0:08 - Bitcoin's Rise in Hong Kong
1:45 - The Impact of Women's Education
2:32 - Dating Culture and Women's Choices
6:38 - Evolving Definitions of Manhood
8:36 - Profit and Evolution
11:39 - Biological Programming vs. Social Norms
15:22 - The Role of Men in Relationships
20:05 - Living on Less: Men's Perspectives
21:59 - Margot Robbie's Public Image
27:57 - Jaguar's Shift in Status
28:55 - Bitcoin's Global Adoption
32:22 - The Ethics of Assisted Death
36:27 - Government and Personal Choices
40:01 - Trust and Relationships
46:33 - The Influence of Friends
57:17 - The Burden of Fame
59:52 - The Role of Responsibility in Relationships
1:10:46 - The Complexity of Family Dynamics
1:23:14 - The Nature of Public Perception
1:28:29 - The Lottery of Life Choices
1:31:54 - The Influence of Pop Culture on Women
In this episode, we dive deep into the transformative world of Bitcoin and its implications for global finance, particularly focusing on emerging trends in Hong Kong and beyond. With Hong Kong poised to eliminate taxes on Bitcoin and cryptocurrency gains for investment funds, we explore the potential impacts of these policies on both institutional investors and individual participants in the crypto space.
Our discussion takes a provocative turn as we examine the complexities surrounding online behavior, noting a research study revealing that a significant portion of misogynistic tweets are actually produced by women. This opening serves to juxtapose the evolving dynamics of gender interactions both online and offline, inviting listeners to rethink what we know about societal behaviors in the digital age.
Historical context enriches our conversation as we acknowledge that it is exactly 11 years since the first Wall Street research paper predicted that Bitcoin could hit a staggering $100,000 by 2024. We reflect on how this foresight has shaped our understanding of cryptocurrency's potential, and the implications of such predictions for investors today.
Shifting gears, we delve into the stark realities of the Canadian housing market, particularly in Toronto and Vancouver, where an exorbitant salary of over $230,000 is now deemed necessary for home ownership. Through a critical lens, we discuss the systemic issues leading to financial exclusion and the implications this has on societal stability and wellbeing.
As we explore gender dynamics further, we touch upon the concept of hypergamy—how women’s growing educational and economic achievements complicate traditional dating dynamics and expectations. We analyze an article from the New York Times highlighting a crisis fueled by loneliness and unrealistic romantic expectations, leading to broader social consequences.
The discussion then pivots to the idea that societal ideals of masculinity have remained stagnant, even as female identities have evolved significantly over the decades. This tension between evolving female empowerment and rigid male expectations creates a disparity that many young men feel in their romantic pursuits today.
Our conversation ultimately centers on practical solutions to bridge these emerging divides between genders. The future, we suggest, lies in redefining masculinity to accommodate the changing roles women are embodying today, offering a vision where both men and women can thrive in their relationships and careers.
Finally, we address the modern male experience in a rapidly evolving world filled with choices and challenges, exploring themes of romantic optimism and societal pressures. We emphasize the necessity for men to embrace their identities while engaging with a society marked by profound shifts in gender roles and economic realities.
Through this multifaceted exploration, we invite listeners to ponder their own beliefs and experiences in navigating the interconnected world of cryptocurrencies, gender dynamics, and societal expectations as we collectively approach a new era of possibility.
[0:00] Hong Kong is going big on Bitcoin. Hong Kong to remove tax on Bitcoin and crypto gains for investment funds.
[0:08] Okay. Rat bastards as a whole. Investment funds. What's wrong with private people? But that's interesting. Half of misogynistic tweets were sent by women. Study finds. Demos research reveals women and girls as well as men are responsible for using misogynistic words and abusive manners online. That's interesting. Did you know that exactly 11 years ago today, the first Wall Street research paper on Bitcoin was released, and it forecasted $100,000 Bitcoin price by 2024?
[0:52] Good job. December 1st, 2013, 11 years ago, today, and the first Wall Street research paper on Bitcoin, forecasting 100,000 Bitcoin price by 2024. That's pretty wild. In terms of Canada, oh my, oh my. So to qualify for a home in Toronto and Vancouver, you need to be earning over $230,000 a year, at which point the government thinks you're rich and taxes you at over 50%. This is from Steve Saretsky, completely broken system. it's kind of, uh, Uh, it's kind of, uh, kind of hard to argue. So I suppose I've gotten in trouble, blah, blah, blah, whatever, noise, who cares over the last, oh, forever, ever, amen, uh, for talking about hypergamy.
[1:46] Uh, and actually it was, um, a woman named Janet Heimlich, I had on the show many years ago, who first taught me about, uh, hypergamy.
[2:00] And she pointed out that as women become more educated and more wealthy and accumulate more property, it becomes tougher and tougher for them to settle down with a man because they want a man at their level or higher, right? At their level or higher. So from the New York Times, they had an article came out just yesterday, how our messed up dating culture leads to loneliness, anger, and Donald Trump.
[2:32] So women are pulling ahead, making it harder to fulfill their Cinderella fantasy. Even though the economic pressure went down for women, they still want to marry up more than ever. Women's college enrollment first eclipsed men's around 1980. Past two decades or so, this gap has become a chasm. In 2022, men made up only 42% of 18 to 24-year-olds at four-year schools, and their graduation rates were lower than women's. Since 2019, there have been more college-educated women in the workforce than men. Yeah, the show is 2183.
[3:10] Show is 2183. So Cinderella may now have her own castle. This is from the New York Times. Single women are also exceeding men in rates of home ownership, but she is unlikely to be scouring the village for a housekeeper with a certain shoe size. A 2016 study in the Journal of Marriage and Family suggests that even when economic pressure to marry up is lower, cultural pressure to do so goes nowhere. A recent paper from economist St. Louis Federal Reserve found that since the 1960s, when women's educational attainment and workforce participation first began to surge, Americans' preference for marrying someone of equal or greater education and income has grown significantly. And there was, in 2017, an article from Medium analyzed 32 romantic comedies from the 1990s and the 2000s, and precisely zero of them featured broke losers or broke guys. So all-star, smart, ambitious women, only four out of the 32 featured a woman with a higher status job than her male love interest. Husbands were the happiest in a 2019 study. Husbands were the happiest when their wives contributed 40% of the family's income. Any percentage above this threshold, however, increased their anxiety.
[4:34] So women's growing success coupled with the belief that a male partner must always be more successful gives the shrinking pool of more successful men tremendous power. Oh, yeah. Like if you're going to university these days and you're a reasonably attractive guy, you are. You are set, man. You are good. Because, you know, there's so many women there that you basically have a harem if you want it. In 2017, researchers at the University of Utah found that in unbalanced populations, quote, the more common sex must cater to the preferences of the rarer sex in order to acquire a mate. This could explain why today social media is rife with male fantasies from beautiful submissive trad wives to the hyper-feminine sorority pledges of Bama Rush, It could also explain why, alongside popular hashtags like hashtag marry up and hashtag rich men, another trendy topic for women is celibacy. And while a small group of hashtag rich men may be reaping the benefits, many others find themselves shut out. According to Richard Reeves, whose book of boys and men explores the reasons behind the growing gen achievement gap, heterosexual men who fall behind their female peers often experience a hit to both their romantic prospects and their sense of identity, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
[5:53] Romantic pessimism, of course. So, what is the solution, right? The manosphere would have us believe that this situation was inevitable, that women have emasculated men with their success, and now complain that there aren't enough real men to go around. In truth, our culture is broken, because while we have acknowledged the limiting nature of the peasant to princess storyline, we've not done the same for the prince. Over the past 60 years, as girls and women have fought their way into classrooms and boardrooms, society has expanded its idea of womanhood accordingly, yet her definition of manhood has failed to evolve alongside it. Letting go of the male breadwinner norm is not an instant fix for our culture, but we can't move forward without that step. After all, breadwinner is not only a limiting identity, it's also a relative one.
[6:39] If we don't release men from the expectation, any plan to help them regain lost ground will have to also ensure that women never catch up.
[6:51] The zero-sum paradigm has always been a feature of Trumpism, which is all about keeping resources with the right kind of people. But if we are willing to reject the manosphere's narrow ideas for masculinity, we will find that it's possible for both men and women to thrive at the same time. And in work and in love, the future is ours to create. Don't let anyone tell you it's fairytale.
[7:16] So so ladies look it's it's really simple it's absolutely simple um like all you need to do is overcome uh four four billion or so years of evolution with some polysyllabic phrases from uber feminists it's all you got to do all you got to do is is overcome all of your biological programming to be attracted to a more successful wealthy provider male, what the unholy is going on in people's brains i mean this is like like the idea of profit right oh my god, profit is is hardwired into our dna the profit is calories right like we are built for capitalism because of calories. So any species which expends more calories getting food than it gets out of that food dies, dies off. So all of these successful species over the last four billion years have had calorie profits. And not just calorie profits for themselves, but calorie profits with enough excess calories to provide for their offspring.
[8:27] So, a man needs about a nine-to-one excess ratio of resources to provide for a wife and children.
[8:36] In other words, men can live on about 10% what they need to spend in order to get a wife and kids throughout most of our evolution.
[8:44] So, men have to have a 900% ROI every day on their calorie expenditures. I mean, more, really, but let's just make it 10-to-one, make it nice and easy. So all life is based upon profit all life mating rituals um you expend time energy and resources for your mating rituals and then you get offspring and all of that out of it so all life is founded on profit profit in calories profit in investment in sexual market value uh profit in uh investment in children and so on all life all life like profit and life are the same thing you can't have life without profit and you can't have profit of course without life and rocks don't care about profit so from the very building blocks of our genetics all the way up to the most abstract concepts we have that profit is interwoven into life and then fucking marx has come along and what do they say oh you just abandoned profit.
[9:57] We can just we can just create human new human beings they're not interested in profit we just you know just work like boxer uh the horse in animal farm just work for the idea work for the abstract don't work for profit.
[10:12] Telling you to not be a human being is the most bizarre con in intellectualism that has virtually ever been conceived of. I don't understand. What is the people's fragile relationship to their own biology that some asshole with a beard can come along and say, okay, do the opposite of everything that makes you human. Do the opposite of everything that makes you alive. Do the opposite of everything your ancestors had to do in order to deliver life unto you. Do the exact fucking opposite of life and you'll be great.
[10:48] I've never understood what is wrong with people. What is wrong with people where some loser idiot fucking failure can come along and tell you to do the exact opposite of life and you're like, sounds great. So going to women and saying, okay, women, although it has been true for billions of years that females need to seek out males with excess resources. Although in virtually every mammal species, the male is larger and stronger, and more driven and more ambitious, than the female, because the female in every pair-bonded, certainly mammal species, needs the male to provide and protect.
[11:39] So, although it is woven into your genetics, just do the exact fucking opposite. I mean, it's like giving people a meal of gravel and saying, just will your stomach to digest it. I'm genuinely fucking baffled at how people can be talked out of everything that makes them alive and human. I don't understand. Oh, just women, just go against every single piece of biological programming. Have you guys seen this video? It's on X, probably other places too. So they raised a beaver from a baby. And the beaver, it's in a house, right? And the beaver is dragging all of the pillows from the couches and making a dam. It's never been exposed to beavers. It's never been in a river. It's never seen a dam being built. They haven't watched documentaries. It's never had it trained. Its behavior is hardwired into its genetics.
[12:47] There is no worse tyrant than the person who can fool you into doing the exact opposite of who you actually and really and totally are so going to women and saying just do the opposite, of everything that has had you survive and exist as a person as a species as a life form just do the exact you know snap your fingers and do the opposite, why does anyone listen to this shit like I helped help me out brothers and sisters help me out how the fuck does anyone listen to this shit, I don't know it's bizarre it's bizarre, just yeah do the opposite just just do the opposite and everything will be fine.
[13:39] Uh the question about the spanish teacher is going to get posted i think i got your bachelor's degree and still haven't had much success with women yeah yeah just do the opposite don't have any in-group preferences don't be masculine as a male don't be feminine as a female, Stefan you were in the tech industry about how many books do you think you read per year to help you, uh sorry um, every time a new answer is posted. Every time a new question is posted, they all flip away. Yeah, and, hypergamy is a real thing. I mean, people take this weird pride in being the opposite. I don't know what it is. It's like, well, I can be a woman and I can be very successful and I can date a broke loser and I can be the primary breadwinner and that's going to be fine.
[14:39] I find it so bizarre that people can take pride in going against everything that kept their ancestors alive and delivered life unto them. How the unholy hell is that even remotely possible? How the unholy hell is that even remotely possible? What is wrong with people that they're just so much programmed to do the exact opposite? Of everything that kept them alive. I just find it very, very strange.
[15:23] Yeah, it's very, very strange. Hey, Stef, been along for the ride with you since your car commute conversation days. Long time. I thought that said boner, although that's good too. Long time donor and a dad to a happy and healthy eight-year-old. Thank you so much for everything you do. Relocated out of Canada to Singapore or a while back to escape the crazy atmosphere there. Hope to grab a coffee with you next time I'm through Toronto. Cheers. Very nice. Nature has truth on its side. It will always win. Someone says, I think people misunderstand or lose sight of their own circumstances by comparing them with others, or at least how other people present their circumstances.
[16:00] The one to nine ratio doesn't seem right. I'm thinking of a typical man with a family. If he took away his obligations to his family and left him with 10% of his income, I don't think he could survive out of that of course he could of course he could, of course he could i mean have you not seen the videos where men what do we want a fucking futon an xbox and a tv then the tv can sit on the box it came in, if a man if you i mean monks famously live sort of cheaply right if you're a man and you're not interested in dating, you can live ridiculously cheaply. It is women who drive nesting and materialism. I mean, come on, man, just go to the mall. What percentage of stores in the mall are dedicated? Thank you for the tips. What percentage of stores in the mall are dedicated to male consumerism? What percentage? Honestly.
[17:01] For canada as a whole the size of government government represented 40.5 percent of the economy from 20 2007 to 2022 government spending as a share of the economy increased in eight out of ten provinces furthermore seven provinces experienced an increase in the size of government since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. So two-fifths of the entire Canadian economy is government. Thank you, Peter.
[17:35] Yeah you i mean what do you need as a man i mean when i was a i won't go into the details but when i was a grad student this is in my sort of mid late 20s uh i paid 270 a month for rent all inclusive i had one room in a house i paid 270 a month to rent i biked everywhere on an old bike i'd had for many years um i would bake i would whip up giant vats of pasta uh with tomato sauce and then eat that with some cheese sprinkled on top uh i had a gym membership for free because of my uh i was at the university of toronto so i had a gym membership played squash and all of that so.
[18:17] Uh and i i remember it was two dollars and 70 cents to get a pita uh a pita like a greek pita with me and i would view that as a real luxury i would rarely do that i would have you know store-bought foam packet cereal like the stuff that comes in the big bags splash of milk and you're good to go and i didn't go on vacations uh i would buy i bought a computer i remember at a place called mighty max i bought a 386 sx25 with one meg one meg of ram and a 40 meg hard drive and i used that thing for years i used that thing for years i ended up selling it for 900 bucks it didn't even cost me that much it had a modem believe it or not the first time i ever went online it had a modem so i mean i never regretted spending any money on technology because it always was great for doing work so what do you need i didn't change i didn't write i mean you get one bar of soap and toothbrush and toothpaste and i mean i didn't go to the dentist for many years, i mean i could even have got it pretty cheap as a student but anyway so yeah it's um you can live dirt cheap. And I didn't, I wasn't like, Oh my God, I need more stuff.
[19:39] The I need more stuff comes along when you're married. I don't complain about it. It's not a negative thing. It's just a reality, right? Somebody says, a man says, I don't even need real furniture. It's only women that complain when they come over. They're like, I'm not sleeping on a futon. A futon is a couch. So I'm like, you want a real bed? LOL. Yeah. Yeah.
[20:06] All right. Let's see here. And if you've known bachelors, like if you've known guys who are bachelors for a long time, you absolutely know how they live. I mean, a friend of mine was living, I literally, this was too much even for me. He had some furniture from his mother that he barely used, and he slept on a ratty old army cot. I mean he could have upgraded by getting a cardboard box from a homeless guy, that's how he lived and he actually he inherited a car but never bothered to get his license because he didn't want to pay he's like i'm fine with the bus right, i mean that there'd be like no economy if it was mail driven well there'd be an economy and electronics and fleshlights maybe i don't know crazy.
[21:08] Uh i think they see capitalism as coercive rather than beneficial i'm not sure that refers to there is no not all women are like that or men that aren't like that and they shouldn't be we are just fine how we are it's the yeah it's it's just a satanic thing right marx used envy to the extreme yeah this choking rage of being left behind is the foundation of most violent revolutions.
[21:39] The problem is accommodation. Could you really afford rent somewhere on 10% salary? Any thoughts on the news about Margot Robbie? You can afford rent, just don't live downtown. Let's see. What is the news about Margot Robbie?
[21:59] Margot robbie gave good face all right margot robbie what is going on, all right search time past week what's going on.
[22:26] She demanded to go nude for the wolf of wall street what can i tell you i mean uh there is unfortunately a fairly common meme about, that a woman's primary agency is her sexuality right and if you don't if you don't understand that then you need to go arguing with women online if you go and argue with women online you will you will occasionally get recent arguments and it's not like men have a whole bunch of them either but if you um if you argue with women online i mean this is sort of back to my famous taylor swift tweet or the tweet about um if women can't get drafted then they need to not talk about war in the same way that if men can't get pregnant they need to not talk about abortion but men of course have an absolute right to talk about abortion because there are males involved half of the abortions are males because men are forced to pay for babies through the welfare state and that if women choose not to have babies then um demographics change which can be destabilizing for men's peace in the long run i don't see uh.
[23:46] I don't see any news so yeah if you're gonna, hint yeah i'm sorry i i don't know what you're doing give me some news don't make me like don't make me like in a live stream don't make me guess at what's going on yeah she had a kid she had a kid i don't know why is that news why is that news i have no idea but try to be helpful when you're doing a show. If I'm doing a live stream, try to be helpful. Don't give me guessing games when I'm doing a live stream. It's kind of annoying. All right.
[24:23] The hint. Jesus. Now, total transaction value in 2023. MasterCard, $9 trillion. Visa, $14.8 trillion. dollars bitcoin 36.6 trillion dollars isn't that something and of course as of last month, as of last month the last month was the largest monthly price rise in bitcoin history so in 30 days bitcoin went up us 26 267, 26 267 in 30 days any thoughts on jaguar going woke i love it i think it's beautiful i'm thrilled that jaguar went woke see the jaguar is kind of europe's version of the bmw you know the what is the difference between a bmw and a porcupine well with a porcupine the pricks are on the outside i remember when i was a student it was raining hard cold as hell and people were trying to cross the street to get to the subway and a bmw driver was literally elbowing his way through people and blocking their way to the subway because you know he had to get somewhere.
[25:46] And uh when i was in the business world i was told to get a good car i couldn't like i was given a car allowance because i would drive i pick up customers and we we have customers come up and spend a couple of days with us because they wanted to make sure we want some fly-by-night operation and these are customers from like fortune 500 companies so i'd pick them up the airport take them to the hotel or we would take them out to um dinner we'd go to a comedy show and just get to know each other because you got to like each other to do business the best businesses with people you like and so i was told to get a nice car like for me i'm like oh car.
[26:18] Allowance i'm you know i was i grew up so lean that i'm just used to not spending money so i was told oh you got to get a nice car because everybody knew that i was going to buy some old beater and so i did i looked at an audi i looked at a bmw i ended up getting a volvo and the audi was cool it had this tiptronic thing where it was like half manual i learned how to drive on a manual it's half manual and half automatic so that was really cool but they were like it took 16 months or 14 months to get one and i needed the car right away i did look at a bmw i just i couldn't do it i don't get me wrong i love german engineering i i think germans are great uh and i love that high iq i love the the precision the intellectualism the very strange sense of humor and that occasionally comes out but i just i couldn't i couldn't i couldn't join the race of the bmw uh owners so jaguar is a prestige car right it's a prestige car um i view people who buy prestige cars as spiritually deficient to the point where they might as well be a hollowed out chocolate santa well because at.
[27:22] Least the chocolate center has some value. People who buy Stata stuff.
[27:29] I just view them as sad. Apes shaking their bulbous red butts at people trying to look better. I want to be around people who have high status due to virtues, right? People who are great parents, people who are moral people, people who do the right thing, people who stand up for what's right and true and good. Those are the people I want to be around in terms of status. That's great stuff. That's really great stuff. Love that stuff.
[27:57] I don't want to be around people who parade their wealth around in stupid and, useless trinkets and machines, right? I mean, come on. I mean, do you think, I mean, what high status stuff am I trying to show here, right? I'm just trying to talk into a camera and tell some valuable truths. So I love the fact that a Jaguar went from high status to cringe status like that. Good. That's your punishment. That's your punishment for buying stuff for status. I think it's sad I think it's pitiful and I'm glad, that Jaguar went from high status to cringe right away and maybe that will teach you to stop buying stupid stuff for status I think that stuff is just terrible.
[28:55] Somebody wrote on X I just got a call with one of the most powerful people i know there is a country who wants to introduce strategic bitcoin reserve legislation as quickly as possible but they aren't stopping there they want more this is just the beginning gradually then suddenly amazing as of a day ago more than five billion dollars worth of bitcoin has been withdrawn from from cryptocurrency exchanges over the past three days that's pretty wild at 105 000 US, Bitcoin overtakes the market cap of Google. 60-plus publicly traded companies worldwide now hodl over 522,000 Bitcoin.
[29:43] Russia's President Putin has officially signed a law regulating Bitcoin and crypto as property and accepting transactions from the VAT tax, value-added tax tax, VAT. There's a really wild thing. New study shows large language models, AI, outperform neuroscience experts at predicting experimental results in advance of experiments. 86% versus 63% accuracy. That's incredible. You can literally run the AI on your experiment, and 86% of the time, it will be accurate, which is better than the weather. What's going on here? Of course, Russia has recognized Bitcoin as property. Morocco has legalized it after a seven-year ban. China has declared Bitcoin as property. Brazil has introduced the Bitcoin Strategic Reserve Bill, and that's just wild. The Bitcoin balance on exchanges as of two days ago just hit an all-time low. So there's a supply shock incoming. French department store Printeps to accept Bitcoin and crypto payments. As of two days ago, 17,200 Bitcoins were taken off exchanges. Uh in just one day which is just one.
[30:59] China has discovered a gold-filled cave worth nearly 100 billion dollars in a mountain, and that's very interesting of course that is very interesting of course because you can't, you can't you can find more gold can't find more bitcoin nearly half of master's degree programs leave students financially worse off and just one subject results in a static salary over 100k, So, yeah, I mean, the purpose of education is to kill the birth rate, right? I don't really know what is confusing about that. Somebody wrote, if you bought $100 worth of Bitcoin every time the media called it dead, you'd have $99,952,524.62 as of two days ago. So if you bought $100 worth of Bitcoin every time the media called it dead, you'd have almost $100 million right now. That is really very funny it's really funny, all right let's see here why would i care about margot ruby giving birth i'm not sure why why that's important love for libya Stef love back baby thank you so much.
[32:22] All right thoughts on britain recently pushing the medically assisted death the maid, medical assistance in death is that is that what it is yeah canada's been doing it for a while i think it's now the fifth or so cause the largest cause of death in in in canada yeah well i mean, governments can't pay their bills and old people are expensive. I don't know that there's much more to it than that.
[32:53] And I saw this supposed financial expert, I think he was from the government, he's being interviewed and he was saying, well, you know, the American government can't go bankrupt because we can just print our own money. It's like, okay, but if you can just print your own money, why do you borrow? Why do you borrow money? And he couldn't really answer it. It's not, I mean, it's not complicated. I don't think he was, I'm sure he was smart enough to answer it. He just didn't want to. So, if the government can print money, why does it borrow money? Well, it's not super complicated. The reason why governments borrow money rather than print money is borrowing money defers the deflation down the road. So, if, of course, you borrow money, then you don't have to print it. If you borrow a billion dollars, you don't have to print a billion dollars right away, and you're deferring the inflation down the road. So the more you can disconnect course and effect, the solve-acts thing, the more you can disconnect course and effect, the harder it is for the average person to figure out what the heck is going on.
[34:06] All right. Somebody says, Stef, when are you going to reclaim your mind? Yep, being passive-aggressive here. By dropping this arbitrary concept, God, which refers to nothing that you keep using. God does not refer to nothing God has a definition.
[34:25] All right. Women with too many options is a problem. Society, it means no babies. Women don't want to do labor. They want to have everything handed to them. I wouldn't necessarily, I mean, the desire or the goal of getting mad at women for corruptions of statism is blaming your fellow inmate for bad prison rules, right? The idea of getting mad at women because of statism is really sad. And boy, talk about falling into the trap laid by corrupt people. I mean, that's really, don't get mad at women because of the state. I mean, it's like, oh, I couldn't believe how lazy those Soviet workers were in Stalinism. Oh, they were so lazy. It's like, no, it's just wrong.
[35:13] Are women in higher positions due to merit or DEI hiring? What are the male, female numbers in stamp at universities? So women generally get, they get a lot of government work. They got a lot of HR work. They got a lot of DEI stuff. Women are being bribed to not have children, right? It's a much more civilized war than what we used to have, right? So it used to be the case that women had a lot of children. Those children would then be drafted in a giant war and blown fucking sky high to the point where you could barely even reassemble a body, right? So it's much more environmentally effective to bribe women to not have children than to have women have children and then draft them into a war to get mustard gassed and have their toes gnawed off by rats and drape on the barbed wire in no man's land. So we have a much more efficient way of depopulating people at the moment. It's very sad, of course, but you simply give women a lot of money. And when you give women a lot of money and you give them a lot of status and you give them a lot of propaganda, then they'll just stop having children.
[36:23] And then you get a lowering of the population as a whole.
[36:28] And again, it's much more civilized, in my view, for someone to not be born than it is for them to be born and drafted and then blown to bits.
[36:45] All right. But FIFA's going to believe, yeah, yeah. Uh yeah i can't i can't do legal questions uh just you need to talk to a lawyer obviously right, all right what do we got here, now at the same time though if you have been around i don't know if you have you can tell Tell me, of course, if you have. If you've been around people who are dealing with somebody who is aging out in a terrible fashion, and a lot of people age out in a terrible fashion, right? They get really frail, especially if their mind goes.
[37:40] I mean, the spike protein crosses the blood-brain barrier, so people are, I think, getting some pretty heavy neurological effects. So if people are aging out mentally and losing their memories and losing their connection and losing their identity. It is a long and ugly, ugly journey. And as far as euthanasia goes, I'm not a fan, of course, of governments having that power. But I can see... The euthanasia question is very tough. If people have living wills, then it's not euthanasia. If somebody says, look, if I pass below a certain cognitive threshold, I'm fine with ending my life.
[38:20] Because you just live in this life of chaos and confusion. It's really like being trapped in a waking nightmare for 10 years. It's fairly monstrous. So that's not euthanasia in a sense. That's just defulfilling of a contract. But of course, we really haven't had to make any difficult decisions necessarily. Because of government debt, right? So the cost benefit of, you know, if a family, like 90% of your medical costs over the course of your life or in your last six months of life, would you rather give that money to your kids? I mean, these are all difficult questions, right? Again, your life is your own property. You have the right to destroy your own property. And because of all this government stuff, whenever you have government debt, you just get overwhelmed with sentimentality and emotions rule the day, right? Emotions rule the day. Which is why, you know, you've seen, I'm sure you've seen all of these videos where people are like, oh, do you support migrants coming to the country? Yes, we've got to help the refugees and the migrants. It's like, okay, here's one family that want to come and live in your house. Oh, God, no, right? Because then this is a personal cost. There's actual personal consequences. So when other people have to pay, the next generation has to pay, it's all very abstract, then it all just becomes about emotion, right? If money is conceived to be free, then denying money to people is like denying air to them. Should people you disagree with have the right to breathe? Well, yeah, I mean, most sane people would say yes, right?
[39:42] But because people aren't putting their own money on the line, there's no virtue without sacrifice. Literally, not like there's no virtue without sacrifice. There is no virtue without a sacrifice at all. And so when people don't have to sacrifice, they're just yapping. It's my daughter's favorite word these days. They're just yapping.
[40:01] Just yappers just making noise feeling good uh addicted to false virtues so all right.
[40:26] Yeah blowing up people is not feasible anymore due to nukes yeah for sure you donated on the free domain website i appreciate that freedom.com slash donate to help out the show i really really would appreciate that very much very much, oh you really listened to the presentation on the fall of rome yeah we have some you care about taylor swift's fertility so i don't know why you wouldn't care about margo giving birth, since they're both the same age, I don't understand that. I care about, why would I care about, I don't care whether Taylor Swift has kids.
[41:16] I mean taylor swift is what 34 years old taylor swift is an individual i don't care whether any particular individual 44 year old women has child now margot robbie is not an icon, for women in the way that taylor swift is taylor swift is the cool friend who justifies your bad life choices as long as she never changes.
[41:48] I've actually talked about this in a recent Q&A. Sorry, my nose is crazy itchy, and sometimes it happens. But I talked about this in a recent Q&A. So Taylor Swift is... I remember the guy who first got me into Ayn Rand. I was standing on a balcony. He'd moved to the States. I was standing on a balcony with him, and I really, really wanted to know if he was still into Ayn Rand. This is sort of many years later. If he was still into objectivism. And if he'd have said to me, yeah, I liked it when I was younger. I've found much better stuff. I've moved on with that. I've got a more nuanced view of things like I've grown up. It's a little childish for me. Then I would have felt, honestly, I would have felt sad, bad, and left behind. I mean, it's just a natural human thing. I would have had the integrity to keep going. But in that moment, and I remember not, I didn't ask him. And it's funny because in hindsight, maybe he had the same question to me, right? But one of the problems is friends can really elevate you or friends can absolutely paralyze you.
[42:56] Choose your friends is choosing your future. I mean, you don't choose your family, but choosing to stay in the orbit of your family absolutely determines your future. But your friendships are your future. If you spend your 20s getting to know cool people doing cool things who are ambitious and mature and dating with the intent to marry and have kids and all that, if you spend your 20s detaching yourself from the Velcro-attached losers and failures and attach yourself to people... I moved out of the academic and art world because mostly there were losers there, And I got into the business world and through the business world, I met very, very, very successful people. And did a lot of business i don't think i'll ever list these off but you would know just about every company that i sold my software to and i worked with very high level people and i worked very very worked with very successful people and once you get away from the losers and the deadbeats and the weird hobbyists and the guys who sleep on army cuts into their 30s, then you start spending time around successful people once you start spending time around unsuccessful people, opportunities arise of their own accord.
[44:13] And if you spend your 20s building relationships with successful people, because a lot of successful people want to transfer their knowledge, I mean, it's part of what I do, right? But if you start weaving together quality contacts with people, people who are successful, then you can't help but rise. You can't help but rise you just you internalize their way of thinking you internalize their mindset you internalize their comfort with their own success you you know as opposed to being around these losers who work bad jobs and complain about their bosses and you know sleep with trashy women and again have bizarre hobbies and you know i mean just i mean honestly in your 20s just be around people who have good decent personal grooming i mean i hate to say it right but, yeah just be around people who've maybe bought some property who have a nice car i know this not the jaguar thing but like not some total beater uh and if you spend your 20s building up quality relationships then you cash in on your 30s 40s 50s and forever because it just tends to sort of go up and up and you provide value of some kind to people who are successful, they like to spend time with you and if they like you they'll mentor you which kind of happened to me and then in turn you can mentor others and it's this wonderful exchange of information but.
[45:38] You're not choosing your future in any more foundational way than choosing your companions. And if you have companions around who are losers and failures and stagnant and so on, then it will justify it. And I don't know if you've heard of these women, like, everyone around me is getting married, everyone around me is having kids, and I'm still single. They cling together. This is the ultimate bitter claimers, right? They absolutely, like, desperately cling together, right? They cling together.
[46:11] And they hold each other down. You know, it is, you know, the famous video of like the embassy in Saigon, you know, the last people are trying to get on the helicopters. I mean, that's, so, I mean, that's the people who are still in Lucidom into their 20s.
[46:34] I mean you can't help where you're born but you sure as hell can help who you choose to hang with when you get older and there's a familiarity and there's a safety and there's a security in hanging out with the losers but it's very hard to escape it's very hard to escape that orbit because they're just uh the the unsuccessful people and the successful people do not travel in the same world they don't live in the same places they don't and and a lot of society is getting away from, like a lot of success is getting away from the people who are sabotagers, because you're not just a loser. I mean, they're a sabotager. So for a lot of the Taylor Swift fans, which is not the case with Michael Robbie, for a lot of the Taylor Swift fans.
[47:20] The fact that she is pompous and vain and shallow and materialistic and arrogant right, and the fact that she i don't know i because i don't know much about her music but i don't know that taylor swift has ever done a song about how, she is responsible for her bad relationships, i think it's always well he was a loser and he betrayed me and we are never getting back together and i'm all this and you're gonna miss me and you know i mean that's like the the anthem from beyonce about uh you know you're in the club and the guy wants you and if you liked it then you should have put a ring on it, that kind of stuff. So this arrogance that men are just bad, and you're always the heroic, noble, both the victim and the superwoman at the same time, this is programming. This is not organic. This is programming. And as long as Taylor Swift remains a failure in her relationships, and as long as Taylor Swift.
[48:34] Never learns anything and just externalizes everything, then she has an endless horde of bitter clingers who are going to pay her to justify their own terrible decisions. I don't know if you've seen the videos of the girls. I mean, I've never understood this. This is one One of the things where I was like, okay, men and women are just completely different. I remember as a kid, when I first saw, I'm sure you've seen these.
[49:00] When the Beatles were playing, and they did play, they tried touring the States, but it was completely useless because they couldn't even hear their own music. Have you seen this? The girls, completely hysterical, screaming at the top of their lungs at these four Liverpoolian boys of you know reasonable attractiveness but not exactly adonis's you know cute and bubbly and when you see and you saw some of this with prince william when he was younger before this it's not a guy who balded well but you know good for him for hanging in there but when you see this level of hysteria among girls and some of them weren't even girls like young women um like screaming at the top of their lungs fainting falling over oh like they don't even want to hear the music they just they this collective i mean this okay men and women are really really different i i really can't, i mean men will throw money at strippers and once that woman rain made 43 million dollars off only fans um which is obviously quite demonic but.
[50:08] So yeah taylor swift if she were to say like let's say she put out a song right and the song was, i've really screwed up my life i've been an adult for 16 years i've really screwed up my life i chose the wrong guys and i justified it and i blamed them and i never took responsibility i've done some therapy i've realized how much i've damaged people with my music which is a justification for immaturity and other blaming which is gets people i mean we all love to blame others but the price for that is you don't grow you don't change you can't improve you can't, change you can't get more virtuous because all you do is externalize things so if she were to write a song apologizing to her fans for constantly singing about how bad men are and what poor victims the the women are and it's never their fault uh that that she had you know tens of millions of women she'd helped paralyze by justifying their bad choices. If she were to write a song about that.
[51:11] Millions of women would be thrown into catastrophic depressions. I'm not kidding about this. I mean, tens of millions of women were thrown into catastrophic depressions and Princess Diana died because that was the end result of the princess fantasy, which is a drunken driver death in a dingy tunnel being chased by photographers. So literally vanity slaughtered her and of course her looks could not protect her, so in fact their looks endangered her and women reported significantly improved mental health and happiness after the death of diana so taylor swift she she may uh get married maybe travis kelchi or whatever she may um get married although she would be an impossible person to be married to really but taylor swift is the friend who holds the other friends back and uh i'm not saying she's entirely a sci-up of course she's got her own mind her own thoughts but she's obviously a very savvy reader of the female pulse and.
[52:12] Women are desperate for excuses. I mean, men too, right? Obviously, but I'm just talking about the female side of things. Women are absolutely desperate for excuses. When things go really badly in a woman's life, they're absolutely desperate for excuses that don't hold themselves accountable. Women are so self-critical that accountability for women is like a hot poker in the nads for men. Because women have to stave off this anxiety. They score higher in neurosis than men right so women have to stave off self-collapse self-criticism not all right but a lot and so for women a criticism is almost unbearable and for a lot of women, and so because criticism is incredibly difficult and painful for women because they're so self-critical.
[53:08] Then they have a very very strong and deep desire a lot not all to, be delivered excuses because excuses, allows them to avoid self-attack but the problem is that whatever you what whatever you act on to avoid fear only increases that fear in general, if the fear is particularly, and almost solely if the fear is psychological, right? So women are very much afraid of self-criticism because it's often self-attack. And so they are desperate for excuses for mistakes they've made. But the problem is that when they get excuses, they continue to make bad decisions, which means that they're more self-critical, which means they need more excuses, and it really spirals from that. And I view Taylor Swift as a manifestation of all of that.
[54:09] Lots of truth in these talks. Thank you for the tip. What would you say to Trudeau if you ran into Mom on the street? I would have been low on earth what I have to say with her. I thought you said she would be a great mom. I think she would be a fun mom. So, yeah, I mean, five years ago, if she'd have become a mom in her 20s, uh then she would have been a fun mom i don't think so much anymore, somebody says i think margo oh this is the margo robert you did it to margo robert's pregnancy uh sets a good precedent an example for young women to follow 34 is pretty late but better late than barren or geriatric like taylor, william's a billionaire he had the money for the good fake hair hollywood guys all get yeah true The Canadian Prime Minister is a huge fan of Taylor Swift, yeah.
[55:18] Yes, very true. All right. Let me get to your other questions or comments. The big city life is destructive, if not toxic, or often deadly. I don't have quite the hatred of big cities. It's statism that is the problem, in my view. It is not cities as a whole. All right. So let me just get to any other questions or comments, see if I got anything posted here that I needed to see. And I really do appreciate you guys' time. Support, freedomaid.com slash donate to help out the show. Massively, deeply, humbly, and gratefully.
[56:06] Oh thank you i appreciate that i appreciate that support all right let's see here, uh somebody says i personally think taylor swift just has a really high sex drive and she dislikes riding the carousel and to some extent she's being responsible because she knows she's just going to drop the father and become a single mom if she goes off the pill, um so is is your theory that if you have, is your theory that she has a high sex drive therefore she sleeps with different people I think that's the exact opposite of the truth, I think that's exactly the opposite of the truth if you have a, if you have a high sex drive you want to get into a happy marriage.
[56:59] If you have a high sex drive you absolutely want to get into a happy marriage. You really can't have more or better sex than being in a happy marriage. And that's just not me. I'm not making this up, right?
[57:17] This is actually pretty well established in terms of facts. Stef, can you mention your thoughts on RFK Jr. getting the HHS head nomination? Well, we'll see if it actually is going to come true. I mean, the guy spent 14 years as a heroin addict, right? That's pretty wild. And he was a little bit of a sleep-around-y kind of guy, right?
[57:59] So yeah that is uh that is kind of wild, that is kind of wild.
[58:11] All right let's see here, uh i've always thought that taylor swift if somebody wants to have multiple sex partners I'm not blaming the man and being serial monogamous. She feels it spares her from being labeled promiscuous.
[58:27] You know it's it's always the question about the sort of money and fame problem right i mean i don't know if you i i wouldn't want it uh as mike zonovich had a great term for this many years ago being jazz famous smart guy man by being jazz famous right which is you know you're known to a small number of aficionados but you're not like you could still walk around and nobody particularly cares uh being that famous um i very very much like and appreciate this is why these live streams are great for me i i hope they're great for you too but to to stay in touch with people to to stay grounded to um if you were super famous right i mean like zuckerberg musk famous like mark zuckerberg has to have like 19 security guards around him when he goes for a jog and it's what Elton John said this about Freddie Mercury, just how disconnected he is. He doesn't know the price of milk. He doesn't know the price of bread. He just lives in a bubble. And the problem is when you live in a bubble, then other people's perspectives and opinions become your reality.
[59:42] Other people's perspectives and opinions become your reality. You become almost inadvertently a social metaphysician. And so you end up being highly manipulated and disconnected from reality.
[59:52] Significant degrees of fame are very close to a mental illness because it's not like you're generating your own hallucinations but you're subject to the manipulations of others and other people are highly incentivized to both manipulate you and to hide those manipulations from you and it just looks really really bad as a whole for you it is i think really bad for your mental health so the only people who i think would want that kind of fame are i think fairly damaged people, And of course, everyone around them can profit from it, and therefore there's no reality about it.
[1:00:38] All right.
[1:00:44] Kash Patel is pretty wild. We'll see what happens. We'll see what happens. I was... I mean, I haven't talked about this for a while, but one thing I did remember, and this was a huge effect, for me was, um, I had an absolutely brilliant roommate in, in college and was still in touch, actually. And the guy ended up with like two PhDs and he was a great communicator. And he's one of these people, like the Midas touch, like every, he does, he's, he's great at everything he does. And he's done a lot, almost, almost, almost everything. So he said to me that, you know, they've, they've done research on the prisoner's dilemma. And, you know, if you're in a, uh, a cell and there's a place you can hand your food and things that you need cigarettes or soap or whatever back and forth um that they've run so many different experiments on what the best, strategy is and the best strategy seems to be i'm sure it's still the case now i was just reading up on this and it still seems to be the case treat people the best you can the first time you meet them after that treat them as they treat you so we'll see what happens with cash patel but you can't do better than that.
[1:02:12] Somebody says, I don't know if this is true or not, but it's interesting. Somebody says, I just got off a call with the finance minister of a small Caribbean nation. They're buying 25 million in Bitcoin right now to put into their currency reserves, and are considering adding Bitcoin as legal tender in 2025. Things are about to get absolutely insane, mind blown, bullish.
[1:02:36] China is looking for an alternative to diversify at $3.3 trillion in FX reserves, according to the Wall Street Journal, highly likely they're buying Bitcoin. That is wild. That is wild. All right. Oh, it's a great social rule. Ever since I heard this, In my early 20s, it has been, I mean, 35 years now, it has been a foundation of my relationships as a whole. Treat people the best you can the very first time you meet them, first time you interact with them. After that, treat them as they treat you. If they continue to treat you well, treat them well. If they treat you badly, treat them badly. Right?
[1:03:32] So that has kept me safe from some very bad situations because you know as a male but we've all we've all seen this right especially if you're a little older as a male, you have seen these sharpshooters of circumstances take out men left right and center Yeah.
[1:03:58] You know, some of the sharpshooters are a lack of ambition. And the lack of ambition usually is related to a lack of trust, not trusting people.
[1:04:10] And why do you trust people? Oh, sorry, why do you not trust people? Or why do you have difficulty trusting people? Because you have to feel your way through every interaction, and you don't have a simple rule and principle like treat people the best you can the first time you interact with them after that, treat them as they treat you.
[1:04:24] Well, I have that. you know i'm obviously i've had my ups and downs in life but that has kept me safe from, a bad marriage that has kept me safe from really destructive or litigious business relationships, that has kept me safe from exploitation when i was obviously a bit more famous than now a lot more so if you have a simple rule then you can trust right you can trust yourself and when can trust people. When you can trust people, you can interweave your fates and lives into their fates and lives, and then you gain the division of labor and the additional benefits, significant additional benefits of working with other people. And that rule has never gone wrong. The rule to treat people the best you can, first time you meet them, after that, treat them as they treat you uh it's i've never never gone wrong with that rule that rule has never it's never served me poorly right now of course there are exceptions to every general rule but you still have to have a general rule it's like saying well i'm not going to eat well and exercise because i could get hit by a bus yes some people who eat well and exercise do get hit by a bus and they probably would have had more fun if they hadn't eaten well and exercised but you still have to i I mean, the exceptions prove the rule, right? So...
[1:05:50] The sharpshooters of, I mean, my gosh, you know, I knew men over the course of my life whose girlfriends got them arrested, whose wives threw them in jail, who got taken for everything in the business world, who got, who lingered and languished in the basements of, despite incredibly high abilities, incredibly low or non-achievement. Um i saw men get married and the wives doubled their weight not the men's weight but yeah i saw a guy got married to a woman who was 110 she went up well past she went close to 300 um so i i've seen these sort of you know take out like things just guys get taken out i've seen men falsely accused of terrible things i have just seen men go from significant heights of success to living in the car uh it's i've seen men be bled for hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees we've all seen these uh sharpshooters just taken out and sometimes it's a headshot and in the analogy right and and sometimes it's just some debilitating belly wound or something like that so.
[1:07:04] Very sad, any plans to attend your mother's funeral i know you had no interest in attending your father's funeral but it would be an appropriate time to mourn the mom she could have been, so i'm not sure why i would need to go to my mother's funeral to mourn the mom she could have been i mean my wife is the mom my mom could have been and i celebrate that every day.
[1:07:39] So i i already celebrate the, mother my mother could have been by seeing how great my wife is as a mother so, um i and i didn't i didn't have the opportunity of course i didn't have the opportunity to go to my father's funeral because of COVID and not being there. So the government took away.
[1:08:11] My choice regarding going to my father's funeral. But no, I would not. I would not go to my mother's funeral. I have, you know, I mean, one of the great things about sort of doing self-work, self-knowledge work, and so on, is you really do genuinely leave things in the past. And I can go for like a week or two, and I'm being conservative here, it could be longer, without thinking about my mother at all. I mean, she last had control over me 43 years ago, you know, when I was 15.
[1:08:53] I confronted her, I mean, it's got to be coming on for 30 years now, 28 years. I mean, she's so far in the rear view. And I think about her so little that I'm not sure. To me, it would be completely hypocritical to go to a funeral. Because if i had unfinished business with my mother then i would talk to her if i had something i wanted to get from my mother i mean i'm not saying i'm going to be indifferent when she dies of course i mean but i would say that my father's death had little impact on me but then my father had little impact on me other than all the things he didn't do which is tricky to see sometimes, but i won't be indifferent to my mother's death but.
[1:09:52] What she did those many, many decades ago.
[1:10:00] You know, you treat people the best you can when you first meet them. And I tried to love my mother when I was very little. I really did. I remember being in boarding school and crying over the thought of her and so on. And I tried. I really did try my very best to do right by my mother. I gave her money. I gave her time, attention. I tried to help her. I really did try to treat my mother as best as I possibly could. And the fact that she has not tried to contact me, despite the fact that it's very easy to contact me, she's not tried to contact me for almost 30 years means that she doesn't care, right? So you treat people the best you can, and then you treat them as they treat you. I really, I cannot care about people who don't care about me.
[1:10:47] That would be for me that would be um shameful it would be i don't know how to put it exactly it would be catastrophic to any sense of self-respect it would be like being a stalker you know a stalker is someone who cares about a woman who doesn't care about him or is actually kind of grossed out by him and that would just be humiliating like following a woman around and hiding in the bushes i mean it would be wrong an invasion of privacy and ridiculously humiliating right i mean i've always been of the opinion that you know when i was single if the woman doesn't want to date me obviously she has some issue with quality and you know best of luck to her right, so yeah.
[1:11:29] Why would I have all of this pent-up mourning? I mean, the woman never really cared about me. She's had every opportunity in the world to go to therapy, right? And she won't, right? Even though it's free for her. So she doesn't care about me. So why would I have all of these feelings about someone who doesn't care for me? that would just be strange to me and kind of pathetic. I'm not saying you, I'm just saying that for me it would be kind of pathetic. All right.
[1:12:13] Uh-uh, uh-uh, uh-uh-uh. Can a woman go from 110 to 300 pounds? Is that even possible? It certainly has. Seth, have you seen this X thread about the woman saying, if you don't give me $150, you don't love me? Well, well, well, well. Yes, but that's kind of sad. I'm sorry, let me get to the other place where I can get questions from. Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do. Slow down, she don't take no prisoner. All right. Where is my live stream going? I really feel like there should be a live streamer going on.
[1:13:10] Your videos. Is that where I go to get the live stream? I really should know this. It was right here, and now it's not. Ah, that's what we like. Ah, there we go. There's little old me. Ah, right. oh okay that's not there, my mother was so wretched that after eight years of carrying around her ashes during a move i just tossed them in the trash heap as i was getting rid of all meaningless items i get that i get that, do you feel disappointment about not being able to go to your father's funeral well i don't like it when arbitrary state power diminishes any of my choices.
[1:13:58] I'm not answering questions that are too obvious somebody says things changed completely when i held my family of origin to a gold in my opinion a perfectly reasonable and attainable standard and stopped making excuses for them it's appalling the insane things my family of origin sweeps under the rug or laughs about looking back glad these people especially my father won't be involved in my life and my family's life going forward can't imagine the soul-sucking dissonance bubbling under the surface if i were a slave to my family system for the rest of my life while i'm, I'm really sorry that this is your family situation. That's very sad. That's very sad. But yeah, congratulations on getting out. Somebody says, spot on, Stef. The more philosophy guided my life, the more I could remove dependencies I had upon people who didn't care about me to the very principle you just mentioned. Yeah, I mean, it was a big, I mean, it's all dusty, long ago, prehistoric revelations now. But i just remember thinking does my family know my favorite writers does my family know my favorite musicians does my family know my favorite movies does my family know my favorite arguments or ideas or thoughts and they didn't really know much about me at all, You don't really know much about me at all.
[1:15:24] Have you ever heard of somatic theory? Not really now, sorry. I don't know why everything gets sent out here twice. I don't think I would have gone to my father's funeral, but I don't like the principal being stripped from me. I don't like the choice being stripped to me on arbitrary government power. And the thing is, too, you know... Now, I got distracted. The thought is gone, but I'm sure... Oh, yeah, here we go. Yeah, so I don't know. Have you been watching any of the videos? I can sort of close on this topic. And I really do appreciate everyone's support. FreeDomain.com slash donate to help out the show. Really, really do appreciate it very humbly and deeply and gratefully. And don't forget FreeDomain.com slash call if you'd like to do a private call-in. They're very powerful. And I can actually give direct advice, which I wouldn't do in a public call. But if you are, if there are things that you think philosophy could help you with, I can give you a fairly detailed plan of attack. Private call is free domain dot com slash call. You can just choose the private call and you can keep the recording if you want. But it never goes anywhere from from my side. So we can get into all the details, names and places and dollars if you want. So that could be very helpful.
[1:16:51] But have you seen all of the liberals who are defooing based on politics? So, you see this, right? Of course, they're not being called cult leaders by the mainstream media. So, the mainstream media, in attacking me for talking about ostracism as a way of protecting yourself from unrepentant and relentlessly abusive people, or the against me argument, they never had any problem with what I was doing. They just didn't like this sort of powerful social tool being in the hands of virtuous people because they wanted to reserve the use of this powerful social tool for corrupt people, right? So I just so you understand, it's sort of the general arc of the moral story of me, of this show of philosophy in this way, that when I said to people you don't have to spend time with abusive people, and you probably shouldn't spend a lot of time with people who support the use of violence against you for disagreeing with them, I was called, you know, a cult leader and all kinds of terrible things and all of that was not because they have any principle because none of the leftists who are I mean, there are people leaving the country, right? It was Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi went to England where they ended up five feet underwater, or at least their house did. So they didn't have any problem with the principle of ostracism. They just didn't want good people to have access to it, just so you understand the general harm as a whole.
[1:18:19] Do you think you'll have an Ayn Rand-like return to the public eye if you're invited to speak across news circuits, et cetera, say a decade or so from now? Would you like to mainstream peaceful parenting if given the chance, if it was from a good-hearted, well-meaning person with prominence? Well, never say never. Never say never. I do. I mean, I do occasionally miss, you know, striding the stage, talking to a thousand people. It was a lot of fun. But it could happen. I heard you say you and Izzy listened to some Taylor Swift songs and thought they were copy and paste, and I couldn't disagree more. I'd actually go toe-to-toe with anyone willing to compare lyrics against a choosing of mine of taylor's i don't know what the hell that means to start i'd recommend these three tolerate it which i choose because it's about her relationship with her father and her contemplating cutting it out of her life evermore coney island okay, So let's see here. The song is called Tolerate It. Let's try it. Let's try it live. No, not Michael Robbie Tolerate It. All right. All right. Tolerate at liberals. Let's have a look at this.
[1:19:41] Oh, I accidentally touched Wikipedia. Ew! Why does it seem so hard to actually get these links?
[1:20:01] 10. Swift, all right. Dear God.
[1:20:14] Nevermore nevermore all right, i really can't believe that it's this hard oh past week there we go i still had past week on for the marlboro margarabi thing all right here we go tolerated i sit and watch you reading with your head low i wake and watch you breathing with your eyes closed i sit and watch you i notice everything you do or don't do you're so much older and wiser than i that's all so much older and wiser and i i wait by the door like i'm just a kid use my best colors for your portrait lay the table with the fancy shit i want you tolerate it it if it's all in my head tell me now tell me i've got it wrong somehow i know my life should be celebrated but you tolerate it oh okay so she's got this is an emotionally distant parent yeah so much older and wiser uh so you to be tolerated right this is her father.
[1:21:08] I greet you with a battle hero's welcome. I take your indiscretions all in good fun. I sit and listen in that polished place until they gleam and glisten. You're so much older and wiser than I, and I wait by the door just like I'm a kid. Use my best colors for your portrait. Play the table with the fancy shit and watch you tolerate it. If it's all in my head, tell me now. Tell me I've got it wrong somehow. I know my love should be celebrated but you tolerate it. While you were out and built another world, where was i where's that man who'd throw blankets over my barbed wire i made you my temple my mirror on my sky now i'm begging footnotes in the story of your life drawing hearts in the byline always taking up too much space or time you assume i'm fine but what would you do if i break free and leave us in ruins took this dagger in me and removed it gained the weight of you then lose it believe me i could do it if it's all in my head tell me now tell me i've got it wrong somehow i know my love should be celebrated but you celebrate it i sit and watch you yeah.
[1:22:04] She wrote this based on the 1938 novel by daphne du maurier rebecca, oh this is not about her father she says when i was reading rebecca by daphne du maurier i was thinking wow her husband just tolerates her she's doing all these things and she's trying so hard and she's trying to impress me she's tolerating her the whole time there was a part of me that was related to that because at some point in my life i felt that way okay so it's not about her father uh it's um about a marriage so i'm a little a little confused and she is a victim right she's not saying what am i not doing to generate your love she's saying you are a bad person because you just only tolerate me and you don't love me even though i'm doing all the right things right, so yeah no no responsibility or anything like that, All right, my mother, oh, sorry, somebody says.
[1:23:04] My mother claims she calls me, but I don't answer. She complains to my siblings and my father about it. When I have the receipts of my call logs over the years.
[1:23:15] Of her not contacting me, I'll show the screenshots to my siblings and dad, which diffuses the topic, but they don't seem to understand why I don't concede and call her regularly, and claim I'll regret my decision when she's gone, ends up as i just don't talk to them much either oh so you have the psychological dysfunction which i admit to having myself on a fairly consistent basis you have this psychological dysfunction, that if you um if you provide facts to people they will change their minds because you're driven by facts you think that other people are driven by facts and you think if you give them the facts, they will change their minds this is not true most people are programmed out of fear and greed, and they are absolutely immune to facts and this is Yuri Bezmenov is talking about this, he calls it demoralization doesn't matter what facts you show them they will simply, they might scatter, it's sort of like when you've got a bunch of crows and there's a dead raccoon by the side of the road, the cars come by, the crows scatter and they just come back, then they just come back because they want to feast on the crow want to feast on the dead raccoon, right? So, yeah, you can scatter. We've seen this with, there's something dead on the beach. Seagulls are all there, or there's food on the beach. Kid runs through it, and seagulls will scatter, and then they just return. So you can bring facts to people, and they'll change, and they'll just reconstellate right afterwards to the falsehoods.
[1:24:40] Very few people are driven by facts. Very few people will change their minds based on reason and evidence. Now, I hope that's not the case in the future, but right now, that's what it is.
[1:24:57] All right in her song back to december all right let's do this one let's do this one back to december yeah a woman whining that a man is not paying her much attention maybe she's boring, maybe she chose the wrong guy maybe she got a guy based on her looks and doesn't really have much of a personality.
[1:25:22] Okay back to december sees taylor apologizing to her ex taylor lapner for ending their relationship, all right so what does she say here i'm so glad you made time to see me how's life tell me how's your family i haven't seen them in a while you've been good busier than ever with small talk work in the weather your guide is up and i know why because the last time you saw me is still burned in the back of your mind you gave me roses and i left them there to die so this is me swallowing my pride standing in front of you saying i'm sorry for that night and i go back to december all the time it turns out freedom ain't nothing but missing you wishing i realized what i had when you were mine i go back to december turn around and make it all right i go back to december all the time, these days i haven't been sleeping staying up playing back myself leaving when your birthday passed and i didn't call then i think about summer all the beautiful times i watched you laughing from the passenger side and realized i loved you in the fall and then the cold came the dark days when fear crept into my mind, you gave me all your love and all I gave you was goodbye.
[1:26:21] No responsibility. There's no responsibility here. Fear crept into my mind, right? That's not her making decisions. That's just her being overwhelmed by the fear that crept into my mind, right? So this is me swallowing my pride, standing in front of you saying, I'm sorry for that night and I go back to December all the time. It turns out the freedom ain't nothing but missing you, blah, blah, blah, blah. I miss your tan skin, your sweet smile. so good to me so right and how you held me in your arms that september night the first time you ever saw me cry maybe it's official thinking probably my understanding but if we loved again i'd swear i'd love you right i'd go back in time and change it but i can't so if the claim if the chain is on your door i understand but this is me swallowing my pride blah blah yeah i'm actually how is she taking responsibility i wish i'd done things differently but fear overtook my mind, it's being a victim to fear it's not making choices and decisions, and it's still about her needs and her preferences and what she wants. I miss you as opposed to, you know, I'm really, really sorry for the harm that I did to you based upon my own voluntary bad decisions.
[1:27:30] No, right. My argument was that her songs are not copy and paste. Whether they are correct or not, there are many that are psychological experiences and not just pomp. Okay. Taylor Swift is very talented, but her politics are so god-awful. What does she know, right? I mean, she's just... I mean, she's just trying to survive in a... or trying to flourish in a music industry where lies are well-rewarded, right? All right any other last questions comments issues challenges, if you put the 1200 stimulus check into bitcoin it'd be worth 17 000 now if you always say so if your parents had bought you nvidia stock in 2013 instead of 400 on a ps2 you'd have 180 000 right now.
[1:28:29] Just wild.
[1:28:42] Thank you for the tips. I really, really do appreciate that. What do you think Taylor Swift's IQ is, Stef? She doesn't seem to be interested in anything other than sex. I don't think that's fair. I have no idea. Probably at least a cozy 120. Probably 120. That would be my guess. So...
[1:29:03] I don't i don't i mean i'm obviously what am i i don't have any thoughts about taylor swift as a whole it's it's just that everything is so distorted through the power of the state that controlling a pop star is highly profitable to people who want to change populations right it just is what it is i don't blame her she's a victim of the system um i i think that she she may end up with some kind of happily ever after because she's i mean she's an attractive woman she obviously takes care of herself and she can afford all of the reproductive assistance technology known to man and she's going to consistently be a high demand of course well into her 40s and and beyond like the salma hayek thing so i think the issue that i have is she's you know tall statuesque i don't quite like her she's too lemon mouth for me but you know she's pretty, she's got a nice figure, very talented, very wealthy, very well-known, very famous. So she's going to be in high demand into her 40s and 50s. She can have children, she can do IVF, she can have a surrogate if necessary. So she can get her happily ever after, right? No question, if she wants it, if she gets some self-knowledge maybe. But she can get her happily ever after. The problem is, all the women who are not Taylor Swift.
[1:30:30] That's the problem. The problem is all the women who aren't Taylor Swift. You'll see these women who'll post, oh, Salma Hayek is still hot in her 50s. And it's like, well, yes. But Salma Hayek is like a one in a million face and figure.
[1:30:46] So I guess my sort of concern is it's like someone who claims to be a financial advisor because he won the lottery and he says, you don't need to work. You don't need to take care of yourself. You can just blaze around. You can do whatever you want. And it's like, but he won the lottery. Taylor Swift, obviously hardworking and talented, but she won the lottery. She won the lottery in terms of looks, of height, her body shape, and her singing voice. She didn't earn that singing voice. She was born with that singing voice. And she's got a talent for writing songs and performing. And I'm not saying she's not responsible for any of it, but she's not responsible for most of it. She's just lucky. and my concern is that if you win the lottery and then other people take your life, philosophy as gospel they didn't win the lottery and they're going to get screwed right, they're going to get screwed what happens when Taylor Swift gets her happier ever after and all the women who follow her and use her to justify their own bad decisions what happens when they don't get their happy ever after well that's really sad.
[1:31:55] It's really sad. And, you know, I think it's really heartbreaking. You know, these women who are, you know, sentimental and so on and love Taylor Swift and all of that, to me, that's a huge red flag. You know, it's better to love the Beatles. To me, if I was dating and a woman was hugely into some female singer, I would view that as a huge red flag. It means that she's into the sisterhood. Not masculinity. She's into the sisterhood, not masculinity. At least the women screaming for the Beatles liked males. And so she's into the sisterhood, and that means that her friends are going to have a way outside influence on her life, and it means that her friends are probably going to sabotage any relationship she has because the friends don't want to see their friends get successful. Winners love to see winners. Losers love to.
[1:32:53] Replicate losers. they love to copy paste loser loserhood so it would to me would be a and i've had this i'm i remember dating a woman and she wanted to come and visit me when i was um i was rewriting the second half of just poor and i decided to take two weeks off work and i flew to england and i rented a cottage in the exact location where i imagined the novel taking place so that i could visit the older towns. I could visit the landscape. I could really embed and embody myself in that environment. I remember I had this little Rio 500, which had 64 megs of memory, and I had really crappy audio books because I had to have a really low quality to fit any on them. And I remember there was a woman I was dating. She wanted to come and visit me. And her sister was like, but he could be an axe murderer. He could be inviting you to this cottage in the middle of the nowhere. And it's like, oh my God, forget this relationship. Don't bother. No thanks all right have yourself an absolutely wonderful day if you're listening to this later freedomain.com slash donate would really really appreciate your help with the show uh i'm very gratefully and humbly uh appreciate it i will send out today um and if you donate today i'll send this out to you as well the um the feed to the french revolution 12 hours on the french revolution some of the best stuff i've ever done so lots of love from up here take care my friends i'll talk to you soon bye.
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