0:06 - Year in Review
0:56 - The Jake Paul Phenomenon
4:45 - Mike Tyson and Boxing
6:22 - Stefan's Sports History
8:45 - The OJ Simpson Trial
10:54 - The Role of Comedians
16:27 - Nobility vs. Comedy
17:37 - The Nature of Comedy
22:02 - Humor in Conversations
24:02 - Thoughts on Trump and Elon
37:07 - Competence in Politics
48:47 - Sibling Dynamics
59:08 - The Impact of Parenting
1:07:36 - Closing Your Heart
1:13:28 - Compassion vs. Consequences
1:18:21 - The Challenge of Empathy
1:30:51 - Closing Thoughts and Farewell
In this episode of Freedomain, I delve deep into the recent surge of Bitcoin reaching near all-time highs and explore the cultural phenomenon surrounding figures like Jake Paul and Mike Tyson, particularly in the realm of boxing and mixed martial arts. The episode kicks off with a reflection on the astonishing rise of Bitcoin, sparking a discussion about its implications and its place in today's economy. I highlight the excitement surrounding this digital currency, as it fluctuates around 130,000 Canadian Dollars, encapsulating the growing interest and investment in cryptocurrency.
Transitioning from finance, I focus on the fight between Jake Paul and Mike Tyson, pondering the motivations driving such personalities to get involved in combat sports. Jake Paul, with his whirlwind celebrity status and controversial past, raises many questions about the nature of fame in modern society. Despite his charisma and financial success, I argue that the pursuit of glory through violence speaks to deeper issues of mental health and societal values. I emphasize that this isn't merely a sporting event but a reflection of cultural narratives surrounding masculinity and competition.
I juxtapose this with reflections on my personal experiences with sports, suggesting my preference for participating rather than spectating. My anecdotes about childhood tennis practices reveal a stark contrast to watching others participate in violence for entertainment. I candidly express my discomfort with boxing and MMA, labeling such blood sport as bizarre and showcasing a disturbing trend in our collective acceptance of violence as entertainment. This sentiment expands into a wider critique about how society romanticizes combat sports, often overlooking the psychological implications of such spectacles.
As the conversation unfolds, I also touch on humor, its role in society, and how comedians can sometimes perpetuate cycles of nihilism rather than uplift. I draw connections between comedy and social narratives, stressing the importance of comedians in shaping public discourse—often towards an overly cynical or nihilistic viewpoint. By navigating through the realms of humor, I discuss how comedy can be both a mirror and a hammer, reflecting societal flaws while also challenging our perspectives on growth and virtue.
In a broader context, I approach the discourse on competence, highlighting the marketing prowess of figures like Donald Trump and Elon Musk. They not only redefine business and politics but also illustrate the dynamics of public perception in today's digital age. I analyze the nature of competency and failure, employing examples from sports to emphasize that true achievement is often born from repeated failures and resilience, adapting this idea to the political landscape of the moment.
The episode culminates in a heartfelt discussion about personal struggles with empathy and the challenge of maintaining kindness amidst widespread suffering driven by human choices. I advocate for the necessity of allowing people to experience the consequences of their decisions, as it cultivates both growth and moral clarity. Reflecting on my own narratives of compassion and the inevitable burdens they bring, I invite listeners to engage in self-reflection and consider the importance of emotional boundaries in nurturing both personal well-being and societal progress.
Overall, this episode serves as both a critique of contemporary values surrounding fame, combat sports, and humor, and an exploration of the deeper societal dynamics at play, urging listeners to reflect on the implications of their own choices within these arenas.
[0:00] Good evening, everybody. It's Stefan Molyneux. Freedomain, 15th November, 2024.
[0:07] Boy, this has felt like a fast year, hasn't it? FreeDomain.locals.com. I appreciate it. I appreciate it. I appreciate it. And your support is very helpful and very welcome. Yes, Bitcoin is really up and around its all-time high. It hit 129,000 Canadian. In today now it's 128 268 uh it hit yeah just hit it hit what did the top out at 130 right yeah topped out at 130 almost almost did it hit 130 not quite got to 129 170 so yeah it's it's remarkable it's wonderful it's powerful and uh what is it steve sailor now owns one percent of Bitcoin or something like that. Crazy, crazy stuff. Good for him. Good for him.
[0:56] Tonight is the fight between Jake Paul and Mike Tyson. What is your opinion on this matchup?
[1:08] Well, what is the story with Jake Paul? I mean, he is, he seems to me kind of a, I mean, obviously high charisma and so on but a kind of messed up um kind of looks like kind of a messed up person he's also ranked on 2022 forbes list of the world's highest paid celebrities wow, he started fighting in august 2018 18? Hmm. Was he the guy who was shooting in the Japanese forest? So, I think it was, right? Was that him? I mean, obviously a very talented guy, right? He's done live streaming, he's done music. I think he's had hair transplants. What do I care? Right, but yeah, he's doing a big thing. I assume his net worth has got to be through the roof, right? And.
[2:15] Has he talked much about his childhood? Early life They started filming themselves when they were 10 Oh, Logan Paul, yeah, Logan Paul, right, 7.6 billion views. Hey, I had a billion views. Um, 7.6 billion views. That's really, it's really something. Oh, that's just on YouTube. I hear other things as well. Right. So obviously, yeah, very talented guy, but it's not healthy, right? It's, it's really not healthy. It's really not healthy. Um, now I don't, I don't know if net worth, uh, means anything, but i assume it's uh i assume it's pretty high 80 million 80 million i mean that's in american dollars right so it's pretty high uh you know it just it seems like why would you want to go into a ring and beat the crap out of other people i mean i guess he's won a lot more um i just think that uh it's sadism and masochism um boxing obviously and i i get that it's athletic i get it has skill. I get all of that. I'm not saying it's just two idiots pounding each other, but it's just a very bizarre way to make money. I mean, I remember the first time I was on Joe Rogan.
[3:39] He had given us tickets to Ultimate Fighting Championship, and I went with the guy I was working with at the time, Mike, and it was weird, man. It's a weird space. It's a weird space. We actually got into an odd conflict after this, which we then quickly identified as having to do with seeing all of this weird stuff of people beating the crap out of each other and it's just weird it's just weird I mean hey I'm a big fan of athleticism and push yourself to the limits and and all of that kind of stuff but uh it's just weird it's just weird to watch people pound the crap out of each other that has to do with early childhood trauma and the sort of Simon the boxer stuff, So, yeah, it's, it's just, it's weird and the people involved in it are weird and it's just, a kind of manifestation and justification of a kind of pathological violence that is just bizarre. Sorry, I keep saying weird, strange, and bizarre, like that's much of an argument, but.
[4:45] Uh mike tyson i mean it's funny because mike tyson somebody caught a picture of him recently reading henry haslett's economics in one lesson which is a fantastic book to read also what was it like 10 years ago he had a mike tyson bitcoin vending machine so i mean he's obviously a very smart guy, despite his obviously pretty criminal past in some ways but, just beating the crap out of people is just a kind of sickness in a square. Boxing is just sickness in a square. And, you know, if you have $80 million like Jake Paul, why do you want to pound the living crap out of people? I mean, lots of great things and good things you can do, but normalizing violence and getting people addicted to violence and getting people to cheer on violence in this, it's just, it's like... There's sports for smart people and then there's just sports for stupid people, and boxing is just a sport for stupid people, how do you feel about MMA.
[5:52] No he's not fighting mike tyson's i think only 58 not 60 how do you feel about mma mixed martial arts it's stupid stuff it's just stupid stuff i mean i guess the skill this train i get all of that it's not like the boxes are all stupid but i just i just find it i have a certain just visceral revulsion to it and i just um i can't get there again i think that there is some objective reasons as to why.
[6:23] I mean, I've never been a big one for watching sports. We used to, when I was a kid, because I played tennis since I was like five years old, my mom, when she didn't like the price of the tennis courts because it went up, she would get us up like at dawn and we would literally climb 20 feet over these fences to go in and play tennis before she went to work. I guess, in hindsight, could be conceived of as a tad manic, but she was like, we're not going to pay. And so she'd make us climb over these high fences actually kind of dangerous really i remember getting my uh legs ripped a little bit on the top you know like the chain link fences they got that it's not barbed wire or something but it's kind of cut off uh not very well on the top and i remember getting cuts and just go we gotta we're not gonna pay we're not gonna pay and uh we did all of that it's kind of manic but we used to watch wimbledon which is you know on a 12 inch black and white tv you know if you squint and uh i guess take a copious amount of lsd you might be able to see the ball but yeah i mean this to me there's a lot of skill in tennis and i get all of that but i don't know.
[7:28] I'd rather kiss a woman than watch people kiss. I would rather play sports than watch sports. And I honestly can't remember, gosh, a couple of years ago was Toronto in the basketball finals. I think I watched about half of that. And I'm like, I can't take the squeaking.
[7:45] It's like mouse genocide, you know, because the squeaking, once you start to hear the squeaking on the floor of the athletes, like the basketball players, she was squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak. It's just like once you that's all you can hear and it's like no I can't and I remember Toronto being in the world finals for baseball in the early 90s I remember watching that I remember having a really sore throat and I remember watching that and it was one of these endless games and Toronto finally won and I remember going out on the street where everyone was celebrating and I managed to get an entire square full of people to sing We Are The Champions.
[8:29] At the top of their lungs, which was a lot of fun. It was a lot of fun. It was a lot of fun. It was not a good thing to do with a sore throat, but hey, you know, if Freddie can do live aid with a sore throat, that's what I can do. That's what I can do. But I watch when you can do, in general, right?
[8:46] So I just, I liked watching sports when I was a kid because my mom tended to be in a good mood, right? Watching court cases was not. My mom was completely obsessively glued to the OJ Simpson trial and was like taking copious notes and she believed that she had the answers to various things. And I'm pretty sure she wrote letters to the lawyers of Ben Shapiro. No, not Shapiro, sorry, Kardashian, Robert Kardashian.
[9:16] But yeah. Yeah. And hasn't Jake Paul bet $40 million that he's going to win? Yeah.
[9:28] Thank you for the tip. I appreciate that. I appreciate that. Logan Paul. It was Logan Paul who went to the Japanese forest of death, right? You heard him say his mom and dad fucked up big time. Yeah, I mean, a lot of charisma is a mania for attention that sharpens people into verbal machine guns that are kind of engaging, but fundamentally alienating. You know it's it's like i remember talking to a guy who met robin williams once you know and they were just having lunch and it was just like robin williams this is maybe he was on drugs because he did a lot back in the day but robin williams like you turn into this this machine gun of language, that is entertaining but vampiric it excavates you it takes you out of yourself and of course you know i say this doing these 90 to 120 minute quote monologues during these kinds of shows but i hope that these conversations are not alienating or off-putting but hopefully get us to sink even deeper into our authentic selves and so on so i think a lot of the comedians are a lot this way as well and comedians are really really really dangerous i mean they can be good obviously and comedy is enjoyable but comedians can be extremely dangerous, and one of the reasons that they're so dangerous.
[10:54] Is because they can get you to laugh at things that could be progress right there's a great tweet there's a great tweet i don't think i can find it but basically it's something like, you know i'm i'm talking about crop rotation and people are like, oh yeah well of course the radishes need to be rolled around of course the radishes need to do the do-si-do and stroll from field to field like they're dancing lol right and and just idiots make jokes right l-f-m-a-o-l-o-l and and they just completely set back progress by rousing the crowd to jeer at progress yeah john stewart does this um uh stephen colbert does this john oliver is one of the past masters at this to just rousing the mob to laugh at the innovator it's like this massive.
[11:58] Reaction formation or an immune system to evolution right because to rouse people to laugh at the unfamiliar is one of the fundamental jobs of comedians because comedians are fundamentally conservative they're not edgy they're not edgy at all because they get people to laugh at new things they get people to laugh at change they get people to laugh at edgy, things and they just fundamentally harden like concrete around the progress of society i mean listen, maybe I'm not hugely in touch with comedy. I used to listen to Q107 had Dr. Demento back in the day, and I used to record comedy, and I used to listen to it over and over again, right? I mean, I tried stand-up and all of that, so...
[12:49] I used to listen to Jazzy Jeff. I used to listen to these, I got my kids on my own somewhere, and Red Fox. Yeah, just really, I remember there was a guy who did Bono when he startled. He played guitar, and he then did a great imitation to the singer Bono, and then when he was startled, I just remember really, really funny stuff. And I used to listen to this stuff over and over, and I used to practice it, and I think comedy is a lot of fun. But my God.
[13:18] They're so often so cynical that comedy can easily be enveloping nihilism that fucks you up right this is the george carlin stuff it's a big club and you ain't in it right religion is stupid right the government is corrupt and it's just this fucking enveloping nihilism that takes you down to a black-hearted hell itself. There's nothing noble, like, you know, like that kid on The Simpsons, you know, that laugh that just echoes through any human potential. This is dragging down, this taking a parse, this no one's worth of anything, and everything is ridiculous, and everything is goofy. I mean, I had a friend, I actually, I used him as a wee bit of a foundation for a character in a novel. And, uh, my friend was just so cynical, you know, I just can't, you know, with religion, I just can't buy it. I just can't buy it. Cynical, cynical, cynical, black hole of cynicism. I remember he used to have a joke, uh.
[14:33] That was like a late night bowl, sorts like objects, right? Sorts like objects. You put all your broccoli in here, you put all your radishes in here, you shake them and it sorts like objects, you know? And the way he did it was, I'm not really recreating it too well. And he was very funny, but oh my God, just disassembling all human elevation, right? Nobility and comedy are deeply, deeply, deeply at war. Virtue and comedy are deeply, deeply, deeply at war. Because comedy is about disassembling nobility. Right? I mean, when I grew up, there was the Knights of the Round Table. Now those, you know, Guinevere and Lancelot and, well, not that Guinevere was the knight, but, you know, King Arthur, Lancelot, Galahad, they were noble to me. And I had a book on knighthood that I remember when it was like, what's the one thing you would say from a fire? Bring it into school on the last day, and I brought in that book because I absolutely loved the idea of nobility.
[15:39] Penance, swords, sunshine, morning, mist, the Aragorn running at the gates of Mordor. I loved that shit when I was a kid. I still love it. I'm going to absolutely unabashed. I love that stuff. Horns in the morning, a fierce enemy, wind in your hair, a sweaty horse between your legs, riding down the bad guys, maybe even sticking their heads on a pike, back in the day, medieval days, right?
[16:09] Born to conquer the world, destined to write LMFAO on the internet at any shred of nobility.
[16:28] There's an old line from a not very good movie where Tom Hanks pays a comedian and he says, well, I'm a comedian because I think nothing is funny, which is, you know, one of these deepities, but it actually did stick like a bit of a burr in my brain because, if you go from the history of England and the nobility of King Arthur and the knights, right the antithesis of that is monty python where the knights are all goofy and foolish and the king is goofy and foolish and the king who pulls the sword excalibur from them becomes the king and then it's just like you know strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is not a basis for right so there's the nobility and then there's the comedy and the comedy is at war with the nobility. Now, nobility does have a certain amount of pompousness and grandiosity, which does need puncturing from time to time, but at the same time.
[17:37] Comedians are like flies trailing after the most noble people in the world only interested in their shit well you know even the most grandiose even the most elevated and virtuous person still puts his pants on one leg at a time, and of course comedians have wretched personal lives for the most part absolutely wretched personal lives it's horrible where is the nobility, Have you, and maybe there are, again, I'm not that much up on comedy, but have you, is there a comedian who mocks evil and elevates virtue? So what are comedians really selling? They're selling escape from the demands of virtue. They get you to laugh at things. They get you to feel cynical. They are getting you off the hook. they're decommissioning you, they are retiring you from the need to pursue virtue because everything is foolish and everyone is ridiculous and everyone, all is vanity, right? All is vanity. Vanity Fair by Thackeray.
[19:04] You know, I asked the other day in the show, I asked the other day in the show, a live stream, who are you that you did not inherit? Who are you that you alone can earn? Who are you without your intelligence, which is largely genetic, without your height, which is genetic, without your eye color, without your race, without your sex? Who are you? And the answer to that, I was just thinking about this today, the answer to that.
[19:37] Who are you that is not accidental? Who are you that you earn? You are only your virtues, not your thought virtues, your manifested virtues. You are the good that you do and nothing else. Which is why I view people as yet to manifest their humanity when they make excuses not progress, when they pursue being perceived of as good rather than being good because all you are are the virtues you manifest that is the only footprint you leave in the world that is the only impact you actually have, that is the only thing you can truly, truly, truly claim as and call your own, all you are are the virtues you manifest, and there's nothing else. Those are the things that will live forever, because those are the things that are you carving the mere mortal flesh into the fabric of the universe that lasts forever, or at least as long as people will last, which hopefully is forever.
[20:49] I mean, I think Elon Musk is so despairing of being able to achieve virtue in this world that he wants to go to Mars so that he can escape this world. Because, you know, Mars is going to be a pretty high IQ civilization because, well, let's just say there's a teeny tiny barrier to entry. And the space between Earth and Mars is one border that the Democrats can't give people ladders and incentives to get over.
[21:21] The only thing that is you are the virtues you manifest. That, of course, is the only thing that's going to live on after me. There's two things that are going to live on after me, my virtues and my daughter. On the subject of humor, what tips do you have to be funny slash humorous in conversations? I find my humor is all over the place. I find it hard to summon.
[22:02] I mean, I think good humor is unspeakable honesty, right?
[22:26] So, first of all, don't feel the need to be funny. Don't feel the need to be funny. Norm Macdonalds, I mean, definitely a funny guy, I'm not entirely sure that he pursued a lot of virtues in the world. Thank you, Stephen, for the donation. Freedomain.com slash donate. Really would appreciate it.
[23:04] Yeah, I mean, don't feel the need to be funny. It's not something that you have to do, right? All right. Crazy to think Mike Tyson and Stefan are the same age. I think Stefan would win against Tyson. Well, I appreciate that, but you're absolutely wrong. You're absolutely wrong. He would paint the wall with me. He would use me as muck-luck footwear. I would have absolutely zero chance in any way, shape, or form. I would absolutely have no chance. So, of course, Mike Tyson is older, but, you know, man is obviously stuffed full of warrior genes and has a lot more experience than the young guy. What is a sport for smart people? Philosophy. Toronto won the World Series in 1992 and 93. Yeah, that's right. It was 20, 24? No, 26.
[24:03] What are your thoughts about the trump win and elon's role in the new administration.
[24:12] Well i don't know, i don't know, somebody says i do stand up move more to the production side of things and i will confirm the vast majority of comedians are active pieces of shit, there is a certain desperation and there is a hatred of the good that a lot of comedians share and they are dragging people into a nihilistic hatred of all that is greater than what ends up in the shiny bowl. Oh, I don't know. Do you? Do you? Hit me with a Y if you care about my thoughts on Elon Musk and Donald Trump and the Department of Government Deficiency. Just out of curiosity, do you care? Does it matter to you what little old me thinks about Elon's role in the new administration? It's Viva Kramaswamy as well, too, right? Do you care? Does it matter? Yes, yes, one no, yes, yes, yes, no.
[25:22] Yeah, okay, I'll, it's like two-thirds to three-quarters yes, so I'll keep it relatively short. It is absolutely hilarious watching the mainstream media not understand how this stuff works. Okay, so listen, Donald Trump and Elon Musk are two of the best marketers this planet not only has ever seen, but probably ever will see. You ever see an ad for a Tesla? No. One of the amazing values that Elon Musk brings is he's so notorious as the richest guy in the world that he doesn't really need to spend much on marketing, neither does Donald Trump. In fact, Donald Trump's big genius was to license his name rather than just build endless buildings. Big gold Trump, right? It's a great name for a real estate developer. Barron Trump. I mean, that basically, that kid has blue-bladder aristocracy running through his veins to the point where he might as well start taking over third world countries again.
[26:18] So I love, I absolutely love watching the mainstream media sneer at the Department of Government Efficiency. Oh i also love them watching them sneer at robert f kennedy jr and health and human services being in charge ah what is it there was some overweight woman that i think robert f kennedy jr said was overweight and she's whining and crying all about it because she's now in politics or something like that i said there was a comment underneath that said well he probably didn't want to sugarcoat it because you'd have ate that too.
[26:59] So, I mean, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the guy is in ridiculously built and bricked shape.
[27:08] For, what is he, 70? It's insane. It's insane. Is it all natural? I don't know, but it's absolutely mad. And then, was it Rachel Levine? Like the two of them are something to do with health and it's like, come on, come on. The man knows his health. The man knows his health. He's on testosterone replacement. Oh, good for him. Good for him. Good for him.
[27:35] And, you know, people have said, like to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., aren't you scared of going up against Big Pharma? Because remember, the mainstream media sucks deep of the bloody titty of Big Pharma for their ad revenue, so they're shitting bricks, right? When people sneer at Trump and Elon Musk, like, politics aside, whatever your feelings, like, they are ridiculously competent men. I mean, Elon Musk, what, PayPal? It's part of the PayPal mafia. He's got the Boring Company. He's got Tesla. He's got SpaceX. He bought Twitter and is running that. I mean, the man is an absolute, do you know those, have you ever seen those satisfying videos where you've got these cogs that just grind up metal and no matter what you throw in there, it just, you know, just the Terminator, it just crunches down, right? You ever see those? Like, they just chew through shit. I mean, and they just are unbelievably productive people. I mean, you know, Trump had his, you know, he was down billions of dollars and he was, you know, facing ridiculous amounts of bankruptcy. But it's a story he's walking down the street with his grandson and they see a homeless guy and they say, yeah, that homeless guy is, he's $8 billion wealthier than I am because he was like $8 billion or some crazy amount in the hole, right? And then Trump ends up doing The Apprentice. I never watched it, but I'm sure it was entertaining.
[29:04] Would ran for 14 seasons restored himself as a household name he's been talking about politics forever and ever our men, and then he just goes in beats 17 contenders in the Republican primary in 2015 2016 becomes president gets hit with 94, charges, beat some, and then, despite having been lied about, maligned, charged, persecuted, comes back to win, what is it, the biggest Republican victory since the early 80s? All politics aside, I mean, it's sort of pointless to say, but I'm going to say it anyway, because every now and then it's okay to say something pointless. I don't agree with everything everyone says on that side of the fence. I don't agree with everything Elon Musk has done or everything that Donald Trump has done. It doesn't matter. I mean, as far as just like they are absolute beasts and machines of competence, right?
[30:15] So people are saying, well, there is no Department of Government and Efficiency and Congress is going to have to fund it and it has no budget and it has no mandate and it's like what are they going to do what are they going to do it's like oh they're idiots they don't even it's just nothing's going to happen it's going to get fired after 18 months anyway it's just symbolic it doesn't mean, like holy shit if you're just a fucking talking head and you know i still do a little bit of productive stuff but you know essentially i'm a talking head i used to do business um like i still do a business like this business but i used to like have like i don't know 50 or 40 employees 30 employees something like that and you know ran a real business stuff and um but if you're just a talking head i yammer hello hello talkie talkie talkie i talkie talkie in fact i read a fucking teleprompter right these people are the mainstream media and i'm gonna sneer at donald trump and elon honestly it's literally like going well you know i thought freddie mercury He was pretty good at live aid, but I could have done so much better. And it's like, that's generally considered one of the greatest, if not the greatest live act in human history. I mean, Queen was generally pumped by that because they never saw their audience. Like if you've ever been on stage with lights, right? You can't see the audience, right? Like, I mean, I've been in a bunch of plays. You've got these big lights on you. You can't see the audience.
[31:40] So the fact that they actually see the audience was mind-blowing to them. It was rare, right?
[31:46] So it seems like the media just doesn't they don't have the humility to say okay these guys are ridiculously intelligent and they're ridiculously competent because there's a lot of people out there who think that competence means you're successful, all the time that is absolutely the very opposite of what competence means.
[32:16] So competence means screwing up on a regular basis. Trust me, this one I know quite well, right? So if you've ever played tennis, you've got a first serve and you've got a second serve, right? First serve, you blister it. Second serve, you lob it, right? So the first serve, you just hit it as hard as you humanly can. And then the second serve, because if you miss a second serve, you lose the point. Second serve, you've got to lob it. You've got to be more gentle, right?
[32:42] Now, when I play tennis, I can always serve and succeed. Always, right? I can serve the ball and I can get it into the diagonal serving square, right? I can do that. The question is, is not, can you get the serve in? The question is, can you get the serve in so that it's hard to return? Right? Bjorn Borg had this crazy fast serve, was in the seventies, right? Bjorn Borg and And Andre Agassi, was it Bjorn Borg, he realized that when he was going to hit to the left or hit to the right, he'd put his tongue to the left or to the right. So Andre Agassi figured that out and knew how to respond, but couldn't respond too well because otherwise Bjorn Borg would be like, he knows where the ball's going and they might review footage. Oh my God, you're putting, so he had to, he did that kind of trick thing, right? So really, really hard servers are going to hit it out more than the people who just gently lob it in. So when you're operating at the highest level of your ability, you're going to screw up a lot. That's the whole point, right? And the fact that these guys screw up so little is absolutely astounding. Right? I mean, well, Donald Trump lost, you know, he went bankrupt three times. Like, people say that, like, that means he's not competent.
[33:57] Because losers who never try anything are always jeering at the people who fight and fall. You literally have tubby people with Cheeto dust on their nipples, yelling at elite athletes for dropping a ball.
[34:23] It's wild. I mean, it's Dunning-Kruger, right? So they look at this and they say, well, there's no mandate from Congress and there's no budget and there may be no authority. They're going to have to work with this and it's like, okay, yes. So you don't know how they're going to do it and therefore you don't think it can be done. You don't know how the two most competent people this planet has ever produced. You don't know how they're going to do it And, you know, I'm going to include Vivek Ramaswamy in this, because that guy's a stone genius, too. Even-tempered, great speaker, great tennis player, great pianist. I mean, it just doesn't end with this guy. You know, competent business guy and educator. It's like, well, but they did something kind of scammy. It's like... It's easy to be perfect when you only achieve in your own mind. When the only achievement you have are your nightly dreams that you wake up bitterly disappointed to your loser planet of a life it's real easy to be successful if all you do is fantasize.
[35:39] It's real easy to be successful if the only success you have is in your imagination, yeah Vivek a very mature guy, very reasonable guy. It's like J.D. Vance. I mean, guys are stone genius. Stone genius. And they also have this emotional evenness that is wild. And they need to have, in particular, emotional evenness because they want to be contrasted, right? This is part of the brilliance of what went on in this campaign, right?
[36:07] So they need to be emotionally even so that they make the left look even crazier. You know, like if this is what, I'm not saying they're gaslighting, but this is what you do. When you have a conflict with someone, as they get more upset you get calmer and that way you end up with them being really crazy and you being even more calm even more even right so you've got a bunch of yammer heads in the media whose only particular ability is to have reasonable hair and to read a teleprompter without blinking too much when you have bright lights on you. That's their skill set. It's like a propaganda could shove the ass up of a giant sitting Ken doll and make him mouth the most insane platitudes, right? And they're also kind of comedians in that way too. I think this is why this ties in, is that the talking heads on the media are inviting everyone to laugh at the foolishness of Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and Vivek Ramaswamy.
[37:07] Three staggeringly competent men with great and deep passion willing to swim against the grain and with massive success outside of politics.
[37:23] It is very cool that there are awesome entrepreneurs in Trump's cabinet. Vivek is open-hearted, like I remember he was getting attacked by some woman on welfare, and he's like, no, let her speak, bring her in, bring her in, right? They think because people fall down that they have failed, people who never stand up to begin with. You know I like this cynical friend that I knew used to enjoy taking and developing photographs.
[38:05] And remember he took a photograph of a really sad looking old man sitting on a bench in the Eaton Center, and he had it up on his wall you know to Saul thanks for all the memories in Las Vegas he put some really cynical thing with this really you know I mean the guy maybe his wife had just died and he was shopping for a wreath it was just you know really hollow eyed very sad guy very old guy, You know, like young people look at old people like they're failures and old people are successful because they're still alive. You look at some old guy tottering and it's like, oh my God, that guy's like weak. And it's like, no, no, no, he's really strong because the weaker people are all dead already.
[38:59] Tips welcome, of course. You can tip on the app. You can tip at freedomman.com slash donate. What if it was the McDonald's stunt that put him over the top? No, it wasn't that. It wasn't that. It wasn't that.
[39:23] So, let's just say that everyone's right. The Department of Government Efficiency has no money, no mandate, no budget, no authority. Okay, there was two redundancies, but we'll survive. How's it going to happen? How's it going to happen? How is it going to happen? You should watch my presentation on George Washington, The Truth About George Washington. That was Stoyan's presentation. It was very good. I mean, I'm responsible because I did the final review. human. I mean, I can tell you how I think it's going to happen. I'm, of course, far from a 1% as brilliant at promotion and marketing as certainly Trump and Elon Musk. I mean, I can tell you how it's going to, even I can tell you, and they're much more skilled, infinitely more skilled at these things than I am, but even I can tell you how it's going to happen. Even if they have no budget, no mandate, no nothing how's it going to happen?
[40:37] They're going to publicize they're going to list off all of the waste they're going to list off all of the uselessness they're going to list off all of this stuff they're going to rouse popular sentiment, and the politicians who always have their ears to the ground of the thundering masses are going to be like, wow, people are really pissed off at this government spending. If I want to get reelected, I better fix this. It's not complicated. They're going to pull incredible visual stunts. They're going to buy billboards. They're going to have dancers. They're going to do crazy stuff to just raise awareness and outrage at the spending. How are they going to do it? I don't know because they're way better at it than I would be. But they're going to do something in the same way that how many people thought that Trump was going to show up in a garbage truck Mark, after Biden called the Trump supporters garbage.
[41:31] They're going to do something that is just going to immensely rouse popular sentiment against government waste, and that is going to drive the political momentum. You don't need a budget for that. You don't need any power for that, because the power is the capacity to rise and rouse the voice of the people to the point where the politicians have to go along or get the fuck out. It's not complicated. I don't know why people are having a tough time with this. do not bet against the marketing and business genius of trump and musk like just don't do it just don't do it don't do it i mean teflon don is don is don teflon don what am i talking about on the palmer but teflon don is back in the white house like oh my god.
[42:17] How many people i mean i said he was gonna i said i said it i said it before i said it on the 31st I think that he had the numbers. That if the cheating was kept to a minimum, Trump would win, and I was right. You don't bet against that guy in general, right? Thank you, Matt. But it is... Because they kind of conceive of how, something can be done, they rouse laughter at something being done which is fantastic it's fantastic, Teflon Dong I'd vote for him, it's a well-oiled Vietnamese guy with a schlong to die for.
[43:15] Watch The Truth About George Washington, and you may disagree with that comparison. One of the best Stef's truths about. Thank you. One of Stef's best truths about. Yeah, well, again, to the long-gone story, and thanks. Anyone see the New Zealand parliament doing the haka dance? Yeah, because the Maori came to New Zealand in the 13th century and genocided the existing natives. I don't mean to laugh, because it's brutal and horrifying, and they've been recently, up until recently they were all about the cannibalism so yeah i don't know again because i'm not at anywhere near the level of musk and trump but they're going to find a way to publicize this stuff and they have this incredible ability to get inside people's nervous system and and rouse, amazing amounts of public political and economic energy and outrage, they're going to find ways to publicize it they're going to find ways to rouse things they already have thousands of volunteers they're just they're going to create a quote army of people who are going to identify and elevate and make irresistible to the unconscious imagination of every american the amount of shocking waste and fraud that is going on in the government.
[44:43] And how they're going to get it done, I don't know, because I'm not them, but I know they're going to get it done, because they are them, right, I mean, it's just bizarre to me, it's just bizarre to me that people who don't understand how something can be done automatically think it can't be done, I mean, I know this because I've been fighting this shit for 42 years, right, well, I mean, if the government didn't provide education, well, I just don't know how education would be provided. And because I don't know how education would be provided, education won't be provided. I don't know how it could happen. It's like the guys who are like, you know, that meme is like, if I went back in time, everybody would think I was a genius. Right. And then they say, so what is the thing called electricity? How does it work? I don't know.
[45:34] I don't know. So they're going to find ways and maybe Elon will fund opposition like Sora style I don't know whether it's legal or whether he'd do it but maybe he'll fund opposition to congressmen who don't go along with cutting the waste, It all, ah, no, that's, that's too close to politics. So yeah, we'll see. We'll see. We'll see. But they're going to find a way to get it done. I don't know how rockets work. So there aren't any rockets. So, all right, let me get to your comments. Yeah so the the way that you avoid people achieving competence is you make them, terrified of failure and you make them terrified of failure with you know, right like so when i was first learning how to ask girls out i mean this is going to be a deep shock to everyone but there were some girls i'm sure they turned out to be guys but there were some girls who didn't go out with me. So I would get shot down and my friends would laugh at me.
[46:56] And, I must confess, I still believe. So, I must confess that I, um, some time ago, I have a tiny bit of a vengeful and petty side that I deliciously nurture and wish would grow bigger. My only regret about my tiny and petty side is that it remains tiny. I would like my petty and vengeful side to be much larger. In fact, I would like it to be awash with the entire testosterone levels of a Viking village on cocaine and stimulants. So, I do have a tiny bit of a petty and vengeful side. And so, just out of curiosity, I looked up people who, back in the day, laughed at me when I was crashing and burning when learning how to ask girls out. Every single one of them is single, unmarried with our children dead fucking head oh do you smell that.
[48:14] I love the smell of incel in the morning Smells like Victory, It is a consummation devoutly to be wished, I guess she shot you down Alright, I'll just get the fuck up and keep trying And you, Will be alone.
[48:47] All right, years ago you mentioned how siblings are horrible to each other, well that's annoying.
[49:00] Years ago, you mentioned how siblings are horrible to each other. Every sibling, even those peacefully parent, every single sibling. No, I've said repeatedly that even according to standard definitions, 50% of sibling relationships are abusive. Please, please, please, fuck. When you're out there in the world talking about things I say, don't fuck it up. Just, I'm begging you. I'm begging you. I would rather you be accurate about what I say than donate to my show. Because if you're out there in the world saying, oh yeah, Stef, siblings are horrible to each other. You are fucking things up for me. Not just a little bit, but actually quite a bit. And maybe this is just something you just typo'd here, but all I can go with is what you have, what you're saying here, right? Siblings are horrible to each other? Nope. Some siblings, yes. I mean, I have friends, I have a friend who has three sons and a daughter. They're so helpful with each other. They really get along well. They teach each other skills. They are all good at different things. They get along. I know lots of families where the siblings are really good to each other.
[50:28] Thank you.
[50:36] So, I'm not trying to be mean to you, and this is, I'm just using you as this, because every single, it seems like every single live stream, somebody horribly mischaracterizes my views. And I'm just concerned that if you're out there in the world saying, oh yeah, Stef says siblings are just horrible to each other. It's like, that's not what I say. It's not what I say. All right. And of course, remember that the people who are calling into my show are often people who have, you wouldn't want to get the general health of the world from staring at the ER, right? The emergency room. So the people who call into my show who have problems with their siblings are people who are calling into my show because they have problems with their siblings. They're not representative of the world as a whole. So anyway, years ago, you mentioned how siblings are horrible to each other. I realized I'd been neglectful. However, my sister is actively trying to destroy me. She used the power she has over our mother to ostracize me from family, denying me to visit my mother in hospital and going to police because of a text message that wasn't threatening. Luckily, the police said, go away. Karen, it feels like attempted murder. How does one process this?
[51:52] Call in at freedomain.com or freedomain.com slash call. I feel you know it's funny for the first time in like 17 years i'm actually seeing the end of call-in queues so if you know i'm i still have room freedom i mean i know the fall people get kind of busy and all of that but uh freedomain.com slash call in or freedomain.com freedomain.com call uh you can do a call-in but she has got you away from a family so let's look at this in general I realized I'd been neglectful.
[52:29] So, why does your sister want to destroy you? Now, if it's just you've been neglectful, I would question your objectivity, right? Why does your sister hate you? Now, of course, it's not like everyone who's hated, right, has done bad things or amoral things. You can be hated for your virtues as much as for your vices. In fact, the world is generally far less tolerant of virtue than it is a vice. So if you think well i'm always concerned sorry let me break that i'm always concerned when the story is so perfectly asymmetrical well i've just been neglectful but she's just a monster who's trying to destroy me i just didn't pay her quite enough attention but she just like, that seems like a narrative to me i could be wrong could be wrong seems like a narrative to me, she's the power she has over our mother okay so now what are you saying that the mother your mother has no agency, no choice. Your mother has no responsibility for your sister and how she turned out. Why does she have so much power over your mother, right?
[53:43] Your mother is responsible for your sister. Your mother raised your sister, assuming that she did. So, your mother raised, if you're right, that the sister is trying to destroy you, if your mother raised a woman who's trying to destroy you, and the woman who is this corrupt and evil as you say, right, trying to get you going to the police. So, your mother raised your sister who's trying to destroy you, why would you want anything to do with this clan at all? I mean, people who drive others away from you are doing you a favor. People who are driving others away from you are doing you a favor.
[54:35] If you're dating a girl and someone in your family manages to just get her to break up with you, they're doing you a favor. That which is rotten should not last. And the sooner it stops lasting, the better in terms of this relationship, right? So if you have a girlfriend and she's so susceptible to being manipulated and bullied or bribed or threatened or whatever, that she just ditches you with very little pressure, then she would never be able to stick through you or stick by you through the endless vicissitudes of a moral life. Like if you want to actually manifest in the world, you have to do good. When you do good, you get attacked.
[55:17] So you need to purge your environment of uncertain companions before you go into battle because you're going into battle if you're doing good and you need staunch fucking companions by your side. You need hard-eyed marines who will leave no one behind. If you're going into battle, you need people who are as solid as a fucking rock and who will watch your back like a hawk, who will never doubt, who will never back down, who will love and protect you as you love and protect them from here to fucking hell. Because hell is where you're going when you try to do good in the world. The scalding, fiery Morgoth whips of doom will try to strangle you on a daily basis and you need people who will believe in you no matter what and you need people you will believe in no matter what. So if you want to do good in this world, if someone can talk someone around you into just fucking off, let them fuck off. In fact, encourage them to fuck off, right? So what a value is lost if you're not allowed to see this kind of family. Let's say you're a good guy. You were just neglectful. Let's say your sister is exactly the monster you portray her to be and everyone listens to the monster rather than you. You're an innocent victim. I'll take your statement. Face value. You're an innocent victim.
[56:36] And everyone listens to the monster sister and not you. Oh no, I can't see people who are easily manipulated by sociopaths and psychopaths and evildoers of every stripe in here. Oh no, I've been kicked out of the club of evil. Oh no, the church of Satan won't let me join. Oh no, people have prevented me from being pushed into a volcano. Oh no, like, celebrate it. What are you mourning? What are you mourning? Being kicked out of a Klan? Easily susceptible, controllable, and manipulated by a gross evildoer, as you say? Woo! Bullet dodged. Dude, did you see Taylor Swift coming to downtown Toronto with a police escort ushering her motorcade? I could not believe I was seeing. I don't even know if Trump has that level of escort. Yeah, they shut down the highways. Right? Taylor Swift is an antinatalist cult. She has to be protected by the depopulation advocates at all costs. I didn't quite understand that five years ago when I put out that famous tweet. But yeah, Taylor Swift is at the center of an antinatalist cult so that women who give toothy head won't give birth.
[58:03] So, yeah, she, I mean, governments will protect her at all costs because she causes the population to fall. Is there a shorter version of peaceful parenting? You mentioned it before, but I didn't know if it was available yet. I'm, I'm a little confused. Oh, maybe, you know what? Let me not be mean. Maybe I'm totally wrong. Let's go to PeacefulParenting.com. PeacefulParenting.com. Let's see here. Listen to the first chapter, right? This book is completely free. Listen to the full book, RSS feed, e-books. Read the full version here. No time. Read the condensed version of Peaceful Parenting in EPUB, MOBI or PDF. Now there's Español. There is a Spanish version. There are testimonials. There's an AI.
[59:09] I'm a little confused why this is a question that's being asked.
[59:20] What causes the siblings not to be good to each other? So siblings turn on each other in situations of scarcity and the most central thing that causes siblings to turn on each other is a scarcity of parental affection, all right hi Stef I know that in general it can be said that the government school system is nothing more than an indoctrination slash propaganda machine but what are your thoughts on some of the young students supporting the Palestinians, regardless of the U.S. unrelenting support of Israel.
[1:00:02] I'm not sure what your question is. Tribal people get a tribal. We either get philosophy or it's warring fantasies. Stef, remember when you went into battle and the rest of the people refused to go one website over? Yeah. Oh, yeah, Musk. Sorry, and I forgot to finish this point earlier. And yeah, Musk knows he's increasing his security. Trump, of course, has to have crazy security these days. But Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was asked if he felt that he was in danger of being killed for his approach that I think is going to be at HHS. And he said, it's not a fun thought, but there are worse things than dying. What is worse than dying is watching all of the freedoms that your ancestors fought for fade away, right?
[1:01:01] That line about nurturing and growing your petty, vengeful side made me laugh really hard. Well done. Honestly, it's not even a joke. I wish I was more vengeful than petty. I really do. I wish I really try to grow that in myself. I really do. I'm really working hard to grow that in myself. Because there's a lot of suffering coming. There's a lot of suffering coming. i am very very and i'm not saying this as a prideful thing i'm not saying this even as a positive thing but i am very empathetic i'm and too empathetic in a way it's it's sort of like you know all the stuff that's being talked about is stuff i was talking about 10 or 15 years before right so i can i can hear stuff nobody else can hear i can see stuff coming that nobody else can feel so i have this you know very sort of finely tuned antennae for trends and momentum.
[1:02:08] So I feel for the suffering that is coming, right? So let's say the Department of Government Efficiency does do some really cool stuff. And now Musk is saying, you know, hey, we'll give people like two years severance, right? Two years, what do they call redundancy? They used to call redundancy, right? So we'll give people two years of severance. And that to me is pretty, pretty nice, pretty nice. And i get that he's doing that so there aren't riots so it's smart it's smart right this is why they're doing it not me right because they're better at it right, so um what what's going to happen is they're going to give people a bunch of money and people are going to be like woohoo free money right and then they'll just leave without too much of a complaint and then only later past the emergency and past the change and when everyone's accepted that things are better, they'll get mad, but it'll be out of time, right? It'll be in the wrong timeframe. So it's a smart thing to give them the two-month severance. I'm sure American taxpayers aren't keen on it, but two-month severance is better than 30 more years of interfering with the free market.
[1:03:28] So it's a way of delaying the reality of what's happened, right? So some guys 40, and he's like, woo, two years severance, woo-hoo, right? So, because he's a government worker and he gets let go from the government, he's got two years severance, what's he going to do? Well, he's going to take 18 months off or 20 months off. Like, you know, it's only at the end of the cycle of the unemployment insurance from the government that people really start looking for work, right? You get a year's unemployment, you just start looking for work at 11 months and two weeks or whatever, right? So, they're just going to take some time off and they're going to travel, and they're going to be like, oh, there's free money, and then they're going to be happy to do it, right? And then later, and it's all going to be scattered because it's going to be, then later they're going to be mad, right? But they won't have credibility. And this is the amazing thing that they're doing, right? It's an amazing thing that they're doing. Because the people who take the two-year severance from the government and leave, those people, are going to get mad later when they've already taken the money, which means they won't have any credibility. It's like, well, you were happy to take the two-week severance, you didn't complain about the time, and now that your severance is out. Now you're mad. They just look ridiculous and nobody's going to have any sympathy for them. And without sympathy, you can't have riots. Without sympathy, you can't have riots. Riots run on sympathy.
[1:04:46] I'm sure we can think of a few examples in the not-too-distant burst.
[1:04:58] Very smart very smart, you know it's like the woman who signs her separation and she she takes uh a million dollars she takes a million dollars and then she burns through the million dollars and then she's like i was ripped off in that separation like two years later right she burns through all this money or half a million dollars or whatever and then she's like i've been totally ripped off nobody's going to have any sympathy, right? So people in the private sector usually don't get two-year severance, so they're just not going to have that much sympathy, right? Yeah. So people are going to be very unhappy, and the guy's going to be 42, and he's going to try and get a job, having been a government employee who was fired, and having then taken 18 months or 20 months off, then he's going to try and get a job, and only then is he going to realize he's kind of fucked. Right? Only then is he going to realize, that it's going to be kind of tough for him to get a job. Right?
[1:06:23] But by then it's all too late, all right.
[1:06:34] Low tips low tips well you know maybe y'all are bored of politics so i will move on to another topic. Because sometimes with the politics, it is not what you want to hear, which is fine. Maybe people are here for the non-politics stuff. So let's get to that. All right. So yeah, I have to find a way to close the doors of my heart to the suffering to come. I mean, and I honestly, I wrestled with this daily. I'm not, I'm not straight up. It's one of the first things I think about in the morning is how do I close my heart to the suffering to come because it's going to hurt me. And I feel, I look at people, I feel their suffering. It's really tough. There was a book many years ago called Study War No More. I think it was called Study War No More. And was it Joe Haldeman or something? It was a science fiction book. And in it, there was an alien who gave a guy the ability to directly feel what other people feel. I feel like that. I mean, you've seen me write novels and do role plays. It's very easy for me to slip into the mind of other people. I feel what other people feel.
[1:07:36] And I have to find a way to close, The doors of my church to the devils to come.
[1:07:54] Sorry. We're closed. And it's not easy. It's not easy for me at all. It's not easy for me at all. Maybe it could be easier for other people. It's not a good or bad thing. I'm just telling you it's not easy for me. I have to, I think every morning, okay, How am I going to close the doors of my heart for the suffering to come? Because you have to do that, right? You have to do that. When real wrongs have been done and people are suffering the negative consequences of their own bad behavior, you know, I mean, I still think of my mother, still alive as far as I know, as far as I know, still alive, and her life is not good. And I have no doubt, in fact, I know for certain that she'd much rather have me in her life than not have me in her life. I was the golden boy, according to my brother. Oh, little Stef can do no wrong in the eyes of mom, right? So I know that my mother would much rather have me in her life, and she's pretty old now, right? She's pretty old now. What is she, 87? She's pretty old now.
[1:09:10] I have to close my heart to the suffering that she experiences. Because if I don't close my heart to people who have brought on their suffering themselves, then I end up being manipulated by people who fake suffering, or even if the suffering is real. You know if you beg someone to i don't know what damage is the kidney you say hey you shouldn't be involved in my toy boxing or you shouldn't be involved in mma right and and they're your, twin brother right and then he gets kidney failure from having been kicked in the here's a narrative for you. He gets kidney failure from having been kicked in the kidneys too much. And then he begs you for a kidney of yours. Hey man, I gotta do dialysis if you don't give me a kidney. It's like, man, I spent 10 years telling you to stop this stupid shit. How do you close your heart to the suffering that people have brought on themselves? That's tough. I mean, don't forget, I was raised by a single mom. Plus, I do have this big, crazy antennae for things to come, right? This wild sensitivity.
[1:10:33] German longevity. Oh, yeah. Do you see the pattern recognition of that German girl on X? It's incredible. Incredible. How do you close your heart to the suffering of people who brought their disasters on themselves against your advice.
[1:11:06] Society cannot progress if we eliminate the suffering of bad decisions. Society cannot progress. It's like society becomes the equivalent of the zombie economy of Japan, where companies are never, ever allowed to fail. Big companies are never allowed to fail. Or that, you know, the problem, like 20 years ago or 30 years ago, the european and american economies were about the same and then just like with trudeau right you tell someone oh man you gotta you gotta eat better you gotta exercise like you're overweight and it's gonna end badly for you and you just beg them and you nag them and you cajole them and you whatever i mean i'll buy you a gym membership let's go together you care about this person.
[1:12:02] And then what happens well they uh they get diabetes right and then they're like hey man i really need help i gotta i gotta pay for the stuff it's expensive i need to oh man right, but the stupidity is in the past the suffering is in the present so it's easy to forget about the stupidity and empathize with the suffering out of sight out of mind, the stupidity is in the past and they regret it now i'm sorry i was i was stupid can you forgive me i need help the suffering is vanished into the haze and maze of the past sorry the stupidity is vanished into the haze and maze of the past but the suffering is vivid and here and now and manipulative. But you understand that the stupidity is founded on the expectation of the empathy of others. People make bad decisions because they expect to manipulate the empathy of others into making up for those bad decisions.
[1:13:18] Your brother continued to do things that damaged his kidneys because he figured you were his break-in case of emergency backup kidney and you'd give it to him no matter what.
[1:13:29] Excessive empathy breeds absolute stupidity. Because it's not stupid if you're empathetic. Right? If your brother, you get a cupcake, your brother gets a cupcake. He eats as quickly, you save yours. He gets upset. Your mother's like, you still have some share it. That's why he ate it first. That's why he ate it fast. Because you're nagged into sharing the stuff that you save.
[1:14:09] Many, many years ago, I was in business with someone. They sold stuff early. I hung on to it. They were wretched. You may know people like this with Bitcoin. They sold early. You hung in. Now they're upset. Excessive empathy breeds. It's manipulation, malevolence, ignorance, and stupidity. How hard do you train to win a game that is rigged and you cannot lose? I have bred badness through pathological altruism. I have done it. I have absolutely done it. I hired people who were friends I should not have hired. It killed their ambition. It killed the real feedback they should have gotten.
[1:15:26] Some of the worst stuff I ever did in my life was out of excessive, quote, compassion, which was not caring for the other person. Caring for the other person is letting them experience the results of their own bad decisions. You give people good advice. If they don't listen, they have to, they've chosen to learn through bitter experience rather than sweet reason, which we all do from time to time. The worst stuff I've done in my life has been because I would not be strict with my excess of compassion. I would not reign in my empathy I let it grow like a tumor to consume consequences for others and leave them spinning and drifting in interspeller void, that's interspeller is interstellar but with a P, and replacing a T with P is bad it's very rude in England.
[1:16:30] Reining in the single mother ridiculous pathological altruism and excess cancerous compassion is a big, big challenge for me. To go from fear to fair. Because why is it that we're so, you know, I don't want to talk for you guys. That's rude. I'm not going to inhabit your space. I apologize. for that. Why is it that I am excessively compassionate? Because when you have bullies when you're growing up, if you're not excessively compassionate, they fuck you up.
[1:17:16] So, it's not excess compassion. It's handing over shit so you don't get beaten up. Or, that poor homeless guy, I'm going to give him all my money because he's got a knife in my ribs. It's not compassion. It's fear. Going from fear to fear is very hard. And younger siblings, a lot of women live, and me, and me. At least I fit one of those categories. Um going from fear to fear really tough, but i'm you know like those movies the guys finally decided to go and fight the bad guys or the aliens or whatever and he's strapping all these weapons on and he's painting his face and yeah and getting your game face on ah get my war face on that's the mission man that's the mission right now, because it's coming I gotta get my war face on, I gotta close my heart.
[1:18:21] Like in Lord of the Rings there's that scene where the tentacle thing comes out where they're trying to get into the minds of Moria speak friend and enter and that tentacle thing comes out and it tries to rip through the doors and they're all fleeing that's compassion, fucking tentacle gimme gimme, I'm sorry now gimme I should have listened now gimme you were right now gimme.
[1:18:54] I won't do it. I won't do it.
[1:19:04] Gotta get your game face on, man. Gotta get your game face on. Stop breeding, immorality and foolishness through an excess of fear-based quote, compassion. Women, somebody says, women are starting to lose the grip on victimhood, especially since the election. So they are really juicing domestic violence while being obsessed about abortion TikTok. It's illustrating not only the echo chamber, but the insanity. Feminists are becoming actively dangerous, like an animal cornered, and it's only going to get worse as single hood increases. At what point does it end? Women have given up victimhood for the sake of the fetus slaughter fetish, right? You've seen this. It's a bitter, I'm not saying 100% accurate, certainly not for all women, right? But you see this woman overlooking a city in flames saying, well, at least I have abortion. It is hard to show more compassion for people than they show for their own fetus, for their own baby, for their own child, for their own offspring, for the life growing within their womb.
[1:20:29] It's hard to view people as victims when they're fighting for the right to slaughter their babies up to birth. And in some cases, though not common, even beyond birth. 30 days, flip a coin, right? So, yeah, I think that's mostly done. One of the reasons why ostracism is the answer, it's just boundaries, right? It's because that type of enmeshment is contagious. It's tough. I heard a terrible enmeshment story today, with a young man whose wife divorced him for calling out her mother's boyfriend who happens to be a sex offender. He just didn't want his daughter around. He just didn't want... His daughter around his daughter? What? He just didn't want that man around his daughter? Please, for the love of God. I'm reading live. Check your stories. Unless I'm missing something obvious. He just didn't want his daughter around his daughter and now his wife lives with her mom and that man. tough to hear gotta cut them off yeah.
[1:21:36] People are allergic to consequences these days, just donated on the freedomain website thank you I appreciate that that's very kind, alright let's finish up with any comments that are going on over on rumble let's get ready to ramble alright, i haven't recovered from not seeing Stef do political rants god damn i miss these yeah he's got some cheat codes or something robert kiyosaki compares business success to a child learning to walk you have to fall down a lot before you figure it out total opposite to school yeah, Are you going to do more movie reviews? Um, I haven't seen a movie worth reviewing. I did see Heretic. Um, and I'll do something on that at some point. I'm here for the politics. I had a similar mother to yours. She died in May. I felt such relief. Yeah. I'm not sure that I'll... I didn't feel much when my father died. I don't know how I'll feel when my mother dies, but I mean, she's, quote, dead to me, right? I've had no mother functionally for a quarter century, really.
[1:22:54] I do feel the pain of others, yeah, for sure. When people you love get hurt, it hurts you, so you do whatever you can to prevent and alleviate the pain. Yeah, no, I get that, of course, right? No, I understand that, I get that. But these aren't people I love, right? These aren't people I love, that's the difference. All right any other last questions comments issues challenges problems, uh i was listening to how not to be loved calling earlier today i found it shocking how a guy who's been part of fdr since the start picked up so little over the years he talked like a new listener however upon further reflection i realized i can be like uh sorry another question I can be like that too. I love the work you do. I love philosophy. I work on myself on a daily basis, but I find often the teachings don't stick and I'm on a constant journey to find out just the right saying to stick forever. What do you think is going on? Sorry, but what are you working on yourself for? Go do good in the world.
[1:24:01] I mean, you're out there to produce the children called virtue in the world. Working on yourself is just masturbation. Masturbation does not cause your bloodline to flourish. It does not produce actual children in the world. So I got this car. All I do is work on it. Gonna drive it anywhere? No, no, no. I'm working on it. It's like, you know, the cars for driving you. No, I don't want to go from A to Z, A to B, A to A squared, nothing. I don't want to go from lowercase A to uppercase A. I don't want to go A to A italic. I'm just here to have the car in the garage and keep working on it. Okay. The fuck. Get out there and drive, baby! Drive. Hey, Stef, I asked this earlier, but I think you missed it.
[1:24:55] Oh, the entitlement. Stef, you must answer my question. Well, you must have just missed it. My family keeps trying to control me without attempting to make any changes. I throw out the mail or block them and move on with my day. I can't allow anyone to get in between me and parenting my child properly. Yeah, it's very intrusive. It's very stalky, right? Okay, I recently got into a debate with someone who I didn't even know is a Marxist. I used well-executed arguments defending capitalism and disproving Marxism. They were unable to admit that taxation is forced redistribution of funds at the point of a gun. So property is theft if you create it, but taxation is fine because gun. I see this argument the same as the against me argument. Is it now reasonable to completely disengage with someone who I thought was a friend? Well, can you love someone who supports the use of violence against you for disagreeing with them. To ask that question is to answer. To ask that question is to answer. I mean, there's nothing wrong with working on yourself. There's nothing wrong with working on your car. It just can't be that that's all you're doing, right? I'm trying to teach you guys how to be race car drivers, not tinker the shit out of your cars in the fucking garage from here to eternity, right? Go out there and drive. Go out there and hit the gas and turn the wheel and do some donuts and pick up some girls and get somewhere.
[1:26:23] I fell in love with a woman who's being divorced. She's also an illegal alien. Unsurprisingly, I was raised by a bipolar disorder single mother. How do I stop being like this? Stop using mental health terminology as a reason to avoid your mother's evil. Right.
[1:26:45] Stop using terms like, well, my mother just had bipolar. Okay. If she had bipolar like people have epilepsy then she should have been brutal or neglectful or abusive to you in public with other people around but she wasn't that she wasn't therefore it's not some biological thing right if someone has a giant brain tumor that's completely screwed up their personality they don't get to change that when there's a knock at the door the police come over or they're a parent teacher conference or out of the mall or anything that just is what it is you gotta have some sympathy for that but if the person can control and restrain their behavior. It's a choice. It is not an ailment. It's a choice.
[1:27:26] It's a choice, right? I called it the billion-dollar question. Way back at the dawn of this show, it's a billion-dollar question. Somebody has a giant tumor and you say, hey, hey, hey, I'll pay you a billion dollars to be tumor-free for a day, to not have that tumor for a day. Will they be able to take it and will away their tumor? They will not. Somebody gets his arm bitten off by a shark, and he doesn't get it back. And you say, hey, man, I'll give you a billion dollars to have two arms. Well, that'd be a bit jerky, and he would be unable to achieve it. However, if you say to someone, hey, you're a smoker, I'll give you a billion dollars to not smoke for a day, and they can achieve it, it's free will. It's free will. If your mother was ever screaming at you, ding-dong, hey, I haven't seen you in forever. How are you doing? Blah, blah, blah. Oh, look at that. Totally changed. My mother's screaming at me. The phone rings, bling, bling. Oh, hi. So nice to hear from you. Some guy she wanted to date. No, that's completely in control. Completely in control.
[1:28:34] Corruption, immorality, evil is self-intelligence. You're not in the grip of bpd npd borderline these to me are descriptions of people who indulge themselves as a whole right schizophrenia there seems to be some physical basis maybe for the other things too but maybe the physical basis of these disorders right i'm no psychologist i'm no psychiatrist just my bullshit nonsense opinion right don't take any of this seriously it's just my opinion. But let's say somebody has really dysfunctional behaviors. Well, maybe that's the result of them self-indulging for a long time before. Maybe they self-indulged in promiscuity which screwed up their pair bonding. Maybe they self-indulged in mysticism which screwed up their reality processing. Maybe they self-indulged in drugs which screwed up their reality processing and fried their brains. Maybe they screwed up in alcohol which also fried their brains and their memories. Maybe they self-indulged to the point where they now have a physiological basis like use of self-indulgence smoking. Maybe you get COPD. Maybe you get emphysema. Maybe you get lung cancers. Oh, but those are physical things. Yes, they are. They're physical manifestations of indulgence. I'll pay you a billion dollars to not drink today. Can you do it? Yep. Bet you they will. Bet you they will. Won't be comfortable, but they can.
[1:29:57] If a guy's had his eyeballs ripped out, can you pay him a billion dollars to be able to see for a day? You cannot. Pay me a billion dollars, I can't shut off the mild tinnitus in this ear. Fact. Fact. I guess I could pretend. So, the moment you say, well, you know, she suffered from BPT, she was... No. Well, you've got to listen to my last show about this. I mean, the history of communism is they'll throw your ass in a gulag and kill your family. I mean, that's just what they do, right?
[1:30:47] All right. Well, thank you everyone so much for a lovely, lovely show.
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