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Wednesday Night Live 23 October 2024

In this episode, I explore personal responsibility and societal expectations, sharing anecdotes from my restaurant work that highlight the challenges of leadership. We examine behaviorism and question how genetics shape our behavior. I discuss the tendency to externalize blame, emphasizing the importance of accountability for personal growth. The conversation also touches on capitalism, relationships, and technology's impact on our lives, culminating in a focus on self-awareness and the search for meaningful connections.

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Transcript
00:00:00Good evening, everybody. 23rd of October 2024. My god, it's only two weeks until all hell
00:00:08breaks loose in America. So, I hope you're doing well. And we're here to talk about whatever's
00:00:17on your mind, whatever you're thinking. I'm happy to, we were just talking about Trump
00:00:22working at McDonald's and I was giving some of my, like in the pre-show, just giving some
00:00:25of my restaurant experiences. I liked working at Pizza Hut. It was a good place to work.
00:00:31It was crazy stressful, though. Not for me so much, but for the manager. Like he would
00:00:35throw up after lunches. Because there was this deal back in the day, I'm sure that they
00:00:39resurrected from time to time. There was this deal back in the day that you have to, by
00:00:46the time you order your food, you have to get your drink and your lunch within 10 minutes
00:00:50and they actually put these little LED clocks, you know, nobody had stopwatches back then,
00:00:55right? These little LED clocks, you'd hit a button and you'd have to get their drink
00:00:58order out and then their pizza order out within 10 minutes. Or they got a free pizza, they
00:01:05got a free coupon for the next day. Or whenever they wanted to come again. And I remember
00:01:12the restaurant manager, his name was Tony, as you can imagine. And he would sometimes
00:01:17throw up after lunch. He would find it so stressful to try and make sure everything
00:01:20was working. Because I guess he was getting pressure from head office. Maybe he was just
00:01:24the sole proprietor, I guess it was his restaurant, but he had everything on the line. And I remember,
00:01:29this is sort of real back in my early capitalist days, I remember thinking like, man, being
00:01:34a boss does not look like a lot of fun. He was there all the time. Constantly, there
00:01:40were problems with people, you know, quitting and not showing up for shifts. And he had
00:01:45this crate. And I just remember looking and saying, oh, man, that really doesn't look
00:01:49like much fun at all. And it's funny, because there was no union when I was at Pizza Hut,
00:01:55and I got all the free meals I wanted. I didn't have to pay for my own uniforms. And then
00:01:59when I moved to Swiss Chalet, where I worked for a couple of years, I had to pay a reduced
00:02:05price for every meal and I had to buy my own uniform. And I remember the union took what,
00:02:126-7% of my pay? I'm like, I don't know, this is exactly adding up, exactly adding up.
00:02:22Always loved that chicken. They had this great salad with this like chicken salad in a sort
00:02:27of ice cream scoop in the middle. So good. But I also really liked the fettuccine Alfredo
00:02:31at Pizza Hut. So good. Yeah, I was saying in the pre-show, I was a dishwasher for like
00:02:39a day or two. I just quit. And I was, I needed three jobs to keep, like I've been paying
00:02:44my own bills since I was 15 years old. And I quit that. I couldn't do it. I couldn't
00:02:53do it. I've quit only a few jobs in my life. And I remember I was going to, with a girlfriend
00:03:03back in the day, this is in my very early 20s, I was going to spend the summer up at
00:03:07a hunting lodge. It was on an island. It was a hunting lodge and a fishing lodge.
00:03:12And the pay wasn't great. And it was like you expected to put in like 14, 16 hour days.
00:03:18And I just, I just did the math back in napkin. And I was like, Oh my God, I'm getting like
00:03:21a buck 80 an hour. And I was like, Nope. Boy, that was an awkward drive back. After I quit.
00:03:27It was an awkward drive back on the boat with the guy. Oh yeah, that was no good. I don't
00:03:33like it when employers kind of misrepresent things. So, all right. So yeah, I was saying,
00:03:44I think, I think Trump's a pretty nice guy that way in terms of, you know, he seemed
00:03:48to be having fun and, you know, people said, Oh, it's so nice for you to spend time with
00:03:53ordinary people. He says, Hey, there's nothing ordinary about you, you know, and that's nice
00:03:57for people to be reminded of. But you know, it's funny because what was it? Left wing
00:04:03social media was incensed, as they often are, incensed that, that it wasn't real.
00:04:14Like he didn't actually apply. He didn't actually get the job. He didn't actually get paid.
00:04:19It was staged. And it's like, well, the guy's been shot at more than a, you know, a rubber
00:04:25duck at the fair. Of course, it's, I mean, I don't know. It's just bizarre. There is
00:04:31really no lower layer of hell than people who hate just because they're told to. And
00:04:38that really is one of the worst and most programmable aspects of human nature is there's probably
00:04:45between 40 and 60% of people, and you could argue sort of post pandemic that the number
00:04:51went even up to 80 or higher, the Milgram people, right? The people who will hate because
00:04:59you're told to. They don't have any facts. They don't have any arguments. They're just
00:05:06roused to hate someone, something just because they're told to. And they have no doubt about
00:05:12it. I mean, that is where almost all human iniquity comes from. And it is a tragically
00:05:18common thing, a tragically common thing.
00:05:22Hey, Steph, thanks for being here. Any thoughts on the psychological school of thought called
00:05:28behaviorism? To me, it seems like another way to avoid the truth of genetics and IQ.
00:05:33Yeah, apparently people are now also up in arms because apparently, I've read, I haven't
00:05:38verified it, but I was reading about how there is a IVF service now that lets you select
00:05:44by IQ. Well, you know, it'll come. It'll come. You just have to be patient and wait for
00:05:55human beings. It's not even, it's not even like you have to catch up. It's like you've,
00:06:00you've, you're like a chimpanzee on the shore looking at the jellyfish saying, come on,
00:06:08evolve. Come on, it's beautiful out here. You get your bananas, you get your sunshine.
00:06:13It's lovely. Gets a swing from the trees. Just evolve. It's not even, you're not even
00:06:19waiting for human beings to catch up. You're just waiting for human beings to get some
00:06:24limbs and get out of the ocean, catch up with this stuff, right?
00:06:30So behaviorism was popularized by B.F. Skinner, right? So it is treating the human being as
00:06:46a programmable, empirical, sense-based animal for the most part. It really doesn't go from
00:06:57the inside out. It doesn't go from the unconscious out. It doesn't go from images or dreams or
00:07:02personal memories of experiences and so on. It doesn't seem to do much with trauma as
00:07:10a whole, but it's very much just sort of outside in. It's just sort of outside in. It's the,
00:07:16the people who view the human being as like foundationally, almost universally spirit,
00:07:23but encased in this little flesh robot suit for a short period of time, but the foundation is
00:07:28the spirit and the soul and the ghost in the machine. This is the other extreme where humanity
00:07:34is a series of muscles and synapses that doesn't really have a spirit.
00:07:44It's a great song by Krista Berg, The Spirit of Man. A very, that's a great, great singer.
00:07:49So let's see here. This is from Very Well Minded. Behaviorism is a theory of learning based on the
00:07:57idea that all behaviors are acquired through conditioning and conditioning occurs through
00:08:00interaction with the environment. Behaviorists believe that our actions are shaped by
00:08:04environmental stimuli. So behavior can be studied in a systematic and observable manner, regardless
00:08:11of internal mental states. Behavioral theory also says that only observable behavior should
00:08:20be studied as cognition, emotions, and mood are far too subjective. Strict behaviorists believe
00:08:26that any person, regardless of genetic background, personality traits, and internal thoughts can be
00:08:31trained to perform any task within the limits of their physical capabilities. It only requires
00:08:36the right conditioning. So this is just another blank slate situation.
00:08:43So this is a quote from John B. Watson, 1913. This is a quote. He's considered the father of
00:08:51behaviorism. He says, quote, Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified
00:08:57world to bring them up in, and I'll guarantee to take anyone at random and train him to become any
00:09:01type of specialist I might select, doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant chief, and yes, even beggar man
00:09:08and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, pensions, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race
00:09:14of his ancestors. All behaviors are the result of experience. Any person, regardless of their
00:09:21background, can be trained to act in a particular manner, given the right conditioning. And from
00:09:28about 1920 through the mid-1950s, this was the dominant school of thought in psychology.
00:09:35So, yeah, I mean, you know, people on the left don't like ingrained behaviors that differentiate
00:09:41people, and people on the right don't like it because it denies, to some degree, the universality
00:09:47of the soul, and the superstition of blank slate egalitarianism and the superstition of soul-based
00:09:55life form where everything is interchangeable. It's just going to take humanity a while to catch
00:10:00up to the facts, to the evidence, to the science. And it just became, like, people are so resistant
00:10:09to this idea. People are so resistant because to give up the blank slate is to give up the
00:10:24greed of resentment. It's really tough for people to do. It's really tough for people to do. Aw,
00:10:30not fair! Aw, not fair! Right? It's the younger sibling lament, or sometimes middle sibling,
00:10:34sometimes the elder sibling. Aw, not fair! Not fair! How come he gets more? Right? So,
00:10:40the blank slate thing is, everyone is equal, we just have different environment. Right? There
00:10:48was a famous movie with Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd called Trading Places, wherein, I mean,
00:10:54it's been forever since I've seen it, but if memory serves me right, a rich preppy guy who's Dan
00:10:59Aykroyd, these two old guys mess with their lives, and he goes tumbling and spiraling down into
00:11:04being homeless, and Eddie Murphy, who plays a homeless con man, ends up having this absolute
00:11:10genius for investments and ends up making a fortune and being wealthy. Right? So, this is just,
00:11:17it's just all circumstances. Right? If you happen to be born to a wealthy family and you're given a
00:11:23whole bunch of opportunities, then you can become a scion of industry, you can become whatever,
00:11:27and if you are born on the down low, you're born in bad neighborhoods, then you're doomed to that.
00:11:36It's all just environment. Right? It's all just environment. It's very, very hard for people
00:11:47to give that up, because if you can convince the world that you didn't make mistakes,
00:11:59you are just unlucky, ah, that is a goldmine. That is a goldmine. If you can just convince the
00:12:08world, hey, man, I was born into this bad environment, and I ended up running with a bad
00:12:17crowd, and no one gave me any wisdom, and so I ended up doing a bunch of drugs, and then I went
00:12:26into an even worse crowd, and we ended up robbing houses, and it's just dominoes, you're just
00:12:31bouncing down, like nature just kicks you unsteady and limbless at the top of a spiral staircase,
00:12:37and you just bounce down forever, and so on. Right? It's very, very tempting to look at the
00:12:43world that way, because then, when you do badly, you can look at the people who do well and say,
00:12:55it's not to their credit that they did well, and it is not because of me that I did badly.
00:13:02It's not, they did not earn doing well, they were just lucky. I am not responsible for doing badly,
00:13:13I was just unlucky. Right? Now, if you can get a lot of people to believe that,
00:13:22and people, you understand, I mean, my gosh, I've seen this so much, right? I've seen this so much
00:13:29around the world, man, people are so absolutely, completely, and totally desperate for an ideology
00:13:37that excuses them their failures. You ever seen this?
00:13:41There is a massive demand for ideology as a whole that
00:13:47gives people an excuse for their failures. Oh, it's huge. It's absolutely huge, and it seems to
00:14:04be almost a bottomless hole that can never be filled. There's no amount of facts that can talk
00:14:12people out of it. If you've really fucked up your life, like, just catastrophe, it hits you like a
00:14:20weird, deep shock, and you have to have some kind of explanation. What happened that my life ended up
00:14:33so badly? Now, the problem is, and I feel this very strongly, which is, I'm just telling you,
00:14:39I'm emotionally invested, so you can have this be as wrong-handed and pig-headed and as subjective
00:14:46and emotional as possible. So, the problem is, people who really fuck up their lives
00:14:56almost always tends to be the people who make the most excuses to begin with,
00:15:00and the delivery of excuses is a sabotage of the human soul. Having an endless supply,
00:15:06oh, it's because of race. Oh, it's because of class. Oh, it's because of gender. Oh, it's because of X, Y.
00:15:10So, giving people endless excuses causes them to externalize what's called the locus of control,
00:15:16or who's in charge of your life. It's the system, man. System won't let me get ahead.
00:15:27So, the problem is, the people who fuck up their lives the most almost always tend to be the people
00:15:32who have made the most excuses and externalized the most responsibility.
00:15:39Now, the problem then becomes that, let's say that your life is a complete cock-up
00:15:51by the time you're 40, right? Like, you've just messed it up, right? You don't have a wife,
00:15:58you don't have kids, you don't have a decent career, you don't have much savings, your health
00:16:01is maybe kind of wrecked, you're overweight, you're, like, you just, you've screwed up your life
00:16:06pretty badly by the time you're 40. And you start to get this unease, like, maybe I am doing the
00:16:15wrong things, maybe I am, like, you start to get this real unease, and you face this fork in the road.
00:16:21And the fork in the road is you start taking responsibility and stop blaming others, or
00:16:27you escalate blaming others and become an ideologue, you hollow yourself out, you become an NPC.
00:16:33NPCs are run by excuses, they're not run by programming fundamentally, they're run by excuses.
00:16:43So, by the time you're 40, if you've really screwed up your life, and that doesn't mean
00:16:49permanently, it just means that I'm just talking about 40, right? You've really screwed up your
00:16:54life, and you've screwed up your life because of excuses, right? So, what's happened is, from
00:16:59whatever age onwards, at what age did you start turning your life around, somebody asked me,
00:17:05in my 30s? No, I started, I told you, I started paying my own bills when I was 15,
00:17:09kicked my mom out, I started turning my life around at the age of 15.
00:17:16I got, I worked hard, I got a good education in my 20s,
00:17:20and avoided marrying the woman I was going to marry in my 20s, and started a business in my 20s
00:17:25that did very well. So, no, I was turning my life around, I went to theatre school,
00:17:30I got an undergraduate degree in, well, I did two years of English, switched to history,
00:17:34did undergraduate in history, did a graduate degree in history of philosophy, so, no,
00:17:41I was turning my life around pretty early. And when I was a little heavier going into my teens,
00:17:46I started working out, joined the swim club, joined swim team, water polo team, cross-country
00:17:51team, I played a lot of soccer, and jogged, I ran like 20 miles when I was working up north,
00:17:57and so, I started turning things around pretty early on. But that's just as I was tempted,
00:18:02as everyone is, by excuses, right? And excuses are like drugs, I mean, they give you the relief
00:18:09by not holding yourself accountable, and the reason why it's hard for so many people to hold
00:18:13themselves accountable is they're held accountable prematurely and abusively when they're young,
00:18:18so they view accountability as a form of verbal abuse, and they don't want to
00:18:22verbally abuse and attack themselves, so they make excuses to ward off this abusive thing called
00:18:29being held accountable. Who's responsible for this, right? Your mom comes in, and something
00:18:32broke. Who did this? Who's responsible for this? Ah, responsibility means a beating. Okay,
00:18:37I'm avoiding responsibility. No, it was him, no, it was him, the wind blew in, a bird flew through,
00:18:41it just went over on its own. Somebody jumped up the stairs, and she wobbled, and I just won't
00:18:47take accountability, because accountability, who did this? Who did this? Accountability is punishment.
00:18:57So, by the time people get to that, when they're 40, they have probably 25 or 30 years
00:19:05of blaming the environment, blaming others, not taking responsibility, not taking accountability,
00:19:13so then when they get to their fork in the road, which is responsibility or excuses,
00:19:17because they have a quarter-century or 30 years of this habit, they go to excuses, and they say,
00:19:26I mean, it's one of the problems with capitalism, right? Under serfdom, everybody's a failure,
00:19:31so to speak, right? Because nobody can get ahead, right? When the Lord holds all the land,
00:19:37and you're just bought and sold like livestock with the land, right? The first time that people
00:19:44could excel economically in all of human history without straight up war and murder, which is just
00:19:50theft, right? The only time, and I wrote a whole novel about this called Just Poor, which you
00:19:56should absolutely check out at justpoornovel.com. It's free. So, the first time that people could
00:20:02excel economically was in the enclosure movement, 18th century in England, and other places,
00:20:11but it really started in England, where the serfs were separated from the land, and the land was
00:20:21able to be bought and sold, and once the land is able to be bought and sold, then the most
00:20:25economically productive farmers become the people who own the most land, and the lazy,
00:20:33or the drunken, or the incompetent, or the foolish, or the, I don't know, I don't think
00:20:38I'd be a great farmer, they're too abstract, right? They lose the land, and the competent
00:20:42people gain the land. So, one of the big problems with capitalism, thank you, Anthony,
00:20:48one of the big problems with capitalism is that you can no longer have as many excuses,
00:20:57because if everyone around you is a, quote, failure, because you're not allowed any economic
00:21:01advantage or advancement, then you can say, well, it is the lot of human beings to struggle under
00:21:06the heels of the powerful, and nobody gets ahead, and my brother doesn't get ahead, and my uncle
00:21:10never got ahead, and my great aunt never got ahead, and my children won't get ahead, right?
00:21:15So, we'll just kind of keep our heads down, and keep our nose to the wheel, keep grinding around,
00:21:18and hope for happiness in the afterlife, right? That's all you can do. It's all you can aim for,
00:21:23it's all you can hope for. Now, the problem is, though, when capitalism comes along,
00:21:29then skilled people, hardworking people, dedicated people, accumulate massive amounts
00:21:35of resources. So, then, you have a disparity, and you can no longer say, well, nobody gets ahead,
00:21:47because maybe you're the lazy brother, and then there's the hardworking brother,
00:21:51the prodigal son, right? And he goes, and he works his ass off, and he becomes a millionaire,
00:21:56and you are digging shit for outhouses.
00:22:03So, then, you have this question, how is he a millionaire, and I'm digging shit for outhouses?
00:22:09What the fuck happened? You know, it's a tough question.
00:22:18It's a tough, tough, why are the aborigines copy-pasting the same Groundhog Day for 40,000
00:22:23years? Why is he getting ahead, and I'm not? I mean, I'm sure the mainstream media had this
00:22:37with me when they saw my performance on social media, they saw my performance...
00:22:42Hey, Steve. They saw my performance on Twitter and other places, and it's like,
00:22:48well, how's he getting views, and we're not? He's like, two guys, and we are...
00:22:56Jeez, what did I see? Tim Kast? Tim Kast. Tim is cutting back his 16-hour work days,
00:23:02and he is getting married, and having a kid, and all of that. So, good for him. Good for him. He's
00:23:0838, I think, so it's a good time. It's a good time. It should have been a bit sooner, but maybe
00:23:11his wife is, or his girlfriend is younger. Niblerum? I can't remember what her name is,
00:23:19but why is that person getting ahead? Why is that person wealthy, and I'm not?
00:23:29That's tough, man. Have you had people in your life who've gone through this paroxysm?
00:23:37Supporter reading The Art of the Argument. Excellent so far. Thank you,
00:23:40artoftheargument.com. It's a great book. It's great. James, let's put that in rotation.
00:23:47How come? Why is it him, not me? Why is it him, not me? And it's tough.
00:23:56It's a tough, tough question, right?
00:24:00Tim Poole's O.F. No, it's not O.F. Go for it. Go for it.
00:24:11So, some of the answer is innate intelligence, right? IQ is 80% heritable, 80 plus percent
00:24:20heritable by late teens, and it goes up even from there, and that's accidental gifts or not.
00:24:28That's accidental, but in terms of success,
00:24:33I mean, certainly IQ is somewhat related to ethics, but not obviously one-to-one.
00:24:41And so, as far as success goes, the question is not the middle class versus the success,
00:24:46the plumber versus the Elon Musk, right? The issue is
00:25:00it's the failure versus the massive success, right? Because what is always the case,
00:25:06always the cry from particularly the left, but governments as a whole,
00:25:10we're going to make the billionaires pay their fair share. Resentment, resentment.
00:25:15Why did they succeed and why did I fail? Now, the IQ argument helps a lot to soothe these wounds,
00:25:22right? Like, why was Bono a lead singer in a band and I'm not? Well, because he sings really well
00:25:35and I don't. And so, that's a difference, right? That's a difference.
00:25:45I mean, why Sting, lead singer of the police, right? Because he's willing to eat virtually
00:25:51nothing, jump off bandstands and play a fretless bass. I'm willing to do none of those things,
00:25:58and he sings really well, and a great songwriter, obviously, and a good performer.
00:26:03Yeah. So, they get the voice, others don't, right? Nothing wrong with that. That's just
00:26:14scattershot. You got to find what you're good at and hit your niche.
00:26:18And then, if you're like me, wreck it for the sake of truth.
00:26:21So, there is... Did you hear Elon Musk recently say he didn't intend to start a business? He only
00:26:38started a business because he couldn't get a job. He said he applied at Netscape and got rejected.
00:26:42But Elon's dad had an emerald mine.
00:26:45Yes, but I do think that his... Was his father abusive? Sting's IQ, yeah. Yeah, Sting's a smart
00:26:53guy. Oh, the vanity, though. I mean, given how talented and good-looking he is and great physique
00:26:58and all of that, I mean, I can understand the vanity, but holy crap, it would be absolutely
00:27:02insufferable to be around. So, when people have screwed up, they need an answer. Now,
00:27:11nobody will give them the IQ answer, although that's part of the puzzle. It's an important
00:27:15part. There's no final part of the puzzle because there's free will, right? So, there's free will,
00:27:21but who is giving the answer? Now, to some degree, the religious answer is that the rich man
00:27:31is a sinner, right? A rich man is a sinner.
00:27:48So, he's too concerned with material gain. He sold his soul for money. It is easier for a
00:27:54camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.
00:28:01So, they say, well, he's wealthy because he's immoral. He's chased money. He's not
00:28:10taking care of his soul. He's gotten seduced by greed and filthy lucre, right? So, that's
00:28:16one answer, right? No, no updates on meetups at the moment, sorry.
00:28:27Money is not the root of all evil. It's the love of money.
00:28:34Well, that's the old line. Money is the root of all evil, they say, but when it comes to a raise,
00:28:39you'll find they ain't giving none away. Love of money is not the root of all evil. The desire
00:28:45for the unearned is the root of all evil, and the unearned can be any number of things, right?
00:28:50I mean, if love of money is the root of all evil, a rapist doesn't do it for money,
00:28:54but that's very evil. People murder for reasons other than money. That's a greater evil. So,
00:29:02no, it's not the love of money. It's the desire for the unearned.
00:29:07The desire for the unearned, by definition, means you have to get it through fraud or force,
00:29:12right? Otherwise, you've earned it. So, people get to the middle point of their lives,
00:29:21and if they have screwed up, they look for an ideology that makes it not their fault.
00:29:29Now, some things are not your fault, right? If you happen to be a short mesomorph, whatever,
00:29:40right? You're not going to be a supermodel, right? If you happen to not have a great singing voice,
00:29:44you're not going to be a singer. Whatever, right? If you have bad skin, that's just sometimes bad
00:29:49luck. I think it has a lot to do with stress, but a lot of times, it's just bad luck, right?
00:29:56You know, I had a friend of mine when I was in my teens. He was like 6'5 or 6'6, and he had knee
00:30:03problems, and it was just terrible, and he had knee issues. I can't remember if he had surgery,
00:30:07but I think he ended up addicted to drugs to some degree because of the pain, and it was just, oh,
00:30:13man, it was horrible. I remember we went to go and see a movie, and he had to have an aisle seat
00:30:16because he had to be able to stretch his legs out, and he was crying during the movie, and it
00:30:20wasn't even a sad pun. I'm like, what's going on? I was like, oh, my knee's killing me. It was that
00:30:24bad, right? It's bad luck. I mean, he wasn't overweight. He exercised, just happened to be
00:30:32tall, happened to have knee problems. Knee and back problems, and you live less long, but hey,
00:30:36you're tall, right, on average. So, bad luck. So, sometimes, it's not your fault,
00:30:43for sure, but it is your responsibility to figure out what you're good at and what you're not good
00:30:48at, and plan accordingly, right? I mean, I tried a whole bunch of different things until I found
00:30:56what I'm best at, and what is most unique, and most necessary, I would argue, of course, is this,
00:31:04right? I mean, I did novel writing, poetry. I wrote 30 plays. I produced a play or two. I did
00:31:13acting. I did Shakespearean leads. I did academics. I did novel writing. I had an agent. I got amazing
00:31:22reviews for my books, but no one published them because they were anti-communist. So, I tried a
00:31:27whole bunch. I was in the business world. I ran a company. I worked at several different companies
00:31:31at executive levels. I was on a board. Like, I just did a lot of cool stuff, and I was pretty
00:31:36good at a lot of it, but I had to keep working and working until I found what works best.
00:31:52Same thing with dating, right? Date a lot of women, and then meet the woman of my dreams, and
00:31:57then it's great.
00:32:04Why did I fail? Why did I fail? My mother had this. You know, she's a beautiful woman. She's
00:32:09very intelligent. She's a lot of charisma, good sense of humor at times, and she had to sit there
00:32:14and say, why am I alone? Why am I a failure? Why do I not work? She seized upon, ah, the doctors
00:32:23poisoned me, and they injected things into me, and it's their fault.
00:32:31Why? Why did things go so badly for me? And it's tough, man. It's tough.
00:32:43A lot of times, things go badly for people because they have people in their lives who don't care
00:32:47about them. I mean, I know that one, right? I mean, I was in bad relationships to some degree.
00:32:54I mean, it's still my responsibility, but I was in bad relationships to some degree
00:32:59because the people around me didn't give me any feedback or didn't care how I was doing.
00:33:05And once I realized that, I realized it's up to me to have quality people in my life. It's not
00:33:10up to anyone else. It's up to me to have quality people in my life, and that's it. That's my
00:33:14responsibility. So, when people have made bad decisions, which we all make, a bad decision
00:33:34only becomes bad when you don't learn from it, right? You make a bad decision,
00:33:39and it only stays bad if you don't learn from it. Otherwise, it's just
00:33:43something you ricocheted off to get to a better place, right?
00:33:50A bad decision only stays bad if you don't learn from it.
00:33:54So, people make bad decisions, and they refuse to learn from them. They avoid. They make excuses.
00:33:57It wasn't me. It was someone else, you know, like that woman you meet.
00:34:00Every one of her exes was crazy, and she was just perfect. Never did anything wrong.
00:34:10So, people say the environment, the circumstances, other people are just responsible for how their
00:34:22life turned out. Wasn't their fault. Wasn't their issue. Wasn't their problem. Wasn't them. Wasn't
00:34:26me. Wasn't me. And then, they can't escape the fact that other people have succeeded. Maybe other
00:34:43people close to them. Maybe an immediate family member. Maybe a friend. Maybe someone they grew
00:34:47up with. Maybe someone from the same bad circumstances, bad environment, right?
00:34:53Why? Damn it! Why didn't I succeed? Why did he succeed? Why did she succeed?
00:35:02And I'm telling you this, man. There's a tipping point in life
00:35:06where you can't... If you lie to yourself too often, you literally cannot...
00:35:11Oh, it looks like you've taken a hard fall. No, I'm okay.
00:35:15I did not fall. Yeah, sorry. Because I thumped my head. Oh, it looks like you take a hard fall.
00:35:21You're okay? No, I'm good. So, but I appreciate it. I appreciate the watcher watching out for me.
00:35:25It's watching out for me. So, why did he succeed and why did I fail? And if you lie to yourself for
00:35:33too long, and you avoid responsibility, and you make excuses, you can't tell yourself the truth
00:35:38anymore, right? So, let's say a woman, she's 45. She's like, why? Why didn't anyone fall in the
00:35:43Why? Why didn't anyone fall in love with me? Why didn't anyone marry me? Why didn't anyone
00:35:47get down on their knees and bring me flowers and beg me to be their wife? And why? Why?
00:36:00Well, let's say she answers that question. Well, because I made bad choices in men,
00:36:06and because I listened to propaganda, and because I thought I had more time, and because
00:36:10I kept thinking I could do better. Like, she can't accept that at 45, because it's too late.
00:36:18She can't have kids. She's blown it. End of her line. Four billion years, boom, end of the line.
00:36:29End of the line.
00:36:30She can't accept it. And knowing, like, a lot of society is driven by the people who are past
00:36:40the tipping point, right? There's no point. Like, they can't fix it. They can't go back in time.
00:36:46They can't fix it. Some guy who's like 55, who's just, you know, I mean, I remember talking many
00:36:51years ago to a guy, he was in his early 50s, and he's like, well, I'm living in my brother's garage.
00:36:57I don't have a job, but I don't want to panic. And I'm like, well, you do. You kind of do. Now
00:37:03would be an excellent time to panic, because I'm not sure what you're waiting for. Like,
00:37:06if you're in your early 50s, and you're living in your brother's garage,
00:37:09I mean, what are you going to do? I mean, what the fuck are you going to do
00:37:13if you're 53, and you're living in your brother's garage?
00:37:18What are the odds of you having a good career after that? You've missed it. You've missed it.
00:37:27There are windows in life. They open, and then they close and slam.
00:37:35The 45-year-old woman ain't going to have kids if she's childless.
00:37:43The guy who's 53, and living in his brother's garage, and is broke,
00:37:47is not going to have a good career. Oh, but I know a guy who'll...
00:37:50Irrelevant. Irrelevant. That's COVID. Why? Why did I fail? Why did I fail, and others succeed?
00:38:09It tortures people, and especially after they can't fix it anymore.
00:38:17I mean, hell, a guy who's 45 or 50, who never had kids, and now he wants kids. I'm like,
00:38:23eh, eh, eh. You've got to start dating. Maybe you'll be 50 when you have your kids,
00:38:30which means you're going to be 68 when they're adults, and I don't know, man.
00:38:35I don't know, man.
00:38:43So, people who've just fucked things up. I mean, I've always been terrified of fucking things up,
00:38:49because I mean, I know that, like, I was looking at Tim Kast's numbers, like the people he streams
00:38:54to. A few more than us, but I don't view that. He just took a different path, right? Honestly,
00:39:01I don't view, because I held fast to the most important truths, and
00:39:08so I'm very content and very happy with the choices that I've made. Co-perceive.
00:39:19So, what happens is there's this pull economy. There's this demand of people who've fucked up.
00:39:27I know a guy, says someone, well, I know my mom was 43 when she had me, but that was one of those
00:39:31exceptions that proves the rule. I said 45. A woman who gets pregnant at 45 and comes to a
00:39:38healthy baby, and you, I assume that you weren't the first kid, right? So, I'm talking about a
00:39:42woman who's single at 45. She's not going to have kids. She's not going to have kids.
00:39:46She's not going to have kids.
00:39:55So, when people have fucked up beyond, FUBAR, right? Fucked up beyond all repair.
00:40:00People do that to their lives on a regular basis. They fuck up their lives beyond all repair.
00:40:04Well, then they feel bad, and because they've made excuses, which is why their lives are screwed up,
00:40:29they are fertile ground for ideologies that blame others.
00:40:35Somebody says, Steph, you could have Tim Pool's numbers if you ran everything on his show
00:40:40through NewsGuard. If you ran everything on your show through NewsGuard like Tim Pool did to avoid
00:40:45the YouTube ban. Oh, is there a service now? Sorry, let's just take a slight detour here.
00:40:52Is there a service where you can run things through and figure out whether you'll get banned or not?
00:40:56Okay, well.
00:41:11So, I'm looking for influence in the future, not numbers in the present.
00:41:20And the plan is going well. The plan is going well.
00:41:25So, people need someone to blame when they've FUBAR'd their life. And Lord knows,
00:41:34there's an infinite supply of people who will tell you, it wasn't your fault, it's the institution,
00:41:38it's the system, it's the capitalists, it's this, it's that, and you couldn't get ahead,
00:41:43and other people are just lucky. And so, the problem is, of course, that when you don't hold
00:41:48yourself accountable for the mistakes that you've made, you can't give anyone else praise
00:41:56for their achievements. If it's not your fault that you failed,
00:42:00it can't be anyone else's fault or anyone else's credit that they have succeeded.
00:42:18So, it's rough, man. It's rough. So, it's rough.
00:42:41So, behaviorism is one of these things, right? Because it says, hey man, like,
00:42:45everyone's a blank slate, anyone can be everything. And of course, you know, people say,
00:42:49well, there's this Russian guy, he taught all two or three of his daughters to become
00:42:53really great at chess, and they became really great at chess. And it's like, well,
00:42:56yes, but they're his kids. I assume he had an intelligent wife, right?
00:43:00So, the determinism and infinite malleability of human nature is a cope and an excuse for people
00:43:26who failed. Say, well, it wasn't really up to me, it was based upon my environment,
00:43:30it's based upon whatever, right? And of course, you know, we all fail at stuff,
00:43:35but you just keep trying until you find something that really works for you.
00:43:40All right, let's see here. Let's get to your question. Steph, if you ask a woman her age
00:43:44shortly after meeting her, is that rude or weird? Is it like the equivalent of her asking you
00:43:49your salary? No, it's not the equivalent of her asking you your salary, because your salary is,
00:43:58to some degree, manifested in your situation, right?
00:44:10So, let's say you make six figures, okay, you probably have a decent car, you probably have
00:44:16a reasonably nice apartment, you probably have some decent clothes, and so on, right? And then
00:44:22you say, here's what I do, I'm an engineer, and I have a Lexus, and I have a two-bedroom apartment
00:44:29that's half-paid, like, whatever. So, she can kind of figure out your salary based upon
00:44:33your cues. You say, ah, yes, but you can figure out her age based upon her cues, and it's like,
00:44:38eh, can you? You see these demon-spawn changes? If men find out we can shapeshift,
00:44:47they're going to tell the church, right? Have you seen these shapeshifting videos with women
00:44:53who transform themselves from four to nine with just weird filters? I don't know, you can't do
00:44:57filters in real life, but maybe you can, obviously you can on webcams. But women who get the Botox,
00:45:05they can get the sanding of the skin, the dermabrasion, they can get fillers, they can dye
00:45:11their hair, and they almost always do, they can plump up their lips, because thinning lips is a
00:45:16sign of aging, and so they can plump up their lips. So, a woman can camouflage her age a lot more than
00:45:23a man can camouflage his poverty. A woman can camouflage her age a lot more than a man can
00:45:32camouflage his poverty. So, yeah, it's crazy. It reminds me of the Williams sisters' father,
00:45:40training them from a young age in tennis, got to play to your strengths. Well, and Tiger Woods
00:45:44was on Johnny Carson, what was it, at the age of two, golfing, right? And Andre Agassi's dad, like,
00:45:52strapped ping pong paddles to his kids when they were very little, and all of that, right? So,
00:45:57yeah, for sure, for sure. I mean, you can have an effect, right? I'm not saying that my daughter
00:46:02would be as innately good at reasoning and debating, if I hadn't been reasoning with and
00:46:06debating with her, since she was neither high nor high to a grasshopper, so, for sure, environment
00:46:09is not unimportant, I get that. Do you think Canada would be better off today, or America
00:46:18worse off today, if the U.S. had taken Canada in 1776, or in the War of 1812? I'm sorry, man,
00:46:27I love you to death. What a useless fucking question that is. Like, who knows? Who cares?
00:46:32Didn't happen. What's the point? What on earth? What on earth? I mean, completely different
00:46:43alternative history that never happened in this or any other universe. What on earth? I don't,
00:46:47I mean, help me understand. Maybe I'm missing something important, and I'm happy to be school,
00:46:51but what on earth would that mean about anything? So, okay, if George Washington was
00:46:58secretly a reptilian overlord from Betelgeuse 3, it's like, and how does that reduce violations
00:47:06of the non-aggression principle, exactly? Oh, dear, oh, dear.
00:47:20Ah, I just had the darkest joke go through my head, but I think I'll
00:47:24keep it to myself. All right, nothing to do with you, Mobius, and I appreciate your question,
00:47:29I just, I don't know what the purpose of that is at all.
00:47:44All right, let's see, any other questions or comments? Let's see.
00:47:51I just feel sorry for Canadians. What are your daily steps at these days?
00:47:57Um, not too bad. I pulled a little bit of a muscle, unfortunately, and so I'm down a little bit.
00:48:14So, daily steps, I mean, you know, 10 to 12,000 usually, if I'm doing any, I'm now doing, even
00:48:20when I'm doing like the article reviews, I'm walking around, I'm doing sort of the social
00:48:25media reviews, I just, I'd like to walk, walk as much as possible, walk as much as possible. If
00:48:30I'm doing call-in shows, I don't, you know, you notice I don't do the video anymore because I just
00:48:33can't stand here for two and a half hours, right? So, I just like to keep, keep it moving, keep it
00:48:38loosey-goosey. So, yeah, probably 10 to 15, and probably 8 to 10 hours of exercise a week, not
00:48:46counting just sort of walking around and so on, right? So, not bad, not bad. You know, I can feel
00:48:52the creakiness a little bit. I mean, that's just, I think it's just a factor of age, you know, I
00:48:56think, which is, you know, if I've been in a fairly long car ride, I do feel like I'm unfolding an old,
00:49:04an old wicker chair, get out of the car, and so.
00:49:11We are traveling as a family in South America to check out some of these places that Doug Casey
00:49:15favors. I miss my treadmill greatly. Ah, Doug Casey, gosh, was it Argentina? This was many
00:49:21moons ago, because I used to do some shows with Doug Casey, and I did some work with Doug Casey
00:49:25way back in the day. I remember being the emcee at a conference of Doug Casey's back and
00:49:32watching Lou Rockwell speak. It's many years ago. Oh, gosh, what was the name? He was trying to open
00:49:38these libertarian communities in South America, Central America. Their names were in Spanish,
00:49:46and I can't remember what they were, but did those ever go anywhere? Did they ever
00:49:50actually get those established? The Anarcopulco guy was trying to do the same thing as a whole.
00:50:01So, he had the Estancia in Argentina, but now he favors Uruguay,
00:50:08and it's a 400 acre place on the river there. He had the, what does that mean, it's gone?
00:50:13Does that mean it's gone? What happened to it? Sorry, this is a little bit inside,
00:50:19it's a little high, a little inside baseball here.
00:50:24Cafayette, Argentina.
00:50:33Well, all right, I'm not going to try and look this up live. It's a little bit inside baseball, but
00:50:37the guy who tried to pull it off in Chile was shut down by the environmental feds.
00:50:44The Estancia is still going, but it doesn't put much work in it, is that what you say?
00:50:58It's a little bit inside baseball, but
00:51:01environmental feds. The Estancia is still going, but it doesn't put much work in it,
00:51:06is that what you say? Yeah. Steph, what are some tips to know if you have a viable business?
00:51:12Do sales come in almost immediately or does it take some time to make sales? I want to
00:51:15do B2B, sell machinery to companies to increase productivity. And Doug Casey also wrote some
00:51:24novels, which are probably worth checking out. I haven't had time, but I will, I'm sure,
00:51:28at some point. Joe, I did a call with an entrepreneur who was trying to figure out the viability
00:51:41of his business. I'm sure that will be out relatively soon, and you can look for that.
00:51:50I played skeptical investor. Skeptical investor is, you think of all of the tough questions
00:51:54that investors, like if you were going to an investor and saying, I want a million dollars
00:51:58to start a business, and the investor obviously is getting 10 of these proposals a day, why
00:52:01would he choose yours? So I did a show, because of course I faced down a bunch of investors
00:52:07over the years, getting funding for businesses. And so I know how to play skeptical investor,
00:52:11and it's a really, really great and useful exercise. And I went through this with this
00:52:15entrepreneur. So I won't answer this here, because it was a long and interesting conversation
00:52:21about how to evaluate a business as a whole. So I hope you'll keep, it'll go out to donors
00:52:28first. Yeah, it's a really, I think it's a really interesting episode. And I do, of course,
00:52:34I miss the business world in those kinds of ways. And so I hope that you will, I'm sure
00:52:39you will check that out. But it's because the B2B sector is huge, and super important.
00:52:51All right. Any other last questions, comments, issues,
00:52:55challenges, problems? I'm all ears. Tips, support, help, aid?
00:53:05I guess the question I'm trying to understand is what is the fundamental difference between
00:53:08Canadians and Americans that causes Canadians to accept being oppressed?
00:53:13Yeah, so this is kind of this cliche that the Americans are free and the Canadians are
00:53:17compromists. And America is founded on a revolution, and Canada is founded on peace
00:53:23and order and good government and all of that. It's like, well, tax burden in Canada can be
00:53:28lower in many ways than it is in the States. And I don't know. I don't know. Oh, well, you don't
00:53:35have much free speech in Canada compared to America. It's like, well, there's free speech
00:53:40on paper, and then there's free speech that you can actually practice. Right? So I don't know.
00:53:48It seems like a bit of a cope. I love America. Don't get me wrong. It's a great country. But
00:53:53this idea that Canadians are oppressed and Americans just aren't. I don't know, man.
00:54:01That's some pretty sketchy stuff going on over the last 150 years. All right. What are your
00:54:06thoughts on when people use the phrase, I thought you meant, or I didn't realize,
00:54:09even though you gave them a direct order, like, don't eat my cake? Is it manipulation?
00:54:16Yeah, it's just fog. It's just fog. Oh, when you said don't eat my cake,
00:54:20I thought you meant I could have a bite. No, it's just a way of them. So there's an old saying,
00:54:27you've heard it a million times, it's better to ask for forgiveness than to seek permission.
00:54:34So people do whatever they want, and then they just assume they can fog it afterwards and you'll
00:54:38be okay with it. People just do what they want, and then they assume that they can just fog you
00:54:44and you'll be okay with it. So if people get away with it, most people will do what they get away
00:54:48with. There's an old Chris Rock line, a man is only as faithful as his options. So most people,
00:54:53most people will do what they can get away with.
00:54:57They don't have an internalized sense of morals. They will do what they can get away with.
00:55:13You know, Canada had, I mean, the Freedom Convoy was a very powerful thing. I don't know
00:55:22exactly the equivalent in the US, right? I mean, the Freedom Convoy, I mean, people were treated
00:55:27fairly brutally, and yet their COVID mandates evaporated almost immediately afterwards.
00:55:33So I don't know, man, this thing, oh, the Americans are rebels and the Canadians are
00:55:40just conformists, and it's like, eh, Canadians, you know, it's a pretty harsh climate, man,
00:55:46there's a lot of toughness up here. I'm not sure that the average Floridian can handle a Canadian
00:55:54Winnipeg winter. Hey, Steph, did you hear about the 14-year-old who committed suicide over his
00:55:59chat GPT girlfriend? I did hear about that. I don't know the details. So it sounds too sensational
00:56:08and convenient to be as true as, right? So it could be, it could be the case. I don't know,
00:56:15obviously, I don't do paywalled stuff, right? So I think it was paywalled when I tried to look at
00:56:19it earlier, because I thought it was interesting. So it could be that what happened was he had a
00:56:24really good and interesting conversation with chat GPT, and what happened was he then realized,
00:56:32sort of emotionally and deeply at some very deep level, he then probably realized
00:56:39how little he was, how little other people were interested in him in his supposed environment or
00:56:44family, right? That would be my guess. I don't know, obviously. But see, the interesting thing
00:56:51about something like chat GPT is you can have, and of course, I'm not chat GPT guy, but we do have
00:56:57our, we have a call and show AI, we've got RTR AI, Bitcoin AI, General Steph AI, so you can have
00:57:07really important conversations with this AI. And when you have the undivided attention of an AI,
00:57:15it probably helps you understand just how fucking distracted people are in conversations.
00:57:21You know, it's called cocktail eyes. You ever had this where you're trying to chat with,
00:57:24you're trying to chat with someone at a party, and they're just looking around to see if they can,
00:57:29if there's someone better for them to talk to, and they're just giving that Elizabeth Hurley,
00:57:33snotty down the nose kind of look at you. And I guess I can kill a little time with you,
00:57:38but don't expect me to stick around. My God. It's like, there was this guy, this Indian guy
00:57:43I was friends with when I was younger. And he, we would always, I would always say,
00:57:50let's get together this weekend. And he'd be like, well, you know, sounds good.
00:57:56But I'll, I'll let you know Friday. I'll let you know Friday. And of course it's blindingly
00:58:06obvious. He was just hoping to get a better offer. Okay. If I don't have anything good by Friday,
00:58:12yeah, we can get together on the weekend, but I'll let you know Friday. And of course that makes it
00:58:17kind of useless for me. Right. So I would just say no, then we'll wait until you can plan ahead
00:58:21more than two days. Right. So, um, so people are so distracted. You ever try and have a
00:58:27conversation with someone, their eyes keep drifting to their phone or you drive a car,
00:58:30like this, people are so distracted in conversations. So what's really interesting
00:58:35and the defensive and, and all of that. So when you're having a conversation with chat GPT,
00:58:39I think it's going to break a lot of people's brains because thank you for the tip, because
00:58:43you're getting a computer's undivided attention. They're not distracted. It's not going somewhere
00:58:51else. It doesn't have somewhere else to be. It doesn't have a show to watch. It doesn't have,
00:58:55Oh, email came in. I'm waiting for an email or Oh, text me. Oh, uh, uh, be real came in.
00:59:01I got to take my photo. I got to write to just people. It's so distracted.
00:59:06So I think when you're interacting with AI, it's not distracted. It doesn't have anywhere
00:59:11else to be. It doesn't have anything else to do. It's not waiting to confirm on Friday.
00:59:16It's not having to check its email. It's just, and I think that's going to break people because
00:59:20it's going to, they're going to recognize what they've been missing. Right. Thank you.
00:59:27They're going to recognize what they've been missing.
00:59:29I mean, I don't mean to over praise my marriage, but you know, my example is that, you know,
00:59:35like I can just sit there, like, what was it? My, my, my wife and my daughter and I,
00:59:39like two nights ago, we were just sitting there, chatting, laughing, making jokes and planning
00:59:45our lives for like, I don't know, we were there from like seven o'clock until like 1030.
00:59:50It's like three and a half hours. We're just sitting there chatting, no phones,
00:59:54no, you didn't even have to go to the washroom. I think I got up, get a glass of water at some
00:59:57point, but it's just great fun. And I mean, that's not every day, right? But you know,
01:00:03it's pretty regular. So that's what, don't you feel this kind of relief sometimes when you're
01:00:09driving? Because people generally aren't on their phones or distracted or right. You can actually
01:00:14have a conversation. He's trapped in the cabin of truth. I mean, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's,
01:00:20you can actually have a conversation. He's trapped in the cabin of truth, right?
01:00:32So I think that AI is pretty tough for a lot of people because
01:00:39they are so used to people, people being distracted and, and emotionally unavailable.
01:00:57I remember the police trampled people with their horses in Ottawa. Oh, there was a,
01:01:00it was an older indigenous lady who was trampled. Yeah, it was just terrible.
01:01:08Steph says somebody, I still have trouble understanding the process of quote,
01:01:12stealing a woman from a long-term relationship where the guy is wasting her time. How would
01:01:16that work? Is she supposed to break up with him, then be single for some years to get over the
01:01:19breakup? And only then should she start dating me? Man, I'm telling you, you'd be really,
01:01:28you probably would be really surprised at the number of non-relationships out there,
01:01:33sexless relationships, relationships without any passion, fire, romance, lust, desire,
01:01:39hot sex, like people who are just roommates, right? They're just roommates who complain about
01:01:44their jobs, right? So it's not like you're having to pick the locks of women chained
01:01:58with love and devotion and orgasms to some other guy.
01:02:01So for a lot of people, if they've been in relationships where they're just, what do they
01:02:14call them? Situationships, so just kind of roommates or friends with benefits, or even
01:02:18if it's a long-term relationship where the passion, you know, like I was talking to a guy
01:02:24the other day, he was in a half-decade relationship and there was like no sex at all for the last two
01:02:30years. I mean, and I've of course talked to a lot of guys on the show who are married and there's
01:02:35no sex or barely any sex or the sex is like just kind of routine and they call it the starfish,
01:02:41the woman just lies there and all of that. So if it's a long-term relationship and there's
01:02:47no passion and she's kind of checked out and she's just kind of treading water and dissociating and
01:02:52forgetting the passage of time and so on, if you liberate her from that relationship, you know,
01:02:57I mean, she may have not been really connected to that guy, they might have drifted to vague
01:03:02roommate status years ago, in which case some of that time period is added to the healing process,
01:03:08so to speak, right? I always call people out on having cocktail eyes, yeah.
01:03:27Research has shown that even having your phone out but not looking at it sends the message that
01:03:37you don't give a shit. Additionally, fubbing, looking at your phone instead of being present,
01:03:41now predicts the end of relationships. Yeah, I mean, listen, I've obviously not been perfect
01:03:47this way, I mean, I've kind of run a business on the phone to some degree, so.
01:03:53Is it realistic to have lust, passion and romance after being in a long-term relationship?
01:03:58Time passing should end all that stuff for most people. I have lust, passion and romance,
01:04:03I've been married for 22 and a half years and I don't imagine that, I mean, don't you want that?
01:04:10Isn't that fun? Isn't that great? If you're not harassing your wife, I don't know what you're
01:04:16doing, right? So, you just have to, I mean, you have to keep yourself healthy and lust after the
01:04:24person and let them lust after you and, no, that's great, I mean, why wouldn't you want that?
01:04:29I mean, I get that there's like a real heady kind of honeymoon period at the beginning, I get that,
01:04:35but we are pair-bonded species, right? We are pair-bonded species. So, I mean, the longer you
01:04:51do something with someone, the better you should get at it, right? So, I mean, enough said, right?
01:04:56You guys don't need to know all these details.
01:05:01Thank you, JP. If AI continues to advance while our interpersonal relationships are
01:05:06deteriorating, will we get more isolation or have more cases like that 14-year-old? I find
01:05:10this topic fascinating. Well, the distracted selfish people are now in competition with
01:05:16dedicated AI, right? So, distracted selfish people, I mean, I'm checking these messages
01:05:24because it's a live stream and I'm answering questions and so on, but I'm not checking my phone
01:05:27and empty-dumb and picking my nose and, well, my ear and all that. What was it? Massaging my
01:05:33vagus nerve so I relax? Give myself the Vulcan neck pinch and collapse like narcolepsy spark. But
01:05:43AI is a great playground with which to practice one-on-one attention time.
01:05:55And I will. I will look into that case with the 14-year-old. I mean, I know that the company,
01:06:02I think the company has said, oh, we're putting in more safety features and so on, and it's just
01:06:05like, oh, my God. Oh, yeah. Everybody who comes to any harm means that everything has to change and
01:06:12end up harming others, right? All visible harms end up being mediated by invisible harms, right?
01:06:19Oh, my God. Thalidomide caused 800 birth defects. Okay, let's ban all of this other stuff
01:06:25that costs 5 million lives. And this was back when I did a show with
01:06:30the woman from the FDA. No, it's not from the FDA. The woman who was,
01:06:34the doctor who was critical of the FDA many years ago.
01:06:39About 5 million. This is back in the day, like 5 million lives
01:06:43supposedly cost by banning stuff in America that was perfectly legal in Europe.
01:06:48Beta blockers and stuff like that. So rough, man. Rough.
01:06:59All right. Going once, going twice.
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01:07:27slash call. Wait, we need to see a nipple. Well, you can just look down. You can just look down.
01:07:37Yeah, McDonald's put out a pretty classy statement based upon the Trump thing, right?
01:07:43Good night. Good night, Steve. I think we're still trying to do a call, right? So just keep me posted
01:07:50on that. Yeah, everyone can see a nipple. Just look down. It's the big pimply thing that feeds babies.
01:08:03By that logic, self-driving vehicles will be banned. Well, that's the thing, right? So a car
01:08:08crashes into someone self-driving. Oh my God, we're going to, it's like, but then you're just
01:08:11turning back over to human error, right? This is how people being unable to think statistically
01:08:17and just reacting emotionally is, oh my God, a Turkish boy drowned. Now Europe can't have any
01:08:21border. Like, you know, anyway. I saw a movie, Wild Robot, which seems to be about the white
01:08:29man's burden. Enough said. When do you think that show about the entrepreneur will be out? I don't
01:08:36have a shipping date. Stop pressuring me. I don't know. It'll be out this week for sure.
01:08:40James, right? This week? Yeah, I think it will. But for subscribers, we'll get it first, of course,
01:08:45as they usually do. As they usually do. All right, let's check over here.
01:08:53I'm 70 and for me, it's more agape than eros these days. Agape. Highest form of love charity.
01:09:00Yes, no, I get that. I mean, I'm pushing 60 and I'm not a sex crazed as I was when I was 18.
01:09:09I get that. But still. And don't forget, of course,
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01:09:34Yeah, B2B is good because B2B is more of a hidden market, right? Business to consumer
01:09:39is obvious and everyone's sort of aiming at that. And B2B is like a, it's a dude fest,
01:09:45right? It's a sausage fest because the B2C, business to consumer, is often where the women
01:09:49want to be. So that could be helpful. All right, going once, going twice,
01:09:55comments, questions, issues, challenges, lust, kicks at the can. I do not know. I do not know
01:10:02the other concert t-shirt was invented. I do know I was reading this
01:10:07biography of the band Led Zeppelin and they were talking about how in the 70s it was all cash based
01:10:12and they're just massive amounts of cash stuffed in garbage bags for the concerts and people were
01:10:18just grabbing it left, right and center and it was all just crazy, right? Somebody says,
01:10:23I don't trust self-driving because of the spyware slash tracking integrations into
01:10:27its systems. Ford and the other automakers have patents for self-driving
01:10:31repossession. So if you miss a payment, the car drives itself back to the dealership.
01:10:35Yeah, I don't think it's going to be if you miss one payment, right? But I have no problem with
01:10:41a car going back to the dealership if you don't pay for it. I mean, that's enforcing property
01:10:46rights and contract. What's wrong with that? I mean, if you don't, if you don't pay for it,
01:10:52you're kind of stealing it, right? So is it bad for the company to recover its property
01:10:57if you're stealing it? I don't think so. And what's wrong with the car driving itself back
01:11:00if you've stolen it? Come on, man. I mean, what's? Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. I mean,
01:11:15I get the spyware and all of that, but in a free society, I'd want stuff that was stolen to return
01:11:22to its original owner. And the more automated the process, the better. I mean, maybe I'm missing
01:11:27something, but yeah, we can. Oh yeah. Sorry, James. Why don't you put out the entrepreneur
01:11:35call tomorrow for donors? Zeppelin were a big hit and the critics hated them. They made a ton of
01:11:40money. Yeah. And Robert Plant just wrecked his voice, man. It's like when Freddie Mercury was
01:11:45singing, another one bites the dust. He loved the song so much. It was, I think it was a John
01:11:52Deacon composition who was actually was referred to as Deacon John early on in the show, in the
01:11:57album sequence. But Freddie Mercury, and I think Robert Plant, but definitely Freddie Mercury
01:12:03developed these sort of vocal nodules, which are like rubbed raw vocals, and it can be pretty bad.
01:12:09And Freddie Mercury didn't want them operated on because he was terrified that they would wreck his
01:12:15voice. Because isn't that what happened to Julie Andrews? She got vocal nodes operated on and
01:12:20couldn't sing afterwards. Oh, you drove one kilometer per hour over the speed limit. It
01:12:27drives you to the police. People won't buy that. People won't buy that. There's a consumer involved
01:12:42here, right? And there's lots of reasons to drive over the speed limit, which is to pass people,
01:12:48right? Or you're in a hurry because your wife's giving birth or whatever it is, right? I mean,
01:12:53people go over the... Yeah, your car can be hacked and your safety compromised. I get all of that.
01:12:58Now, that's a different matter, right? That's sort of Ann Hesch theories, right? So your car can be
01:13:02hacked. Absolutely. And you can be put in danger. No question. No question. Yeah, but Steph, it's
01:13:10okay to steal from big business. We can't have cars drive themselves back to the man, right?
01:13:15Most new leased cars have low jacks, immobilizers, and the feds can request dealers to remotely
01:13:19disable your car without a warrant. Is that right? Yeah, I mean, I don't have a new car. My car is not
01:13:27new. So I don't know. I have no particular interest in it. Every now and then, I get an email from the
01:13:34dealer and it's like, here's all the cool new stuff. And I'm like, yeah, that is kind of cool.
01:13:37And then I see the sticker price. I'm like, well, now I need... I don't know. I don't know.
01:13:43Now I need... I'm not going to be able to afford a new car because I just have to buy a new chair
01:13:47because I just cram my pants looking at the price of things. Jeez. Okay. So was it... It was like
01:13:53a... It was some electric car. It was like $112,000 or something. I'm like, Jesus God Almighty.
01:14:01It's madness. Madness. Give me good old 1980s dumb cars. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I still miss my...
01:14:131992 Volvo S70. Red. Matchbox 20 car. It was beautiful, man. Beautiful. But man,
01:14:22that was a bit of a lemon. My one was. Just so much of it fell apart. I had this list of
01:14:26things that weren't working at the end of it. It was like 15 different things. But anyway.
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