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Stefan Molyneux

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Transcript

00:00:00 Good evening everybody. Hey pinch-punch first day of the month and

00:00:03 It is Friday night live

00:00:07 Good evening. Good evening. Good evening. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome. Thank you for dropping by tonight

00:00:12 We have much to chat about most of which of course, I hope is generated by you because I'm doing

00:00:18 My hair I'm doing a new series called wrestling with the dead wherein I take

00:00:25 Impactful quotes that hit me hard from philosophers who are dead. So you got the whole point of their work. There's nothing that are adding

00:00:31 And I've done

00:00:33 Roger Scruton

00:00:35 I've done

00:00:37 Democritus and I've done Thales the latter two ancient Greek philosophers and things that I

00:00:43 Found that really hit me hard over the years many years ago

00:00:48 my brother got me a book on great thinkers and it was like a massive book of

00:00:54 Like great quotes from great thinkers, which I used to think about and read about a lot

00:00:59 I used to read it a lot like, you know how you pick up your tablet back then I pick up this massive tome and

00:01:03 Work through it. And of course, I remember a bunch of stuff from it

00:01:07 So I'm digging up those quotes and going over why they hit me hit me hard

00:01:11 Very interesting very interesting stuff, so I hope that you'll check it out right now. It's

00:01:17 Going out to donors when I've got a bunch of them together. They'll go out to the stream

00:01:21 It's kind of nice when you have them in sequence rather than scattered. I

00:01:24 Guess somebody says I guess I'm just really tired of people not being able to handle what is true and supposed to help them

00:01:32 So that's interesting

00:01:38 That's interesting, sorry, I'm just reading some

00:01:46 comments here

00:01:48 Blunt helpful truth is kind of tough right blunt helpful truth is kind of tough

00:01:53 Blunt helpful truth is kind of tough most times

00:02:00 people

00:02:03 will attack you in order to dominate you people who criticize you in order to help you are kind of few and far between and

00:02:09 People people who do it in a way that can be encouraging

00:02:12 It's interesting Steph. I've been listening to for years. How did I not know you had a brother?

00:02:17 Well, I mean technically I have a brother. I haven't talked to him in decades

00:02:21 And you know it's not you know his particular

00:02:24 Issue or fault that I have some level of prominence, so I don't mention him much

00:02:28 but yes technically biologically I

00:02:32 Do have a brother

00:02:35 My brother from a the same mother or another mother. I don't know

00:02:39 Sometimes I wonder sometimes I wonder all right

00:02:45 So

00:02:47 Let us get to

00:02:51 Well I mean I guess we could ask where's Bitcoin

00:02:57 And that bad not bad at all

00:03:00 87-784 sorry and I he's having a four seven twenty three don't don't panic don't get too excited this Canadian

00:03:07 That's Canadian

00:03:10 So thanks for those links, I'll I'll check them out

00:03:14 You

00:03:16 I saw someone complained about you censoring comments. They wanted the stream to be pure speech free speech zone. Yeah

00:03:29 you know this is a mark of

00:03:33 Somebody who's acting in bad faith a censorship is a government

00:03:43 Term right censorship is a government term where you are thrown in jail or banned for

00:03:48 exercising free speech and

00:03:51 So when people say censorship

00:03:53 What they're doing is

00:03:56 They're trying to move you into the position of state actor because you found something they said

00:04:02 Not like just really unpleasant and nasty and I mean I I don't know man

00:04:09 If you if you're sitting at a park bench and some guy sits next to you, and he smells like nine miles of old ass

00:04:16 Don't you?

00:04:19 Don't you move I mean isn't that just kind of a thing right don't you move so it's censorship. No, I just

00:04:27 You know somebody's peeing in my swimming pool, and I I'm removing them from the property man

00:04:33 It's like you're throwing me in prison. It's like no just just don't pee in the swimming pool. That's all

00:04:38 Just don't pee in the swimming pool

00:04:40 It's all I'm asking

00:04:43 So

00:04:49 It's very interesting

00:04:51 So yeah, I don't know I mean if some girl you don't want to

00:05:00 Go out right if you don't want to go out with some girl. Are you confining her? Are you kidnapping her?

00:05:06 Are you restricting her are you throwing in prison? No, you just choose you not to associate nothing wrong with that so

00:05:11 Yeah, if somebody if somebody's screaming as somebody's on your front lawn

00:05:18 screaming that you're an a-hole at the top of his lungs and

00:05:22 Telling falsehoods about you wouldn't you?

00:05:26 Wouldn't you ask him to leave or remove him or oh you fascist

00:05:30 It's like now just now people who smell really tend to be aggressive from just my experience

00:05:34 Yeah, I mean a bad scent is a mark of a real lack of empathy and social skills, right?

00:05:40 It's like people with really bad breath. I mean married people with really bad breath. That's incomprehensible to me

00:05:46 How could you be married with really bad breath?

00:05:48 Wouldn't sure thank you. Tell you when I appreciate that

00:05:52 Was criticized at work recently for turning down single moms

00:05:56 It's basically the biggest red flag out there

00:05:59 And what's that mean the guy who says no single moms if you were if you were a catch the baby daddy wouldn't have left

00:06:04 If you were a catch

00:06:07 Yeah, men stepping up to have to

00:06:10 Men stepping up to have to fix women's bad choices. That's the tail is tail as old as time

00:06:17 So very interesting

00:06:21 Just today for you, you know, okay mad, right

00:06:29 Um, somebody needs to step up and help me raise my kids

00:06:33 Jaden is my world. Isn't that sort of the meme? And yeah, it's like no

00:06:38 You know, it's it they're kind of like journalists in a way like I've been through a bunch of economic ups and downs

00:06:46 I've been in companies where they've been layoffs and so on and you just you suck it up you deal with it and you go

00:06:52 Find something else to do but only when journalists get laid off. It's like the end of Western civilization

00:06:58 Oh

00:07:00 My gosh

00:07:02 Somebody says went to the dentist took my daughter for a checkup then to an orthodontist

00:07:05 And got some blood work all last month. Not a male worker in sight. Yeah

00:07:09 Yeah, this tip does show up. Thank you ATM. I appreciate that. Yeah, it's really it's really sad. It's really sad because

00:07:16 Keeping males out of the workforce. It prevents them from having families right you can't provide right and

00:07:24 It's it's really it's really sad

00:07:27 It's really sad

00:07:29 You know through most of our evolution certainly in under Christianity and under monogamy for most of her evolution

00:07:36 people could just

00:07:39 Get married and have kids have jobs. I mean there was war and I get all of that. So I get all of that but

00:07:46 Wow

00:07:50 That's wild

00:07:55 That is just wild

00:07:57 All right

00:08:04 You heard Patrick Gower the TV presenter who interviewed you and Lauren Sutherland in New Zealand is probably gonna lose his job in June I

00:08:12 I must tell you that as

00:08:14 As as priorities in my life go I probably thought of Patrick Gower about three years ago

00:08:23 You

00:08:25 Steph do you think we will have World War three?

00:08:27 Well, I mean they're trying to get Ukraine into NATO and that's a red line

00:08:36 So, I mean this is a I'm not on politics. I'm trying to lay the foundation for the next cycle of civilization. So

00:08:44 News hub is going under

00:08:48 well

00:08:50 I'm sure he's a resourceful fellow. I'm sure he'll land on his feet

00:08:53 All right

00:09:01 Okay, let me I've got some Bitcoin stuff to talk about if you have any questions that you want to deal with I'm perfectly

00:09:09 happy to

00:09:11 Respond to them. I'm just going to

00:09:13 Hit you up with some info

00:09:18 Bitcoin had its biggest monthly green candle ever in February

00:09:22 Of 2024 its biggest monthly green candle plus nineteen point eight thousand nineteen point eight K

00:09:32 Is the biggest green candle ever

00:09:37 Which is up right? I mean Wow Z Wow Z Wow Z. Let me see. I'm gonna

00:09:45 Let's see here how to save this I'm gonna just give you this so you can see it because it really is something

00:09:52 It really is something to behold

00:09:55 It really is something to behold it's a beautiful sight

00:10:00 Let's some marvelous a night for a moon dance. All right send. Yeah, it's pretty wild

00:10:08 You

00:10:10 Will we ever will you why I don't talk with my brother now, it's it's not

00:10:21 yeah, it's it's unfair because I have a public platform and he doesn't so and it's honestly it's

00:10:26 So long ago and so irrelevant by life at the moment

00:10:29 So and it remember my brother and I spent significant portions of our childhood apart

00:10:34 He was in England I was

00:10:39 Pinned to the sinking raft of my mother's brain in Canada

00:10:42 Yes, Snowden did say he's Edward Snowden said

00:10:47 that

00:10:50 His belief was that a particular nation-state will be revealed as having secretly buying

00:10:55 Bitcoin and I assume that will be I told you there was there's going to be a country that's going to welcome

00:10:59 the refugees from statism some

00:11:06 Everyone will own it without knowing it 1% in all fidelities 401ks and I think it's gonna go up

00:11:10 I mean, I think that that that rise is gonna go probably three to five percent over the next year or so

00:11:15 I don't know. I don't know. It's just my my particular guess. I've no I've no inside knowledge can't predict the future

00:11:20 Not anything to do with advice. It's just my particular opinion

00:11:23 All right. So let me get to

00:11:26 It's not like I have too many tabs open but it's also not exactly like I have too few tabs open

00:11:34 There we go. All right. So yes biggest candle ever, right?

00:11:36 Oh, here's an interesting one

00:11:41 The most female

00:11:45 video game genre player base, right so what is

00:11:49 the most

00:11:52 female video game genre do you have any

00:11:55 Any thoughts about that

00:11:59 If you had the opportunity, would you turn any of your books into a movie or series? Oh, absolutely. Yeah, absolutely

00:12:04 I would I would spend a hundred million bucks on making

00:12:07 almost into a series it's

00:12:10 fantastic, it's a fantastic book and

00:12:13 But but you can't you can't make art these days without

00:12:17 All the DEI stuff so it just would be untrue to the time

00:12:25 No, it's not home building it's match three games match three games are the biggest

00:12:30 So

00:12:34 almost 70% of

00:12:36 People who play match three games like candy crush or whatever are women family or farm simulators 69% casual puzzle

00:12:44 42% women atmospheric exploration 41% interactive drama interactive drama also known as modern dating

00:12:50 37% and

00:12:53 Then

00:12:55 the least

00:12:57 Female video game genre is sports followed by tactical shooters racing first-person shooters grand strategy

00:13:03 MOBA, I don't know what MOBA is

00:13:06 turn-based strategy open-world science fiction

00:13:10 MMOs massive multiplayer online MOBA MOBA. I'm sure you guys would tell me what MOBA is, right?

00:13:19 MoMA MOBA no Pokemon. No. Yeah candy crush. Yeah

00:13:24 I've played a lot of candy crushes that mean I am woman. Yes, absolutely. It absolutely does don't look down

00:13:32 Something may have despawned

00:13:34 So but it's it's all the social construct as we know it's all the social construct as we know

00:13:44 right

00:13:47 You

00:13:49 Here is a you know what I my daughter refused to explain this meme to me and she's all grown up

00:13:58 This is a meme I should get a funny God creating dogs God your man's best friend doc. It's pretty sexist

00:14:08 God no man is in every

00:14:10 Fuck it. You can't talk dog can't speak and chocolate kills you

00:14:16 It's pretty Old Testament

00:14:18 US Energy Department to cancel its mandatory survey of Bitcoin minor energy use following a lawsuit

00:14:23 US Energy Department to cancel its mandatory survey a Bitcoin minor energy use following a lawsuit

00:14:27 They were trying to get the miners to tell them everything they were doing and so on right?

00:14:32 Okay, so just do a couple I'm just gonna check see if any any big questions have MOBA multiplayer online battle arenas like League of Legends

00:14:41 Okay, my multiplayer online battle arena. Thank you

00:14:44 MOBA, all right, so I don't think any particular questions have come in just yet. So I'll do a little bit more

00:14:49 I'll do a little bit more of

00:14:53 Tweety tweets

00:14:55 I taught I'd okay red flags and males

00:14:58 Are you ready red flags? This is just an account called rad femme future

00:15:05 Have you ever seen it seems like the largest women on the planet where that t-shirt that says I've seen the future and it is

00:15:12 female and female I assume is

00:15:14 feminist for diabetic

00:15:15 All right, so red flags in males bald

00:15:18 broke

00:15:20 Over 30 over 160 pounds has kids shy nerdy depressed never had a girlfriend

00:15:25 He's in a band has a podcast wears plaid shirts

00:15:28 Posts shirtless selfies Jim bro. Can't cook hates his mom

00:15:33 Mama's boy plays video games on social media too many opinions watches. Oh watch his point

00:15:40 That's the corn on the cob is that watches porn?

00:15:42 so

00:15:43 Yeah, good luck threading those needles like those Japanese game shows where you have to contort yourself into various shapes just get through the game

00:15:49 so red flags and males

00:15:51 Yes, yes, yes

00:15:55 Yeah, so for a woman to have standards is empowering for a man to have standards is hating women

00:16:04 Do you know that in

00:16:10 In I guess

00:16:12 Geology or ancient ancient ancient history. There is something called the Carnian pluvial event the Carnian pluvial event

00:16:20 Which sounds just like a plum festival where you try and stick as many plums up your ass as possible

00:16:25 I did look that up. There is one but it's not this the Carnian pluvial event. It rained for about two million years

00:16:30 also known as

00:16:33 England

00:16:35 So

00:16:37 One paper estimates that for every 111 boys who are circumcised one case of

00:16:42 Urinary tract infection can be stopped most UTIs either go away on their own or can be treated with antibiotics and only about 3% lead to

00:16:48 serious complications

00:16:50 Just wanted to mention that because I have

00:16:53 Bitcoin is about to flip silver

00:16:57 This was from February 29th. So yesterday

00:17:00 Bitcoin was at 1.23 trillion market cap silver

00:17:06 1.27 trillion so Bitcoin is about to flip silver and I think it was yesterday that a Bitcoin

00:17:13 moved to

00:17:16 The Russian ruble moved past the Russian ruble Bitcoin is now the 14th largest currency in the world like holy crap

00:17:23 Bitcoin

00:17:25 Past the Russian ruble and it's now the 14th largest currency in the world

00:17:29 Russian rubles 15th Mexican peso is

00:17:35 16th a Saudi real is 17th. It's just wild

00:17:39 Peter Schiff wrote the national debt is now over

00:17:46 34 point

00:17:49 Sorry, the numbers are just staggering to me. The national debt is now over thirty four point four trillion dollars

00:17:54 It's risen over four hundred billion in the past two months

00:17:56 That's a pace of two point four trillion per year

00:17:59 It's a bit slower than it's been but still about five hundred billion faster than official estimates

00:18:03 He says I expect the pace to pick up soon

00:18:06 Japan's both right. So Japan I'm fascinated by Japan love to visit

00:18:13 let me know if you live there a host of freedom a.com, but

00:18:18 Japan is absolutely fascinating and

00:18:23 Japan is

00:18:26 the

00:18:27 dying side of

00:18:29 Massive government intervention into the economy. Japan has not had a free market economy in probably 30 or 40 years. It's just zombie

00:18:37 Corporations propped up by government spending Japan at least the last time I checked had the highest per capita national debt. It's just mad

00:18:45 Absolutely mad

00:18:48 Somebody wrote this. It's pretty good. I

00:18:50 Think this is getting it's a message from

00:18:54 He says somebody says I've been buying cryptocurrency and everything online says it's going up, but my portfolio is not going up

00:19:00 What do you mean? My balance is staying the same and not going up like everyone else

00:19:03 Which cryptocurrency said you buy the United States one USDC?

00:19:09 Yes, it will infect don't shake you can declining

00:19:14 This is a good meme

00:19:17 Alex Trebek right jeopardy as something you can describe in detail that almost everyone agrees with until you say its name

00:19:24 answer anarchy

00:19:26 In the US fourteen point five percent of men are six foot or taller among CEOs of fortune 500 companies

00:19:34 Fifty-eight percent are six foot or taller four times increase

00:19:37 3.9 percent of men are six two or taller among fortune

00:19:42 500 CEOs

00:19:45 Thirty percent or six two or taller seven point six increase. Yes

00:19:49 Yes, it's funny, you know, I'm taller than average I'm like a hair under six feet I'm six foot when I'm startled but

00:19:58 I've known some really tall guys and

00:20:03 I mean the is his male friends are like giraffes and

00:20:07 It's wild. You know when you're looking down to someone they really have to

00:20:12 In a sense punch above their weight for you to take them seriously

00:20:15 It's a very unconscious and very sad thing and I've really worked to try and not do this, but

00:20:19 All right. Eighty three percent of tattoo inks contain hidden ingredients linked to cancer and organ damage according to a study

00:20:26 83% of tattoo inks contain hidden ingredients linked to cancer and organ damage true or not and don't know I

00:20:32 Think tattoos are just about the saddest thing in the world. I love this one

00:20:38 You cannot challenge what we said today the science

00:20:43 You cannot hold us accountable for what we said yesterday because the science changed the science

00:20:47 Really really very very sadly very very sadly true

00:20:52 Oliver L village wrote on the 29th

00:21:03 I might just clicked on it and it took me back to the very top of my bookmarks because

00:21:11 Because either bad coding on the part of Twitter or bad coding on the part of the browser

00:21:15 I don't want to click something. I don't want to refresh just take me to where I want to be. I

00:21:19 just don't

00:21:22 Know why this why don't they do user cases? I don't know. I didn't do it

00:21:26 Try clicking on something see if you get to see it

00:21:28 Crazy. All right. I think I'm back here

00:21:31 Almost almost

00:21:35 They call it vamping there we go, he says stop trying to time Bitcoin just stop it this is skin

00:21:42 I'm just reading this not my advice or my perspective, but it's very interesting. Stop trying to time Bitcoin. Just stop it

00:21:47 Listen, I've been referred to and sometimes hailed as one of the best traders and market timers in the business

00:21:52 Barons ranked my market prowess says this guy number one in the United States in 1998

00:21:57 Dow Jones dubbed me the Messiah of trading back in

00:22:00 1999 and I'm the one telling you to stop trying to trade Bitcoin. It can't be done especially by you

00:22:05 I've done the work. I ran the studies. I've done all the back testing for you. You simply can't

00:22:10 Do it you can get lucky but consistency will elude you

00:22:15 WSBitcoin is telling you the same thing with hard data. Take a look. Stop it

00:22:20 DCA dollar-cost average weekly and smash buy when you have some free dirty cash. You don't need the end now hashtag

00:22:26 stack harder

00:22:29 So

00:22:34 Crazy

00:22:36 And so

00:22:38 WSBitcoin says even if you had perfectly caught the bottom of each month with your thousand dollar per month

00:22:44 Dollar cost averaging you still only have point seven one three and change Bitcoin stack so far

00:22:49 I still don't think they'll ever make it to a whole coin

00:22:52 Someone and this summit he says he wrote this back in the day someone who just started DCA

00:22:58 $1,000 into month into Bitcoin will probably never reach a whole coin

00:23:03 So

00:23:05 Very interesting

00:23:07 All right, is it against peaceful parenting to put a child into school against their will

00:23:29 Well, what do you guys think if the child really doesn't want to go to school and you put the child in school

00:23:35 Is that a violation of peaceful parenting?

00:23:38 Our staff is it normal that I'm opposed to dating waitresses nurses stewardesses or any woman with a very stressful job

00:23:48 Well, I'll tell you this waitresses are famously crazy nurses are famously crazier and I dated a well a purser once so

00:23:58 I'm not I'm not saying I have any empirical evidence to the contrary as a whole as a whole

00:24:05 All right

00:24:09 DJ says and I will I haven't forgotten as if your question about anxiety. I think it's anxiety more than worry. Ah

00:24:17 Hey Steph, I listened. I listened to a lot of

00:24:20 Psychotherapist slash mental health professionals on YouTube and have noticed the pattern

00:24:24 Many have been divorced at least once or their relationships have been dysfunctional

00:24:29 While having all that knowledge and professional experience one therapist has divorced three times shouldn't they themselves be better at relationships?

00:24:35 Well, of course. Yeah, of course they should of course they should

00:24:39 It would be fun to visit but it seems depressing to live in Japan

00:24:44 Yeah, the only thing saving them is their 50% savings rate, I don't know that that's saving them

00:24:51 I think that that 50% savings rate is in fact giving the government more

00:24:56 Collateral to borrow against hello from Jacksonville is over and rumble says truth seeker. Thank you

00:25:04 See here good evening from Houston. Hello Houston love that town

00:25:12 Pretty hot and pretty humid I

00:25:17 Remember I said this years ago like I remember my first business meeting that I had in

00:25:21 Houston way back in the day I come out of the airport and I'm like, oh man, somebody's been idling a truck here

00:25:27 this is like oh, there's some muggy and kind of stinky and I kept walking and like

00:25:31 Wait, I think this just Houston. Oh god

00:25:35 Obi-wan was wise to hide your twin sister from me. All right

00:25:41 Please

00:25:43 Steph why do you think the Japan Japan's economy hasn't collapsed yet after years of government intervention?

00:25:54 I don't understand what that question means

00:26:02 I mean, they just get young people to work harder and they just borrow more money. I mean

00:26:11 When they when people stop lending the money then the economy will have to change, right?

00:26:14 Tattoos come from my or he's trying to intimidate another tribe. There's something inherently intimidating about them

00:26:24 Well sure because tattoos are saying I am willing to endure excruciating pain for social display

00:26:30 It's appalling. Okay, go look at look at some of the habits of the mayor is I remember people got kind of mad at me

00:26:36 about that when I talked about that in in my tour of

00:26:40 Australia and almost New Zealand got there just didn't get to the venue because of bomb threats

00:26:44 But yeah, people don't like to don't know that

00:26:47 Somebody says I'm six three and have noticed it's incredibly helpful with disputing potentially violent altercations just on size alone. Yeah for sure

00:26:55 for sure

00:26:58 One of my family members went crazy with tattoos last year tried to talk but he didn't want to hear it

00:27:04 You

00:27:06 All right

00:27:13 Children have to be somewhere so maybe not against people parenting really children have to be somewhere so you can force them

00:27:22 So what's the test?

00:27:25 As to whether something is

00:27:28 Against peaceful parenting. What's the foundational test?

00:27:31 You

00:27:33 What's the test as to whether I see I mean you shouldn't need to ask me right it's pretty simple

00:27:40 You

00:27:42 What how do we know if something is against peaceful parenting

00:27:57 You

00:27:59 You

00:28:01 Yeah, do you need aggression to enforce it I

00:28:03 Remember once you went to Vancouver I couldn't speak I was so damn mad because I got this VIP. Yeah, I'm sorry about that

00:28:10 I really am

00:28:12 Yeah, I mean do you need a violence or aggression in order to achieve your goal?

00:28:17 Do you initiate the use of force right? So if your kid let's say your kid doesn't want to go to school, right?

00:28:23 And they say to you I really don't want to go to school. Okay, let's say you well

00:28:27 You have to go to school. What do you do?

00:28:30 What do you do

00:28:32 You pick them up. What if they fight back? But if they claw at you, what if they bite you? Do you just gonna?

00:28:37 Manhandle them put him in a

00:28:41 Some sort of hug yourself

00:28:44 crazy person suit and

00:28:47 Then throw them in the back of the car and then dump them but like what are you gonna do?

00:28:50 Well, you have to use aggression or threats or intimidation or escalation or something to get your way

00:28:57 right

00:28:59 I mean, it's pretty good litmus test, right? It's a pretty good litmus test. Oh

00:29:04 Would you do it with an adult right so let's say that you want to go

00:29:10 To a museum and your wife doesn't go want to go to the museum. Do you force her?

00:29:15 Do you do you force her you just like no we're going to the no you you got to be somewhere you're going to the

00:29:23 Museum do you force her?

00:29:25 Hope not, right. But if you ask a girl that she doesn't want to go with you. Do you

00:29:29 Do you make her go with you? No, you don't make people do things. You don't force people to do things

00:29:34 So

00:29:37 It's it's I mean am I wrong? I mean tell me if I'm oversimplifying but it seems to me fairly simple

00:29:43 I'd want to be forced to brush my teeth in an old people's home

00:29:53 I'd want to be forced to brush my teeth in an old people's home. Do you mean if you have

00:29:57 Serious dementia, is that what you mean? Like if you have lost

00:30:01 75% of your brain function is that what you're talking about?

00:30:06 Do you think old people don't know how to brush their teeth if you've been around old people? I don't understand this question. Sorry, Dave

00:30:12 I am I appreciate you being here on your birthday

00:30:15 But I don't know what you mean

00:30:18 You

00:30:20 Oh, so if you have a severe mental disability, yeah, okay, I get that

00:30:27 Do you think that children have a severe mental disability? I don't know. Like do you think that children have the equivalent of dementia?

00:30:35 If you were sectioned you mean if you were there involuntarily if you'd lost your mind completely and been put into a home because

00:30:42 You couldn't be trusted around the house

00:30:45 so you have

00:30:47 late stage Alzheimer's or dementia

00:30:50 Is that?

00:30:53 Is that your equivalent to childhood?

00:30:55 Have you been around kids they're wicked smart. They're wicked smart

00:31:00 Very smart. I don't kids are rip smart

00:31:04 And I mean, I've obviously have a very intelligent child

00:31:07 But I've been around a lot of kids. They're all pretty whip smart

00:31:12 So, I don't know how you would be comparing a school-aged child who I guess is five or six years old

00:31:18 I don't know how you'd be caring comparing a school-aged child to somebody whose brain was mostly gone from dementia

00:31:23 So I don't I don't follow again. I'm happy to have it explained, but I don't follow

00:31:26 the analogy

00:31:29 Feels like edge case shenanigans to justify coercing kids. Yeah

00:31:33 Yeah, you you can't I mean, I'm no expert. I assume you can't reason with someone who's got late-stage dementia. So

00:31:40 Maybe you have to brush their teeth for them

00:31:43 But

00:31:47 because

00:31:49 They would have no power of attorney. They would have no legal independence

00:31:52 they would be entirely wards of caregivers and so on right so they'd be on their last legs and

00:31:56 Their life is over pretty much assuming they're not gonna recover. It's just a decay and they're probably six months from death

00:32:02 So, I mean, yeah, I guess it's a maybe you got to brush their teeth. I don't know

00:32:07 You

00:32:09 So you think someone with late-stage dementia is at the stage of a four-year-old or younger do I think that no, of course not

00:32:18 No, no, of course not

00:32:20 But why are you talking about going to school with a three-year-old?

00:32:23 Where they're not at school, sorry, I don't follow

00:32:27 Your children can be reasoned with

00:32:31 Children can be reasoned with a children can make their case children can tell you what they want

00:32:36 and

00:32:38 children know themselves and

00:32:40 have

00:32:41 Fairly decent ideas of their own self-interest if things are explained to them properly

00:32:45 So, I don't know what what case would you say like what would you say to a kid who doesn't want to go to

00:32:58 School what case would you make to that kid? Well, you have to go to school because because why?

00:33:05 Why why do they have to go to school

00:33:07 Thank You Duncan, love you back appreciate you dropping by thank you for being here

00:33:15 So

00:33:21 The

00:33:25 non-aggression principle applies to people capable of ethics

00:33:28 Now capable of ethics means that you can compare a proposed action to an ideal standard

00:33:35 You

00:33:37 You can compare a proposed action to an ideal standard

00:33:41 Now five-year-olds can do that four-year-olds can do that six-year-olds can do that. Absolutely. I mean are they perfect moral philosophers?

00:33:48 No, nobody is certainly not me. But yeah, they can do that. They can absolutely do that

00:33:53 Now somebody who's got late-stage dementia and is drooling on themselves and and can't recognize their own hand

00:34:00 Well, yeah, they can't compare proposed actions to ideal standards. So they're not covered under the non-aggression principle

00:34:05 It means they're still fully human, of course, and you have to treat them with respect and dignity as best you can but yeah

00:34:12 Babies understand morality when they're eight months old and mathematical reasoning about 18 months

00:34:17 They have way more neuroplasticity and neurons to just not as much experience. Yes, that's right

00:34:21 Because it might be impossible to provide for the child if they're not at school if both adults are working

00:34:28 I'm school. Oh, come on, man. Oh

00:34:30 Come on

00:34:36 If both adults are working they can't homeschool, okay, here's your birthday present day

00:34:42 You should really look this is my advice to you, you know, listen brother. I'm here to help. I'm here to help

00:34:49 But I'm gonna be firm

00:34:51 You need to think through things yourself before dumping all of these silly questions on other people

00:34:57 right, so

00:34:59 people the people who

00:35:01 Other people want to help are the ones trying to help themselves

00:35:05 right

00:35:08 So if you say listen I've tried

00:35:15 This that and the other but I just can't solve the problem fantastic

00:35:19 Fantastic

00:35:25 It's like if you're a teacher and some kid comes up and it's been trying to solve a mathematical problem

00:35:30 Like you're a math teacher kid comes up and says I've been trying to solve this mathematical problem

00:35:34 I just can't sort it out and they've got like pages of scribbles and notes and annotations that right then you'll help them, right?

00:35:40 But if they just come up with a blank page and say yeah, I can't get it

00:35:43 Why would you want to help them?

00:35:45 They're not trying to help themselves if you want people to help you in this life try to help yourself first

00:35:50 But don't put all the work on the other person

00:35:53 You

00:35:55 You did think about this earlier on today

00:36:00 And you couldn't answer these questions

00:36:08 Would you force a child who really doesn't want to go to school?

00:36:11 Would you force them and well, of course you'd have to force them

00:36:13 It's a violation the non-aggression principle the violation of peaceful parenting

00:36:16 Now

00:36:22 The number of people

00:36:24 Who absolutely have to work two jobs to pay for

00:36:31 Daycare or school or to have the kid go to school the number of people who absolutely

00:36:39 Cannot afford for one person to stay home. It's virtually zero

00:36:43 It's virtually zero

00:36:46 This is

00:36:50 The answer to life

00:36:52 Where there's a will there's a way give a man a why he can bet almost anyhow

00:36:59 This is an old business cartoon

00:37:04 I mentioned it before I saw this in the Harvard Business Review like decades and decades decades ago and it burned itself into my brain

00:37:10 And has been a foundational driver of my life ever since

00:37:12 It was one business executive looking at a whole bunch of business executives who themselves look stunned and stupid

00:37:20 And he was saying okay gentlemen

00:37:22 Hannibal got elephants

00:37:25 Over giant mountains with that in mind someone think of something

00:37:29 Our ancestors survived

00:37:39 Famine plague pestilence war climate change, you know all the things that went on

00:37:48 And we like we are like the second or third wealthiest generation in the entire history of this

00:37:53 four billion year

00:37:56 Lifespan of carbon-based life forms and we're like well

00:37:58 I can't possibly stay home to care for my child for a couple years because I have to work. That's just a lie

00:38:03 It's just a lie

00:38:07 I'm not a troll. It's just I like to have a laugh sometimes. Oh, so sorry

00:38:15 This is oh, so this is not a serious question. You're just joking. Okay. Well, I'll ignore that then and I'll just get on with the answer

00:38:23 You can find a way you can find a way life finds a way, right?

00:38:28 dinosaurs spliced in from

00:38:31 Frog genes can find a way to reproduce you can find a way to stay home with your kids. Oh, well, you know, but

00:38:36 We both want to have you know, we want to have a three-bedroom apartment

00:38:41 You don't need a three-bedroom apartment. How many of our ancestors had three bedrooms apartments? How many of them how many?

00:38:46 They lived in fucking caves man, they lived in mud huts. No. Yes. Well, you know, but I need three

00:38:53 I need a place to work out and they need to Tai Chi room and I

00:38:55 Are you kidding me?

00:38:58 Are you kidding me?

00:39:00 Find a way make it happen do the math

00:39:07 Yeah, look at the free domain presentation truth about daycare FFDR podcast calm

00:39:11 Just do a search for daycare truth about daycare people make almost nothing

00:39:16 after the expenses of

00:39:19 having a second car of

00:39:23 Gas insurance repairs maintenance

00:39:28 Work clothing often lunches out daycare costs you make almost nothing

00:39:36 Literally women are dumping their babies in daycare to be raised by strangers for two fucking dollars an hour if they're lucky

00:39:43 Yeah a woman making a hundred thousand dollars a year ends up making about fifteen thousand dollars

00:39:53 After all the costs and I go through this math in my novel called the present

00:39:58 But you should absolutely read or listen to it's becoming more urgent now than ever

00:40:03 So the idea that two people have to work that's just a lie

00:40:06 That's just a lie

00:40:11 Somebody says my mom Oh Dave says my mom worked in daycares recently and it was creepy

00:40:17 She said the three-year-olds were not interacting with each other in playtime showing how unnatural the environment was

00:40:22 Yeah, you're not supposed. I mean I worked in a daycare for years we had

00:40:26 25 to 30 kids all aged 5 to 10 and it was me and one other person

00:40:32 I

00:40:33 worked in a daycare for years I

00:40:35 Negotiated with my school because this was in high school. I negotiated with my school to get out of school 15 minutes early

00:40:41 Saying hey, man, I got to pay rent. My mom's gone

00:40:45 So I got to leave 15 minutes early from school so I could make it to

00:40:49 The daycare by the time I needed to be there

00:40:55 And then I worked summers

00:40:58 In the daycare and took the kids all over the city and had a great relationship with the kids

00:41:03 I really I liked them. They liked me

00:41:05 But it was sad. I'd have to stay with the kids whose parents were late. Oh, man

00:41:12 It was so sad. He's trying to prop up their spirits. They're just leading miserably against the wall like

00:41:16 Sad broken puppets waiting for their indifferent parents to show up

00:41:20 All right. Come on get in the car

00:41:24 Just said

00:41:27 Yeah, if you can't raise your kid I

00:41:29 Gotta work. No, you don't know you don't yeah afterward

00:41:34 just

00:41:37 Take a smaller place

00:41:39 Take the bus for God's sakes. I mean these people

00:41:42 My mother worked when I was younger. She had two kids

00:41:46 We had no car. We had a cheap apartment. We took on no vacations

00:41:51 We were we were short of

00:41:56 cash all the time

00:41:58 Sometimes I didn't have lunch money. I'd either have to go hungry or wear the elastic band of shame

00:42:04 Which says that you still got lunch, but you hadn't paid for it

00:42:06 I mean

00:42:14 We were short of everything including money

00:42:16 But we made it we survived we would occasionally go in to see movies. I

00:42:22 Had a couple of birthday presents

00:42:26 But yeah, we just cut back on everything

00:42:28 Just spend less money and spend more time with your kids

00:42:33 All these people but I gotta work no, you don't you don't but that's just a lie that's just a lie just lie

00:42:40 The other day I wondered

00:42:50 About if kids sometimes call the female teachers mom on it by accident because unconsciously they recognize the teacher does more parenting than their biological mom

00:42:57 Yeah

00:43:00 All it takes to collapse a civilization is to break the intergenerational bond that's all it is snip you're done

00:43:08 Everything else is just waiting

00:43:15 So if you can this is a boomer thing right the boomers were programmed to not sacrifice for their children

00:43:21 I mean you have boomers now who are like well, I'm gonna spend

00:43:24 My kids inheritance. I'm gonna spend my money. No, they they should tough it out like I did

00:43:30 After running up massive national debts the boomers are like what kids should tough it out like I did after voting for massive job-killing

00:43:39 Policies the boomers like well, my kids should tough it out

00:43:43 I

00:43:45 Yeah

00:43:48 Yeah

00:43:52 That's really sad. So you get parents to stop sacrificing

00:43:56 for their kids and

00:43:58 The kids don't want to listen to the parents

00:44:01 You who the hell are you to tell me how to live you fucked up our entire culture

00:44:06 You

00:44:08 Sim says I remember when my dad was over an hour late to pick me up from daycare because he was watching Terminator 2. Oh

00:44:19 Yeah, my dad used to punch me in the head and beat me when I was bruised all over and had to go to the

00:44:25 Ghetto school. So the doctor would wouldn't report my dad to the police after a physical. Sorry about that, man

00:44:31 I'm so sorry. That's just disappointing. I mean you you grew up in a war zone without even

00:44:37 Companions without even medals without even training without even brothers-in-arms

00:44:41 All right

00:44:53 Advice about worrying

00:44:55 so

00:44:57 In my experience, right? I'm just just talking about my experience in my experience

00:45:03 I hear people so I hear people say what about the risk of living in a low-income place with rising crime rates under one income

00:45:08 I suppose the answer is country living

00:45:10 Just find a way

00:45:12 Just find a way. I

00:45:14 mean, it's

00:45:16 Half a decade, right?

00:45:18 That's the important stuff right your kids personnel that is a largely formed by five years. He is five, right?

00:45:22 And there's lots of cheap places you can live that have low crime

00:45:27 You

00:45:29 There's lots of places you can live that are cheap that have low crime tons of places

00:45:34 So with regards to anxiety

00:45:39 Maybe just maybe your anxiety is trying to tell you something

00:45:42 So we often will fight off stress or worry or anxiety like it's some enemy that we shouldn't have and of course in

00:45:48 Popular media. It's always just

00:45:51 sociopaths without fear, right

00:45:55 It's just sociopaths with that this is the coolest thing right sociopaths without fear, right?

00:46:01 This is some Jack Reacher is it was the same thing, right?

00:46:04 like Jack Reacher is like Tom Cruise for his guy and he's got four guys around him and

00:46:08 He's like guys. You don't want to do this guys. It's not gonna end

00:46:12 Well for you guys, you really don't want to you know

00:46:14 And he and then he just takes them all down and it's all just so boring and predictable

00:46:22 Maybe tell people to watch Wednesday's Bitcoin talk where you discuss budgeting. Yeah spend less spend less. It's pretty simple. I

00:46:28 Mean look at all the money I poured into my studio

00:46:31 Spend less. Yeah, just watch yesterday's show 28th of February 2024. Sorry day before yesterday's and

00:46:40 Just do that

00:46:44 What would be your choice for a low-income living situation or place in the US for one income parents

00:46:51 What the hell?

00:46:52 Okay. Now this is an example of you being completely totally lazy. How on earth could I answer that question?

00:46:58 How on earth could I answer that question? I don't know what you do for a living

00:47:03 I don't know what markets you need access to I don't know what your budget is

00:47:05 I don't know where you want to live. I don't know what your preference is for temperature

00:47:09 Like how I couldn't possibly answer that. This is an example of well teacher. I can't do the homework you do it for me

00:47:16 It's like no you got it. I mean, come on, man

00:47:19 That's a funny question

00:47:21 Yeah, the sociopath bill yeah, so all of these people in the mainstream media have no fear right and what's the definition of the hero the

00:47:28 guy who has no fear

00:47:29 All right, the Superman the guy who has no fear. When does Batman ever look scared? When does Batman have anxiety, right?

00:47:34 Or any of the heroes right Thor doesn't have any anxiety other than the fact that his

00:47:43 Biceps are bigger than most American women's calves

00:47:46 No, only slightly bigger. No, they're smaller. So I messed that one up it happens

00:47:51 So

00:47:57 We are constantly having for us

00:47:59 the ideal of

00:48:02 No feelings, no emotions

00:48:04 Blank dead-eyed confidence like all the Mission Impossible stuff just blank that I confidence the same thing with

00:48:15 No Matt Damon plays

00:48:17 that guy

00:48:19 You know

00:48:20 the born yeah, Jason Bourne right Jason Bourne I

00:48:23 mean, there's some movie where Jason Bourne is like just fighting and

00:48:28 You know, he never gets

00:48:32 Spongy brain he never gets his nose broken. He never loses teeth. Like if you fight repeatedly that's gonna happen and

00:48:41 they always come across guys that they're just vastly superior to and

00:48:44 What they're doing is they're programming you to say fear is weakness don't think it's a fear is weakness

00:48:53 Anxiety is weakness

00:48:56 Really

00:48:59 Really anxiety is why we're all here

00:49:02 Particularly those of us from northern climates where our ancestors had to deal with the cold of winter

00:49:10 I

00:49:12 Will be fine

00:49:14 You don't need to worry. We got we got more than enough food for winter

00:49:17 I mean, they'll be food around and chill axia something so wound up about everything man

00:49:22 You gotta learn to relax and have fun man. Take a smoke a bowl sit by the fire

00:49:27 We got some cat Stevens guy on the guitar. It's gonna be fantastic, man

00:49:30 Let's just watch the sparks fly into the night sky and join the stars above listen to the sound of the waves, man

00:49:36 You're running around like chickens with your head cut off. Just trying to gather gather gather. Oh, we got to have more prepared food

00:49:42 We got more jams and cucumbers. We got a store up in the top

00:49:45 Gotta learn how to relax and enjoy yourself man, so you can die like us when the frosts come

00:49:52 Right. You understand anxiety

00:49:56 is why we're here and

00:50:03 All that media does as a whole is

00:50:06 Get us to equate anxiety with weakness

00:50:11 With fear

00:50:14 Anxiety is why we're here

00:50:18 That's why we're here

00:50:21 You can't eat that. Hey kids put that food down. No. No, you can't eat that. That's a seed crop

00:50:26 So we need that to plant in the spring. I don't care if you're hungry like I'm sorry that you're hungry

00:50:29 But you got it. We can eat that

00:50:32 You can that's anxiety, right? I'm frightened

00:50:35 No anxiety is why we're here anxiety is something to be listened to

00:50:44 And all

00:50:48 they do in the media is to try and train you to view anxieties weakness and

00:50:53 to

00:50:56 Discount it go with the flow. Yeah, it always ends up with going with the blood flow, right? But

00:51:01 Oh

00:51:02 You're so uptight man. You gotta loosen up have fun learn to have fun. It's all you see like the stoner comedies coming out of

00:51:09 Seth Rogen. I'll just you know, the Adam Sandler like all of this just like

00:51:13 trip your way into

00:51:16 The future bumble your way into the future blindfold your way into the future

00:51:20 It's just a way to get you to give up your standards to not look down the road to not plan to not have anxiety

00:51:27 or to tell yourself that your anxiety is cowardice or fear or some mental hang-up or just

00:51:32 Insecurity and something to be pushed down and ignored

00:51:35 well

00:51:38 Just think back to our ancestors late summer. I think back to our ancestors late summer got a long-ass winter coming

00:51:44 You don't even know how long it's gonna be

00:51:46 It's gonna be almost no hunting and almost no crops. So what are you gonna do? And you got seven kids? What are you gonna do?

00:51:54 You

00:51:56 Somebody says I never understood this discourse around anxiety because I just always thought who doesn't everyone have anxiety you just deal with it

00:52:06 So that's a vanity signal right? Well, you just deal with it man everyone had just deal with what does just deal with it mean?

00:52:16 What does that mean? Just deal with it? What does that mean?

00:52:19 What does that mean? How is that helpful? How is that giving anybody any illumination or any part that just deal with it, man?

00:52:26 Just deal with it. It's easy. Just deal with it. I

00:52:28 Mean maybe you can unpack what just deal with it means but it's kind of an insulting phrase, right?

00:52:36 because some people have a difficult time dealing with fear and anxiety and

00:52:40 Telling them to just deal with it makes them feel worse

00:52:44 It makes them feel worse

00:52:48 Right. I

00:52:50 Don't understand why this is a problem. Just deal with it

00:52:52 Like that's kind of a chilling lack of empathy

00:52:55 to be honest with you and

00:52:58 This is fine. If you don't feel any particular empathy for people suffering from anxiety I

00:53:02 Get that but maybe don't lord it over how you have no problems with it. Just maybe

00:53:07 You know if somebody's stuck in a wheelchair just say man just get up walk around. I don't know what the big deal is

00:53:12 What's the problem?

00:53:14 It's kind of a jerk move if you don't mind me saying so it's just a bit of a jerk move and

00:53:19 Rather than saying gosh, you know, I'm sorry about that and right

00:53:23 Now you're fine walk it off walk it off. Yeah

00:53:32 There was a recent movie where currently Mark Wahlberg is a great family man

00:53:36 What was a former high-level assassin?

00:53:38 His boss comes back for him and he just flips the switch and starts killing people again to protect his family in the end his

00:53:42 Family's stronger together totally wretched movie

00:53:44 yes, but that appeals to both the male fantasy that you can murder and be a great guy and

00:53:51 Also the female fantasy that a man can murder and be a great guy, right?

00:53:56 So, you know if somebody is suffering from something you don't suffer from you can either lord it over and say well

00:54:07 It's not my issue. I don't know what the problem is. It's a bit of a dick move or you can say

00:54:12 Gosh, you know that's tough. I can imagine that would be tough

00:54:15 Tell me more or you cannot talk, you know, you don't have to you don't have to respond to everything all the time

00:54:20 But you know this I don't get it it's not a problem for me just deal with it

00:54:26 Yeah, it is, you know like the guy who's you know, six two with the super good-looking and all of that

00:54:38 You

00:54:40 Who says, you know, just you know, just go up and talk to girls, right?

00:54:46 It's like well, it's not quite the same thing

00:54:48 He says oh, I have a lot of empathy for anxiety, but I feel like sometimes it comes from a place of overthinking

00:54:52 So the answer is to just move

00:54:55 Is that the answer I like to move it move it I don't have anxiety

00:55:03 Give it away give it away give it away now. Is that is that your answer just move? Oh look

00:55:09 Just stop overthinking

00:55:14 So what I'm gonna do is take something that's positive

00:55:17 I'm gonna add the word over to it and then I'm gonna just tell you to stop doing that

00:55:22 Because that's you know, it's just something you do. I mean

00:55:25 Maybe you have more control over your brain than anybody else

00:55:31 But I mean

00:55:33 Isn't it the case that if you have a reasonably open relationship with yourself that sometimes you have thoughts and sometimes thoughts have you

00:55:40 Have you seen the recent male models who created a podcast and said looks are not everything

00:55:47 Yes, for sure for sure

00:55:51 Or like the pretty women I made fun of this years ago on the show the pretty women who are like, you know

00:55:57 I just asked the universe for things. I just put that out there

00:56:00 I just put the vibe out there and good things happen to me. It's like because you got tits it's like

00:56:05 Yeah, it's the same thing. It's just relax man. You worry too much quit overthinking things get over yourself

00:56:11 What are the useless things that people say when you have challenges in your brain?

00:56:16 What is it that people say it just you got to get out of your own way, man

00:56:20 What?

00:56:22 That mean am I time-shifted and I'm running into my own ass

00:56:25 I can't get out of my own way because my ass looks fantastic of those jeans

00:56:30 So yeah, but what do people?

00:56:32 What do people say?

00:56:34 It's just you just you got to let it go man. Just go let it go. You got to let it go

00:56:38 What does that mean? Like I'm not I'm not holding on to something. It's just you know

00:56:43 You got it find some way to distract yourself

00:56:45 You got a problem just find some way to distract yourself

00:56:48 Take up a hobby so I can be left but

00:56:57 Somebody said when I said I'm anxious to a doctor the doc said doc said no don't be anxious

00:57:01 Doc I'm sick. Well, don't do that

00:57:06 Yeah, that's no good

00:57:08 No, like honestly that they're not sick thing is pretty the key to health

00:57:11 Like if you could just don't be sick and you'll be healthy, so that'll be $300

00:57:15 Oh my gosh

00:57:23 Got a shop on the perimeter of the grocery store, bro. Yeah, if I haven't heard them all yeah, let it go

00:57:28 I've heard 99% of them. Yeah

00:57:30 You just you got to stop being so down on yourself man

00:57:35 You got it. You got to be positive towards yourself. Oh, that's it. Okay. Got it. Yeah, I never thought of that

00:57:41 Never thought of that

00:57:44 Sometimes you meet people who have anxiety but don't exercise for example

00:57:52 Okay

00:57:54 So maybe they don't know maybe they've never been told maybe their doctor and everyone around them has never made that connection for them

00:58:03 So you would say that's sympathetic, you know boy. I have sympathy for that

00:58:07 And if you've got studies just yet man up man up is a big one. No touch grass. Yeah touch grass. Yeah for sure. Oh

00:58:13 God Steph not a funny subject, but you're making me laugh for sure

00:58:17 Right a

00:58:20 Male model Sean O'Brien said being a good person who fights bullies of what is what makes attractive

00:58:26 Right, absolutely

00:58:30 Being a male model makes you like your male model because you're really attractive and I of course I lambaste this kind of personality

00:58:35 With some sympathy in the character of Arlo

00:58:38 from my novel

00:58:41 The present which again you should really

00:58:46 You should really check it out it's more important now I have depression and I exercise a lot not a cure-all

00:58:53 I'm sure it helps to some degree based upon the studies that I've read but I

00:58:57 Mean can you imagine if

00:59:02 You just played

00:59:03 Bingo cards Jeff's calling like if I was like giving the worst advice or feedback known to man

00:59:09 Get a man up and let go of the past stop blaming people take responsibility

00:59:16 You get over it get out of your own way stop overthinking stop living in the past

00:59:20 I'm gonna read off another bunch of bland stupid fortune cookies in the hope of me feeling superior and you feeling worse

00:59:30 Oh, are you feeling down?

00:59:32 Let me tell you that it's completely ridiculous that you're down and the problems aren't even that bad and they're easy to solve

00:59:37 Oh, do you feel worse? Well, my job here is done off. I go to save the day

00:59:41 Oh

00:59:43 Wouldn't that be great, oh, wouldn't that be great

00:59:48 Ah

00:59:55 I noticed a reduction in anxiety and difficulty sleeping from taking high-dose

00:59:59 thiamine supplements now, I can't speak to that but

01:00:04 What is your anxiety trying to tell you? I mean, it's not demonic possession. What is your anxiety trying to tell you?

01:00:12 I

01:00:14 Have found fear

01:00:16 To be enormously helpful in my life. It's a good thing. It's good to listen to it's good to reason with

01:00:23 It's good to follow. I mean you don't give it to dictatorial power over your life, of course, but your fear is there to help you

01:00:31 Thank you, thank you Dharamath

01:00:38 You

01:00:40 Yeah, I don't

01:00:45 How about we have the humility to realize that everybody's struggling with something everybody's struggling with something I

01:00:52 Mean can you imagine I actually know I a friend of mine had to give a public speech and he was nervous about it

01:01:05 So, I mean, ah, you know, I give speeches I used to give speeches all the time it's easy just blah blah blah like

01:01:11 That's a dick move

01:01:13 That's a dick move. I mean if you're a great singer

01:01:15 Just say to someone sing well, like what does that mean? Oh

01:01:19 My gosh, I mean if you if you're a guy, you know

01:01:25 You're one of the 10% of guys who gets to old age with a full head of hair and you're like, well, you know

01:01:31 I I think it's keratin supply, you know, it's like well, I just I exercise it's like no

01:01:35 You just it's just your genes are lucky

01:01:37 I mean or unlucky depending on how much time you want to spend on your hair

01:01:39 But you know, I didn't go bald through any fault of my own

01:01:42 It's just genes right and I listen I have no complaint about the genes that I got. Holy crap

01:01:46 Somebody says I used to have extreme

01:01:54 social anxiety and

01:01:57 I think it was because I was just afraid of people due to being around so many aggressive people during my childhood

01:02:02 Yeah

01:02:05 Sorry about that

01:02:07 Sim says I go hiking all over the mountains and it can definitely help me feel better, but it doesn't solve the problem

01:02:13 I have genuine things to be concerned with in my life, and I just feel like that

01:02:17 Terry hands from the pit of despair that is the pastor reaching up Oh tarry hands. I put me back, right?

01:02:25 um, I

01:02:28 Mean the one thing that can help with anxiety is just get things done

01:02:34 You

01:02:36 Know if you postpone things that you know, you have to do and I'm not perfect this way either obviously, right?

01:02:40 but I try and sort of tell myself look if I'm not particularly feeling great because there's something I need to do and I

01:02:46 Haven't gotten around to doing it. If I just get it done. It's usually not nearly as bad as I think it's gonna be

01:02:51 It's often done faster than I think it's gonna be and I generally feel better afterwards. So if there's things that

01:02:57 That you need to get done

01:03:01 I think it could be helpful to focus on that. But then the question is why do you?

01:03:04 Why do we procrastinate right now got a whole?

01:03:07 Show on procrastination again FDR podcast calm that might help

01:03:11 Procrastination usually has to do with a feeling of helplessness and being punished

01:03:15 For doing things quote wrong as a kid, right you wash the dishes wrong

01:03:21 Can't you stack this dishwasher properly you cut the grass all wrong. There's salt a little bit just okay

01:03:26 I don't want to do things because I'm just gonna get yelled at like why would you wanna?

01:03:30 Yeah, abusive will tell you to just deal with it abusive people just tell you so I'm not talking about anyone in this chat

01:03:34 Of course, but but I'm talking about the mainstream media saying to you that it just just deal with it. Just get over it

01:03:40 Just whatever right?

01:03:42 Or they show

01:03:44 You know people who don't feel fear are sociopaths, right?

01:03:47 I mean, it's one of the characteristics as far as I understand it as an amateur

01:03:50 It's one of the characteristics of the sociopaths. You don't feel fear. And so you see all of these these these heroes

01:03:56 They don't feel fear. They stride in rushing where angels fear to tread. They don't have any fear, right? Okay, but they're sociopaths

01:04:01 So they're they're whole wiring they don't feel attachment love affection empathy so

01:04:09 They say well, you know, here's a life without fear and it looks pretty good right adventurers and James Bond and

01:04:17 chicks and motorcycles and fights you always win and you know saving the world like hey a life without fear is fantastic

01:04:25 It's beautiful. It's wonderful

01:04:27 But you understand that everything that reaches you from the mainstream media is kind of abusive

01:04:31 They're trying to get you

01:04:36 to love

01:04:38 Sociopathy right? That's what most media is about. I mean fiction in particular. They're trying to get you to love sociopathy people who don't feel fear

01:04:46 Why do they want to get you to love sociopathy? Well, that's pretty obvious right we all know the answer to that one

01:04:54 All right

01:04:56 A lot of people who went through trauma almost have ADHD

01:05:05 Like symptoms into adulthood Oh ADHD like symptoms into adulthood and can make it very hard to operate learning. This was helpful to me. Yeah

01:05:13 Pro sociopath messaging in media feels like a way to get women to like soldiers

01:05:19 You

01:05:21 It could be could be I

01:05:28 Don't think it's that

01:05:31 Narrow he says just deal with it was poorly worded for me

01:05:36 If I was giving advice to someone anxious in real life, I would word it much differently

01:05:40 Yeah, I don't I don't understand poorly worded

01:05:48 So if you were giving advice to someone anxious you would word it very differently so why did you word it that way I

01:05:54 Mean I can understand if somebody makes a joke that's a little inappropriate because that's speaking

01:06:00 It's extemporaneous, but you get to type this and you get to read it before you send it

01:06:05 So, I don't know what poorly worded means

01:06:06 I'm not trying to be mean or anything, but I don't know what poorly worded means when you can type it out and

01:06:11 if

01:06:14 You were giving advice you were giving to someone anxious and so you say in real life. I would word it much differently

01:06:20 So why would you word it this way?

01:06:22 If you know, it's bad advice and you get to type it out and read it before you hit send

01:06:26 Why I mean just curious like why would you do that then?

01:06:30 Why would you be sort of flippant and dismissive of the person's concerns, right?

01:06:34 I mean this person is having a panic attack and telling them to get over it or deal with it

01:06:39 I don't like I don't understand that I

01:06:42 Don't understand

01:06:44 I think what you might mean to say I don't know obviously, but I think what you might mean to say is

01:06:57 Sorry, I went through a vanity moment and I kind of put you down when you were feeling down already and

01:07:02 That was the wrong thing to do and I'm really sorry. I think that's kind of what you mean

01:07:06 I think but I don't know

01:07:11 Somebody says even some mainstream sources will admit that ADHD is likely a misdiagnosis for complex post-traumatic

01:07:17 stress disorder childhood trauma in a lot of cases

01:07:20 Yeah, I mean we calm down with connection right when we're connected to people we tend to feel a lot of calm and

01:07:30 isolation is

01:07:33 Very dangerous for people because you know, we've outsourced a lot of our protection to others

01:07:37 I just wrote about this in the new part on peaceful parenting, right?

01:07:41 So why do we have eyes in the front of our heads and not the back of our heads or the side of our heads?

01:07:45 Well, because we we hunt so we need to have good vision ahead, but somebody's got to watch her back

01:07:50 Somebody's got to watch our six

01:07:51 All right, so we've outsourced rearview protection. Why do we sleep?

01:07:55 Often on the ground because people are up watching to make sure we don't get our asses chewed off by wolves, right?

01:08:01 Oh lions, so we've outsourced a lot. We've become very specialized in things

01:08:06 And we've outsourced a lot of our self-protection to other people. So if you can isolate people

01:08:12 You make them scared like I think a lot of the fear that went on through Kovat had to do with isolation

01:08:17 So we tend to relax in the company of others and it tends to be quite stressful to be alone

01:08:23 Which is why being alone is very tough on your

01:08:26 System right? I mean loneliness is the equivalent of smoking half a pack of cigarettes a day. It's very stressful

01:08:33 You

01:08:35 All right, let me see if I've got so maybe maybe

01:08:43 You

01:08:48 Have anxiety because there's something in your environment that is scary

01:08:55 Right, I mean I remember when I first moved into my house it was creaky

01:09:03 Right. I wasn't used to the creeks. I came from an apartment. It was creaky

01:09:07 So sometimes I'd hear creaks I'd get up at night and I checked the house

01:09:10 Now once I checked the house and the house was empty I could go back to sleep

01:09:14 But I couldn't just lie there hoping that

01:09:17 There was no intruder, right

01:09:21 So sometimes you have anxiety you you do things

01:09:25 To get to establish the sense of safety. Maybe you were living in a bad neighborhood. Maybe there's crime all over the place

01:09:32 Maybe you are spending more than you're saving and you have anxiety about

01:09:35 That maybe you have volatile people in your life that you can't trust. Maybe you feel anxiety about that

01:09:42 Maybe you're not taking the steps necessary to secure a healthy and prosperous future. Maybe you're eating wrong. Maybe you're not exercising. Maybe you're

01:09:49 You're indulging in in screen decay or something like that

01:09:55 so

01:09:59 You

01:10:01 Maybe there are things in your life that need to change and your anxiety is trying to help you with that maybe

01:10:09 All right

01:10:14 Dave says it was also that a lot of younger people were forced to live with their abusive parents during lockdowns which increased anxiety

01:10:19 Well, normally they escape more easily. Oh god. Yeah

01:10:21 Absolutely. Yeah

01:10:26 Not having a girlfriend

01:10:28 Sorry, I misread that as OF not having an only fans has been giving me high anxiety lately

01:10:34 Not having a girlfriend. It's been giving me high anxiety lately. I think it's my body telling me I have to act. I

01:10:39 Definitely should get more and better friends. Yeah

01:10:42 Yeah

01:10:46 You understand that the if you're if you're in your 20s

01:10:52 And you're not dating

01:10:56 Other men are and other men will take the girl of your dreams

01:10:59 I know that there are things I need to change and most of that list you've mentioned is true

01:11:06 Right. You know, I I don't have much luck trying to manage my internal state. I

01:11:12 don't have much to manage but I

01:11:15 Don't have much luck trying to manage my internal state. The only thing I can do is

01:11:21 Get things done, right? So, you know, I woke up in the new house and sound like the

01:11:25 Hold of an old pirate ship in a storm. I said, yeah, there's creaks all over the place. Mr. Marbles and

01:11:31 Just lying there I wouldn't be able to get back to sleep

01:11:36 So, what do I do get up and check the house then go back to sleep and after a while you realize you wake up

01:11:46 It's creaky even no big deal, right or you know, if you know, I got an alarm system, right?

01:11:51 Big big ass alarm system, right? Well, I had to get that because of threats, right? So you get a big-ass alarm system

01:11:56 And then you say okay, well I've got a big-ass alarm system and there are creaks in the house at night and

01:12:03 Managing your internal state is like smashing the thermostat because you're cold

01:12:08 Yes

01:12:09 And a lot of people are led off the cliff of well

01:12:12 If you're anxious you should do this or you should do that that doesn't actually deal with the root of the anxiety

01:12:16 Like yeah, I'm a big fan of exercise

01:12:19 But if you're in a dangerous neighborhood where people are getting mugged all the time and your car gets broken into twice a month

01:12:24 Exercise ain't gonna get rid of that anxiety. Now, is it?

01:12:28 Somebody says your recent Bitcoin talk also discusses distractions very heavy-hitting

01:12:35 Appreciated everything is distracting you from your future needs life changer for me. Thanks Steph. Appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you

01:12:44 Lady says definitely had anxiety before meeting my husband - thought I was going to be single forever. Yeah

01:12:49 Yeah

01:12:52 You know, I had some concern when I was younger that I was going to depart this

01:12:56 mortal coil

01:12:58 With a billion fantastic thoughts locked up in my brain

01:13:01 That would feed only the bellies of worms not the mind of man

01:13:05 You

01:13:07 That's why novel just poor is about that fear I have a lot of great thoughts

01:13:21 You know, it's funny I I was dating a woman many years ago and

01:13:27 Her roommates were having a dinner party and

01:13:34 You know this happens

01:13:36 I think to everyone like you're just on in a particular moment like the thoughts come to you and

01:13:41 The jokes come to you and they all land perfectly and everything was fantastic, right?

01:13:46 And I had I think I had just got my master's degree

01:13:50 After like I had to wait like six months after everyone else

01:13:53 They wouldn't wouldn't give me point like they wouldn't even tell me what I got at my final till I my final exam

01:13:59 Oh, sorry on my final thesis. I ended up getting an a but

01:14:04 I was I was pop peppy positive and all of that and I literally had the whole table in stitches for like an hour with

01:14:10 Like stories and everything, you know

01:14:12 It's just one of those perfect nights of and it wasn't just me like other people but all our jokes fed into each other and

01:14:18 It was just one of these absolutely fantastic nights now it turns out

01:14:20 That there was a producer

01:14:23 From a fairly well-known television station in Toronto who was at that dinner. I didn't find that out till later, right?

01:14:32 And I thought later like

01:14:36 Not that I expected it, but I thought in a sane universe I'd get a call saying listen, you're really entertaining

01:14:42 Why did you come in for a screen test?

01:14:44 You know

01:14:44 maybe we can get you on a talk show or maybe we can get you like you're really you had the whole table in stitches for

01:14:49 Like over an hour and you know, we should get you in for a screen test, right?

01:14:53 I mean, it was just honestly it was a passing thought and it was like, of course, I wasn't this only in the call, right?

01:14:58 But it's just like a passing thought

01:15:00 because I was like

01:15:02 What

01:15:04 Orifice of the universe do I have to blow for people to respect and recognize quality like what?

01:15:10 What do I have to do for people to respect and recognize quality?

01:15:13 Does do you ever have that?

01:15:16 I mean the work that I was doing I mean so in the in the art world in the academic world

01:15:21 I was recognized as very talented, but I just couldn't get any traction and really of course, I understand now that's because I was

01:15:27 Market and anti-socialist right? So it was all run by socialists for the purpose of the revolution

01:15:32 so I just wasn't gonna get so they couldn't help but acknowledge my talent, but

01:15:35 Couldn't could never get any traction

01:15:38 Now in the business world, I got some traction because I could make money

01:15:43 And as it's pretty good in the business world, you know, I built a company

01:15:48 From scratch with no business training and no computer science training built a company from scratch

01:15:54 to like 30 people and

01:15:58 You

01:15:59 Built software that sold for tens of millions of dollars, you know, it was it was pretty good

01:16:03 It's pretty pretty good. And it wasn't just that like I did sales. I did marketing

01:16:07 I did negotiation with clients and so yeah, I look I did pretty good. I was good good as a manager and so on

01:16:13 I did pretty well

01:16:14 So there was some finally some quality

01:16:16 finally some quality

01:16:19 What does it take

01:16:25 For the world to recognize quality

01:16:27 It's not easy

01:16:32 It's not easy

01:16:36 Imagine the world if you were on Donahue instead of

01:16:44 ran I

01:16:47 Don't know what that means. No, no on Donahue be Donahue

01:16:51 Right. I mean, I'm a good interviewer. I mean you guys have listened to I've done hundreds of interviews over the course of the show

01:16:57 so

01:16:59 The Smiths the Queen is dead life is very long when you're lonely

01:17:05 Do you think Morrissey was really that depressed in his Smiths albums? He was good-looking

01:17:08 well, I don't know much about the Smiths other than how soon as now which we talked about on Wednesday, but

01:17:16 Yeah, he's famously depressed right? It was famously negative or sad. It's like Robert Smith of the cure

01:17:21 I just famously dour I assume just

01:17:24 Bad

01:17:27 Bad childhood and unprocessed now, of course when you have a lot of talent

01:17:31 People think that talent and the adulation of people and money and all of that is going to solve their personal problems

01:17:37 That's the great fantasy. It's demonic fantasy. It was a devilish fantasy

01:17:40 that

01:17:42 Internal problems can be solved by external attributes

01:17:50 Yeah, and I spoke at conferences

01:17:52 That's how I got some public speaking experience as I spoke at conferences back in the day in the business world

01:17:56 So Morrissey had a bad childhood and he pursued external fame and talent and found that that didn't solve the problem

01:18:07 what's it I mean think Jim Jim Carrey said this he said I wish everyone could try being rich and famous and

01:18:11 Talented for a day just to realize how few problems it solves

01:18:19 A long time ago you mentioned an epiphany you had in long hammock sessions on the beach now wasn't on the beach I was

01:18:25 traveling with a friend through Belize and Mexico and Guatemala and

01:18:30 She went to go and see Chichén Itzá and I didn't want to go see Chichén Itzá again

01:18:34 so she left me in a town and I ended up sneaking into a resort and lying on a hammock for

01:18:40 four or five hours and

01:18:42 Yeah, the epiphany was about my family. Just I needed to not not be involved. I needed to not be involved

01:18:48 It's just one of these things that just landed on me. Town of bricks never look back

01:18:51 What's wild and this is what I mean when I say like sometimes I have thoughts and sometimes thoughts have me

01:18:57 Right. I feel I feel a tad bit

01:19:01 I mean, I enjoy it and it's a positive experience as a whole but I'm a little bit chained through ability to the

01:19:06 giant pirate ship of philosophy

01:19:17 When you have a lot of ability you have a lot of responsibility particularly in the moral realm

01:19:22 If you have a lot of ability in the moral realm, and I'm really good at communicating

01:19:26 philosophy to people I

01:19:29 Don't know that there's anyone better to be honest

01:19:31 My ability to create analogies and help people understand philosophy and

01:19:38 Through a combination of you know intensity analogies metaphors a humor and scraps of song

01:19:46 Whatever. I'm just I'm really good at got strengths and weaknesses, right?

01:19:49 But I'm really good at communicating philosophy and Lord knows we need it. Lord knows. That's what the world needs

01:19:55 the most and

01:19:58 With this level of ability, which I'm very happy to have with this level of ability comes a lot of

01:20:05 responsibility

01:20:08 Because if I have I mean I have this level of ability if I didn't pursue it to the best of that ability

01:20:14 I would be I would be tormented

01:20:16 I do philosophy to drive away the demons in a sense, right?

01:20:20 The demons of regret and miss opportunities and so on and yet this is not the life that I wanted honestly

01:20:26 I mean, I don't know how frank to be or whether you even care

01:20:29 But this is not the life that I wanted. This is not the life that I planned

01:20:33 This is not the life that I envisioned for myself

01:20:35 But it is the life that the world needs the most

01:20:44 What I wanted was, you know a

01:20:47 World something in the art world. I you know, I wrote and directed plays

01:20:53 I did Shakespearean leads and all this kind of stuff. So my life was a life in the arts

01:20:59 You know with ideas around but a life in the arts maybe a life in academia and I enjoyed the business world as well

01:21:08 But this like what I do and really have been doing for the last 18 years

01:21:13 I I don't have any regrets and I wouldn't make any different choices

01:21:17 But it is absolutely not the life that I envisioned for myself at all

01:21:21 at all

01:21:24 Not even close

01:21:27 But when I try to look at what is objectively best for the world

01:21:36 The world does not need another playwright or actor the world does not need another academic

01:21:41 The world does not need another businessman or entrepreneur the world

01:21:45 needs

01:21:48 Virtue

01:21:50 The world needs the closest thing to God that philosophy can create which is universally preferable behavior

01:21:56 The world needs reason the world needs peaceful parenting the world needs radical honesty

01:22:02 The world needs facts unpacked that other people dare not touch

01:22:06 That's what the world needs

01:22:11 And

01:22:14 When you decide to serve the world you have to give up your ego

01:22:30 I mean I would have preferred a life with a little less controversy

01:22:34 I would have preferred a life with a little less de-platforming. I would have preferred a life

01:22:37 with a little more control

01:22:40 for sure

01:22:43 And it's not it's not even like it's not even really like some big conscious thought like

01:22:57 But if I sort of unpack it in my mind

01:23:00 I

01:23:02 Think that I

01:23:05 Was gifted with the abilities that they had and if I just used them for myself

01:23:10 That would be like inheriting a fortune and squandering it on vanity purchases

01:23:25 I know this is where I do the best for the world. I just

01:23:30 Like there's no argument for me that can overturn that

01:23:36 And if you've listened to my history of philosopher series

01:23:40 You can see just why it's so laser-like and intense for me to do what it is that I do

01:23:46 because

01:23:51 Like if not me who who philosophy around for 5,000 years or more

01:23:56 Still hasn't tackled childhood or solved the problem of secular ethics or defined free will or love in an objective and rational manner

01:24:03 And it's not great that

01:24:09 It lands on me it's not I mean it's funny, you know, because some people think I'm in this for the ego

01:24:15 Yes, absolutely. Oh, yes, nothing but ego

01:24:20 But I think like

01:24:23 everyone

01:24:26 Who takes on great tasks? There are many times you wish it was anyone but you

01:24:31 Do you have that?

01:24:33 like if you're the truth teller in the family or you have to take on someone maybe that you've got a bad boss that you

01:24:39 need to take on or

01:24:41 Whatever. It could be a larger task could be a relatively smaller in the world stage task, but still very important. I

01:24:47 Mean if you're the truth teller in the family, don't you wish sometimes my anyone but can somebody else step up can somebody else do this

01:24:53 Or and

01:24:58 Appreciate these I

01:25:00 Really do appreciate these live streams in these conversation. We'll be straight up with you and thank you for your support and

01:25:05 donations and and

01:25:07 All of this it's it's beautiful and I'm always touched every time and I really really appreciate it

01:25:15 It wouldn't wouldn't have been the end of the world in a way for me if

01:25:19 More of my I don't know how to put that

01:25:24 More of my colleagues had sort of stood up and that hasn't really happened at all quite the opposite in some ways

01:25:33 So

01:25:38 It's this the quotes it's very powerful

01:25:44 You

01:25:46 From Lord of the Rings

01:25:49 I wish the task had not fallen to me. I wish I didn't have to live in these times

01:25:57 Well, we can't choose our times and we can't choose our tasks

01:26:00 this I

01:26:03 mean this task

01:26:05 Sisyphean though it feels at times this task

01:26:08 Seized me. I mean I almost feel I am NOT kidding man. I almost feel like I'm in some multi-decade

01:26:13 epileptic fit of honesty

01:26:16 It's completely bizarre

01:26:18 like I've got Tourette's and I'm just saying things that need to be said that nobody wants to say and

01:26:24 It feels at times like a possession like I'm the puppet of something larger

01:26:37 Honestly completely can understand the religious feelings I just I just bought a book today on

01:26:42 Catholic redemption and we sit down and read this see how close to my experience this is

01:26:49 And I am on a passionate redemption arc from the evils of others I was launched on this journey by the evils of others

01:27:00 It's like a beast that chases you

01:27:07 And you can only conquer by naming its essence

01:27:10 The show can feel like a waking dream and its passion and its intensity and its creativity

01:27:17 And most times I enjoy it I'm not

01:27:24 Martyring myself at all here most times. It's great. It's great because the alternative is what?

01:27:31 What's the alternative

01:27:35 You

01:27:37 To have these capacities and fail to exercise them would be a curse on

01:27:46 the incredible opportunities that were accidentally granted to me by nature or

01:27:51 Temperament or circumstances and choice absolutely choice. I'm not gonna just say I'm just some dominoes of prior experience, but I

01:27:59 Sure wish like

01:28:04 I

01:28:06 Sure, wish that philosophers had taken on these topics before and maybe they couldn't maybe

01:28:11 before the Internet before

01:28:13 The intimacy of these conversations, maybe they couldn't

01:28:16 But I think they could have God couldn't they have written it and had it published after they were dead something

01:28:22 Now I did this show this morning on

01:28:26 Thales

01:28:27 Ancient Greek philosopher know thyself was this big thing know they self

01:28:31 cheerful philosopher laughed know thyself

01:28:34 it's like you know you're surrounded by child abuse child rape and slavery and the subjugation of women and

01:28:39 The conscription of men to be slaughtered in pointless

01:28:43 vanity battles from sociopaths and funny heads

01:28:46 But know thyself that's the important thing

01:28:51 You

01:28:53 All right

01:29:05 Do you think that if it were possible to separate your various eras into separate people text F

01:29:12 Ponytail artists deaf objectivist deaf that they would have any major disagreements. Yeah, of course

01:29:18 Absolutely, if you're not disagreeing with your younger self in major ways you fail to achieve the growth you're capable of sure

01:29:26 Yeah

01:29:29 Lots of disagreements

01:29:32 Lots of disagreements

01:29:38 I'm not going to imagine I was running for office. Oh god

01:29:47 Somebody says I got daggers pointed at me by my family anytime. I'm speaking the truth of our lives. Yeah

01:29:52 I'm so tired of it. Yeah, I

01:29:55 Can imagine the sheer amount of negativity directed towards you could be tough to deal with for any human being even though you obviously have

01:30:01 millions of supporters to

01:30:03 millions

01:30:06 I was ostracized from my entire family for my opinions. Yeah, probably not

01:30:12 From your opinions. I think your mic might be a smidge high

01:30:16 Yeah

01:30:18 Steph is an apostle waiting to happen

01:30:20 The alternative is certainly a curse of a different kind. Yeah, the alternative is self-erasure no integrity and insomnia. Oh

01:30:29 I don't think any other thinker has the interdisciplinary and understanding you do the physical labor the tech entrepreneurship the art background the psychological understanding

01:30:38 And the philosophical training, I mean it took courses on philosophy in undergrad and graduate school, so

01:30:45 it's a it's a kind of unique combination of

01:30:48 Skills

01:30:52 And I mean fortunate to have to have a fairly pleasant speaking voice and I

01:30:59 Guess a vaguely

01:31:03 Intelligent sounding accident accident. I mean this is some lucky things now fairly decent face

01:31:08 You know not the worst thing in the world to look at and you know, so it's just a combination of things that are just

01:31:15 lucky

01:31:17 But yeah, I wish it I wish I could follow in somebody else's footsteps sometimes as I did for many years other thinkers Aristotle

01:31:26 Rand others

01:31:27 Socrates to a large degree

01:31:29 I do wish that I could follow in other people's footsteps and not have to be the icebreaker all the time

01:31:34 It feels that way. It's the icebreaker all the time

01:31:36 And I'll tell you

01:31:43 If this is interesting to you

01:31:45 Obviously I'm tempted by

01:31:50 God

01:31:51 tempted by the divine, of course

01:31:53 Because it would give me answers to things that at the moment. I have no answer for where are these ideas coming from?

01:32:00 Where is this spontaneous generation coming from like the analogies?

01:32:03 I pulled out this morning on my complicated relationship with the commandment to know thyself know yourself

01:32:11 I don't know where they come from

01:32:12 I don't know how these encapsulating ideas and arguments and how they coalesce and like I'm I'm half

01:32:17 I have some ideas going into a podcast a solo cast, but I'm half writing

01:32:21 The wave of what's going on inside of me now if I were a religious man, I would have an answer that I'm divinely inspired

01:32:29 That I'm a mouthpiece for God to bring some truths to the world, right that that and you know

01:32:37 Whether you'd say this is vainglorious or not. It would be an answer for me

01:32:41 As to what the hell is going on in my in my head. Why it's all this stuff coming up for me. I don't know

01:32:47 I can't answer

01:32:51 Why am I the first moral philosopher

01:32:54 To tackle the fundamental forge of all humanity called childhood why

01:33:00 You

01:33:02 Why me why now

01:33:09 Don't know now I could say

01:33:19 With reference to the divine that it's time. It's God's will

01:33:24 And I do what the good Lord tells me to and I say what the good Lord tells me to say

01:33:30 That would be an answer

01:33:32 But if I had that answer

01:33:35 Wouldn't have you PB

01:33:38 I wouldn't have you PB

01:33:41 And you PB is the thing you PB is the release from

01:33:51 Statism

01:33:56 In generations to come

01:33:58 You

01:34:00 By not falling into the answers of

01:34:05 The divine

01:34:09 I

01:34:12 Explored further and deeper

01:34:14 Than I otherwise could have right because you when you have an answer you stop looking right your home you stop driving home

01:34:19 so

01:34:22 If I had

01:34:28 Accepted the solution of divinity. I wouldn't have kept looking for the root of ethics

01:34:34 Dave says I think you're trolling

01:34:47 How do you think it's best to cope with the therapist who told me out of spite to believe something sad all the time?

01:34:51 I mean if your therapist is spiteful towards you you don't need to ask me what to do

01:34:58 This is another one of these like the answer is too obvious to address even though it's your birthday. Well, that's my birthday gift to you

01:35:05 You know what?

01:35:06 The answer is you don't need to ask you're looking for sympathy and listen if you want to say to me my therapist said something

01:35:11 Mean to me and you want sympathy. Yeah, I'm happy with that happy to give you sympathy

01:35:14 Yeah, I'm happy to give you sympathy. But if you play dumb and well, my therapist is mean to me and spiteful to me

01:35:21 What should I do? You don't need me to answer that

01:35:25 You don't

01:35:27 How can you take life advice from someone who's spiteful towards you?

01:35:30 How can you respect someone who's mean to you when you're in a vulnerable place?

01:35:34 So there's my birthday present to you

01:35:40 Any other last donations comments questions issues challenges

01:35:54 And here's the other thing Dave

01:35:56 I have long since moved on but it has infected my thinking still

01:36:00 Elon said recently on his gravestone would that his gravestone would read never went to therapy, right?

01:36:06 Do you see you PP is incompatible with God existing

01:36:10 no, no, not not in and of itself and

01:36:15 Honestly, I mean, you know

01:36:18 There are a lot of people who were scientists in the late Middle Ages in early Renaissance and Enlightenment

01:36:22 Who believed that they were exploring the mind of God by understanding the principles of the universe?

01:36:26 But they do have to deny

01:36:31 some intervention from God in order to explore the absolutes of the universe and

01:36:36 If I had accepted the divine root or divine commandments of morality, I wouldn't have

01:36:42 explored and produced you PB

01:36:44 right if I had accepted that

01:36:50 And so not accepting

01:36:52 state dictates or

01:36:56 Divine commandments at the source of morality meant that I could actually get to the source of morality

01:37:00 Now it's interesting so Elon with never went to therapy

01:37:10 I mean he may mean that sort of navel-gazing thing and I talked about that and it'll be out for donors in the next

01:37:15 Day or so you should really check out my wrestling with the dead with the commandment know thyself because I have a very complicated

01:37:22 relationship with know thyself I

01:37:24 Think it's interesting

01:37:26 but significantly bullshit and you can get into

01:37:29 You can get into that in the in the podcast, but you should check that out. So

01:37:34 Yeah, if you have any other last tips or let me just make sure I got

01:37:38 any of these questions today

01:37:43 Steph how did you know philosophy was a greater purpose prior to you having any positive impact on the world?

01:37:47 Was it gut feeling or faith? Well, I just I've always loved philosophy. I

01:37:50 Just didn't you know if you're a successful actor or

01:37:55 writer you tend to get a fair amount of praise right and

01:37:59 It's quite nice. If you're a successful philosopher

01:38:02 you get

01:38:05 threats and attacks and

01:38:07 All that. I think your insight is amazing as you do amazing things outwardly. Well, thank you. I appreciate that

01:38:12 I

01:38:14 Appreciate that

01:38:16 Thank you for everything so simp I really don't know where my life would be without your insight you're the greatest well, thank you Zinfan

01:38:22 I'm really I do sympathize really with the anxiety it is tough

01:38:27 Because anxiety can be a paralytic when you need to move, right?

01:38:33 Because there's anxiety about whether anxiety is right. I mean, don't you have this because this is the whole push and pull, right?

01:38:42 if

01:38:44 You're nervous of your girlfriend's temper she's going to tell you that you're just a coward

01:38:51 She's not that bad and you should get over your fear

01:38:53 Right. So you're like, okay is my fear of my girlfriend's temper because she's a scary person or because I'm a coward and everybody

01:39:01 Who wants to exploit you will tell you that all of your caution is an internal psychological problem

01:39:05 right

01:39:08 All of it

01:39:10 You

01:39:12 So people will always try to convince you that

01:39:19 You're not cautious for good reason. You are neurotic and

01:39:25 They will then further attack you for attacking them

01:39:28 Like how dare you be scared of me? I'm not a bad person

01:39:33 You're just a coward and you're projecting your fear onto me and it's insulting and I would never do that

01:39:37 Like so they'll actually attack you for fearing

01:39:40 for you fearing that they will attack you and

01:39:42 Having people of gentleness firmness depth and resolution in your life is very very important

01:39:48 It's very very important that people in your life who sympathize with you and who care when you're upset

01:39:56 but also

01:39:58 Care enough about you being upset to strongly encourage you to find some way to overcome it

01:40:04 now my experience in overcoming upset is

01:40:07 Remove things from my life that are upsetting and see what's left

01:40:13 Does that make sense?

01:40:15 remove things from my life that are upsetting and

01:40:18 See if I'm still upset

01:40:21 Not a bad approach, right? It's not not a bad approach

01:40:25 Not a bad approach

01:40:31 Got a sunburn. Hey, it hurts. I should get out of the Sun, right?

01:40:36 Maybe I should put sunscreen on I'll not spend as much time in the Sun

01:40:38 Remove things from your life that are upsetting

01:40:42 See if you're still upset, you know

01:40:45 You ever have this where you lie back on a lounge chair or something and something sticks you painfully in the back

01:40:50 Right and you get up and you're like you just lie down again, no

01:40:58 Turn the hell around the hell's on this lawn chair. I was on this recliner. Maybe it's your glasses or I don't know something, right?

01:41:06 Pokes you in the back or a scorpion. I don't know something pokes you in the back, right?

01:41:10 So you lie back. Oh

01:41:13 I got a pain in my back

01:41:15 Now if you get a stabbing pain in your back when you lie back and there's nothing there

01:41:19 Then maybe you've pulled a muscle or maybe there's something internal right? But the first thing you do is try and fix your environment

01:41:25 I wonder if anything's poking me in the back here, right?

01:41:33 Maybe there's something poke

01:41:35 So the first thing you do when you're checking a pain is you look at your environment and say is there something out there that's causing?

01:41:39 The pain right?

01:41:41 Now if there's nothing that's causing the pain then maybe it's an internal thing

01:41:46 But you have to eliminate external causes of negative emotional states before turning to yourself. Does this make sense?

01:41:52 You know if you get a pain in your foot

01:42:02 You take off your shoe. There's a stone there or some sharp thing got in there, right?

01:42:09 Well, you shake out your shoe and walk on

01:42:12 Check your environment, right?

01:42:16 Check your environment

01:42:21 I mean if you fall down and bruise yourself, then you're gonna have a bruise

01:42:31 And I remember when I was a kid, you know when you're a kid you just roaming around you're doing all this crazy stuff

01:42:34 Particularly if you're a boy and I remember I'd have this some bruise or some whatever it is

01:42:39 And I wouldn't remember it and then I'd push the bruise and that would bring up the body memory of like oh, yeah

01:42:43 It's when I fell out of the tree

01:42:44 When I fell off my bike or something like that, right?

01:42:46 So for me is okay if I'm going through some negative experience then

01:42:53 Let me check and see if there's any environmental cause and I'm gonna remove environmental causes and see what's left over and lo and behold

01:43:01 Lo and behold I found

01:43:03 Things almost always got better very quickly

01:43:08 Right.

01:43:12 I mean it's crazy to me and this my personal experience and it'd be the same for everyone, right?

01:43:17 And it'd be the same for everyone

01:43:19 Steph what's the most satisfying part of writing the future the present etc?

01:43:23 I think fidelity they're getting the characters to merge with the philosophical

01:43:27 Arguments that's a really really tough thing for me to do

01:43:30 I think it's tougher most people do but getting the characters to merge with the philosophical arguments in the way that they did

01:43:35 to me was like Rachel being vanity and

01:43:39 Well

01:43:43 Yeah, Rachel being vanity and

01:43:47 Arlo being hedonism and all of this

01:43:57 Getting all of that stuff to work together was really great for me and

01:44:00 When it all came together and just all aligned back up it was just it was great. So thank you. It's a great question

01:44:09 So maybe my fear of strenuous exercise is caused by abusive figures in my past now

01:44:18 I present previous condition that has now been cured

01:44:20 Yeah

01:44:21 so a lot of times if you've gone through a lot of pain as a child

01:44:24 strenuous exercise feels like abuse because it hurts right it could be difficult and painful and all of that and I

01:44:30 Myself would be kind of cautious about I myself and maybe this is just a guy in his

01:44:35 Mid to late 50s or whatever, but I'd be kind of cautious about a lot of strenuous exercise. It is

01:44:40 Quite easy to injure yourself quite easy to injure yourself and injury is the opposite of exercise

01:44:47 I'd love to push myself harder sometimes but I just know that when I do push myself harder something can go awry and

01:44:54 That something going awry you can have to deal with for quite some time

01:44:58 quite sometime

01:45:00 Alright

01:45:02 All right, let me just see here if I've got any other questions issues you can tip of course on the app you can tip on

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01:45:17 Somebody says I've also come to an agreement with my mother

01:45:19 I've been cruelly throwing my mother into intermediate advanced philosophy and admitted that was my mistake

01:45:23 I'm glad you've come to an agreement. I hope that it's a moral and sustainable one. I'm sure that it is but keep your eye out

01:45:32 Sorry, I feel very rude to end the stream when people are typing and typing and typing away

01:45:39 You

01:45:41 Oh you told her to get into some philosophical books, okay, that's good mine even even better I think even better

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