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00:00:00 Morning Sunday Sunday chatty Sunday we are a 7th of January 2024.
00:00:07 Let me tell you the phase of life that i've achieved the phase of life is quite magnificent the phase of life that i've achieved is either.
00:00:14 I wake up a little under slept which is not too bad just a little bit tired over the course of the day off and on or or really cool again enough sleep.
00:00:25 Wake up with a headache oh isn't that magnificent oh i just love these options lovely lovely aging.
00:00:33 Lovely aging magnificent.
00:00:37 So yeah if questions comments issues challenges problems i am all ears i'm all yours now let me see here.
00:00:48 The question to just while i wait for the comments to flow let the spice flow anyway so somebody last stream i kept a note here said i paid an escort online to ask her why she was an escort.
00:01:00 And grilled her politely about her connection with her parents and if they knew her job as well as finding out her bond with her parents overall for $15 what.
00:01:10 You paid an escort $15 for a chat alright i hope you donated to me too cuz i'm your escort in the thorny.
00:01:19 Tranches of philosophy i think it was worth the effort just once but she took it as me being too personal and rude how do i lead a woman to a better direction and pair bonding with me.
00:01:28 I was hoping to be a breath of fresh air oh so you were paying an escort to ask her about her life in the hopes that she would then realize how sensitive warm and open and emotionally available you are pair bond with you and bang you like a t-rex.
00:01:40 Is gone for the rest of your life.
00:01:42 Ok.
00:01:42 Right right.
00:01:46 You know it's just a thought.
00:01:49 It's just a thought.
00:01:51 Instead of trying to domesticate a lion why not just raise a cat it's just a thought it's just a thought that does not seem to be the wisest approach.
00:02:00 So what you're doing and this is a male fantasy i mean women have their fantasies but but men have their fantasies too and the male fantasy is.
00:02:10 I'm going to find a beautiful woman physically beautiful woman and she's gonna appreciate me just who i am that i'm gonna be different from all the other guys so i'm gonna find this beautiful woman.
00:02:23 She doesn't really know that she's beautiful you don't even you don't know how beautiful you are that's a male fantasy there's a lines a great line from.
00:02:32 A street can a desire so blasted by a hysterical neurostatic southern woman says to this.
00:02:39 Rough and ready guy stanley kowalski do you think it's ever possible that i could.
00:02:45 Been perceived as attractive and he says i don't go for that stuff she's like what's that complimenting women about the looks i don't do it.
00:02:52 I never met a woman yet who didn't know exactly how attractive she was to some of themselves way more credit than what they've got.
00:02:58 I mean take a gay man tennessee williams sometimes to tell straight men about female nature.
00:03:05 Yeah women know exactly how attractive they are they know exactly how attractive there they have to i mean women have been involved women of evolved to know.
00:03:12 Exactly how attractive they are because if they aim too low that's bad if they aim to hide that's bad they have to know exactly where they are and hierarchy now of course everybody wants to be higher and because women have a disproportionate amount of money in society because of alimony palimony,
00:03:28 diversity hiring the welfare state free this free that free the other women have a disproportionate amount of money in society and therefore they created market of everyone telling them how beautiful they are and trying to talk them out of what they absolutely know which is exactly how attractive they are.
00:03:42 So everybody has this fantasy that he's gonna she's gonna.
00:03:47 She's gonna i'm gonna find a woman she works in a library she's totally beautiful but she just keeps her hair up in a bun and wears his unattractive glasses and doesn't use makeup and then i take her out.
00:03:56 And and she looks like jennifer lopez in her prime you know she's let her hair down put on the makeup and it's just what fantasy.
00:04:03 This is what i want you to do as a man if you're a man have you ever been susceptible to this that you're gonna find a woman who's just beautiful but she doesn't.
00:04:12 She doesn't know she doesn't know how beautiful she is i'm the only one who sees it and then of course when she becomes beautiful everyone else will see it she's the ugly doctor in terms of do swan and i'm the one there and she's gonna bond with me i'm gonna get the beautiful girl cuz she doesn't know she's beautiful.
00:04:26 This is wild.
00:04:27 So the equivalent if you wanna know just how insane this is if you wanna know just how insane this is i will tell you.
00:04:39 So let's say you are you've got two million dollars right.
00:04:44 You've got two million dollars you're a man you got two million dollars do you know you have two million dollars yes so the equivalent woman's fantasy is to find a guy.
00:04:55 You know you just don't know how wealthy you are you know you just don't know the resources that you have look.
00:05:01 I've looked into your financial situation and you actually have two million dollars you didn't even know that you thought you were broke you actually have two million dollars.
00:05:09 So she gets a guy with the mindset of a broke guy but actually has the resources so she gets the striving and all of that and the lack of vanity the lack of pomposity cuz.
00:05:16 You just don't know how wealthy you are of course you know exactly how wealthy you are at least i hope you do so anyway.
00:05:24 This is gonna funny right.
00:05:27 Yes some of you have fallen for that and it's an understandable fantasy it's a way of getting the beautiful woman without having to be the high value man.
00:05:33 So but of course all of this is by the wayside because of income redistribution and bloody bloody blah but anyway.
00:05:40 So welcome good morning what else do i have maybe a little look up couple of lefty overs.
00:05:46 Hey Steph i'm currently talking with a girl who i'm interested in but i think i just found a red flag she's very disinterested in fitness and has made arguments against maintaining fitness what are your thoughts.
00:05:57 I don't know what you mean by fitness.
00:05:59 I don't know what you mean by fitness do you mean you know protein shakes and working out three hours a day well that's kind of narcissistic and a big waste of time money and energy and it won't be sustainable if you want to be a quality parent anyway.
00:06:15 So i don't know does that mean she doesn't even like going for walks well then she's gonna be a piece of furniture and probably is no long term positive partner so.
00:06:26 I don't know i don't know i mean the question is why.
00:06:30 God you know i just had this conversation with a woman last night who's eight year old daughter was.
00:06:35 I'm having panic attacks and screaming for an hour straight when she didn't get what you wanted and we have this thing in society right we have this thing in society where someone disagrees with us.
00:06:46 If we care about someone right someone disagrees with us in the first thing we do is what we try to change the minds convince them you're wrong here's the facts you need this you need that here's the facts you're wrong.
00:06:55 That's not.
00:06:58 That's not caring about someone trying to change someone's mind when they say something that you don't agree with that's not caring about someone.
00:07:06 I mean it's fine if you're in an adversarial debating situation.
00:07:10 But the idea well someone has expressed an opinion that you strongly disagree with first thing you do what you're wrong let me correct you and you can do it benevolently whatever but that's terrible.
00:07:20 It's terrible behavior in a relationship i'm sorry i mean a lot but that's our first response these days because society is very adversarial right society is incredibly adversarial.
00:07:30 And by design right fight with each other and became easy to rule.
00:07:34 So but that's not right somebody expresses some so this woman says i don't i don't like the idea of maintaining fitness now let's say you're into fitness you're on a date with a girl and she says well i don't like i think fitness is a scam i think fitness is crap i think fitness is bad for you right.
00:07:50 So if you want to have a bad relationship or no relationship you say you're wrong you are wrong you are wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong.
00:08:03 If you wanna have a good relationship you don't say you are wrong you say tell me more tell me more i'm like you know i mean i you saw me go through this in real time in the last show.
00:08:15 Somebody was saying that it was a lack of food and diet and this and that i think he said that was the cause of crooked teeth and then he amended it to that's a significant contributor to crooked teeth i didn't really know anything about this.
00:08:28 He sent and i said i said it's wrong that's nonsense because i don't think it's absolute and then he went amended and i was like it feels wrong but hey man send me the data and you could absolutely be right this this.
00:08:39 Community has taught me a lot so he sent me some studies and there's really good arguments really good arguments i'll post them at free to band up locals dot com it's really good arguments so yeah he was right.
00:08:48 So instead of is wrong which you know i have it you have it everyone has that instinct unfortunately we're not trained in to tell me more.
00:08:55 If so she's got she's disinterested in fitness makes arguments again maintain you're wrong.
00:09:01 But if you don't know why people believe what they believe you can change their minds.
00:09:05 If you don't know why people believe what they believe you can change their minds.
00:09:13 And listen i honestly again although i have this impulse i think i can justly say.
00:09:18 And you guys obviously if i'm not accurate about this are you please tell me.
00:09:25 But i think i can just say like last i did to call and shows yesterday one over two hours one over three hours.
00:09:31 And the one with three hours plus one was the woman with the eight year old daughter who was mean and screaming and cruel to her sister and so on.
00:09:40 And for the first two and a half hours i was just listening and asking questions like i need to know where people are coming from before i try and give them any feedback.
00:09:48 And i think i do this fairly constantly when it comes to call and shows that.
00:09:53 I ask and i ask and i just tell me more tell me more i need to know the background the history the thoughts the experiences the implicit and explicit.
00:10:01 I am mindset before so so this woman says so i fitness is crap i maintaining fitness is a scam it's bad for you it's like tell me more.
00:10:11 Find out why why why did she have someone who died from over exercise did her father spend all the time his time at the gym and she resents fitness you don't even know why how can you change someone's mind.
00:10:23 Without even knowing why they think what they think anyway so.
00:10:27 I just ask questions it's not a red flag the red flag is in you jumping to the red flag without asking her more questions that's you are the red flag with regards to that.
00:10:37 Alright that when we did the getting engaged one what else did we have left over that might be it.
00:10:45 Yes that is it i think that was all we had left over.
00:10:49 Alright.
00:10:50 Let me get to your comments don't forget to tip your friendly neighborhood philosopher.
00:10:58 It's a end of the first week of the first boy what a week it's been ten foot tall aliens in a miami mall plagiarism wars.
00:11:07 Crazy stuff yo yo steph i don't know if you're saying yo to me twice or you're saying that i'm a yo yo emotionally you know either way i'll accept it as valid.
00:11:18 Let's have you read the child a child called it actually a listener gave me that book many years ago.
00:11:27 I do have a great sympathy to the people who were abused that extreme.
00:11:37 But i do have a bit of a problem with the massive sensationalization of really extreme calls forms of child abuse because it tends to draw people's attention away from the much more common forms of.
00:11:48 Child abuse i don't like gym girls.
00:11:52 Why don't you like gym girls.
00:12:03 Alright let's see here.
00:12:05 It's really amazing to me the books that are.
00:12:09 Yeah the judge was attacked yeah that's right.
00:12:11 I did see the meme where.
00:12:17 This woman was like four hundred and twenty dollars i'll do anything you want.
00:12:24 Anything anything.
00:12:28 For an hour for an hour you can do anything you want for an hour oh great i got a really dirty truck will you come and wash it like what.
00:12:35 With a with a real hose.
00:12:39 What is involved.
00:12:41 Not a whole lot.
00:12:44 Let's see i've got to stuff that i want to talk about but.
00:12:52 Basically it's about me being right yeah the judge was attacked in vegas that's right earthquakes in japan.
00:12:59 Yeah it's been pretty what is the deal with the stanley cups this is like women without kids are collecting cups.
00:13:06 Steph i'm looking for content you put out about your childhood where can i find it well right here free to make that local dot com i have the first part of my autobiography so you can you can put that in as well.
00:13:21 Chris says i listen to chapter fifteen of peaceful parenting.
00:13:24 I love that the acronym is pp because i like kids love pp jokes and peaceful parenting too.
00:13:32 I listen to chapter fifteen of peaceful parenting on bullying i was at the on the receiving end often in childhood i found a lot of value in it.
00:13:38 Your point about bullies shedding light on the hypocrisy of society in terms of morals really struck me i've had thoughts like that before also i've apologized to my younger brother for me.
00:13:47 Pulling him in childhood but not with the honesty and integrity of the speech you gave me the end well i mean i'm a writer and an actor.
00:13:55 Who does a lot did a lot of improv so i have a and also i get to read and edit and and all of that so don't you know nobody's gonna speak like that not even me in the real world but it's there is a sort of idea thank you jared for your tip.
00:14:10 I appreciate that i appreciate that was one of the harshest jokes i heard as a kid leper has sex with the prostitute and says i left a tip.
00:14:17 Nothing like the hell and kelly jokes man they were rough they were rough rough.
00:14:27 All rights questions comments i am going to get a hold of.
00:14:32 Yes i am yes i am you know just in case just in case.
00:14:41 You are interested this is just a bonus for showing up here.
00:14:47 Which i appreciate if you ever want to see how the book looks when it's red i have actually actually recorded chapter fifteen on video it's private and but you can you can look at it i think it's interesting i think it's interesting.
00:15:00 I would for my favorite songs i would love to see the studio like what happened in the studio.
00:15:05 So this is the full version this is one that's edited but in case you ever want to see how how it looks it also has a captions as well so.
00:15:17 All right let me get to this get this and i don't like the gym girls like the muscly ones that can cause infertility but that's very much a minority in the.
00:15:28 It's very much a minority in gym culture is for the muscly girls so that's i wouldn't i wouldn't characterize gym girls as a whole like that.
00:15:36 And i would assume i could be wrong but i would assume that the girls who are very much into muscles are girls who were sexually abused as children and need to signal that they're strong enough to take care of themselves and that they can't be bullied anymore so i'd assume that that is to do.
00:15:51 With with that.
00:15:55 Relationship advice tell me what you guys think of this.
00:15:58 Advice please.
00:16:00 Husband male 27 doesn't want me female 32 to go on a girls trip advice please we be married four and a half years shotgun wedding two kids age two and four.
00:16:08 I'm a teacher and four of my co-workers slash friends are going to florida on our spring break i've asked my husband if i can go with them we're all women and four out of five of us are married.
00:16:18 We'll be getting a two bedroom place in destined just to enjoy ourselves and relax on the beach according to my husband.
00:16:23 I shouldn't want to go on a trip without him the kids he doesn't want me to go thinks it's weird.
00:16:28 He claims it's morally wrong and makes me feel guilty about having young children and still wanting to go to me his behavior is incredibly controlling and insecure should I care more about his feelings than going on a vacation.
00:16:39 Aren't girls trips and boys trips normal.
00:16:42 Things normal adults do.
00:16:47 What do you what do you guys think about.
00:16:50 The thirty two year old mother and wife who wants to go.
00:16:55 To florida on spring break to a florida beach on spring break.
00:17:05 Why what do you guys think what is this is the husband being just controlling and unreasonable.
00:17:13 I mean this really to me this really fascinating statements in this just so much to unpack.
00:17:18 So much to unpack she's not come on what can i tell me what do you think tell me.
00:17:24 Tell me more.
00:17:28 Thank you i appreciate that is very kind.
00:17:32 Spring break is horrible especially in miami.
00:17:39 Come on screaming strike spike volleyball's in the occasional gunshot what's not to love.
00:17:45 What's the biggest lie what's the biggest lie in.
00:17:53 That woman's text.
00:17:58 Agree clear tape clear tape i don't know what that means sorry clear tape even when i was at that age i had no interest in that kind of trip she wants to do the trip during spring break so many drugs to wildly inappropriate.
00:18:10 I've gone on a girls trip as a mom to a quiet lake for the weekend i understand the idea of a quiet retreat since i'm quite relaxing at all.
00:18:17 Yes i i quite agree with that i quite agree with that she's gonna be drinking and doing dumb stuff yeah i think that's probably quite true.
00:18:28 She's acting oblivious to why her husband would be upset oh she's acting oblivious to why her husband be upset is nonsense she loves her husband calling the husband controlling.
00:18:36 So that i mean there's so much that's me very interesting about this and i'll unpack it she got pregnant by the guy less than five years yeah that's a good point less than five years ago right.
00:18:47 She wants to have a one night stand that may or may not be true.
00:18:55 That may or may not be true but it may happen.
00:18:58 So there are a number of lies that are enormous in this the biggest one is.
00:19:05 We just wanna relax on the beach in florida.
00:19:10 During spring break i'm gay is destined is destined where is that let me see.
00:19:18 Destin florida is that in miami.
00:19:21 Where's the map here.
00:19:27 White sandy beaches.
00:19:31 Ok lisa ok lisa it's on the east side.
00:19:41 In a peninsula separate in gulf of mexico from something something ok i'll give yourself a challenge.
00:19:47 Talk to wahatchi bay probably is wrong near several other cities fort walton beach.
00:19:54 Santa rosa sound.
00:19:58 So it doesn't look like it's like right next to a huge city but yeah the idea that you're gonna go to florida beach on spring break to relax on the beach nope nope nope nope.
00:20:08 That's a that's that's not even remotely true.
00:20:12 It's a bit more time than miami it's on the panhandle yeah yeah panama city the panhandle it's a tourist hotspot right so they'll be a bunch of.
00:20:21 Men there who are looking to get laid and women there i guess as well to it's a big destination for spring break right.
00:20:27 Right.
00:20:32 So yeah so what is what i find absolutely fascinating about this right.
00:20:38 So if a man is making a moral argument and the world woman feels bad so normally if somebody makes a moral argument to me and i feel bad.
00:20:47 Then i'm like oh ok so i probably feel out of integrity my feeling bad my feeling guilty or whatever is probably a sign that i'm not doing something too great.
00:20:55 So it's a i appreciate it but he makes a moral argument she feels bad.
00:21:01 And then he makes me feel guilty that's a wild thing now that's that's a female thing.
00:21:07 That's a female thing.
00:21:10 That's a female thing.
00:21:13 He makes me feel guilty and then she resents him like what is your conscience your own business.
00:21:19 It's not too late to say happy new year only thank you very much i appreciate that's very kind so no.
00:21:29 So you make a moral argument to women she feels overwhelmed with guilt and then she's like what you're making me feel guilty.
00:21:35 Like you're just inflicting some kind of abuse on her as if her own conscience has no relationship to her and it's entirely under your control and you just controlling.
00:21:43 I know this idea of insecure insecure and controlling.
00:21:47 Now of course imagine if her of course we all know right this is the basic empathy problem.
00:21:52 The basic empathy problem is pretty easy right if her husband is twenty seven years old wants to go with a bunch of guys to a spring break beach.
00:22:02 What's she gonna think right what's she gonna think.
00:22:07 So she's not going on vacation and get you know when you when you become a husband wife you become a parent you be a one flesh you want flash.
00:22:18 Yes you're right you're right in some near cat there's so many ways this district will go wrong absolutely and here's the thing too.
00:22:25 If the trip goes wrong the husband probably won't find out about it everybody will be sworn to silence the girls code will kick in and he'll never know.
00:22:33 I'll never know.
00:22:35 She's going to be old she's going to be.
00:22:42 She wants male attention she's going to come on with it and so this is why maybe she wants to sleep with a guy or not it seems unlikely to me she probably doesn't want to sleep with a guy.
00:22:50 But.
00:22:52 She's she's going because she wants men to who did her to holler at her to wolf whistle at her she wants.
00:22:59 The spice of male attention she's addicted to last.
00:23:03 Now that doesn't mean that she wants to have an affair but it will often lead in that direction but that's in my view like why on earth would you want to go and parade your.
00:23:11 Mostly naked body in a place where you know there's gonna be lots of drunken hollering in inhibition free men.
00:23:18 So she wants to go and be admired she wants to go and be lasted after because it's sexy for her.
00:23:29 Now maybe the means of the husband isn't lasting after her enough husband please left after your wife it's it's a it's a sin to not last after your wife it's a desperate deadly sin to not last up why am i so shiny.
00:23:41 Take off the shine i guess i have a new moisturizer i had to pick one up because i forgot it when i was away for a night so apparently my.
00:23:48 My new moisturizer is a combination of vaseline lacquer and castor oil.
00:23:56 So yeah i mean why why do all the women right this is a whole sign why do all the women want to go on a vacation without their husbands listen i can vaguely understand wanting to go on a vacation without your kids but i wouldn't do it.
00:24:07 But i wouldn't do it i mean i think it's really important to lean into an embrace having kids and recognize that once you have kids your life is just not the same like it's never gonna be the same you never gonna be single.
00:24:16 I am sorry you never gonna be childless again and for the rest of your life you have a piece of your heart walking around in the world that you hope the world will treat well so that's just like getting married you have to you have to.
00:24:29 This is a kind of abrupt but you literally have to murder your former self in order to be happy in a life change.
00:24:35 Right you have to maybe you have to have a ceremony but you have to put your former self in the grave in the ground in order to be happy in.
00:24:44 A new life right because if you're constantly looking back at your former self and looking at all the positives of that form of life you will never be contented in your new life.
00:24:53 So i was a guy who enjoyed chatting with women and enjoyed flirting with women i get into a long term relationship i get married i don't do that anymore and i don't look back at all it was great when i got to shower my riz on the planet that's not what you think it is just go look up the word.
00:25:10 But i don't look back with regret and say all that time was great and i know you have to take that part of yourself.
00:25:17 And you have to give it a loving strangle and throw it into the ground into a hole with no bottom if you wanna have a ceremony have a paralyzed the the step bought riz magnet who like to chat with women and ask them out and enjoyed that aspect of new things and.
00:25:31 We had a wonderful run you know he had a good good two decades good for him fantastic he did is proud and and he's dead is very sad and we gonna throw a couple of symbolic handfuls of grit in his face.
00:25:45 And we gonna move on to a wonderful life of monogamy marriage and children and then when you have children you have another ceremony where you take your.
00:25:54 Childless selves and you say well you know we had a great time being spontaneous we had a great time getting.
00:26:02 Enough sleep we had a great time having money we had a great time with spontaneous trips we had a great time.
00:26:09 With sleeping in you know that was that was great that was great and again loving strangle to the former self lowered into the ground and say that's it that's it.
00:26:19 I am remember the word risk because i've seen a bunch of times and it's short for charisma i think so.
00:26:24 Now of course instead of seducing women into my heart i now seduce i'm taking my risk skills and i'm seducing you into philosophy so that's that's good that's good.
00:26:37 Yeah you go travel with your kids i can understand if you want to travel just with your husband but you have to take away that.
00:26:46 Mostly solely romantic era of honeymoon and.
00:26:52 Early marriage you have to do take that and toss that that's dead that's gone that's done.
00:26:56 Right.
00:26:57 Part of my therapy was given my own eulogy for my old self now that's great if you get if you get used to lowering your earlier selves into the grave you can also lower your traumatized childhood into the grave and move on if that's what you had.
00:27:11 I had a zoomer explain riz last week during a business call these are the state of things.
00:27:20 I really enjoyed playing hide and seek but i had to move on oh yeah like this this meme it's like it hits you right in the feels right this meme hits you right in the feels it's a picture of a bunch of kids on bikes.
00:27:34 In in the early evening and it's like yeah when you were a kid there was that one day when you and your friends when i all out to play for the last time and none of you knew it.
00:27:47 That and i had something this week i won't really get into details but i had something this week that.
00:27:54 I had to lower into the grave my it was something that i've been doing for twelve years and i just had to lower it into the grave and move on and it's a little sad.
00:28:04 Because of course every moving on is.
00:28:08 A little step closer to dying right so every every past self you bury is getting closer to the great right so you stop playing with your friends so you can start.
00:28:16 Playing with girls you stop playing with girls so you can start marrying a girl you stop playing just with the girl is a single married guy or is a married guy without kids in order to have kids and.
00:28:26 You move on right i mean leaving high school is a little bittersweet because i mean i had a lot of fun in high school.
00:28:33 I enjoyed it and nothing to do with any of the academics but i had quite a blast in high school i was on the tennis team cross country team water polo team swimming team and i had a lot of fun.
00:28:45 With friends i threw parties i went to parties i had a lot of fun in high school situation because of course it didn't baked in automatic friends and companions and access to girls.
00:28:56 And all of that so yeah i had a blast and then i left high school and i went up to work up north so social life.
00:29:02 Did a little bit stuck in a tent with two other smoke what to smokers.
00:29:06 And so yeah it was.
00:29:10 Yeah.
00:29:12 I have skills i have got some i've got some skills.
00:29:17 I got some skills so yeah you gotta bury your former self and that just means that you're gonna bury your actual self eventually right so every time you move on every time you move on.
00:29:26 Right.
00:29:27 Every time you move on you are moving closer to death but what's the alternative.
00:29:33 The alternative is to not move on not getting to that next stage in life is really seductive isn't it.
00:29:41 Like staying in that previous stage staying in that price tag stage is not really seductive.
00:29:47 It's really seductive and i mean did you have friends who stayed got stuck in a stage or stayed in a stage.
00:30:00 Do you have a friend who stayed who got stuck in a stage they got stuck in an age.
00:30:06 I have a friend of mine anymore but i have a friend who was still basically doing the same things at forty that he was.
00:30:12 At seventeen i did some martial arts did some dungeons and dragons and had a job and yeah it's just basically the same thing right.
00:30:21 Right the devil is like stay here it's comfortable who you know how to do this.
00:30:29 Stay here man don't evolve don't grow that's scary that's alarming.
00:30:35 Stay here and i'll give you the illusion that if you don't grow you won't die.
00:30:39 Yes my kickboxing instructor is stuck in an eternal teen boy phase plays video games lives with parents age thirty one.
00:30:47 Yeah that's what the devil says oh hang out here it doesn't have to be forever but.
00:30:55 It's the peter pan thing right if you if you don't take on the next stages in life you don't have to be.
00:31:02 Insecure you don't have to have new challenges you don't have to figure out new skills you don't have to feel like an.
00:31:09 An idiot because you know you're good at this you're good at video games you're good at.
00:31:13 I'm mild floating on instagram you're you're good at this stuff you're good at dungeons and dragons you're good at.
00:31:20 Kicking around the vague edges of the martial arts world you you you know this you're good at this state stay with what you're good at don't move to something you're bad at.
00:31:31 Why would you voluntarily want to put yourself in a situation where you don't just feel incompetent you are incompetent i mean just stick here where you know what you're doing.
00:31:41 Look at all those people that are striving and striving on this treadmill for what why you got everything you need right here you get your friends you get your companions you got your.
00:31:51 Skills you got your confidence you got your confidence like why would you want to move on but.
00:31:59 People who play video games regularly after age twenty is weird to me at least use that time to learn a skill or find a hobby read books.
00:32:07 Well you should ask right you should ask.
00:32:12 People have been barred from competing out there in the real world i mean i mean it didn't particularly white males.
00:32:22 So.
00:32:27 People will take the artificial.
00:32:34 Sense of progress over the real sense of progress some of that's by design by the system and some of that is just taking that part of least resistance.
00:32:45 I mean personally i quite love feeling like an idiot.
00:32:52 I mean that's me and i'm not saying this is any better or worse i'm just saying that for me if i'm not feeling like an idiot if i'm not feeling at the edge of my competencies i'm just not doing something right which is why i'm always like surfing at the edge of what i can competently do in this show.
00:33:08 You constantly are you here just for the edge of failure we got a fall right.
00:33:16 I'm right here at the edge which is i think is where some of the great stuff comes like this and old david bowie quote like if you're not doing something uncomfortable you're not doing much of anything if you're not doing something edgy and dangerous and i find that kind of funny.
00:33:30 David bowie so edgy so dangerous what if people don't quite like my song when i already have a hundred million dollars what if people don't particularly like my new so edgy so dangerous.
00:33:42 You know when you've been through cancel culture and bomb threats and death threats when when a mega rich musician talks about being edgy and dangerous i just laugh i just laugh.
00:33:51 I just think that's so edgy so dangerous what if i change my hair what if i change my hair style people don't like it.
00:33:59 Oh such edge such danger i want to play dnd again now.
00:34:08 Well i've played with my daughter and some friends from time to time and it's a lot of fun it's a lot of fun.
00:34:13 Steph is a dm when yeah we've talked about that.
00:34:18 I play a lot of video games i despise it being playing them a lot since a very young age my mother hated me being outside alone playing in a sandbox making forts and digging holes.
00:34:27 Well of course video games now are social right.
00:34:34 Now video games are social would you play if i did it if i was a dm would you play.
00:34:39 Would you play if i was a dungeon master.
00:34:43 I am a very entertaining dungeon master as you can imagine the characters are very vivid in the situations are often quite absurd.
00:34:50 Well there's a way to do it online as well.
00:34:53 There's a way to do it online as well.
00:34:58 But yeah that could be fun that could be fun i'll bring dice for everyone.
00:35:03 Alright let me just get it yeah.
00:35:10 Alright i'm just waiting for Jared to give me a summary here how many people can play you should probably top out at five or six in the party.
00:35:19 Otherwise it gets a little too it gets a little too chaotic.
00:35:25 You've never been into dnd it's fantastic dnd is.
00:35:31 Such fertility for the imagination it's mind blowing just how good dnd is at storytelling for sustained something summoning of interest for inventiveness for creativity dnd is.
00:35:45 Absolutely fantastic.
00:35:49 Exercise for the brain i would never have any problems or hostility and also teaches you i mean dnd is kinda like gambling with abstractions.
00:35:56 So.
00:35:59 Yeah it's a really really good it's really really wonderful for the brain i mean it's really a very few better workouts for the brain.
00:36:07 You gotta have a good dungeon master yes for sure.
00:36:11 Yeah i mean we have we want to master i mean we give everyone a try i was i hate to say like of course i was very popular dungeon master but yeah we had one dungeon master who.
00:36:22 Who was kind of a dull guy bit of a monotone bit of a mumbler and his dungeon was as empty as a personality.
00:36:29 It's like that monty python story where he walks down the street opens the gate and nothing happens so we keep going into these rooms and it's like you see a dusty old chest in the corner any monsters no we go to the dusty old chest it's really tricky to open it you have to roll all these dice to open it you open it there's nothing inside it's like oh my god just went on and on empty rooms empty chambers it wasn't a dungeon it was a cry for help.
00:36:50 Dnd is a narcissist detection they can't wait their turn.
00:36:58 Very true very true.
00:37:00 I have anything else i think i've got nothing else.
00:37:07 Alright let's talk a wee smidge about the coins of bitness.
00:37:16 Honduras economic zone prospero recognizes bitcoin as a unit of account this means bitcoin acceptable for commercial tax and financial transactions.
00:37:26 That's pretty good.
00:37:28 Somebody nick a huber on on twitter said if you've been dating someone for more than three years you have two options get engaged break up there is zero exceptions grow up make a commitment and start a family yeah i've been talking about that lately.
00:37:45 Right here let's see.
00:37:48 I should be able to bookmark my categories but it's not my it's not my platform so i'm not gonna complain about it too much.
00:37:56 Google searches for bitcoin etf gone parabolic and i think it'll be next week i think it's a pretty much a done deal.
00:38:05 This is gonna funny i told my mom that apple pie taste a little weird this year and she goes really i was just a recipe that was a bit clumpy maybe it didn't blend well.
00:38:14 Take out the job to show me enough to very long pause i say mom.
00:38:18 It's not make expired twenty four years ago like november two thousand that's a little rough.
00:38:26 That's a little rough.
00:38:35 You hear about fertility collapses in south korea in japan and so on nowhere has been a more rapid collapse in fertility than in south america since twenty fifteen.
00:38:44 Argentina went from two point two four which is a little bit about replacement.
00:38:48 Argentina went from two point two four per couple to one point three six chile went from one point seven eight one point two five columbia went from one point nine four to one point five four.
00:38:58 It's absolutely wild absolutely wild.
00:39:02 This will write said there are really two big ideas that you need to understand to be bullish on bitcoin monetary debasement is programmed.
00:39:15 Overtime decades wealth will go from be controlled by boomers to a younger digitally native generation.
00:39:20 Yeah boomers don't get bitcoin digitally native.
00:39:23 I do right so for digitally native your social life is largely online and therefore for your economic life to be largely online is not beyond the pale right.
00:39:37 Mark davis wrote bitcoin reached sixty nine thousand without a usa bitcoin ETF without every institutional sales team pushing it to their clients without a hong kong ETF without fair accounting rules without dozens of major banking on ramps added in twenty twenty three no one is bullish enough.
00:39:54 Which i think is quite interesting.
00:39:58 Also bitcoin archive wrote on january fifth black rock has over two billion dollars lined up in week one for the bitcoin ETF says van x matthew seagull right so that means that that's what they're gonna be using to pump and push and all these kinds of great things.
00:40:14 Check back here for questions.
00:40:22 Bitcoin is based on nothing.
00:40:27 Okay i mean that's fine let's say bitcoin is based on nothing it's not based on it's not based on a gun to your head.
00:40:36 It's like a guy saying well you know asking a girl out is nothing it's based on nothing you just asking around.
00:40:45 So you should kidnap her locker in your van no no.
00:40:50 Steph is not having a social media presence a red flag to women it seems like everyone has an instagram dating all the way back to when they were still in school.
00:40:57 Am i supposed to know that is not having a social media presence a red flag to women okay youth dating social media presence women's preferences who were twenty i don't know apparently women don't like guys with android phones i have no idea.
00:41:13 I have no idea do you know actually i was playing trivia the other night with my wife and the question was asked and it was kind of interesting see if you guys know any of these trivia questions it was pretty neat.
00:41:25 What is the most what is the best selling video game franchise of all time what is.
00:41:31 The biggest selling of the biggest selling video franchise of all time do you know.
00:41:40 I didn't i thought i did but i did not biggest selling video franchise gta yeah i thought it was grand theft auto for sure but no.
00:41:51 But no call of duty yeah you guys are right you got it mario yeah mario is.
00:41:58 Mario.
00:42:04 Yeah apparently i didn't know that okay where were doritos invented where were doritos invented did you know this i didn't.
00:42:14 Where were doritos invented.
00:42:16 Do you know this one you know we just have a trivia forget it the rest is no philosophy we just do it a trivia game where were doritos invented.
00:42:27 And it wasn't multiple choice you literally had to pull the answers out of your butt so.
00:42:33 Has to be more specific no doritos were invented at.
00:42:38 Disney world they were invented at disney world.
00:42:42 Did not know that either did not know that either i'm fine with with with trivia i'm fine as long as someone can cover sports.
00:42:53 Because i know sfa about sports i don't follow it i don't care about it and so on right so.
00:43:00 Yeah i'm so if i got if i got a teammate like we play sometimes with another couple and if i got a team and he's really great on sports he's just like a sports accounting machine.
00:43:09 And so i can cover a bunch of stuff and if you got the sports like.
00:43:16 What's we got in my wife got a good good conflict good argument or a good debate the woman was like how many planets are there in the solar system i said eight and my wife said nine because pluto has been elevated back to planet but apparently not pluto is not a planet pluto is a dwarf planet.
00:43:32 Pluto is a dwarf planet.
00:43:35 And.
00:43:38 So my wife is having a debate to planet.
00:43:43 And the woman's like that's not a planet and my wife said well i'm sure i'm still a wife i'm short wife anyway so funny it was very good natured exchange a lot of fun.
00:43:53 Alright.
00:43:55 So i don't know we probably won't do trivia for the rest of time but i just thought it was.
00:44:00 Wait no tips for my trivia questions i'm shocked i'm absolutely shocked.
00:44:07 So let's go here okay so in the we check mark on step was right.
00:44:14 I mean i remember something i wasn't particularly right about so i did a video way back in the day saying of course they should never be mask mandates but i did accept that masks could prevent you from touching your face,
00:44:26 and might have some benefit in terms of not giving you the virus because you're not touching your face i didn't think that it ever stop airborne stuff in particular but it doesn't seem to be the case.
00:44:37 What about trivia on tips maybe maybe just maybe.
00:44:47 But yeah so i mean it does it seems like it's pretty hard to find any positive effects on mask so there's something that i was i mean.
00:44:54 I'm not trying to hedge like i wasn't like masks will save us but.
00:44:58 People reach around masks to scratch i don't know the fit i mean i knew that they didn't stop right do music trivia don't start don't get me started don't get me started.
00:45:08 So.
00:45:12 Anyway so i did a video about the oncoming plagiarism wars a couple of days ago right so you know claudine gay has resigned.
00:45:21 As a president of harvard but she still maintaining her teaching position and her nine hundred thousand dollar a year salary it's amazing to me that harvard is sitting on billions of dollars and still gets government money like it's not that amazing right.
00:45:33 Don't stop me now one of the best songs songs in history by the way it's so well song just listen to the vocals isolated loans incredible.
00:45:42 But.
00:45:42 There is now a plagiarism wars.
00:45:46 It is now the plagiarism wars are upon us i was predicting couple of days ago that there was going to be an examination of all academics with regards to plagiarism that the plagiarism wars.
00:45:59 Have started and so i've been following this with a great interest of course and we're gonna get into.
00:46:08 The the plagiarism wars are so the person to know with the plagiarism wars is bill ackman.
00:46:14 I mean bill ackman is a great name for a guy who attacks people.
00:46:20 Bill ackman i mean if i was a.
00:46:22 I am.
00:46:23 If i was one of the simulation guys will get the guy who's currently on the attack is bill ackman i mean literally the the.
00:46:34 Anti-aircraft guns are called a cat guns like that i kidding.
00:46:37 Bill ackman is an american investor hedge fund manager and philanthropist is the founder and ceo of pershing square capital management hedge fund management company.
00:46:45 Ackman is known for his contrarian and sometimes activist investing style often taking a large position if you keep stocks and occasionally engaging with the management of companies in which you invest to advocate for changes.
00:46:55 That he believes will increase shareholder value.
00:46:57 Now so this is a description.
00:47:01 If you're an activist investor usually a pushing a wokey agenda which is usually to the negative of shareholder value but whatever whatever right.
00:47:09 Ackman has been involved in various high-profile investment actions including his bets against bond insurer mbia and his massive short position against the nutritional.
00:47:17 Supplement company herbal life which he publicly labeled a pyramid scheme.
00:47:21 He holds a bachelor of arts degree from harvard college and an nba from harvard business school.
00:47:30 So he's been making headlines recently he's been vocal in his criticism of the response to anti-semitism at some of the us's top schools including harvard the university of pennsylvania and.
00:47:39 MIT right so this is because of the october attack on israel and then israel's response and so on.
00:47:46 He's called for the president of these institutions to resign after they appeared hesitant to denounce calls for violence against the jewish population during a congressional hearing in december.
00:47:56 In a recent development of course claudia gay resigned after her response anti-semitism and alleged plagiarism i'm not sure that it's still alleged but i haven't been following i think it's beyond alleged but you know i'm not gonna stand to the death on that iceberg.
00:48:11 So let's see.
00:48:16 Other news he recently covered his bed against long-term treasuries believing that investors may increasingly.
00:48:21 Turn to bonds as a safe haven because of growing geopolitical risks he made a hundred fold profit by hedging his investments using credit default swaps after predicting an economic shutdown resulting from the onset of the covert nineteen pandemic.
00:48:31 So january 3rd twenty twenty four he wrote an article how to fix harvard.
00:48:42 In the free press ignore addresses concerns regarding harvard university's policies and environment particularly in relation to the d.i. movement.
00:48:49 And he quote quote under the i want to agree if oppression is determined based upon where one resides on a so-called intersectional pyramid of oppression where whites jews and asians are deemed oppressors and a subset of people of color lgbtq people and or women are deemed to be.
00:49:04 Oppressed so just so you know i mean it's not oppression.
00:49:10 Non oppression in particular it's who votes for the left and has enough votes to change things.
00:49:17 All right he criticized the d.i. movement alleging it promotes a divisive ideology the cataclysm categorizes individuals into a process and a press based on race sexual identity and gender.
00:49:27 He argues this approach undermines the american values of democracy and equality of opportunity promoting instead a harmful focus on equality of outcome.
00:49:34 Yeah make sense right.
00:49:37 So he also discusses the impact of d.i. on harvard's administrative decisions including the presidential selection process.
00:49:46 Fair right.
00:49:48 All right so he the article says harvard must once again become a meritocratic institution that is not discriminate for or against faculty or students based on their skin color.
00:49:59 I mean all of this stuff is i mean it's really it's one of the reasons why.
00:50:06 One of the reasons why it's.
00:50:09 Kind of boring to talk about this kind of stuff.
00:50:14 The reason being that i mean if you want to meritocracy it's very simple right.
00:50:19 It's very simple all you do is you take.
00:50:23 Name race sex or any other identifying characteristics you take those off the application so it's completely blind to all of these things that's all you do.
00:50:33 That's all you do i mean but of course nobody wants to do that because of these reasons right so.
00:50:37 So.
00:50:41 So after he wrote this article.
00:50:47 Sorry i just need a bit of confirmation here i don't think it's someone i thought it was business insider can you just double check on that.
00:51:00 I think it was business insider let me i think i've got some tweets bookmarked so i need to go and check that.
00:51:05 I think it was a publication business insider that.
00:51:10 Accused bill ackman's wife of plagiarism.
00:51:16 And.
00:51:22 That's not particularly fair to go after someone's wife it's not particularly fair i don't think she's much of a public figure.
00:51:28 And i also don't think that her degree is central to what she does.
00:51:35 Right.
00:51:36 I mean it to take it this is not her but to take an example of why it's not particularly relevant if you're a dentist but you got an undergraduate degree in english and it turns out that you had some plagiarism issues.
00:51:50 In your undergraduate degree in english it may not be great but it's not like you're making money from your english degree is not like you're a professor of english and display somebody else.
00:51:59 And the plagiarism thing is a very big deal like the very very big deal because.
00:52:04 Plagiarism of course is stealing somebody else's ideas passing them off as your own and gaining some particular significant reward.
00:52:13 Thereby it's really tough if if bob steals an idea from jane publishes at his own bob gets the job the jane otherwise would have gotten then he gets the job from jane and then of course jane is also kind of screwed because.
00:52:27 When jane promotes her idea everyone says well no that's bob's idea you're the plagiarist and then you get into this huge.
00:52:32 Battle it is straight up fraud and theft and it's not it's not great.
00:52:40 So yes the business insider accused bill's wife of plagiarism.
00:52:47 So that was not great at all.
00:52:51 Now of course there's a lot of great areas when it comes to plagiarism so if you say if you start talking about something like the separation of church and state right.
00:53:03 Then you don't have to reference that right because that's a common leaks nobody would think that you invented the idea of the separation of church and state.
00:53:10 If you talk about democracy you don't have to talk about democratists right.
00:53:16 Put no democracy right because everybody under like if it's known that you didn't come up with that idea.
00:53:22 Then i don't think i'm not an expert in the laws of plagiarism of the rules of plagiarism but i you know if i say if i write that the world is a sphere i don't have to reference our committee's nobody thinks that i'm.
00:53:34 Guy who came up with the idea that the earth is a sphere so if it's common knowledge that is not your idea i don't think you have to be a strict.
00:53:40 One of the things you're not supposed to quote wikipedia because it's wikipedia and it's also shifting sands things can change.
00:53:47 And you're not allowed to paraphrase and and so on so you really do have to be very very strict about if it's somebody else's argument or somebody else's idea.
00:53:57 You either have to put it in quotes and you not allowed to paraphrase and you have to give them.
00:54:04 Do you do credit for what they have contributed.
00:54:13 It's just that she didn't cite references well again i haven't gone into detail about the accusations because you know she's not an academic i don't think.
00:54:23 Didn't cite references ok.
00:54:27 So did she just not put things in quotes with the indented but not putting quotes ok that's you know anyway that there's a lot of gray areas with regards to.
00:54:36 I play for some also you can have inadvertent plagiarism you think the idea is common knowledge maybe it's not you meant to cite someone you forgot you know and particularly in the past.
00:54:46 Right in the past before word processors man oh man it was brutal brutal to get this kind of stuff.
00:54:52 Organized and so on so there's some great areas and also you know if somebody's published a hundred papers and there's one instance of plagiarism that's different from somebody who's published one paper and there's one instance of.
00:55:04 Play dress and so on so yeah it's it's tough it's tough so it's it's a complicated issue and generally.
00:55:13 It is hard to detect now of course things have changed right things have changed what's the big factor that's changed that now you can detect plagiarism very easily.
00:55:24 What is the one thing that has changed now play dress and it's pretty dead simple to detect.
00:55:31 And cheap it's dirt cheap and dead simple to to detect plagiarism.
00:55:35 What is the change what is happened.
00:55:40 Yeah that's right hey I have a eyes it's a word guess or it's a pattern recognition algorithm for words right.
00:55:49 So.
00:55:56 This is really something and the the creation of a and it's incredible ability to detect patterns is.
00:56:06 It's the nuclear it's the mutually assured destruction weapon of mass destruction for academia.
00:56:14 It's really really something.
00:56:20 I compare the software have had that my whole life even in sixth grade i submitted to turn it in dot com yes that's true i compare the software has been around for a long time but has there been a motive or an incentive to run everyone's published work.
00:56:34 Do that.
00:56:36 Has there been a motive for an incentive for to run everyone's published work through that.
00:56:42 So that's the big question.
00:56:47 Motive and incentive so this is what bill ackerman wrote.
00:56:53 Last night no one at MIT had a good night's sleep i think i'm not don't quote me on this but i think someone in charge and jared if you check this someone in charge at MIT has a relationship to business insider and i think that.
00:57:07 Bill ackerman perceives that someone high up at MIT was the source for his wife's dissertation and all the all these kinds of things right.
00:57:16 So he said he posted this i think yesterday last night no one at MIT had a good night's sleep.
00:57:23 Yesterday evening shortly after i posted that we were launching a plagiarism review of all current MIT faculty president corn bluth members of MIT's administration board and its board i'm sure that an audible collective gasp could be heard around the campus why.
00:57:39 Well every faculty member knows that once their work is targeted by AI they will be added.
00:57:45 Nobody have written work in academia can survive the power of AI searching for missing quotation marks failures to paraphrase appropriately and or the failure to probably properly credit the work of others.
00:57:57 Wow.
00:58:03 But it wasn't just the MIT faculty that did not sleep last night the harvard faculty is governing board members and its administrative leadership did not sleep either because why would we stop at MIT.
00:58:14 Did don't we have to do a deep dive into academic integrity at harvard as well what about yale princeton stanford penn dartmouth you get the point.
00:58:24 Well we are going to do a detailed review of plagiarism at MIT we're not going to be the only ones who do so.
00:58:29 Every college and university in the world is going to have to do the same for themselves they will do so because they will need to validate all plagiarism accusations or someone else will do it for them.
00:58:40 The best approach, however, is probably to launch an AI startup to do this job I would be interested in investing in one as there is plenty of work to do and many institutions won't have the resources to do it on their own.
00:58:53 Perhaps more importantly the donors are going to demand that the review is done by an independent third party for who is going to trust higher education to review itself.
00:59:01 Consider the inherently irreconcilable conflicts of interest would you trust today's university president to do an examination of their faculty.
00:59:09 What are the chances that the reviews would be weaponized to go after faculty members whose politics were not favored by leadership.
00:59:16 We've seen this before with other tools used by university presidents and their deans consider the weaponization he says of me to accusations speech codes and other tactics of cancellation that have destroyed free speech on campus and many faculty members reputations careers and their families.
00:59:30 And what if plagiarism what if a plagiarism review turned into incredible embarrassment for the entire university.
00:59:39 It could lead to wholesale firings of faculty donors terminating their donations federal funding being withdrawn and a massive litigious conflagration where faculty members and universities sue one another about what is plagiarism and what is not.
00:59:50 Think about the inevitable destruction of the reputations of thousands of faculty members as it rolls out around the country and perhaps the world.
00:59:58 Wild.
01:00:03 Anyway it's a very long tweet.
01:00:09 But let's just skip a bunch it's well worth reading.
01:00:12 He says now that we know that the academic body of work of every faculty member at every college and university in the country and eventually the world is going to be reviewed for plagiarism it's important to ask what the implications are going to be.
01:00:22 If every faculty member is held to the current plagiarism standards of their own institutions and universities enforce their own rules that would likely they would likely have to terminate the substantial majority of their faculty members.
01:00:35 Well and this is my sort of comment on it so I mean one of the reasons is that original creative thought has been smashed into oblivion in universities over the last couple of decades.
01:00:48 Like creative original thought has been smashed into oblivion.
01:00:52 Now creative original thought is the best defense against a plagiarism.
01:01:00 Right original like creative original thought is the best defense against plagiarism.
01:01:05 Pretty wild.
01:01:10 And creative original thought has been absolutely banned the critical thought database thought has been absolutely banned from universities.
01:01:18 I was probably just getting in under the wire with my graduate thesis.
01:01:24 So I was just getting in under the wire and.
01:01:27 It was just I could see it like a rolling tsunami of blood soaked zombie bones just coming right after me I was like indiana jay I didn't even reach back to get my hat as the door was coming down on original thought.
01:01:41 That's one of the reasons why I didn't go for.
01:01:45 The the PhD which I was interested in but I also was twenty seven or whatever and I was like seven years to get a PhD.
01:01:52 And then five years to get tenure I'm not gonna have a regular paycheck till I'm forty and I want to have a family so that wasn't really a thing.
01:01:58 So.
01:02:01 I think that the plagiarism is gonna be brutal and the more woke the people are the worst the plagiarism is gonna be.
01:02:10 So that's gonna be that's really gonna be rough as a whole.
01:02:15 So.
01:02:19 The other thing too is that if I mean the amount of again I'm no lawyer obviously but the amount of legal jeopardy just seems enormous.
01:02:29 I mean if for instance universities had received plagiarism allegations against people.
01:02:38 Right if if university head and I as far as I understand it some of the stuff that was going on with.
01:02:43 Claudia may have been known beforehand there was certainly some suspicions so if universities had received.
01:02:51 Accusations of plagiarism and of course the person who's being plagiarized will usually complain if they've received it but not acted upon it.
01:03:00 I think that that's not great so I'm not gonna talk about the legal system I'm not gonna talk about anything to do with existing laws I'm talking to talk about and sort of an ideal system.
01:03:09 That I would imagine that in a sort of an ideal free market and cab legal system that.
01:03:16 If students were disciplined if students were failed if students were.
01:03:27 Expelled for plagiarism and the university knew about plagiarism in the faculty but did nothing.
01:03:34 That to me would be an actionable but offense right like you you you kicked me out for plagiarism but you also knew that your faculty were plagiarizing and didn't do anything about them because.
01:03:44 Kicking someone out for plagiarism is obviously how many their economic interest and costing them all the money they've invested in time they've invested in their education.
01:03:51 And so if there's if you're protecting the faculty for the same thing that you're expelling the students for that would be.
01:03:56 I think that would be liable again not in any existing system I don't know about to me in a reasonable system that would be the case.
01:04:02 So.
01:04:05 Bill.
01:04:11 Ackerman goes on to say if every faculty members held to the current plagiarism standards of their own institutions.
01:04:16 I'm sorry mention that he says over the last few weeks and months I have literally received hundreds of texts emails hand and typewritten letters and cards and phone calls of support and tens if not hundreds of thousands of.
01:04:28 Posts and replies on X from friends and strangers alumni alumni sorry faculty and students.
01:04:34 Senior leaders of foreign countries US senators and members of congress high profile members of the media and several presidential candidates for my efforts to help address the problems at Harvard MIT Penn.
01:04:43 And the higher education system at large.
01:04:46 All that said most of been pessimistic about the opportunity for necessary changes as nearly everyone believes that it will take decades to fix the problem because of the life.
01:04:54 Tenure system for faculty right so.
01:04:56 Tenure is a system put in I think in the nineteen sixties it was a sensibly to protect academics from being fired.
01:05:03 For controversial opinions all of course it did was guarantee that nobody with any controversial opinions would ever be hired so this is another reason why academia has become so.
01:05:12 Monolithic and mono quote thought right side of the thorn right.
01:05:16 The good news is however that with a I says bill getting rid of like we're on a first syllable basis.
01:05:23 He calls me who the hell are you and why are you in my shower.
01:05:26 He says the good news however is that with a I getting rid of tenured faculty is no longer as much of a challenge because it is much easier to fire faculty who have problems with their academic record.
01:05:34 It is a near certainty that authors will miss some quotation marks and fail to properly site or provide attribution for another author on at least a modest percentage of the paper of the pages of their papers.
01:05:44 I say percentage of pages rather than number of instances as the plagiarism of today can be best understood by comparison to spelling mistakes prior to.
01:05:52 The advent of spellcheck anyways so to go on by that.
01:05:56 So.
01:05:58 He says if you think about what plagiarism standards were designed for the purpose was to protect scholars from the theft of their intellectual property.
01:06:05 And protecting intellectual property is critically important as it is the livelihood of our authors composers researchers designers architects artists companies and effectively all modern institutions.
01:06:16 I'm not a big fan of anybody we have to get it right okay interestingly well a I can identify plagiarism a I itself is the ultimate plagiarist large language models are by design built off the work of others.
01:06:27 As competent as computers have no knowledge at least not yet and does the new york times is a lawsuit against open AI as a result of all of this.
01:06:36 So this is going to be a very interesting and.
01:06:44 Anyone going to address the Bible has stories taken from other cultures.
01:06:52 Oh my good friend that's not the answer the answer is the Bible.
01:06:58 Is sourced by God God is the ultimate footnote to the Bible and of course the Bible.
01:07:06 That is dictated by God God is going to dictate to more than one culture.
01:07:13 That's like seeing well a whole bunch of people who saw the Oppenheimer movie know the story of the Oppenheimer movie there for those people a plagiarizing no.
01:07:20 No they're not it's just one author one source.
01:07:24 So this is going to be very interesting this is going to be very interesting.
01:07:33 It's gonna be very interesting now you know who's responsible for this fundamentally do you know who's making all of this happen or allowing for all of this to happen why is all of this happening there's one guy there's one guy.
01:07:45 There's one guy just one guy who laid out his life for you and I hate to say it I hate to say it ain't me.
01:07:59 Yeah it's Elon Musk yeah and without Twitter being under Elon Musk this story would never have hit the light of day because criticizing Claudia would have got people bad.
01:08:11 Sting yes things the guy who did it sting more Twitter you could have I guess so.
01:08:17 I know it's because of Twitter.
01:08:23 It's because of Twitter.
01:08:24 I did this show many many years ago should look it up on free speech who supports free speech well white males.
01:08:30 The biggest free speech absolutist on the planet which is why the culture is so hostile to white males right so.
01:08:37 That's right.
01:08:39 That's right.
01:08:42 Should listen to it's probably me but with the Eric Clapton guitar and that saxophone is fantastic.
01:08:51 Yes it's it's really only because of this so you can see why the fakers hate him so much right.
01:09:00 The fakers hate him so much everyone and this means he's gonna be for the target and all kinds of stuff all kinds of stuff so yeah it's really something.
01:09:09 Quite something.
01:09:14 Free speech is incredible but free speech exposes.
01:09:19 Sophist free speech exposes.
01:09:22 Sophist.
01:09:24 But of course plagiarism as a general concept of sort of make a moral case here plagiarism is a general concept.
01:09:31 Is only important because of government funding.
01:09:37 My plagiarism of the concept is only important because of government funding.
01:09:40 The purpose of higher education should be to provide value for society.
01:09:49 Now the fact is though that higher education you and Walter Block had an article about this many years ago.
01:09:56 Dr. Walter Block I wouldn't want to plagiarize his name so.
01:10:01 If your surname is your employment act man is acknowledging men.
01:10:08 Well I don't think it fits with this one though but.
01:10:10 So.
01:10:13 You get tenure and ten years you basically can't be fired and you get a small to block was talking many years ago about like I only work a couple hours a week for a hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year and he was sort of celebrating all of this.
01:10:25 Which I mean I've used the argument of course that education will never bring about a free market because even those who are incredibly well educated have PhDs on the value of the free market.
01:10:38 They love getting paid by the government and protected by the government so even if you gave everyone a PhD.
01:10:44 In free market economics in the value free market economics that still wanna work for the government and be protected and paid by the government and of course they got all the justifications but yeah it's all.
01:10:54 All the best nonsense I don't really have much I mean to me and I made this case many many years ago like if you're a free market academic once podcasting opened up you had no excuse to stay in academia no excuse you reach more people.
01:11:05 As a podcaster and you actually in the free market and you can work as much or as little as you want and.
01:11:11 So why didn't people quit academia and say oh finally I can reach more because we are the academics who are free market academics well I can reach more I can reach people I can teach people about the free market is like yes but three hypocrisy.
01:11:23 You should be in the free market the free market is fantastic while i hang on to my government protected government subsidized job.
01:11:29 What is that but yeah everyone who is a free market economist should have left the should have left academia.
01:11:36 And gone into the free market that they love and claim to adore so much that i don't i didn't see what.
01:11:42 Do me if you look it up tell me am i wrong tell me.
01:11:46 Tell me did any.
01:11:52 Did any academic leave academia.
01:11:58 And move to the free market who's a free market advocate.
01:12:03 Any.
01:12:06 I mean it's it's an example of how corrupt how corrupting the government is that even the free market economist will cling to their government.
01:12:15 Teach rather than join the free market because they say well the free market is quality the free market is reach the free market is integrity okay so if you leave your academic post and you get go into the podcasting world you get reach integrity you get a greater value and right.
01:12:32 Tom what's did he quit his academic job jordan peterson half and half.
01:12:43 Yeah i mean i'm not saying there aren't any of course i mean i couldn't think of any but you jordan peterson i keep these pro free market right and he went into the free market it good for him.
01:12:52 Tom woods he was an academic is that right i don't know see an academic diversity.
01:12:58 We love the time we love the time.
01:13:02 Thomas thomas the goat so.
01:13:05 Does not an endorsement don't don't hate on him just because of me it's not his fault i like him.
01:13:12 So.
01:13:13 Alright let me just get to your what was he was he a tenured academic did he have tenure.
01:13:24 I'm not saying somebody who taught for a year or two at university i'm talking about somebody who is a free market academic who had tenure and quit tenure in order to pursue the free market.
01:13:41 Eric weinstein.
01:13:43 It's your free market academic another year.
01:13:48 Very pro lockdown if i remember right the very pro lockdown so i'm not sure about that.
01:13:57 Alright let me get.
01:14:02 His brother was super liberal.
01:14:09 Alright let's see here i'm gonna get to thank you for that time maybe that's an indulgence of mine but i like it when a prediction comes true that i made that quickly that they were gonna be plagiarism was and boom off they come now.
01:14:20 Somebody asks why do some people who are nasty to others insult themselves first for example an online bully whose screen name is a slur.
01:14:29 Is it a pejorative preemptive strike against oneself so you couldn't retaliate well i call myself any hole so you can't hurt me.
01:14:36 Why are you interested in how trans name themselves.
01:15:00 I'm a little curious as to why that would be of interest some questions i'm just because i don't find the question too interesting doesn't mean the question isn't interesting it just may not be particularly tickling me so can you tell me.
01:15:14 Why.
01:15:18 That's of interest to you.
01:15:21 I don't have those limitations but i won't get into that.
01:15:34 I mean don't we all don't we all.
01:15:37 Worship no one except your own potential worship no one and nothing except your own potential.
01:15:49 Yeah i just i mean why trolls insult themselves first.
01:15:52 I'm with you seems like a very very specialised kind of problem i'm not sure it would appeal to too many in the largest fear.
01:16:14 The active just while waiting for that response i don't the person still around but the plagiarism thing is gonna be it's gonna further divide people into those who now have to say plagiarism isn't a big deal.
01:16:25 And those who understand that it is a big deal and it's just a further split a further split of reality.
01:16:34 Propaganda is designed to separate people from reality and set them against anyone who tells the truth.
01:16:43 Anyone listens to tech lead youtuber who got fired from big tech companies now makes work.
01:16:47 Videos.
01:16:49 Tech lead is that the asian guy that is a japanese guy ready got divorced and.
01:16:54 He got he got divorced and he's having trouble seeing his kids and all of that.
01:17:00 Is the guy who like i was being paid a million dollars at but i was technically that you too but i think i watched him a couple years ago somewhat interesting but his personal life to seem like too much of a mess.
01:17:11 To listen to him too much about life i mean that whether that's right or wrong i just have that kind of.
01:17:16 Prejudice right or or you know it's a sort of filtering mechanism that if somebody's personal life is a complete mess i'm not particularly interested in what they have to say about things.
01:17:26 Things as a whole.
01:17:31 I mean a married woman i think you just bugged out on him and he's having real trouble seeing his kid and.
01:17:35 I'm gonna say oh well that's you know that's the system yeah it's the system but you know people know that's the system so i think kind of responsible for being in that in that system.
01:17:48 All right i want to do a short show but i gotta tell you i came in with a big topic i mean i have other topics i could certainly talk about but if there's anything i'm not catching from you guys.
01:17:57 Please to let me know and please to let me know miss scroll down here for my other topics i always like to have.
01:18:05 I always like to have backup topics in case we don't have to chatty for crowd.
01:18:16 What else did i have here.
01:18:18 I mean it's almost like the fertility rate of the world knows that ai and robots are coming.
01:18:34 I mean dig deep thank you i appreciate that dig deep folks and not even that deep but i appreciate appreciate it.
01:18:42 So you can also of course tip at freedom dot com slash donate freedom dot com slash donate.
01:18:50 So.
01:18:53 I am robots.
01:18:57 That is a wild thing man that is a wild thing.
01:19:01 You know that there's robots i can clean drapes there's robots that you can send it events to clean the vents that the robots can do just about anything and you can buy the AI with the robots and.
01:19:12 How like so what.
01:19:18 So for all of human evolution it's been a break even game almost all the human evolution except for last maybe two hundred years right so for almost all of human evolution it's been a zero.
01:19:27 Zero some game right so you have kids your kids live.
01:19:31 And they produce just enough food for their own kids and they produce just just enough food to keep some of the old people alive and there's no access no extra right.
01:19:40 Everyone is necessary and almost nobody is expendable everyone is necessary and almost nobody's expendable so if you have somebody with an IQ kinda low whatever the still stuff they can do that is a value that can produce enough to keep at least them alive and maybe a couple of kids.
01:19:56 So the caloric expenditures you know there's an old quote from from dickens which basically says.
01:20:03 I have to paraphrase with modern equivalence you know income fifty thousand dollars a year expenses fifty thousand dollars five hundred a year result misery income fifty thousand dollars a year expenses forty nine thousand five hundred dollars a year result happiness.
01:20:20 And it's the same thing with human beings you know whatever caloric requirements depends if you're you know a single young woman or a pregnant woman or a you know hard exercising kinda guy you know fifteen hundred twenty five hundred calories or whatever.
01:20:33 So let's say two thousand calories.
01:20:36 You know expenditures two thousand.
01:20:39 And one calories income two thousand calories results disaster expenditure two thousand.
01:20:48 Expenditure nineteen hundred and ninety nine calories calories in two thousand results survival and happiness right so it's been that much of a razor thin wire for almost all of human evolution.
01:21:00 And now.
01:21:02 We have massive excess calories.
01:21:05 It's really i mean my daughter has showed me a couple of these videos a british videos from a i don't know about a decade ago or eight years ago.
01:21:13 Could secret eater something like that and these people also yes i only only about two thousand calories a day with something like that right some i mean that's a that a british accent in the style of dick van dyke which is to say pretty bad.
01:21:26 So.
01:21:28 Yeah they say i only two thousand calories i don't know why i'm getting way to only two thousand calories a day and then they send the measure everything they eat the cameras in the home and the guys don't even know.
01:21:37 That they got two p.i. following the round recording everything they eat.
01:21:41 And one guy used to be marathon assess i only twenty five hundred calories a day and it'll be almost eight thousand calories a day.
01:21:47 So i mean this is staggering.
01:21:50 Absolutely staggering and you know we're designed to eat excess particularly if you back if your ancestors came from a winter climate cold climate we designed to eat.
01:21:59 Access right because you don't know when you next meal is coming.
01:22:03 Especially the hunters right you don't know when you next of course you gonna eat access you have to eat access.
01:22:08 Because you can't keep the food anyway right you you.
01:22:12 You pick out on dear because you don't know when the next year is coming and you can't put the deer in a fridge i guess you could freeze it in the winter whatever right but.
01:22:20 It's also hard to find the deer in the winter so yeah it's pretty wild.
01:22:26 It's pretty one.
01:22:29 So.
01:22:36 Now we have an access.
01:22:41 Of food and we are going to have very soon i mean it's already happening but we're gonna have a deficiency of demand.
01:22:50 For the average person.
01:22:52 Because so many of the average people can be replaced by robots and i.
01:22:58 It's pretty rough so.
01:23:03 This is really really gonna be be pretty wild that's a big factor in society the other big factor in society is going to be the tsunami of mental destabilization that's coming from all the women who are passing forty.
01:23:17 Without boyfriends.
01:23:19 That's gonna be rough that's gonna be one of the roughest things in human history now lord knows a lot of no snooze i did what i could to try and prevent that but.
01:23:29 The massive wave of women who are gonna experiencing crushing anxiety depression and rage because they pass into their forties and fifties and can't get a date.
01:23:40 My gosh.
01:23:42 That when the sexual market value has collapsed and all the high value men that they want want younger women are already in relationships.
01:23:49 Man that is gonna be one of the most destabilizing things that.
01:23:53 Society has ever ever experienced particularly because of the political power right.
01:23:59 Alright let me get to your questions any thoughts on the upcoming bitcoin ETF yet done that already time.
01:24:07 Did you get balls for christmas she did and she did and she took some back.
01:24:16 Do i have another presentation on a coming now.
01:24:20 Let's see here do you have a rendition of polonius advice hilarious.
01:24:25 I don't know if i've done that i'm happy to do it.
01:24:29 Alright yet polonius is very interesting character.
01:24:38 Very very interesting character because he's an idiot and a buffoon who has some of the wisest things shakespeare used his characters as a mouthpiece for his own poetic.
01:24:47 Genius so he's not his characters not particularly consistent.
01:24:53 So he gives advice to a feeling and then i just wanna say.
01:25:04 Yes so he says.
01:25:12 To his son who sailing he says the wind sits in the shoulder of your sale and you stayed for their kisses my blessing with.
01:25:23 And these few precepts in my memory.
01:25:26 See now.
01:25:30 Give my thoughts no tongue no any unproportional thought his act.
01:25:37 Be now familiar but by no means vulgar.
01:25:41 Those friends now has and their adoption tried to grapple them to buy sold with hoops of steel.
01:25:48 But do not tell that palm with entertainment of each new hatched and fledged comrade.
01:25:55 Beware of entrance to a quarrel but being in bear it that the opposed may beware of the.
01:26:01 Give every man that year but few thy voice.
01:26:06 Take each man's censure but reserve that judgment.
01:26:11 Costly thy habit is thy purse can buy but not expressed in fancy rich not gaudy.
01:26:21 For the apparel after proclaims the man and they in France of the best rank and station are of a most select and generous chief in that.
01:26:29 Neither a borrower nor a lender be for loan off loses both itself and friend and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
01:26:40 This above all.
01:26:44 To thine own self be true.
01:26:47 And it must follow as the night the day thou can't not then be false to any man.
01:26:53 Farewell my blessing season this in the.
01:26:59 I mean this fantastic I mean I must have read this a billion times as a teenager because you grew up without a father and you've got to grab them from text right.
01:27:11 See thou character.
01:27:13 It's a man's character that matters right give their thoughts no time.
01:27:18 Right don't unpack your heart to everyone because so many people will use your thoughts against you.
01:27:24 Nor any unproportioned thought his act.
01:27:27 Act in proportion right so if you're angry don't punch a guy or run away right proportion to the act right.
01:27:34 Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar right so you can be popular by dragging people down to a low level right but don't do that so be friendly but not vulgar.
01:27:42 So the friends you have and their adoption tried grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel so somebody who's proven to be a good friend in a time of emergency or panic or danger hang on to that person.
01:27:54 But do not dull thy palm with entertainment.
01:27:57 I'm.
01:27:59 Do not dull thy palm with entertainment of each new hatched unfledged comrade right so don't fall into all of these new people big friends drinking buddies or whatever that's no good.
01:28:08 Beware of entrance to a quarrel but being in bear that the opposed may beware of thee so yeah I don't stop fights I end them try to avoid quarrels this has been my philosophy forever and ever amen.
01:28:19 Try to avoid quarrels as much as possible but if you're in one you know fight as hard as you possibly can.
01:28:27 Give every man thy ear but few thy voice yeah listen listen to people but don't give advice much don't give your feedback much take each man's censure but reserve thy judgment right so somebody criticize you notice that they criticize you but don't judge them as being accurate or correct right.
01:28:44 Costly thy habitus thy purse can buy but not expressed in fancy rich not gaudy for the apparel of proclaims the man well so this is to do with appearance right don't don't be shabby don't be right penny wise pound foolish right.
01:28:57 Neither a borrower nor lender be yeah cuz if you lend money to a friend you gonna lose the loan and your friend and if you borrow money you won't cut your expenses right fantastic and it must follow with the night today oh yeah this above all to then own self be true now that's.
01:29:10 Be yourself no matter what they say we got a sting theme tonight but.
01:29:15 To then own self be true that's kind of tough right cuz that's the just be true yourself it's hard to know exactly what that means but i think what it means for me is you got a bunch of gut instincts that you can over talk with your chattering brain.
01:29:26 Don't do that listen to your gut instincts your deep self be true to your essence and be true to your instincts listen to your instincts right.
01:29:34 For then sir.
01:29:38 To then own self be true and it must follow as the night today that can't not then be false to any man right.
01:29:43 If you are if you deeply on your own thoughts integrity and instincts.
01:29:48 You can't be false to any man and what that means of course at least i stay with that means of course like i have some sort of final answer but what that refers to in my humble opinion is that.
01:30:03 He doesn't say you won't lie to anyone but you won't be false to them you won't have to pretend you're something other than who you are in order to gain favor if you're true to yourself.
01:30:14 Englishmen in new york catches the scrap.
01:30:18 Catches the scrap.
01:30:24 Have you heard of gentle parenting it overlaps with peaceful parenting but include some other questionable aspects.
01:30:29 Yeah i think gentle parenting is a unparenting isn't it like your kids are always right you don't correct them you don't give them any feedback you don't give them you're not you're not a leader you don't have any authority you don't guide them anywhere it's terrible.
01:30:41 I think it's absolutely terrible children need to be raised you gotta be a leader you gotta help people.
01:30:50 So yeah i mean i mean.
01:30:55 Shakespeare jams this speech into polonius is mouth because polonius is kind of an officious idiot.
01:31:03 Courtier or advisor to the king and he doesn't even know that the king killed hamlet's father spoiler in five hundred years i think we're okay so.
01:31:16 The fifteen fifteen.
01:31:20 Yes so no i was get i was get shakespeare and.
01:31:26 Bacon i think they're on the same time anyway so.
01:31:30 Yes so polonius is serving a murderer and doesn't even know it right.
01:31:35 So polonius is giving advice to a man who murdered his own brother in order to get the crown so polonius is an absolute idiot fool and blind to everything under the sun and moon which is why it's kind of annoying that he gives this great speech about depth and wisdom and importance and and perceptiveness and all of this right.
01:31:51 And of course we assume that the king is in debt but he's like you know so anyway he's got all of this thoughts of wisdom while he's literally conciliatory to.
01:32:00 A murderer a fraternal murderer fratricide yet fratricide can enable right so.
01:32:07 It's kind of annoying but shakespeare wanted a place to put this advice and he just jammed it in a character and it's a it's sort of it's like putting a dildo in a sheep's ear it just doesn't seem to fit at all but the character everyone loves a speech i think the speech is great.
01:32:22 But it's entirely the wrong character to put it in because he is serving a murderer so he's basically saying what with all of it makes people very cynical deep down right so but all of this wisdom.
01:32:31 The guy still pompous dumb dull abusive towards his daughter and serve the murderer but he has all this wisdom so he's actually trolling the world by saying wisdom.
01:32:43 Doesn't even stop you from serving a murderer and abusing your own children so it's a it's pretty rough.
01:32:49 So yeah shakespeare just wanted to jam this in and i don't think he particularly cared about what it actually meant but you know as a writer myself.
01:32:57 And i was thought it was meant to be a stand alone against the character it's the only father figure in the whole play well i mean there's the ghost.
01:33:09 Shakespeare he just he has these incredible flights of unbelievable poetic fancy and death.
01:33:16 And they just hit him like to rats and they just it's like the county's got this character that then speaks these incredible speeches that has nothing to do with the character like possession by shakespeare's language demons and it's kinda chaotic and kind of annoying in my view.
01:33:32 So.
01:33:35 So as a writer myself and listen i understand that me saying well here's the problem with shakespeare but as a writer myself i mean i get shakespeare will never be equal to shakespeare is the ultimate language smith.
01:33:47 In many ways i certainly have read a lot of shakespeare and i aim to have the same kind of flights of fancy in language that shakespeare has obviously right.
01:33:55 Doesn't right but that's the goal that's the aim is to try i'm not gonna do it and i am big but i'm going to do it in such a way that.
01:34:05 I'm gonna write try and reach the boundaries and extend the boundaries of what's what extemporaneous speech can do and so.
01:34:12 With shakespeare when i say me and shakespeare obviously i get that that's kind of a hubris and all but i am very strict with.
01:34:24 My characters and what they are and.
01:34:28 Not allowed to say what they are and are not allowed to say so if a character is making bad decisions.
01:34:36 He can't spout wisdom.
01:34:39 I mean this is a basic reality if a character is making bad decisions he can't spout wisdom with the exception being.
01:34:47 That everybody knows he's like.
01:34:51 Right so i mean if you have a father who's heavily in debt lecturing his teenage son about not getting into debt.
01:34:59 You have to look the audience has to know that the father is being hypocritical right.
01:35:04 Not to blow smoke up your ass but i enjoy writing more stuff not as much as i enjoy having smoke blown up my ass thank you that's very kind.
01:35:11 I mean as far as integrity of character i'm obviously aiming for all of that because my books are philosophical in that thoughts are destiny right.
01:35:20 Believe through destiny thoughts are destiny what you believe what you think is who you are who you'll become and it almost certainly determines the course of your life right if you think you're not worth anything you'll end up not worth anything.
01:35:30 If you think you're worth too much you'll also end up being hollowed out and disappointed and enraged at the world so.
01:35:37 The purpose of my novel writing is that the philosophy of the characters determines the outcome of their lives.
01:35:46 The only novels i can read without frustration like this have been yours is there any other authors who reach that integrity.
01:35:51 I mean obviously i'm grand as characters that have a huge amount of integrity but the problem with iron man's characters is they don't teach you how to live.
01:36:01 In your life because their lives are too distant from how people live right.
01:36:08 There are no kids there's no illness there's no difficult relations with with parents or other family members and so on.
01:36:16 Gonna listen to podcast 204 later art part 3 shakespeare.
01:36:20 Right.
01:36:21 If a character for me the arc is if a character lies to herself.
01:36:30 Then she either strenuously intervenes usually as a result of great suffering i'm think of rachel in the present right.
01:36:40 And if you haven't read the book that's on you i mean the book is free and you should read read or listen to the book i mean i don't know what else you doing with your time other than these live streams so.
01:36:51 Rachel lies to herself.
01:36:54 She lies to herself about having a career she lies to herself about having value she lies to herself about loving her boyfriend she lies to herself about being a good sister she lies to herself.
01:37:02 About everything and anything anything she can get her hands on she lies to herself and society supports are in the light because she's pretty.
01:37:10 So a character and and her aunt crystal also lies to herself i'm crystalized herself.
01:37:18 Now rachel over the course of the novel experiences her first genuine desire.
01:37:26 And.
01:37:28 Take her first genuine active courage in in writing about the men's rights movement.
01:37:37 And she does it without consulting anyone around her because she knows that everyone around her but council her.
01:37:47 To cowardice right so she doesn't active courage now it is partly an active wooing.
01:37:53 Of oliver but it is an active courage and the fact that she everyone's mad at her for not.
01:37:58 I'm telling them that she was gonna do this but she also knows that they would have talked about it.
01:38:07 She also she has a true self down in there.
01:38:12 And the detail i mean you got the details about it in my humble opinion but.
01:38:16 She at the beginning she's like where do baby pigeons come from i know that sounds like a completely ridiculous thing in in the novel when baby pigeons come from.
01:38:27 No it's really important.
01:38:29 It's really important.
01:38:33 She has no maternal instinct she never thinks about where baby pigeon baby pigeons come from and pigeons of course are parasites of the city.
01:38:40 I live off the scraps of others they don't hunt for themselves they don't write they just live off the scraps of others like she lives off the scraps of attention so she's basically saying.
01:38:48 I've never even thought about reproduction i've never even thought about depth i've never even thought about becoming a mother i've never where do baby pigeons come from.
01:38:56 And the chapter ends there which tells you that it's a very important thought that she has.
01:39:02 That she's a city parasite feeding off the attention of others and feeding off.
01:39:09 And.
01:39:09 She is she begins to have an inkling because her sister is pregnant that she should start to think about reproduction when she starts to think about reproduction she falls out of love with her boyfriend who's ornamental.
01:39:20 It's cool i like our low in a lot of ways i really do i really i have a very soft spot for our love.
01:39:25 But.
01:39:28 She she can start telling the truth.
01:39:37 Right and if you think about the beginning of the novel where she's brittle and bullying and vain and i mean she's she's a dreadful person she's like a.
01:39:48 It's hard to write a main character who's just so awful but who has scraps of potential.
01:39:57 So in the beginning she's all about showing her but and showing her boobs and tossing her hair and being flirty and and manipulative and aggressive and hierarchical and passing around the waiter and and.
01:40:08 Bossing around her sister and she's i mean she's in sufferable absolutely absolutely it's a character.
01:40:14 He was your favorite character are low i have a absolute soft spot for our love because he's pretty direct.
01:40:21 He's he's been eating does not lie to himself.
01:40:25 And are low of course are low is a character who has such a grim ghastly.
01:40:32 Past.
01:40:33 I mean that the hints about our lows past are the grimmest of just about any character i've ever written.
01:40:40 That his parents have all of this creepy pedestal art that he absolutely will never spend any time in his parents house like the hints about what happened to our low in the past are unbelievably brutal.
01:40:53 And so he's so i have a soft spot for him because of that and he doesn't particularly lie to himself but he also doesn't confront his past.
01:41:01 So if you look at how manipulative.
01:41:06 Rachel is at the beginning vs the scene near the end with the officer in the car.
01:41:15 When she's trying to escape the city what she trying she's desperate to get away from the city in the beginning she can't stand anything but the city.
01:41:22 So she can only stand the city and everything else is fine and then she desperate to escape the city and she does escape the city.
01:41:30 But only by being honest she doesn't flirt she doesn't manipulate she appeals to the man soul and through appealing to the policeman so she also saves the soul of the policeman i mean it's pretty wild.
01:41:42 Rachel of this is when she's trying to escape the disaster of the collapse of her society Rachel work in bright sunlight.
01:41:54 She had the distant dean of dogs and shattered.
01:41:58 Beam of light was falling directly on her face from just above the newspaper stuffed hole in the broken glass.
01:42:08 Tasting an accurate stench she realized she must have vomited.
01:42:11 Now she was almost eaten by dogs trying to escape better to have food coming out than be food going in she thought wildly remembering the gruesome carpet of glaring dogs on the floor of the convenience store.
01:42:25 It was strangely pleasant to lie here the warmth of the sunlight seemed to heat even the roots of her teeth.
01:42:37 Then something most odd happened within Rachel and to Rachel.
01:42:47 Her whole life she'd felt a strange tension in her belly her chest a sense of impending disaster a lack of protection a blindness to circling predators.
01:43:03 I always fiddled while Rome burned she remembered another meme that her brother-in-law had sent her.
01:43:11 Are we the fall of Rome the answer nope Rome had good roads.
01:43:15 How I rolled my eyes and called him crazy.
01:43:21 Rachel felt at the strangest possible time she thought all her tension leave her body at once.
01:43:33 My life is not entirely my own she thought.
01:43:39 Now that's the opposite of vanity right all vanity is a fundamental lack of gratitude.
01:43:45 You know if I was like oh look at my brain my creativity my analogies my language skills oh
01:43:50 I'm so good I think no that's not mine I inherited that that's genetics evolution biology whatever I
01:43:57 have some pride I can take in my moral courage and things like that but my abilities my life is not
01:44:03 entirely my own that's the beginning of wisdom that's the beginning of humility and gratitude.
01:44:07 All right she lay in the sunshine the bright light of survival and her animal will just left her.
01:44:19 It's migrating back to my past where it will hibernate with my parents she thought barely
01:44:27 understanding her own mind so her sexual obsessions and I don't mean that like kinky stuff or anything
01:44:33 like that but her obsession with being pretty attractive sexy getting that kind of attention
01:44:37 that's an animal will to gain attention to be narcissistic it's an animal will of domination
01:44:42 and it just leaves her.
01:44:46 Her life had been delivered to her as a gift lying on the fake wood of an abandoned dining room floor.
01:44:53 Right do you accept this is what I'm trying to get across and this is what she is beginning to learn
01:45:00 what she is learning is
01:45:06 gratitude.
01:45:15 Do you do you experience your life as a gift you experience your life is something you're
01:45:18 deeply grateful for I am unbelievably thrilled at my own existence and I'm incredibly grateful for
01:45:25 my life for you for friends for family for support for donations I'm just incredibly
01:45:31 grateful for being able to do everything that I do with you and the world I mean for all time it's
01:45:35 I'm incredible so I go on to say that she's thinking this vanity is the most fundamental
01:45:43 lack of gratitude. To use all the gifts you've been given for your own ego and gratification
01:45:51 is really sad. All right so in the book it says
01:45:55 the unknown instincts that had saved her from the dogs saved her from her parents lassitude
01:46:04 that were driving her to the only home she could imagine with Oliver.
01:46:09 She did not earn those instincts she had no idea they even existed.
01:46:14 I know that my home is with Oliver and that is insane at a conscious level he barely knows me
01:46:21 and does not approve but I know it against all reason against all experience because what is
01:46:28 coming has nothing to do with what was past. Now that's obviously highly compressed but
01:46:38 what and and she knows she doesn't know what she again the writing says I wrote again her
01:46:42 thoughts churned beyond her comprehension what does it mean what is coming has nothing to do
01:46:47 with what was past because your instincts are about the future. Your conscious mind is about
01:46:52 the past because it's empirical but your instincts are about the future. Your instincts are about the
01:46:59 future right just think of hunger. Hunger is I need to eat in the future. Sex drive need to have
01:47:06 sex in the future. Love for someone attachment that's all about creating a family and children
01:47:11 in the future. Your instincts are all about your future. She's focused and obsessed about the past
01:47:15 her animal will where does it go back into my past the animal will is like the the conscious
01:47:23 mind right animal will just left her it's a conscious mind it's based on the past it's
01:47:27 it's just an animal but your instincts are about the future and people who don't who aren't in
01:47:36 touch with their instincts don't have much of a future because they don't have a sense of where
01:47:39 they're going to go of their own potential right potential is an instinct do I have an instinct for
01:47:43 some kind of potential it's about the future because what is coming has nothing to do with
01:47:47 what was past she's finally getting in touch with her deeper self right the sunlight right the source
01:47:52 of light this is a platonic analogy the sunlight what does it do it warms her teeth to the very
01:47:57 roots she's getting right to the root of herself and it's about the future and it's about instinct
01:48:06 and instincts turning her head Rachel saw turning her head Rachel saw a shiny something by her eyes
01:48:14 a near-dead battery so the clock she smashes what is a clock clock is about the past
01:48:22 it measures time passing it's about the past
01:48:26 she smashed this clock turning her head Rachel saw a shiny something by her eyes a near-dead battery
01:48:34 so she's out of the past and remember all the way back at the beginning of the book what does
01:48:38 she say she says where the hell did baby pigeons come from that's about the future she sees all
01:48:43 these pigeons they're all in the present there's nothing about the future then she finally thinks
01:48:48 okay well what about the future everything she thinks about is about the past or the present
01:48:52 the book is called the present right
01:49:01 a near-dead battery so she's out of the past the bird there's a little cuckoo bird the bird beyond
01:49:07 it lashed by strange threads of metal to the dark opening of the clock lay on its side its beak wide
01:49:13 open in mute surprise its beak wide in mute surprise that's a nice little phrase its beak
01:49:19 wide in mute surprise a nice little rhythm to it she smashes the clock the bird is
01:49:29 dead and the battery is almost dead
01:49:36 and she says i will never move again entirely by my own will it's amazing to me i will never
01:49:46 move again entirely by my own will right so she's got to have some kind of instinct she's got to
01:49:50 have something that she's willing to surrender to some outside force some ethics some virtue
01:49:55 some standard other than her own vanity her own will what am i being kept alive for
01:50:02 the idea of being kept alive protected nurtured guided
01:50:07 is it the mere animal within me or something beyond me and even more deep and thunderous
01:50:16 like a giant bell dropped in the deep well of her soullessness
01:50:23 right you got a cuckoo clock and this is her wake up call the cuckoo clock is
01:50:26 dead because it's about the past the giant bell is a church bell
01:50:30 your soul as if you're just an animal right this you know i lead it to philosophy uh it's upb
01:50:40 it manifests as the soul right it's eternal upb is eternal we partake of the eternal the soul
01:50:44 partakes of the eternal with god philosophy allows your identity to partake of the eternal through
01:50:48 upb now she doesn't know upb so she's following her instincts and they lead her to she says can
01:50:55 i get to safety without god these are thoughts just tumbling i don't know if you've ever had
01:50:59 this situation but the thoughts just come crashing into you and smash everything that you know i
01:51:03 remember very clearly very clearly being in mexico traveling with a woman she went to go and see
01:51:11 chichén itzá i'd already seen it before i climbed over a fence into a resort and lay on a hammock
01:51:17 for eight hours and five of those eight hours are just thoughts crashing into me about how my life
01:51:22 needed to change this is before the show so this is sort of a reminder of me of what happened
01:51:28 says can i get to safety without god and was arlo the devil and was i
01:51:36 you can't be good unless you suspect yourself of being evil you can't
01:51:44 and we can get into all of the stuff about arlo and his devilish aspect for sure
01:51:48 arlo specifically says you can't get an offer from it is there's no such thing as virtue
01:51:57 everything is animal will he very clearly says that and arlo literally behaves as an ape in in
01:52:03 in the book right she says look what it has taken for me to actually think about my life the death
01:52:10 of everything the attacks of rabid animals lying in this house of the dead coincidental sunbeams
01:52:18 lighting up my eyelids what was i living for well she was living for attention for sexiness for
01:52:27 status for prestige for all the things she didn't earn right she says what was i living for to
01:52:33 glorify the great gift of existence no to step on the sadness of others in order to avoid my own
01:52:43 okay i tell you this come on that's a staggeringly fantastic sentence what was i living for to step
01:52:50 on the sadness of others in order to avoid my own so she had prestige she wanted to be lusted after
01:52:54 she wanted to be desired she wanted to have high status she wanted to bully people to step on this
01:52:58 but who would who would look up to her and worship her uh because they're to step on the sadness of
01:53:03 others to climb up to have higher status based on the sadness of others in order to avoid my own
01:53:08 oh that's so compressed i can't even tell you
01:53:12 and then she says one of the most important questions what can we will as mere individuals
01:53:23 what can we will as mere individuals i can't will my language i can't will my language
01:53:27 i do these shows i can't will my i can't will it to happen i can't like if if inspiration dries up
01:53:33 inspiration dries up i can't will any of this i can't will the solution to upb i can sit down
01:53:38 and say i want it but i can't will it to happen when i have an insight with the call-in show when
01:53:43 i write like this i'm not well i'm not willing this writing all of this stuff's cascading
01:53:49 into rachel at the same time as it's cascading into me from where i don't know
01:53:53 from instincts from language centers from you would say the divine
01:53:58 i can't will this book and everybody knows this you can't will a great song you can't
01:54:07 shakespeare didn't will his characters he was half in the possession of language
01:54:11 what can we now we can will things as mere individuals but we've got to be humble about
01:54:16 what we can and can't will i can't i don't even know what sentence i'm saying next
01:54:20 i'm dancing with the instincts all right and then she says and most fundamentally
01:54:26 why do i want to live a pretty essential question that's great and answer why didn't i just drop to
01:54:36 the dogs fall down to the mere mammal right so i mean it's not the most subtle of analogies but
01:54:42 she survives the attack of the dogs by climbing up the roof of a convenience store and she puts
01:54:47 herself spread eagles herself across the beams the thin metal beams along the top so she's in a christ
01:54:51 position staying above the yapping dogs the animals the mammals right she's elevating herself she's
01:54:57 moving up to the sky and assuming a christ position to avoid being consumed by the animals
01:55:03 by the animal right why didn't i just drop to the dogs fall down to the mere mammal because of the
01:55:09 pain there's more pain in staying up in surviving right a strange grace enveloped her her mind
01:55:16 glowed her body fell away and she had a vision of herself in this house without intervention old
01:55:23 and bitter and yelling at skateboarders and hating children and spending all her energy
01:55:30 convincing herself that she was still somehow in the right despite all evidence
01:55:34 you
01:55:34 god above on crystal in 10 years so she would be on crystal in 10 years right
01:55:43 she's in her early 30s so she would be on crystal in 10 years
01:55:46 which is her bitter spinster aunt 10 years after her fertility
01:55:51 and the idea the very idea that something larger than herself had been trying to instruct her for
01:55:58 decades the concept that she was a protagonist in a story designed to elevate her this both
01:56:06 enhanced and crushed the remnants of her vanity life is a school i refused to learn from
01:56:14 anyway this the moment of revelation for her is to me uh i had goosebumps writing this and i can't
01:56:25 claim massive credit for it i mean i've done the work and i've practiced and i but but i don't know
01:56:30 man i just something else gotta read this book man you gotta read this book
01:56:37 merry eastern orthodox christmas to those celebrating it
01:56:43 oh my god i'm already hooked i need to read this yes you do grateful almost indicates a higher
01:56:53 power right hard to argue oh you could say a deeper power
01:56:57 figuring out what was worth pressing towards into the future was a big part of my healing
01:57:06 yes now that's great writing i think so
01:57:09 uh probably a bit of a stretch but cuckoos also steal from other species where they
01:57:20 lay eggs in other birds nest so they could ignore their own young that's very it's very good that's
01:57:25 not a stretch at all i think that's very good she smashed the artificial mothering and of course
01:57:31 she is by not having kids herself and not wanting kids and so on uh she is cuckooing that way
01:57:40 i am i some of i some of it as having been willed in the past
01:57:47 i don't know what that means jared sorry brilliant book staff well i think so and listen i
01:57:51 aunt crystal hits me hard since my aunt was on crystal oh yeah sorry about that uh yet i'd
01:57:57 appreciate that i honestly feel like i'm the first person to read the book but i can't pertain claim
01:58:02 particular credit for any of the uh brilliance that's within it i really can't i mean this is
01:58:07 my humility like i the book writes me the book comes through me the book is dictated to me by
01:58:11 something i have some idea some choices and so on but i didn't know she was going to smash the clock
01:58:17 honestly uh you you do a dance so you have a plan for the book but i didn't know so the the cuckoo
01:58:25 clock startles her the first time the second time she's just completely enraged smashes the clock
01:58:30 and passes that partly out of pain from the dog attack and the dog bites and so on but um when the
01:58:37 cuckoo clock went off again which i heard when i was writing the scene she had this massive
01:58:42 convulsion ran down the hallway smashed the cuckoo clock i had no idea she was going to do that
01:58:50 yeah aunt crystal's last gasp was insane oh yeah aunt crystal's farewell text so just heartbreaking
01:58:55 just heartbreaking and she learns nothing her last gasp well you can read that in the book
01:59:05 so and i didn't know she was going to have all these revelations i didn't know like and so i know
01:59:10 it sounds kind of precious well i didn't know and the book's just like writing me but the way that
01:59:15 it works for me is that i have a um an idea of the scene i have an idea of of the general flow
01:59:22 of the book and then stuff happens that surprises me and i just have to go with it because the idea
01:59:27 that i'm in charge of everything i know that ein rand had a very different approach which she was
01:59:32 in charge of everything and i think that had a certain lack of goose bumpiness in her writing
01:59:36 which i'm really want to achieve more spontaneity and more of my own particular and personal life
01:59:45 experiences around these kinds of revelations but when you've i mean absolutely you can completely
01:59:50 understand how people say it's god who's dictating and and so on uh it's wild that process um
01:59:57 but i can't i can't claim this massive credit it just you know like everybody has these incredible
02:00:02 dreams every night but that doesn't make you a screenwriter you don't say i'm incredibly proud
02:00:06 of the dreams that i have written right we all have these incredible stories every night
02:00:15 but we don't say i'm taking personal credit for the vividness and power and depth of my dreams
02:00:22 i can't take personal credit for the vividness power and depth of this language
02:00:26 again i've worked with it but i've also worked with it because there's a natural
02:00:30 part of me that does that so uh and it's like what arlo says about him working out and he works out
02:00:37 because he's already very handsome so yeah it really is a dance and i i could sit there and say
02:00:43 well i mean i have the impulse that she attacks the clock and smashes it but that's not part of
02:00:47 the plot of the story so i'm not going to do that i'm not doing that that's vanity right that's me
02:00:54 saying well i know how this dream should go i know exactly how it's like nope no i don't no i don't
02:01:00 a lot of creativity is humility to the impulses humility to the integrity that doesn't make any
02:01:11 sense to you at the time but makes sense in hindsight in the same way that you know you've
02:01:14 heard me do these dream analyses with people where their dreams make no sense to them at the time but
02:01:19 afterwards when we go through it it's like oh my god that makes perfect sense that makes perfect
02:01:24 sense all right uh any last tips i would appreciate that on this glorious sunday well it's not
02:01:36 glorious still kind of mucky up here but on this uh good i find myself conflicted with creativity
02:01:43 between that style and randy and will it to be as i desire right i want things to be more
02:01:52 spontaneous and humane and fertile i love and ran's writing but it is fairly sterile and fairly
02:02:00 mechanical it is more like great engineering with language than it is a burst of illumination
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02:02:43 interpretation very insightful thank you tom i appreciate that and yeah if you if you have
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02:02:54 what you truly want to will is aligned with god you can feel the inspiration when you're doing
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