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Stefan Molyneux

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00:00:00 Well, good evening, welcome to part two of our Friday freaking night live.

00:00:04 All right, somebody says I have a pet hate. I enjoy hating the French.

00:00:09 Is that just kind of an Anglo legacy thing or are the French really as awful as I feel they are?

00:00:13 Well, I want you to look at the number of French intellectuals who are rapidly intensely supportive

00:00:21 of lowering the age of consent to apparently four minutes post-birth or 12 or whatever it is, right?

00:00:28 French intellectuals really, really, really want to have sex with children

00:00:32 and nobody seems to be that bothered by it in France.

00:00:35 So maybe that's why they're bringing in other cultures, who knows, right? Who knows.

00:00:41 But yeah, it's this tech stuff. Sorry, this is like part two. We started the tech stuff and it

00:00:47 just wasn't working. It was just looping, which is a weird thing for it to do. And yeah, just

00:00:55 wretched. You know, the amount, thank you for the tip, I appreciate that. The amount of just like

00:01:01 brain positivity, enthusiasm, happiness, joy and energy that just gets cockblocked by shit tech

00:01:07 is just beyond me. It's just beyond me. It's just, just have your shit working. It's not complicated.

00:01:13 I mean, it's wild. You know, I've seen streams on even all platforms that got a hundred thousand

00:01:19 watchers. We ain't quite pushing that. It's very strange, very strange. All right. So, all right,

00:01:30 get me in a better mood. It's your job, your job to get me in a better mood. Give me your questions,

00:01:34 give me your comments, give me distractions from the shite fest of modern tech

00:01:40 where it's 50/50, wouldn't you say? Isn't it 50/50 that things work?

00:01:47 All right. I lack understanding when it comes to quote anxiety. I keep hearing about teens and

00:01:51 anxiety. Everyone bends backwards to accommodate instead of getting the teens to adapt.

00:01:56 What does that mean, Anne? I don't know what that means.

00:01:59 Je ne, je ne, je ne comprends pas. I lack understanding when it comes to anxiety.

00:02:05 I keep hearing about teens and anxiety. Everyone bends backwards to accommodate instead of

00:02:10 getting the teens to adapt. Oh, so everyone's adapting the teens?

00:02:15 Everyone's adapting to the teens? Well, tell me how old you are, Anne. Oh, you don't. You can just

00:02:26 give me the decades, you know, 20s, 30s, 40s, floating. Yeah, yeah, look at that.

00:02:30 I'm Stefan Molyneux. I'm James O'Keefe. It's a... So, yes. Okay. But tell me your age range.

00:02:43 Coddling. Oh, yes. Oh, yes. The next generation is totally coddled. Absolutely. Yeah. Next

00:02:50 generation. They're just so coddled. They're just... They have it so easy. The next generation

00:02:55 has it so easy. You're in your 30s. All right. So, Anne, when you were a kid in school, were they

00:03:02 telling you that the world was about to consume itself in a fiery death within five to 10 years?

00:03:08 Were they filling your spine full of virulent, soul-eating nihilism? Were they calling you a

00:03:17 racist for existing? Were they calling you a sexist for breathing? Were they absolutely

00:03:23 undoing? Were they drugging half your companions and threatening half the others?

00:03:27 Just out of curiosity, when you were a kid, were you allowed to feel pride, happiness,

00:03:34 joy, and optimism in the future? Or was there a giant stuka-based whistling sound

00:03:40 as the end of the world came nigh to you in just about all ways and circumstances? You know,

00:03:49 just out of curiosity. Thank you, Beatherly. I appreciate that. Thank you for the tippy tip.

00:03:54 Thank you for the tip. But it's bizarre. Oh, I'm from Newfoundland. I'm a cross between

00:03:59 Trailer Park Boys and the Wildings from Game of Thrones. All right. So, if you're from Newfoundland,

00:04:04 Aaron? Aaron? Do you have any herring? No, I don't have any herring. Aaron? Aaron? So,

00:04:08 you're from Newfoundland, which is kind of, you know, base and earthy and Irish and all of that

00:04:15 kind of stuff. And, oh, my mic is a little hot. It doesn't seem to be. My levels are fine. It's

00:04:20 your end. It's your end. So, yeah, so you grew up and you were allowed to be, you were allowed to

00:04:26 play, you were allowed to think of the future. You're a mom of two in your 30s, so you were

00:04:31 allowed to have some optimism, some hope, some positivity. Children these days are crushed

00:04:38 before they even learn how to read and write.

00:04:43 We are a slow motion Aztec society, except instead of

00:04:55 actually ripping their hearts out with stone knives, we slowly pry their hearts out with the

00:05:01 fiery ice cream scoop of propaganda.

00:05:03 I also don't live in Newfoundland anymore. Well, that's a nice detail to have, I suppose.

00:05:12 But,

00:05:15 what it teaches these days, right? It used to be, "Hey, hope everybody had a nice recess. Let's do

00:05:25 some math and spelling." And now it's like, "All right, everybody choose your pronouns. Now I'm

00:05:32 going to tell you about my sex life." And cyberbullying is a big thing. Early exposure

00:05:39 to pornography is turning a lot of children's brains into primordial hormonal soup. And

00:05:49 people will look back at a lot of the sadism of the present. Thank you for the tip. I appreciate

00:05:57 that. People will look back at the sadism of the present with deep, visceral, abiding horror.

00:06:05 Here's the thing. Do you know what our society is right now in its spiraling? Do you know what

00:06:16 our society is right now? Our society is every fucking thing never ever to do. That's what our

00:06:25 society is. Like, my mother was incredibly instructive. Here's what you never want to do.

00:06:31 Don't rely on your looks. Don't rely on your physique, your body. Don't rely on other people

00:06:38 to save you. Don't oppose thinking. Don't be mystical. Don't be anti-rational. Don't be vain.

00:06:46 My mother was. You know, so in the old photography days, you would make these, you'd take these,

00:06:52 a friend of mine used to do this in the darkroom, right? So you take these pictures,

00:06:56 freeze frame. You take these pictures and you get this film and you get negatives, right? And then

00:07:02 you put it through all these chemicals and you get the final picture. Well, my friend became,

00:07:06 of course, because he was an amateur developer in a darkroom photographer. He became an expert

00:07:13 at figuring out which pictures were good or bad based on the negatives, right? On the opposite

00:07:18 of the picture, right? On the opposite of the picture. So he could look at the picture and see

00:07:24 how it was going to look based upon the opposite. So we are seeing, you know, we see utopia every

00:07:32 day around us in the world. We see perfection. We see peace. We see peaceful parenting. We see

00:07:38 respect for children. We see beautiful relations. We see voluntarism every day in the opposite

00:07:44 of what's out there. In the same way, my friend could see the final picture in the opposite of

00:07:50 the picture. Hey, how's relying on the state for national defense going?

00:08:01 Hey, how's the state, how's relying on the state for justice going?

00:08:04 How's relying on the state for the benevolent and helpful education of your children going?

00:08:12 All the stuff I talked about in everyday anarchy and practical anarchy, I was like, nope,

00:08:18 not going to be provided. It's not going to be provided by the state.

00:08:21 What did I always say? Any program based on coercion achieves the opposite of its stated

00:08:30 goals. Education becomes brain and soul destroying propaganda. Healthcare becomes sickness. National

00:08:37 defense becomes invitation. Yeah, I mean, we see, you look at hell and you see heaven,

00:08:55 if you want, because hell is the opposite of heaven.

00:08:59 Those were good books. You're right, Jared, they were. They still are.

00:09:05 I enjoyed the audio books of human ownership, the handbook of human ownership and practical anarchy.

00:09:12 Right, so you know that meme, that meme about, I have a cut, I need some stitches in America. Well,

00:09:17 that'll be $67,000. In England, it's like, you'll have to wait nine months. And in Canada, it's

00:09:24 like, have you considered dying? Yeah, I could not publicly speak of what's being done to children.

00:09:39 I won't do it. I won't do it. I won't do it.

00:09:50 It's a fundamental rule of mine that I can't care about other people more than they care

00:09:54 about themselves. That just leads you to be open to being exploited and pillaged and ransacked.

00:09:58 It's appalling. It's appalling.

00:10:04 Everything's so expensive. My wages haven't gone up. Well,

00:10:11 did you want the government to take over healthcare? Well, then maybe.

00:10:19 People can't. They've been well trained to not reason out the cause and effect, right? They've

00:10:25 been well reasoned out. Chris says, "I used to print from negatives years ago. I enjoyed seeing

00:10:34 the opposite. I found it a good brain exercise." The other, yeah, what's being done to children

00:10:40 these days is beyond heartbreaking. It is absolutely sadistic. But the more society

00:10:47 is built on lies, the more it hates children. You know why, right? You know why.

00:10:56 The more society lives on lies, the more it hates and fears children. Thanks, Jared.

00:11:14 Because children are curious. Children have skepticism.

00:11:17 Children are empirical. Children are rational. The more society lives on lie,

00:11:27 the more it needs to punish children. You can measure a society's addiction to bullshit

00:11:33 by how much it harmed its children. The two scales go up, right? Well, the scale of bullshit goes up,

00:11:40 and then very quickly the scale of harm to children matches.

00:11:46 Yeah, children are straight shooters. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, I mean, the Emperor's New Clothes.

00:11:51 It was, I remember flying to Africa when I was six and listening to that story on a loop,

00:11:57 the Emperor's New Clothes.

00:12:00 The less that society can defend its own principles, the more it has to attack children.

00:12:09 Oh, I shouldn't, I shouldn't. Oh, should I, should I, should I pick a tiny fight?

00:12:22 Shouldn't I pick it? No, it's not even really picking a tiny fight.

00:12:29 I like, I like Dr. Peterson in many ways. But at a time of where society is, at the moment he tweets

00:12:39 "Every bit of learning is a little death. Every bit of new information challenges a previous

00:12:44 conception, forcing it to dissolve into chaos before it can be reborn as something better.

00:12:49 Sometimes such deaths virtually destroy us."

00:12:53 People stop hitting their children. No, the tiny deaths of learning the capital of Antigua.

00:13:04 "Every bit of learning is a little death. I learn how to floss my teeth, part of me dies.

00:13:10 I learn a new equation, part of me dies. I learn the French word for crime, part of me dies."

00:13:20 I don't know, it's, I don't mean to make fun, but it's like, dude, dude.

00:13:26 Oh my gosh.

00:13:33 "$20 for rent fight and drag out. I don't know what that means, but I appreciate the tip."

00:13:38 Well, the orgasm used to be called the tiny death.

00:13:46 All right.

00:13:49 Ah, what is a good way to introduce the nature of death to children? What age is a good age to aim

00:13:55 for revealing that? Ah, you are looking for a template for parenting.

00:14:02 Petit mort. Yeah, that's right. You are looking for a template for parenting. What is a good age?

00:14:07 How on earth are you supposed to template? There aren't templates for parenting.

00:14:12 There are principles and you have individual children, right?

00:14:17 What age, what age is a good aim? Sorry, what age is a good time to start teaching calculus? Well,

00:14:26 I don't know. Depends on the kid. Depends on the kid's interest. Depends on the kid's preferences.

00:14:30 Some kids rapidly want to get into calculus when they're eight.

00:14:33 The good time to start talking to children about death is when they start showing curiosity

00:14:45 about the end of life, right? Because for me, my daughter, I don't know, she was like,

00:14:56 I don't know, four or five. And she said, you know, basically death, she basically had the idea

00:15:03 that death is you go to sleep and then you wake up. And I was like, that's not exactly how it works.

00:15:07 You know, that's not exactly how it works. We are born and we live and we have a wonderful

00:15:14 time living and then we die. And you are born and you will have a wonderful life. And at the end of

00:15:19 your life, from all the people I've heard, if you live your life well, the end of your life is fine.

00:15:24 If you live your life well, you have little to fear about your decline and death.

00:15:28 And I'm old enough now that I can say that with some credibility, I think.

00:15:36 I've lived my life well. And as I, you know, I was just talking to my wife the other day and

00:15:46 we said, oh, in two and a half years, blah, blah, blah. Like, hey, I'll be almost 60.

00:15:52 I'll be almost 60. I don't have any regrets about the decline. I don't have any regrets

00:15:58 about being on the downward slide of life. I don't have any regrets about aging.

00:16:02 I mean, enough of my friends died young that all of this is a bonus. I mean, of course I had cancer

00:16:10 10 years ago or so, and all of this is a bonus.

00:16:18 So I said, if you live your life well, death is kind of like going to sleep when you're tired.

00:16:22 You don't fear going to sleep when you're tired. And I pulled a little bit off Socrates and I said,

00:16:27 you know, the best nights, what's the best night's sleep when you don't dream and you don't wake up?

00:16:30 Well, death is like the best night's sleep.

00:16:33 So when they show curiosity, you give the mage appropriate answers.

00:16:43 You know, we could just die tomorrow. Like you don't tell them about the imminence, right?

00:16:47 So, yeah, you're looking for, well, when the kid is four, start talking to them about five or six.

00:17:00 No, you dance with the kid, right? You dance with your kid. You understand you're looking

00:17:07 for classical parenting is jazz. So you're looking for classical, right? When you

00:17:14 when you go to see a classical concert,

00:17:20 what are you looking for? Well, you're looking for the accuracy. You're looking for them to,

00:17:29 you know, like David Spade was talking about going to see some concert and he's like, and play,

00:17:35 and play it like it is on the album. Don't fuck it up. Don't mess it up.

00:17:39 Right.

00:17:39 So you're looking for a classical music with parenting and parenting is jazz.

00:17:50 With jazz, you have your rules and you have your improvisation, right?

00:17:54 Thank you for the tip.

00:18:06 Read the Fountainhead recently. Wow, you weren't kidding. Rand is a genius. Absolutely true.

00:18:10 Rock's willpower is like a force of nature. It's downright inspiring. A shame to say

00:18:14 I had never read her books, beginning Atlas Shrugged.

00:18:16 Yeah, I prefer the Fountainhead a little bit to Atlas Shrugged for various reasons we don't have

00:18:21 to get into here. Not that that matters, but they're both fantastic books. They're both fantastic books.

00:18:32 Um, just joined. Sorry if this is off topic, but I've wondered about your thoughts on the

00:18:36 lyrics to Supertramp's logical song and or Take the Long Way Home. I used to check out

00:18:42 that album Breakfast in America from the library as a kid and listened all the time.

00:18:45 So you think you're a Romeo playing a part in the picture show. Take the long way home.

00:18:52 All right. So let me just get the lyrics.

00:18:55 We'll take the okay. So take taking the long way home, because you're the joke of the neighborhood,

00:19:00 why you should care if you're feeling good. Take the long way home. There are times that you feel

00:19:04 you're part of the scenery. All the greenery is coming down. And then your wife seems to think

00:19:07 you're part of the furniture. It's peculiar. She used to be so nice. When lonely days turn to lonely

00:19:11 nights, you take a tip, drink a glass of wine, and you're not alone. You're not alone. You're not alone.

00:19:16 When you feel you're part of the scenery, all the greenery is coming down.

00:19:19 And then your wife seems to think you're part of the furniture.

00:19:20 Oh, it's peculiar.

00:19:21 She used to be so nice.

00:19:22 When lonely days turn to lonely nights, you take a trip to the city lights and take the

00:19:26 long way home.

00:19:27 Now, the great lines of this is...

00:19:30 Supertramp is fantastic for lyrics.

00:19:31 The lyricist is great.

00:19:32 You never see what you want to see forever playing to the gallery.

00:19:39 You never see what you want to see forever playing to the gallery.

00:19:45 Lyricists who perform in public always have to wrestle with the false self.

00:19:49 I mean, Freddie Mercury used to say this.

00:19:51 He said, "So people think I'm like that guy on the stage."

00:19:53 No, that's a character.

00:19:54 I'm actually quite shy and all of that, right?

00:19:57 So, "Take the long way home" is you can't have a stable identity.

00:20:06 And "Asylum" is fantastic for this.

00:20:07 The Supertramp song "Asylum" about shallow words, meaningless conversations.

00:20:16 Instead of talking about important things, you're talking about the weather.

00:20:22 And "Do you live for the approval of others or your own conscience?"

00:20:26 That's the fundamental question in life.

00:20:29 Do you live for the approval of others or your own conscience?

00:20:32 Now, listen, I've spent some time in my life trying to dodge my conscience.

00:20:36 So I'll be straight up with you.

00:20:38 Conscience can be an annoying son of a gun, like a questing beast that trails you wherever

00:20:41 you go, like that snail in that internet thing.

00:20:44 Would you take $10 million if there was a snail that would pursue you forever?

00:20:51 I have tried to escape my conscience.

00:20:53 And I just, I had to, I don't know, a little over 20, about 25 years ago, I just kind of

00:20:58 gave up.

00:20:59 I'm like, "Fuck it.

00:21:00 Okay.

00:21:01 Okay, fine.

00:21:02 You win.

00:21:03 You win.

00:21:04 I'll be a good guy.

00:21:05 Fine.

00:21:06 I'll be a good guy.

00:21:07 I'll sleep for 16 months.

00:21:08 Fine.

00:21:09 Fine."

00:21:10 And, you know, life gets better, right?

00:21:15 So I can't escape my conscience.

00:21:17 I mean, I tried.

00:21:18 I can't escape my conscience.

00:21:22 And other people can't find theirs.

00:21:25 Yeah.

00:21:28 So "Take the Long Way Home" is about a compromist who runs his life by how other people view

00:21:36 him.

00:21:37 And if you live your life by how other people view you, you will end up conforming far more

00:21:40 to strangers at the expense of those close to you.

00:21:43 I don't know exactly why.

00:21:44 Honestly, I don't know exactly why.

00:21:45 But it does seem to happen this way.

00:21:47 If you live your life trying to please others, then you will always end up being nicer to

00:21:53 strangers than to yourself.

00:21:58 To yourself and to those who are close to you.

00:22:01 The logical song, "When I was young, seemed that life was so wonderful, oh, it's magical."

00:22:06 So that song is about a guy who had to lose his imagination in school.

00:22:15 And school is another great song.

00:22:17 You're coming along.

00:22:19 So it's about a guy who was crushed through the Prussian school, which I talk about in

00:22:23 quite an extensive way in...

00:22:26 Did I give you this?

00:22:29 In quite an extensive way, I talk about this in my podcast.

00:22:35 I'm going to give you this here, my podcast series on sadism.

00:22:38 I talk about the Prussian school.

00:22:43 And in the Prussian school, they crush your imagination.

00:22:48 They have to turn you into a dull, ape-like machine so that you'll be a compliant worker

00:22:54 and a good soldier.

00:22:58 So logic is killing the imagination, killing the creativity, killing the soul, turning

00:23:03 you into a machine.

00:23:07 If you want to be that way, you're coming along.

00:23:12 It's great.

00:23:15 School is a bitter, bitter song.

00:23:25 I can see you in the morning when you go to school.

00:23:29 Don't forget your books.

00:23:30 You know you've got to learn the golden rule.

00:23:33 Teacher tells you stop your playing, get on with your work.

00:23:37 Be like Johnny Too-Good.

00:23:39 Don't you know he never sure hurts?

00:23:41 He's coming along.

00:23:42 Dum-ba-dum-ba-dum.

00:23:43 And the screaming and all of that.

00:23:45 It's just fantastic.

00:23:52 It's always up to you.

00:23:53 If you want to be that, want to see that, want to see it that way, you're coming along.

00:23:59 Yeah, just shredding you, destroying you, wrecking you.

00:24:03 Like that scene in The Wall.

00:24:06 Think I'll buy me a football team.

00:24:08 Rubbish, right?

00:24:09 You have a poem.

00:24:10 Rubbish.

00:24:11 The scream in school always gets me.

00:24:16 Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.

00:24:20 Yeah.

00:24:21 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:24:22 Supertramp has a lot of lyrics about having the imagination crushed out of you.

00:24:26 So a logical digital, right?

00:24:30 Logical song is about somebody whose imagination was crushed rather than harnessed, who views

00:24:35 logic as a form of oppression.

00:24:37 Logic should be in a productive dance with your imagination.

00:24:42 Imagination without reason is insanity.

00:24:44 Reason without imagination is mechanical.

00:24:47 It's NPC.

00:24:48 It's robotic.

00:24:49 Your reason and your imagination need to be in a dance together.

00:24:52 They both need to cross-pollinate and inform each other.

00:24:53 It's not an even or, either or, it's not a false dichotomy.

00:24:56 Oh, it is a false dichotomy to say it's an either or.

00:25:02 So yeah, Supertramp has got some absolutely fantastic lyrics.

00:25:04 I mean, the music is great, too.

00:25:09 Dum dum dum dum dum.

00:25:10 Dum dum dum dum dum.

00:25:14 History recalls how great the fall can be.

00:25:20 While everyone was laughing, the boats put out to sea.

00:25:23 It's just great stuff.

00:25:24 Really, really great imaginative stuff.

00:25:26 And Roger Hutchins has quite the countertenor voice, right?

00:25:29 Who I am.

00:25:31 Like when he goes really high in logical song, it's just like, are you going up another fifth?

00:25:35 Holy crap.

00:25:36 Just straight up.

00:25:38 Straight up.

00:25:40 Electric light orchestra.

00:25:42 Electric light orchestra.

00:25:44 ELO is a band that is horribly bland, but with occasional flashes of some real soulfulness.

00:25:56 I'm thinking of Jungle.

00:26:01 The song Jungle off the double album ELO.

00:26:07 And Jungle has a great bit at the end where the guy wakes up.

00:26:12 And he's dancing with the animals.

00:26:13 He's got this great night dream and passion.

00:26:16 Then he wakes up and everything gets shredded by the alarm clock into nothing.

00:26:20 Yeah, Mr. Blue Sky.

00:26:21 It's a nice song.

00:26:23 Jeff Lynne is, I'm sure, a thoroughly nice shaggy haired Ewok.

00:26:28 He's basically an Ewok.

00:26:30 And he seems like a nice person.

00:26:34 Some of their earlier albums had some imagination.

00:26:36 I'm thinking Discovery had some real, really good imagination.

00:26:40 In fact, back in the album days, there was some text, some sound, some vocals that were

00:26:46 wobbled up.

00:26:47 And when you played them backwards, it said, "The music is reversible, but time is not.

00:26:51 Turn back, turn back."

00:26:52 And it's clever.

00:26:53 It's clever.

00:26:54 But for me, that era, almost no one beats.

00:26:58 Alan Parsons Pyramid is a fantastic album.

00:27:01 Can't get it out of my head.

00:27:02 I will tell you, Jeff Lynne writes brain hooks that are parasites, viruses.

00:27:06 Viruses, they literally replicate.

00:27:08 Train to London, I think, "Oh my God, I can't get out of this song.

00:27:11 Can't get it out of my head."

00:27:14 And yeah, Mr. Blue Sky is nice.

00:27:16 Horace Wimp, The Diary of a Horace Wimp is a fun song.

00:27:20 And yeah, he's just a very nice, fairly wholesome guy who writes some very bland, catchy music.

00:27:28 But it has all the musical imagination of a commercial jingle, as far as that goes.

00:27:36 Telephone Line, yeah.

00:27:38 Also, I didn't like him particularly as a vocalist.

00:27:40 He always sounded like he was singing down a telephone line.

00:27:43 No particular warmth or timber or passion in his voice.

00:27:46 I remember tuning in once to hear them live, and it was like, "Eh, it's about as bland

00:27:50 as that."

00:27:51 And again, maybe he should have got a vocalist or something.

00:27:54 I like vocalists with a bit more passion and rawness.

00:27:59 And he's just a little bit bland.

00:28:01 A little bit bland.

00:28:04 So yeah, Eolos, okay.

00:28:06 It's fine.

00:28:07 It's decent background music.

00:28:08 I look for music where I can put on the headphones and lose myself in the depth and complexity

00:28:13 of the music.

00:28:14 That's what I love to do.

00:28:15 I don't get to do it nearly as much since I became a dad.

00:28:18 But to sit with a good quality set of headphones and just lose yourself in the depth and complexity

00:28:23 of the music, Eolo is not headphones music.

00:28:27 It is, you know, it's fine in the background and all of that, but it's not headphone music.

00:28:34 My brother loved Wild West, you know.

00:28:37 Bloody Well Right.

00:28:39 Bloody Well Right is okay.

00:28:40 It's okay in my opinion.

00:28:42 It's fine.

00:28:44 But what makes Bloody Well Right is the electric piano intro.

00:28:49 Electric piano, boogie woogie stuff, it just gives me goosebumps.

00:28:54 Freddie Mercury did a little bit in the solo song he did, Living On My Own.

00:29:00 Yeah, but the piano, the Alan Parsons guy, Eric Wolfson, taught himself piano and I think

00:29:08 that the Supertramp guy taught himself piano as well, like Owen Benjamin.

00:29:11 Just taught himself piano.

00:29:12 It's incredible.

00:29:13 Led Zeppelin is super complex.

00:29:16 Yes, with the downside that Led Zeppelin will skyhook your soul and sell it to Satan.

00:29:22 So there is that aspect of things, you know.

00:29:25 Super complex, interesting music.

00:29:28 Robert Plant did have a shriek somewhat akin to tinnitus, but, but there is the minor problem

00:29:35 that they do steal your soul and sell it to Satan.

00:29:38 Not quite as fast as AC/DC, but fairly fast.

00:29:42 All right.

00:29:44 Thank you for the tip, Chalks, and Milk Growl, I appreciate that.

00:29:49 Let's get to your questions.

00:29:50 Hey, Steph.

00:29:52 I am looking for a partner and I'm trying to work out what's wrong with my mind state.

00:29:58 I have a part of my mind that doesn't believe a woman would want me as a partner or that

00:30:02 I deserve one.

00:30:03 It feels more like I have to bribe them.

00:30:04 I stay in shape, I make money, and I focus on improving the virtues I have.

00:30:08 I don't know how to understand this mentality.

00:30:10 Any insight is much appreciated.

00:30:14 Thanks.

00:30:15 So let me just make sure I understand this, my friend.

00:30:19 Chalks, everybody dance now.

00:30:23 All right.

00:30:24 So you, you, you believe, and I'm not like, so you believe you're a good person, right?

00:30:34 You improve your virtues, you exercise and so on.

00:30:38 I'm, I'm not particularly, I mean, I appreciate that.

00:30:44 I'm not particularly interested in talking with outsiders at the moment.

00:30:48 I mean, what's better than talking with you guys and doing my solo shows?

00:30:52 Honestly, I'm not sure what, what's the improvement, what's the upside to that?

00:30:59 No disrespect to anyone else, but all right.

00:31:02 So Chalks, you believe that you are a decent person, you exercise, you make money, you

00:31:09 improve your virtues.

00:31:10 You're, you're a decent guy, right?

00:31:18 So if this is true, the question is, if you're a good guy and you don't believe a woman would

00:31:23 want you, it's because, it's because, okay, hit me with a why.

00:31:28 I'll start this one off.

00:31:29 I'm going to say this right up, right up front.

00:31:31 Hit me with a why.

00:31:32 Hit me with a why.

00:31:35 If you've ever been concerned that women prefer bad boys, that, that if you're a nice guy,

00:31:42 finish last and you'll end up with the woman crying on your shoulder because the motorcycle

00:31:49 guy broke her heart. Have you ever ever ever vaguely had the suspicion that women like

00:31:58 him mean and seedy and seamy. Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes ah thank you

00:32:11 General Franco probably not the real person I appreciate that nice to have you here. Yeah

00:32:16 do you ever have this feeling? Ever have this feeling? Okay how hard did this hit you? One

00:32:22 to ten it's a vague suspicion ten you're absolutely certain that treating women well will turn

00:32:26 you into an incel. Treat them well become an incel. One to ten let's just be straight

00:32:31 up and frank with each other. One to ten how strongly did the suspicion grip you that women

00:32:38 like the bad boys? They like the bad boys. I just watched the blues brothers the other

00:32:47 day for reasons I won't even get into here my gosh I didn't even I mean great music I

00:32:51 didn't even realize just how much propaganda is in that film. It's just right. So you guys

00:32:58 okay you had it pretty hard right? Yeah yeah so you guys had it pretty hard I understand

00:33:10 now let me ask you this let me ask you this do you or did you or when you had this belief

00:33:17 when it was at its strongest when you had this belief at its strongest did you base

00:33:23 this belief on experience observation or theory EOT experience observation or theory was it

00:33:34 your experience that they went for the bad boys did you just observe that happening among

00:33:37 your friends or was there a theory where you were exposed to some I don't know bad boy

00:33:45 birth control pill cycle theory was it experience observation or theory

00:33:55 that gave you this idea observation observation experience observation right

00:34:08 somebody says that's why I have a rule of never having a girl as a quote friend that

00:34:12 I'm attracted to oh no no you just you if you're attracted to a girl you know I can

00:34:20 understand waiting a little bit but you got to declare yourself life is short either she

00:34:24 likes you or she doesn't and it's pretty rare it's pretty rare for okay let me let me ask

00:34:33 you this hit me with a why we'll get I have I'll get your observation stuff in a sec hit

00:34:38 me the why I've never been able to do it have you ever been able to take that no have you

00:34:45 ever been hit me with a why if you've ever been able to take a girl who wasn't interested

00:34:51 in you and make her interested in you in other words to go from did you ever broken out of

00:34:56 the friend zone into the romance into the boyfriend zone

00:35:05 you know the general theory that a woman decides if she likes you very quickly and it's fairly

00:35:09 impossible to budge now maybe you have I'm like just because I couldn't do it obviously

00:35:13 not exactly the measure of anything let alone all things but it doesn't really seem to happen

00:35:19 so this is why hanging around in the friend zone I don't know maybe your hand gets some

00:35:23 exercise but your heart doesn't so you got to just declare yourself and if she likes

00:35:29 you you've got a shot if she doesn't yeah so some people have some people have done

00:35:33 it I think that's great but it's it's really a one out of twenty of you maybe five ten

00:35:38 maybe five seven percent right so why do you believe a woman wouldn't want you as a partner

00:35:48 if you're a good guy because you have fallen prey to the propaganda that women like bad

00:35:55 boys do you I mean you've fallen prey to the propaganda that girls like bad boys no this

00:36:08 is not true this is not true women don't like bad boys women don't prefer bad boys do you

00:36:16 know women why women date bad boys do you know why women date bad boys not attraction

00:36:23 I mean yeah they could be some sexual frisson or whatever it is why do women date bad boys

00:36:35 what are your thoughts I mean I assume you guys have thought about this a lot they are

00:36:39 the only ones to approach them no good guys approach women no they shoot their shot no

00:36:47 no because good guys ask girls out as well women prefer the experience of emotion nope

00:36:52 they're confident nope they ask it's off their fathers abusive fathers to make themselves

00:36:59 victims because good guys are not assertive no good boys are assertive yeah women like

00:37:04 strength bad boys just occupy part of that circle nope no no they don't think good boys

00:37:18 will be able to protect and provide for them nope no because the bad boys are in prison

00:37:23 they can't provide for a woman in prison women date bad boys to punish themselves women date

00:37:38 bad boys to punish themselves and men date bad women to punish themselves no a healthy

00:37:48 relationship is very exciting no a woman dates a bad boy because she believes she should

00:37:57 be treated badly no they don't look like they have winning DNA absolutely not nope don't

00:38:04 concede anything to these selfish narcissistic jerk men don't they're bad people no they're

00:38:10 punishing them why are women punishing themselves women punish themselves for dangling sex in

00:38:18 front of men to get male attention because that's shallow and manipulative and the punishment

00:38:25 for tits and ass out particularly using it to attract men the punishment is that you

00:38:31 then get doomed to dating bad boys women date bad boys as punishment for their own addiction

00:38:49 to appearance Justinian says these bad boys have desirable qualities which means they

00:38:56 can treat them poorly and women will accept it because the other option is getting a man

00:39:00 that isn't six foot no no are you saying that there aren't tall guys who are nice no it

00:39:06 was funny says someone I had this girl years ago she told me she was seeing someone when

00:39:13 I told her I can't accept her friendship because I wouldn't want to torture her like that she

00:39:18 then reached out to me two weeks later interested in dating obviously we didn't end up together

00:39:21 yeah what's the characteristics of a bad boy just losing my definition here so a bad boy

00:39:29 is a selfish guy who uses a woman for sex now why would a woman be want to use for sex

00:39:35 and dumped and have her heart broken and cry and then go and do it all over again because

00:39:39 she's punishing herself for using sex to attract men now of course she's probably has an absent

00:39:52 father and whatever it is right but this is why it's important to tell women to cover

00:39:57 up and let men judge their personalities just cover up a little right I'm not saying full

00:40:01 burka but you know cover up a little let a man judge you by your personality right that's

00:40:07 all women who pervert sexual attraction for selfish pleasures rather than building the

00:40:16 foundation of a family and choosing a good provider for their children are sinning yeah

00:40:26 height doesn't matter as much as we think it does how do we know that height doesn't

00:40:32 matter that much or having hair right how do we know for men that height doesn't matter

00:40:39 that much I'd to believe women intentionally punish themselves considering how selfish

00:40:50 most modern women are oh have you not seen this selfish people always punish themselves

00:40:55 that's from what I've seen I mean I've never known a selfish person who hasn't punished

00:41:01 herself or himself in one way or another yeah because short bald guys exist absolutely short

00:41:08 men exist yeah how many balls women are there are not many the bald soprano I suppose Pirandella

00:41:14 but there are not many women who have no hair there are not many women with beards yeah

00:41:27 because we haven't evolved all the b6 foot plus that's right so now of course there are

00:41:37 some women oh my gosh men get angry at women for having shallow choices but the women who

00:41:47 have shallow choices tend to be the most shallow women and often they are very attractive so

00:41:52 you choose a woman because she's shallow and then you complain that a woman chooses men

00:41:55 on shallow Jada Smith yeah I know she's got hair issues right she's got she lost her hair

00:42:05 for medical reasons so no I you know women women are fine if you're bald and unless it's

00:42:17 some woman who some women who like I never date a bald guy it's like great then you can

00:42:26 go find some guy you can go choose some guy just because he's got hair and not because

00:42:31 he'll be a good father for your children when you use something designed for others for

00:42:39 your own selfish pleasure you will punish yourself because you're taking selfish pleasure

00:42:44 right so your sexual mechanisms your pair bonding mechanisms your oxytocin orgasm is

00:42:53 there to a pair bond you with a great partner with whom to raise your children that's what

00:43:00 it's for now if you hijack that and you say all of this sexual activity all of this orgasm

00:43:05 all this oxytocin stuff all of that is just there to serve me my pleasures my it's all

00:43:12 for me it isn't right then you are hijacking that which is for the good of others and therefore

00:43:19 of yourself in the long run and just using it for selfish pleasure right and then you

00:43:26 will if you do that you're gonna punish yourself well women who are attractive have more options

00:43:34 so they seem to use looks as their filtering rule set some women not all women

00:43:50 and of course we men take every rejection as a sting because most like significant portions

00:43:57 of men didn't reproduce in the past so every woman's rejection was a real sting and see

00:44:08 okay right you want to know the modern world I'll give you the modern world in a nutshell

00:44:14 somebody says I have great hair at 53 it's not easy to find a woman hair isn't a magic

00:44:17 bullet are you looking for a woman at 53 that can be a challenge it can be a challenge

00:44:32 gambling addiction somebody says I'm thinking gambling addictions is from people who benefit

00:44:35 from ill-gotten gains usually from the government payouts well but gambling addictions are ancient

00:44:39 and modern welfare is new they care greatly about height oh my god women care a lot about

00:44:48 height no stop taking all women and putting them in the shallow camp I mean you can keep

00:44:55 doing it if you want and you can build up all this resentment of women and then you

00:44:58 can say well women are shallow and they just want height and great hair and this that and

00:45:01 the other and it's like okay but you're not doing that because it's true you're doing

00:45:07 that because you're chickening out well I'm not tall so I'm chickening out men want to

00:45:18 avoid asking women out and will make any excuse up to avoid rejection the great challenge

00:45:28 for man is to ask women out just ask women out ask women out and you're gonna get rejected

00:45:41 so then what happens is men who don't know how to choose women will just ask a bunch

00:45:47 of women out get rejected and I mean the great secret of life isn't that complicated rejected

00:45:59 who cares rejected who cares most people don't donate most people didn't follow me to a new

00:46:12 platform rejected who cares what am I gonna do let let the bad decisions of other people

00:46:17 ruin my life that's just two that's two mistakes for the price of one people with really really

00:46:23 bad decision-making processes have rejected me because Lord knows getting Bitcoin and

00:46:32 avoiding the shot boy that's just the worst thing in the world isn't it not hitting your

00:46:36 children and having a good relationship that's just terrible so people who don't follow me

00:46:40 there are people like it's weird to me it's bizarre to me there are people who listen

00:46:44 to other shows on the internet like they really are out there I've I don't see them I hear

00:46:48 them I feel them they they stroll in castanets through the corridors of my mind through the

00:46:53 dance studios of my mind they're tap dancing their way through the shadows there are people

00:46:58 I know it's weird it's weird almost incomprehensible there are people who listen to other shows

00:47:02 but why why I don't know why but they do so for men every rejection every rejection is

00:47:12 a sting right but you can't succeed if you can't embrace rejection so when you are rejected

00:47:23 you have a choice oh I don't know this is probably too advanced for you guys oh no it's

00:47:27 too much power no it's too much power for you it's too much power for you no I'm sorry

00:47:34 we're gonna have to move on to another topic you can't handle this amount is it too much

00:47:47 I don't know I have concerns what's a centimeter it's a way that millipedes measure their foot

00:47:57 size you can't handle the power Joe all right this is what you wanted this is what you're

00:48:14 gonna get you get rejected by Sally you get rejected by Sally only three possibilities

00:48:32 only three possibilities something's wrong with you something's wrong with Sally oh you're

00:48:42 both screwed there's something wrong with both of you I don't care about the third one

00:48:46 in particular we can come back to that Sally says you ask Sally out and she says no you

00:48:56 have a choice you can say oh no Sally has rejected me Sally's too good for me she's

00:49:05 judged me and found me wanting I'm diminished I'm whittled down she's cut me to the quick

00:49:14 I'm bleeding out here medic right oh my gosh what a nightmare perspective what an absolute

00:49:26 nightmare perspective to think that when you get rejected there's something wrong with

00:49:32 you I mean especially for this crowd right conscientious people hard-working people thoughtful

00:49:40 people kind people curious people philosophical people if I'm rejected there's something wrong

00:49:45 with me oh I'm melting no thank you oh my gosh how about offer the power of stock options

00:50:07 keep us on for three years no I'm caught in Delaware we'll get rid of that so I mean honestly

00:50:15 I just tell you my perspective I'll tell you my perspective I mean it's true it may be

00:50:30 shocking to you it's still vaguely incomprehensible to me but it's true that there were some women

00:50:35 who wouldn't go out with me and I was like oh my gosh what's wrong with you I'm not saying

00:50:45 I never stung or anything I'm not immune right but basically I just had to kind of shake

00:50:49 my head and say okay well a decent-looking guy and relatively fit and I've got a good

00:50:55 job and I'm intelligent and I'm funny and right like what do you believe women prefer

00:51:02 more masculine men oh my god stop it stop it women want this women want that women prefer

00:51:11 tall women prefer no no because the moment you say this is what women want you will inevitably

00:51:20 try to mutate yourself into some bizarre kanji shape to please women oh god please don't

00:51:31 which like some Japanese game show which which shape do I need to twist myself into to get

00:51:37 through the next obstacle don't drives me crazy be yourself and see who wants that I

00:51:54 mean half the fucking internet is men saying what women want and what women like and this

00:52:01 that the other oh my god I mean my business plan has been to piss the world off until

00:52:19 it's just about to kill me then back off five seconds so do you think I have a business

00:52:26 plan called pleasing people well people really want this topic or they really want that topic

00:52:32 up my business plan is to escape the mob for five minutes at a time and count myself lucky

00:52:39 and happy oh my gosh oh my gosh we can agree there I do nothing to please women other than

00:52:53 my wife well you don't have any daughters I guess that would be a kid right you also

00:53:00 have to know how to present your qualities to women no be yourself and see who likes

00:53:11 it like I mean I was reading a little bit of my novel the other day just poor such a

00:53:18 great book it's such a great book now people didn't publish it I had a publisher interested

00:53:25 in it people didn't publish it now I could sit there and say this novel isn't good did

00:53:30 I do that I did not because it is good I just I know it's good and if you don't know what's

00:53:35 good I don't know how to help you you have to know what's good right

00:53:49 don't be a well-oiled manipulative squid jerk the moment you say well this is what women

00:53:59 are really looking for this is what really turns women on women want this well you'll

00:54:03 just mutate yourself or put yourself down I believe men you say I believe men are superior

00:54:13 to women need to stop measured measuring their value based on what women think of them men

00:54:19 are superior to women oh my god no they're not we're not superior to women and women

00:54:25 aren't superior to men you know I have a plug in a socket and I need to turn on the light

00:54:32 now you know that the plug is superior to the socket because the plug carries the electricity

00:54:44 right to the lamp it's superior it's active the plug just sits there the socket just sits

00:54:49 there just the plug you actually move it you do something with it

00:54:58 which which which piece of the jigsaw puzzle is superior to the other piece of the jigsaw

00:55:02 puzzle women are as men have chosen them to be and men are as women have chosen them to

00:55:11 be and if you insult women or put women down or think women are inferior then you're saying

00:55:16 that it's completely incomprehensible as to how we become the smartest species in the

00:55:21 known universe

00:55:33 now women are great men are great thank you for the tip I appreciate that free men.com/donate

00:55:46 I mean we're two sides of the same coin.

00:55:53 Oh the front wheels in my car are infinitely better than the back wheels because the front

00:55:58 wheels are always ahead of the back wheels it's like okay you try driving without the

00:56:02 back wheels and you're just dragging your ass like a drugged out Nicki Minaj.

00:56:09 I didn't think of Jones no in Just Porn no and it's Gerald Jones.

00:56:25 Be yourself and see who likes you.

00:56:29 Have I not modeled that I mean not that you got to do everything that I do or anything

00:56:32 but haven't I aren't you here at least because I've modeled that be yourself and see who

00:56:36 likes you don't bend yourself to the mob don't bend yourself to be liked don't disown yourself

00:56:45 don't reject yourself don't manipulate others by abandoning your identity.

00:56:55 Why would someone want to marry someone they feel superior to?

00:57:03 Now there's a division of labor right?

00:57:06 Be a better version of yourself what does that mean I don't know what that means oh

00:57:10 I'm living my best life I just putting the word better doesn't explain anything.

00:57:16 I'm a doctor says Bob I'm a doctor because I tell people that I want them to feel better

00:57:20 okay okay thanks Bob the doctor feel better yeah okay super helpful.

00:57:32 Now there aren't versions of yourself there's just yourself.

00:57:35 Probably like Queen in that first video at Bohemian Rhapsody they're just flickering

00:57:41 to infinity like people in a hall of mirrors.

00:57:47 Be honest be yourself.

00:57:49 Now most people hate fear and loathe authenticity unless I just happen to bring out the worst

00:57:56 in people myself maybe this is just me but most people seem to hate fear and loathe authenticity.

00:58:04 It means improve what you can oh you you took the word better and replace it with improve

00:58:10 yes I'm going to Bob the doctor he says well your symptoms improve your symptoms that'll

00:58:15 be $50.

00:58:17 Better improve what does that mean?

00:58:22 Negative adjectives are not a philosophy.

00:58:26 Just you know just be a better version of yourself.

00:58:29 Men produce the world's infrastructure food technology protection etc.

00:58:32 I don't harbor any resentment towards women I just know men are taller stronger tougher

00:58:35 work harder have better ideas make better decisions.

00:58:40 Oh boy.

00:58:48 A man can't live without food so unless you're a farmer you're inferior.

00:58:58 Because farmers produce food and no one can live without food therefore farmers are the

00:59:02 natural aristocracy.

00:59:03 It's like what does that mean?

00:59:10 Women create nurture and raise life.

00:59:14 Women create beautiful home environments.

00:59:16 Women create communities.

00:59:19 Women care for the aged.

00:59:21 Women are the soft cartilage in the endless bone-on-bone shocks of life.

00:59:32 Get out of the basement workout improve social skills.

00:59:34 Hey you said improve again!

00:59:38 Yeah exercise is good I guess.

00:59:41 Improve improve social skills just be better.

00:59:44 Don't make general statements about women.

00:59:52 If you make general statements about women you won't be able to pick someone out from

00:59:55 a crowd.

00:59:56 Elevate yes that's right James we should take the word and elevate yourself.

01:00:04 Be yourself and see who likes you.

01:00:07 Am I wrong?

01:00:12 Be yourself and see who likes you and see who you like.

01:00:20 I think feminine women are wonderful and I think smart men who create are awesome.

01:00:25 Why does a woman have to be feminine to be wonderful?

01:00:28 We were just talking about Ayn Rand.

01:00:33 Ayn Rand was not a feminine woman.

01:00:39 Was she wonderful?

01:00:40 Yes she was.

01:00:44 Women are wonderful to the degree that they are virtuous and men are wonderful to the

01:00:53 degree that they are virtuous.

01:00:57 But thinking that a man is smart because I guess better because he's physically stronger.

01:01:03 Well why aren't you watching a philosophy show by the champion power lifter of the world?

01:01:08 Because he's better.

01:01:10 Oh my god.

01:01:14 I am a genius because I say that renting a house is better than owning a house because

01:01:23 you don't have to tie up the down payment and you don't have to enter into a multi-decade

01:01:27 contract.

01:01:28 I am a genius because I'm taking the strengths of one option and comparing it to the weaknesses

01:01:34 of another and thinking I'm adding anything other than slow treacly retardation to the

01:01:38 mental cogs of the planets.

01:01:47 You understand that comparing the strengths of men to the weaknesses of women is lazy

01:01:54 and stupid.

01:01:56 It's like saying that women are stronger.

01:01:59 Women are better because women can create life.

01:02:03 Women can breastfeed.

01:02:05 Therefore women are superior.

01:02:07 I'm so smart.

01:02:15 Whenever you have the urge, I don't counsel this too often, whenever you have the urge

01:02:20 to pat yourself on the back and feel smart because you compared the strengths of one

01:02:23 choice to the weaknesses of another, I just want you to slap yourself.

01:02:28 Like I'm not a big one for violating the non-aggression principle.

01:02:31 If you feel it's weird to do it yourself, you can just get a wet fish or a filet of

01:02:34 fish for all I care, but just smack yourself or maybe a little paper cut.

01:02:38 You just need aversive training to think that.

01:02:41 Hedonism.

01:02:42 Hedonism is great, you see, because with hedonism you have a lot of fun.

01:02:46 You have a lot of fun.

01:02:48 You get drunk.

01:02:49 You have great stories.

01:02:50 Maybe you have some weird creepy sex, but you know, it's a blast.

01:02:53 Hedonism is super, super fun, whereas the people who defer gratification, they're just

01:02:59 sour, they have to get up early, they've got headaches, they're just unhappy, they're just

01:03:02 square, they're just bored.

01:03:03 "Ugh, weed is great, man, because it relaxes you.

01:03:07 Ugh, bleh, you know, nah."

01:03:09 You're just strengths and weaknesses.

01:03:11 Yes, it's true, hedonists have more fun in the moment, and if you compare the fun that

01:03:16 hedonists have in the moment with the fun that strict people or disciplined people have

01:03:22 in the moment, yes, a lot of times the hedonists will be having more fun than the disciplined

01:03:28 people.

01:03:29 I get it.

01:03:30 I get it.

01:03:31 "You know, being single is better than being married, because you can date anyone you want."

01:03:37 Yes, that is true, and so you're comparing the strengths of being single with the weaknesses

01:03:43 being married, and you think you've done anything?

01:03:45 You haven't done anything.

01:03:47 Well, actually, no, what you have done, I'll tell you what you have done when you do this

01:03:51 kind of shit.

01:03:52 When you use, like, "Well, just be a better version of yourself, and I'm going to compare

01:03:55 the strengths of one thing to the weakness of another, and think I've added anything,"

01:03:59 what you do, what you do, which is actually quite tragic, is this is what you do to all

01:04:03 the smart people in your environment.

01:04:13 Except I come back, and they don't.

01:04:17 You are an intelligence repeller if you compare the strength of one choice with the weaknesses

01:04:22 of another, and that's it.

01:04:27 You know, you should buy, you should never buy a car that costs less than $100,000, because

01:04:34 a car that costs $100,000 or more has all of the great features, safety features, the

01:04:40 stereo sounds better, plush leather seats, a moonroof.

01:04:45 It's fantastic.

01:04:46 I mean, it's just higher quality.

01:04:47 "Oh, I'm so smart.

01:04:48 Yes."

01:04:49 "Yes, good for you.

01:04:53 An expensive car often has better features."

01:04:56 There is a minor downside in that it's a very expensive car, and you have less money

01:05:05 for anything else.

01:05:06 Yes, all other things being equal, a better car is a better car, but nothing is ever equal.

01:05:16 Nothing is ever equal.

01:05:19 Compare the accomplishments of men to women.

01:05:23 Really.

01:05:25 So, "If creation is good, then creating those who create is even better.

01:05:32 Therefore, women are superior to men."

01:05:33 Oh boy.

01:05:38 I just...

01:05:44 The tomboy to wifey pipeline is real.

01:05:46 Yeah, for sure.

01:05:50 Yeah, men make the house structurally sound, women make the house comfortable and safe.

01:05:54 I mean, do you know what the death toll of toddlers would be if women weren't around?

01:06:05 This single female is creating a beautiful home.

01:06:06 It's a Friday, listening to Steph, and I'm painting my bathroom solo.

01:06:10 That's nice.

01:06:12 That's nice.

01:06:13 I was quite shocked, to be honest, in all seriousness.

01:06:17 One of the things that shocked me most about getting married was, do you know that walls

01:06:33 not only can, but should be replaced?

01:06:38 Like repainted?

01:06:39 Like they should be repainted.

01:06:40 Apparently.

01:06:41 I don't know.

01:06:42 We were in some place.

01:06:43 My wife's like, "Well, been 10 years.

01:06:44 We got to repaint the walls."

01:06:45 I'm like, "What now?

01:06:46 Repaint the walls?

01:06:47 They're okay.

01:06:48 We just need to..."

01:06:49 And she was right.

01:06:54 We repainted the walls.

01:06:55 I remember listening to Bill Clinton's autobiography while we were doing it.

01:06:58 We repainted the walls.

01:06:59 We chatted.

01:07:00 It was really nice.

01:07:01 Really freshened up the house.

01:07:02 Another thing, another thing is quite interesting about being married.

01:07:06 I could do this all night.

01:07:09 That's another interesting thing about being married.

01:07:10 But do you know that as a man, you can actually go out, you can go out.

01:07:16 There are stores.

01:07:17 I didn't even know these stores existed.

01:07:18 You can go out as a man.

01:07:22 You can walk into a store and you can test and choose and pay for and take home a variety

01:07:35 of pillows.

01:07:36 Did you know that?

01:07:37 I had no clue.

01:07:39 It doesn't have to be a pile of clothes in an old burlap sack.

01:07:44 It doesn't have to be some yellow caked mystery pillow you got from the death of some great

01:07:49 aunt you don't even remember.

01:07:55 You can go in, test and find the right pillow for you.

01:08:01 Did you know you don't have to end up with a U-shaped mattress that you've worn down

01:08:06 through repeated rolling over in bed.

01:08:09 You can flip that mattress, turn it around.

01:08:10 Do you know that makes your mattress last a huge amount longer?

01:08:15 It's wild.

01:08:18 My wife knows to clean places I didn't even know existed.

01:08:26 Apparently there is something behind the fridge and apparently you need to pull it out and

01:08:29 clean it from time to time.

01:08:31 It's a mystery.

01:08:34 Women's focus on cleaning and tidiness and health keep men alive.

01:08:47 Bachelors have no problem using a hammer and chisel to pry open some prehistoric Tupperware

01:08:56 dish, scraping out with their bare hands whatever fantastical Egyptian goo just happens to be

01:09:02 in there, probably becoming half sentient, jamming it into their face hole, chewing,

01:09:07 swallowing and going back to their vidya.

01:09:12 My wife genuinely likes my sense of humor a rare bird.

01:09:15 Yeah, for sure.

01:09:18 I'm curious of your opinion of the cold approach.

01:09:19 I do believe that has a lot of importance but you can say that it's implicit in who

01:09:24 the person is if this tendency was erased because of the danger of it in the tribal

01:09:28 times.

01:09:30 Look, just don't have regrets.

01:09:39 I never regretted asking a woman out, even the crazy women who said no.

01:09:42 I've never regretted asking a woman out because I'm very, very keen on not having regrets.

01:09:52 If you have regrets, you're going to have a whole lot of time to regret because 60,

01:09:58 70, 80, 85, 90, you got decades to regret.

01:10:03 So try not to have regrets.

01:10:08 Sharks can't climb trees.

01:10:10 Monkeys can't breathe underwater.

01:10:11 Yeah, yeah, for sure.

01:10:12 Absolutely.

01:10:13 Absolutely.

01:10:14 Sharks can't climb trees.

01:10:17 Therefore, sharks are inferior to monkeys.

01:10:22 Yeah, it's really boring.

01:10:27 If men could reproduce on their own, we would most likely be living on other planets by

01:10:38 now.

01:10:39 If women could reproduce on their own, we would be extinct.

01:10:44 So in order to justify your frankly rather pathetic feeling of superiority to women,

01:10:51 you have to create scenarios wherein there's no such thing as biology and sexes don't exist.

01:11:00 Okay, I will leave you in your impossible world, nurturing your own sense of sad superiority

01:11:06 and move on to other questions.

01:11:07 Well, if the world was the opposite of the world, I'd be right.

01:11:12 Yeah, okay, great.

01:11:13 You know, if you have to really remake everything in the natural universe, unnatural, in order

01:11:18 to be right, I personally would have a couple of doubts about the rightness of my position

01:11:24 if I had to make up these situations.

01:11:31 Every accomplished man was born and raised by a woman, for the most part, yeah.

01:11:44 Women have bigger breasts, so they are superior.

01:11:48 You've never been to Florida?

01:11:52 I once went to a friend of mine's.

01:11:56 A friend of mine's kid was in a dance competition and I went to show my support and this happened

01:12:03 to be in Florida, I happened to be in Florida and whatever, right?

01:12:06 Some time ago.

01:12:07 And I just remember afterwards, one of the things I said was, you know, it's actually

01:12:15 just, it's completely bizarre being in Florida and around slender people.

01:12:22 Freaking me out.

01:12:24 Oh dear.

01:12:27 Eventually men will lose this fear to acknowledge reality without pretending it makes us sexist

01:12:31 or that we hate women because we acknowledge men make a greater contribution to society

01:12:35 than women.

01:12:37 The men who wouldn't be there without women.

01:12:39 Yeah, absolutely.

01:12:40 Yeah, for sure.

01:12:42 For sure.

01:12:44 I think men and women need each other.

01:12:45 Of course we do.

01:12:46 There are great men and great women in many ways.

01:12:48 We have the same virtues, but we often have different responsibilities and states in life,

01:12:51 so our virtuous actions are different.

01:12:56 You don't know life until you've been through the pillow department.

01:13:03 She can spot a crumb on my placemat at a hundred yards.

01:13:06 Oh yeah, if there's a cup going down without a coaster, my wife will actually materialize.

01:13:12 It's weird.

01:13:13 Like she actually will spawn in, put the coaster and then despawn.

01:13:17 It's wild.

01:13:18 Gonna flip my mattress tonight.

01:13:19 Hey!

01:13:20 I do want to hear about your sex life.

01:13:23 All right.

01:13:25 Behind the fridge, the only time us dudes went back there is when we dropped the router.

01:13:29 It wasn't a fun time.

01:13:30 Yeah, I mean, my wife has taught me some skincare.

01:13:34 So now I actually don't have to claw at my face with my toenails.

01:13:39 It's really nice.

01:13:40 Actually, particularly in family photos.

01:13:43 It's really nice.

01:13:54 When I've lived with women, I can easily keep up with chores, but they are amazing at decorating

01:13:58 and making a place homey and smelling good.

01:14:00 I've also noticed women will do a deep clean when they get somewhere, whereas I usually

01:14:04 just did a quick vacuum and called it.

01:14:09 I mean, I live in heaven.

01:14:10 Like, I mean, my wife makes the environment fantastic.

01:14:17 Whereas I was dragging like the conscience of a guilty man, one half broken down futon

01:14:23 from when I was in university and sleeping half on that and half on the floor like some

01:14:27 hobo.

01:14:28 Hobo in a tropical climate.

01:14:33 No, no, I mean, I honestly, I live, I mean, one day maybe I'll show you the studio.

01:14:40 That's my decoration, which is just cables and that.

01:14:44 But no, my wife makes the place beautiful.

01:14:47 I mean, it's beautiful.

01:14:50 And of course, when you have a woman who's a great homemaker, you're healthier, you eat

01:14:55 better, you get fewer illnesses, everything's just great.

01:14:59 Everything's just great.

01:15:00 So the idea that I do what I do independent of my wife is kind of crazy.

01:15:09 Yeah, marriage is fascinating.

01:15:15 It really is.

01:15:16 I mean, it's really great.

01:15:17 Viva la difference, right?

01:15:18 I mean, I remember just realizing, yeah, we don't have to be the same.

01:15:26 Should women have the right to vote?

01:15:27 Should they fight in the front lines of war?

01:15:29 They are equal.

01:15:30 So by logic, they should.

01:15:32 Oh, so equal to you means equal in everything.

01:15:41 Equal to you means it's equality of outcome rather than equality of characteristics.

01:15:52 I mean, you realize that you are, by putting women down, you're just the mirror of the

01:15:58 I hate the patriarchy, feminist nonsense, right?

01:16:01 I mean, you're just the same guy with an outie instead of an innie, right?

01:16:06 Just having a woman cook for you is so amazing after a hot day's work or after mending things

01:16:10 around the house or yard work, yeah?

01:16:13 Yeah, everything you're talking about are coercive status functions, so.

01:16:23 Coercive status functions.

01:16:27 Let's argue about those, shall we?

01:16:30 Which coercive status functions?

01:16:32 Should be male or female?

01:16:38 If not equal, then one by definition makes a superior contribution.

01:16:42 Oh, boy.

01:16:46 I mean, honestly, I got to tell you, this is really pathetic.

01:16:54 I mean, it's really sad.

01:16:56 It's really sad.

01:17:01 It's really sad.

01:17:06 If not equal.

01:17:09 Yes, it's true that men are better fighters than women.

01:17:15 Yeah, it absolutely is true.

01:17:18 It's absolutely true that men are better fighters than women.

01:17:21 Generally, we fight over women, but that's a different matter.

01:17:24 Yes.

01:17:25 Well done.

01:17:26 Men are better fighters than women.

01:17:27 Yeah, I'll give you that.

01:17:30 I guess that makes men superior in all ways.

01:17:34 You know, when a tennis player tries to play tennis with a wrestler and a wrestler puts

01:17:44 him in a half Nelson, the wrestler is a better tennis player because he beat the tennis player

01:17:49 in wrestling.

01:17:51 I am very smart.

01:17:55 Oh, my gosh.

01:18:01 That's very sad.

01:18:02 I mean, honestly, it is really, really sad.

01:18:06 In all forms of laborious endeavor, men are superior.

01:18:09 Really?

01:18:10 You know, they call it labor, right?

01:18:12 When a woman is giving birth, they call it labor.

01:18:16 If you don't have a great mom for your children, you just haven't seen the strength of women

01:18:22 manifest in that way.

01:18:27 My wife is stronger than me in many ways.

01:18:32 She is.

01:18:33 And maybe you just don't see that until you have a great mom for your kids.

01:18:39 I mean, what she doesn't do for our daughter is incredible.

01:18:45 And all of it's necessary.

01:18:47 All of it's important.

01:18:51 Women keep the conveyor belt of appointments and healthcare and dentistry and all of this

01:18:56 kind of stuff and checkups and all of that.

01:18:59 Women keep all that conveyor belt going.

01:19:03 My wife is amazing and openly accepts that I am superior to her and she worships me.

01:19:11 Do you have children?

01:19:15 Do you have children?

01:19:19 This is glorious.

01:19:20 If the poster didn't want help seeing the errors of his thoughts, he wouldn't have kept

01:19:23 posting here.

01:19:26 She is actually the best woman I have ever met and superior to any other woman I have

01:19:30 ever met.

01:19:31 Okay.

01:19:33 Okay.

01:19:34 I mean, this is just vanity posturing.

01:19:40 I am not perfect, but I'm perfect for you.

01:19:47 Do you have children?

01:19:52 Who's better at dealing with babies and toddlers, men or women?

01:19:57 Who's better at dealing and handling and getting out with and keeping healthy and safe?

01:20:03 Who's better at dealing with babies and toddlers, men or women?

01:20:08 Women, of course.

01:20:13 Of course.

01:20:14 It's great.

01:20:15 It's wonderful.

01:20:16 It's wonderful.

01:20:23 And if women weren't so great at dealing with babies and toddlers, and they are, if women

01:20:27 weren't so great at dealing with babies and toddlers, none of us would be here to build

01:20:30 bridges or make philosophy or build houses or blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, right?

01:20:36 This guy is trolling?

01:20:37 Yeah, maybe.

01:20:38 But it's, you know, listen, I don't mind the trolling if it is trolling.

01:20:42 I'm not saying it is, but I don't mind the trolling because it's a common enough perspective

01:20:45 that it's worth looking at and possibly dismantling, right?

01:20:53 Any other tips, my friend?

01:21:00 I am not trolling.

01:21:03 I can't compete with self-feeding baby food sacks.

01:21:07 Yes, you may not want to refer to them that way.

01:21:14 Just, you know, just call them bags of sand.

01:21:17 Sorry, 40-year-old virgin.

01:21:19 I don't think he answered the question, though, did he?

01:21:22 He didn't answer the question.

01:21:25 No, he probably doesn't even remember the question that I asked.

01:21:30 He answered every question but the one that was most important.

01:21:33 So, inevitable.

01:21:34 Inevitable.

01:21:35 He wants to hang on to his vanity.

01:21:38 It's very sad.

01:21:41 My wife spends nights preparing games and puzzles for our kids for the next day.

01:21:45 Have you ever been around a female community?

01:21:48 I don't have children.

01:21:49 I am young.

01:21:50 Okay, so, yeah.

01:21:51 So, you haven't seen your wife's strength.

01:21:55 You're going to start now.

01:21:56 Okay.

01:21:57 So, you haven't seen your wife's strengths and obviously you lack the imagination to

01:22:00 understand them.

01:22:01 And of course, maybe your mother didn't "sacrifice" for you.

01:22:05 Congratulations for getting married.

01:22:06 I'm thrilled about that.

01:22:07 But maybe your mother didn't sacrifice for you.

01:22:10 And once you've really seen a woman's devotion to her children and a woman's devotion to

01:22:15 her family, thinking that men are superior to women or women are superior to men is beyond

01:22:20 ridiculous.

01:22:21 Frankly.

01:22:22 I mean, it is really, really beyond ridiculous.

01:22:25 Routine.

01:22:27 Routine.

01:22:30 I mean, who's superior?

01:22:38 The guy up in the crow's nest who tells you where to go or the guy at the wheel making

01:22:44 the ship go in a particular direction?

01:22:46 Who's superior?

01:22:47 They're a team.

01:22:49 The guy who's superior is in the crow's nest because he can see further.

01:22:52 The guy who's superior is at the wheel because he can actually change the direction of the

01:22:55 ship.

01:22:56 It's just boring.

01:22:57 It's boring.

01:22:58 It's boring.

01:23:02 Teach me about the female design community, this world quietly opening in my mind.

01:23:09 I love women and think they are ethically equal.

01:23:11 Equal?

01:23:12 Sorry, that was my bad reading.

01:23:13 Sorry, these are old classics.

01:23:15 I love women and think that they are ethically equal.

01:23:18 Okay, great.

01:23:21 Teach me about the female design community.

01:23:23 You know, like if you've ever been around, maybe it's a homeschooling community, maybe

01:23:26 it's a church community, maybe it's ... But a community where the women gather, they share

01:23:31 aid and charity with each other, they watch each other's children, they really just dig

01:23:36 in and really, really help.

01:23:41 I remember when living with my family in the countryside, we as men did physically exhausting

01:23:44 work all day, but when we came back tired, we were greeted by delicious food and a clean

01:23:48 and beautifully smelling house.

01:23:50 It's what you work for.

01:23:53 I remember when I would go to a friend of mine's cottage as a teenager, I remember we

01:23:58 moved the outhouse, we chopped huge amounts of wood, we had to take down an old barn one

01:24:02 day.

01:24:03 Yeah, hard, difficult work.

01:24:04 I loved it.

01:24:05 I love physical labor.

01:24:06 Honestly, I absolutely, completely, and totally love physical labor.

01:24:09 That's why I never had any ... I don't really complain that much about the gold panning

01:24:11 and prospecting.

01:24:12 I love, love, love, love physical labor.

01:24:17 And yeah, we would go out as men and we would do this physical labor, which was great.

01:24:22 This is a real sense of accomplishment, real sense of use your body, your muscles, fantastic.

01:24:26 Physical labor is God's gift to the hyper intellect because it cools it down.

01:24:32 It's like water on an over-revving engine, right?

01:24:35 And then you come and then there's fantastic food and you sit and you chat and oh my God,

01:24:40 I've been, I remember, let me tell you a story.

01:24:41 I'll tell you a funny story.

01:24:42 It's an interesting story.

01:24:43 I hope it's an interesting story.

01:24:45 So many years ago, I went with a friend of mine to the Dominican Republic for, I think

01:24:50 it was about 10 days or something like that.

01:24:52 I had a lot of fun and we met these women and oh, I remember a story.

01:25:00 I remember a story.

01:25:02 A woman was telling me, one of the women was telling me that she loved her father.

01:25:06 Her mother, when her mother hit menopause, her mother had an affair, midlife crisis,

01:25:14 left, broke her dad's heart and she had spontaneous bleeding from her nether regions.

01:25:20 And I remember thinking even at the time, so the problem is your mother stopped having

01:25:24 a period.

01:25:25 So you start having an excessive period in a sense to compensate.

01:25:27 I mean, it was probably all nonsense, but anyway, I remember we would hang out with

01:25:32 these women.

01:25:33 Nothing happened.

01:25:34 It wasn't romantic in that way, but it was kind of date-y in a way.

01:25:38 And I remember the women, the two girls, no, there were three girls, sorry, the three girls,

01:25:43 but in particular the two we liked, I mean, they made themselves pretty.

01:25:47 We got the restaurant and they came down and it all just felt so absolutely and wonderfully

01:25:53 natural.

01:25:54 You know, we held the chairs out for them and it was all, you know, old fashioned Jane

01:25:59 Austen stuff up the ying yang.

01:26:03 And I just very strongly remember like, okay, this just feels natural.

01:26:07 This feels normal.

01:26:08 This feels right.

01:26:09 That the women are making themselves pretty and they're laughing at our jokes and we are

01:26:12 pulling the chairs out and we are buying dinner and it all just was great.

01:26:16 And it was one of the first times where I was like, yeah, you know, maybe there's something

01:26:20 to be said for the ways that evolved.

01:26:24 This is a man's world.

01:26:31 I do think some of the most beautiful women are those at church who kept their standards

01:26:35 and have become wonderful wives and mothers, beautiful souls.

01:26:41 Women have to die in war on fishing ships, working dangerous jobs so they should have

01:26:45 greater authority.

01:26:46 Yes.

01:26:47 Because yeah, it's absolutely, it's completely true.

01:26:51 Men die doing their jobs.

01:26:54 Men die doing difficult labor.

01:26:59 On the other hand, I've heard rumors.

01:27:01 I've heard rumors.

01:27:02 I don't know for sure, but I've heard rumors that women sometimes significantly suffered,

01:27:09 maybe even died over the course of, I don't know, giving birth to children.

01:27:14 Just a thought.

01:27:16 So yeah, yeah, men do have dangerous jobs.

01:27:24 Pushing a grapefruit out of your vagina apparently is totally simple and easy because apparently

01:27:28 you've never been constipated.

01:27:29 So I don't know.

01:27:30 This is all just boring.

01:27:32 Sorry.

01:27:33 You think you're deep.

01:27:34 You just know you haven't thought through anything.

01:27:37 You just haven't thought through anything.

01:27:51 And who's better at taking care of elderly relatives?

01:27:57 Who's better at taking care of grandma and granddad?

01:28:01 When they get old, when they get fragile, when they get forgetful, who's better at taking

01:28:06 care of sick people, men or women?

01:28:10 Hmm.

01:28:11 Very, very complicated.

01:28:15 Also women face more danger just walking on the street.

01:28:19 Men die far more often deaths of despair.

01:28:23 Yes, and part of that is men isolating themselves and refusing to ask for help.

01:28:30 And that's a man's choice.

01:28:32 So yeah.

01:28:33 So what you're doing is you're saying that, well, men die far more deaths of despair,

01:28:37 but women get depressed more.

01:28:40 The majority of men in the red pill spaces think just like this guy.

01:28:44 Well, I don't think that's worth pushing back.

01:28:48 I mean, geez, man.

01:28:51 You know, you're trying to have kids.

01:28:52 You're going to have a daughter.

01:28:53 Likely.

01:28:54 I mean, you have a couple of kids.

01:28:55 You're going to have a daughter.

01:28:58 It's a woman's choice to have children.

01:29:00 It's a man's choice to...

01:29:02 It's a man's choice to work a dangerous job.

01:29:03 Who gives a shit?

01:29:04 Like it's so boring.

01:29:05 Do you not?

01:29:06 Do you not think through anything?

01:29:07 This is so embarrassing to watch.

01:29:09 This is really...

01:29:10 You're like an NPC.

01:29:11 Blah, blah, blah.

01:29:12 Women bad.

01:29:13 Men noble.

01:29:14 Women lazy.

01:29:15 Men hardworking.

01:29:16 Blah, blah.

01:29:17 It's a woman's choice to have children.

01:29:19 Yes, absolutely.

01:29:20 Totally.

01:29:21 The woman's choice to have children.

01:29:23 Yeah.

01:29:24 You know, throughout history, women never got married off.

01:29:26 Never.

01:29:27 There were never arranged marriages for children where rape was not a concept that existed

01:29:30 within marriage.

01:29:31 Yeah.

01:29:32 Women totally chose.

01:29:33 The fact that they were married off by their elders at the age of 10 and then could never

01:29:36 say no to sexual actions from their husband.

01:29:39 Yeah.

01:29:40 Women just totally chose to have...

01:29:41 Oh my God.

01:29:42 Do you know nothing?

01:29:43 God, this is embarrassing to see.

01:29:45 I'm sorry.

01:29:46 Like you're just embarrassing.

01:29:48 You just need...

01:29:49 You need to think through some counter examples.

01:29:51 That's all.

01:29:52 You just need to think through some counter examples rather than spitting out these bitter

01:29:57 NPC memes from the Black Pillars.

01:29:59 I mean, this is just...

01:30:01 It's not good.

01:30:02 This is a philosophy show.

01:30:03 This isn't a repeat stupid shit you read somewhere show.

01:30:06 That shows tomorrow.

01:30:07 Oh my gosh.

01:30:08 Oh, what can I say?

01:30:12 What can I say?

01:30:17 They couldn't say no to sexual advances because men are physically superior.

01:30:26 So for you, physically superior equals rape.

01:30:33 You have no trouble with this mindset that the superiority of men rests on rape.

01:30:39 That's what you're saying.

01:30:41 Oh my God, what is wrong with you?

01:30:43 You have some major wiring that is not working in your head, my friend.

01:30:47 Men are superior because they can force women to have sex.

01:30:53 What?

01:30:54 I, you know, dude, if this wiring doesn't trouble you, you're a little fucking frightening.

01:31:02 You're a little frightening.

01:31:05 All right, let's see here.

01:31:15 So rapists are the superior men by this logic?

01:31:19 No, it equals physical qualities, height, strength, speed, endurance.

01:31:23 Oh, yes, really?

01:31:24 You don't think I know that men are taller and faster and have more endurance?

01:31:28 No, you just, this is sad.

01:31:33 I mean, sorry, you're gone.

01:31:36 Yeah, this is, that's really sad.

01:31:37 You're just mentally gone.

01:31:38 Sorry, dude.

01:31:39 Like you're just mentally gone.

01:31:40 And I can't believe your wife listens to this stuff and I don't believe she's superior at

01:31:44 all.

01:31:45 I think she's probably just frightened.

01:31:47 Why are we pretending to not understand this?

01:31:50 No, you said.

01:31:53 That women couldn't say no to sexual advances because men are physically superior, which

01:31:57 means you're equating the superiority of men to rape.

01:32:02 Men are superior because men rape according to you.

01:32:05 And now you're just changing the subject and pretending like I don't understand that women

01:32:09 are taller.

01:32:10 Not an argument.

01:32:11 Oh my gosh, this is terrible.

01:32:16 This is terrible.

01:32:17 It is an argument.

01:32:18 If you think that superiority equals rape, your morals are fucked up beyond recognition.

01:32:24 Like you are a genuinely scary person.

01:32:26 If you think that superiority equals rape, oh my God.

01:32:31 Oh my God.

01:32:33 Yeah, that's, that's not good.

01:32:35 Now you may be troubled by this, but that's your statement.

01:32:40 Hope all is well and the young one is doing well.

01:32:42 She is doing very well.

01:32:43 She is out with friends.

01:32:46 All right.

01:32:49 It means men can physically coerce women in history because they are physically superior.

01:32:53 Right.

01:32:54 Superiority, it has nothing to do with rape.

01:32:57 No, now you're just lying.

01:32:59 Like now you're just a liar, right?

01:33:01 Because you were talking about, I said that, you said women had the choice to have children.

01:33:08 I pointed out that they didn't because they were married off and couldn't say no to the

01:33:11 men.

01:33:12 And you say, well, that makes men superior.

01:33:13 That's because men are superior.

01:33:14 And now, so you're saying that rape equals superiority.

01:33:18 If you don't like the logic of your own statements, maybe you could amend them.

01:33:21 But anyway, I need you to stop typing because this is just ridiculous and terrible.

01:33:26 This is just absolutely ridiculous and terrible.

01:33:28 And I can't, yeah, you brought up the superiority in the context of rape.

01:33:34 So I can't do anything.

01:33:36 If you could stop typing, I would really, really appreciate that.

01:33:38 This is actually just becoming kind of gross and unsettling.

01:33:41 All right.

01:33:44 Any other comments, questions, issues, challenges?

01:33:47 I read something.

01:33:48 Oh my gosh, did I read something quite surprising?

01:33:52 If you know this, if you know this, maybe you do, maybe you don't.

01:34:02 But what do you, what is the average?

01:34:10 I love this, the invention of glue, one guy talking to another.

01:34:12 I bet if we melt a horse, we could use it to stick stuff to other stuff.

01:34:16 The other guy's like, dude, is everything okay at home?

01:34:18 Hey, it's like this guy.

01:34:21 Let me ask you this.

01:34:23 This was wild to me.

01:34:25 This was wild to me.

01:34:27 The amount of debt that is, 36% of Americans say they have amassed more credit card debt

01:34:36 than emergency savings and at all time high.

01:34:42 This was really, really something.

01:34:44 Oh yeah, South Africa, remember I did the fall of South Africa many years ago.

01:34:48 South Africa has a population of 60 million.

01:34:51 South Africa has 28 million or more people on welfare grants.

01:34:55 South Africa only has 7.1 million taxpayers.

01:34:59 What?

01:35:01 Appalling.

01:35:02 Half of US tenants can't afford to pay their rent.

01:35:06 This is from CNN business.

01:35:08 Excellent.

01:35:10 I'm sure we're going to be a soft landing anytime.

01:35:12 Oh yeah, this is what I wanted to get you to.

01:35:14 All right, this is what I wanted to get you to.

01:35:18 Maybe you know this, maybe you don't, but it's very interesting to me.

01:35:22 I have, this may be a Protestant work ethic or something like this, I have a deep and

01:35:27 visceral horror of debt.

01:35:29 I have a deep and visceral horror of debt.

01:35:39 And what does the average American household owe in credit card debt?

01:35:54 How much?

01:35:55 Do you think people are loading up on debt because they think the system is going to

01:36:00 collapse?

01:36:01 No, they're loading up on debt because they don't want to admit that they've been wrong.

01:36:07 They don't want to admit that they've been wrong about their politics and who they voted

01:36:11 for and who they listened to and who they didn't listen to, right?

01:36:14 What do you got?

01:36:15 The average American household owes how much in credit card debt?

01:36:20 It's $10,000.

01:36:23 It's $10,000 in credit card debt.

01:36:26 Now, that's a lot because $10,000 at, what is it, some credit cards are like 23, 24%

01:36:33 interest.

01:36:34 All right.

01:36:35 How much does the American household owe in student loan debt?

01:36:39 100K.

01:36:40 Come on.

01:36:42 How much does the average American household owe in student loan debt?

01:36:57 How much?

01:36:58 How much?

01:36:59 I must know.

01:37:00 How much does the average American household owe in student loan debt?

01:37:08 I love how people then talk about their own debt.

01:37:09 No, no, this is about other people.

01:37:11 Hello.

01:37:12 Come out of the old narcissistic mode.

01:37:13 This is about other people.

01:37:15 All right.

01:37:18 The average American household owes $58,957 in student loan.

01:37:25 So yeah, almost 60K.

01:37:28 Just a shade shy of a K shy of 60K.

01:37:38 So the average, right?

01:37:39 So you see the average American owes $10,000 in credit card debt, which means half of them

01:37:42 are higher and half of them are lower.

01:37:46 So how much does the average American household owe in mortgage debt?

01:37:53 How much does the average American household owe in mortgage debt?

01:37:59 Yes, I've said average about 13 times.

01:38:05 Oh, that was the median.

01:38:07 Yeah, yeah.

01:38:08 Sorry.

01:38:09 So how much does the average American household owe in mortgage debt?

01:38:14 No, no.

01:38:17 Average American household.

01:38:18 Didn't say college.

01:38:19 Didn't say anything about college.

01:38:20 Yeah, you're right.

01:38:21 Bang in there.

01:38:22 So it's $241,840 in mortgage debt.

01:38:24 Okay, so we've done credit card debt, student loan debt, mortgage debt.

01:38:33 What's the other big debt that Americans have?

01:38:35 Now, 40,000 would be too low.

01:38:39 The housing prices are pretty high.

01:38:41 So we've done credit card debt, student loan debt, mortgage debt.

01:38:44 What is the other debt that people in America have?

01:38:47 Have?

01:38:48 What do they have?

01:38:51 Medical?

01:38:52 No.

01:38:53 Yeah, that's right.

01:38:54 Card debt.

01:38:55 So what is the average American household auto loans?

01:39:04 What is the average American household owe in auto loans?

01:39:08 Yeah, doing well, right?

01:39:14 This doesn't include ... How do people pay for their medical loans?

01:39:20 I assume that they take out a second mortgage or something like that.

01:39:22 So maybe that's bundled up in the mortgage debt.

01:39:26 So car, 15, 30, 60.

01:39:27 60K?

01:39:28 No.

01:39:29 Banking $60,000 cars.

01:39:31 So the average auto loan is 22,612.

01:39:39 Well for the household, right?

01:39:41 So we've got 10,000 for the household, right?

01:39:47 We're just going to round things a bit.

01:39:48 Plus 60,000, I could do that one in my head.

01:39:51 We'll down the other one a bit.

01:39:53 240 plus 20, 23.

01:39:56 Let's just make it 22.

01:39:59 So yeah, 332,000.

01:40:08 That wild.

01:40:15 Let's see here.

01:40:18 Credit card payment calculator.

01:40:26 All right.

01:40:34 Let's see.

01:40:35 What do people say?

01:40:36 What do they have here?

01:40:38 Credit card calculator.

01:40:39 Okay.

01:40:40 So let's say they've got that 10,000.

01:40:44 What are the interest rates?

01:40:47 Okay.

01:40:50 So if you have $10,000 of credit card debt at an interest rate of 18% and you pay $200

01:41:00 a month, how long does it take to pay off the balance?

01:41:06 I know this is kind of technical, but just give me a rough guesstimate, right?

01:41:14 So you've got 10,000 credit card debt, interest rate of 18%, you pay $200 a month.

01:41:23 How long is it going to take for you?

01:41:26 I bet everyone is maxing out their credit card to buy Bitcoin.

01:41:29 I can guarantee you that is not the case.

01:41:33 It is absolutely only a couple of percentage points of American households own Bitcoin.

01:41:39 So I can certainly guarantee you that that is not the case.

01:41:43 Oh, look at that.

01:41:45 Bitcoin went up.

01:41:46 All right.

01:41:47 Well, we're talking.

01:41:48 All right.

01:41:49 Well, over a decade, four years, four years, 10 years.

01:41:57 So the way it plays out, I can give you the link here.

01:42:00 You can have a look at that.

01:42:01 And I think interest rates are higher.

01:42:05 I have a question.

01:42:06 What does a young person's future look like without financial help from parents?

01:42:10 It all tends to wash.

01:42:16 It takes eight, sorry, seven years and 10 months to pay off the balance.

01:42:21 The total interest you pay is $8,622.

01:42:25 Now I think though I've seen interest rates at 22%.

01:42:31 So this is how much it changes just by going up four points, right?

01:42:35 Four hundred basis points.

01:42:37 So if you have a credit card balance of $10,000 and your interest rate is 22% and you pay

01:42:43 $200 a month, instead of it being just under eight years, it's now over 11 years.

01:42:48 It's 11 and a half years almost to pay off the balance.

01:42:50 Instead of paying eight grand and change in interest, you pay $17,355 in interest, right?

01:42:58 So you pay 170% of the debt in interest, right?

01:43:02 It's crazy.

01:43:06 It's just crazy.

01:43:07 You can see this one here.

01:43:08 I'll give you the link here and you can see this one.

01:43:11 It's just brutal.

01:43:12 This is why I have this visceral horror of debt.

01:43:14 Like I got to tell you, I'm not a particularly anxious guy as you can tell, but I feel this

01:43:20 little flutter of like butterfly anxiety when I see these people on Twitter or X and they

01:43:26 say, you know, I took out $150,000 student loan.

01:43:31 I've been paying it for 10 years and it's now at $175,000.

01:43:35 I'm like, oh my God, like get me my smelling salts.

01:43:40 Slap me in the face with a wet fish.

01:43:43 That's just horrendous.

01:43:47 That's just horrendous.

01:43:52 Now here's it, if the interest rates go to 24% and you pay $200 a month, if the interest

01:44:01 rate goes to 24% and you have paid $200 a month on a credit card balance of 10,000,

01:44:06 when do you pay it off?

01:44:11 When do you pay off your credit card balance of 10,000 to 200 bucks a month with an interest

01:44:17 rate of 24%?

01:44:25 Poor credit then 28% starting rate goes up to 31% if you miss two payments.

01:44:29 Yeah that's right, you will never pay off your credit card if it goes to 24%.

01:44:38 Yeah it's brutal.

01:44:42 Now this of course is what happens to the variable interest rates.

01:44:48 This is what happened of course in 2007-2008 with the mortgage stuff.

01:45:01 What we did, we're doing 25 year mortgages sort of back in the day.

01:45:09 So you got a home value of 400,000 down payment of 80,000 so your loan amount is 320,000.

01:45:18 Let's do an interest rate of, I don't know, it was probably about 3% back in the day,

01:45:25 probably before Biden.

01:45:29 This is the wild stuff right?

01:45:31 So if you got a 320,000 loan at 3% 25 years, your mortgage payment is $1,900 and change

01:45:41 right?

01:45:42 $1,900.

01:45:43 That goes up to 7.5% and this is what really got people right?

01:45:48 So it goes from $1,900 and change, it goes to almost $2,800, so another $900 a month.

01:45:58 And the amount of interest you pay is wild right?

01:46:01 So you pay on your $320,000 loan, you pay $389,000 of interest right?

01:46:07 At 3% you're only paying $135,000 and change of interest.

01:46:13 So it's just wild.

01:46:16 It's just wild.

01:46:17 And this is you know, and of course if it goes to 9%, not impossible these days right?

01:46:24 Then your mortgage is no longer $1,900 but over $3,100 a month.

01:46:28 And this is what got people of course right?

01:46:38 Do you know what the credit card companies call people who pay off their loans every

01:46:42 month?

01:46:47 Do you know what they call, what the credit card companies, I don't

01:46:54 know if they still do, but what they used to call people who pay off their debt every

01:46:58 month?

01:47:06 Dead beats.

01:47:07 No, they call them dead beats.

01:47:10 They call them dead beats.

01:47:12 My wife is a past master of that in terms of like getting credit card benefits and paying

01:47:16 off every month.

01:47:18 We just get a bunch of free stuff.

01:47:20 We're dead beats.

01:47:22 Yeah, because they want to hook you in right?

01:47:25 In fact the economy is so healthy right now that you can rent sneakers.

01:47:29 You can rent high status, you know the sort of fetish that some people have for these

01:47:34 blinding white basketball hero sneakers.

01:47:38 Imagine mortgage rates, I mean I remember mortgage rates in the 80s going, I had family

01:47:43 members who had mortgages, I think they were over 20%.

01:47:46 Crazy.

01:47:48 You take your interest rate to 20%, so we started off 1900, you start off 1900, interest

01:47:56 rate of 20%, instead of your mortgage payment being 1900, it's close to $6,000.

01:48:05 And instead of you paying $135,000 in interest, you pay $1.3 million almost in interest.

01:48:11 Like it's unbelievable what happens.

01:48:15 I mean you're paying virtually nothing on the principal.

01:48:19 Whatever you, I mean for me, whatever you put in on the principal is gold.

01:48:27 I pay the interest, whatever you can put down on the principal is gold.

01:48:33 And I've always had this visceral loathing of debt.

01:48:38 So yeah, people who just get into this kind of debt, I honestly don't know how they sleep.

01:48:42 I don't know, it's just appalling.

01:48:44 It feels like you've fallen down a hole with no bottom.

01:48:48 All right, any other last comments, questions, or tippy tips?

01:48:53 One of the hardest working people in philosophy.

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01:48:58 I got a philosophy of weight loss, philosophy of weight gain and weight loss that's really,

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01:49:05 So I hope you'll check out with that.

01:49:07 What's up with the artists genuinely having the attitude that their work shouldn't be

01:49:10 subject to valuation by the market itself, but are upset that AI will prevent them from

01:49:13 having a job?

01:49:14 Well, I mean, artists do it for the love of the thing.

01:49:17 They don't want to be bound down by cross materialism.

01:49:21 That comes from vanity.

01:49:22 That what matters is I like my art.

01:49:24 It doesn't matter that other people find it valuable.

01:49:27 That's just vanity, right?

01:49:29 I mean, I am as valuable in philosophy as the help I provide, right?

01:49:36 I am as valuable in philosophy as the help I provide.

01:49:42 Let's ask out Sally's this weekend.

01:49:43 Yeah, so the great temptation for men is to not ask women out and the great temptation

01:49:48 for women is to not have children and to milk their sexuality and to milk the attraction

01:49:55 of men and to have that sex in the city frisson and all of that kind of cool stuff, right?

01:50:02 Corporate graphic design jobs are almost completely gone.

01:50:04 Yeah, I had a producer who used to do my thumbnails back in the day.

01:50:07 He'd spend an hour or two on each thumbnail.

01:50:08 Now Jared has got it down to a fine art where you can whip it off on the toilet.

01:50:15 Maybe I've overshared there.

01:50:17 I probably haven't.

01:50:18 Well, it's been 18 years.

01:50:22 There's no point not oversharing now.

01:50:26 It's been too long.

01:50:28 It's been too long, but yeah, he's got it down to a fine art.

01:50:32 We use a service now for processing the shows.

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01:50:36 It takes out ums and errs.

01:50:38 It cuts pauses.

01:50:40 We can't really do that with video as well and certainly not the cutting pauses because

01:50:44 it's got to match up with the video, but it's wild.

01:50:47 There's a service now.

01:50:48 You can upload a big long ass video and it will find cool bits that you can use shorts

01:50:54 from.

01:50:55 It'll clip them out and it'll AI transcribe them and all that kind of stuff.

01:50:59 It's just wild.

01:51:00 It's just wild.

01:51:02 And yeah, it's, well, you know, I don't have any sympathy for artists, honestly.

01:51:08 I mean, artists for the most part have been following the communist propaganda wagon.

01:51:13 And the artists, this is the funny thing, right?

01:51:15 So the artists have, what have they done?

01:51:18 They ran to the government.

01:51:19 They ran to the government.

01:51:20 You got to pay us, man, because the people out there, the bourgeois, petty kulaks, they

01:51:24 don't see the genius and brilliant value of my work.

01:51:26 So you got to force them to pay me.

01:51:28 I want grants.

01:51:29 I want loans.

01:51:30 I want subsidies.

01:51:31 I want money.

01:51:32 Right?

01:51:33 So, oh yes, you, um, you want to run to the government to get money from me at the point

01:51:40 of a gun because you're an artist.

01:51:42 Oh, has AI come along?

01:51:44 Oh dear.

01:51:45 Oh dear.

01:51:46 Oh dear.

01:51:47 That's just so sad.

01:51:49 Yeah.

01:51:50 No sympathy.

01:51:51 Right now, the artists who serve the people, I think that there'd be a lot of sympathy

01:51:55 for them, but the artists ran to the government, ran away from the market and took money by

01:52:01 force through the state.

01:52:03 So nobody has any sympathy for them.

01:52:05 Although of course we all do hate to see the journalists getting fired.

01:52:10 That just moves me faster than our passage around the Milky Way.

01:52:15 Yeah.

01:52:16 Rage with the machine.

01:52:17 Oh yeah.

01:52:18 Yeah.

01:52:19 And art has not been art for about a hundred years.

01:52:24 Art has been left as propaganda almost exclusively, almost in perpetuity.

01:52:29 That's why I was kind of shocked watching the Blues Brothers again, which was actually

01:52:33 quite an important movie for me because it got me into sort of more meaty, masculine

01:52:37 music and away from my mother's Ray Conniff trippy crap.

01:52:41 And yeah, it was wild.

01:52:43 So yeah, we haven't had art art in probably about a century.

01:52:49 And so yeah, I mean the current art world, um, if they end up having to get real jobs,

01:52:56 I honestly couldn't think of a better use of their time.

01:53:00 It will be actually, it would actually be healthy, very healthy, much healthier for

01:53:04 them to get out into the marketplace and have real jobs rather than sit around circle jerking

01:53:10 on the communist manifesto with blood soaked government money between their ass cheeks.

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