Stefan Molyneux
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In this episode, I analyze Bitcoin's impact on national economies, particularly El Salvador's bold investment strategy, while reflecting on the dual nature of political power. I shift to the lighter side, exploring relationship dynamics and societal expectations around attractiveness.

The discussion examines Americans' health challenges amid macroeconomic trends, highlighting the need for personal responsibility. We juxtapose public sentiment on Bitcoin with traditional currency and note companies adopting Bitcoin as a reserve asset. Throughout, I advocate for a balanced life rooted in honesty and moral integrity, blending humor with serious insights.

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Transcript
00:00Well, hello, everybody, it's Emil and you from free domain.
00:04Oh, I had a call and canceled.
00:07So we're going to go through some social media posts.
00:10I know some of you like this kind of show.
00:14Hopefully you're one of them.
00:16The Great Bitcoin Archive, El Salvador really sounds like a El Cid night.
00:21El Salvador started buying Bitcoin, one Bitcoin every day on this day two years ago.
00:26They literally started at bottom of the bear market and now total 6,158 Bitcoin worth 518
00:34million.
00:35Their profit is 138 million international monetary fund in disbelief.
00:40So I hate, I hate, I hate, I hate the fact that one political leader can make such a
00:51difference.
00:52The government has so much power, but it's true.
00:56They're laying the foundation for future prosperity, making the country safe.
00:59One person can change so much.
01:02That's just the nature of politics.
01:03I hate it, but it's a fact.
01:06All right.
01:07Uh, this is kind of funny, but I think it's interesting, right?
01:09So there's in honor of the start of deer season, let me once again, post my favorite meme men
01:13be like, where's the ketchup men also be like, do you see that buck across the Canyon?
01:18All right.
01:19So this is kind of like a meme and I get this, right?
01:22It's a funny meme that men can't find things in the fridge, but the reason we can't find
01:26things in the fridge or the reason we can't find things is that we give up.
01:31So the reason you're looking in the fridge for something, and the reason that you go
01:37and ask your wife is because your wife has thrown it out.
01:41Your wife has moved it.
01:42Your wife has used it up and so on, right?
01:46And there's nothing wrong with that.
01:47But when you live particularly with women, they're moving things, they're making things
01:52more efficient.
01:53They pick things up.
01:54They dust things.
01:55They move things.
01:56Um, the number of times that I'm like, oh, where's, you know, my microphone is like,
01:59oh, well I moved it by your computer upstairs.
02:01And it's like, I thought I'd left it down here.
02:04So because the wives, God love them move stuff around.
02:08We go to ask our wives to eliminate the possibility that we're completely wasting our time looking
02:14for something.
02:16So just so you know.
02:18All right.
02:19Um, Bitcoin is now the seventh largest world asset.
02:23That is really something in, uh, what, 14, 15 years.
02:27All right.
02:28I think this is true.
02:29I think this is true.
02:30Can't verify all of this stuff.
02:31Bitcoin.
02:32This is Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
02:34Now, I mean, he's a real lib as far as this goes, not a free speech guy.
02:38He's an abortion guy in some ways, but he wrote Bitcoin as the currency of freedom,
02:42a hedge against inflation for middle class Americans, a remedy against the dollar's downgrade
02:47from the world's reserve currency, and the off ramp from a ruinous national debt.
02:50Bitcoin will have no stronger advocate than Howard Lutnick.
02:53That sounds like a Rand villain or a Bond villain, but, uh, what's that saying?
02:58The Randian heroes are mythological, but the villains are very real.
03:02All right.
03:03The most attractive male hobbies.
03:05I can't, I'm looking for philosophy.
03:07I guess that's over a hundred percent.
03:09All right.
03:10So what have we got here?
03:11Uh, reading, foreign languages, playing instrument, cooking, woodworking, painting, writing, gardening,
03:17swimming, photography, astronomy.
03:20Do they mean astronomy or astrology?
03:21Hiking, archery, blacksmithing, traveling, blacksmithing.
03:24I would not have guessed.
03:25Uh, reading.
03:26I understand because reading, uh, means that you have empathy and for a lot of women, empathy
03:32is plus.
03:33Well, for most women, empathy is a plus.
03:34If they're good women, it's because you care about them.
03:37If they're bad women, it means you're easier to manipulate and control.
03:43Foreign languages show travel and intelligence as does playing an instrument shows willpower
03:47and so on.
03:48Uh, cooking.
03:49Sure.
03:50I mean, women want to be taken care of because in, in the modern world, now the modern world
03:56is very stressful for women.
03:58And uh, so they like the idea of being pampered or being pampered.
04:02I was talking to a woman once who was like, Oh, we could fit in home pampering.
04:05I can't imagine a man being, finding that appealing.
04:08And it just turned out to be like, buy my face cream.
04:11All right.
04:12So yeah, interesting stuff.
04:13I don't know if you find this true or not, but I thought it was interesting.
04:17Uh, yeah.
04:18The number of bureaucratic layers in government has grown quite a bit since the 1960s.
04:23Do we really need over 80 layers?
04:26Well, of course not.
04:28Right.
04:29Obviously.
04:30But a government is a place where unskilled people go to make a lot of money and have
04:34power vastly in excess of their own authority, like it's their own sort of credibility.
04:42Like it's kind of funny how all of these people were like, Oh, Kamala Harris, Kamala Harris
04:45is like, she's the bomb.
04:47She knows everything.
04:48She's going to make a great country and, and so on.
04:51Right.
04:52And so you can just sign up to follow her and, and, uh, you can do what she tells you
04:59to do.
05:00You don't have to be the president to do the right things that Kamala Harris, uh, knows
05:04all about that are good to do.
05:06You can just follow her.
05:07You can, maybe she's got, uh, uh, email updates or you can follow her on, on X or other social
05:13media platforms and just do everything she tells you.
05:16If she's the wisest person who's just fantastic to run the country, then you can let her voluntarily
05:22run your life.
05:23Right.
05:24You don't need her to be in power.
05:26So, uh, yeah, you know what else has a lot of layers and makes you cry an onion.
05:33Nice tribe with Alex Jones.
05:35All right.
05:36Bernie Sanders.
05:37I look forward to working with the Trump administration on fulfilling his promise to cap credit card
05:41interest rates at 10%.
05:44We cannot continue to allow big banks to make record profits by ripping off Americans by
05:48judging the 25 to 30% interest rates.
05:50That is usury.
05:52Well, it's because credit card companies aren't allowed to discriminate, right?
05:58There are some groups, um, you can think of sort of between males and females, right?
06:05Men are better at paying off their debts than women are.
06:08And uh, don't know.
06:09There are certain groups in society that are better at paying off their debts than others.
06:14And uh, because credit card companies aren't allowed to, uh, choose, uh, based upon general
06:23statistics of paying back debt, uh, everyone has to pay, uh, for the least debt paying
06:29group groups.
06:30So, yeah.
06:31I mean, all that'll happen is that if credit card interest rates are capped to 10%, then
06:36only, um, upper middle class and above households will be able to get a credit cards, which
06:42may or may not actually be the bad, the bad thing, right?
06:47Um, okay, let's skip that one.
06:53Uh, Joe Rogan, Obama straight up lied.
06:56Uh, so of course, you know, Joe Rogan, uh, kind of turned on me.
07:00I can't even remember eight years ago.
07:02I don't know.
07:03Who knows, right?
07:04But of course, I did shows way back in the day about how terrible Obama was.
07:09I'll link to one below.
07:10You can, you can watch it, but, uh, you know, it, it, it just gets so, um, I don't know
07:18what the word is exactly tiring, boring.
07:23It just gets like waiting for people to catch up.
07:28Waiting for people to catch up is, uh, is, is crazy.
07:34My wife and I kind of have this one way or the other.
07:36So when we're hiking, uh, she's like, she's like a go bot.
07:39Right.
07:40And I'm a little bit more sauntering and, you know, enjoying the view, but, uh, when
07:44we're in a mall, she wants to stop and look at everything.
07:47So either she's waiting for me or I'm waiting for her, waiting for people to catch up.
07:51Uh, particularly if it takes, I don't know, half a decade, a decade or more, uh, is really,
07:57it's really tiring and tiresome and you never get any credit, right?
08:04Nobody ever says, or very few people will ever say, Hey, Steph was talking about this
08:0910 years ago, 15 years ago, 20 years ago, almost right.
08:13But they're just like, yeah, I just came to this conclusion.
08:15Isn't that interesting?
08:16So that's why I'm, uh, to some, to a large degree, I mean, for mostly our politics, because
08:21it just, it takes too long for people to catch up and you get too many arrows in the back
08:28and then people step over your body like you weren't even there.
08:30All right.
08:31Uh, this is pretty funny.
08:33This guy is paying, it's paying for his, uh, he's paying for his child support with
08:40checks with photos of him and his new wife in the background.
08:43And you can see this, uh, never have been happier.
08:46I love my wife.
08:48Uh, I don't know if it's true or not, but either way, it's pretty funny.
08:53I think I used this in a podcast today.
08:55The sun loses over 4 million tons of mass every second as energy.
09:01I initially thought this was about the DOD and an audit, but it's actually tons of mass.
09:05That's a stars.
09:07Honestly, every now and then stars just blow my mind.
09:10I mean, I don't know why the sun isn't called a space heater, but the fact that we are alive,
09:18we exist because of a 10 billion year nuclear bomb, I can't even tell you, like, I remember
09:26when I was a kid, you know, you find out, Oh, the sun's going to go out in 5 billion
09:30years or 10 billion years or whatever it is.
09:31Right.
09:31And there's a certain, so it's a slightly precious angsty nihilism that sort of creeps
09:37into your bone marrow.
09:38But seriously, it's because there's a giant nuclear bomb 93 million miles away, eight
09:49light minutes away.
09:53That is why we exist.
09:56And when I was a kid, of course, you know, you build your little bonfires and they're
09:59hard to maintain and they go out easily and so on.
10:02And there is a bomb that blows up for 10 billion years.
10:06And that's the only reason we're here.
10:09Every now and then you just look up at the sun and it's like, okay, that's a nuclear
10:12bomb that's been going off for, it's going to go off for 10 billion years.
10:16And that's the only reason we're here.
10:18That's amazing, right?
10:20These charts, look, you cannot, you cannot predict the future from the past.
10:24You cannot predict the future from the past.
10:27So if you can with personalities, the best predictor of future behavior is relevant past
10:31behavior.
10:32Absent significant work on self-knowledge, but there is still this pattern of Bitcoin.
10:42And obviously there's some similarities.
10:44Maybe it'll go up from here.
10:46I think it will.
10:47I think it won't, but we'll see.
10:49Oh, sorry, I should have grouped these maybe, but I can't move out of the game moving around.
10:52Top least attractive male hobbies to women, right?
10:58So, uh, comic books.
10:59Yes.
11:00I understand that.
11:01Comic books, uh, because that indicates that you will have a child with the child, like,
11:07cause you want a male authority figure, at least for your children.
11:10Even if you don't believe that men should have much authority in the relationship, right?
11:13So comic books, I get that.
11:15Cosplay debating.
11:18Well, now why would a woman not like a guy who debates?
11:23And he took that very personally.
11:25Why would a woman not like a guy who debates?
11:28Well, because a guy who debates is good at arguing back and is tougher to gaslight and
11:35control.
11:38We understand that.
11:39Uh, drinking.
11:40Yeah, I understand that.
11:43Kind of makes sense.
11:44Marjorie Taylor green meeting magic, the gathering.
11:48I can understand that too.
11:49Anime makeup.
11:51Yeah, I can see that.
11:53Crypto and cigars.
11:55Well, a crypto, because he might be able to hide his wealth from her cigars because he's
12:00going to smoke with other men and they're going to tell him she's crazy.
12:03If she is, uh, I don't know what Funko is.
12:06Uh, the fact that, that drinking, sorry, debating is three times worse than a
12:14porn addiction.
12:15Oh my God.
12:16That's something gambling and the man is fear.
12:19So it's about control, right?
12:22All right.
12:22Um, yeah, the Robert F. Kennedy thing is really, really interesting, right?
12:26He's this guy writes, you know, you think RFK is insane.
12:29Good.
12:29We need to do some insane things as soon as possible because what's even more insane is
12:33what's happening to our health.
12:3574% of adults are overweight.
12:3750% of children are overweight.
12:3950% of adults have diabetes or prediabetes.
12:4230% of teens have diabetes or prediabetes.
12:4540% of 18 and under have a mental health diagnosis.
12:48Young adult cancers are up 70%.
12:50One in 36 kids have autism.
12:52I did not know a single autistic kid when I was growing up.
12:56I remember getting the smallpox vaccine when I was in boarding school.
12:59We used to all the boys because it was, if you jerk your arm, there'd be a scratch on
13:04your arm.
13:04So we would all compare scratches to see how brave we were.
13:08And yeah, the health is, uh, is, is catastrophic.
13:10This is like late stage mass utopia stuff as well.
13:13Right.
13:14And also because, because doctors have to treat people, uh, no matter what you don't
13:24get the early signals about health and affordability, right?
13:27A lot of the national debt has to do with the fact that doctors have to treat everyone,
13:33no matter whether they can pay or not means that people don't really think about their
13:36health.
13:37Right.
13:37Because I mean, the way it should work is you have insurance and the insurance, the
13:41moment you start to get bad health markers, the insurance starts cranking up your rates
13:45and that gives you an incentive to change right now, you just run to the government
13:49crying and bleeding and they give you all the healthcare known to man for quote free.
13:53And so you don't get those early signals.
13:55And I mean, remember a lot of people aren't that wise.
13:58They just go off, especially financial signals and you're just not getting them.
14:03Again, how all, whether all of this is true or not, I do not know.
14:07I do not know.
14:07But this is very interesting.
14:10U.S. over forties could live an extra five years if they were all as active as the top
14:1425% of the population.
14:16And for the least physically active, this could mean living nearly 11 more years.
14:22So that's pretty, pretty wild, pretty wild.
14:26Low physical activity levels are associated with a higher risk of diseases such as heart
14:29disease and stroke, as well as premature death and so on.
14:34You know, you can read this in more detail.
14:36This is under Owen Gregorian.
14:38But it is, you know, if you've had something where you say, gee, I've wasted time in my
14:44life where I put, I don't know, 5,000 hours into Baldur's Gate 3 or something like that.
14:48If you feel like you've wasted time in your life, then what you can do is you can say,
14:53well, I'll just start really exercising and controlling my weight.
14:57Exercise well, move around, get some, get some, eat well, exercise well.
15:02And you get all that time back.
15:03It's magic.
15:04All right.
15:06No one is hated more than an honest man.
15:09Well, that's not, I mean, no one is loved or hated more, right?
15:14You cannot get the love of the virtuous, which is the only love that exists, without incurring
15:18the hatred of the evil.
15:20That is the deal.
15:21It's a sad thing about life.
15:22It's a sad thing about the world that is.
15:24I would not have the love of those who love me.
15:28And I would not be able to love the people that I love if I was not willing to endure,
15:31as other people are willing to endure, the hatred of the evildoers.
15:36And that is a sad price we have to pay for falling in love.
15:40And being in love is that we have to put up with the hatred of the evildoers.
15:45But that is just the way that it is as it stands.
15:48All right.
15:49You got to check out my novel, The Future, about how we get out of it.
15:53Public listed companies saw Lydian technology to allegate 60% of cash flows to buy Bitcoin
15:58for its corporate treasury.
15:59It's just coming along well.
16:01I thought this was interesting.
16:03So the book is based on a survey where men and women were asked if they got 80% of everything
16:09they want in their ideal mate, would they be happy with that?
16:12And women said, no, that's settling.
16:14And men said 80%.
16:15I'd be thrilled.
16:16That's a catch.
16:17And so 80% of the women you surveyed is settling.
16:20That's settling because, you know, the question is what actually makes us happy in long term
16:24romantic love?
16:25And, you know, that's the question that I explore in the book.
16:27And I'm a journalist.
16:28So I went out and I asked neurobiologists about chemistry and I asked behavioral economists
16:32about demographics.
16:32And I asked marital researchers.
16:34What are women too picky about here?
16:37Well, I'll tell you, I'll tell you.
16:38Men and women were asked what would be a deal breaker for going on a second date?
16:41And men named three things.
16:42They said she has to be cute enough.
16:44She doesn't have to look like Angelina Jolie.
16:45She just has to be cute enough.
16:46She has to be warm and kind.
16:48And she has to be interesting to talk to.
16:49Those seem like really valid criteria.
16:51Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.
16:52Pretty simple.
16:53Right.
16:53OK, reasonable, right?
16:54The women came back with 300 things that would rule out a guy for a second date.
16:58And we're talking about like another two hours and maybe a free dinner.
17:01And they wouldn't do it.
17:02And there were things like he wore a brown belt with black shoes.
17:05Or we were having a really good time.
17:06And I thought he was cute and he was interesting.
17:08But then he went, he did this Austin Powers impression.
17:10And I just can't get that out of my mind.
17:11And I can't go out with him again.
17:12Austin Powers guy could be the love of her life.
17:14The book is based on a survey where men.
17:16Yeah, it's this.
17:17Is it home math or something?
17:19One of these guys does this, you know, 634.
17:23This gives women the the ick.
17:26So the fussiness is interesting.
17:29So in the modern world, women are protected from physical dangerous.
17:33They don't do dangerous work for the most part.
17:35And they are protected from foolish decisions such as having a child out of wedlock by the
17:41welfare state, free health care, dental care and social security and sort of you name it.
17:47So women can afford to be picky because in the past.
17:52Being immune from negative consequences meant that you were the aristocracy.
17:57It meant that you were very, very high up in the power structure.
18:00So women have been programmed by lack of consequences and lack of danger.
18:05To like you think of a queen, right?
18:07Queen is not going to get eaten by a wolf, right?
18:09But all women in cities are never going to get eaten by wolves and so on.
18:11So the lack of danger, the lack of consequences has elevated women
18:15to be pretty vainglorious.
18:17A lot of them, right?
18:17Of course, obviously not all.
18:20So the queen has to be super picky about who she chooses as the king and the aristocracy
18:27of youth and beauty and feminism and lack of consequences and lack of danger.
18:32Right, because if a woman is like, let's say you live on the frontier, the woman needs a man
18:37to take care of predators, to build the structure that keeps her and her kids safe and all like
18:43she needs all of that.
18:44But if protection is outsourced to the state and so on, then the woman can be as fussy as
18:53she likes because she is being programmed to believe she's at the very top of the pyramid
18:57of the aristocracy, which is why the ick is important.
19:02Bitcoin Archive, Pennsylvania.
19:06Hey, is that where Dracula's from?
19:07To allocate 10% of its $7 billion reserves to buy Bitcoin if it passes the Bitcoin
19:12Strategic Reserve Act.
19:14Yes, yes, yes.
19:16So Bitcoin has the same number of users as the internet had in 1999.
19:23Today we're going to Bitcoin like it's 1999.
19:28So yeah, look at this.
19:29So this one, of course, the red one is internet adoption.
19:33So we're just right in around there.
19:36And this only goes up to 2020.
19:39Of course, it's higher now.
19:40And look at that.
19:42Look at that.
19:44And the interesting thing, of course, is that you had to pay to access the internet.
19:49And for a lot of people, it cost time because they'd spend time doing it.
19:53Whereas you do have to pay to enter Bitcoin.
19:56But Bitcoin accumulates in value.
19:58Boy, if I had all the time back that I'd spend on the internet over my life, it would be
20:04all the more like money back.
20:05Crazy, right?
20:07Same guy, right?
20:08Same guy.
20:08Yeah.
20:09Five, Vific for real, underbar.
20:11Five new US public companies have adopted Bitcoin as a treasury reserve asset this week
20:16alone.
20:16It's happening this pretty wild, right?
20:20Therapy is invented 120 years pass.
20:24Everyone's more anxious, neurotic, and depressed than ever before.
20:28How did this happen?
20:31Isn't that something?
20:35Isn't that something?
20:36Now, I remember doing an interview with a guy, this is like 15 years ago on the show,
20:41about how good talk therapy is enormously beneficial for happiness.
20:46And it's worth like thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars a year in a raise,
20:51in raises, like financial raises.
20:54So yes, yes, yes.
21:01I'm, you know, maybe I'll think about this.
21:02I found therapy to be very helpful, enormously helpful, but I had a therapist who was quite
21:10into morality in many ways.
21:12So that is interesting.
21:15Everyone's more anxious, neurotic, and depressed than ever before.
21:18Obviously, correlation is not causation, right?
21:20A hundred percent of the people who confuse correlation with causation end up dead.
21:26So that's interesting.
21:28What do you guys think?
21:28Think about that.
21:29Right, that's for me.
21:31I just watched my five-year-old son chat with GPT advanced voice mode for over 45 minutes.
21:36It started with a question about how cars were made.
21:38It explained it in a way that he could understand.
21:41He started peppering it with questions.
21:43Then he told it about his teacher, and that he was learning to count.
21:47Chat GPT started quizzing him on counting and egging him on making it into a game.
21:52He was laughing and having a blast, and it obviously never lost patience with him.
21:56He was laughing and having a blast, and it obviously never lost patience with him.
22:00I think this is going to be revolutionary.
22:01The essentially free, infinitely patient, super genius teacher that calibrates itself
22:05perfectly to your kid's learning style and pace.
22:07Excited about the future.
22:10Highly danger.
22:11Danger, Will Robinson.
22:13Danger.
22:13Danger.
22:14Because a chat GPT is an entity with no needs or requirements for reciprocity.
22:23Right?
22:24So the important thing, and of course, he's five.
22:26I get that, right?
22:27It's not supposed to be 50-50 reciprocity.
22:29But the important thing about raising kids is you really do have to teach them that other
22:36people have needs too, that you want to make sure that you ask other people about themselves.
22:44I mean, you know, one of these little tiny scraps of conversations that was quite important
22:48to me is a guy I knew in the business world.
22:52He was very senior.
22:53He's sadly dead now.
22:54But a guy I knew in the business world, I went out for dinner with him and his wife
23:02and my wife, of course, came along.
23:05And my wife is very curious about people, asked him a lot of questions and her a lot
23:10of questions.
23:11And then they asked questions.
23:12And he said, this is actually, he said, this is really refreshing because normally, you
23:16know, people just talk about themselves.
23:18And my wife and I have a policy that we give people five, 10 minutes max.
23:27If they never ask us any questions, we just move on.
23:29So it's nice that you guys ask questions because, you know, we're curious about you too and
23:32so on, right?
23:33So very, very interesting.
23:34So reciprocity is important.
23:36Nothing wrong with this.
23:37He's five.
23:38But at some point, he's, because this is all about him and ChatGPT has no needs and no
23:43needs for reciprocity.
23:44So is it just training the kid to make it all about himself?
23:47Right?
23:49This one, I could get into this in great depth.
23:52Deep, baby.
23:54So I, 27 year old female, screamed at my husband, 28 year old male, over his hobbies.
23:58And now he's changed and I don't know how to fix this.
24:01I've been married for four years.
24:02He's a room where he keeps all his hobbies.
24:05Sim racing.
24:06I don't know what that is.
24:07Aviation setups.
24:09I assume that's pedals and joysticks and so on for flight sims.
24:13Soccer analysis tools, Lego sets, music production equipment.
24:16Basically his sanctuary.
24:18He's super, I don't know what that, something's missing here.
24:21Autistic.
24:22I don't know.
24:22He's always inviting me into his space to be part of his interests.
24:25I love him and appreciate that he wants to include me, but sometimes I just need some
24:28time for myself.
24:29Recently I snapped.
24:31I yelled at him saying some hurtful things that I didn't mean, like how his interests
24:35bore me, that he needs to get a social life and even questioned why I married him.
24:39Since then, he's completely changed.
24:41He stopped spending time in his room, moved to sleeping on the couch and barely talks
24:45to me.
24:46He's even ignored our usual tradition of watching our home nation soccer team play,
24:49something he'd never skipped before.
24:52So lots of feedback on this, on both sides of the aisle, I suppose.
25:00Mine is a little different.
25:01I remember after I left theater school, I left before the end of the second year.
25:08I deeply disliked my writing teacher, and if it's any consolation, he deeply disliked
25:14me.
25:16I remember I got as a writing assignment, I've probably still got it somewhere, but
25:19I got as a writing assignment to dramatize The Trial and Death of Socrates, and I wrote
25:26what I thought was a great play about the trial and death of Socrates.
25:30He hated it, and he said, it should be like this, and then he wrote it, and I hated his.
25:34He had people swearing and making coarse jokes, and I'm like, no, no, okay, so we don't
25:38fit.
25:39We don't fit.
25:40So anyway, I left.
25:41And so then I had written a play, and I produced the play in Toronto, and I had a stage manager
25:51for my play who was just breaking up one of these tortured breakups, just agony, like
25:57two pieces of sole velcro being torn apart by a bunch of jackals, and it was a five-year
26:03relationship, and they'd never quite gotten married.
26:06They'd had a comfortable time, but she was getting into her, she was 27 or so, and they
26:12were breaking up, and it was really, really tough, right?
26:15You probably knew this.
26:16You know the married couples in high school that they'd been dating since early junior
26:19high and so on, and then maybe they'd break up before the end of high school and so on.
26:23So about four years, right?
26:25So let's see here.
26:26They'd been married for four years, so let's say they knew each other for a year before.
26:31So five years, man.
26:33So in general, no exceptions, but in general, if you're with someone for five years, and
26:39you don't have kids, your body, particularly for a woman, because you've got a shorter
26:43runway, right?
26:44Your body will simply rebel against him.
26:48Because the reason why you don't have kids is you have gaslit yourself into pretending
26:54that there's no passage of time, your body knows better, and at some point, your body
26:59will just scream at him to make him go away so you can find a guy to have kids with.
27:03Boom.
27:03I'm telling you.
27:05Sex is for kids.
27:06Dating is for kids.
27:07Engagement is for kids.
27:09Marriage is for kids.
27:10Pair bonding is for kids.
27:11It's not to have a nerd room of infinite immaturity.
27:16It is for, right?
27:18This should not be your nerd room.
27:20This should be the baby's room.
27:22My God.
27:25So of course she's going to snap because she wants to have kids, or her body wants to have
27:28kids, and if it ain't going to happen with this guy, she's going to dump him and move
27:32on.
27:33So I'm just telling you.
27:36Around four to five years, your entire body will rebel against an infertile relationship.
27:43Just so you know.
27:47That's one for Izzy.
27:49I thought this was clever.
27:50Saint Moses the Black.
27:52Is that a real saint?
27:53Anyway.
27:54You fast, but Satan does not eat.
27:55You labor fervently, but Satan never sleeps.
27:58The only dimension with which you can outperform Satan is by acquiring humility.
28:01For Satan has no humility.
28:04Yes.
28:05Yes, yes, yes.
28:06All right.
28:08What happens if the U.S. government wants to buy a million Bitcoin?
28:12It seems to be, I think it's gone, the bill's been introduced.
28:14All the 60 million millionaires want to hold a whole coin.
28:17Countries around the world want to accumulate.
28:19Pension funds around the world want to start allocating to Bitcoin.
28:21Every company in the world wants to start buying Bitcoin, but no one wants to sell.
28:25There isn't enough Bitcoin to satisfy all the demand that's coming.
28:33Birds will often pluck out their own feathers as a result of mental stress, anxiety, and neglect.
28:37Yes, well.
28:38So, you know, I have really, really been mulling over why people love drama so much.
28:45I love peace, peace and quiet, right?
28:47And so I don't know why people love drama so much.
28:53Like this, I'm going to fight Trump to the death.
28:55You know, all of this sort of stuff.
28:56Why do people love drama so much?
28:57It's a little, maybe a little bit more female.
28:59But I think it has to do with the fact that the drama and the excitement and the thrill
29:04and the moral essence of your life should be in the having a raising of children,
29:09by teaching them how to be good, fighting negative or malign influences against your children
29:14and promoting virtue.
29:16That should be a battle.
29:17But because a lot of childless women out there, right, they don't have kids.
29:21And so politics becomes politics and pets and causes and ideologies and all of that
29:27becomes their drama because they're missing the drama and excitement and moral crusade
29:32of raising children.
29:35Well, yeah, median new US home price in Bitcoin, 2012 over 50k, 2013 just under 20k.
29:43It goes all the way down to 2024 where you can get a house for five Bitcoins.
29:49Come on.
29:50Come on, baby.
29:52Just think of that with regards to the national debt.
29:54Of course, I did the truth about single moms many, many, many years ago.
29:58Toxic masculinity.
30:0043% of boys are raised by single mothers.
30:0278% of teachers are female.
30:04And it's even more in the younger years.
30:06Close to 50% of boys have a 100% feminine influence at home and 80% feminine influence
30:12at school, right?
30:13Toxic masculinity isn't the problem.
30:15The lack of masculinity is.
30:17You know, I made this point many years ago, but it's been a while.
30:20It's wild to me how women say, well, you know, we have to have female role models.
30:28Otherwise, women would have no idea that could be an astronaut or a scientist or we got to
30:32have these female role models.
30:34But apparently boys don't need any male role models at all.
30:36That's why.
30:40Friar George.
30:42Now I'm going to scandalize everyone.
30:43He says, I've seen bad parents raise children who become the best adults.
30:46I've also known quote, perfect parents who ended up raising monstrous and everything
30:50in between.
30:50There is no secret formula to parenting.
30:52Try your best to love your kids and beg God for his help.
30:54Yeah, that's just not true.
30:57That's just, I mean, that's just an absolute falsehood.
31:01You don't know.
31:03And I understand.
31:04I understand it's not falsifiable.
31:05So I'm aware of this.
31:06But when people make positive claims like, oh, these parents were perfect.
31:10And yet that child turned out really terrible.
31:13It's like, you don't know.
31:15You don't know.
31:16How do you know?
31:18You don't know what goes on inside the home.
31:21You don't know what went on if the kids were over at some malevolent sleepover where there
31:25was some creepy uncle or cousin or whatever, right?
31:28You don't know what might've happened in Boy Scouts or whatever there is now.
31:33You don't know what might've happened with some creepy doctor.
31:35You don't know what might've happened with the priest.
31:37You don't know particularly what might've happened with a school teacher.
31:41You don't know what might've happened in just about every conceivable scenario where
31:45bad things can happen, right?
31:47You don't know any of these things, right?
31:49So, and of course, there's lots of people who put a, I mean, you've heard a bunch of
31:53them on my show.
31:54Lots of people who put forward a very positive perspective of themselves.
31:59And yet, and then, underneath is just a giant, horrifying mess.
32:06So yeah, there is a secret formula of parenting.
32:09Virtue, honesty, directness, and non-aggression principle.
32:13All right, so let's see.
32:18This is something I honestly, I'm not proud of laughing.
32:23I'm not proud of laughing.
32:25It just really, it just really caught me by surprise.
32:29So, and this is a little sped up, right?
32:34A Boise, Idaho woman is considered a medical miracle.
32:37Laura Esterman was struck by lightning nearly a month ago and she was considered officially
32:41dead.
32:41Thankfully, CPR from her mom revived her heart, but she laid in a coma for two weeks and then
32:45she defied all odds and woke up.
32:53Well, obviously, there's a problem with that tape.
32:56She doesn't really sound like that.
32:58She doesn't remember the accident, so the evidence is clear.
33:01I am so sorry.
33:02Laura's learning to walk again after the lightning burned her legs.
33:04Come on.
33:12Oh, we're all going to hell.
33:17Oh God, that was an unfortunate moment, but very funny.
33:23All right, from the ridiculous to the sublime, relentless passenger time.
33:29It's coming.
33:31You know, nobody who's young ever really believes they're going to get old.
33:34I certainly didn't.
33:38But it happens.
33:40Honestly, this is the best you can hope for.
33:42Going from these smooth-faced young hotties to these wrinkled, crumpled paper bag crypt
33:48keepers on the right, that is the best you can get.
33:51To get to 103 is pretty damn good, right?
33:53That's the best you can hope for.
33:57You should see my Hong Kong documentary if you haven't.
34:02Oh, this breaks my heart.
34:03Honestly, it breaks my heart.
34:06So yeah, look at this.
34:07This is the best you can hope for, is to get this old.
34:11I still, I've yet to hear peak wrinkles.
34:13Obviously, you know, I have some, but I've yet, I mean, I went bald early, so that didn't
34:17really matter, but I've yet to hit peak wrinkles, but it's coming.
34:22Yes, yes, yes.
34:25The trenches.
34:26Tokyo, I mean, firebombed and flanned.
34:30Just incredible.
34:34This is an abandoned fishing village on Shengshan Island.
34:37Overhead, 2,000 fishermen, and then it's just gone.
34:44Really?
34:45Pyramids in their original form, covered in pristine white limestone with a pure gold
34:48peak.
34:48Is that right?
34:49I didn't know that.
34:50The Dubai coastland between 1984 and 2022.
34:54The amount of work that gets done on this planet is really just something else and a
34:57half.
34:58Look at that.
35:04Look at all that sea level rise or fall or whatever's going to happen.
35:09So, yeah, I've seen that picture before.
35:13In 1964, Ringo Starr took a picture of high school students who ditched class to watch
35:16the Beatles perform on their first US tour.
35:19Five decades later, they reenacted the photo.
35:24You know, of course, when you're young, you look at old people and you think, well, I
35:27don't want to be an actor.
35:28I don't want to be a singer.
35:29I don't want to be a dancer.
35:31I don't want to be a singer.
35:32I don't want to be a singer.
35:33I don't want to be a singer.
35:34I don't want to be a singer.
35:35I don't want to be a singer.
35:36I don't want to be a singer.
35:37I don't want to be a singer.
35:38And you think they've always been old because you don't see the passage of time that much,
35:43right?
35:43So you think old people have always been old.
35:46But, of course, everyone goes from the top picture to the bottom, if you're lucky, right?
35:50Could be a lot worse, right?
35:52The Roman Forum at its prime, how it stands today.
35:58And that one.
36:02Machu Picchu.
36:03I've been there.
36:04Very cool.
36:06All right.
36:06So this can kind of go on and on.
36:08But you get the idea.
36:09Be aware of the passage of time.
36:11Make hay while the sun shines.
36:12So this is from me.
36:15Weather patterns and cycles of warming and cooling are not caused by carbon dioxide.
36:19They come from the sun, which is 99.85 the mass of the solar system and controls all
36:24light and energy.
36:25The climate campaign exploits fear and false identity to create an environmental crisis.
36:29Yes.
36:30I really, really, really, viscerally hate, loathe, and burn against those who, in particular,
36:37frighten children for the sake of maintaining political power and stealing.
36:40It's just terrible.
36:42Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Michelle Bullock on Bitcoin.
36:46Look, it's not a currency.
36:47It's not money.
36:48But, you know, I don't really see a role for it, certainly in the Australian economy, our
36:51payment system.
36:53Yeah.
36:54It's a commodity, right?
36:55I think we did Pennsylvania.
36:57I love this one.
36:58Crypto tea is pretty funny.
37:00Hi, my name is Jason.
37:02Ah, nice to meet you.
37:04Jason.
37:04And he tries to put the Jason name, but it's too full of Bitcoin.
37:07Say, Jarvis, have you ever heard of Satoshi Nakamoto?
37:11Brilliant and true.
37:13Rumors are circulating Germany has bought 50,000 Bitcoins for a strategic reserve.
37:17I think there might be a little bit more of a bump in cost if that were true.
37:21Bitcoin for a strategic reserve.
37:22I think there might be a little bit more of a bump in cost if that were true.
37:26But, you know, who knows, right?
37:29Would you rather let me go through your text or break up?
37:31The gaslighting of this is great.
37:33Break up or let me go through.
37:34Would you rather break up or let me go through your text right now?
37:38Now, I don't know if this is staged, right?
37:41Because there's a big camera here pointing at her.
37:44I'm right now on camera.
37:45I have an ultimatum.
37:46Yeah.
37:47Either we break up or let me go through.
37:49I was asking that.
37:50No, let me see.
37:50Is this like a new thing or what?
37:52Yeah, I saw it on TikTok.
37:53Okay, well, don't just reach for my phone.
37:54Like I have stuff on there that like is not your business.
37:58Right.
37:58I mean, honestly, I mean, my wife could go through my phone anytime she wants.
38:03There's nothing there.
38:04Talking about?
38:04Which one are you choosing?
38:05Why do I have to choose?
38:06Why is that a thing?
38:08It's not how relationships work.
38:09So what do you?
38:10Right.
38:10It's not how relationships work.
38:11So she's claiming authority over relationships as she's portraying him as foolish and uneducated
38:17and not like lacking knowledge about relationships.
38:20Talking about?
38:21Which one are you picking?
38:23Are we breaking up or can I go through your text?
38:24Okay.
38:25Well, what if one option just, you know, just leads us breaking up anyways?
38:29Like.
38:29So then it drops.
38:31No, I never said that.
38:32But like, you know, I know you're sensitive and stuff.
38:35I'm not sensitive.
38:36No, I think you're sensitive and you're insecure and that's.
38:38Yes.
38:39So anytime for some women, toxic women, I'm sure this is true for men too.
38:43But for toxic women, if you try to have standards, they'll say that you're insecure,
38:47you're controlling.
38:47So the women can have a list of 600 factors.
38:50But if man has a standard, like I should be able to, if we're in a close relationship,
38:54I should be able to go through your phone.
38:58And then she says, well, you're just insecure.
39:00Man, don't, don't fall for it.
39:02Problem that we need to work on.
39:03I think we need to go to couples therapy, probably.
39:06I think you need to go to therapy by yourself.
39:08So the reason she says couples therapy, I assume, I don't know this couple from Adam
39:11and Eve, of course, but I assume that the reason she says we need to go to couples therapy
39:15is she'll choose a female feminist aligned therapist who will side with her and echo
39:21her statements that he's insecure and he's the problem.
39:24Maybe the therapist can just get the bottom of your scummy ass text.
39:28Who said I'm texting anyone?
39:29Okay.
39:29Then let's read them.
39:30If you got nothing to not sign.
39:32Maybe.
39:32Don't touch me.
39:33Stop playing.
39:34No.
39:34Are you being for real?
39:35Yeah.
39:35Either let me go through them, but we're done.
39:37It's not funny.
39:39And this is the thing too.
39:40I mean, she's obviously a pretty young woman.
39:43And so she has so many options that she can be a smug and, uh, arrogant and contemptuous
39:49because she knows she can just walk out on the street and, you know, a bunch of guys
39:53who want to date her.
39:55This is one of the things that's really tragic about staying on the market too long is it
39:58provokes a kind of narcissism and arrogance and aristocracy and superiority and contempt
40:05for men, because you just got conveyor belts of guys who want to date you and you never
40:09have to settle down.
40:10There's always options.
40:11No, I'm not texting anyone, but I just have like a couple of dating apps.
40:20Well, I haven't gone on a date.
40:21So why is everyone should be able to explore their options?
40:25Right.
40:26And that's what he's doing.
40:27Very sad.
40:29Oh, what do you think of this?
40:31This is one of the greatest lies ever told.
40:33Hurting them back will not heal your pain.
40:36Hurting them back will not heal your pain.
40:40And what do you guys think?
40:43I, I'm trying to think, not, I mean, obviously, good Lord, I'm no particular standard of excellence
40:47with regards to this kind of stuff, but just to talk from my own experience.
40:54I don't.
40:56Hurting them back will not heal your pain.
40:57Hurting them back will not heal your pain.
41:04I suppose I take some satisfaction in having had, I mean, having a good career,
41:10doing meaningful work, having a great relationship with my wife, with my daughter, with my friends.
41:17I wouldn't say that I hurt people back, but there's a certain amount of satisfaction.
41:22The people who called me lots of negative names in the past
41:27have universally ended up in negative situations.
41:32And I would say, I haven't hurt them back.
41:35I'll sort of let their conscience and life do that for them.
41:40But it certainly does, it brings relief.
41:44You know what it does?
41:44It brings relief for me.
41:46So the people who said, oh, philosophy is stupid and you don't really get it.
41:49And like when I was, even before I started doing this sort of stuff publicly,
41:55it's a relief that my life has worked out very well and their life has worked out badly.
42:00It's a relief, right?
42:02Because it's a big risk to go all in on integrity and honesty and virtue, right?
42:07And certainly believing that I have and knowing now that I did,
42:10it's a big risk because everyone is telling you to compromise.
42:13And so the fact that the people who really badly compromised
42:16ended up in a pretty negative situation.
42:18The fact that I didn't compromise, like I don't think you've ever heard me
42:22withdraw or disavow something that I know to be true.
42:24I can't think of a time when I've done that.
42:26I think I'd remember.
42:28So it does give me relief that I made the right decision, right?
42:39If you're wondering if it's hard to be a therapist right now, it is.
42:42It really is.
42:44You know, watching the pain and suffering that's come from this election
42:50and listening to my clients.
42:52You know, it's funny, and this is, I mean, it is really sad.
42:54Watching women get addicted to ideology is like watching men get addicted to porn
42:58and stuff like that.
42:59Like, it's just the natural reproductive urges are being twisted
43:03into self-destructive behavior.
43:05They're being exploited.
43:06It's like a biohack to control people, and it's really sad.
43:10Saying homophobic things to me, not knowing I have a wife, is really fucking hard.
43:18It's really fucking hard.
43:19Now, I agree, of course, that people shouldn't be saying these things to her,
43:24but, you know, one day, one day, I mean, I don't want to speak for all men,
43:28but I think I can speak for a lot of men.
43:30One day, a woman will say, you know, someone said something hurtful to me,
43:36and I realized talking about toxic masculinity has been really hurtful.
43:40To men, right?
43:41Talking about men being rapists, talking about men being abusers,
43:45talking about the patriarchy and men being exploiters.
43:48Like, someone said something hurtful to me,
43:50and I really, you know, I just made the connection
43:52that I've been saying all these hurtful things about men and to men,
43:57and maybe to white men in particular, right?
44:00At some point, they're going to realize that words can be pretty wounding,
44:05and they're going to recognize that they have also said these words in particular to men,
44:10but it's not, it doesn't seem to be imminent.
44:13And listening to my clients say homophobic things to me,
44:17not knowing I have a wife, is really fucking hard.
44:22It's really fucking hard.
44:26If I have to validate them, I can't say anything.
44:30It's really fucking hard.
44:33Right, and for men, men's lives are pretty hard, too.
44:37Like, male suicides are huge, male accidents and deaths in the workplaces are huge,
44:42and male homelessness is huge.
44:45And look, I'm not saying that everything has to be redirected to men,
44:48but, you know, one or two things once in a while could not be too bad.
44:53The Roman denarius lasted 400 years.
44:56The Spanish real last 300 years.
44:57The British pounds lasted 200 years.
44:59Well, technically 400, but it's lost 98% of its value.
45:02And the US dollar has lost 98% of its value in 100 years.
45:05Money is lasting shorter while devaluing faster.
45:08Opt out, choose Bitcoin, yeah.
45:10The Financial Times, considered a cornerstone of global finance, reports,
45:15it's time to let go of old mindsets.
45:18Forget the past.
45:19Envision a bold, prosperous future.
45:22Forget the past.
45:23Envision a bold, prosperous future.
45:26And buy Bitcoin.
45:28Huh, fascinating.
45:30Female bodybuilders versus 16-year-old farm boys.
45:35Um, I'm just gonna mute because I don't think we really need it.
45:38But yes, female bodybuilders, right?
45:41Adults versus 16-year-old farm boys.
45:44Right, flipping their tires and the farm boys are doing it really well.
45:49And there's a tug of war coming up, if I really have a tug of war.
45:53And they're pulling.
45:55And you know, I did a show many years ago about female athletes versus male athletes.
46:00And it was really something, right?
46:02Just the difference is, the difference is just staggering.
46:08So.
46:10All right.
46:13Skip this one.
46:14It's an unfortunate haircut for that length of a neck.
46:19I don't know.
46:19This looks like it's AI changed.
46:22I have nothing that makes me happy in life.
46:24Do you have stuff that makes you happy in life?
46:26Let me know below.
46:30All right, I think we're good.
46:33We should probably stop here.
46:35Oh yeah, so this is the ick thing, right?
46:37Cassandra, 40, single mom looking for a stepdad for my kids.
46:40Qualification must have a six-figure salary.
46:43A car that can fit all my kids comfortably or willing to buy an SUV.
46:46Six pack, mandatory.
46:48Single dad will not be qualified, willing to marry me in less than a month.
46:52I will need a 30k diamond ring before the wedding.
46:54Must be six foot taller.
46:55Must have four to six bedroom available for my two kids.
46:57Must pay all the rent and the mortgages.
46:59Must adopt all two of my kids and two dogs.
47:02Must know how to cut grass.
47:03This wishlist stuff, oh my gosh, it's absolutely wild.
47:07Just an absolute wishlist.
47:09And it's, honestly, I don't know this woman, of course.
47:11But it's so bottomlessly selfish and narcissistic.
47:15It's absolutely staggering that a woman would have this checklist,
47:24like she's just able to concoct and brew
47:27and witch together from ear of new and eye of bad some gigachad
47:31without saying, okay, so a guy who has all this, what's he looking for?
47:35A guy who has all this, what's he looking for?
47:39And do I fit that?
47:40That's amazing to me.
47:42This is true, right?
47:43For me, I think it's true.
47:44Public companies must buy Bitcoin to prevent their stock from being sold
47:46in preference for Bitcoin.
47:48CFOs and treasurers are figuring this out.
47:51I guess last thing here, to me, this is kind of tempting.
48:00Come on, tell me that's not going to put some hair on your chest.
48:04Make your balls hang a little heavier.
48:06That is some manly stuff.
48:08Plus, you know, if King Kong breaks in, he won't attack your family.
48:12He'll just try and mate with your couch.
48:14I mean, that's got to be a plus, especially if you're living somewhere in Japan.
48:18No, New York.
48:19Sorry, I'm thinking Godzilla.
48:20Oh, messed it up.
48:2416 years ago, the EU and US economies were neck and neck.
48:26Today, the US economy is 50% larger than the entire EU combined.
48:30Here's the devastating truth behind Europe's ongoing economic suicide.
48:34Wild stuff.
48:34Okay, this DNC stuff is really gross.
48:36So I appreciate you listening.
48:39I hope you find this interesting.
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48:48Bye.