Partake of the Eternal!

Stefan Molyneux

Sunday Morning Live 20 October 2024  In this episode, we analyze the impact of social media on personal relationships, highlighting how online interactions can distort reality and hinder genuine connections. I discuss the dangers of miscommunication in text formats and societal judgment based on superficial traits. The conversation then shifts to Bitcoin's rise and its institutional adoption, emphasizing the need to understand historical trends for savvy investing, especially in light of the upcoming U.S. presidential election. I underscore the importance of confronting societal expectations around gender and the pursuit of meaningful connections in our lives.  GET MY NEW BOOK 'PEACEFUL PARENTING', THE INTERACTIVE PEACEFUL PARENTING AI, AND AUDIOBOOK!  https://peacefulparenting.com/  Join the PREMIUM philosophy community on the web for free!  Also get the Truth About the French Revolution, multiple interactive multi-lingual philosophy AIs trained on thousands of hours of my material, as well as targeted AIs for Real-Time Relationships, BitCoin, Peaceful Parenting, and Call-Ins. Don't miss the 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 morning, everybody. It is the 20th of October, 2024, and it is time for Sunday Morning Live.

00:00:13Let's start right off with a question. Thank you for the tip.

00:00:19Remember now, no question is too big, no tip is too small.

00:00:23I'm counter-signaling my ill temper from last Wednesday.

00:00:26All right. Good morning, Stéphane and community.

00:00:29First, I need to restock my tip. Sorry for the small donation.

00:00:32I feel what you do here is so important and most helpful to my life and want to exchange it value for value.

00:00:41I appreciate that. Thank you.

00:00:43Second, I'm not a particularly judging person, but lately I've noticed I'm almost feeling sad for friends

00:00:50and co-workers who are absolutely obsessed with social media platforms or their channels.

00:00:58One person said to me, if you aren't on social media, you do not exist.

00:01:05Why am I judging them?

00:01:08So is that a thing? Is that a thing, that people are obsessed with social media channels and following and all that kind of stuff?

00:01:26Interesting. I don't know people in my personal life who are on social media a lot except for work or business.

00:01:38A friend of mine who runs a big business is on social media, but he's on social media for his business as a whole, not for other reasons.

00:01:53My daughter doesn't really do social media. My wife certainly doesn't.

00:02:01I don't know. Virtual stuff is cool, but virtual stuff is not interactive in the way that face-to-face is.

00:02:18The number of people who have tried to have complicated conflicts over text is completely mental, just by the by.

00:02:28Text is fine for, I'm running 15 minutes late, I got stuck in traffic. The text is fine for that stuff.

00:02:33Or, do you want to have lunch on Friday?

00:02:36People who try to run conflicts through text, it's incomprehensible.

00:02:44You need face-to-face, eye-to-eye, the idea that you can run a complicated conflict over text.

00:02:49There's something fundamentally wrong with that whole approach.

00:02:56Text is like a last word, I get to say it, I get to hit send, and so on.

00:03:04It's not interactive, and therefore it's kind of dehumanizing, and it tends to escalate conflict.

00:03:09Of course, people then have evidence, which is fine, but it kind of burns in their brain what someone said.

00:03:15It's right there in text forever, and they can always see it again.

00:03:18Stuff that you say in ill temper can be bad enough, but if it's permanently burned into somebody's retinas over text, that's not good.

00:03:27Virtual stuff is fine, but it's not a substitute for interaction.

00:03:35I would assume that it's a lot of fantasy friends.

00:03:39When you have things that are fantasy, they tend to displace things that are real.

00:03:45There are some fantasies that help you.

00:03:51If you read some fantasy story about a guy being brave and overcoming obstacles, that can help give you the template for being brave and overcoming obstacles, and things like that.

00:04:00That can be positive, but fantasy is not used as an augment, but rather as a primary.

00:04:09It's like vitamins. I guess vitamins can help some people, but they're not food.

00:04:13It is something that should augment your progress in the world.

00:04:22It should not be something that substitutes for your progress in the world.

00:04:29It's a little socially awkward, and you do a bunch of stuff with AI.

00:04:33Maybe you interact with AI and so on to learn how to begin.

00:04:36Then you take that out into the world.

00:04:40The reason you do drills in tennis.

00:04:42I used to do endless drills about getting the top of the serve, getting it angled down, and all of that, and backhand, of course.

00:04:48In fact, in pickleball, I serve backhand to make sure I strengthen my backhand.

00:04:53When it comes to doing drills, you do drills in order to play the game.

00:04:59If people are, in a sense, in this virtual world, and it doesn't augment or support or enhance their actual world experience, it's a bit vampiric.

00:05:10It's very easy to get into virtual as a substitute for real, rather than something that helps train you for the real.

00:05:23I've made this case for many years that superhero movies, the one thing that seems to be quite uncommon, that the more you are into superhero movies, the less courageous and effective you tend to be in real life.

00:05:38That's because the superhero movies are displacing your capacity for courage by making it fantastical and dependent upon impossible powers.

00:05:51All right. What else do we have here?

00:06:00I don't really miss being big on social media.

00:06:07All right.

00:06:10Steph, did you see Jordan Peterson get raked over the coals on X?

00:06:14Yeah, I mean, obviously, he's susceptible to some criticism, as we all are.

00:06:22All right.

00:06:24The legend, the myth, the philosopher. Good morning, Stephane.

00:06:26Good morning. Thank you for dropping by.

00:06:29Why do women play the Don't Judge Me card?

00:06:34So, everybody who says Don't Judge Me is hiding the effects of their own bad judgment. That's all.

00:06:44You know, anybody who says you're absolutely forbidden to dig in my backyard probably has some bodies buried there.

00:06:53Everybody who's trying to pass a counterfeit note wants you to not put it in the counterfeit detection machine. I get that.

00:07:00Everybody whose worldview is based upon propaganda, prejudice, and bigotry doesn't want science and data and questions and debate. I get that.

00:07:12So, when people say Don't Judge Me, it's because they have judged themselves negatively and want to hide that, which means that they're probably going to continue.

00:07:19Like, judge and prepare to be judged seems reasonable. I mean, we are judged.

00:07:25Whether we like it or not, we're judged. We're judged by our unconscious. We're judged by our conscience.

00:07:29So, saying Don't Judge Me is saying don't have a conscience, and it's saying, Don't Judge Me.

00:07:34They're actually talking to their own conscience, which is judging them negatively, right?

00:07:38That's what they're doing.

00:07:40They're just promising more bad things.

00:07:46All right.

00:07:49Some stuff is useful as a breaking news feed, or say, traffic disruptions will make the bus late. Fine.

00:07:56Or a group will meet up somewhere. Okay.

00:07:58Or organizing a march, etc. Limited use.

00:08:00Yeah, for sure. I mean, for sure. That could be very, very helpful.

00:08:03I still read the news. Not, of course, as much as I used to, but I still read the news.

00:08:07It's important to know what's going on in the world as a whole.

00:08:11And, I mean, it is pretty wild to watch what is going on in American politics these days.

00:08:25I mean, it is pretty wild.

00:08:28I am occasionally vaguely tempted, but it's not really my thing anymore.

00:08:32All right. Just to let you know, if you're over there on Rumble, I can see your chats.

00:08:36If you want, you are welcome to bring your thoughts to the conversation.

00:08:43And let us get to the recent messages.

00:08:48How's Bitcoin? Ah, that is a fine, fine question.

00:08:52I will get to that, for sure. For sure.

00:08:55James did some great research, which I was going to do Friday, but then didn't.

00:08:58Because, right? It's still valid, though, right?

00:09:07So, yeah, let's do that.

00:09:16Dear Lord, where did I put it?

00:09:18I feel like I should know.

00:09:20I feel like I should know.

00:09:22I feel like I should know.

00:09:25Hi-ho the merry-o, I feel like I should know.

00:09:31Ah, yes. There we go.

00:09:33Yes, so what is going on with Bitcoin?

00:09:35It still tickles the lower edge of 100 thou in Canadian.

00:09:42So, BlackRock boosts North America's 1.3 trillion inflows.

00:09:47This is from October 17th, so three days ago.

00:09:50Blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis revealed on Thursday that North America continues to lead

00:09:57in cryptocurrency market share driven by institutional momentum

00:10:00and Bitcoin exchange traded products for ETPs in the US.

00:10:05The region received 1.3 trillion in on-chain value between July 2023 and June 2024,

00:10:10representing 22.5% of global crypto activity.

00:10:14So, Chainalysis wrote, more than ever, North America's crypto climate is marked by

00:10:18substantive institutional momentum.

00:10:20Established legacy financial entities such as Goldman Sachs, Fidelity, and BlackRock,

00:10:25who have shaped financial markets in the US and globally for decades,

00:10:28are taking serious positions in the crypto space.

00:10:31So, did you know that Bitcoin is being adopted faster than the internet was?

00:10:38If you sort of look at the growth of the internet and you look at the growth of Bitcoin,

00:10:41Bitcoin is outstripping the growth of the internet from back in the day.

00:10:48The Chainalysis ad added, this marks a critical maturation point for the industry

00:10:53as cryptocurrency is increasingly integrated into the mainstream.

00:10:56Now, Donald Trump is pro-Bitcoin to a large degree,

00:10:59and Kamala Harris has said that she's relatively pro-Bitcoin,

00:11:03so there doesn't seem to be any imminent political threats at the moment.

00:11:08And one of the things about Bitcoin is it's going to flourish

00:11:12in the presence or absence of political threats.

00:11:15So, if there are political threats to Bitcoin,

00:11:18then it shows that the government is hostile to property rights,

00:11:24which means that Bitcoin has more value, perhaps.

00:11:28And, of course, if it's relatively pro-Bitcoin as just another asset,

00:11:32then it still has value thereby.

00:11:39So, October 18th, two days ago, leading the charge, BlackRock,

00:11:43the world's largest asset manager, snagged $309 million in a single day.

00:11:50So far, BlackRock has seen a total of $22.77 billion in positive inflows,

00:11:55and its EBIT funds holds 380,971 Bitcoin at the time of this writing, October 18th, 2024.

00:12:03ARK invests in 21 shares, ARKB attracted $100.2 million,

00:12:07followed by Grayscales, GBTC with $45.7 million,

00:12:11and Fidelity's FBTC collecting $11.69 million.

00:12:15So, they're grabbing a hold of it.

00:12:19Now, one of the reasons that there may be interest in Bitcoin

00:12:25is if you sort of look at the real estate,

00:12:28let's just say real estate in the US, right?

00:12:30None of this is financial advice.

00:12:31I'm not a trained expert.

00:12:32It's all just in my amateur, idiot opinion.

00:12:34Do your own research and make your own decisions.

00:12:37I'm just telling you sort of my random thoughts on these matters.

00:12:40So, if you look at the forks of the presidential election, right,

00:12:47that's occurring next month.

00:12:51So, if Donald Trump gets in,

00:12:54and he is going to try to put in policies

00:12:58that will have people who are in America illegally leave the US, right?

00:13:04Voluntary exiting.

00:13:07I mean, will there be some deportations?

00:13:09Sure, but I think he's going to try and put policies in place

00:13:12to discourage people from staying in the US.

00:13:15So, if people do leave the US as a result of Trump getting in,

00:13:18who are in the country illegally,

00:13:20then housing demand goes down in the short run, right?

00:13:23Housing demand goes down.

00:13:25So, housing may not be the best,

00:13:27but it will also deal with problems of inflation

00:13:29and budgetary constraints, right, in America.

00:13:33So, it might make bonds slightly more attractive,

00:13:36but it will make housing much less attractive.

00:13:42If Kamala Harris gets in,

00:13:45then the spending will probably continue to increase,

00:13:48in which case real estate might be okay

00:13:50because there'll be more people coming into America,

00:13:53but at least in the short run, real estate might be okay,

00:13:56but it means that inflation is a problem

00:13:58and government bonds become worth less, in my view, over time.

00:14:04So, the normal hedges against inflation,

00:14:09which would be some sort of bonds and real estate,

00:14:13it's highly variable.

00:14:15And it does look like Trump is doing fairly well,

00:14:18and Trump's doing well,

00:14:20but it's more that Kamala Harris is just making a lot of unforced errors,

00:14:24in my humble opinion.

00:14:26Don't say to someone who says Jesus is Lord

00:14:28that you're on the wrong rally, right?

00:14:30That's just not a thing that you should do.

00:14:33Maybe she didn't hear what he said,

00:14:34in which case she should just come out and apologize.

00:14:38So, I think that's one of the reasons why

00:14:43real estate is probably going to drop in value

00:14:46if Trump gets in, in the short run,

00:14:48and otherwise there's going to be a lot of inflation.

00:14:51In either way, you need some place to put your money,

00:14:54and it seems like a lot of that is going to go into.

00:14:57So, since January,

00:14:5920 billion US dollars have flowed into Bitcoin.

00:15:04Data from SOSOValue.xyz.

00:15:09Boy, these extensions are getting pretty wild.

00:15:12458.54 million was added to the 12 Bitcoin ETFs in total,

00:15:18which we talked about this way back in the day,

00:15:20about how the ETFs were going to drive the value of Bitcoin up.

00:15:25BlackRock's IBIT led the pack,

00:15:28amassing 393.4 million during the day,

00:15:31and then we went into this kind of stuff.

00:15:35So, there's lots of ETF, exchange-traded funds,

00:15:39going into Bitcoin,

00:15:41while Ethereum funds face a day of losses.

00:15:44And October 17th, this is from CryptoQuantData.

00:15:50So, Bitcoin prices have jumped by over 5%,

00:15:52reaching a 10-week peak of 67,800 US,

00:15:55as demand for the digital asset has climbed steadily.

00:15:58This increased interest comes from spot exchange-traded funds

00:16:01and significant Bitcoin accumulation by large investors,

00:16:04commonly known as whales.

00:16:07So, after months of subdued activity,

00:16:10Bitcoin demand is bouncing back.

00:16:11Last week saw a 177,000 Bitcoin rise in monthly demand,

00:16:15the highest since April 2024.

00:16:18The uptick was swiftly followed by a 5% increase in Bitcoin's value,

00:16:21pushing the price to 67,800,

00:16:23a level not seen in over two months.

00:16:26So, ETFs are the key driver behind the surge in demand,

00:16:29as I talked about in the past.

00:16:31ETFs are helpful because

00:16:34you can then invest in Bitcoin without having to worry about

00:16:38wallets, keys, and losses and so on, right?

00:16:44The US spot ETFs brought up nearly 8,000 Bitcoin in a single day.

00:16:48That's the biggest daily purchase since July.

00:16:53So, whales, large investors excluding exchanges and mining pools,

00:16:56have boosted their holdings to 670,000 Bitcoin,

00:16:59maintaining steady growth year over year.

00:17:02This accumulation has now surpassed its 365-day moving average,

00:17:06signaling a positive outlook for Bitcoin's price,

00:17:08mirroring past bull markets.

00:17:13October, historical Bitcoin rally near US elections.

00:17:20So, why would you flip where it is I'm looking?

00:17:29I do think that there is a Bitcoin rally near US elections.

00:17:37Also in particular, I mean, I know that Donald Trump,

00:17:40it's actually quite funny,

00:17:42the Department of Governmental Efficiency,

00:17:44I mean, he's talking about bringing on Elon Musk

00:17:49to head the Department of Government Efficiency,

00:17:51which is DOGE, or Doge,

00:17:53which is, I think, a coin that Elon Musk has been quite positive about.

00:17:57So, you know, it's tough to cut government spending, right?

00:18:02So, you fire a bunch of government workers,

00:18:04you have to give them severances and packages,

00:18:06and it costs a lot, and then they will go on,

00:18:10a lot of them will go on unemployment or claim disability,

00:18:12or something like that.

00:18:13And so, it's really tough.

00:18:15It's really tough to cut government spending.

00:18:18So, I mean, in the long run, right?

00:18:21I mean, everybody knows, I mean, I'm sure the government workers

00:18:24are looking at the 80-85% reduction in the Twitter workforce,

00:18:27followed by better Twitter,

00:18:30and that's just a private company.

00:18:33So, I assume that people are looking,

00:18:38and when you look at the wide variance in the policies

00:18:41between Trump and Harris,

00:18:43then you just get a sense of the instability of the system,

00:18:47like it's going to go one direction,

00:18:49or perhaps in a fairly different direction,

00:18:51and that variability in the system

00:18:54means that there's unpredictability in its core,

00:18:56and because where there's unpredictability in its core,

00:18:59a lot of people view Bitcoin as more valuable,

00:19:02more predictable,

00:19:03because it's not subject to human whim and manipulation, right?

00:19:07At least not in the same way that fiat currency is.

00:19:13A banking giant Standard Chartered has issued a report

00:19:16forecasting a potential surge in Bitcoin's value.

00:19:19Jeff Kendrick, the bank's global head of digital assets research,

00:19:22anticipates that Bitcoin could reach near its record high of 73.8

00:19:26in the weeks preceding the US presidential election.

00:19:29In a note released on Tuesday,

00:19:31Kendrick attributed Bitcoin's recent upward trend

00:19:33to several contributing factors.

00:19:34He stated, quote,

00:19:35For Bitcoin, the combined factors mean a bleed-up

00:19:37towards the all-time high of 73.8 looks likely pre-election.

00:19:43Key factors driving this trend, according to Kendrick,

00:19:45include the steepening US treasury yield curve,

00:19:47renewed interest in spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds,

00:19:50and Donald Trump's improving election odds.

00:19:56Kendrick also highlighted the increased institutional involvement,

00:19:58including significant inflows into spot Bitcoin ETFs

00:20:01and rising interest in Bitcoin call options.

00:20:04He noted growing activity around the 80,000 strike price

00:20:07for Bitcoin call options expiring on December 27th

00:20:10on the Deribit exchange.

00:20:12Another 1,500 Bitcoin was added to the open interest

00:20:15of the 80,000 call in the past week.

00:20:17So this is growing confidence in a significant price rise.

00:20:24QCP capital analysts have noticed a significant rise in Bitcoin,

00:20:27comparing it to similar patterns seen before in past US elections.

00:20:32Their latest report delves into the influence of historical price movements,

00:20:35current market dynamics, and upcoming events

00:20:37on the cryptocurrency's future course.

00:20:39So, could be to do with that.

00:20:43So, is the election going to shift the market?

00:20:46This is from Mining News.

00:20:50With Bitcoin prices on the rise in October,

00:20:52miners are seeing a bit more cash in their pockets

00:20:54compared to the start of the month.

00:20:55The network's hash price,

00:20:56which represents the value of one peta hash per second,

00:20:59has climbed by over 14% this month.

00:21:04So...

00:21:07That seems good.

00:21:09So, miners are having an easier way.

00:21:12The FalconX platform can transform how miners liquidate crypto.

00:21:18FalconX, a digital assets prime brokerage firm,

00:21:21has launched a platform that automates the conversion

00:21:23of cryptocurrency to US dollars for miners.

00:21:26This platform aims to streamline the liquidation process,

00:21:29reducing delays and improving efficiency for miners.

00:21:35A Zimbabwean professor...

00:21:37Let's jump around a little bit.

00:21:38This is from October 16th.

00:21:39A Zimbabwean professor has highlighted the BRICS new development fund

00:21:44as a crucial alternative to the IMF,

00:21:46offering better financial terms to developing nations.

00:21:48He emphasized the NDBs,

00:21:52this new development bank,

00:21:53role in helping countries like Zimbabwe escape debt cycles

00:21:56and discuss the introduction of Zimbabwe gold,

00:21:58a currency backed by mineral wealth,

00:21:59as part of a broader economic strategy.

00:22:03So, if people are moving away from IMF,

00:22:06if they're moving away from the US dollar,

00:22:08then I think that certainly means that

00:22:10if demand for the US dollar goes down,

00:22:12then the price of Bitcoin goes up relative to the US dollar

00:22:15because its value could go down because of that.

00:22:18Brazil is also pushing a shift away from the US dollar

00:22:21within the BRICS alliance,

00:22:22advocating for more use of national currencies in trade

00:22:24among member countries.

00:22:27So, that's important.

00:22:30Tesla has relocated $760 million worth of Bitcoin

00:22:34while SpaceX funds remain untouched.

00:22:36That's from October 15th.

00:22:39On October 15th,

00:22:40Tesla initiated a transaction transferring 1,800 Bitcoin

00:22:43at precisely 5.03 p.m. Eastern at Blockheight.

00:22:47Following this initial move,

00:22:48the company shifted a grand total of 11,509 Bitcoin

00:22:52valued at more than $760 million from its well-known wallets.

00:22:56At this time,

00:22:57it's suspected that the funds have been relocated to new wallets,

00:22:59although this remains unconfirmed.

00:23:03More companies are following a Bitcoin-first strategy,

00:23:05aiming to issue debt to acquire digital gold.

00:23:08Bitcoin, right?

00:23:09So, this is sort of the micro-strategy asset.

00:23:14PayPal has expanded its crypto reach

00:23:1660 million Venmo users are now linked to MoonPay.

00:23:21Payment giant PayPal announced on Thursday

00:23:23that Venmo is now available as a payment option

00:23:25for MoonPay users in the US.

00:23:27PayPal, which owns Venmo,

00:23:28is expanding its integration with MoonPay,

00:23:30allowing users to fund their MoonPay accounts

00:23:32using Venmo balances, linked bank accounts,

00:23:34credit cards or debit cards through Venmo.

00:23:37PayPal stated,

00:23:38now Venmo's more than 60 million monthly active users

00:23:41can seamlessly fund transactions on the MoonPay platform

00:23:45using their Venmo balance or linked bank account,

00:23:47credit card or debit card in Venmo.

00:23:51So, that gets people into the digital world

00:23:54and that seems important.

00:24:01So, MoonPay is a multinational financial technology company

00:24:05involved in the transfer of cryptocurrency.

00:24:07Founded by blah blah blah in 2019,

00:24:10the company is based in Miami,

00:24:11provides payment infrastructure for cryptocurrency

00:24:13and non-fungible tokens to be bought and sold

00:24:15with fiat currencies.

00:24:17So, I guess it's a gateway to buy and sell other cryptos,

00:24:20of which I assume it would be fairly significant

00:24:22for there to be Bitcoin in that process.

00:24:25All right, that was a long, convoluted way

00:24:27of saying something, but there it is.

00:24:31So, there's our update.

00:24:32Thank you for the tip.

00:24:34Let's see here.

00:24:36Let's get to your questions.

00:24:39So, there's your house, Bitcoin.

00:24:41Steph, have you seen all the ex-posts

00:24:43from women claiming men's loneliness is their problem?

00:24:50Right.

00:24:51So, a man's weakness is often status

00:24:54and a woman's weakness is often vanity.

00:24:59You're strong, empowered and you're glorious

00:25:02and the world should bow before you

00:25:04and you don't need men and, right, all of that.

00:25:07Especially a young, attractive woman,

00:25:09the vanity potential is enormous.

00:25:16It is really chilling at the moment to see,

00:25:18and I've talked about this in a recent show,

00:25:20so I won't get into great detail here,

00:25:22but it is really chilling to see

00:25:24just how cold a lot of women are towards men.

00:25:26Now, remember, please, my friends,

00:25:30social media is not real life.

00:25:32Social media is not real life.

00:25:34So, one of the problems with social media

00:25:36is it exposes you

00:25:38to sometimes the worst elements of humanity

00:25:40who tend to post the most.

00:25:42And so, it gives you a skewed perception

00:25:45of the amount of dysfunction in the world.

00:25:47So, yeah, there are a lot of cold women

00:25:51who say, well, you know, if a woman's lonely

00:25:53it's because a man isn't stepping up and it's his fault

00:25:55and if a man's lonely

00:25:57it's because he's an incel loser

00:25:59with small penis energy

00:26:01and it's also his own fault, right?

00:26:03Now, look, that is cold, that is cruel,

00:26:05that is mean, but that's not women, right?

00:26:07That's a percentage of women,

00:26:09it's not a very large percentage of women

00:26:11who are that aggressive, right?

00:26:15Who are that aggressive.

00:26:17And, of course, the fact that

00:26:19women vote through the power of the state

00:26:21to take resources from men

00:26:24means, like, whoever you exploit

00:26:26you have to dehumanize.

00:26:28You cannot have empathy

00:26:30for whoever you're exploiting.

00:26:32The master cannot have empathy for the slaves.

00:26:34He cannot have slaves if he has empathy for the slaves.

00:26:36So, what happens is,

00:26:38in the sense the devil

00:26:40tempts you into

00:26:42wanting things for free that comes at the expense of others

00:26:44and then you get some free stuff

00:26:46but you lose your soul

00:26:48because women as a whole

00:26:50often vote to exploit men

00:26:52through the state, right?

00:26:54They get more out of the state than they pay in

00:26:56which means the deficit is paid for by men

00:26:58and whoever you exploit you have to dehumanize

00:27:00and this is common

00:27:02wherever women

00:27:04vote, right?

00:27:06I mean, I'm not against women voting, right?

00:27:08I mean, I'm against

00:27:10the use of coercion to solve complicated

00:27:12social problems as a whole

00:27:14but what is in common is that

00:27:16women vote to take away resources from men

00:27:18and

00:27:20then

00:27:22women

00:27:24end up dehumanizing men

00:27:26and not recognizing male concerns

00:27:28as legitimate and that's because when you exploit someone

00:27:30you have to dehumanize them.

00:27:32So, feminism is

00:27:34the necessary ideology of

00:27:36dehumanizing men in order for

00:27:38pure material greed

00:27:40to exploit the productivity of men

00:27:42so this is why a lot of men are going on strike

00:27:44these days, right?

00:27:46But again, that's not

00:27:48the majority of women. I mean, there's this really terrible

00:27:50it's a really terrible

00:27:52you know the dog in hell

00:27:54like the dog, this is fine with the cup, right?

00:27:56So, there's a woman and society is burning down

00:27:58and she says, but abortion, right?

00:28:00That is cold, man.

00:28:04That is cold.

00:28:06Do you keep in touch with any other content

00:28:08creators? No.

00:28:12No.

00:28:18Now, we do see

00:28:20of course that

00:28:22there's a fairly consistent

00:28:24movement among

00:28:26women in their thirties to shame

00:28:28and humiliate men who want to date

00:28:30older men who want to date women in their

00:28:32twenties. It actually seems

00:28:34to be the case that having a younger wife

00:28:36extends a man's lifespan.

00:28:40Having a younger wife, and there could be

00:28:42any number of reasons for that, but having a younger wife

00:28:44tends to have a protective element on

00:28:46mortality for men.

00:28:48So,

00:28:50yeah, so I get it. So, you know,

00:28:52the women are outraged that a 40-year-old

00:28:54man would want to date a 25-year-old woman

00:28:56and then, you know, likens that to

00:28:58interest in children, which is, of course,

00:29:00false and gross.

00:29:02But, yeah, I understand that.

00:29:04You know, I mean, if I was

00:29:06a 35-year-old woman, I wouldn't

00:29:08want to compete with a 25-year-old woman

00:29:10either. I get that.

00:29:12I get that.

00:29:16But, because you can't move back time

00:29:18when you've screwed up

00:29:20through

00:29:22misuse of time, all that's left

00:29:24is aggression and gaslighting, right?

00:29:26You can't turn back the clock, right?

00:29:28You can't. If you are a woman

00:29:30and you've

00:29:32messed up, you know,

00:29:3418 to 35, right?

00:29:3617 years. So,

00:29:38you've messed up 17

00:29:40years, and you're single,

00:29:42and you've obviously, I assume,

00:29:44had a lot of relationships. You may have even had

00:29:46an abortion or two,

00:29:48and you're aging out.

00:29:50Well, because you can't turn back the clock,

00:29:52what can you do? How can you compete with a 25-year-old

00:29:54who's, you know, maybe

00:29:56less bitter, has had fewer partners,

00:29:58and so on?

00:30:02You know, because, I mean, when you're young

00:30:04and I get this, life seems to be a lot about

00:30:06money. When you get older, you realize

00:30:08that life is really about your relationships,

00:30:10right? Life is really about your relationships.

00:30:12Money can't listen to you. Money can't hug you.

00:30:14Money can't hold your hand and tell you

00:30:16everything's going to be okay, right?

00:30:18Money can't

00:30:20have sex with you.

00:30:22You know, money can't love you.

00:30:28It's inhuman, right? It's a

00:30:30reflection of human saving, but it's

00:30:32fundamentally, it's not human.

00:30:34I mean, the most

00:30:36common virtual relationship people have is not

00:30:38with social media, but with money.

00:30:42And if women have made the mistake, which is common,

00:30:44of thinking that what they

00:30:46find attractive in a man will be what a man

00:30:48finds attractive in them, right? So,

00:30:50they say, well, I want a man who's hard-driving

00:30:52and a go-getter and aggressive and makes a lot

00:30:54of money, so then they go and do that, thinking

00:30:56that a man will find that attractive.

00:30:58But in general, we don't care.

00:31:00In fact, your career is probably negative

00:31:02to us, because it means that you're less

00:31:04likely to raise our kids.

00:31:06And if the woman

00:31:08is working and the man is working,

00:31:10strangers are raising the kids, everything's stressful,

00:31:12everything's expensive, and parenting is no fun.

00:31:14I mean, one of the reasons

00:31:16for the falling birth rate is the two-parent

00:31:18income family, which is not required by anything

00:31:20other than substantive greed. You know, people say,

00:31:22oh, yes, but you need a two-parent household to make ends

00:31:24meet these days. It's like, no, the current

00:31:26generation is still wealthier than

00:31:28all but one or two of every single

00:31:30generation in the past, right? So, it's not

00:31:32that you have to. It's just that

00:31:34if you want all of these trinkets and toys

00:31:36and nonsense and big houses and

00:31:38expensive cars and all of that stuff,

00:31:40just get a bike or take the bus, for God's

00:31:42sake, or move further out and

00:31:44find some other way to make money. You know,

00:31:46there's lots of different options, but

00:31:50a man looks at a working woman

00:31:52and says, so,

00:31:54neither of us are going to raise our kids,

00:31:56and

00:31:58you're not going to want to give up

00:32:00your career, and if you do, you'll be dissatisfied,

00:32:02so it's just a recipe for stress

00:32:04and unhappiness. And of course, another

00:32:06reason why the birth rate is falling is

00:32:08we've had a generation, and you can't just erase these

00:32:10we have a generation now

00:32:12that has grown up and did they

00:32:14watch their parents

00:32:16have fun as parents?

00:32:18Did they watch their parents enjoy parenting

00:32:20or not? Did they watch their parents

00:32:22enjoy parenting or not?

00:32:24And if your parents didn't seem

00:32:26to have fun parenting,

00:32:28you know, if they fought,

00:32:30if there was stress and tension and unhappiness

00:32:32and worry

00:32:34and there was never any time

00:32:36and everybody was overwhelmed, you don't want to do that.

00:32:38The way you sell

00:32:40the way you sell

00:32:42family to your kids is enjoy your family life.

00:32:48And in particular, like if a

00:32:50woman can't pull a long-term

00:32:52husband and boyfriend out of university,

00:32:54I don't know what they're doing.

00:32:56I mean, you have young, single

00:32:58guys, and some of them may have

00:33:00these sort of high school, long-distance relationships,

00:33:02but they're fairly easy to displace.

00:33:04So you have young, single guys,

00:33:06you know, relatively high IQ,

00:33:08ambitious, willing to defer gratification,

00:33:10and I don't know. I mean,

00:33:12if you can't get a husband out of university,

00:33:14good luck afterwards.

00:33:20Will you or have you done a truth about the Founding Fathers?

00:33:22I'm so grateful for the Bill of Rights.

00:33:24Ever more in these

00:33:26uncertain times as it makes it clear what we may

00:33:28or may not be losing. I've not done the truth

00:33:30about the Founding Fathers.

00:33:32I have not done that.

00:33:36What is

00:33:38wild to think of is

00:33:40the fates

00:33:42of the Founding Fathers was wild.

00:33:44I mean, you

00:33:46think that it's tough being a truth-teller

00:33:48now.

00:33:50What happened to the Founding Fathers,

00:33:52most of them, was just

00:33:54wild.

00:33:58Okay,

00:34:00I can't go to left-wing sites because they'll just

00:34:02talk about colony, colonialists,

00:34:04and

00:34:08slave owners and so on, right?

00:34:12But,

00:34:14the Founding Fathers is

00:34:16wild because they were

00:34:18unbelievably

00:34:20persecuted.

00:34:22They were unbelievably

00:34:24persecuted.

00:34:28So,

00:34:30they did work very hard

00:34:32and

00:34:34what happened?

00:34:36Those who led the effort

00:34:38to step up and break away from King George

00:34:40would face serious consequences, not just the

00:34:42vengeance of the British throne,

00:34:44but their unwavering commitment to the cause of freedom

00:34:46would come at high personal price as well.

00:34:48So, what happened to the fate of the number

00:34:50of the signers of the Declaration of Independence?

00:34:52George Walton

00:34:54of Georgia was wounded and captured in 1778,

00:34:56leading his state's militia in the defense of his

00:34:58hometown of Savannah.

00:35:0030-year-old Thomas Hayward, Jr.

00:35:02of South Carolina signed the Declaration at the

00:35:04great displeasure of his father, who was sympathetic to the

00:35:06king, and told Thomas he would likely

00:35:08hang for the act.

00:35:10The two men resolved their differences before

00:35:12the elder Hayward died the next year.

00:35:14Two years later, Thomas along with

00:35:16fellow South Carolina signers

00:35:18Edward Rutledge and Arthur Middleton

00:35:20was taken prisoner at the siege of Charlottestown

00:35:22and held nearly a year

00:35:24to the war's end.

00:35:26Richard Stockton of New Jersey had his home overrun

00:35:28by the British invasion. He managed to get

00:35:30his family to safety, but he was captured

00:35:32specifically because he signed the Declaration of Independence.

00:35:34He remained

00:35:36imprisoned for years, the last half year of which

00:35:38he nearly starved and froze to death.

00:35:40In battered health, he was released

00:35:42and returned to his home to find that his furniture

00:35:44all of his furniture, crops, and livestock

00:35:46were taken or destroyed, and his library, one of the

00:35:48colony's best, was burned.

00:35:52John Witherspoon of New Jersey, an active clergyman

00:35:54and president of the College of New Jersey, later to become

00:35:56Princeton, shut down and evacuated

00:35:58the school when British troops invaded the area.

00:36:00He spent most of the rest

00:36:02of his life rebuilding

00:36:04the college.

00:36:06Witherspoon also lost his son, James, in the

00:36:08Battle of Germantown.

00:36:10Thomas McCain of Delaware led an army

00:36:12the day after signing the Declaration to help George

00:36:14Washington in the defense of New York City, and now he

00:36:16escaped with his life from cannon fire.

00:36:18In the next year, he was on the run from the British, having

00:36:20to move his family five times.

00:36:22Now this is the guy I always remember.

00:36:24John Hart of New Jersey was also pursued by the British.

00:36:26His property was invaded

00:36:28and looted. Two of his young children fled

00:36:30to relatives' homes nearby, and Hart

00:36:32himself took refuge

00:36:34where he could, in the surrounding

00:36:36woods and

00:36:38in nearby caves.

00:36:40He returned to his home

00:36:42a few months later, and a few years after that he offered

00:36:44the field surrounding his property as an

00:36:46encampment to Washington and 12,000 troops.

00:36:48Lewis Morris of

00:36:50New York lost almost all of his property and wealth

00:36:52in the war, much of it within just two months

00:36:54of signing the Declaration of Independence.

00:36:56He served

00:36:58as a brigadier general during the war and spent

00:37:00nearly all his post-war days working to rebuild his

00:37:02property and farmlands. His frail wife

00:37:04was imprisoned by the British and never recovered

00:37:06her health.

00:37:08Philip Livingston of New York was forced

00:37:10from residence to residence by the British armies.

00:37:12His first two homes became a British barracks and

00:37:14hospital, and the other two homes were burnt

00:37:16to the ground. In addition to the properties he lost to

00:37:18the enemy, he sold several others to

00:37:20support the colonial war effort

00:37:22and died suddenly in 1778

00:37:24before he could rebuild.

00:37:28Lyman Hall, on the advice

00:37:30of General Washington, took his wife and son

00:37:32and fled his Georgia home for Connecticut,

00:37:34where he remained for two years until the war's end.

00:37:36He returned to his property in Georgia

00:37:38but had lost most of what he had.

00:37:44So, Robert Morris

00:37:46of Pennsylvania surpassed all

00:37:48when it came to putting up his personal fortunes

00:37:50to support the war effort.

00:37:52Before any country or

00:37:54major bank was willing to extend credit to the

00:37:56fledgling U.S., Morris was there. The $10,000

00:37:58that he loaned the new government supplied Washington's

00:38:00desperate troops, who went on to defeat

00:38:02the British at Trenton.

00:38:04Like Braxton, he also supported the shipping

00:38:06industry that delivered provisions to the soldiers

00:38:08and citizens.

00:38:10Morris never recovered his pre-war wealth, but his

00:38:12investment helped turn the tide of war in favor of the

00:38:14Americans and helped establish the United States

00:38:16as a nation.

00:38:18So, yeah, I mean, they hid in the

00:38:20woods, pursued, attacked,

00:38:22imprisoned. It was just wild.

00:38:30So, yeah, I mean, and of course,

00:38:32as a lot of them were Christians, and

00:38:34Christians, of course, are fully

00:38:36aware that to be virtuous

00:38:38is to be persecuted, right?

00:38:40To be virtuous is to be

00:38:42persecuted.

00:38:44And it is the way

00:38:46of the world.

00:38:48It is the way of the world.

00:38:54I wonder if the Bitcoin price will drop

00:38:56if Trump wins. It did last time

00:38:58he won. Him winning could increase opportunities

00:39:00for either, for other

00:39:02investments that are too risky under Kamala.

00:39:04Yeah, I mean, nobody knows

00:39:06the future, of course, right?

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00:39:28...

00:39:30On one side, if Trump wins, Bitcoin

00:39:32should surge because he's friendly to crypto.

00:39:34On the other hand, government spending and inflation would go down

00:39:36dramatically, making the dollar better for longer.

00:39:40There's not much they can do, really, about inflation

00:39:42at the moment, in my opinion. It's just too big.

00:39:50Has anything in watching Bitcoin's

00:39:52growth surprised you? I'm kind of surprised

00:39:54it's still around.

00:39:56Seven transactions

00:39:58per second.

00:40:00Yeah, I mean, I said from the very

00:40:02beginning that Bitcoin was unlikely to be

00:40:04a buy-coffee situation.

00:40:06I said that Bitcoin is

00:40:08the greatest value in business-to-business transactions,

00:40:10not business-to-consumer

00:40:12transactions.

00:40:14I happen to be annoyingly knowledgeable

00:40:16about this just because I

00:40:18was a business. I never sold to the

00:40:20consumer. In my software company, we never sold

00:40:22to the consumer. We sold to the businesses.

00:40:24So I just became aware of this

00:40:26giant swath

00:40:28of what's called the B2B

00:40:30economy, right?

00:40:32So, the

00:40:34B2B economy, what is the...

00:40:36I remember this

00:40:40from the past.

00:40:42What is

00:40:44the size of the

00:40:46B2B economy?

00:40:52So...

00:40:542024...

00:40:58What have we got here?

00:41:02Oh, that's

00:41:04just the software side.

00:41:10Oh, well, that's a

00:41:12report to buy. It's huge.

00:41:14It's absolutely shocking.

00:41:16And, of course, if you just go and buy stuff

00:41:18and you don't work

00:41:20in the B2B...

00:41:24If you don't work

00:41:26in the B2B sphere, you don't really know

00:41:28just how enormous it is.

00:41:30Right?

00:41:36So, let's see here...

00:41:38The B2B economy...

00:41:40What's that, like 20 trillion?

00:41:42It's...

00:41:44It's huge.

00:41:46And it's forecasted to grow

00:41:48enormously. So, the

00:41:50B2B economy is huge, and

00:41:52the one thing I know for sure

00:41:54about the B2B economy

00:41:56is...

00:42:00that...

00:42:02it's slow to settle.

00:42:04I mean, we would sometimes have to wait...

00:42:06In my business, we would sometimes

00:42:08have to wait 90 days

00:42:10to get paid.

00:42:12I mean, it was pretty exciting, because

00:42:14cash flow is king in business. You've always got to pay

00:42:16your payroll and your rent, right?

00:42:18But sometimes it takes quite a long

00:42:20time to get paid.

00:42:22Right?

00:42:24So, when we had,

00:42:26in the business world,

00:42:28we

00:42:30had a 90-day

00:42:32payment system,

00:42:34and, you know, sometimes we would

00:42:36try to do it better,

00:42:38but...

00:42:42If you've got a 90-day

00:42:44close, let's say it takes a

00:42:46couple of hours for your Bitcoin to settle, but that

00:42:48doesn't help you at Starbucks.

00:42:50But it absolutely

00:42:54matters. It's irrelevant to

00:42:56business transactions, for the most part, right?

00:42:58I mean, if you think of how long

00:43:00it takes to buy a house, right? Like,

00:43:02escrow and all of that.

00:43:04And so, if you

00:43:10recognize that,

00:43:12and if you say, well, but Bitcoin, it might take an hour

00:43:14or two to settle,

00:43:16is that a very

00:43:18important thing?

00:43:22It's so funny, because the B2B,

00:43:24they're all talking, it's all

00:43:26about e-commerce,

00:43:28right?

00:43:30It's all

00:43:32about e-commerce.

00:43:36Yeah, digital. So, yeah,

00:43:38I mean, so the B2B is huge, right?

00:43:40B2B is huge.

00:43:42And I had, of course, lots of conversations

00:43:44with people. I remember talking

00:43:46to a guy who, they were

00:43:48just-in-time manufacturing, and he said,

00:43:50it's really stressful, because just-in-time manufacturing is,

00:43:52you only deliver the parts when

00:43:54the car, say, is about to be assembled,

00:43:56and they reach for it, and it's

00:43:58got to be in your hand when you reach for it, not a moment

00:44:00too soon, not a moment too late.

00:44:02Because if you send it too soon, it's expensive

00:44:04to store the parts, and if you send it too late,

00:44:06it slows down production, so the timing

00:44:08is just incredible.

00:44:10So, when you look and say, well,

00:44:12Bitcoin is

00:44:14slow, okay, but there's lots

00:44:16of massive

00:44:18transactions in the economy

00:44:20that are very slow. Again, buy a house,

00:44:22even buying a car can take a while,

00:44:24right? You've got to sign a lot of paperwork and so on,

00:44:26and you go see a bunch of cars, so let's say it takes

00:44:28a couple of hours to close,

00:44:30well, that's fine, right? You will start to close,

00:44:32do the paperwork, and then it's all done, right?

00:44:34So, and B2B, again,

00:44:36anything less than 90 days is a big step

00:44:38in the right direction.

00:44:40So...

00:44:44Ah, that's nice. He's asking me

00:44:46if I want something.

00:44:50So...

00:44:52Yeah, the

00:44:54fact that...

00:44:56the fact that it's slow

00:44:58is only of relevance to consumers.

00:45:00It's fine, and imagine

00:45:02this, so imagine that

00:45:04Bitcoin is your

00:45:06retirement savings strategy,

00:45:08right? Right, let's say

00:45:10that Bitcoin is your retirement

00:45:12savings strategy. Do you care

00:45:14if it takes a couple of hours

00:45:16to sell?

00:45:18Right? If you save

00:45:20two million dollars in Bitcoin for your retirement, does it

00:45:22matter to you? So,

00:45:24if you're buying and holding something for five years,

00:45:26a five-year bond or whatever,

00:45:28it's a very slow transaction, so the fact

00:45:30that it's not ideal for

00:45:32buying a coffee, I mean, I'm not

00:45:34saying that's unimportant, of course, right?

00:45:36But it's not foundational to

00:45:38how I see the value of it

00:45:40working, which is a savings,

00:45:42an investment, and a B2B

00:45:44scheme or

00:45:46system.

00:45:48Again, I've said some

00:45:50of this stuff in the

00:45:52past, right?

00:45:54But it's worth revisiting,

00:45:56because, shockingly, not everyone

00:45:58has listened to everything.

00:46:00Right?

00:46:02So, no, it hasn't surprised me.

00:46:06All right.

00:46:10Well, you know, it's always

00:46:12the question around politics that

00:46:14the

00:46:16elites, they

00:46:18want more power,

00:46:20but they don't necessarily

00:46:22want to kill the goose that lays the golden egg, right?

00:46:24So the elites want more power,

00:46:26so

00:46:28the farmer wants

00:46:30his cows in the smallest

00:46:32enclosure

00:46:34possible that isn't going to kill them.

00:46:36Right?

00:46:38So, let's

00:46:40say that you're grass-fed,

00:46:42right? Let's say it's honorable grass-fed,

00:46:44not these, like, buckets of

00:46:46hay.

00:46:48So, you

00:46:50want, let's say you have free-range chickens, right?

00:46:52They're actually out there doing their thing.

00:46:54So you don't want to put them on,

00:46:56you don't want to put, you know, 100 chickens on

00:46:58100 acres, right? That's too big, right?

00:47:00At the same time, you don't want to put them in a little

00:47:02cardboard box, because that's going to kill them.

00:47:04So you want to shrink

00:47:06the land that your livestock

00:47:08is on until they start to

00:47:10no longer,

00:47:12like, they're too stressed, they're not producing any milk, and then

00:47:14you'll expand it a little. So,

00:47:16you want to, so, that's the way, sort of, I view

00:47:18these things. Now, there are

00:47:20some people who are just completely addicted to power

00:47:22and so on, but

00:47:24are

00:47:26the powers that

00:47:28be, are they concerned that

00:47:30their income is going

00:47:32to be diminished if too much

00:47:34government control hits the economy, right? And will

00:47:36they make it so that

00:47:38the government control goes down, right?

00:47:40Steph, what are you looking forward

00:47:42to?

00:47:44Well, I mean, it may

00:47:46sound trite, but

00:47:48I look forward to every day. I look forward to these

00:47:50conversations, I look forward to time with my family,

00:47:52I look forward to exercise

00:47:54to a large degree, I certainly look forward to sports,

00:47:56and I look forward

00:47:58to continue doing the great work

00:48:00that I'm doing. I've really, and I talked about this

00:48:02in a show this morning, but

00:48:04it really did

00:48:08A friend of mine

00:48:10had a very large

00:48:12tragedy

00:48:14in his

00:48:16family this week, and

00:48:18the

00:48:20transitory nature of life

00:48:22gets more and more impressed

00:48:24upon you as you age.

00:48:30And

00:48:34I am

00:48:36so deeply and immensely grateful

00:48:38for what you guys do,

00:48:40for what the technology

00:48:42of the world has allowed us to do,

00:48:44and

00:48:48I feel

00:48:50almost like a disposable

00:48:52flesh puppet

00:48:54for eternal virtues.

00:48:58I feel like infinity,

00:49:00eternity, universality,

00:49:02and morality have

00:49:04kind of jammed their fingers

00:49:06up my spine and used me to

00:49:08speak essential truths before I

00:49:10will be discarded in the flesh heap

00:49:12of inevitable mortal history.

00:49:14And that I am a passing

00:49:16thing, but what we talk about here,

00:49:18as best as I can,

00:49:20will deeply root to the

00:49:22eternal and the true.

00:49:26When you get

00:49:28to my age,

00:49:30right, so

00:49:32I'm 58.

00:49:34A lot of people

00:49:36have kids late 20s, early 30s,

00:49:38so 58 plus

00:49:4030 is 88.

00:49:44So, you know, my friend's parents

00:49:46are aging out.

00:49:52And it gives you a real

00:49:54perspective on

00:49:56what's important in life. You know, as they say,

00:49:58if you have your health, you have everything.

00:50:00And some of

00:50:02the older people

00:50:04are aging out

00:50:06in

00:50:08really tragic ways.

00:50:10I mean, losing mental

00:50:12faculties, losing bodily functions

00:50:14and autonomy,

00:50:16you know, this

00:50:20wind down.

00:50:22It's hard to see.

00:50:24And it's hard to see because

00:50:26if you're

00:50:28lucky, it's coming to you, right?

00:50:30If you're lucky, you don't get hit by a bus

00:50:32when you're 40, right? If you're lucky.

00:50:34Do you ever have a toy when you're a kid,

00:50:36like a wind-up toy? Most of us had a wind-up toy,

00:50:38right? So I would do this thing

00:50:40where I would wind up the toy to

00:50:42its maximum, right? And then,

00:50:44it would do its little stompy or whatever,

00:50:46and then it would just kind of

00:50:48wind down.

00:50:50But the

00:50:52wind down of the human animal

00:50:54sheds

00:50:56memories,

00:50:58sorrow,

00:51:00mortality,

00:51:02death.

00:51:04You know, I wrote the deathbed scenes

00:51:06in

00:51:08my novel, The Future,

00:51:10also based upon

00:51:12what I had seen

00:51:14from people I know

00:51:16whose parents are aging out.

00:51:18You know, it's coming,

00:51:20man.

00:51:22There's

00:51:24no escaping it

00:51:26at all.

00:51:28And your best

00:51:30chance is

00:51:32a slow decay.

00:51:34And it

00:51:36lands like an

00:51:38absolute fiery comet in the lives

00:51:40of younger people,

00:51:42right? The kids, the grandkids,

00:51:44maybe the great-grandkids.

00:51:48It is

00:51:50a comet that lays

00:51:52waste to the city of predictability.

00:51:56And I do

00:51:58feel that when I

00:52:00sit down to have these conversations,

00:52:04that if I

00:52:06allow the passage of eternity through

00:52:08my vocal cords,

00:52:10then

00:52:12it is the best service of whatever

00:52:14is occurring within me

00:52:16to humanity as a whole.

00:52:18You know, somebody, and I do get these

00:52:20messages, and I really do appreciate them.

00:52:22People say, well, thank you, you saved my life, well, thank you.

00:52:24And listen, I really appreciate that.

00:52:26But I can't take

00:52:28much credit. I can take credit for some

00:52:30courage, some focus, some, you know,

00:52:32steadfastness in the face of opposition, for sure.

00:52:34I mean, I'm not going to deny myself that.

00:52:36But I am

00:52:40the first to hear what I say,

00:52:42or what is said through me.

00:52:44I can

00:52:46completely understand how people get

00:52:48the perception that they're speaking for

00:52:50some consciousness

00:52:52of force outside and larger

00:52:54than themselves.

00:52:56My unconscious

00:52:58generates and spits up

00:53:00ideas, conversations,

00:53:02arguments, perspectives,

00:53:04proofs, and rebuttals.

00:53:08Like manic bicyclists

00:53:10whose legs never tire.

00:53:13You know,

00:53:15so many people have enjoyed Paul McCartney's

00:53:17song yesterday, but Paul

00:53:19McCartney was the first to hear that

00:53:21song. He dreamt of the melody

00:53:23in a dream, and he wrote

00:53:25down nonsense lyrics,

00:53:27scrambled eggs, oh, my dear, you have

00:53:29got lovely legs.

00:53:31And then he played the melody

00:53:33to everyone, like, you've heard this before, and people were like,

00:53:35no, so he wrote down the lyrics.

00:53:37He was the first to hear the song.

00:53:39The song came through him.

00:53:42Paul McCartney

00:53:44is the flesh mechanism by which the gods

00:53:46of music release their beauty to the world.

00:53:48And I,

00:53:50to some degree, am the flesh

00:53:52mechanism by which the gods of philosophy

00:53:55release truth and virtue

00:53:57to the world.

00:53:59And I say this,

00:54:01this may sound arrogant, it's really not.

00:54:03It's actually quite the opposite.

00:54:05I'm

00:54:07incredibly lucky

00:54:09to have

00:54:11the accidental brain that I have.

00:54:15And I've always felt this

00:54:19this weight,

00:54:21this obligation.

00:54:23And I'm very glad

00:54:25that I accepted that weight and that

00:54:27obligation.

00:54:29I am a good writer

00:54:31of fiction,

00:54:33and I always felt that it was my job

00:54:35as a writer of fiction to promote

00:54:37as much peace, reason, and virtue

00:54:39in the world.

00:54:41Which is why I have,

00:54:43in a novel that I wrote in my twenties,

00:54:45in Just Poor, I have a scene where

00:54:47two courageous people

00:54:49confront

00:54:51a child abuser.

00:54:55Because that's what I wanted, and that's what the world should do.

00:55:01I've always felt that

00:55:03I need to

00:55:05shape the creative forces of my mind

00:55:07to maximize

00:55:13the universals of virtue within the world.

00:55:17And it is with great humility

00:55:19that I

00:55:23sit down to talk about these things.

00:55:27It's not the me that I know.

00:55:29The me that I know

00:55:31are the things that I choose.

00:55:33I obviously

00:55:35do not choose the brain that I have.

00:55:37I do not choose

00:55:39the thoughts that arise within me.

00:55:41They arise within me.

00:55:43It's an old thing that Leonard Cohen said.

00:55:45He says, where did you get such beautiful

00:55:47songs, right? And he said, I don't know.

00:55:49If I knew where I got these beautiful

00:55:51songs, I would go back there and

00:55:53get more.

00:55:55And Bob Dylan also says,

00:55:57in an interview where he says,

00:55:59I can't do that stuff anymore.

00:56:01I can't do that stuff anymore.

00:56:03He who is not busy living is busy dying.

00:56:05I can't do that stuff anymore.

00:56:07It's other things I can do, but I can't do that.

00:56:13And the humility of recognizing

00:56:15that there is a force

00:56:17beneath or beyond you

00:56:19that uses you

00:56:21hopefully to spread virtue. Sometimes it's used

00:56:23to spread corruption.

00:56:25But the humility

00:56:27of that is

00:56:29a very powerful thing.

00:56:31And a lot

00:56:33of what I have done in the world

00:56:35and over the course of my life

00:56:37has been to avoid

00:56:39looking back

00:56:41and say, I wasted

00:56:43the greatest gift

00:56:45a man can get.

00:56:47I can't tell you

00:56:49that would be

00:56:51hell.

00:56:53That would be hell.

00:56:55To be older and to say,

00:56:57I was given the greatest

00:56:59gift

00:57:01a human being can get,

00:57:03which is the

00:57:05spontaneous generation of

00:57:07moral universals. There is no

00:57:09greater gift.

00:57:11If I had ignored that gift,

00:57:13if I had deprecated that gift,

00:57:15if I had tried to twist it to personal advantage,

00:57:17if I had not as

00:57:19simply and honestly and directly as possible

00:57:21spoken

00:57:23the universals that move through me.

00:57:27The amount

00:57:29of regret

00:57:31that would have plagued me

00:57:33would be

00:57:35beyond the

00:57:37capacity of language to express.

00:57:39It is a deep

00:57:41and sinister sorrow

00:57:43to underachieve

00:57:45in the face of your potential. And in

00:57:47particular because I have both an artistic

00:57:49side, a philosophical side,

00:57:51and a moral side. And I'm a good communicator

00:57:53and I'm fantastic with

00:57:55analogies and metaphors.

00:57:57Do not use that to maximize

00:57:59the production and transmission

00:58:01of universal virtue in the world.

00:58:03It would be like

00:58:05having a healing hand and spending

00:58:07your whole life avoiding hospitals

00:58:09in pursuit of winning at poker.

00:58:15It's not mine.

00:58:19It's mankind's.

00:58:25Seeing

00:58:27some of the regret

00:58:29that hits people later in life.

00:58:33What was it even

00:58:35Leonardo da Vinci said that he

00:58:37regretted enormously

00:58:39the poor use he had

00:58:41given to the gifts

00:58:43he received.

00:58:51Try not

00:58:53try not

00:58:55to let your days pass by

00:58:57in a haze of the now.

00:59:01What am I going to have

00:59:03for lunch? Somebody said something mean

00:59:05in an email. The girl won't

00:59:07go out with me. These are detritus

00:59:09and particulates in the haze of

00:59:11the now.

00:59:13And I'm not saying

00:59:15live in a complete abstraction

00:59:17of otherworldliness, but

00:59:19remind yourself

00:59:21daily to partake

00:59:23of eternity.

00:59:25Create something

00:59:27that lasts, even if it is

00:59:29an idea in someone else's mind that can then be

00:59:31further transmitted.

00:59:33Speak a truth.

00:59:35Deny a lie.

00:59:39Do something where your

00:59:41transitory rotting flesh

00:59:45can create

00:59:47something in the sky

00:59:49that lasts forever.

00:59:53It could be an act of kindness that turns

00:59:55someone's life around. It could be

00:59:57an act of firmness that pulls someone out of

00:59:59self-delusion. It could be any

01:00:01act of

01:00:03depth

01:00:05and danger

01:00:07and moment and power.

01:00:11Try never to deny yourself

01:00:13the capacity to

01:00:15partake of eternity.

01:00:19And this could be, of course, the having

01:00:21and raising of children, which is part of

01:00:23an eternal line that goes back four billion

01:00:25years.

01:00:27All of your fears

01:00:29will fade.

01:00:33And the fears that you use to avoid

01:00:35regret, the fears

01:00:37will fade.

01:00:41And you will be looking back,

01:00:43not remembering

01:00:45why you were scared,

01:00:47but only that you did not achieve.

01:00:49You did not

01:00:51touch

01:00:53the face of God and partake

01:00:55of eternity.

01:00:57It was something

01:00:59deep and meaningful.

01:01:03Not the provocation of envy

01:01:05by trying to look cool and good.

01:01:07Not the

01:01:09amassing of wealth

01:01:11that is

01:01:13cold, empty comfort

01:01:15as you age.

01:01:19I look at all of the fitness bros

01:01:21on social media, and

01:01:23of course, this is

01:01:25an old statement, but if you had worked

01:01:27on the quality of your soul

01:01:29half as much as you had worked on the

01:01:31quality of your flesh,

01:01:33you would be a god among men.

01:01:41I look forward every day

01:01:44to planting a flag

01:01:46in uncertain ground that I

01:01:48now am certain will fly forever.

01:01:54If that's too abstract,

01:01:56I look at saying things that are true

01:01:58that will be recognized as true

01:02:00a thousand or a million years from now.

01:02:02Think of Pythagoras. We still use his name

01:02:04on the geometry theorem.

01:02:07He partook of eternity.

01:02:09To partake of eternity is powerful

01:02:11enough, but to partake of moral eternity

01:02:13and moral universals

01:02:15and moral absolutes?

01:02:21What I speak is

01:02:23incomprehensible

01:02:25and alienating

01:02:27to most.

01:02:29I get that.

01:02:33But in the future,

01:02:35it will be incomprehensible

01:02:37that anyone

01:02:39thought differently.

01:02:41And that is to partake of eternity.

01:02:43The proofs of UPB

01:02:45were true,

01:02:47will always be true,

01:02:49everywhere,

01:02:51forever and ever. Amen.

01:02:57And what is the thought

01:03:01of death?

01:03:03It is that we will

01:03:05be released from this veil of tears

01:03:07and we will partake

01:03:09of a blissful eternity.

01:03:15Heaven

01:03:17is the truths we speak that remain

01:03:19after we die.

01:03:23And I hope that my words

01:03:25sound as a kind of shivery bell

01:03:27to dislodge your anxieties

01:03:29and your fears from your soul.

01:03:31To partake of the eternal,

01:03:33to partake of the virtuous, not of the greedy,

01:03:35not of the manipulative, not of the transient,

01:03:37not of the sycophantic,

01:03:39not of the mere material advantage,

01:03:41not of the provocation of envy or lust,

01:03:45but to partake of eternity

01:03:47by speaking simple truths

01:03:51to the world

01:03:55is the greatest use

01:03:57of the

01:03:59accidental inheritance

01:04:01of a mind.

01:04:05You and I did not earn becoming human.

01:04:07We did not earn

01:04:09our minds. We did not earn our inspirations.

01:04:13And that which is not earned

01:04:17must not be consumed

01:04:19but rather invested.

01:04:21If you inherit

01:04:23ten million dollars, you don't just spend it on

01:04:27Menendez nonsense

01:04:29cars and watches, right?

01:04:31You inherit ten million dollars,

01:04:33you invest it.

01:04:35You didn't earn it, so you must invest it.

01:04:37You can't just consume it for your own benefit.

01:04:41And there's no greater

01:04:43inheritance

01:04:45than the human mind that is.

01:04:47No greater inheritance.

01:04:49The entire world's

01:04:51wealth is worth less than one human mind

01:04:53because there's no wealth without human minds.

01:04:59And

01:05:01when you approach people

01:05:03with

01:05:05the clarity of expressive

01:05:07depth,

01:05:09absolutely some people will part before you

01:05:11and they will flee.

01:05:13They will flee.

01:05:17But there are other

01:05:19people who

01:05:21will view your depth

01:05:23as a deep well to be drunk from

01:05:25during a time

01:05:27of near-universal

01:05:29shallowness.

01:05:31What is it that

01:05:33the shallowness of hatred, the shallowness of bigotry,

01:05:35the shallowness of greed,

01:05:37the shallowness of lust,

01:05:39all of this

01:05:45is presented to you

01:05:47as a distraction from

01:05:49your infinite potential.

01:05:51Infinite

01:05:53potential. Do not deny

01:05:55your infinite potential.

01:05:59As I always, always

01:06:01beg you, do not deny

01:06:03your infinite potential or regret

01:06:05will be the only

01:06:07bitter meal you taste for the last 20 years

01:06:09of your life. Because there comes a time

01:06:11where you can't go back, right?

01:06:13If you don't have depth, then you get embedded in

01:06:15relationships reliant upon your shallowness, right?

01:06:19You end up

01:06:21embedded in relationships that rely

01:06:23on shallowness. And then what happens is

01:06:25you have to stay shallow in order to

01:06:27pretend to have company,

01:06:29to have companions, right?

01:06:35There is

01:06:37to me

01:06:41a very good

01:06:47bit, you could say,

01:06:49in my novel The Present.

01:06:53And it is about

01:06:57the presence of depth

01:06:59in a shallow environment. The sudden

01:07:01presence of depth

01:07:03in a

01:07:07shallow environment.

01:07:09I'm going to read you this little bit

01:07:11and if you haven't read

01:07:15my novel The Present or listened to it

01:07:17in audiobook,

01:07:19I think you really should.

01:07:23It's really, really good.

01:07:29Rachel goes from

01:07:31shallowness to depth

01:07:33over the course of a fairly brutal

01:07:37story.

01:07:41Let me just see if I can find it.

01:07:53Oh!

01:07:59I will find it.

01:08:05I think it's in chapter

01:08:07one. Yes, a sudden

01:08:09fissure of unanticipated depth cracked

01:08:11open within her.

01:08:17Ah, I remember the word I'm looking for.

01:08:19Zoom! There we go.

01:08:23So something real happens.

01:08:29A real powerful question

01:08:31happens in a restaurant

01:08:33that everyone hears.

01:08:39And here's what I wrote

01:08:41about this.

01:08:43A supernatural silence

01:08:45that swallowed up the restaurant.

01:08:47A brief glimpse

01:08:49to a wider world,

01:08:51to reality, in fact,

01:08:53had cracked open

01:08:55the petty cathedral of distraction

01:08:57everyone hid in.

01:08:59Inconsequential

01:09:01differences, imaginary slights,

01:09:03silly details of

01:09:05graying hair, spiky moles

01:09:07and acne scars,

01:09:09minor debts and hangnails,

01:09:11the anger at food served slightly cold,

01:09:13invitations delayed

01:09:15and the petty rejection of three nights prior,

01:09:17all these detritus

01:09:19of details and dust, vanished

01:09:21in a sudden interstellar

01:09:23zoom out.

01:09:27A minor but powerful presage

01:09:29of the deathbed regrets that put

01:09:31everything in perspective far

01:09:33too late.

01:09:37Hearing about volatile

01:09:39toddlers being pulled from daycare

01:09:41put a chill down the spines

01:09:43of the droning corporate females

01:09:45who wrestled with slides and spreadsheets

01:09:47impatient and indifferent men

01:09:49the true patriarchy of

01:09:51indoctrinated wage slavery

01:09:53as they rushed to placate the

01:09:55bosses who always rolled their eyes at tales

01:09:57of sick children, the same bosses

01:09:59who would inevitably fade from their lives

01:10:01like the drunken siren of a racing ambulance

01:10:03into the deep

01:10:05rear mirrors of paychecks

01:10:07long gone.

01:10:09And a skylight

01:10:11suddenly shattered

01:10:13over that very

01:10:15deathbed they would all face

01:10:17if they're lucky

01:10:19where the empty boss gods

01:10:21they sacrifice their children

01:10:23to are distant or dead

01:10:25and they reach out for their grown children

01:10:27who find themselves distracted

01:10:29and busy.

01:10:31And all the lost and fossilized

01:10:33spreadsheets and presentations

01:10:35that they sold their future for will never be

01:10:37unearthed, never be reviewed.

01:10:39They have as much value to the future

01:10:41as the dead diapers

01:10:43of infancy.

01:10:45And all

01:10:47their decades of ambition

01:10:49postponement and conformity

01:10:51and chasing dollars to swell

01:10:53their taxes are all

01:10:55flushed into NOTHING

01:10:57while all the seeds

01:10:59of love that should have been planted

01:11:01in the fertile hearts of babies are handed

01:11:03to bosses to be consumed

01:11:05and destroyed.

01:11:09And all of this is hinted

01:11:11and revealed

01:11:13in the moments of perspective that strike

01:11:15and scald the oceans of distraction

01:11:17like kindly

01:11:19heaven-sent comets.

01:11:23People listen

01:11:25or recoil.

01:11:27Time moves on

01:11:29regardless, and all

01:11:31is revealed before the end.

01:11:35Perspective is inevitable.

01:11:37Morality is

01:11:39inescapable.

01:11:41The glory of the universe

01:11:43is the finger-tapping on the shoulder

01:11:45of conscience delivered on a

01:11:47regular but declining

01:11:49basis.

01:11:51Until souls

01:11:53either listen and live

01:11:55or...

01:11:57And of course

01:11:59we all know what happens to Rachel

01:12:01in that chapter.

01:12:05Alright, let's get

01:12:07to your questions again.

01:12:15Sorry, I'm a little behind here.

01:12:17A little behind in your comments.

01:12:25Alright.

01:12:29Seems like all the dysfunction

01:12:31in this generation's parents gets blamed on men

01:12:33and the oppression of women, not letting them go into

01:12:35the work. Force, always a

01:12:37side-up, preloaded trick.

01:12:39The next generation, I think so.

01:12:45Somebody says,

01:12:47Doesn't matter who wins elections if all roads lead to

01:12:49more money printing. The US debt will be 50 trillion

01:12:51plus by 2030. No one can stop it.

01:12:53Well, math will stop it eventually, right?

01:12:57Why would anyone use a

01:12:59deflationary currency like Bitcoin to buy stuff

01:13:01when the stuff will depreciate and the currency will not?

01:13:03That's why most people just hoard it.

01:13:09See, and Paul McCartney was 22

01:13:11when he wrote yesterday, most 22-year-olds don't even have a

01:13:13bank account. Right, now he prepared himself

01:13:15to write that song, right, with the

01:13:1710,000 hours of the Berlin nightclub and so on,

01:13:19but

01:13:21he didn't

01:13:23write

01:13:25yesterday.

01:13:27He just wrote it down. He experienced

01:13:29the song in a dream and then just wrote it down.

01:13:31I mean, if he could write it, he would

01:13:33write more, right? When was the last time he had a

01:13:35top 10 hit?

01:13:37He's still producing, right?

01:13:45All right.

01:13:51For your information, Venmo is not available

01:13:53in Kanakistan, but PayPal is.

01:13:55Maybe they will allow Bitcoin transactions, yeah.

01:14:01Rush Limbaugh

01:14:03nailed it. He said

01:14:05feminism is for ugly women.

01:14:07I will say ugly personality-possessing women.

01:14:09If I am kind, I would attribute it to trauma.

01:14:15Feminism was

01:14:17a necessary ideology

01:14:19to permit the exploitation of men.

01:14:31Let's see here.

01:14:41It's difficult to have sympathy for women

01:14:43who had every great possibility handed to them

01:14:45and still managed to blow it. Then again, I may not have done

01:14:47much better in their position.

01:14:49Well, it's the old question

01:14:51of, does

01:14:53the average person have enough free will

01:14:55to resist propaganda, right?

01:14:57The Milgram

01:14:59experiments show that

01:15:01about 80%

01:15:03of people will

01:15:05torture and some will even kill

01:15:07people if someone in authority

01:15:09tells them to.

01:15:13That's similar, of course, to the number

01:15:15of people who took the vaccine.

01:15:19I remember when

01:15:21I read that Milgram experiment,

01:15:23and it's been reproduced in many different areas

01:15:25to 70%, 75%, 80%

01:15:27of people will just do what anyone in authority tells them to.

01:15:29And, of course, the great danger.

01:15:31The greatest danger in the world.

01:15:33I remember when I read that

01:15:35that would be such a shocking result

01:15:37and nobody predicted that it would be that high.

01:15:39I mean, a lot of psychologists thought it would just be

01:15:41in the single digit percentage of sociopaths and psychopaths

01:15:43and narcissists and so on.

01:15:45But I don't think anyone guessed

01:15:47that it would be 70% to 80% of people

01:15:49will just torture and some will even kill

01:15:51based upon

01:15:53someone in authority telling them to do so.

01:15:55And not even the experiment must continue.

01:15:57Not you have to, right?

01:15:59People would just...

01:16:01They've completely externalized their conscience

01:16:03to authority figures, right?

01:16:05Now, of course, we understand why that would evolve

01:16:07and what the consequences of not evolving

01:16:09that way were, which were usually fatal.

01:16:11But...

01:16:15I remember when I first read that

01:16:17I was like,

01:16:19well, shouldn't all society be reformed?

01:16:21Like, shouldn't we just do massive research

01:16:23into figuring out why that's the case

01:16:25and then just find some absolute way

01:16:27to lower those numbers no matter what?

01:16:29But no, it just kind of came and went

01:16:31as usual, right?

01:16:33Because it serves

01:16:35too many... too much interest, right?

01:16:37Somebody says, I would like to be wealthy enough

01:16:39to own at least a two-bedroom condo and a working truck

01:16:41having someone to share it with

01:16:43and want to create my own small business.

01:16:45Yeah, I'm not saying don't...

01:16:47Like, wealth is unimportant, don't pursue wealth.

01:16:49I'm just saying that...

01:16:51I mean, to be completely indifferent to wealth

01:16:53is not healthy.

01:16:55To view wealth as a substitute for virtue is not healthy, right?

01:17:01Seems like there's parallels with the fate of the

01:17:03founding fathers and the disciples of Jesus.

01:17:05Well...

01:17:07Of course.

01:17:09And all who progress are...

01:17:11All who push progression,

01:17:13particularly moral progression, are

01:17:15absolutely

01:17:17attacked, for sure.

01:17:19People get...

01:17:21People get great profit from

01:17:23delusion, and

01:17:25delusion combined with the coercive power

01:17:27of the state is an entire

01:17:29ecosystem that resists any liberation, right?

01:17:31I mean, the guys who own

01:17:33slaves weren't particularly happy with the abolitionists, right?

01:17:35Somebody says,

01:17:45I approached a man

01:17:47whose child was having a panic attack.

01:17:49The man explained that the boy

01:17:51had recently been attacked by a giant

01:17:53snake that hides

01:17:55in sand pits to hunt.

01:17:57The child was terrified because he just spotted

01:17:59a nearby sand pit.

01:18:01The man, fixated on the sand pit, began throwing

01:18:03pebbles at it, hoping to lure out the snake.

01:18:05When he focused on that, I noticed another sand pit

01:18:07just beside him, the one he hadn't seen.

01:18:09I quickly

01:18:11realized the second pit was the real

01:18:13threat, and I could make out

01:18:15the...

01:18:17the...

01:18:19Oh, I don't know what happened to the rest

01:18:21of that story.

01:18:23B2B is huge. Companies spend a lot of money on equipment, tools,

01:18:25software... Oh, yeah, it's huge.

01:18:27I could make out the outline

01:18:29of a giant snake below the surface.

01:18:31I'm not quite sure what the point of that story is.

01:18:33Do you think video games will recover?

01:18:35The woke stuff is extreme, and nothing

01:18:37original is being made. Seems like the companies are playing it

01:18:39safe and remaking their old games.

01:18:41Um...

01:18:45I mean, in a sense, it's a self-healing phenomenon.

01:18:47There are too many men

01:18:49who... and women, of course, but mostly men

01:18:51who get too much of

01:18:53a sense of artificial achievement from video games, right?

01:18:55So, whatever you

01:18:57put a lot of money into in a status society,

01:18:59whatever you put a lot of money into

01:19:01will attract power mongers and become corrupted.

01:19:05So...

01:19:13The

01:19:15lightning network, although it has its flaws...

01:19:17Yeah, I understand that, yeah.

01:19:19And, you know, as I said, wherever there's

01:19:21a big enough demand, there will be a solution.

01:19:23...

01:19:27It looks like

01:19:29B2B is about two to three times bigger than

01:19:31the business-to-consumer.

01:19:33Right. So,

01:19:35think of... and the way to understand

01:19:37B2B, and thus understand

01:19:39the value of Bitcoin in this way,

01:19:41is what you do is

01:19:43you go to the grocery store, and you

01:19:45look at a can of tuna, right?

01:19:47And you go pay a couple

01:19:49of bucks for that can of tuna,

01:19:51and think of all of the

01:19:53equipment and money and spending

01:19:55that businesses had to do in order

01:19:57to get that tuna

01:19:59from the coast of Japan, or

01:20:01wherever, into a tin and

01:20:03into your hand.

01:20:05So, think of all of the

01:20:07fishing, the

01:20:09labor, the trucks, the insurance,

01:20:11the airplanes, the gas, like, think of

01:20:13all of the massive amount of economic

01:20:15activity that had to occur in order

01:20:17for you to be able to hold a can of tuna and pay a couple of bucks for it.

01:20:19Right? It's the amount of...

01:20:21I mean, obviously,

01:20:23the amount of financial

01:20:25investment has to be less than what you're paying for it.

01:20:27But,

01:20:29it's huge.

01:20:31It's huge.

01:20:35Hug those wonderful

01:20:37ladies in your family on our behalf, if you don't mind.

01:20:39I do not mind. Got a

01:20:41lovely hug this morning from my daughter.

01:20:43Just beautiful. All right.

01:20:45Adopted... oh, let's see

01:20:47here. Adopted mom's

01:20:49dad had dementia from the mid-80s. He lived in

01:20:5194. His mom was gone years

01:20:53before. That was horrific to witness. Yeah.

01:20:55Steph, I don't want to see you old

01:20:57and decrepit. Thank you for working out.

01:20:59Well, um, but I will be old and decrepit.

01:21:01It's just, I mean, you can push it off.

01:21:03But you can't eliminate it.

01:21:07Somebody says, I just

01:21:09now...

01:21:11Oh, this morning, lying in bed,

01:21:13I got a personal

01:21:15revelation of the true power that faith

01:21:17and the priesthood hold

01:21:19to as the savior and to literally

01:21:21move mountains. I'm not there yet, but I glimpsed

01:21:23the nearest possibility.

01:21:33Beautiful words, Steph. I'm reminded of

01:21:35a quote I dug up recently. Everything you've ever

01:21:37wanted is on the other side of fear.

01:21:39Yeah, so

01:21:41what do we fear? We fear losing.

01:21:43We're going to lose everything anyway.

01:21:45We're going to lose everything

01:21:47anyway.

01:21:53The present and the future are amazing.

01:21:55I re-listen to them about every three to four months.

01:21:57If you all haven't read them, I don't know

01:21:59what you're doing. Yeah, I think so.

01:22:01Okay, I listen,

01:22:03but I must get dressed for church. Fair.

01:22:07The snake pit was a dream the bot says you never

01:22:09wrote about. Someone was asking the meaning

01:22:11of... Oh, okay, that's what it is.

01:22:13Okay, got it.

01:22:21It was interesting to see how the post-communist

01:22:23countries had a significantly lower vaccination rate

01:22:25than the western countries. Oh, that's interesting.

01:22:35I went on a date with a woman yesterday

01:22:37who spoke loudly, no inside

01:22:39voice, and she invited

01:22:41me to her house, and I saw her

01:22:43meds sitting on the kitchen table.

01:22:45She was prescribed

01:22:47Seroquel, the antipsychotic,

01:22:49as a sleep aid, and

01:22:51clonazepam

01:22:53for anxiety. I feel the need to explain to her that

01:22:55she needs to get off these meds because she won't have

01:22:57a brain in two years. I

01:22:59can't give you any advice about that.

01:23:01I'm not a doctor.

01:23:03I'm quite glad video games have become woke,

01:23:05or shit in general. It makes playing them far less tempting

01:23:07for me, which is fantastic, yeah, for sure.

01:23:15Yeah, I like the older games.

01:23:17I'll still occasionally boot up Unreal Tournament 3

01:23:19and play some Warfare.

01:23:21It's great.

01:23:29Alright, any other last questions,

01:23:31comments? Thank you for your tips, my friend.

01:23:33Sunday

01:23:35offering. Thank you, I very much appreciate

01:23:37that. Let me just go and check over

01:23:39here.

01:23:47Let's see here, somebody says,

01:23:49Rose says, the love of money is the root of all

01:23:51evil. Not just money, which is just a tool,

01:23:53it is the love of money. Like thinking

01:23:55it will save you when there are times no amount of money

01:23:57will help a situation. Yeah, for sure.

01:23:59For sure.

01:24:03Everything that is centralized

01:24:05and coercive becomes

01:24:07corrupted.

01:24:15Alright.

01:24:19Well, I really do appreciate you guys coming by

01:24:21today. Thank you so, so much. Lots of

01:24:23love from up here. Have yourself a wonderful

01:24:25week. I will see

01:24:27you on Wednesday. I look forward to

01:24:29producing the new shows. You can, of course,

01:24:31get a call-in. Happy to take

01:24:33call-ins. You can go to freedomain.com

01:24:35slash call-in, and you can choose

01:24:37public or private as you see fit.

01:24:39And I always

01:24:41look forward to chatting with people about what's

01:24:43going on in their lives and how philosophy can help.

01:24:45And I thank you, thank you, thank you for the great gift

01:24:47of this absolutely amazing conversation.

01:24:49And I really,

01:24:51really deeply and humbly appreciate it.

01:24:53And again, sorry for my snappiness last

01:24:55Wednesday, but

01:24:57it's all better.

01:24:59Thanks, everyone. Bye.

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