The Death of a City!

Stefan Molyneux

Wednesday Night Live 19 June 2024  I recount a trip to Toronto with tech challenges, discuss efficiency decline, work on parenting book, capitalism insights, and engaging with the audience. Topics range from debating, emotions, and parenting dilemmas to audiobooks and computer testing challenges. Mention of a philosopher, audience questions, and plans for a future meetup are shared, encouraging donations and expressing gratitude for engagement.  Join the PREMIUM philosophy community on the web for free!  NOW AVAILABLE FOR SUBSCRIBERS: MY NEW BOOK 'PEACEFUL PARENTING' - AND THE INTERACTIVE PEACEFUL PARENTING AI AND AUDIOBOOK!  Also get the Truth About the French Revolution, the interactive multi-lingual philosophy AI trained on thousands of hours of my material, private livestreams, premium call in shows, the 22 Part History of Philosophers series and much more!  See you soon!  https://freedomain.locals.com/support/promo/UPB2022

Transcript

00:00:00Good evening, everybody. Welcome to your Wednesday Night Live on June 19th, 2024.

00:00:08I hope you're doing well. Thank you for your indulgence.

00:00:17A little bit late tonight, but we're fine. It's just the usual tech garbage that runneth

00:00:26along with the world. All right.

00:00:32So I'm just going to get a wee bit of background video recording going here,

00:00:38just in case we need it. All right. Let's get that.

00:00:45And let's get that. And we don't really need any system audio. And let's do that.

00:00:59Let's do that. All right. So, yes, so we are not in the studio, as you can see,

00:01:05but we are still remaining studious. Not studio, studious. Oh, no, that's not going to work.

00:01:14No, it's not going to work. Is it going to work? No, it's not going to work. All right. Well,

00:01:18we'll just have to use the recording, because I've got to keep switching back and forth

00:01:22to get to video recording. Tips for sure, it's off. Yeah. No, I couldn't get into the studio.

00:01:30I was in the studio, but I'm just having trouble connecting to the internet.

00:01:33So I have to do this from elsewhere. Sorry about that. But I'm sure we are fine. Fine, fine, fine.

00:01:44All right. So, I could do a rant. I absolutely, completely, and totally could do a rant

00:01:53if you would like. Hit me with a Y for the rant. Hit me with a Y for the rant.

00:02:07Well, that's quite the high camera, let me tell you. Quite the high camera. It's on top. It's up.

00:02:14Yes for the rant. All right. Okay. So, I grew up in Toronto,

00:02:25but I have not been to Toronto in quite some time.

00:02:29I don't particularly like going into Toronto these days. I live, of course, as you know,

00:02:35outside of Toronto. And my wife wanted to go and see a play. Now, God knows she gets enough

00:02:43drama at home, but apparently she wanted professional drama rather than my amateur

00:02:48kind. So, she said, let's go see a play. I'm like, all right. All right. I could do a play.

00:03:00What is the play? And she said, she said, some of the most dangerous words for a husband to hear

00:03:07in this or any other lifetime with regards to a play. She said,

00:03:13Lord above help me. She said, it's a one woman play.

00:03:21Vagina monologues, but I repeat myself. Why would you need synonyms?

00:03:26So, she said, it's a one woman play. And I said, one woman play in Toronto.

00:03:36Well, love, honor, and obey. I made some vows.

00:03:43I'm cornered, trapped by my own integrity and my love for my wonderful wife.

00:03:49Ah, what's it about?

00:03:59Well, it's a one woman play. See, now it's not going to be about politics.

00:04:04What's it about? I ask my dear bride. She says, it's a one woman play in Toronto and it's about

00:04:13aging. It's about aging.

00:04:24Now, I'm like, is this a love test? Have I done something to bother and upset you

00:04:31other than having my career? And she said, no, I just think it would be really interesting.

00:04:39Then she said, really what to me is often the most dangerous phrase, she said, she said,

00:04:46honey, I've heard good things. Here we go. Here we go.

00:04:56A play in Toronto, one woman, about aging, and she's heard good things. Now, when I hear heard

00:05:02good things, I hear sigh up, sigh up, because nothing is natural anymore. Everything is for

00:05:12some intended effect or purpose or plan or decadence or decay or something, something.

00:05:25Yeah, no, I couldn't, I can't do female stand up comedy because there's only,

00:05:29only so many jokes I can hear about vaginas. I just, I can't, I can't.

00:05:35So I'm like, okay, I said, I'm not super keen on going into Toronto,

00:05:42but I love you. So let's go. So we live outside of Toronto, not super far outside of Toronto. And

00:05:50so what did we do? Well, the play started at 2 PM. So we left at noon.

00:06:01Now I figured two hours can get you four fifths of the way to Florida. So maybe just maybe we can

00:06:09get to a playhouse in downtown Toronto. Now, not right downtown, not right downtown.

00:06:20So we leave at two. And we're chugging along, we're chugging along. And as we approach the

00:06:27traffic void called Toronto, what happens? Well, lane closed. Also, lane closed. Also,

00:06:39exit closed. Why? Because apparently infrastructure is like Voldemort for Toronto politicians. You

00:06:47can't say it or you lose your soul. Wait, sorry, they're Toronto politicians. They don't have souls

00:06:54to begin with, but if they did, and they said the word infrastructure, I can only say apparently

00:06:57this word because I'm not a politician in Toronto. Infrastructure is the enemy. And of course,

00:07:02I worked for a company many years ago that dealt with infrastructure and the amount of deferred

00:07:08infrastructure improvements in Ontario was absolutely staggering. You can fix Toronto or

00:07:17you can go and lasso Mars and bring it back for gold cinnamon dust and its asteroids.

00:07:26So they've been underspending is what I'm saying. And so all it is is patchwork.

00:07:34Now we can't fix your roads. We can paint them rainbow, but we can't fix them. So we're driving

00:07:41and we're driving and we're like, hmm, it's a little slow. Well, you know, we're not super hard

00:07:46from the subway. Now the subway, when I was younger, I didn't have a car in Toronto for very

00:07:56long. But if you, when I was younger, the subway was like FTL. Faster than light, it was hyperspeed

00:08:02because the subway, you got no traffic lights, you got no constructions.

00:08:07The stars blur for you, Han Solo, walking copper Chewbacca, you just,

00:08:12you escape the Cylons, you jump all over the galaxy. When you're talking

00:08:18subway, you're talking light speed. Bypasses everything, underfoot, don't have to wait for

00:08:23anything, gone. You don't have the usual Toronto BMWs. I remember being in a, when I was in,

00:08:29doing my graduate degree, I remember being in Toronto, it was hailing and the BMW driver was

00:08:35edging his way to turn because Lord knows, we as pedestrians, please, by all means, Mr. Comfortable

00:08:42BMW driver, turn, we'll be happy with the hail. It's fine. Enjoy yourself. The important thing

00:08:48is that you're comfortable. What is the difference between a BMW and a porcupine? The difference

00:08:56between a BMW and a porcupine is in a porcupine, the pricks are on the outside. So, what happens?

00:09:04Well, we say, and we check the website of the theater and they say,

00:09:14well, you might want to take, you might want to take the TTC, the Toronto Transit. You might want

00:09:19to take the bus subway because you won't believe it. There's a lot of construction around here,

00:09:26and there's almost no parking. So, we're like, okay, you know what? We've got time.

00:09:33It's only 40, we got an hour 20 to just get on the subway and get to the play. No problem. Reset.

00:09:42So, what do we do? Well, we get to the subway, we park our car, we walk to the subway

00:09:51and bad things begin occurring. So, we go into the subway and oddly enough,

00:10:00we're not charged. Now again, I'm not a professional economist, but it seems to me that given that

00:10:06subways cost money to run, you might think about charging people to, I don't know, use them. But no,

00:10:13we just sail through. And then we walk down to the subway and there's a big sign at the bottom

00:10:21of the stairs that says the subway is closed. Now, mind you, this is quarter to one on a weekend

00:10:34in Toronto. And the subway is closed. Why? Track maintenance. Now, the subway is closed for many

00:10:44hours at night, but apparently you can't do maintenance because there are ghosts down there

00:10:49that behead your maintenance workers. So, you have to wait until a very busy time when people

00:10:54actually need to use the subway to fix the subway. You know how they try to repair the wing while

00:11:00the plane's flying. It's that kind of thing. Now, one other thing that you could, you know,

00:11:12theoretically say if your subway is closed is you might have a sign not three feet from the

00:11:23subway that is closed. You might have a sign, I don't know, in the parking lot. You might have

00:11:29a sign at the entrance, not after you go in and go down two flights of stairs and go to the end

00:11:34of the... So, then we're like, okay, when we can't get back on the highway because we've already

00:11:38gone off the highway and they say, no, no, no, the subway's fine. It's just one stop over. You

00:11:42got to take a bus. You just got to go through a bus one stop over. So, then we begin the Bataan

00:11:52Death March to the giant hallucinatory illusion slash mirage called The Play that we paid quite

00:12:00a lot of money to go and see. Now, I am of the opinion that we should cut our losses,

00:12:06bail out, and get drunk. My wife, on the other hand, really wants to see a one-woman play

00:12:14about getting older. Okay. Love you, honey. Honestly. And, you know, she's right as often

00:12:20as not. So, what the heck? So, we continue. So, then they say, there's like three TTC

00:12:28employees per square foot telling you to go to the shuttle buses, which are...

00:12:34Well, you kind of need to take the subway to get to the shuttle buses because they're about

00:12:39a football field away. They're not in where all the buses are. No, no, no. That would be crazy.

00:12:44What they are is outside the subway, down the road, diagonal across a busy street. That's where

00:12:51you get the buses. Now, it would seem to me that given that they had about 4,000 TTC employees

00:12:57telling you where to get the buses, you might want to take some of those TTC employees and use them

00:13:01to fix the track. But, no. I'm sure that the union would have something to say about that. So,

00:13:08you ever have that thing, that dream, or sometimes a reality, you've got to get a

00:13:11connecting flight and you have eight minutes, and at the other end of the airport, and then

00:13:15there's a bus, and oh! So, we get to the bus. We call out for the bus that's just

00:13:25about to close its doors. And what does the bus driver do? Closes the doors.

00:13:31Goes off. Oh, don't worry. There'll be another bus along here shortly.

00:13:34And I'm like, at this point, I'll take a trebuchet and two mattresses strapped to my forehead just

00:13:39to get to Toronto. Can't go back. Can't go on. So, we get on the bus. Sped on the bus, get on the bus,

00:13:47we get on the bus. And we tootle. And the bus has all its windows closed. And things are not wildly

00:13:58And the bus has all its windows closed. And things are not wildly positively aromatic.

00:14:06And we are dressed to the nines. Why? Because we're going to hear a single woman

00:14:10talk about aging for an hour and a half.

00:14:17So, it seems like the bus has an infinity. Like, it wants to go straight,

00:14:22and in order to go straight, it has to take three or four left-hand turns.

00:14:29So, we get to the next subway, which is very busy, of course, because everyone's

00:14:33being bussed into there from the arse-end of everywhere. I think I saw a bus coming

00:14:37in from Aldebaran and Beetlejuice. So, then we get to the subway. And we run to make sure we

00:14:45don't miss the subway, which, as it turns out, was somewhat pointless. Why? Well, it was somewhat

00:14:51pointless because the subway sat on its fat wheelie arse for 20 more minutes. See, this is

00:14:59the thing. You know, TTC, if you're listening, and maybe, maybe, maybe you are. If you're going

00:15:07to bus people to the subway, it might be helpful if the subway actually, I don't know, moves!

00:15:16But no, everybody's standing around with their thumbs in their armpits.

00:15:24And, pretty much, they want to make sure that enough people get on the subway that it turns

00:15:31into a Japanese commuter black hole and everybody disappears up each other's arses and has a look

00:15:37around. Hey, now that our groins have been mashed together for 20 minutes, want to start a family?

00:15:46So, we get on the subway. And the subway finally, eventually moves.

00:15:57Long story short, well, maybe a little late for that, but let's just say, long story short,

00:16:03we finally get out of the subway on King Street. Now, we need to take a streetcar or a bus or an

00:16:10Uber or a cab to go to what's called the Distillery District, which is sounding mighty appealing to

00:16:20me because this is a long trip to take sober. Are there any streetcars coming? Yes, there are.

00:16:30Yes, there are. It's really quite a mashup. In fact, it looks like the streetcars have

00:16:35all been stapled together like a giant centipede subway train on the surface.

00:16:41So then, we're looking for the 504 and you have every 500 number, including 5110 billion,

00:16:53except for the 504. So, we're like, well, we'll look for a cab. Can you find a cab? Yes, except

00:16:59the cabs can't turn left onto our street. And we're afraid of going diagonal because then if we

00:17:04see the right streetcar, we can't get on there. Also, because we're running to the subway, we

00:17:11don't have a transfer, so now we'll have to pay for the streetcar, which is supposed to be free

00:17:15because we were already on the subway. That's fine. That's fine. So, eventually, the streetcar

00:17:26comes along and we get to the play 15 minutes late and they don't let us into the play for

00:17:36another five minutes. So, we finally get one hour and seven minutes of a play for the kind of trek

00:17:44that you could probably get on your fucking teeth and knees to the South Pole or the North Pole.

00:17:52On the plus side, the play was really depressing. So, it was an arduous, stressful and appalling

00:18:01trip into Toronto, where the amount of human incompetence, if attached to a nuclear generator,

00:18:09could power the solar system. We finally get to the play. Now, it's not the playwright's fault,

00:18:17but a play about ageing could it be a little funny? Just a little. Just a little funny.

00:18:33Just a little funny. You know, there are some funny things about ageing and ageing has its

00:18:36pluses and I get all of that, but the woman, her gimmick was that the audience chooses a couple of

00:18:46different stories that are involved in the play and someone chose Dog!

00:18:52And I'm like, oh no. Like, you know the playwrights where you just know, like,

00:18:57whatever's going to happen, it's going to be fucking awful. Like, whatever happens in the play,

00:19:03do you love someone, they get cancer. Do you like your eyesight? Oh, sorry, you get blinded.

00:19:09You like your health? Oh no, multiple sclerosis. Are you finally getting close to your dad?

00:19:16Bam! Bus hits him! No, no, bus wouldn't hit him because it's going too slowly.

00:19:25Oh, an improperly elevated surgeon cuts into him and accidentally beheads him.

00:19:31So, anyway, in the play, somebody said, they held a dog. Oh, here's a story about a dog.

00:19:36And you basically, with these kinds of playwrights, I bring a crash helmet and I just assume the

00:19:40crash position, you know, on the plane, where they say, well, in order to be able to better

00:19:44identify your remains and or keep you edible in case we crash in the Andes, you're going to need

00:19:50to assume this position, right? Bring your chairs to the upright position. This death, this death,

00:19:58So, the playwright begins telling a story about a dog.

00:20:03And I'm telling you, it was not more than six minutes before the dog was

00:20:07completely beheaded by a car.

00:20:14Oh my gosh. And this woman who couldn't settle down and didn't have kids

00:20:18just finds a wonderful lover in her 60s and 70s and she's so happy.

00:20:22Oh my gosh, should have just taken his helicopter. No, I'm concerned about incompetence in all

00:20:29engineering fields these days. So, I'm not sure that a streetcar named Despair. Yeah, quite right.

00:20:37So, needless to say, needless to say, I met this dog.

00:20:46So, needless to say, needless to say, I may, I just may not be imminently going into Toronto

00:20:57at any time soon. Neither to see a play nor to not see a play, although I will say, and I haven't

00:21:04been there since I was in my early 20s, the distillery district is actually quite a lot of fun.

00:21:09And the play was fine. The play was fine. The actress was good. The writing was good.

00:21:16It was just I could have used something. It wasn't her fault about the TTC.

00:21:21I could have used something slightly more elevating. Not her fault. It's a good play.

00:21:27Well written. Good actress. But it is really depressing.

00:21:33Makes New York City look competent. Hey, hey, let's not go crazy here. We're still sane.

00:21:39Ish. You know, I gotta tell you, friends.

00:21:49I don't think I'm entirely, tell me if I'm wrong, tell me if I'm,

00:21:52I don't think I'm entirely romanticizing my youth.

00:21:57But when I was younger, shit worked.

00:22:01It worked. The trains doth run. The buses doth roll. You could get from A to B relatively quickly.

00:22:12I had a car in Toronto. Traffic wasn't that bad.

00:22:18Things are falling apart faster than a sandcastle under a tsunami. Just wanted to point that out.

00:22:25The center cannot hold. Things fall apart.

00:22:30On the plus side, there was a little bit more drama in the journey than there was at the

00:22:34destination. So there was that excitement. And if I'd just seen the play and not run into the

00:22:39sandpaper-on-the-balls endless incompetence that characterizes the modern world,

00:22:44I wouldn't have had this exciting story. And Toronto, my God,

00:22:51it was as close to paradise when I was young as you could get in a city. I mean,

00:22:55London, when I was very little, was as close to paradise as I've ever been.

00:22:59Could travel all over London. Perfect safety. Perfect comfort. Perfect ease. Everything worked.

00:23:04The tube worked. And when I was a kid in Toronto and as a young man in Toronto,

00:23:10and I last lived in Toronto in my early 30s, it was just beginning to fall apart.

00:23:15But my God, I feel like I'm going to die.

00:23:18But my God, I feel like the old guy talking about the old world in 1984.

00:23:25My God, kids, it used to work. Stuff used to work.

00:23:31Everybody was polite. Everything was efficient. You could get from A to B without going through

00:23:37four different star systems of Z. Things worked. Packages were delivered. You could just pick them

00:23:47up. Your water wasn't the color of Donald Trump's fake tan rinse off. It used to be

00:24:03that the only thing that mattered was raw confidence. That's the only thing that used

00:24:09to matter, was raw competence. Now, I don't know, you know, it's not competence that's driving

00:24:14things. Because competence doesn't drive things, nothing drives anymore. You say,

00:24:21I remember when shit worked. Even in the 90s, it wasn't so bad, right? Yeah.

00:24:27Somebody says Toronto is the worst city in the world. My opinion may be personal bias

00:24:31because I live here and I've had a similarly terrible experience on a daily basis. I'm

00:24:34sorry about your experience. Yeah. Well, you know what they say, you can't go home again.

00:24:44Somebody says I've heard a theory that we have our attention divided so much nowadays and our

00:24:50attention span is dwindling. The result is shitty products and experiences incompetence. No,

00:24:55no, it's not that. It's not that. It's just we have metrics other than competence.

00:25:04We have metrics other than competence.

00:25:06And so we get a society where things don't work. Right? We get a society where things don't work.

00:25:22Because it takes, I mean, if you're good at your job, and I'm pretty good at my job,

00:25:26but if you're good at your job, you realize with great humility exactly how smart you have to be

00:25:33for a good job to be done. You have to be super smart. It's the Pareto principle.

00:25:44You know, like the square root of any group produces half the output.

00:25:48What year did you first notice things falling apart? I don't know. I don't know.

00:25:55But the other thing too, is because it's largely,

00:26:03so teenagers can't really get jobs anymore. Right? So you don't have the competence filter

00:26:09of teenagers with jobs. And so there's a whole bunch of different reasons, which we can go into,

00:26:15some of which I've talked about before. But yeah, it's going to get worse. It's going to get worse.

00:26:22So Toronto is, to a large degree, dead to me. And it's a shame because it's a wonderful city,

00:26:29and I loved growing up in it. And it was just great. Just great.

00:26:38But now, not so much. Anyway, I mean, I wrote a whole novel about this,

00:26:44which you should definitely check out called The Present. You can get it at

00:26:48freedomain.com slash books. Oh, by the by, before I forget, James, freedomain.com slash books doesn't

00:26:54go to freedomain.com slash freedomain under bar books. But if you could, that would be great.

00:26:59So yeah, yeah, yeah. And none of this is accidental. It's a controlled demolition, right?

00:27:07I mean, you can't replace capitalism if capitalism is working. So you have to have capitalism not

00:27:13work. So people are dissatisfied and frustrated with the system they live under, and therefore,

00:27:19you can replace it. Right? The limb has to be diseased in order to be amputated.

00:27:26So they gotta fuck up the limb so they can excuse the amputation.

00:27:36But I'm here for you, my friends. I'm here for you. Questions, comments,

00:27:42issues, challenges, problems. Somebody, Joe says, my job is an insane asylum planning to

00:27:51quit soon. None of the guys are even qualified to do their jobs. It's like arguing with crazy

00:27:55homeless guys. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I mean, a lot of immigration just relentlessly drives down wages.

00:28:06It gives the working class no negotiating. And it also is there to mask up the effects of inflation.

00:28:16And if you have any tips to help with the show, I would really, really appreciate that,

00:28:21just so you know what I'm working on. Like, I mean, I'm working hard at the moment. And

00:28:27what I am working on is I want a version of peaceful parenting that is about a third the

00:28:34current length while retaining all the core arguments. Now, you know me, I'm about to wink

00:28:41out of existence because I'll say I'm nothing if not concise. Okay, not the most concise guy in

00:28:45the world, but it's important to be detailed and precise. Concise and precise often are opposites.

00:28:55So I am about a third of the way through the peaceful parenting book, making it shorter.

00:29:05Making it shorter. Which is a lot of work, by the way. I don't mean to overly, you know,

00:29:17cry a river, but it is a lot of work to shorten the book. But when it is shorter,

00:29:24then you can hand it out to people and they don't really have much excuse.

00:29:34Oh, I don't have time for this and blah, blah, blah, right? So I am working on that,

00:29:41and that is consuming a lot of my time. And I should be done that in a week. And

00:29:49next week I'm going to continue the History of Philosophers series.

00:29:58Are you changing it or just cutting it? I like the full version.

00:30:04You're changing it or just cutting? Why would I change it? I don't quite understand.

00:30:11I mean, it's an abridged version, right? It's a shorter version. And I said while

00:30:17retaining all the core arguments. I don't know if you missed that. Maybe you did.

00:30:21You know, it's funny. It's funny. If people don't listen, they then respond as if they did.

00:30:26Right? I said I'm cutting it down to its core elements while retaining all the

00:30:31essential arguments or all the core arguments. And then people are like,

00:30:35are you changing it? It's like, okay, but if you weren't listening,

00:30:40then you weren't listening. That's fine. Anyway, just sort of wanted to point that out.

00:30:47Oh, people are funny. I'm going to do two and two makes four.

00:30:52But you have to remember the two and two make four. All right.

00:30:56Yes. So it is a lot of work, but I do want to make it so that if I can get it to maybe 125 pages,

00:31:03150 pages down from 450, I think that would be great. And then, of course, if people want the

00:31:08longer version, they want the more detailed arguments, they want all of the proof,

00:31:11they can go to the longer version. But I do want it to so people get 400 plus pages.

00:31:15They're like, oh, no, ain't nobody got time for that. But on the plus side, I can shorten it.

00:31:26All right. I will not continue without tips. Just wanted to let you know,

00:31:30I'm going to have to be assertive on this. All right. Hey, Steph, in the industry I'm in,

00:31:36there isn't much demand for intense work. I work from home and work multiple salaried jobs at once.

00:31:46I consistently impress and satisfy my bosses. From my family, they judge me for working multiple

00:31:50jobs as if I've done something immoral. I figured that since my managers are happy,

00:31:53there's been no disservice to my work. Am I in the wrong?

00:31:58Well, that's an interesting question. So, if your managers are happy,

00:32:06that's what matters. Now, you understand that people talk about UBI like it's some theoretical

00:32:14thing, like universal basic income. I would say, and you guys tell me what you think, I think

00:32:20probably 60 to 70 percent of jobs are bullshit make work to pad numbers. I think there's like

00:32:30maybe 19 to 35 people who are keeping the economy going and everyone else is just filler and fat.

00:32:39So, most people's jobs are meaningless. In fact, they interfere with other people's productive

00:32:44work. They become like the persons from Porlock. So, UBI is going on on a massive scale,

00:32:49particularly for women and particularly in government work. I mean, I remember working

00:32:54for a government agency in my early 20s. They had something they needed doing, so they hired me,

00:32:59while everyone else, and it was like 90 percent women, just sat around and chatted and gossiped

00:33:03all day. It's UBI. All right. I lost my job yesterday. I've applied to about 10 or so

00:33:20companies. I'm not demoralized, but I am worried about my future. I don't have the skills or money

00:33:24to start my own business at the moment. I feel quite lost. I've also considered changing fields.

00:33:28Unfortunately, I can't retire on my crypto yet.

00:33:33You tipped on free domain. Thank you, my friend. I appreciate that.

00:33:42Well, I would recommend very strongly that there's really only one productive approach

00:33:53to getting a job these days. There's really only one productive approach to getting a job

00:33:58these days, and you have to work your networks. You have to work your networks.

00:34:15You have to work your networks. You have to find people, contact people, people you went to school

00:34:20with. You have to do just about everything that you can imagine in order to try and get work.

00:34:37You have to be shameless in your pursuit of your contacts in order to be able to get work.

00:34:50Don't just rely on sending out resumes, in my humble opinion, right? Don't do that.

00:35:02You have to work your networks.

00:35:14Oh, James sent me a message which has nothing to do with the show.

00:35:17The message is, if you go to freedomain.com slash books,

00:35:20it takes you to a page that is not freedomain.com slash freedomain underscore books.

00:35:27So, yeah, you have to work your contacts. You have to phone people, say, do you know anyone

00:35:30who knows anyone who could get me a job? Anything like that. You have to do that kind of stuff.

00:35:37How do you handle the knowledge of the 10 words that would completely evaporate someone's built

00:35:41up lies or narrative? I'm paraphrasing this concept you have mentioned. Also, thank you

00:35:45for answering a recent question of mine in the Hit Me Up threads. Donation incoming. Well,

00:35:49thank you. I appreciate that. How do you handle the knowledge of the 10 words that

00:35:53would completely evaporate someone's built up lies or narrative?

00:35:59Okay, so let me give you an example. I'll give you an example. So, a friend of mine,

00:36:05years ago, was saying that he married the wrong woman, and his friends and family

00:36:16mildly warned him against her, but he went ahead anyway. Right? Thank you for the tips. He went

00:36:23ahead anyway. Okay. So, here's your test, as the brilliant and lovely Freedomain listeners. Here's

00:36:31your test. Your test is, what can you do, or what could you do, if someone you really cared about,

00:36:39for some reason, was going to go marry the wrong woman? Right? So, someone you care about

00:36:44is going to go and marry the wrong woman. Let's say she's got a temper,

00:36:47right? Because that's kind of a common thing, right? Let's say she's got a temper.

00:36:52What can you do, if he's not listening? If he doesn't listen to you, what can you do?

00:37:03What are your options?

00:37:07Somebody says, when I was looking for work, I would message people,

00:37:09and message everyone I knew, non-stop. Yeah, for sure.

00:37:12Confront the woman in front of him. That can, you can trigger her. Yeah, that's good. That's good.

00:37:21So, let's say I had a son, and my son was going to marry a woman who was,

00:37:28who had a problem with her temper.

00:37:30So, what would I do? Well, of course, I would say, I think she has a problem with the temper,

00:37:33and here's why, and here's why, and here's why. And, if he didn't listen, and wanted to continue

00:37:43on to get married to the woman who had a temper, then I would, I would, I would send him a message,

00:37:53to the woman who had a temper then I would invite a bunch of people over for

00:38:02a dinner party including my son and his girlfriend or fiance and I would to

00:38:09trigger her. I wouldn't be mean I wouldn't be manipulative but you know I

00:38:13would pick a hot topic and I would continue to press her on it and wouldn't

00:38:18take no for an answer to see and then she would probably blow up or storm out

00:38:22or something like that and then it'd be like yep okay see you see what I'm

00:38:27talking about like this is not good right and and you know if I had to

00:38:31record it assuming that was illegal and that was illegal then I would record it

00:38:34right of course I would because I'd want the evidence right I'd want the evidence

00:38:45now if my son was going to marry a woman who had a bad temper then almost for

00:38:52certain that bad temper would come from her parents right

00:38:57thank you Joe so if the bad temper came from her irritable or hot-tempered

00:39:04parents I would invite my son his girlfriend slash fiance and her parents

00:39:11over with my wife and I and I would ask her parents where do you think your

00:39:19daughter's volatile temper came from because you know we're looking at

00:39:23merging families and you guys are going to be around raising my grandkids and

00:39:27your grandkids so you know I'm just kind of curious where do you think this ill

00:39:32temper came from

00:39:37and if they denied it if they I would say no no no here's the evidence like we

00:39:41were just having dinner the other day and X Y and Zed happened and so on right

00:39:44so I would just ask that and I would again if it was legal I would record

00:39:47that to make sure that I didn't misrepresent anything and of course I

00:39:52would delete all these recordings when I was done and so on right because you

00:39:55want to make sure that you're not making things up or there's some prejudicial

00:39:58way of rephrasing things or anything like that right

00:40:03what else can you do let's say that my son was going to get married in a church

00:40:08right what else could you do

00:40:14well you could go to the priest and say there's a big

00:40:20problem with a temper and you know whatever assuming that you were in a

00:40:25private situation you could play the recording or whatever it is and say this

00:40:28is really bad this is not going to work out there's negatives you could go to

00:40:32extended family and you could say this marriage is going to be a disaster she's

00:40:36a mean woman with a bad temper clearly there was something wrong with my

00:40:38parenting that my son is is is is interested in this kind of woman but

00:40:44nonetheless these are the facts and so then you would go to the extended family

00:40:49and say we don't want to go to this wedding I don't think we need to have a

00:40:53little discussion you write them out of the will there's so many things that you

00:40:56could do to influence what's what's going on but you would absolutely set

00:41:01heart-minded soul against your son getting involved in a disastrous

00:41:05marriage right

00:41:08does that make sense

00:41:11so much that you can do

00:41:18so much that you could do you could in fact be really obnoxious to the point

00:41:24where she doesn't want to marry into your family like there's so much that

00:41:27you can do and people do very little when it comes to solving other people

00:41:34making bad decisions all right so let me just thank you for the tips tips are a

00:41:39super super welcome am I familiar with the work of Craig Biddle and the

00:41:43objective standard I am not Steph question about reaching a free

00:41:48society I was having a debate with someone and we both agreed that there

00:41:51would have to be a standard or principle the majority of people agree to follow

00:41:53whether it's you be or something else I believe it will be you be how would this

00:41:58agreement come about

00:42:04do you not know the process by which we get a free society

00:42:12do you not know the process by which we get a free society

00:42:18you

00:42:20smart men do not get involved in other men's pussy no that's not well then

00:42:26then you're not friends right then you're not friends because we all need

00:42:28help and particularly these men because their sex drives are so high we all need

00:42:32help with this right

00:42:36so we get to a free society when people stop abusing their children

00:42:41because when we abuse our children we teach our children that might makes

00:42:46right and you need centralized coercive power in order to have a functional

00:42:50society whether that society is a family or a country so when we stop abusing our

00:42:55children why then we get a free society which is why it's a multi-generational

00:43:01process so if children are grown up not abused and reasoned with and it doesn't

00:43:05have to of course be every child but when there's a significant proportion of

00:43:08it and it tends to hit a tipping point and go faster and faster so if children

00:43:11it's like saying how is everyone gonna how is everyone gonna end up speaking

00:43:16English together well you have to be raised speaking English and then when

00:43:19they're raised speaking English everybody ends up speaking English

00:43:21together and it's fine but you got to teach people English first right

00:43:28you got to teach people English first

00:43:34so once children are raised speaking English in this case it's reason right

00:43:38once you raise children speaking reason then you have a rational society and a

00:43:43peaceful society if you raise children with violence you get a violent society

00:43:46if you raise people children with reason you get a reasonable society it's all

00:43:50up to the parents which is why I've been focusing on parenting from the very

00:43:53beginning of the show I think my second show was about childhood right

00:44:00how would this agreement come about children are raised peacefully they are

00:44:06negotiated with and by the time you become an adult you've had 17 years

00:44:11experience negotiating for win-win so then that's what people will be used to

00:44:15and that's what they'll do

00:44:26all right I have a friend like this who's in a

00:44:31five-year relationship with a girl who's seen him seemingly done him dirty and

00:44:35I've never seen a guy more dick-napped and led by his lower brain I'm not sure

00:44:39how to broach the topic

00:44:44why is he your friend if he's living like an animal do you lie down with pigs

00:44:50in the barn

00:44:53if he's living like an animal how can he be a friend he does not fit take

00:44:59feedback very well I brought up how he's always late and he looked like a deer in

00:45:02headlights but he's late you know why people are late people are late other

00:45:07than technical issues

00:45:10people are late because they're fighting with their girlfriends right

00:45:16just about every time it just I mean this is my assumption I don't have

00:45:20friends like this anymore but when I was younger if somebody was late be like

00:45:23okay they're fighting with the government oh I had a fight with their

00:45:27wife a conflict in their family blah blah blah blah blah right all right

00:45:32that's about it

00:45:38so yeah it's pretty sad

00:45:42sorry lots of people typing I don't want to start on the topic if there is the

00:45:47typing to be had

00:45:50now don't forget don't forget my friends is a new service that I'm a couple of

00:45:55weeks into offering it's really amazing and you should really think about it so

00:46:00you can do a private call it's a call-in show but it's just you and me

00:46:06you can say anything you want it's never going public you can talk about

00:46:09whatever you want it never goes out you can go to freedom a.com slash call

00:46:15freedom a.com slash call and you can choose a private call and we'll be in

00:46:21touch about that I did three yesterday yeah it's a lot

00:46:26it's a lot

00:46:37all right I almost gonna check over here on rumble in case you have questions or

00:46:41comments or issues that you want to bring up over on that platform as well

00:46:45I'm super happy to hear from you as well but yeah don't forget freedom a.com slash

00:46:51call you can check out that and that's a great a great service that I'm very

00:46:58pleased to be offering and I can tell you this like everybody has said this

00:47:01has been like the most amazing hour or two of my conversational life and it is

00:47:06I mean because I can go full tilt boogie on private calls in a way that I can't

00:47:10do with calls that are going out to the general public like I can go real direct

00:47:14real hard-nosed real honest real vivid real powerful because I don't have to

00:47:19hold back any horses because it's never going anywhere other than you are I so

00:47:22freedom a.com slash call you got a problem you want to get a laser focus

00:47:27philosophical solution I'm your guy I'm your guy

00:47:33I'm your guy he says he's a very nice genuine guy open listening to new ideas

00:47:39and taking them in he shows a level of curiosity but I'm starting to think he

00:47:42may be a head nodder a head nodder and a yes man he's helped me wingman with a

00:47:49girl I'm interested in recently as well which was cool okay but does he want

00:47:52kids or is he just killing time around an arid vagina right

00:48:03an old call-in snippet uploaded to YouTube a rational minds response to

00:48:07modern culture has perhaps your greatest vulgar analogy quote being exhausted and

00:48:11overstimulated is like having cocaine injected in your dick and being told to

00:48:14do a jig on a hot plate great speech slash rant and cover it encourage others

00:48:18to check out been going through a lot of the old catalog my quality consistently

00:48:22great can't tell if 2006 or 2016 sometimes oh good good I'm sorry Dylan

00:48:27you posted this before I missed it or I blew past it my apologies hey Steph my

00:48:31grandfather just passed away he had a traditional way of parenting

00:48:35unfortunately but was a great man and loved his family my question is what do

00:48:39you suggest on kids seeing deceased family members for example my little

00:48:43sister wants to see her grandfather while he lays in repose

00:48:47why can't your little sister see your grandfather

00:48:51isn't the whole point of an open coffin that you can

00:48:57that you can go and talk to someone

00:49:03Andrew Wilson yeah we'll get to that in a second

00:49:08Steph do you have any qualms if someone decides to post the private convo you

00:49:12had with them well I hope that people wouldn't do that without talking to me

00:49:15and in general I would say keep it private

00:49:18it is a private it is a private call

00:49:25so yeah why can't why can't little kids see dead people I mean that's why there

00:49:30are little kids because people die right I'm not saying terrify them or anything

00:49:33like that but all right Steph have you heard of Andrew Wilson

00:49:40lying in bed just like Andrew Wilson did all right have you heard of Andrew

00:49:44Wilson he's a very skilled debater and recently debated Dave Smith he believes

00:49:48that non-aggression principle breaks down without God what do you think

00:49:54what do you mean what do I think

00:49:58are you saying that as a guy who's cracked the eternal problem of secular

00:50:02ethics do I believe that for the most foundational aspect of ethics called the

00:50:07non-aggression principle it's invalid without God so as a moralist and an

00:50:11atheist and then an advocate of the non-aggression principle you just got to

00:50:14think this through for yourself right you don't need me to answer this right

00:50:18don't be lazy you think things through for yourself I'm an atheist I promote

00:50:24the non-aggression principle I have a rational proof of secular ethics

00:50:29right

00:50:33so if the non-aggression principle breaks

00:50:37down without God then I would if I advocate for the non-aggression

00:50:40principle I either need to find a way to prove it in the absence of God or I need

00:50:46to become Christian or I need to stop advocating for the non-aggression

00:50:49principle

00:50:52right so

00:50:56that would be that's an odd question to me because it is to ask it is to answer

00:51:02it isn't that right to ask it is to answer it

00:51:07I agree would just like to see you two debate he is a very good debater

00:51:14he is a very good debater and a very very smart man in my opinion and there's

00:51:20a to me respect respect yes he's a smart guy I mean he does have a little bit of

00:51:27a heavy weight of teardrop black hole cynicism hanging off his gonads but that

00:51:32could just be a personality issue he's a little bit like a hyper intelligent Eeyore

00:51:36but yes no I saw him have a an interesting debate with a young feminist

00:51:43student which I thought was very interesting and it taught me a lot it

00:51:48taught me a lot like his argument to the woman was saying well but you know guns

00:51:53equalize coercion between men and women and he says like no guns require

00:51:58strength to reload strength to aim you have to have practice the male body is

00:52:02better at wielding guns than the female body on average and so even guns don't

00:52:08equalize things as much as you might think that's a good argument and it's

00:52:13not something that I had thought of but yeah he's a yeah

00:52:17Steph are you atheist or agnostic

00:52:21you

00:52:26to be agnostic is to say that reason and evidence cannot solve the most central

00:52:32problems of the existence of the universe the creation of life and the

00:52:35validation of ethics

00:52:41so you don't need to ask whether I'm an atheist or an agnostic and of course I

00:52:47did just answer it as well

00:52:52you

00:52:59somebody says I was 11 when my father died it was the third of September and

00:53:06the day I'll always remember yes I will because that was the day when my daddy

00:53:12died I was 11 when my father died suggest look don't touch someone told me

00:53:16to kiss my father it felt like cold wax not him still stuck in my brain yeah I

00:53:21think that's true I think that's true yeah I'd touching the dead is probably a

00:53:27little a little creepy

00:53:35but here's the thing so with regards to Andrew Wilson and somebody like him

00:53:41I think that there are enough dangerous anti-rational anti-moral people in the

00:53:47world that I don't think it's particularly helpful for someone like

00:53:51Andrew Wilson and I to debate because we agree on far more than we disagree with

00:53:57and neither of our worldviews pose a coercive threat to the other

00:54:05neither of our views

00:54:10post any kind of coercive threat to the other so I do believe that debates tend

00:54:16to be more important when people are advocating for the use of violence well

00:54:21I guess he's a Christian nationalist so there would be some aspect of that but

00:54:25again we would agree far more than we would disagree so I generally would save

00:54:29my debates for people I can dislike I tend to debate better when I really

00:54:33dislike someone

00:54:36because then it becomes aggressive and personal you know like if you're a boxer

00:54:43you box better when you hate the guy don't you because you want to wipe that

00:54:48smug grin off his face so I debate better and I don't dislike Andrew Wilson

00:54:53I think he's a good debater and a good guy and I'm sure again we would agree on

00:54:5695% of most things I generally debate better and I think my my best debates

00:55:05have been with people I really really dislike you know like rationality rules

00:55:11and just people who oh give me the ho-ho-ho

00:55:17so I will save probably if I have debates I will save it for people that I

00:55:23really really dislike it

00:55:32all right we get back to your questions and comments I'm glad you never did the

00:55:38destiny debate

00:55:44who are the top five people you want to debate right now

00:55:53oh that's an interesting question well it depends if I could be fully

00:55:57self-expressed I would absolutely take on Jordan Peterson who I have not at all

00:56:03been impressed with lately at all been impressed with lately it's been terrible

00:56:07in my view

00:56:12maybe Sam Harris would be would be interesting to put it mildly so yeah it

00:56:18depends it depends I mean you know you gotta you gotta pull back so much on

00:56:22debates these days because it's not about who's right or wrong it's about

00:56:28who's gonna get deplatformed right so it's really debates are kind of boring

00:56:33in a way now because people are in general so hobbled and crippled in what

00:56:37they can talk about right

00:56:47no dislike creates a bias ignoring the substance of the topic

00:56:51why are you saying that emotions always involve bias what are you talking about

00:56:58what are you Spock well in order to be perfectly logical you have to have no

00:57:04emotions on but how the hell do you know what to study I mean if you love

00:57:08virtue you're gonna hate evil aren't you if you love integrity you're gonna hate

00:57:14corruption you can't love something without disliking its opposite how are

00:57:19you gonna navigate anything it's like trying to navigate yourself through the

00:57:22world without any pleasure or pain principle what are you a robot dislike

00:57:27creates a bias ignoring the substance of the topic that's nonsense

00:57:34oh my gosh

00:57:40oh my gosh that's funny yes I care passionately about virtue and truth and

00:57:47reason and evidence integrity morality but I've absolutely no emotions about

00:57:55them whatsoever because I wouldn't want to be biased yes I love my wife

00:58:00therefore I'm completely biased about her no no she's a great woman and a

00:58:04moral woman yes emotions cloud reason well that's just a lie told to you so

00:58:12that passionate people can take over and kick your ass

00:58:17fuck that man I mean I'm a rational guy anyone comes

00:58:22between me and my passions they're my enemy

00:58:25you understand that you just crippled people just cripple you they say well

00:58:30you know if you want to be rational you can't be emotional so all you're doing

00:58:34is opposing your instincts your passions your loves and your hates rolling

00:58:38yourself up into a little armadillo ball so you don't let a shred of passion

00:58:41escape and then you get rolled over by everyone who's an idiot and passionate

00:58:48nope that's coward that's cowardly I'm sorry I'm straight up I'm gonna call it

00:58:52out it's cowardly if you can't find a way if you can't find a way to unite

00:58:58reason and passion you are gonna lose forever

00:59:04right the best drawer full of doubt and hesitation while the worst are full of

00:59:09passionate intensity now emotions cloud reason all that means

00:59:14is you've been around hyper manipulative people who use the appeal to emotion to

00:59:19roll over others you've been around those kinds of people and so because

00:59:24you've been around irrational people who manipulate emotionally you say well

00:59:27emotions are irrational well that's crazy

00:59:32it's like seeing somebody drive away from a bank robbery in a getaway car and

00:59:36say all cars are bank robbery

00:59:42this is as bad as the people who say guns kill people

00:59:47yes yes I know I know I know there are irrational people who are very

00:59:54passionate that does not mean that all emotions are irrational

01:00:04there are people who use tennis rackets to club other people to death that does

01:00:10not mean that all tennis rackets are used to club people to death and only

01:00:15people are clubbed to death by tennis rackets right this is a massive category

01:00:19error irrational people can be hyper emotional that does not mean that

01:00:25emotions are irrational

01:00:31murderers sometimes use steak knives to kill people that doesn't mean when you

01:00:35pick up a steak knife you're a murderer category error and you have a reason why

01:00:41you want to believe this nonsense which is that your emotions are alarming to

01:00:44you because emotions

01:00:48emotions will put you passion will put you in a situation of confrontation with

01:00:52evildoers because if you're just back there spark-like with your head up your

01:00:56own iridescent silent ass then you're not any danger or risk to anyone who's

01:01:02evil who's immoral but if you unite rationality with passion then then you're

01:01:10in the arena with the bad guys and then you can get your ass kicked trust me

01:01:14trust me on this one you can't get your ass sometimes you'll kick ass sometimes

01:01:19you will receive a foot in the ass

01:01:31Steph would you consider having a conversation with Andrew Wilson if

01:01:34someone can make the introduction for you I mean I don't know I mean I'm not

01:01:37doing politics I don't know that there's much we would talk about but let

01:01:40me think about it people who think getting passionate in a debate looks bad

01:01:44bother me yeah yeah I care it's you understand it's a categorical error to

01:01:53say that you love something you love something and you are

01:02:00indifferent to it

01:02:03I both love something I love philosophy I'm indifferent to philosophy I'm very

01:02:07passionate about virtue but emotions cloud virtue now as a

01:02:14category error you can't do anything in life without passion which is why people

01:02:18are happy if you give up your passions because then you're not doing shit and

01:02:20you're not in the way and the passionate lunatics can take over

01:02:32you

01:02:42all right donated at FDR thank you Kairos I really appreciate that as always

01:02:48is it evil to abandon a child I was arguing with another libertarian that it

01:02:51was and they argued it isn't my argument was that you own your choices and their

01:02:55effects that's when you have sex the risk of pregnancy is always on the table

01:02:58and then abandoning a child is like a death threat to the child I also argued

01:03:01that single mothers swell the state neither of my arguments felt like

01:03:04slam-dunks PPAI said it was evil

01:03:10well you're not clear on that

01:03:16so if you abandon a child in the woods that's murder like if you let's say a

01:03:23baby right if you abandon a baby in the woods that's murder straight up right

01:03:30you take a baby deep in the woods you leave the baby there it's gonna die of

01:03:34exposure hunger thirst eaten by animals you've just murdered that child so we we

01:03:39can agree that to abandon a child who has no capacity for survival is murder

01:03:46so yes of course it is of course it is because a child is a prisoner of biology

01:03:54right if I go on vacation that doesn't initiate the use of force and I'm not

01:03:58doing anything immoral right I'm just going on vacation for two weeks ah but

01:04:02if before I go on vacation I lock a guy in my basement and then I go on vacation

01:04:07for two weeks two weeks then he's you know let's say there's no water he's

01:04:10dead because three days no water he's dead right

01:04:20so to walk around in the woods is fine doesn't violate the non-aggression

01:04:24principle assuming it's your property or unowned property walk around in the

01:04:27woods is fine walk around in the woods leave a leave a baby behind that's

01:04:30murder

01:04:33now if you say is it immoral to give up a child to someone who can take care of

01:04:40that child better no that's not immoral it is not immoral to give the child up

01:04:49to others who can take better care of the child let's say that you have a drug

01:04:54addiction and you get pregnant you have the you just stay off drugs long enough

01:04:58to have the child and then you come back on the drugs the addiction is too strong

01:05:02and you hand you like you hand your child to someone who can take better

01:05:05care of your child that's not evil is it that's not evil in fact you're saving

01:05:11the child I mean if you're drowning or or you're on the Titanic and you hand

01:05:16your child to someone in the lifeboat and there's no room for you in the

01:05:19lifeboat you've just saved that child's life right

01:05:24so it is evil to withhold the means of life from someone when you have a

01:05:33monopoly on that you lock someone in the basement you have to give that person

01:05:41food and water or you're gonna kill them are you responsible you murdered them

01:05:44right

01:05:49so it depends what you mean by abandon single-mother swell the state yeah yeah

01:05:56of course I mean this the welfare state is the single-mother state right

01:06:03does that so does that make sense so it really again definition is really really

01:06:08key definition is really really key so it depends what you mean by abandon

01:06:14is it immoral to take a child away from parents absolutely yeah that's

01:06:19kidnapping right because the we own ourselves and we own the effects of our

01:06:24actions therefore we own our children doesn't mean we can do with them what we

01:06:29want because they are sentient beings but we own our children and if you take

01:06:32someone's child that is taking their property or the you're you're saying

01:06:37that the effects of their actions which is their child is yours not theirs which

01:06:41is not the case it's not not the case I mean I understand that people say are

01:06:46you saying the children are property like slaves it's like well they are

01:06:50property in that you create them you bring them home and you have a monopoly

01:06:53and providing them care and resources so yes it is an absolute evil to kidnap a

01:07:00child from parents

01:07:06it's violates the will and ownership of the parents and it also violates the

01:07:14will of the child who does not want you to kidnap away from the parents right

01:07:19now of course if the like let's sort of go to the extremes and and if the

01:07:23parents are endangering the child then you are not taking the child away you

01:07:29are rescuing the child from danger or death

01:07:34so you can't grab and hold a child unless that child is about to fall into

01:07:39a lion enclosure or a Harambee pit or something right then you can grab and

01:07:43hold the child because you're not confining the child you're protecting

01:07:46the child from danger so if the child is an imminent danger of being

01:07:53seriously injured or killed then yes you absolutely go in and you take that child

01:07:58away because that is acting as an agent of

01:08:04self-defense on behalf of the child and of course because self-defense is

01:08:08universal and moral it doesn't matter who enacts it which is why a security

01:08:12guard can act to protect someone's life or property right

01:08:18so hopefully that makes sense there's a great question though and I'll make a

01:08:23note about this to talk more about parents children and the question of

01:08:28property because a very interesting one children on inanimate property and

01:08:33they're obviously they're higher than pets

01:08:37so

01:08:40then it is immoral to take a child away from a pedo then it is immoral no sorry

01:08:47because like you can't kidnap a woman on a date but you can take a woman to

01:08:54safety who's being raped so I'm sorry I don't quite like you can't just grab a

01:09:00woman and pull her into your van and drive away if she's on a date that's

01:09:03kidnapping but if you help the woman into a van and you'd speed away from a

01:09:09man who's raping her you're rescuing her from a violent situation

01:09:16Andrew Wilson seems to focus mostly on only fans thottery he's yeah he's in the

01:09:21whatever thing sometimes right the whatever show

01:09:28all right sorry somebody had another question I was watching that video about

01:09:33the man who put his wife and girlfriend on only fans my first time was finding

01:09:36my grandfather's porn mags when I was 10 he died when I was 13 and was the only

01:09:40adult male in my life we never spoke about pornography and then I used it a

01:09:43lot he says I can see and tell that it's evil but I've already got those

01:09:47formative years of corruption

01:09:50yeah I mean honestly I wouldn't I would really hesitate to talk about corruption

01:09:57when you're a victim

01:10:01it's really a tough to talk about corruption is something that you choose

01:10:06not something that you're involuntarily exposed to as a child right so look if

01:10:12you choose to take drugs as an adult that's a bad decision if you're born

01:10:16drug-addicted you're not a drug addict in terms of like you haven't chosen

01:10:21you're not morally responsible your body is addicted to drugs but not through any

01:10:24choice of yours right so be very careful talking about corruption as a child

01:10:28because corruption in implies a free will which you don't have as a child

01:10:36a pedo has a child can you take the child away sorry I answered this

01:10:43I'm not sure what you're asking anymore of course you can because the pedophile

01:10:48is sexually assaulting or raping the child

01:10:53so the pedophile is violating persons and property and therefore can't claim

01:11:03the protection of persons and property right I like your argument that a parent

01:11:08is like a financial manager and steward for a child's adult self yeah yeah for

01:11:11sure Steph have you seen those videos of weird

01:11:15pets like huge iguanas being infantilized all the comments are very

01:11:17lovey-dovey and positive I find it very strange there's no sane or healthy

01:11:23person that has an adult who has a large lizard and or a snake for a pet

01:11:30I mean maybe there are some and maybe you're the exception right but for the

01:11:34most part I've never known a sane or healthy person who has a large lizard as

01:11:38an adult or a snake for a pet you know what was that there was some

01:11:43Charlie's Angels with green what was his name I can't remember and and he was

01:11:48feeding frozen mice to his snake and it's just like weird like weird why

01:11:54would you want to do that it's completely bizarre to me

01:11:57it is strange bizarre thing to do

01:12:03it's to me again this is obviously just my opinion I don't have any proof but to

01:12:09me somebody who has a lizard or large lizard or snake as a pet as an adult

01:12:16right somebody who has a large lizard or snake as a pet is showing you their own

01:12:21sociopathic reptilian nature in a box that's just it for me

01:12:26you know somebody's saying well I'm cold-hearted and if you have any doubt

01:12:31look at what I'm feeding so

01:12:37yeah honestly don't don't view yourself as corrupt for what happened to you as a

01:12:41child

01:12:44don't give yourself a label that don't don't give yourself a stain that you

01:12:48can't wash off as an adult you have more responsibility but don't give yourself a

01:12:52stain that you can't wash off like a label like that I think that's pretty

01:12:55wretched now don't forget I there's a bunch of people watching over there and

01:12:58rumble you can also tip as well you know it's a lot of work that goes into these

01:13:02kinds of shows a lot of prep that goes into these kind of answers and I've

01:13:06solved at least half a dozen significant problems for people over the course of

01:13:09the last hour and a quarter if you find this a value you can tip on the app or

01:13:14you can go to freedomain.com slash donate freedomain.com slash donate and

01:13:20help out there you just reminded me of the kid of my

01:13:24senior year of high school who kept a bunch of snakes and had tattoos all over

01:13:26a day it's like the Rottweiler thing you know it's like I got my Rottweilers

01:13:30okay we get it you're a cold-eyed sadist I get it

01:13:39you just donated I appreciate that thank you thank you very much

01:13:44yeah of course parents do need to help their kids understand all of the

01:13:49unsavory stuff that's on the internet they really do

01:13:55they really do that's one supersized microphone yes it is

01:14:02yeah I used to this for recording some of my audiobooks because I didn't want

01:14:05to sit in the studio so I got a second mic for the upstairs a very nice mic by

01:14:10the way it's a very nice mic one day I will run PassMark which is a

01:14:16speed tester on one of my computers and have it not suck one day that day is not

01:14:21today but one day it may happen in fact I don't think I've ever run a test of

01:14:25hardware where it's even close to what other people are getting it's always

01:14:28slower ah well you know you buy a computer with 16 cores and 15 of them

01:14:34are used to process system interrupts that's all Windows seems to do is system

01:14:37interrupts don't forget peacefulparenting.com there's my little gift

01:14:42even if you're not a donor you get the whole book right there peaceful

01:14:45parenting.com you can just go straight there and you can get the book I'm fine

01:14:50if you share it around peacefulparenting.com

01:14:57all right

01:15:03any other last questions comments issues challenges problems

01:15:11I am happy to hear to answer

01:15:17I have so yeah just my day I did gosh I worked for a couple of hours on

01:15:22shortening the peaceful parenting book which is tough because it's like pulling

01:15:25my own teeth so I worked for a couple hours this morning had some lunch I

01:15:29helped my daughter put together a duck coop and then I did a private call-in

01:15:36and then I helped my daughter finish her duck coop and then I came up

01:15:43a lot of bad stuff happens during sleepovers oh yeah yeah for sure

01:15:46sleepovers these days it just takes one kid with that one website to just muck

01:15:52up after gene pool in the neighborhood it's it's not good the sleepovers are

01:15:56not great dang I do wish Linux was a reasonable

01:16:00alternative for most people to replace Windows you are not alone in that you

01:16:06are not alone in that the ideal operating system will have to come out

01:16:09of Elon Musk and out of his armpit directly there's nothing else there's

01:16:12no other option no other option but yeah I like Linux I played around with

01:16:18it a little bit I actually have a an emulator on one of my PC's but I just I

01:16:24can't go down that rabbit hole of can it replace everything because it can't

01:16:28right and you know when you get older to like when I was younger fighting around

01:16:33with OS's I did OS 2 back in the day hit some IBM one I used to like love

01:16:39fighting around with operating systems back in the day but you know 50 I'm

01:16:42gonna be 58 in a couple of months time's ticking away I you know you know that

01:16:47close encounter of the third kind you got that you got that glow over the

01:16:52horizon that's death man it's not so far over the horizon anymore I get 20 years

01:16:57I'm happy I get 30 years I'm very happy I get 40 years I'm ridiculously lucky

01:17:02went through your French Revolution presentation again recently very amazing

01:17:07thank you the French Revolution presentation all all praise to Jared for

01:17:11a lot of that research the French Revolution presentation is in fact

01:17:14incredible and it's available for donors at free domain calm well sorry at free

01:17:18domain locals calm if you subscribe you get that submitting a call-in request

01:17:23I've always been afraid of calling you for some reason

01:17:28you're not afraid of calling me let's be precise my friends you are in

01:17:36no way shape or form afraid of calling me now y'all the smart people

01:17:42duck coop that's funny how to save that actually you can share that right yeah

01:17:47you can share that okay so you are not afraid of calling me come on I'm a super

01:17:51nice guy I don't I can't think of anybody who's had a bad experience I do

01:17:56remember I can remember one woman we're calling him with her boyfriend and she

01:18:01was so relentlessly terrible and horrible that

01:18:06she absolutely never wanted that show to be released she was absolutely ashamed

01:18:11at how she behaved and she was just appallingly horrible mean and vicious I

01:18:15found it quite interesting and quite a ride but yeah nobody's really I mean who

01:18:19has a bad time when they call me it's I'm very friendly I'm very positive I'm

01:18:23very helpful I'm very very peppy and so you're not you're not nervous about

01:18:29calling me

01:18:33next philosophy is Kant that's going to be next week so

01:18:37yeah you're not nervous about calling me you're not nervous about calling me

01:18:42but there are bad people in your life who don't want you to call me I just

01:18:44just so you're aware there are bad people in your life

01:18:48who don't want you to call me and that's about it

01:18:52that's about all she wrote you there just bad people in your life who don't

01:18:56what you're calling me. And that's it. That's all she wrote. My friend has a

01:19:02bunch of tattoos even blacked out his whole arm and is covered in geometric

01:19:04shapes and characters. It makes me wonder why he wants to do that. Well, to signify

01:19:08to other people that he's an unprocessed victim of child abuse so he can exploit

01:19:11them and they can exploit him. Steph, do you think one day you will stop doing

01:19:15shows standing up? I'm sitting!

01:19:22What do you think about people who collect vinyls? I don't see the point but

01:19:25they say the physicality is nice. I mean, I assume that people who collect vinyls

01:19:32are like women who parent dogs.

01:19:35And I used to have a friend of mine who does quite a bit of real estate and he

01:19:39bought a house wherein there was room after room with massive numbers of vinyl

01:19:47records on the walls. Like tens of thousands of vinyl records. This guy had

01:19:52been collecting vinyl records for decades.

01:19:58And I cut. And he died. And of course he never

01:20:06listened to all those records. He couldn't. It just becomes a fetish. Now a

01:20:10lot of times people get involved in early technology because they're sad

01:20:13about the world that's gone. They just left them there. He died. He died. Do you

01:20:19not listen? Did I not say? I thought I said he died. Écoutez! I don't like this.

01:20:24This is what I do with my wife when I mumble. I do this.

01:20:28Come clean the ears! Which, you know, she loves. Loves it to death.

01:20:34Yeah, a guy died and he had all of these vinyl records and what happened? Well, he

01:20:42tried to sell some of them. Nobody was particularly interested and off to the

01:20:45dump they went. Off to the dump they went.

01:20:51Right. You know this story, right? Alexander the Great.

01:21:01What he wanted when he died. It's probably apocryphal. Right.

01:21:10Alexander was a great Greek king. As a military commander he was undefeated and

01:21:14the most successful throughout history. On his way home from conquering many

01:21:18countries he came down with an illness. At that moment his captured territories,

01:21:24powerful army, sharp swords and wealth all had no meaning to him. He realized

01:21:29that death would soon arrive and he would be unable to return to his

01:21:32homeland. He told his officers. I will soon leave this world. I have three

01:21:40final wishes. You need to carry out what I tell you. His generals, in tears, agreed.

01:21:46The three wishes. One. The best doctors should carry my body.

01:21:54Two. All the wealth I have accumulated, money, gold, precious stones, scatter them

01:22:02along the procession to the cemetery. And three. My body should be covered in

01:22:08a shroud with only my hands visible, swinging in the wind, palms up, carrying

01:22:12dust. One of the generals, who was surprised by these unusual requests,

01:22:18asked Alexander to explain. Here's what Alexander the Great had to say. I want

01:22:25the best doctors to carry my coffin to demonstrate that in the face of death

01:22:28even the best doctors in the world have no power to heal. I want the road to be

01:22:35covered with my treasure so that everybody sees that material wealth

01:22:38acquired on earth stays on earth. I want my hands to swing in the wind so that

01:22:45people understand that we come into this world empty-handed and we leave this

01:22:49world empty-handed after the most precious treasure of all is exhausted

01:22:52and that is time.

01:22:57That is time.

01:23:07That is time.

01:23:11Probably not a true story, but I don't particularly care if it's true or not.

01:23:17Steph, do you think people are born with those rhetorical skills or did

01:23:20experience hell? Well, apparently the first time that Adolf Hitler got up to

01:23:26speak he was incredible. Dunno. How many square feet is your house?

01:23:33Philosophy show! For real estate you need HGTV. Home and garden television. That's

01:23:39what you need, my friend. Not what I do.

01:23:47All right. Wait, what did I have over here? I'm trying to give a little

01:23:52more light as darkness begins to fall. There we go. There we go.

01:24:01I think deep down we know what we're good at and we should really, really aim

01:24:05to focus on that, right? I think deep down we know what we're good at. All right, any

01:24:08other last questions, comments, issues, challenges, problems? We, of course, will

01:24:12have a chat. I like the Friday night voice chat, so you can... maybe we can open

01:24:18it up, but I like having debates with people and having voice chats back and

01:24:21forth. Yeah, just remember you don't have... you don't have as much time as you

01:24:27think. You don't... I mean, I think I packed a lot of living into my fifty

01:24:31seven and a half years, but you don't have as much time as you think.

01:24:36Steffi's selling his house. Would not if you donate.

01:24:44All right, so I just want to check something here. I'll just wait for any

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01:25:29you and I can chat like we are. The early band, yes. And you and I climb over the

01:25:40sea to the morning. You can do all of this wonderful stuff.

01:25:45All this delightful, delicious, lovely chatting.

01:25:51And it's kind of an introductory price right now. It will go up. Favorite rock

01:25:56singer slash band. Trying to update my playlist. Do you like Squeeze?

01:26:00Tempted by the fruit of another. Yes, wasn't that the people keep on bragging?

01:26:06That was, gosh, Elvis Costello. We did that. Favorite rock singer or band.

01:26:12Freddie Mercury and Queen. Without a doubt. Without a doubt. I mean, if you

01:26:20want to really listen to some absolutely Baroque stuff, listen to, from the album

01:26:26Queen II, March of the Black Queen. Wild. It's totally schizo. Yes, introductory

01:26:33price for calling. Yeah, so I don't mean to be Mr. Marketing, but the demand is

01:26:36vastly outstripping my time. So I'm gonna have to raise prices. But, you know, you

01:26:40want to call? Yeah. Call in, man. Call in. We'll set it up.

01:26:46Steph, I love you and your work, but sometimes I feel annoyed when you ask

01:26:49people to tip, even though I think you produce an enormous amount of value. Why

01:26:53would I feel that? Well, I think it's because it sometimes can be tough to see

01:26:59other people directly ask for what they want, if, if, you have a problem directly

01:27:05asking for what you want. I know, and you're not the first person to be

01:27:08annoyed by me relentlessly asking for tips. But, you know, I, I know the value

01:27:12that I provide. I have employees and I have costs and I want to keep things

01:27:17sustainable. And, you know, after deplatforming, income went down largely,

01:27:22largely, largely. So, you know, I've got to be responsible to the sustainability

01:27:25of the show. So I'm going to ask, right? And, but a lot of times people don't like

01:27:30me asking because they see me repeatedly without escalation, without bullying,

01:27:34without manipulation. People see me asking for what I need and want, and it

01:27:39bothers them because they don't feel the same freedom to do that, right? I mean, do

01:27:43you dislike asking for what you want? I've been working my way into sending

01:27:48you a call and request for a while now. How do I contact you? So just go to

01:27:51freedomain.com slash call, freedomain.com slash call. So, and yeah, I mean, I asked

01:27:59for donations because I need donations. Oof, got spine tingles. You nailed it.

01:28:04We'll donate again this Friday, right? So look, let's end with this, right?

01:28:11So most times when we're children, if we have dysfunctional families, if we ask

01:28:16for what we want, we get attacked. Oh, you're being selfish. Oh, think of other

01:28:20people for a while. Oh, I'm too busy. Oh, when we ask for what we want, I want to

01:28:23spend more time with you. I'd like to go to do this. I'd like to go and to do that.

01:28:26And people get annoyed with us, right? And Lord knows in school, if you try to get

01:28:31something that you like or want or need, like, I don't know, interesting lessons,

01:28:36people are going to get mad at you, get frustrated with you. So to ask for what

01:28:41you do, to ask directly for what you want in a dysfunctional household is going to

01:28:48get you abused or harshly treated. And in school, it's the same. It's the same way.

01:28:55So we're trained out of asking for what we want. Now, why are we trained out of

01:28:59asking for what we want? So that other people can step in front of us, right? So

01:29:04other people can step in front of us.

01:29:10I feel way better about doing a private call than knowing there's a charge. I

01:29:13felt like it would be asking too much to do a private one without the expectation

01:29:16of reciprocity, right? Yeah, and it would be. It would be. Once my financial

01:29:20situation stabilizes and my substantial pay raises kick in, I will lavish you

01:29:24with money. You've been incredibly helpful and I've not given enough in

01:29:27return. Well, I appreciate that. And honestly, congratulations. What a lovely

01:29:30sunset. I don't get to see this from the studio. What a lovely thought and I

01:29:33appreciate that. Thank you. I understand that feeling as I was never allowed to

01:29:38desire things as a child. Asking what you want so you can be the best you can be

01:29:42at the job. Steph tips on asking for a raise. I got a job offered from a

01:29:46competitor.

01:29:50Right. Steph, you know you can get a job, right?

01:29:57That's funny. Ah, Steph tips on asking for a raise. I got a job offered from a

01:30:04competitor. Okay. All right. So you don't ask for a raise. That's being in a

01:30:08begging position, right? You don't ask for a raise.

01:30:15Right.

01:30:20What are you doing when you ask for a raise? Are you asking for the company to

01:30:23give up something? Are you asked to be treated with favoritism? Are you asking

01:30:26for the company to lose money by giving you more money? No. You're asking for

01:30:31recognition of the value you're providing, right? That's what my tips are.

01:30:34I ask for recognition of the value that I'm providing and the value that I

01:30:39provide is enormous, unprecedented and you can't get it anywhere else. Like I

01:30:44know that for an absolute fact. I know that for an absolute... I would go to my

01:30:48grave absolutely certain that the value I provide is enormous, life-changing and

01:30:54cannot be replicated and is not replicated anywhere else.

01:31:00So you're not asking for a raise. You're asking for just recognition of the value

01:31:05that you provide.

01:31:09Right. Are you begging a girl to go out with you?

01:31:13No. You are not begging a girl to go out with you.

01:31:18You are offering her

01:31:21a great, fun, enjoyable evening.

01:31:26Right.

01:31:30So if you have validation of the value you would say... so what you need to do to

01:31:36get a raise you need to track the value that you're doing. Say look I did this

01:31:39much faster, I did this much faster, I cut costs here, I cut costs there. Here's the

01:31:44value that I'm providing to the company. I don't feel like it matches what I'm

01:31:47getting back and I want to keep providing value to the company and I

01:31:51also want to stay motivated. Right. So I'm giving you the chance to you know

01:31:57respond and you know if you think I'm crazy that's fine but I'm giving you the

01:32:00chance to respond to the value proposition that I'm making. You're not

01:32:05asking for money. You're asking for recognition of the value that you're

01:32:08providing to the company. You're not asking for money when you ask for a raise.

01:32:13You're asking for money back. You see what I mean? You're not asking

01:32:18for money. Oh please give me money out of this big pile you'll end up with less

01:32:21I'll end up with more blah blah blah. It's about your ego. No. You're asking for money

01:32:25back. I just saved this company $100,000 I want a $10,000 raise. You're still up

01:32:32$90,000. Well I don't get the $10,000 raise maybe I'm not saving you

01:32:36$100,000 next year. Right. You're not asking for money. You're asking for money

01:32:41back. You lend your productivity to a company and they pay you out of that

01:32:47productivity. Like if you lend $100 to a friend and you say can you pay me the

01:32:52money back? You're not begging for money you're asking him to pay you back what

01:32:55you lent him.

01:32:59You're not asking for money. You're asking for money back. You're asking for

01:33:03just recognition of the value you've provided. Now if you don't know the value

01:33:06you've provided that's a whole other problem. You got to figure that out. Got

01:33:09to make that case. Because your boss also would love to pay you more.

01:33:14Right. But he needs to be able to justify it to his boss. So if you hand your boss

01:33:19the paperwork saying here's what I'm here's what my value is here's what I'm

01:33:25offered and here's the value that I provided and your boss can then go to

01:33:29his boss and say this guy needs a raise and here's the value he's providing.

01:33:32Right.

01:33:35Exploiter says exploiters do not care everything is supply and demand.

01:33:42Exploiters do not care. I know you're a bit of a troll here but because Steffy

01:33:47you know Steffy oh so so edgy man you put E at the end of my name you drop the

01:33:53letter. It's not Stefan not Mr. Molyneux. Steffy. Steffy. That's so sad. What a sad

01:34:01little thing. Exploiters do not care everything is supply and demand. Yeah

01:34:04okay everything is supply and demand. Yeah business is business right.

01:34:08Everything is supply and demand.

01:34:12Sure. And if you say that you're in demand then they'll supply you more money.

01:34:20All right well listen guys I really really do appreciate everything you've

01:34:24done except for this image of Queen Elizabeth the second in a Freddie

01:34:28Mercury outfit saying Queen performing at Live Aid 1985. That I'm afraid has

01:34:33burned into my brain. Dear Lord. Mama just started a war. All right so I

01:34:42appreciate that. You have to have confidence. Mr. Molyneux sounds way too

01:34:47formal. Yeah yeah could be could be. All right well listen guys I really do

01:34:50appreciate. I had an English teacher named Mr. Molyneux a great big man who

01:34:54shouted really loud. Well I'm I'm very glad that that has changed. Changed into

01:34:59a medium-sized man. I'm taller than average who shouts really loud. All right

01:35:03thanks again for a great evening. Freedomain.com slash donate to help out

01:35:07the show. Really would appreciate it. If you'd like to help out the show. I might

01:35:11I might I might I might I might I might do an in-person meetup.

01:35:19I've really been thinking about it.

01:35:23I'm really thinking about it. Because I think I can get places that can't be

01:35:27canceled.

01:35:30I think that I can get. Would you guys would you guys like to meet up in person?

01:35:34I think it'd be a blast. I think it'd be great fun. We could play some volleyball.

01:35:42And where would the meetup be? Well I think it would be someplace in the

01:35:47States. Yeah I think I would love to meet y'all. I really would. I think it'd be

01:35:51great. Hugs all around. Yeah I think I think I think I'd do it in the States.

01:35:56But I think it would be great. It'd be wonderful to meet up. And if I can get a

01:36:01place that can't be canceled? 2025? I don't know. I don't know. I'm not sure

01:36:06right. I don't know. Maybe right around election season when everyone's

01:36:09distracted or something like that. Maybe that. Maybe that. But yeah I think I think

01:36:15that would I think that would be fun. And we used to do them years ago so.

01:36:21Yeah after the start of this show I hope it's outside of Toronto. That's right.

01:36:26You can use OBS and show us stuff on screen if you want to do a stream like

01:36:29that. Yes that's true. Yes that is true. I can even do that on

01:36:35I've got a presentation. Yeah I got a presentation format here I can use right.

01:36:41Oh yeah but that's not gonna work because. Yeah. Yeah but I can do that for

01:36:46sure. If you came to England I would meet you. Oh interesting. Interesting.

01:36:502024 in USA I will for sure meet you. Yeah okay. Well I I will keep that on my

01:36:55radar and we will hopefully get something like that done. Because

01:36:59honestly it would be a blast to meet everyone and it's a really really great

01:37:03time. We used to do these years ago and Orlando is a good spot yeah. Okay. Okay

01:37:08but I need a place that can't be canceled right.

01:37:13All right well thanks everyone. I appreciate the feedback.

01:37:16Thank you everyone for a lovely evening. I will talk to you guys Friday night and

01:37:22don't forget I actually have posted at freedom.locals.com I have posted the

01:37:30shortened version for everyone. You don't have to be a donor. A shortened version

01:37:34of the Peaceful Parenting book. I'd love to get your feedback.

01:37:39You are you related to Hugh Molyneux the Earl? I assume so. Yo Steph I haven't had

01:37:45a chance to follow you in a while. Lie. Not since the boom period to the mid

01:37:49teens. What's your thoughts on the new wave of pro-men's trad con video content?

01:37:52I think a lot of it is good. A lot of it is a lot of sour grapes. But if you want

01:37:58to know where I stand on men's rights my novel The Present is the place to go.

01:38:02freedom.locals.com books you can go to listen for free to my novel The Present

01:38:07and that's got a very strong and powerful men's rights perspective in it

01:38:13and that novel will be very surprising for you to read given how I work with

01:38:19Christianity in that book but you really should check it's a fantastic book I've

01:38:22been listening to the audiobook again and it's like damn I've already read it

01:38:27since 2019 no no my novel The Present wasn't out in 2019 but nice try all right

01:38:33guys thanks Emil I'll talk to you Friday night 7 p.m. we'll meet up on Skype and

01:38:37freedom.com slash donate thanks for the great questions and comments tonight

01:38:40lots of love from my peer I'll talk to you soon

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