very much. Somebody says I loved your episode on Joe Rogan sorry I thought that was my episode on Rogaine but Joe Rogan that's where I first found you but towards the end he and his producer accused you of culty behavior how do you feel the criticism of you has held up all these years later after being de-platformed well Ollie that was in fact before I was de-platformed it was I think a couple of years before I was de-platformed yeah so I was on Joe Rogan three times once with P. Diddy Oil just kidding never happened but um i was on joe rogan three times the first two were a great deal of fun and he was very enthusiastic and wanted to sort of help me become more prominent in the one.
[9:12] And uh i don't know if he got a call or something like that but the third time i was on joe rogan it was a a total ambush right he he had all of these things queued up where i was supposedly saying all these dastardly things like you don't have to be in abusive relationships you know this is the kind of crazy cult-like behavior that i've been accused of you don't have to be in abusive relationships where the other person isn't going to change and continues to escalate. I don't care if it's your parents. I don't care. Like, philosophically, the category parent-child does not absolve one of moral responsibility, right? I mean, if a father drives the getaway car for his adult son who's a bank robber, you don't say, well, we'll put the kid in jail, but the dad can get off scot-free because parenthood means that you're immune to moral considerations. No, parents should be more subject to moral considerations than just about anyone because we need the most morality where the power disparity is the greatest and there's no greater power disparity.
[10:06] Than that between parent and child so we should have the highest moral standards for our parents so yes it's entirely culty apparently to say to people that if your parents are relentlessly abusive and you've tried talking to them if it's safe you've tried making things better you've offered them family therapy and if they remain relentlessly abusive you don't have to have them in your life apparently that's culty behavior if that's culty behavior then well the truth of the matter is that abusive families are the real cult where you can't get out all right how many eggs does emma watson have left oh let me check my my graph my chart i've got taylor swift.
[10:45] Emma well emma watson i was going to say emma thompson but i think she's down to minus something or other but i don't know but apparently it's creepy to even speculate on these things, thank you for coming back you were the one who started to open my eyes thank you i appreciate that peaceful parenting isn't the same thing as permissive parenting for people asking in the chat oh yeah absolutely i'm new here what happened well welcome uh philosopher returning from, somewhat imposed somewhat self-imposed exile for a half a decade uh saw sam hyde repost your first new post last night and couldn't believe my eyes so glad you're back oh uh i appreciate that and And I appreciate Sam for posting that. Do you think there's value in bringing up tough children? If so, how do you recommend it be accomplished? Well, it depends what you mean by tough.
[11:45] Is it better to win fights or avoid fights? I think it's important that if you're in a fight that you come out ahead, but it's even more important to avoid fights. So with my daughter i don't want my daughter to be tough in her relationships i want her to be happy open and vulnerable and connected and honest and virtuous in her relationships as i am and her mother is so i think i need her to be tough you know when i was uh touring australia and new zealand um which which new zealand apparently mordo was filmed there apparently it's just all turned into Mordor just sort of one of the all-seeing eye of of the prime minister back then was uh flaming its toothy way across the sky and I was kind of in these media interviews where you know there was a lot of confrontation and you know some fairly ridiculous insults and so on so I think you need to be tough in those situations for sure but you don't want to have relationships as a whole where you have to be tough you want to have relationships where you're loved and people love you and you don't have to be tough you can just be yourself, can canada be saved that is up to each individual all i can do is exhort i don't make predictions about the future in specificity because that would be to deny free will don't leave twitter ever again.
[13:07] I appreciate the enthusiasm. Bitcoin needs you in the OP return debate. I wish I was tied in enough technically to know what that meant. This is monumental. Just tuned in. Why are you back? Well, because baby got back. I'm back because my daughter made an irrefutable case to return. X was getting really stale with the influence bros all reposting the same stuff.
[13:32] Thrilled to have some interesting discussions again. Thank you.
[13:36] Uh i remember in late 29 sorry i used to be able to read hey remember when i was here before and i could actually read stuff that was fantastic somebody says i remember in late 2019 your soundcloud episodes on covid oh i was also deplatformed from soundcloud i told my friends to keep watching covid in december that year no one believed me then you vanished no i didn't vanished. I didn't vanish. I was banished. I was banished. I didn't vanish. I feel like I'm about to start wrapping. Missed you ever since, friend. Thank you for your coverage back then. Yeah, I did say, of course, very early on that COVID was going to be a big deal and that the lockdowns were going to do far more damage than good and that, yeah, it came from a lab. Stuff that wasn't particularly tough to figure out, but I made a whole video called The Case Against China. I didn't trace it all the way back to UNC, but anyway, so, all right. I remember Free Domain, but neither of the podcast apps I used to download exist anymore. All right. Welcome back. We missed you. Thank you, and I missed you as well. I missed you as well. Somebody says, it was the Anna Kasparian video you did. He got a lot of flack for platforming you after you did that video. now. Yeah, maybe. I mean, but I'm sure as a strong, independent woman, anyway.
[15:02] Great to see you, Stef. Thank you, Sam. I appreciate that. It's great to be back. Been listening since I was about 20 years old. So glad to see Stef and back on X. It's great to be taking people all the way from springy knees to bad backs. Love you, bud. We have an NCAP world leader. What are your thoughts? Oh, Javier Millet. Absolutely fascinating. Absolutely fascinating. wow a guy with wild ideas a populist bent and a strange haircut uh who could have guessed that that would be a formula for success but it is and of course it's behaving exactly as austrian economists would predict that their inflation is down that inflation that uh unemployment is down and so on right post-modernism is this causing more narcissism well if you want to invade a country you need to disarm the army then you can just walk in and so when you tell people there's no such thing as truth you take away any weapon they might have to defend themselves against falsehood and therefore liars rule liars will always teach you there's no such thing as truth so you can't oppose the lies they spread and so post-modernism is just another way of a corrupt people to make sure that they disarm the virtuous and sell them subjectivism and relativism in the place of the kind of consistent and rational virtues that lead to moral strength and love.
[16:29] All right. Are you still going to stay away from politics? I think so. Yeah, I don't find politics particularly interesting. And I think it's fairly safe to say that a lot of political debates in America seemed to have moved just a little bit beyond the awesome power of PowerPoints. Graphs, charts, facts, data, reason and evidence don't seem to be the deciding factors these days it seems to be pallets of bricks and hails of bullets so.
[17:00] It's not a particularly productive place for a philosopher to be but we'll see all right, what do we got here I just went to your site the book is free awesome thank you can't wait to get through it the book is free the last thing I want is to have a barrier between between. People who want to become better parents and the tools and arguments for them to become better parents. In other words, I would be charging money so that more children could be hit. And that is not, that is not the way. All right. I just subscribed to X. Say hi. It is nice to have you on X. This is better than tossing you lemons one side over. Yeah, I appreciate that. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. X.com value just increased. Few. No. Yeah. I returned to X and Bitcoin pumps. Oh, just crazy wild coincidences. What can I tell you? The most justified in hindsight man alive today. Well, oh, well, well, well, let me tell you a little something about that, which you might find.
[18:03] Somewhat interesting. You know, it would be nice if the world was a little bit kinder to those who were right early, just a little bit. You know, I'm not saying that they have to put statues up to me. I mean, I'm not George Floyd, but it would be nice if society was just a little bit nicer to people who were right early. That would be nice, because otherwise you lose people's enthusiasm who are right early, and then you don't get the early warning signals of upcoming disasters, right? So society can be a tad vicious to people who are right early. And now, of course, a lot of the stuff that I talked about, you know, 15, 20 years ago has become somewhat common parlance. But what happens, of course, if you're early, you end up with all these arrows in your back, people step on your wounds, tread your face into the gritty, flea-infested mud, and move on, and then everyone else scoops up the victory and never circles back to say, hey, thanks, man, you really broke the ice for us. That's just not the way it works. Do I sound bitter? No, I bet I don't, because I'm really not. Actually, de-platforming was fantastic for me. I loved it. I loved it. All right.
[19:14] Good to see you're doing well. I hope you reconsider making YouTube truth about videos again. Maybe I've done some, of course, for those of you who don't know.
[19:26] Out of your sight has not been out of my mind, at least I hope not, for the last five years. I have done, I don't know, thousands of shows, hundreds of conversations, the call-in shows. I have written three books, two novels, and Peaceful Parenting, and I'm actually about a third of the way through a new book. So I've been very busy, very active. I'm not playing stadiums anymore we're doing nice tight little only shaking my hips a little bit private dancer jazz club conversations where we've been getting into real in-depth philosophical stuff which has been great for me i mean my first love was novel writing and metaphysics and epistemology like study of the nature of reality study of the nature of knowledge that's my juicy juicy stuff so i've been working on that kind of stuff i've done presentations on ai updated presentations on bitcoin so there's a lot of stuff you can go to fdrpodcasts.com fdrpodcasts.com and check them out, i remember so many amazing videos you made over the story of your enslavement was my introduction yeah that was a that was a good video it was a good video i feel like the uh uh the this the singer who's like man you know that song you did 17 years ago that was fantastic i'm like I mean, I've done a little bit since then, but I get that people like the old hits.
[20:51] All right. I miss you playing Doom 3 as well. Yeah, I've downloaded the new Doom. I just haven't gotten around to it yet.
[20:59] Somebody says, I will remember everyone who didn't stand up for you after your cancellation. I will remember. Do you remember? All right. Andrew says, I learned about you through Cernovich. Which, yes, Mike had some very nice things to say, and I really did appreciate. It was not the easiest thing to be pro Monsieur Molineux post-de-platforming, but he did a yeoman's heroic armor polishing work, and I really did appreciate that. Welcome back. All right, Scooter. Oh, so nice to see you. So good to see you, Stef. What's your best parenting advice? That's a good question. It's a difficult question. I'm just going to pause to let everyone forgets it because it's kind of tough to answer. Best parenting advice. You know, I think, I mean, I've been a stay-at-home parent for almost 17 years, and my daughter is, you know, a year and change from flying the coop. And it's been wonderful. I mean, I always said that parenting is all about the teenage years. Everything is in preparation for the teenage years. And we've had just a lovely time when she's a teenager, and she's had a great time too, I think.
[22:13] So my best parenting advice, honestly, seriously, man, just remember, you know, remember what it was like to be a kid. Remember how much you really wanted to please your parents. Remember how much you wanted to have responsibility. Remember how much you wanted to be trusted. Remember how much you wanted to be reasoned with rather than pushed around or bullied or aggressed against or ignored or whatever. Just remember that amazing meaty umbilical bond, soul to soul, little soul to tall soul that your parents are gods whose approval you crave and you just want to have fun with them you want to be loved by them you want to love them in return remember what it was like being a child all the things that you wanted just try and provide those things to your children and you'll absolutely have a beautiful wonderful time welcome back teacher so beautiful to hear your voice in my home again well thank you i appreciate that all right Stef can you please talk to elon musk about saving the world such a video will be huge well i appreciate that i really do i'm pretty sure good old em is not going to be lining up for a chat with me uh but i will say this, if you think that the world is going to be saved by elon musk and myself.
[23:28] Having a conversation with all due respect and affection i really appreciate you being here, you are thinking with your armpits and the way that the world gets saved is every little conversation you have with people about false things they believe in that's how the world gets saved it's individual conversations you have with friends with family whether you can do it at work or not obviously don't get fired but um can you little dinner parties or whatever I always try and slip a little in right I always try and slip a little in even if I'm just in some generic social gathering where it's kind of passing or whatever I'm I was in a pickleball league and I actually won anyway I was in pickleball league and you know just little things little things here just little little chipping chipping away at things just putting out little facts here and there that's that's the what does it because if everyone did that and I know saying well if everyone did that is kind of a uh that's a hole with no bottom it never actually gets achieved but if more people did that kind of stuff where they just put forward the little nuggets of truth that can have people pause and become curious and think right we're all on this conveyor belt of propaganda that's there to deliver us from birth to grave ruffling as few feathers of those in power as humanly possible and anything that can just jolt people off that conveyor belt you know that kind of blank-eyed zombie shuffling forward like you're on some meat hook from the ceiling.
[24:50] Anything that you can do to interrupt the general asmr propaganda hypnosis that people are in, is good and you don't have to do it in a way where they want to run you out of town with a pitchfork i mean that's my preferred method because i find it quite exciting but it doesn't necessarily um mean that you have to do it that way it's every little conversation people always looking this is the cue thing right people always looking for some big external movement to save the world, but everybody has to participate in saving the world with direct, small, challenging without being overwhelming conversations. It is not anybody else who's going to save the world, but you. That's what you have to work with. Because if you think someone else is going to save the world, you get passive and you start nagging other people. I'm not saying you're nagging me, I'm just saying this is tendency, right? You start, other people are supposed to fix the world and save the world, and then you just have to convince them to do X, Y, O, Z.
[25:50] That's not how the world gets saved, though. That's not how the world gets saved. All right. Somebody says, I just became a father, and I'm grateful for you. Hey, congratulations, man. Beautiful journey. Sadly, dealing with mom is infinitely more difficult. Maybe talk of the dynamic where parents are not together would be in your wheelhouse.
[26:10] So you don't mean your mom, you mean your child's mom. So you had a child with a woman you don't get along with and is difficult.
[26:23] Well, unfortunately, you tend to be condemned to, you can't tell much truth to your kids if you don't get along with their mother.
[26:36] And credibility is tough. Because, of course, if you say, let's say that the woman, I'm just making things up here, I don't know what the details are, freedomain.com slash call, if you want to do a call and show, you'd be more than welcome to. But let's say that, you know, she screamed at you and cheated on you. Okay well that's a bad person to have a kid with right and then you are responsible for that 100 right and what can you say well why are you and mommy not together why is mommy living in a different house well she screamed at me and cheated on me right and you say that to some little kid and then they go back to the mom and says well dad says you cheated on him and screamed, right so you gotta hide a lot and of course not everyone is that respectful of the child's need for, um to be shielded from sort of basic truth so it could be the case that the mom is, being kind of hostile and difficult and it's trash talking you because of course the family courts are much more pro-female than pro-male so they have that power and power generally tends to corrupt so uh it is it is very very tough it is very very tough sticks also stood up for you in many occasions. Hey, man, I neither need the rock band nor the river for the dead to stick up. No, you mean sticks, hex, and hammer, which I appreciate.
[27:48] Yes, I did see that from time to time as well. Now, what the heck's going on with this chat? Which is worse, parents who hit their kids or parents who give them an iPad as a toddler?
[27:59] Right. Okay. Hit me with a Y if you know people who have screen time issues with kids. Swipe EYP, right? Kids who open up a old-fashioned magazine and try and pinch zoom on the photographs. Hit me with a Y if you know of people who have issues with their kids or maybe with your kids or as a kid yourself, issues with screen time. It is the big challenge, right? It is the big challenge of the modern world. And I will tell you, I will tell you the answer.
[28:43] So, the answer is you have to be more interesting than screens. That is your challenge. You know, it's like if a girl you like is interested in some guy with a great haircut and nice clothes, well, you better get yourself a good haircut and some nice clothes, right? It's important. It's a challenge, right? There have been studies done, countless studies done. if you're a runner and somebody is really pacing you like they're right at your level and they're going a little faster you will run faster and and harder and better and longer boy I sound like a ed ad but you will outstrip your own personal best if somebody's pacing you in the extreme so for parents yeah you've got an infinite cavalcade of swipey dippy entertainment and brain rot Instagram videos and you name it, right? So what you have to do is you have to take that as a challenge, which is how can I be more interesting? Can I tell my kid really funny stories? Can we go, my daughter and I are very keen on river walks, right? Where we just, we walk down the river, we try to catch fish, we pick up crayfish, we look under rocks and look for frogs and so on. So if my daughter is given the choice when she was younger, we still do it now even but when she was younger it was like well you can spend time on your tablet or we can go for a river walk she's like river walk and you know tons of other things that that you can do.
[30:11] And so with regards to screens they're just a they're a competition that allows you to become a better parent right i mean my daughter and i for i think six years we did these um we did we called it role-playing where we had this whole fantasy imaginary story where uh she was a hero in in a sort of medieval sort of world and i mean she she had battles she ran for office as a mayor uh she befriended monsters and explored dungeons and and if there was a choice between, sitting on her tablet and role-playing role-playing every time every time so that is your challenge is to be more interesting than a tablet rather than well you can't right you can't look at the tablet that's like saying to to a potential girlfriend you can't talk to biff chantly chest here because you know he outstrips me and so you just have to use it to to up your game as a whole, all right uh where to meet women being 32 living in a small village working remotely and hating dancing take me to church um yeah i would say go to church you're probably going to meet some pretty decent women that way.
[31:29] The conversations that nobody will ever know about will be the apparent catalyst. Take every conversation with consideration. Yeah, you never know. You never know really who you're talking to. It could be somebody with immense rhetorical abilities. It could be somebody with bottomless vats of jiffy lube charisma. It could be any number of things that maybe tomorrow they inherit $100 million, something goofy like that, right? You never know who you're talking to and what kind of power they might have. Or maybe it's not them, but it's somebody they talk to who ends up breaking through in some. You don't know. It is an absolute butterfly effect, which is why you should bend your rational maximum towards the promotion of truth, reason, and virtue every opportunity you get. I don't think anyone gets to the end of the life, at least I hope I don't, get to the end of the life and say, I wish I'd been less rational. I wish I'd been less. I wish I'd promoted less morality and virtue and reason and evidence and all that kind of stuff.
[32:25] Right so all right let's see here uh raise my sons based on your peaceful parenting lectures thank you seven and nine and flourishing that is wonderful to hear love it love it love it i would uh i would hug my monitor if it wasn't for you getting full-on, 58 year old nipple vision all right um.
[32:47] Yes, I'm a teacher and it's out of, yeah, the screen stuff is out of control for sure. For sure. Shouldn't let a kid have an iPad? Yeah. But that's the sugar question, right? I mean, do you just prevent your children from having sugar? Well, I mean, when I first went to university, I, after high school and before I went to university, I did a lot of pretty intense labor, gold prospecting and, panning for gold and prospecting and marking out the territory for mineral ownership.
[33:18] And so when I went to university, I was thrilled to be there. I didn't really party. I didn't really drink. I got drunk once in university, which was at the cast party after I played Macbeth. And I didn't want to do any of that stuff. The people who got drunk were the people who were really constrained as children, right? So with regards to sugar, well, at some point your kids are going to get older and they're going to be able to get a hold of their own sugar or they're going to be at someone's house where there's sugar available. Just withholding things from your kids doesn't teach them how to manage those things and how to manage desire and how to manage temptation and opportunity, right? So I think raising your kids to the point where they say, well, I don't want to waste my life on screen time. I'm going to set up a limit or whatever. You want the kids to do that, right? I mean, my daughter, I mean, it was just last night, you know, she was like, hey, do you want to go for a walk? You know, it's like 10 o'clock at night. Okay, I was a little, again, I'm getting a smidge up there. And I was like, I could basically go to bed. But like, nope, when I get older, I'm going to be like, boy, I wish I'd had fewer walks for an hour or two with my daughter. Nope, nope, nope, nope. All right. What a great reframing. Screens are an opportunity to be a better parent.
[34:32] Well, they're not just an opportunity. they're a requirement to be a better parent all right since so many people are tuning in you could maybe try twitter spaces next time.
[34:44] What the hell are Twitter spaces? Is that like where you see people talking? Is that like where the audio comes in? Is that right? Is that right? Is that right? All right. I will look into Twitter spaces. I'm a smidge behind on the old tech. I mean, it really is. Man, I used to be a chief technical officer and head of research and development. I'm a heavy coder and so on. I got to tell you, man, what the X coders. Boy, that's a little confusing. It sounds like the ones who got fired, which I'm actually quite happy about. But what the Twitter coders have done is beyond staggering. I mean, it's like the Grok thing, then now they have the encrypted chats thing. I guess the Twitter spaces, the live streaming thing, that wasn't around. The monetization stuff, ah, amazing what they have done. And, you know, hats off and massive kudos to them. All right. I had to look twice, says Scott, because I didn't believe my eyes when I saw Stef was live. Love is alive. X is a better place now. Is this being streamed somewhere else also? Yes. Locals on Rumble. So glad to see you. I miss your YouTube videos. Well, Laurie, everyone else, please stop listening. This is just for Laurie and I. Laurie. Red Laurie, yellow Laurie. That was my tongue twister as a kid. All right, Laurie, just between you and I, just keep this to yourself.
[36:09] FDRpodcasts.com. fdrpodcasts.com all the videos are there all of them hi def some even 60 frames a second when you want that liquid digital goodness pouring down your eyeballs like greasy waterfalls.
[36:26] Fdrpodcasts.com just do a search man click right down at the bottom will be the links to all the videos they live all right okay everyone else you can start listening again all right can't believe your back, Stef. Believe it. Believe. All right. Let us refresh. How do I find out how many people are watching?
[36:52] How do I know? How do I know? How will I know? All right. Video quality. 720p. Actually, I shouldn't complain about that. As I get older and more wrinkled, the technology gets better in more detail. I need to get those good old Haley Le Mans full-on Vaseline lens 240p cameras so that it'll look like a youthful potato. Oh, well, that's nice to see. That is nice to see. All right. Ba-bum!
[37:27] If Elon Musk gets the peaceful parenting as a way to save civilization, he will move mountains. I mean, bro's moving mountains every time he breathes, yes. And he seems pretty nice to his kids. I mean, he's a little bit of a spray and pray scattershot seed merchant, but he seems pretty nice to his kids. Spaces where listeners can ask you questions, etc. But you can't ask me questions. Stef, spaces is like your telegram talks. Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep. I just swore in Poshni. All right. Can I have you back, Stef? Celebrate, Stef. I'm going to celebrate. All right. Man, we missed you. I appreciate that. Jeez, it's like stepping through a time portal. Yes, I haven't aged a day in five years.
[38:12] All right. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Love what you do, Stef. A true inspiration. Appreciate that. Good that you were doing your own video archive before the YouTube ban. It was a brutal move by them. Yeah and uh susan i guess the woman who was in charge of youtube when i was banned didn't her son die of an overdose and then she died and oh just terrible terrible stuff, terrible stuff in a world of transactional leadership we need a philosophical voice shouting from the wilderness i appreciate that that that all right boomer said beyond repair for parenting absolutely true uh you kind of notice that if you've ever parented toddlers And again, I've been a stay-at-home dad for almost 17 years. If you parent toddlers, you kind of have to withhold a lot of facts from them. Otherwise, they kind of freak out. You have to be very gentle and soft-spoken and don't let them get. So boomers are kind of like that. You have to just withhold a lot of facts from them. Otherwise, it collides with the CNN uber-boomer programming that they pass off as a personality, right? You're arguing with the television. the television can't hear you and doesn't care so uh so spaces is a place on x where people can speak with you yeah that'd be great.
[39:31] Uh, peaceful grandparenting, what role do grandparents play in peaceful parenting?
[39:37] Yeah, it's tough, man. That's a tough call. A, I don't know. I don't, I'm not a grandfather myself, and neither my nor my wife's parents are in the picture. Well, we're down to one, and that's my mom, and that's not going to happen. So, I don't really know. No, I know statistically that if grandparents are reasonably healthy and dedicated, that it is a big plus to have grandparents in children's lives. So, you know, on the balance, I think it's worth indulging, even if there's some hiccups. And, you know, part of your social life as a whole, I mean, you can't have a social circle of any size unless you're willing to be occasionally annoyed by people and them by you as well.
[40:23] So grandparents play in peaceful parenting. It's tough because, of course, the big temptation for grandparents is to indulge. And this sets the children against the parents. Also, if the parents, if the grandparents were mean to the parents, often they're super nice to the grandkids, which is just another way of kind of messing with the heads of their children. So there's definitely risks involved. But I honestly cannot wait to be a granddad. I think it's going to be just a blast. I absolutely, completely and totally miss the early years. I mean, having a daughter who is right when she argues with you is fantastic. It's like a superpower, but I miss the little kid stuff too.
[41:05] All right. Do you have any food recommendations for a toddler boy? I really don't. Nutrition is not my thing. Also, a huge welcome back. Listener from all the way back in 2013.
[41:18] Wow. When my daughter was five, it's funny, right? Because 2013, when I was younger, felt like a total science fiction age, you know, like we would have paid money to go to the moon and Mars in permanent basis rather than dump it all in the third world for no real feedback at all. But yeah, 2013, man, long time no see, had no idea you were still in the public eye. Well, Shelley, I appreciate that.
[41:49] And i'm gonna be a little mean i apologize in advance i'm gonna be just just a little because you know people call me based and i'm based and also sort of a little acidic so all the people who were like hey man i thought you're still alive i thought you died haven't heard of you or thought of you in years occasionally i think of you but i didn't know where you'd gone so y'all and i say this with all due respect affection and i love the fact that you're here really do y'all are why de-platforming works. De-platforming works because if they move me one website over, in fact, you can go to onewebsiteover.com, onewebsiteover.com. If they move me one website over, I'm gone, baby. I'm gone.
[42:33] That's why it works. Because typing in, say, youtube.com, I can do that, right? But typing in freedomain.com or, you know, subscribing off the other video platforms that I'm on, well, that's just not possible, man. I can only do so much. Stef, you should absolutely risk life and limb, have your reputation shredded, have your finances, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. You should absolutely take all these risks for the cause of truth, reason, and liberty. But man, if they ask me to go one website over, I mean, come on, man, I'm only human. That's like more typing. So you get that I was kind of dangling over a precipice right back in the day.
[43:19] And I do that. I have a particular skill slash homoerotic fetish for truth. So I get that I'm willing to sort of take those risks. But all the people who are saying, wow, you're still around. I used to love your work, man. I don't know what happened to you. It's like, I'm one website over. You know, so this is my analogy. You know, whether I'm right or wrong, I'll just sort of give you my analogy, and you can tell me whether it makes any sense at all, right?
[43:47] So I know a lot of y'all were very passionate about the work that I did, and I absolutely, completely, totally and deeply, humbly appreciate that with every last fiber of my soul. But...
[43:59] It's like, imagine I'm your best friend, right? And I've been passionately devoted and desperate to date this woman. Let's call her Anna, right? Because nothing's better than a good palindrome of lust. So Anna, I love Anna. Anna's the greatest. She's the one. She's my soulmate, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And I'm dating Anna and it's going along fantastically, man. We're going to get married. We're going to have babies together. We're going to found an empire of truth, lust, reason, and growth. And then Anna moves one house further away. Instead of 779 Main Street, she's 781 Main Street. She is one house over.
[44:53] And you say, how are things with Anna? This woman you were so passionate about and loved and were going to make family, babies, dynasty, everything. Love of your life. Twin soul. She completed you. And I say, oh, God, Anna, that's right. Jeez.
[45:15] Oh, that's so funny. I have not thought about Anna in, oh, gosh, months, really. And then you say, what? God, what happened? What terrible thing happened that you completely forgot about, Anna? Love of your life, light of your heart, twin of your soul. Plato's Play-Doh merging together in one swirl of united color. What happened, man? What terrible tragedy happened? And I say, oh, yeah. Well, she moved like a house further away.
[46:00] Wouldn't you be like, what now? Sorry, did I, did I mishear that? This love of your life moved one house further away and you forgot about her completely? I mean, how ADHD are you, brother? Right, wouldn't that be a strange thing to, I'm one website over and people are like, but he's not right in front of me. He's not showing up in my feed and I'm helpless to do any kind of search. What was the name of that show was it free domain no free domain free do lay, uh free domain oh yeah okay let me let me just try freedomain.com, and anna comes back uh topless doing the dance of the seven veils uh grinding you like a, pepper shaker doing the kind of lap dance that has your hips become two-dimensional, one website over but apparently for a lot of people that's just a bridge too far and that's why deplatforming works i'd just be straight up i'd just be straight up straight up.
[47:11] All right all right somebody says i shared your peaceful parenting book with my sister who just had a baby happy to see you back on x thank you very much yeah freedomain.locals.com you can check it out. Somebody says, Stef, my wife and I called in back in 2017 or so, just after we had our two kids. Our brief chat on parenting and marriage was great. Happy to report great success and all is well near a decade on. Appreciate you. Fantastic. I'd give you a hickey if I could do so without deep-throating the camera. I really, really do appreciate that. Thank you so much. All right. All right it does work sadly yeah yeah uh Stef platforms make money for a reason they shove content into your mouth and do it well right so you can you can mime to me as if you're passive in this world and didn't make the choice to forget me it's just not true right so well the platform is sending me a feed what can I do it's like what are you pac-man oh no you just make a choice in life and made people made and listen listen let me let me let me be clear about this let me let me be clear about this it's gonna blow your mind I hope we'll see because you know it's been a while and I've changed man I mean in the last five years I've changed my underwear hang on.
[48:35] Twice. I can't even get up from this chair anymore. It's like Velcro. I'm stuck. But I don't want to sound bitter about being one website over and people forgetting about me. Like, you know, Will Smith with that, that pen, right? In that movie, right?
[48:56] Stef, who's Stef? I don't know. It's gone, right? I love the fact that everyone forgot me.
[49:04] I really do i love the fact that people forgot me because i got to do core philosophy i got to work the jazz clubs i had really great conversations with people and as i was saying it's like getting kicked out of the army you know if the army forgets about you and then they go off and get blown up in a war are you really that sad right so yeah things were getting real dicey back in the 2020s, right? I mean, it was, there were a lot of lasers on a lot of forehead. So I have no problem with it. I'm just, all I'm doing is I'm pointing it out that it's kind of funny that everyone forgot about me, or most people did. But I'm thrilled, because if, like, the number of people, I'll be straight up with you guys. Okay, let me ask you, and if you know the answer to this, because I've talked about it before, please don't mention it.
[49:53] Please don't mention it. But um what it's kind of funny what percentage of my audience went one website over just out of curiosity what percentage of my audience went just give me give me your guess please make it less than 100 and more than zero so what percentage of my audience went that that incredible journey You know, that apocalypse now, heart of darkness journey to the Antarctic and back, what percentage made the arduous getting elephants over the Himalayas baton death march to one website over?
[50:39] Even when I put out newsletters and even on X, I was telling people where to go because there was a bit of a sort of domino effect, right? So so one percentage of people Stef your show is so important i love philosophy it's absolutely essential for the world oh is Stef's gone Stef who who flatlined oops flatlined so yeah it was about five percent about um about five percent of people.
[51:14] Came uh came over thank you thank you thank you to the 95 this sounds sarcastic just because i'm british i sound sarcastic and a little bit more intelligent but go i don't have an accent like please so thank you thank you thank you because if 95 of my audience had come over i would have felt a sincere obligation to continue running into the machine gun fire that was taking out my kneecaps and kidneys. So I really thank you. If you forgot about me, I owe you a huge debt of gratitude. Seriously, I really appreciate that fact. The fact that I despawned meant that people didn't find philosophy important enough to go one website over, which meant I didn't have to worry about saving the world for a while. And I still don't worry about it in particular. And I'm thrilled. Again, I don't want to, I'm thrilled that you all are here and I'm thrilled to be having this conversation, but you released me from an obligation that was pretty destructive and extremely dangerous. So I really thank you for forgetting about me, for allowing me to despawn in peace and to go and work on my books and philosophy and the videos that I've been doing and the conversations that I've been having, which, you know, it's the Mark Twain thing, right?
[52:27] Mark Twain, for those of you who don't know, Mark Twain for decades had a newspaper column And he talked about politics, current events, and so on. He was stringently anti-imperialistic, which everyone should be, which is relevant now.
[52:41] But Mark Twain...
[52:44] You probably didn't even know, and there's no reason why you would know, but you probably didn't even know that he had, I don't know, thousands and thousands and thousands of newspaper articles because no one cares. That's current events. That's politics. What people remember is his extremely problematic novels, right? At least in the modern world, right? And so by releasing me from the obligation to do politics, you allowed me to do the kind of deep philosophy that's going to be of value to people a thousand years from now, 500 years from now, a hundred years from now. And focusing on politics is like eating a lot of sugar or cocaine. Hey, there's a high, but it comes at a cost. So focusing on current events, which is what people most wanted me to do, my show blew up. Sorry, that's probably not the right way to say after my Australia tour. But my show expanded rapidly when I started talking about current events. And I enjoyed that. I think bringing philosophical principles to current events is a great and positive thing to do in the world. But it kind of comes and goes it becomes of interest to obsessive archivers in the future and it vanishes as much as mark twain's or um gosh i mean you could think of all the people who've had newspaper uh columns uh over the years winston churchill would be another one.
[54:02] And by releasing me from the serrated cocaine laced bear trap of current events i got to work on some pretty deep philosophical stuff, which is my great love. And I'll give you an example. I did a 24-part series on the history of philosophy. Sorry, let me quote that accurately. I mean, it's my show. I should remember what I did, but sometimes it comes and goes. So I did a 24-part series on the history of philosophers, which I went all the way from the pre-Socratics through buddha through the greeks through the romans through the dark ages the middle ages and i did 24 major philosophers along with some sort of icing mortar in between of the general trends amazing stuff for me i did a whole series on bible verses and what they mean philosophically and morally and i just did some really for me really deep meaty beautiful connected stuff and that's entirely because people forgot me and you know not that i'm putting you in the position of wolves but.
[55:14] You want to be forgotten by the predators, right, which I guess I'm not doing a great job of right now, but you want to kind of be forgotten. Like if wolves are hunting you, you want them to kind of pass by the cave and not, right, to forget about you and move on. Squirrel, right, get distracted. So I got a half century, sorry, I'm thinking it's going to be valuable in half a century. I got a half decade of pure, deep, powerful philosophical work because you forgetting about me released me from current events. Now, it could always have been my choice. So me saying you did this and you did that, it's always my choice. But it's a little it's a little tempting to put it mildly so i i thank you for that uh i'm sort of tanned rest uh tanned rested relaxed and and ready to engage with the world again so i appreciate that all right somebody says calling out his own audience for bs is my favorite part of every stefan molyneux show this beating is well deserved it's not a beating i mean it's just my honest experience and i i could be wrong about all of this right, not me i did i did what forget about me or coming back john says i started listening to Stef in 2005 up until he got canceled i gave him 20 a month for years thank you when canceled Stef went silent for a long time i never came back uh no uh that's not true john.
[56:42] And personally given that i'm a always aiming to be a truth teller obviously sometimes at my own expense you should you should check that kind of information before you spread it spreading false rumors is a bit of a sin right and we all do it right so i'm not trying to you know throw spears from some high guru like place of perfection but you shouldn't say things that are not true i did not go silent for a long time at all um so all right if you count the people who watch viral videos like the Trayvon Martin one, a tiny fraction of a percent. Yeah, it's funny because I remember very clearly the video that was processing when my YouTube channel was yanked. And it was a video where a friend of mine who's a police officer in the States got a friend of his who was an absolutely hilarious black cop. So it was a white cop, a black cop, and me talking about George Floyd and what might have happened. And it was an amazing show, a fantastic show. And it was just processing and it was like because they needed their summer of love right they needed their mostly peaceful protests you know like mostly peaceful, Religious ceremonies that the Aztecs did with their children, right? Mostly peaceful, except for pulling out hearts and all of that. All right. Ba-ba-ba-boom. All right.
[58:01] People call in about their personal problems. I mean, that's an interesting thing, right? And I get, so some people love the call-in shows where I just talk to people about their lives and how philosophy can help them. And it's funny because the call-in shows nothing in it specifies and there's no requirement that you talk about personal issues people can do a call-in show and we've done it where people come in to argue upb or argue against the metaphysics or argue free will versus determinism uh that's just what people want to talk about and really i don't think there's any other place in the world where you can get free conversations applying rational philosophical principles to what seems like intransigent life problems. That's the only place. It's the only place. It's a singular venue. And I'm thrilled that philosophy is practical. I've always hated, hated, hated the idea that philosophy is some abstract ivory tower discipline where you argue about the semantics of, well, it depends what the meaning of the word is, is. And it depends what the meaning of the word belief is. If you can't put philosophy in plain actionable terms.
[59:06] That help people's lives in a practical sense, you're just a sophist and a noisemaker that is there to obfuscate the practical applicability of philosophical principles they should be simple rational and applicable like it's the same thing with morality morality shouldn't be crazy complicated monsieur harris right it shouldn't be crazy complicated because we ask three or four year olds to be moral so three or four year olds can't understand it because it's all so complicated and right there's this well there's utilitarianism and then there's pragmatism and the greatest good for the greatest number and you got a balance and their self and other and you know in and out group preferences like then then stop telling three or four or five-year-olds that they should not push hit or steal because if it's so complicated we don't ask toddlers to understand quantum mechanics and there's a lot more comprehensibility in quantum mechanics than most modern people's moral systems it's got to be practical it's got to be simple i mean go read your socrates all right go read your plato reporting on socrates Bro never used the term epistemology or anything like that, so.
[1:00:13] All right. Joe says, I found you just before you got canceled and then followed you to free man, learned so many life lessons. Thank you. Yeah, it's a shame too. I mean, if you forgot about me, don't you? Okay, we don't have to get all 80s. Or do we? Well, no, I'll get 80s in about 30 years. So yeah, you did not have access to half a decade of practical philosophy if you didn't follow me because honestly i think i'm the only one doing it in this kind of way at least i've never found anybody else even close all right uh oh yeah there was the guy who had to buy, a uh a water buffalo for his thai girlfriend's family not for his thai girlfriend i have a show you can just look up the word buffalo and the search terms on the search engine at fdrpodcast.com yeah i did a call-in show with a guy who was complaining that he had to buy a water buffalo for his wife's family in Thailand in order to date her. The things we do for love. All right.
[1:01:16] For those of us who went one side over, we've been blessed with intimate conversations, and I hope we don't lose that. It's been incredibly valuable, so yes, thank you to all of those who didn't move over. Yeah, I mean, listen, if you want to go see the Rolling Stones, he said putting himself in slim-hipped and exaggerated company, if you want to go see the Stones, don't you want to go and see them in a jazz club rather than a stadium? Him so all right um when the world needed him the most he disappeared.
[1:01:51] Oh dear oh dear oh dear i didn't just a i didn't disappear and b it wasn't my choice, I was deplatformed. I mean, if you go out, if you aim to go out on a date with a girl, then she gets kidnapped on the way. Do you say, well, man, you just never showed up? All of her twist, right? You just disappeared. It's like, bro, she was kidnapped. Don't blame her. All right.
[1:02:17] All right. Kevin Samuels is gone. Who else can we take dating advice from? That is a fairly significant tragedy uh kevin samuels was beyond brilliant in my humble opinion i mean age dress size what you weighed last time you weighed yourself do you have any kids I was like, kids, you always say kids. And yeah, please go listen to Kevin Samuels. He is dead and gone. And I don't know what happened. I think it was hypertension or something like that. I mean, I think bro had some stress, like Tommy Sotomayor, who's been on this show. But yeah, he's a great guy to listen to about stuff. I mean, it's easy to get a little cynical in the same way you can get a little cynical from the whatever podcast, because they don't seem to have necessarily, I'm not saying that's their fault or issue but they don't seem to have necessarily the highest quality people on there and it's easy when you just see this conveyor belt of fairly low quality people to think that's somehow human nature and it's not it's not all right please stay here forever in your mind in your heart on this live stream when it comes to philosophy it's important to be specific.
[1:03:31] I don't know who to take dating advice from um i have a vague suspicion i'm gonna get your feedback on this, if you don't mind. I have a vague suspicion, my friends, that I may be a little old to give young people dating advice. Hit me with an O if you think I'm too old. Hit me with a Y if you think it's just fine for me to give dating advice. I mean, I haven't been in the market dating-wise for like a quarter century, and I did date a lot when I was younger. But I do think that things have changed just a little bit for instance for instance one of the things that's changed when i was a wee lad when i was knee high to a grasshopper a kind of cool thing happened, where uh guys would would ask girls out oh wild man like you'd screw your courage to the sticking place and you'd walk up to a girl and you'd say hi honey oh a little you'd yodel her into to hopefully surrender to your teenage, wildish ways. And you'd go, hey, you wanna go to the movies on Friday? And okay, most people are like, you know, Yes, you are not too old. Not too old. But yeah, so, I mean, a bunch of stuff has changed.
[1:04:57] Do boys really ask girls out that much anymore? Doesn't seem to happen. Yeah, basic human nature never changes. Yeah. I mean, we're in the late stages of women's corruption by the state, right? Right. Women are Boromir, right? I mean, and I'm not saying in and of their nature, and I love the fact that there are lots of women here. I have a beautiful wife. I have a wonderful daughter. so love women as a whole. But unfortunately, women have been corrupted more by the state than men, because men pay like 80% of the taxes and women receive vast amounts of the benefits. And women score higher generally in the psychological trait called agreeableness, which means it matters to women more that people like them. And there's nothing wrong with that. It's a beautiful part of human nature, but it is corrupted by the state and women are hit a lot harder with propaganda than men. Like they kind of give up with propaganda with us as men as a whole. But i mean if you sort of look at the left right widening that's going on in society women are getting hit incredibly hard with propaganda and because they've been effectively separated from any respect for men they don't have the normal protectors from propaganda which is men's skepticism so it's rough man is rough rough like a dog sitting on sandpaper rough all right, yeah we haven't did we i don't think we've had a single dad joke this whole.
[1:06:16] Um okay sorry this whole live stream reboot reboot uh thank you for the donation freedom dot com slash donate if you'd like to help out the show gratefully deeply and humbly appreciated, now accepting recompense for being ignored for five years freedom.com slash donate you don't have to do that but if you if you would i i certainly wouldn't say no i would thank you, all right twitter live really needs a live chat i think there is what are your thoughts on christianity well there are a lot of thoughts i have on christianity if you would like, my thoughts on christianity sorry i was trying to think of a more elegant way to put it but there really isn't any way without butching it up quite a bit so i've written a novel i've written two novels one called the future it's a science fiction novel about a perfect society in the future and how it deals with corruption and violence and child abuse as called the future and then there's a novel another novel i wrote called the present which is what happens in social collapse and i deal very deeply with christianity in my novel the present so it's free freedomain.com books i hope that you will check it out so if you want to know what my thoughts are on Christianity. It's that. I certainly have been going to church. All right.
[1:07:44] So the one thing that I would say with dating is the world has become a lot simpler for the discriminating.
[1:07:52] I mean, let's take the sort of typical example of the puffy-faced blue-haired girl with enough facial piercings that it looks like she walked into a wind turbine holding a tackle box so i would say that the unstable have become very obvious and when i was younger it was tougher to find the crazy people because they were really well camouflaged the one thing that the corruption of the modern world has done which is of great service to moral men and women.
[1:08:26] And just to talk about it from the male perspective here since again as i say propaganda has hit women a lot harder the crazy people the women who are just not well at all right and more than 50 percent of middle-aged liberal women have been diagnosed with a mental disorder right and i know that i've got a whole video called the myth of mental illness which you know but but there's usually something wrong when something like that is happening so the people are saying oh there's so many so many crazy people around it's tough to date it's like i'm not gonna i'm not gonna agree with that and to me it's like if you were a if you're a zebra out there in the african wilderness and some kind person has attached a a big tall red flag to the backs of the lions so you see this big wire and this flag moving through the tall grasses of the veldskun, then, or the African veld, isn't that good? You can literally see the lions. The predators are clear. And so what propaganda has done is it has caused the unstable to self-brand themselves as obviously nuts.
[1:09:44] Whereas when I was younger, sometimes you'd have to date a woman for a month or two before, you know mask came off and the beast comes out so now you know you got your random tats you got your body image issues you got your crazy haircuts you got your thick glasses uh you know the uh the seriously seriously abused thick frame black glasses i mean all kinds of things right you got the crazy makeup for the women who can't be loved for who they are but only the jackson pollock bizarro Picasso painting that they present themselves with, which is about as much reality as Lara Croft's digital boobs. So now it's real clear. Tell me what you guys think. Give me your percentage of sane people to date, just out of curiosity. Tell me.
[1:10:45] What percentage of people do you think are available to date that would date and not necessarily your soulmate but would be a reasonable person to a date and and there's a reasonable possibility of a stable and loving relationship what percentage do you think is uh is at the five percent that followed you over to locals that's right they fell of they followed me to locals and then fell into the special underground vat for all the fertile women that go occurs at the free domain compound all right what do we got here five percent forty percent that's generous uh ten percent five percent twenty five percent twenty percent uh women western women are so difficult to date and have so many red flags most guys i know are becoming passport bros yeah yeah because outside the west the women are all totally sane welcome to my entire family did you bring your water buffalo so all right there is there is a certain number that that i would give right so i'm sure everybody here has at least some passing familiarity with my formulation for love a love is our involuntary response to virtue if we're virtuous if we're virtuous we love virtue.
[1:12:09] If we're virtuous we dislike evil if we're evil we dislike virtue and if we're evil we have a positive response to evil although it's not stable because of the aforementioned evil thing.
[1:12:23] So yeah freedomain.locals.com has a lot of women yeah i mean uh half the call-ins i do seem to be with women these days which is wonderful uh and so on right so i mean i'm sure you've heard of the Milgram experiments, so about 65% of people will just kill others if they're given some slight indication to do so.
[1:12:47] By somebody they perceive to be an authority, right? So about two-thirds of people, and you know, in terms of who took the first round of boosters and so on, about two-thirds of people fundamentally don't exist as moral entities. They are stuff full of snips and snails and puppy dog tails and propaganda and half-remembered snatches of things from CNN and some article they read where there was some sophists who passionately exhorted them to hate some particular group or some particular mindset or whatever and so two-thirds of people don't have any genuine independent psychological existence and they certainly don't seem to have much of a conscience because again in these experiments which have been replicated all over the world and across many decades it's about two-thirds sometimes a little higher of people don't have any moral center like if somebody just says yeah i'd like you to continue the experiment they will, kill people in their own mind it's all faked but they'll dial up the electricity until people are screaming and begging and pretending to die so if you are if you want love you have to be moral and your partner has to be moral can't fake it you you can't love anything other than virtue any more than you can live on gravel you can't love anything other than virtue and virtue requires.
[1:14:10] A universal objective moral standard and a willingness to pursue it and a reasonable chance of attaining it and maintaining it right it's like an exercise regime it has to be somewhat possible like push-ups on the moon not really possible so it has to be somewhat possible and you have to be able to attain it and maintain it right so it's the same thing with virtue so we can only love virtue and people who don't have a moral center who don't have any particular, moral standards, relativists, subjectivists, and all of the people who simply ape morality by repeating slogans, spare the rod, spoil the child, means hit your children, like somebody who doesn't exist morally. And I say that with sympathy, you know, it comes from trauma and it comes from propaganda, but at some point it also becomes a choice that you want to avoid anything difficult in life. So you just go along with the mob and, you know, lynch both the good and the bad people in your environment so uh two-thirds of people straight off i mean if you're you want to fall in love and you want to be loved then people who just will kill on command obviously not supremely virtue and you can't love them so two-thirds of those people now those people used to be hidden you know if you see the original milgram experiments those people look totally normal yet they are in a sense quite soulless and incapable of love or being loved now, They self-brand themselves Brothers and sisters They self-brand themselves.
[1:15:35] All narcissists have abs. That's why I don't have abs. Well, I have an ab, an ab, middle-aged ab.
[1:15:42] So you could say that it's gotten harder, but I would also argue that it's gotten easier. I mean, wouldn't it be a lot easier to apply for jobs if you knew ahead of time, whether you'd just be rejected right away? It'd be great, save you a lot of time, effort, and money. So there is definitely some real benefits to modern dating that I sure wish was there in the past. All right.
[1:16:08] Somebody says 18.6%. That's very specific. Oh, somebody who would work with my craziness, probably minus, probably about, sorry, that's a squiggle, not a minus, 0.1%. All right. Basket case theory, everyone is a basket case when you get to know them. No, I don't think that's true. I mean, is that Scott Adams theory? Love the Adams, but I don't agree with that for sure. So love, of course, requires predictability of behavior. You can't love someone who's unstable, although I understand that unstable women can be great for sex, but cocaine can be great for happiness. Doesn't mean it's a good long-term plan. So you need stable and predictable behavior. I mean, I hope that you haven't heard from me in five years. I hope I'm not wildly different with completely reversed opinions from what I had before because I'm not ever going to go against the truth. I don't really care what they do to me, I'm not ever going to go against the truth. If they ban me after this, I'm still going to tell the truth. The truth is more important than any immediate material gain or threat. So, predictable behavior requires consistent morality. So anyway, all right.
[1:17:21] Five percent, somebody says, Christian values, UPP understanding, non-COVID vaxxed, intellectually curious, healthy weight. Yeah. Yeah, boy. You know, it's funny, too, because having been catapulted or yeeted from the public view for most of y'all for half a decade, we really didn't get to talk much about COVID now, did we? Boy, wasn't that mask off for society as a whole? Oh, my God. Like, you know, when they finally opened up the vaults of the Gestapo in Eastern Germany, and this was the case in Russia as well under the NKPD, most people informed on their neighbors, right? Most people were very happy to call up the authorities and say, so-and-so said something bad. Oh, my God, there are two cars in their driveway. There are super spreaders. Whew. Whew. All right.
[1:18:15] You should wear a lab coat telling people to be virtuous i should just tie a lab tote to my head and be completely naked after that only stefans should be the way to go that's right do you think people don't take as many risks these days uh yes but that's because they grow up without fathers and mothers bubble wrap their children because they're afraid of um moms in general are designed for the death magnets known as toddlers and so they're constantly around we got a child proof and street proof and be careful and don't write too fast and don't whereas the dads are just like yeah you'll learn from pain sometimes it's a good thing so people don't take risks because fathers have been driven from the home and as a result the men have been made a little bit more effeminate which is the standard practice of tyrants is to feminize the boys all right is it wrong to say that your definition of for love definition of love can be used to evaluate if your feeling of attraction is love or something else? No, so the way that you would know whether your feeling of attraction is love or something else is if you only have a boner and not moral admiration.
[1:19:21] If you only have a boner, if you're only pitching a tent, and there are no virtue elves pitching it for you, then that's called lust. In other words, if you want the person not to talk, but just to spread them like day-old butter, then that would be lust. So presence of boner does not indicate only lust, because you can certainly lust after the virtuous, but if it's mostly boner or only boner, in other words, if you've been dicknapped, your penis has stolen your brain, redirected your blood flow to reproduce like a copy paste your genes without any consideration for the quality of the woman, then you've been dicknapped and it's just lust. So do you actually morally admire the woman? Do you enjoy conversing with her? And are you torn between sex and continuing the conversation? If you're just like, but I can't wait for the conversation to be over so I can have sex, that's probably lust. So the boner factor is quite important. If it's soul boner and not boner plus virtuous admiration, then that would be lust. And your penis is trying to drag you off a cliff into the endless, jagged, bouncing deep sea rocks of the family courts. Do not succumb. All right. The incentives for women to leave men in favor of the state are much higher in the U.S. Than, say, in Latin America. get a remote job, move 2,000 miles south, start a family, and be happy.
[1:20:43] Yeah, but then you've got multicultural kids, you've got to adapt to another culture, learn another language. I mean, abandoning the post is not always the best way to win a conflict.
[1:20:54] All right. How do you know the truth? So the truth is when the ideas in your mind conform to reason and evidence, evidence being the evidence of the senses reproducible by others, right so the truth is first rational consistency and secondly empirical validation all right a basic science 101 but for philosophy as well emilio says thanks for coming back to x please keep posting i can't get used to this name man x well i'm still going to call meta facebook, all right your chin got squarer in the last five years you have undergone chattification, well i i weigh now what i weighed when i was 16 i've lost a little more weight all right, so glad to have you back Stef been listening since 2014 was starstruck when i met you at politicon in 2018 time to bring back the egg carton memes my god talk about like talk about not knowing what on earth you're doing there's this thing in the movie industry like nobody knows what they're doing everyone thinks they're making an oscar winner or whatever except maybe Rob Zombie but I don't know sometimes man social media hit me with a why if you are familiar with something that I take perverse pride in was voted the worst tweet in human history the worst tweet in human history I kiss my dark devious brain um.
[1:22:22] Do you know the Taylor Swift tweet? Do you know the infamous Stygian darkness of the Taylor Swift tweet, which truly drew some disturbed and demonic personalities out of the woodwork? You know this tweet? Do you know it? Can somebody post it here? James, can you grab it and post it? It's worth reading again, because what was that, five or six years ago? And still, there are no Tay-Tay minors, no Tay Tay Juniors.
[1:22:50] Yeah. And of course, I had no, I was just, I thought it was a perfectly positive and nice, nice thing in my optimism for human nature. I thought it was a perfectly lovely little tweet, encouraging and positive and very friendly towards Madame LaTayTay. And yet, it was like a neutron bomb went off in my testicles and not in the fun way that we all, we all enjoy gotta sleep always a great show thank you bye no truth is worth more than sleep what do the muslims say uh prayer is better than sleep truth reason is better.
[1:23:29] Than sleep waking up to reality is better than sleeping off your exhaustion all right here we go here we go satellite radio you all get hit with the boom boom uh yes when was this december 9th, 2019. Well, that is five and a half years ago. All right. I don't want to promote the tweet. Thank you very much. That's fine. I don't want to promote the tweet. I just want to read it. Stop helping me. Don't promote. There we go. All right.
[1:23:58] Good Lord. I don't want to delete it either. Okay, there we go. So I wrote, I can't believe Taylor Swift is about to turn... You know what? I need to read this in an idiot optimist voice. I can't believe Taylor Swift is about to turn 30. She still looks so young. It's strange to think that 90% of her eggs are already gone. 97% by the time she turns 40. So I hope she thinks about having kids before it's too late. She'd be a fun mom. Smiley face.
[1:24:28] Hey, what's that? Hey, is that a bird? Songbirds have come to sing me to my rest and to bring me joy and honey and bees. Oh, that's a stuka. Bomb. Bomb. That really was something that really really was something my gosh did people, congratulations this is the worst thing i've ever seen this is from zach bornstein uh yeah very strange i mean i i don't know why i've i've never understood this and listen, please educate me. Like, I'm not kidding about this. Educate me. Educate me. Why? Why? Jackie Chan face. Why do people get mad at facts? I don't understand why do people get mad at facts. Help me in my ridiculous late 50s, shouldn't be here at all, this level of naivety. What is wrong with my brain? What is wrong with my brain that I can't understand why people get mad at facts? I don't understand. Why? Help me. Please, please help a brother out. help a philosopher out who has no excuse for this level of naivete i cannot understand it.
[1:25:53] Ah balding men in glasses have taught me everything wait there's more than one all right, 1 a.m in the uk right you know the uk could use a a dose or two of truth as well right.
[1:26:11] Uh i have a one-year-old what is the best way you've got to correct behavior of such a curious mind uh pre-verbal is kind of tough the best thing you can do is just model the behavior that you want to see in your child you know obviously you don't want your child to yell so don't yell you don't want your child to hit so don't hit a calm and reason and and but you can't really teach moral behavior to a one-year-old unless they're ridiculously precocious but i think my daughter was about 18 months. The standard is about 18 months. Children can start to perform moral and statistical reasoning. So one might be a little young. Best you can do is model the behavior that you want, and I'm sure that your child will copy-paste you. All right. Facts threaten formed identities.
[1:26:57] Yeah, I'm afraid that's too concise. You may not be aware of my florid and endless, hyper chatty verbal habit way too concise but that's like a beautiful way of putting it facts threatened formed identities okay i have a formed identity i just i have a formed identity around accepting facts i just find it's kind of a slave morality to reject facts you know like there's this whole modern thing that's going on in the world the humiliation ritual of making you mouth things that are patently absurd and false right like all these modern ideologies that you just have to kind of nod and say, yeah, that's true. That's true. Obesity is healthy. It's just a different choice and body positivity. Like things are just not true. It's a humiliation ritual. Like, I mean, I'm sure that the people with power like the fact that you can't just say basic truths and that you have to kind of cringe and say things that are false because that shows the power that they have over you. You are live on X right now. No, no, it's not live, just so you know. I'm just really, really good at pre-guessing the questions. So, no. In a Christian context, it's because the truth shines a light on their sin, and people love their sin.
[1:28:18] So, the truth shines a light on their sin, and people love their sin. It's very interesting. I mean, technically they don't. They're attached to it, like Stockholm Syndrome, or some sort of sick Mickey Rourke codependency. All right. It's like the Peter Principle. I thought lust was the Peter Principle. No. We rise to the level of our incompetence. Facts mean downgrade. Like knowing what you're good and bad at. I'm not sure I quite follow that. And I'm not saying that's your bad explanation. I just don't quite follow it. Most of us are emotional creatures, not logical. Right. I'm an emotional creature too. And I hate rejecting facts because when I reject facts, that means somebody's exercising power over me. Because why on earth would I reject facts unless somebody's exercising power over me? And I hate the idea that people are exercising power over me. That's why I'll say the truth and get yeeted into the far reaches of the intellectual galaxy rather than lie instead. All right. A human being in cognitive dissonance will do anything to get out of it, even vote for socialism. Yeah, I mean, the fall of Iran started with them voting for a socialist, right?
[1:29:24] Hi, Stef. Rachel. Ah, the one they call Bride of Andrew. Very nice to meet you. Love some of the stuff you do. Hi, Stef. I found you back in 2012. I think you would enjoy my book. We should chat sometime. Glad to see you back on X. Ah, The Occult History of Feminism. Is that the book? I'm reaching for the title from the deep recesses of my crusty brain. Is that right? But yes, it would be great to chat. It breaks certain people to hear a fact outside of mainstream channels' sources they're accustomed to.
[1:29:58] Interesting. Yeah, I mean, I sort of think about, I mean, the most typical example is like the fine people hoax that Trump called the people at Charlottesville, the Nazis or the white supremacists are fine people, although he condemned them. My guess would be something like, and this is very sketchy, so I apologize for thinking on the fly, but I think it's something like, your friends all say something. If you bring them the truth, will they still be your friends? In other words, do you have friends who value you for what you think and reason with or do you have just a bunch of people tied together by sort of a sickening brand of propaganda and the denial of reality and you're basically just a bunch of slaves in a galley thinking that you're on a delightful cruise right can you bring the truth to your friends and will they reject you if you bring the truth to them so anyway curious what your thoughts on peterson's trajectory are his early success was partly due to your support. I appreciate that. It's very kind. I mean, Jordan Peterson has a titanic set of skills and abilities that would have far surmounted any support or lack of support that I might have given him at the beginning. He was on his way no matter what. Maybe I gave him a little bit of a step up here and there.
[1:31:09] It's not an arc that I would choose in particular. I am very fierce with my independence, and I don't want people to pay me other than you, lovely donors, freedomain.com slash donate to help out the show. I'd very much appreciate it. But I mean, I was offered sort of back in the day. I had a variety of flybys and offers and I was just like, I mean, I'm not going to lie. It was kind of tempting and some decent coin. But I just like, I just got to be me, man. I just, I have to remain independent. I can't have anyone between me and just that glorious son of truth that i try to navigate every day by and um i think for me independence though it costs me just about anything everything is is well worth well worth it i would not want to have any considerations floating in my mind other than.
[1:32:05] The truth and i want everyone to come here because i will always strive to tell the truth as best i can to the greatest level of detail and with the greatest level of integrity that i can i will always strive and aim to tell the truth the cost of the truth is not actually that important i mean it really isn't that important i mean i've lost a lot i've gained some stuff um it doesn't fundamentally matter what matters is that there is a a record of somebody and i'm not saying i'm the only one but a record of somebody just sort of planting themselves deep in the world weathering the storms of outrageous slander, falsehood. And, you know, I mean, when I did my speaking tours, like bomb threats, death threats, physical attacks of every kind, attacking the listeners. And, you know, poor Lauren in Australia, she was rushed on the stage and security had to tackle the person. I was hunted through the streets of Brisbane by a bunch of radical lunatics and so on. So, yeah, there's been some excitement about it. And none of that stuff fundamentally really matters.
[1:33:02] What really matters is that at least there's some examples in the world of people telling the truth and shaming the devil. Because it's kind of, you know, in a funny way, what it is that I do in the world is really just a manifestation of the values that I was taught as a child. I mean, I'm really not radical in any way or form. All I am is I listened to what people told me when I was a kid. I took it seriously. I was a good Christian altar boy, and I was told all of these moral rules, both within the church and in society as a whole, and I just listened. So I was told, you know, tell the truth though the skies fall, tell the truth and shame the devil.
[1:33:42] Just tell the truth. And the truth really does set you free. I don't have a single dysfunctional relationship left in my life. My gosh, and glory above, does the truth ever set you free? And I can tell you that with the most deeply bone marrow spinal confidence that can be conceived of. The truth will set you free in a way that is almost impossible to comprehend. And it is well worth, you know, strangers hate you.
[1:34:12] But those you really care about love you and you love them. And if the price of love is the hatred of strangers, and it kind of is, let them hate so that I can be loved. Let them hate and lie and slander so that I can also love. Because consistency in moral excellence is the price you pay to love and be loved. Consistency in moral excellence, particularly if it touches anywhere in the public sphere, draws the hatred of people who are corrupt. But the more good you do in the world, the more you are loved and hated. And the price of being hated is inconsequential relative to the benefit of loving and being loved. There is nothing greater, nothing deeper, nothing that is worth more.
[1:35:12] So I hope that you will consider paying that price. The cost can be exciting. I'm not going to lie. The cost can be exciting. The rewards, the benefits, the joy, the consistency, the love. I mean, I wake up every morning completely delighted to be in the presence of those I live with. And I look forward to many decades of that to come. So I was raised to tell the truth and shame the devil. i was raised with the most foundational ethic i think of uh it's the most foundational virtue because it is the virtue upon which all other virtues depend thou shalt not bear false witness thou shalt not bear false witness so i was told to tell the truth and i was also told and this is kind of a funny thing with regard that i go into this in peaceful parenting in more detail so i'm just touching it very briefly here, because you should get the book. It's free, and you should definitely consume it. And you consume peaceful parenting, it will consume any vestigial corruptions that you may have. It certainly helped with me.
[1:36:18] But when I was raised as a kid, I was raised, of course, I was born in the 60s and raised in the 70s, got my moral instruction as a kid in the 70s. And that was the age of divorce. And I was told, hey, man, if you're just unhappy in a relationship you don't even have to be abused if you're just dissatisfied in a relationship just leave and these are relationships you voluntarily chose so when i got older and i was like okay so if you're unhappy in relationships you don't have to be there.
[1:36:47] Surely that applies much more to relationships you didn't choose than relationships you did choose. So why wouldn't that include parents? I mean, I was taught that. But, you know, people teach you stuff to corrupt you. And then when you apply it consistently, they get all kind of butthurt, right? All right. Let's do a couple more. So nice to be back chatting with you all. Nice to be back in a stadium, stadium, stadium, stadium. What is that old joke? My dick is so big it only plays stadiums. All right. Let's see here. Great to see you all. My internet is glitching. We'll check back in later. Nice to see you, Lisa Marie. Appreciate that. People like to be in mobs. But the price of being in a mob is you can never be loved because you're just an NPC, right? All right.
[1:37:39] Facts challenge the current status. We will do more to avoid pain than restructure for higher positions. Facts challenge current status are you do i think i understand what you mean carlin sorry i think i understand please correct me if i if i'm astray do you mean the current status of your relationship like if you marry someone and you haven't really told them much truth then telling them the truth might threaten the marriage or i think one thing i do know is that if you've parented badly then you're going to be pretty sensitive to the voluntary family and peaceful parenting, right? You're radically consistent, Stef. Thank you. You're radically consistent and don't compromise. Well, I must say I was quite enamored by Howard Rourke, and I've obviously been a bit more lighthearted, but definitely that. All right. James, that's cool. You can do what? I don't know. Great to see you on here, Stef, my friend. I look forward to seeing the expansion of amazing philosophy to the masses on X once again. Once more, under the breach. Man, it would be interesting to see you on Rogan again. He probably has a totally different outlook. Really?
[1:38:49] I don't think Rogan is quite as independent as you think he is, in my humble opinion. Thank you for the donation, Stephen. I appreciate that. Sean Connery style. I appreciate that very much. All right. What am I? Too many screens. What have I got here? Great to see Stefan back.
[1:39:10] Helped shape my current worldview over a decade ago. Well, thank you. I appreciate that. Stefan radicalized me. No, I didn't. No, I didn't. Truth, consistency, and virtue is not radical. Radicalism is just a word that people who want to propagandize you use when you stumble over the truth radicalized no no i would say that the the guy who shot up the congresswoman of senator was your senator uh and her husband yeah that's that's pretty radical so i'd like to see you on at whatever i don't know man can a man survive that much orbiting cleavage i mean it could take the coroner three weeks to get the smile off his face well i you know it's funny i can tell you why the whatever if i were to go on whatever and i'm not saying i would not for any particular reason or not i just haven't traveled much lately but if i were to go on whatever i think that the challenge would be that i would ask these women about their childhoods i don't particularly care about their ideology i don't care about their propaganda or their programming or anything like that, I would just be like, tell me about your childhood.
[1:40:26] Because what's the point of pretending you understand anyone or what they say without understanding where they came from? I mean, I've been pretty open about my own childhood. And I, of course, ask people a lot about their childhoods. Why does something matter to someone and all of that? So, all right. And I would be quite interested to know. I think it would be pure chaos if I was on the whatever show and I was asking people about their childhoods. I think that there would be genuine meltdowns because, and I say this with all the deepest sympathy in the known universe as a father of a young woman, that I think that what a lot of these young women have gone through has been absolutely appalling.
[1:41:08] And as children, we can conjecture without identifying anyone in particular, of course, right? But I think that what a lot of these young women have gone through has been sheerly demonic. Take the worst evils you can think of multiply them by the infinity and attach them like bat wings to a young woman's young girl's life and i think that that's some of the products that come out of it and i think sort of arguing at the surface level of ideology and men's rights and so on is interesting but not foundationally revelatory you come across you either agree with people or you don't but it really changes people's minds whereas if you say okay ideology is to scar tissue from early wounds right why is it that you are drawn to an ideology, because you've been punished for thinking and your consolation prize is conformity.
[1:42:05] So, what I would want to know is, why are they drawn to ideology? Which is conclusions without processes based upon prejudice. Things that feel right because of early trauma. Why would they want to exploit men? Because they've been exploited by men, probably as little girls, in horrible ways. Why would they be so mistrustful of men because men have betrayed them but they can't identify it because it's usually the men that their single mothers chose to have in the household that betrayed them we know that a child with a non-related adult in the household is 30 times 30 times not 30 percent 30 times more likely, 3,000 times more likely to be abused but tracing back the abuse of the non-related adult male in the household, the boyfriend to the choices of the single mother is very, very emotionally difficult, so they turn to ideology that there's a male power structure that oppresses women and men are sex crazed exploiters, so they I think it would be a pretty interesting show, but I'm not sure what they do to follow.
[1:43:32] All right, let's do another. How are you? Okay, how are you? It's been a while since I've spoken to a big crowd. How am I doing? Give me minus 10 blows into galactic chunks. Plus 10, you wish to marry my speckled goose egg visage. How am I doing?
[1:43:55] Indulge me for a moment if you can. Give me some feedback. minus 10 terrible um uh live stream plus 10 positive live stream i'd love to know what you think because again it's been a while maybe it is like riding a bike maybe it's not maybe it's not, all right um that show was made for you andrew needs an exorcism every time he does whatever.
[1:44:19] Yes yes bro bro can be a smidge provocative uh just a tiny bit listen i'm not saying like i'm not above i'm not above that and or below that or whatever you want to call it all right um, tell me about your childhood god i missed that question no ask people in your life somebody says i've never watched a whatever podcast only clips but i'd love to watch that maybe it could do a lot of good to have that lid on childhood lifted when it comes to these women i i i think that honestly i think that it would be so surprising to them that they might just storm out and again i say this with deep sympathy because so much of what people do in life is to cover up for early, unhappiness or trauma that if they're not expecting it man i mean people confronted with sudden sympathy in a lifetime of provocation can really be destabilized so um i'm not sure it would be a very long show to put it that way right um your videos and books helped me shape my Worldview, I'm excited for your return to X so a new generation can discover your message and teachings. Well, thank you. All right.
[1:45:30] So how has the show been? 11, great. Plus 10, plus 10, thank you. Plus 9, 10 if you make the pop sound again. That's why I did it. 6, so you give me a 6. Your local shows are usually an 8 or a 9. Yeah, well, I appreciate that. I appreciate that feedback as well. 10, talk about Israel. Israel. You mean the Hawaiian singer? I think he's dead. Plus 9.9. Oh, so close. 10, 10, 10, thank you. plus 10 it's like watching a remake you haven't really changed that much.
[1:46:06] Again underwear twice man every two and a half years whether i need them or not and i just get out the uh the uh you know the spatula uh all right uh i'm a regular plus 10 quite the return we've missed you all right excellent i left your homage to scott adams yeah i mean my heart goes out to the guy um i've uh i had a history of cancer myself about 14 years ago and i had much greater fortune than he did you know i really dislike it as a whole when people say oh he fought cancer and he was fighting the good fight it's like no you just you take your treatments and you cross your fingers so i i i hope uh our good friend mr adams has a full and speedy recovery and that his 0% to 30% is a valid option. And I certainly have him in my thoughts and I hope that he does well. And if he doesn't do well, I hope that he at least takes great comfort in the good that he's done in the world, which has been considerable. Plus 10, plus 10. Somebody else gave me a six out of 10. Glad you're back following you. So just passed following you since 2013. I know you're 10 and today was good, not a 10. No, that's fair. That's fair. That's fair. I appreciate that feedback as well.
[1:47:31] All right. What else have we got? Let's do another couple of minutes. You guys, you do another couple of minutes, right? Always leave them wanting more, unless you're in bed with them. All right. Somebody says, oh, regarding the whatever podcast. Yeah, they could storm out, but they might at some level sense this could be the first time they've seen such compassion and understanding, thus stick around out of curiosity. Right. I missed you, man. Well, you know what? I got to tell you. I didn't think of Twitter daily. and there would be weeks where i wouldn't think about it at all but like a boomerang because you know i'm this close to boomer right boomerang it came back and i missed you guys too i really really did at times at times it was like a yearning burning hunger a hunger a hunger and, to sort of re-engage with the world in this kind of way was really tempting. And I was very, very, very drawn to it. So anyway, I'm glad that it's working out that I'm back and I'm glad that you guys are finding value in what it is that I'm saying. Somebody says, thank you for all the light you bring into this world. You've helped my wife and I to be better parents.
[1:48:48] Thank you thank you thank you doctor i really really do appreciate that and i mean it makes makes it all worthwhile i mean there's been as you may or may not have noticed um to be frank can i be frank with you frank sinatra so uh my career such as it is there have been a couple of ups and downs it's been a smidge uneven you know in the same way that the uh, um i don't know the the brain scan of somebody having a stroke is a smidge uneven it's been a little bit uneven and um i would say that coming back tonight and chatting with you all and getting your questions and feedback is uh it's a real deep pleasure and a high point and i've missed you guys and i'm i'm very happy to be back and you can thank my daughter.
[1:49:37] Plus 11. Always turn it up to 11. This one guy's up to 11. Singularity. I never know what that means, really. It's like synchronicity. It's just a crappy way for Sting to seem smart. All right. Are you returning to YouTube as well? I cannot return to YouTube. I'm still banned, which is a shame. It is a real shame. I don't really know if there's anything I can do. But I would be happy to return to YouTube. but I think YouTube still remains under the occupation of Sauron and has yet to be liberated to the light of reason. Maybe Elon will buy that as well. This return is more shocking than World War III? Well, there's a lot of thermonuclear truth coming down the pipe there. Really?
[1:50:29] I would say, is that a picture of Murray Rothbard? I would say that, well, you know, I really can't get that mad at hyperbole since that is my middle name and my third testicle. All right. Your return is one of the best things to happen this year. The UPB framework is one of the most legendary human accomplishments of all time. Love you, Stef. Bro, that is very kind. That is very kind. Look, I mean, I obviously think I solved the problem of secular ethics, which has eluded philosophers for 3,000 years. Not a bad way to spend a rainy afternoon 20 years ago. So yes, I appreciate that. Thank you very much. And of course, in the long run, UBB, when accepted, will change more than any physics equation ever has. How do you make money as a philosopher? Freedomain.com slash donate. I took the Socratic business model, which is to speak as much truth as people can survive and then ask them for lunch. So, all right. That's how the magic happens you donate and you get philosophy in exchange to the masses well of course it's really nice because this way you don't have ads you know one of the reasons that i have in general tried to avoid uh ads is you know especially in call-in shows you know people like weeping and wailing about truly difficult childhoods and then it's like yes but this VPN will save you from alphabet agencies. So I would say that.
[1:51:58] It's well worth it to work on the donation basis. Plus, it keeps me more sensitive to the audience. You know, I never want anyone between... I don't want anyone or anything really to come between us and the directness of this conversation, right? And if I had somebody who was paying me, like some umbrella organization, they would come between me or I'd have that in my mind. If I had ads, then I would not be in the business of serving truth to you. I'd be in the business of serving you to the advertisers. and I just, I don't see how that could work nearly as well. So, all right. Your return is shocking, but everyone I respect on X missed you. Well, thank you very much. You know what? I'm going to donate now. Thank you, Coco. I really, really appreciate that.
[1:52:44] Your message when you were banned from YouTube still makes my blood boil. All those years of conversations, lost like tears. And i've seen things you people couldn't even believe this is why they didn't give me that role because rutger how i nailed it and i would have just nailed it to a cross.
[1:53:01] All right uh thank you rachel that is very kind i appreciate your support deeply humbly and gratefully accepted accepted jojo style acceptable super nanny right ah that's a very obscure reference ask us ask some great aunt all right um your theory of peaceful parenting has completely changed my life thank you so much i appreciate that thank you thank you so much stefan if you can hear us please save me it started off so well um freedom.com slash call i would be very happy to bring philosophy to your potential salvation but it probably won't work on a twitter uh twitter stream all right to see the farm is to leave it with the all-time red pill yeah that was the end of oh spoiler well it's a 30-minute video that's 15 years old so um yeah it's the story of your enslavement you should uh yeah freedom.com slash call uh i do private calls by the way as well um i just did one today about business um so i've been an entrepreneur for decades so, I'm not too bad at the business stuff. Not too, too bad. All right. Well, I could have danced all night. I could talk all night. I miss watching the King Lear video. Well, FDR podcast. Let me type it in.
[1:54:26] FDRpodcast.com. It's a great search engine. You can do a search for shows. And from those shows, you can just scroll down a bit and the videos will be there. You can. This is a King Lear. I did a great show with Dr. Duke Pesta, a professor of literature. He actually did one on one of my novels too, which was great. Somebody Says...
[1:54:48] I just had my first child two weeks ago. And we intend on implementing your teachings on nonviolent parenting. Thank you, sir. Well, congratulations. I envy your journey. You know, near the end of my direct and immediate parenting journey, lo these many years, I absolutely envy you on the beginning of your journey. It is such a beautiful and wonderful thing to be a parent that can't beat it. All right. Thanks for the stream. It was really great. Hey, what's with the past tense? I haven't signed off yet. Don't box me in, man. Don't corner me. Thanks Stef I feel young again oh is that because I'm aging yes that's right.
[1:55:26] Always loved listening locals yeah freedom.locals.com locals was banned in Brazil for a good while so I had to pay a VPN to continue quietly listening it was worth it welcome back thank you I yes I will absolutely thank Izzy such a wise young lady she is well it's a whole other show man she's just the greatest uh she really is the greatest uh so all right any other last questions issues challenges problems um i will be live streaming wednesday night 7 p.m friday night 7 p.m saturdays 11 a.m all in the they call it eastern standard time it's egg stefan time egg stefan time est that's how you remember it you can remember it with the mnemonic eastern standard time it is egg stefan time est so 7 p.m wednesday 7 p.m friday 11 a.m sunday that has been and the second half is for donors only where we get into some serious tarragon spice so i hope you will join us uh for that and maybe i'll figure out how to do the the audio thing so we can have a a chat that way or i'll just open up space spaces right do you need anything special for, sorry i i don't need to ask you guys but help me i'm old um yeah i'll announce it on x um do uh.
[1:56:52] Do i need anything special other than being special do i need anything special for twitter spaces can i just start them and people yammer in my ear because it'd be real nice if that happened and there were actually people in my ear lying in bed just like brian wilson did great energy stef you the man thank you i appreciate that i am thrilled to be back and pumped baby pumped.
[1:57:19] Like one of joe rogan's early flashlight contraptions all right are we done let me just do a quick refresh here always leave them wanting more encore there is no encore, uh spaces is voice only where anyone can request the mic all right i appreciate that and the return is is special well thank you yeah social media you can go to freedomain.com slash connect and various social media stuff all right guys guys guys thank you so much for dropping by tonight it absolutely completely and totally and with great humility and gratitude i tell you it means the world to me it really does to know that i was missed to know that there's a value in me returning, that my life's work has added up to more than just a couple of scraps of faded digital memories in people's neuro cortex i really really do appreciate that and have yourselves an absolutely beautiful wonderful evening please please please peaceful parenting.com free books at freedomain.com slash books check out my novels you can read the present then you can read the future you can read them in reverse as you want as well and um love you guys and thank you so much for really making me feel uh special and obviously it puts some real solves on some of the wounds of the world and I really do appreciate that. I don't know how to end this graciously, so this may be awkward, but I'll do my very best.
[1:58:48] Lots of love, everyone. I'll talk to you Friday night. Take care, my friends. Bye.
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