Why Love Only Strangers?

Stefan Molyneux

Friday Night Live 31 January 2025  In this episode of Friday Night Live, I discuss current events and personal reflections while responding to listener feedback. I announce the remastering of my novel, "The Future," and explore topics such as Candace Owens’ insights on French politics, a tragic plane crash in Philadelphia, and the challenges of meritocracy.   I analyze student loan debt disparities between genders and the impact on family dynamics, while addressing listener inquiries about wealth display and relationships. The conversation shifts to workplace culture and societal trust, particularly in light of COVID-19. I conclude with a call to stand firm in one's beliefs and appreciate our audience's support as we navigate these complex issues together.  GET MY NEW BOOK 'PEACEFUL PARENTING', THE INTERACTIVE PEACEFUL PARENTING AI, AND AUDIOBOOK!  https://peacefulparenting.com/  Join the PREMIUM philosophy community on the web for free!  Also get the Truth About the French Revolution, multiple interactive multi-lingual philosophy AIs trained on thousands of hours of my material, as well as targeted AIs for Real-Time Relationships, BitCoin, Peaceful Parenting, and Call-Ins. Don't miss the private livestreams, premium call in shows, the 22 Part History of Philosophers series and much more!  See you soon!  https://freedomain.locals.com/support/promo/UPB2022

Transcript

00:00:00Welcome to your Friday Night Live. It is the end of the month.

00:00:05Freedomain.com slash donate to help out the show would be

00:00:10deeply and delightfully and gratefully and humbly appreciated.

00:00:14My novel The Future has gotten remastered.

00:00:16We'll be putting that out this weekend with a new PDF,

00:00:19really beautifully formatted so it makes it much more easy to read.

00:00:23So look for that this weekend.

00:00:28Other than that, I'm of course happy to take your questions and comments

00:00:33and issues. Shout out to Candace Owens,

00:00:38who is doing some pretty interesting work regarding French politics at the moment.

00:00:43Good for her.

00:00:46France is a creepy country, man.

00:00:49I've only been to France once, but I spent quite a bit of time there

00:00:53and it's a freaky country, man.

00:00:58Very, very strange, subterranean, semi-demonic stuff.

00:01:03Maybe it's since the French Revolution or even before that,

00:01:05but it is the home of most of the natural demons of humanity,

00:01:09at least in the European side.

00:01:11And it is a very odd, freaky and unpleasant type of country as a whole.

00:01:18Raciste, raciste is all they say, right?

00:01:21It's all they say.

00:01:22Raciste, je smoke ma galatoires and I am just a racist.

00:01:27And then the French intellectuals are just...

00:01:31Is Candace still on about Macron's wife?

00:01:33Yes, that does seem to be the thesis that she is working with.

00:01:38And it is pretty wild.

00:01:43It is pretty wild.

00:01:46And it'll be interesting to see where she takes it.

00:01:48Honestly, I'll be straight on with you.

00:01:50It's going to be interesting to see where she takes it.

00:01:54I don't know where exactly it's going to go,

00:01:57but it is going to be interesting to see where she takes it.

00:02:03And what about your comments, questions, issues, challenges?

00:02:07Of course, I certainly do have my thoughts.

00:02:11Another plane just crashed into a row of houses in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

00:02:16And a massive fire has broken out.

00:02:19Casualties are being reported.

00:02:20Huge emergency response underway.

00:02:23I don't know why people are surprised at this kind of stuff.

00:02:26If you have a system that is built on meritocracy,

00:02:32if you have anything other than a raw meritocracy,

00:02:36it's going to collapse.

00:02:38And if you have a raw meritocracy,

00:02:41then ethnic representation will be uneven.

00:02:44We all know this.

00:02:45This is stuff that I talked about years and years and years and years

00:02:48and years and years and years ago.

00:02:50And I suppose because the world didn't listen to reason,

00:02:54what they're going to have to do is they're going to have to learn

00:02:58from bitter experience.

00:03:00And I guess everyone who helped to deplatform me,

00:03:05everyone who helped to oppose, I don't know,

00:03:09not putting them in my camp or anything like that,

00:03:11but people like Charles Murray or James Watson and so on.

00:03:15Yeah, all the people who just slander at people exploring science

00:03:21and facts and data and evidence.

00:03:24Well, I hope you enjoy having nail-biting flights

00:03:27because that's how it's going to be.

00:03:29And there's no way around it other than coming to reason,

00:03:33and hopefully people are not so addicted to outrage

00:03:36and moral grandstanding that they can't learn some kind of rationality.

00:03:44I'm not holding my breath.

00:03:46People just seem to be really uniquely addicted to unreality.

00:03:50So, yeah, there's been another one of these.

00:03:53Now, did you notice this?

00:03:57Did you notice this?

00:04:00So, after a decade, men had paid off what percentage of their student loans?

00:04:11After a decade, men had paid off what percentage of their student loans?

00:04:21Oh, my.

00:04:27Hello from India. Hello, Paula.

00:04:31Don't forget to donate, everyone.

00:04:32Starting tomorrow, let's definitely get charged 25% extra in tariffs

00:04:35to send these podcasts out.

00:04:37Oh, Lord knows. Lord knows.

00:04:4470%, 13%, 80%, 25%.

00:04:47Well, no, some of these loans are pretty big.

00:04:49So, over a decade, men had paid off about 30% of their loans,

00:04:58a decade after graduation.

00:05:01What percentage of their loans had women paid off?

00:05:08Because we want equality, apparently.

00:05:10You know, we just want equality as a whole.

00:05:14So, men had paid off about a third of their student loans,

00:05:18and what percentage of their student loans – I think this is in America –

00:05:27had women paid off?

00:05:30I shouldn't laugh.

00:05:32I shouldn't laugh because it does kind of sort of kill the birth rate,

00:05:35but that is – it seems important.

00:05:39It seems important.

00:05:42I will put it here.

00:05:47So, women had paid off about 3% of their loans after about a decade.

00:06:00After about a decade, women had paid off about 3% of their loans,

00:06:062009 to 2019, and men had paid off 30% of their student loans.

00:06:16I shouldn't laugh, but dear, oh, dear.

00:06:20What can you say?

00:06:23What, what, what can you say?

00:06:29I mean, I think for women as a whole, it just feels like –

00:06:33why would they – to pay off debt feels like they're unattractive,

00:06:37because if they're really attractive, then some man should swoop in

00:06:41and pay off all their debt, right?

00:06:4530% in 10 years is still freaking depressing.

00:06:47Yes, but less depressing than three.

00:06:52That's – yeah.

00:06:56That's crazy, man.

00:06:58And this is like student loan debt is –

00:07:00like student loan debt forgiveness is just another transfer

00:07:03for male taxpayers to irresponsible female degree holders.

00:07:08I got a degree in communications slash political science

00:07:13slash health slash kinesiology, sports medicine.

00:07:19Anything that could actually really add to the economy in any practical way?

00:07:28I'll get back to you on that.

00:07:36Well, on the plus side, though, not only are women horrifically in debt

00:07:42and therefore unmarriable, but also they have been trained to hate men,

00:07:47freedom, free speech, capitalism, the market, and small government.

00:07:51So there's that, too.

00:07:54They have been charged to become unmarriable.

00:07:59I mean, I would never in a million years –

00:08:01and I wouldn't even go out on dates with women who had a lot of debt.

00:08:06Like the moment I found out about any kind of significant debt,

00:08:09peace out, baby.

00:08:11Peace out.

00:08:13I was not going to do it.

00:08:15I do not get involved in paying.

00:08:18You know, I remember talking about this one woman that I met

00:08:21who was very pretty and seemed kind of smart,

00:08:24but then she was talking about how her last boyfriend had used her credit cards

00:08:29and left her $17,000 in debt.

00:08:35And, of course, in general, I don't want to sound jumpy, overly jumpy.

00:08:39I don't want to sound overly jumpy.

00:08:41But I will say this, that when a woman –

00:08:44if you're a young, reasonably attractive man, right,

00:08:47if a single woman – tell me if this is just me, right?

00:08:51If this is just me.

00:08:57If there is a woman, you're on a date,

00:08:59and there's a woman who's complaining about her money issues,

00:09:04why do you think she's complaining while wearing a low-cut top?

00:09:08Why do you think she's complaining about her money issues?

00:09:11Just out of curiosity.

00:09:14Is it just me? Maybe it's just me.

00:09:16Maybe it's just me because I grew up with my mom.

00:09:19But what's your perception as a man of why women complain about money issues on a date?

00:09:33Because I'll tell you my perception, yeah, she wants you to pay it off.

00:09:35Yes, that's right.

00:09:37She's basically saying that one of the things that is going to be required

00:09:43to move forward with her is to take some ownership of her debt.

00:09:49And of course, I had vowed from the very beginning of my dating life

00:09:54never ever to dangle wealth in front of a woman.

00:09:57Well, it was pretty easy at the beginning of my dating life because I was broke,

00:10:00but you know what I mean.

00:10:06So, here's another interesting thing.

00:10:10This is from Allie on X.

00:10:12Educated women are getting married about as often as they always have.

00:10:16While the red pill loves to pretend women going to college is the issue,

00:10:20they've got the problem almost exactly backwards.

00:10:22Women who avoid college are less likely to marry.

00:10:26Yeah, that's true.

00:10:28So, bachelor's degree or higher, women are marrying.

00:10:31Well, this is women born 1930 to 1980.

00:10:38So, it started off almost 80%,

00:10:43and women who are educated are getting married still at the rate of 71%.

00:10:52It is the women who've gone down in a straight line who are not college educated,

00:10:56they've gone down to 52%.

00:10:59So, share of U.S. women married at age 45 by birth year and education level

00:11:05and so it remains at 71% for bachelor's degree or higher.

00:11:10Non-college has gone down.

00:11:12For non-college educated women,

00:11:19men are far easier to replace with the welfare state.

00:11:27All right, let's see here.

00:11:34All right, let's see here.

00:11:35How do you find the balance between not dangling your resources before women

00:11:39but still showing them you're able to obtain resources?

00:11:41Well, I mean, when I got a nice car, I had a company car and I had a nice car.

00:11:46I would be happy to pick up women on a date.

00:11:51It was a 98 Volvo S70, red, beautiful, matchbox car of my youthful dreams.

00:11:57And to me, it was all the car in the known universe and it was nice.

00:12:01It was nice.

00:12:03It was nice.

00:12:07So, yeah, I mean, but I, in general, I would pay for the first date

00:12:12if it wasn't too expensive, I would pay for the first date.

00:12:15But after that, I would see if she offered to pay.

00:12:20Yeah, I wouldn't just keep paying.

00:12:23That's humiliating.

00:12:24That's a humiliation ritual.

00:12:27All right.

00:12:31Mobius Mirage, thank you for the tip, says,

00:12:32Hey Steph, do you, oh, it's another bald joke.

00:12:36Do you ever have problems with bald eagles trying to pick you up

00:12:39to take you back to the nest?

00:12:45That's a bad joke on every level.

00:12:47I mean, it's not funny.

00:12:49And bald eagles wouldn't pick me up because I look more like an egg.

00:12:58They wouldn't pick me up to take me back to the nest

00:13:00because I'm bigger than they are.

00:13:03Like, that's just a really, just a bad joke.

00:13:08Taking bald eagles and saying that there's a bald guy is just strange.

00:13:14And it's funny to me.

00:13:15Just by the by, I just kind of find this funny.

00:13:17It's that guys who kept their hair, it's not like you became muscular.

00:13:23It's not like you learned how to play the guitar.

00:13:26If you kept your hair, you just happened to have those genetics.

00:13:30That's all.

00:13:31I had genetics that abandoned hair, and you had genetics that kept hair.

00:13:37It's like guys who are proud because they're tall.

00:13:40It's like well-earned.

00:13:41Or like siblings who are like, they have this weird pride

00:13:44because they exited the vagina tube sooner than the other kid.

00:13:47You really earned that, didn't you?

00:13:52It is the saddest thing in the world to see people taking pride

00:13:57in completely unearned shit.

00:14:01I was trying to imply that they mistook you for a large baby eagle,

00:14:06but I will try harder next time.

00:14:09But why would a baby eagle be out of the nest in the first place?

00:14:13And do baby eagles, are they bald?

00:14:18Let's have a look here.

00:14:24No, see, baby bald eagles are not bald.

00:14:28So it just doesn't work in any conceivable way at all.

00:14:34So the baby bald eagles are very fluffy like dandelions,

00:14:37so I don't have their hair.

00:14:40They stay in the nest and so on, and they're tiny, of course, right?

00:14:44So it just, you know, if you're going to, as I said this in the last show, man,

00:14:49if you're going to make a joke to a bald guy,

00:14:52try not to make it grindingly, blindingly obvious.

00:14:56Hey, there's an animal with the word bald in it.

00:14:59You're bald.

00:15:00I'm going to jam the two together, even if it makes no comic sense whatsoever.

00:15:05It's lazy.

00:15:06It's lazy.

00:15:09I mean, hey, man, there's stuff to make fun of me about.

00:15:12Absolutely.

00:15:14There's stuff to make fun of me about, for sure.

00:15:16It can be a little bit verbose, a lot of tangents.

00:15:18Yeah, there's stuff to, but the idea that you would make fun of me

00:15:29for something utterly beyond my control, you know,

00:15:32and I guess I could, what, get hair transplants or something like that,

00:15:35but that's totally cucking, and it's not a man's job to be pretty.

00:15:40Wanting to be pretty is kind of gay.

00:15:43Not a man's job to be pretty.

00:15:48And so, yeah, so I'm bald.

00:15:53Yeah.

00:15:55Honestly, it's not offensive to me.

00:15:58It's just what a silly thing to pick on.

00:16:02It's not a negative.

00:16:03In fact, in combat, it was a real positive to be bald

00:16:06because it's diverting stuff to testosterone,

00:16:08and also you can't grab at someone's hair if they're bald, right?

00:16:11So you can't grab them and yank them around as you could with some guy's hair.

00:16:15All right.

00:16:19Well, just why do you need to make a bald joke?

00:16:22I'm just out of curiosity as a whole, right?

00:16:26Why do you need to make a bald joke?

00:16:29Because you get, I mean, let me ask you this.

00:16:31Mobius, let me ask you this.

00:16:33How old are you and have you kept your hair?

00:16:37Because let's not bullshit, right?

00:16:39Let's not bullshit.

00:16:41I am the alpha male in the room, and you're making fun of bald to level up.

00:16:46Let's just, I mean, let's not bullshit each other, right?

00:16:48We're men, right?

00:16:49We're men.

00:16:50So when a man makes fun of your appearance, this is a leveling up.

00:16:53This comes out of insecurity, right?

00:16:57This comes out of insecurity.

00:17:03Why, of all the things, right, of the great things that I've done in the world,

00:17:09the hundreds of thousands or millions of people that I've helped,

00:17:12the billion-plus fewer instances of child abuse because of what it is that I have done, right?

00:17:23Why pick on the bald things which is utterly outside of my control?

00:17:28It's petty.

00:17:30Do you know what I mean?

00:17:31This is a philosophy show.

00:17:33So again, I have no problem with jokes.

00:17:35I think it's great.

00:17:36I make fun of myself.

00:17:38That's fine.

00:17:40But it's tiny, small.

00:17:46No, bad jokes should get a ban.

00:17:48I'm fine with the jokes.

00:17:49I'm fine with the jokes.

00:17:51It's just, you know, we work at a sort of elevated, rarefied level here, right?

00:17:55It doesn't mean we're trying to.

00:17:56It doesn't mean we can't make a dick joke or a bald joke or whatever.

00:17:59That's fine.

00:18:01But why?

00:18:09Why do you—and this is an interesting—Hederava says,

00:18:14Hi, Steph, I'm pregnant.

00:18:16Thank you for all your help, and I'm looking forward to raising the next generation.

00:18:18Yay.

00:18:19Well, massive, fantastic, wonderful, deep, and beautiful congratulations.

00:18:24I think that's wonderful.

00:18:25Thank you so much for telling us, and keep us posted on how things are going.

00:18:34So, yeah, just mocking someone's involuntary appearance is not elevated, right?

00:18:44It's not elevated.

00:18:46It's pretty much the least important thing about me that I'm bald, right?

00:18:52What's interesting about that, right?

00:18:55It's like being short.

00:18:56It's not a choice.

00:18:57I'm skinny.

00:18:58Some people have large noses.

00:18:59Who cares?

00:19:09So I'm not trying to nag you or anything like that.

00:19:13I'm just trying to say that it seems to me that if your go-to thing is mocking people's appearance,

00:19:25you probably are surrounded by some pretty low company, right?

00:19:31You're probably surrounded by some pretty trashy low company,

00:19:34and that's what you signal to other people when you do that kind of stuff, right?

00:19:42You signal to other people that this is the level of socializing or socialization that you're working with, right?

00:19:48Or you just make, hey, bald joke, right?

00:19:57Somebody else says they're pregnant too.

00:19:59That's wonderful.

00:20:01I appreciate you telling us, and keep us posted about how things are going,

00:20:06Congratulations.

00:20:11Somebody said, wrote, I run the New York City office of a Fortune 500 company,

00:20:17and one of my engineers said, retarded, in a meeting this morning.

00:20:20I just fired him for cause, and HR is offboarding him as we speak.

00:20:34Former director of National Institute of Health.

00:20:49You know, it's funny because somebody the other day was complaining about me online,

00:20:56and it was like, yeah, Steph, you know, he has these conversations with listeners,

00:21:00but he just ends up berating them and yelling at them and so on, right?

00:21:04Which is not true, really, but that doesn't particularly matter.

00:21:07But what is interesting is the tyranny of offense and feelings is a peculiarly,

00:21:15I mean, it's a hyper-feminization.

00:21:17I don't even think it comes particularly from women.

00:21:19I know that sounds a bit contradictory, but I'll get into that in a sec.

00:21:22But this sort of hyper-feminization where it's like, you said you're offended, I'm offended, you're upset, I'm upset.

00:21:28Have you ever had this feeling? I've had this feeling.

00:21:32I don't have it anymore because I've really organized my life around not having this feeling.

00:21:37But this feeling where you're in a conversation with someone, and you realize, fuck, you're insane.

00:21:48You ever have this? I used to have this sometimes in the business world.

00:21:52You'd have a conflict with someone, and, you know, I have no issues with conflict.

00:21:56I think conflicts are good and healthy and right and positive and productive.

00:22:01But you ever have a conflict with someone, and you realize they've lost their fucking minds,

00:22:06like they've just gone mental, they won't give an inch, they escalate, they get more and more upset,

00:22:12they go round and round, they twist things, and you're like, oh shit, sorry,

00:22:17I stepped in a bottomless puddle of giant fucking crazy.

00:22:22It's a creepy feeling, isn't it? I used to have this sometimes online.

00:22:31And you realize that you're dealing with somebody who's got no connection with reality at all.

00:22:42It's also kind of a dick move to make a joke about Steph's looks when Steph doesn't even know what you look like.

00:22:49Just try to find one that's actually funny at this point. It's a challenge.

00:22:55Why did the bald man draw rabbits on his head from a distance? They look like hairs.

00:23:09Being offended is highly correlated with cluster B personality disorders.

00:23:13Ed Dutton did a great vid on this also.

00:23:20When I was a kid, gosh, when I was a kid, mongoloid was the term, and then it became retarded,

00:23:28and then it was replaced with something else. So it really doesn't matter.

00:23:31Whatever you replace it with, you're going to use a pejorative to talk about stupid people.

00:23:37Mongoloid was then offensive, and then it was replaced by retarded.

00:23:40You could use the word retarded, and then now retarded has become offensive, like it's just going to happen, right?

00:23:51I mean, engineers too, right? So the better the engineer, the more impatient he's going to be.

00:23:56If you want smart people in your organization, they're going to view other people as stupid.

00:24:03Right?

00:24:06If you want the best singer in your band, he's going to view other people as bad singers, because they are relative to him, right?

00:24:16So if you want the very sort of top talent and top performing people,

00:24:19they're going to be frustrated and impatient with everyone around them who just doesn't get stuff.

00:24:32So...

00:24:38I was arguing with the guy who said the number two exists. Oh, like in a platonic sense? Yeah, for sure.

00:24:51I'm a senior engineer. I have zero patience, and my boss has no issue with that. Yeah.

00:24:56And here's the other thing, too. So engineers saw... I mean, I was not obviously an official engineer,

00:25:03but I was a chief technical officer and lead researcher in a software company,

00:25:10and I got very impatient with people, because I knew what I wanted, I knew what I wanted to do,

00:25:18I knew where I wanted to bring things, and I knew how I could make things happen.

00:25:21So I just made them happen, and I got very impatient with people,

00:25:24especially because I've been programming since the age of 11, right?

00:25:27So, you know, this is almost 20 years experience, and I just got bored, frustrated, and annoyed with people.

00:25:33So engineers, yep, they're going to think that other people are stupid.

00:25:51And you can have a society where no one gets offended, but then you have a society which is going to collapse.

00:26:01It's going to fail and collapse and be taken over.

00:26:05Because, you know, the sort of chest-thumping, you suck stuff that men do is how we encourage each other to excellence.

00:26:14And if you want men to not be harsh, that's fine, but that's kind of like saying,

00:26:19I want a military where no one's ever uncomfortable.

00:26:21And it's like, okay, then you're just going to lose, just going to lose, just going to lose.

00:26:26And of course, none of this stuff comes from the free market, it's all government crap, right, as a whole.

00:26:37Yeah, being offended is really a confession that you're just not in the right space, right?

00:26:45You are just not in the right space.

00:26:50Being offended is, I don't have anything to contribute, so I'm just going to get upset.

00:26:57Okay, that's fine, I mean, listen, if I was at some physics conference, other than maybe some abstract topics on the philosophy of science,

00:27:04I couldn't add anything at all of value.

00:27:06I'd just be in the way, because I'm not trained in physics and I'm not very good at math.

00:27:10Right, so I just wouldn't have anything in particular to add.

00:27:15So when you don't have anything of value to add, sometimes it's a real challenge to shut your pie hole and stop talking, right?

00:27:31All right, let's see here.

00:27:35Billy Joel is quite the martinet, which is a stage show, big reputation.

00:27:38Oh yeah, I've seen him trashing things and all that, but he's a consummate showman and a very hardworking musician, right?

00:27:44Inventors are inventors because normal is irritating to them.

00:27:55Yeah, for sure.

00:28:01Senior engineer here as well, I get really frustrated with most co-workers.

00:28:04Yes, people do not understand the incoherent rage seething beneath the surface of anybody who's really good at stuff.

00:28:20There's a great line in Friends where Joey is trying to reason his way through something and Chandra is like,

00:28:27Get there faster! And that's life.

00:28:30If you're really good at stuff, and there are other people who, of course, by definition, aren't really good at stuff,

00:28:40the people who aren't really good at stuff have no idea how incredibly frustrating it is.

00:28:45So, you know, just for reference's sake, if you're listening to this and you're not particularly good at stuff

00:28:53and you want to understand the mindset of people who are good at stuff,

00:28:56just try speaking at half speed for a decade or two.

00:29:26Then you'll get what it's like for competent people to talk to you.

00:29:52I'm already giving myself hives doing that, but that's what it's like.

00:29:55And it actually is even worse than that.

00:29:57Like, really good engineers are ten, fifty, a hundred or a thousand times more productive than average engineers.

00:30:04So just think of having to go through life in slow motion and how insane that would make you feel.

00:30:09Well, that's what it's like being really competent and dealing with average people.

00:30:13No hate or anything, it's not their fault, it's just that's the way that it is.

00:30:17It absolutely drives you mad.

00:30:21And they won't understand.

00:30:28Well, maybe if they're around even less intelligent people they'll understand it,

00:30:32but it's really hard for people to understand what it's like for really intelligent, productive,

00:30:37and competent people to be in the workforce as a whole.

00:30:40And for engineers it's tough because often they'll lack some kind of social skills

00:30:44so they won't be the CEO, they won't be the boss,

00:30:50and yet everyone around them tells them what their job is and doesn't understand.

00:30:55I mean, if you ever want to hear incoherent, bubbling rage under the surface,

00:31:00have marketing and HR talk to an engineer and tell them what needs to be done.

00:31:06I've been on the receiving end of that, I really have, like for years I was on the receiving end of that.

00:31:10I've got a whole novel about this where I draw from bits of experience called The God of Atheists,

00:31:16and it's brutal.

00:31:20Absolutely, you know, just, just is the word, but why don't you just do this?

00:31:25Why don't you just get the .NET framework to talk to the Java substructure?

00:31:30Oh, just have them talk, have them chat.

00:31:33You know, put them in a hot tub, put on some Barry White or some Sade,

00:31:37you know, just have them chat, just have them do this, right?

00:31:44So then I would say to the marketing and sales people, I'd say,

00:31:46well, why don't you sell the software without lying about it?

00:31:51Just don't lie, just don't tell the client the software can do stuff that it can't do.

00:31:56Don't talk about these magical integrations that we have with systems we've never even heard of.

00:32:01My God, I remember having to write an interface to a Fox Pro database,

00:32:05which hadn't been used since the early days of the Mac.

00:32:08It was madness.

00:32:12Or you'd say to the, the board would say, well, why don't you just have the software do this?

00:32:16And I'd be, well, why don't you just double your income without increasing your cost?

00:32:20Just do that and we'll have tons of money for all this stuff.

00:32:22They're like, well, it's not that simple.

00:32:24And it's like, yes, that's true.

00:32:26I think you're starting to get where I'm coming from.

00:32:29Because everything is magical and easy to people who don't understand a fucking thing.

00:32:36Everything is just magical and easy to people who don't understand a fucking thing.

00:32:40And you have to deal with a lot of those people in the business world.

00:32:48Ah.

00:32:54My husband can be so frustrated with his retired co-workers.

00:32:57LOL, he's the best at what he does.

00:32:59And it's the reason why the company is still standing.

00:33:01Yeah.

00:33:02And you get this resentment, right?

00:33:05It's like, it's like you as the titan of engineering is holding up the entire company.

00:33:12And then people are just mad at you.

00:33:14Like, why don't you let me hold stuff up?

00:33:16It's because you're two inches tall and you can't hold up a goddamn thing.

00:33:20But people get resentful at you, you know, for maybe getting more attention

00:33:23or maybe getting more income or whatever.

00:33:25People get resentful at you.

00:33:27And it's like, but without me, you don't even have a job.

00:33:32Crazy.

00:33:35Uh, I don't know who Shannon Sharp is.

00:33:44Steph, my brain hurting.

00:33:45Stop, it's torture.

00:33:46Yeah, yeah.

00:33:50Yeah.

00:33:52It's live, so can't 2x this.

00:33:54Yes, that's right.

00:33:55Honestly, I could, if I could do a whole show like that,

00:33:58you understand like it would drive you mad.

00:34:03But this is me dealing with most people in the world.

00:34:06And I'm not mad at them, it's just a frustrating situation.

00:34:09God knows I wouldn't want to be them.

00:34:11The idea of moving through life.

00:34:14So the way that I view most people as a whole,

00:34:18the way that I view most people, whether this is helpful for you or not,

00:34:21I don't know, but I view most people as they're underwater.

00:34:29Like you know how you can sprint and run and run upstairs?

00:34:32So imagine if you were underwater, right?

00:34:35Like you were Gill-Man or something like that.

00:34:37So if you were underwater, you couldn't run.

00:34:40You could only move kind of slowly because you're not a shark,

00:34:43you can't swim with the fins, right?

00:34:45You're just a human being.

00:34:46You can't breathe underwater or maybe, right?

00:34:48So I just view most people are just underwater.

00:34:51So I can just run all over the place, go up and down stairs,

00:34:53and I can parkour and stuff like that, and they're just.

00:34:57No, no, no, no.

00:35:03So it's kind of like if you're playing tag and other people are underwater

00:35:07or moving as if they're underwater and you're not.

00:35:10Like the game of tag is completely boring.

00:35:12That's how I kind of feel in debates, right?

00:35:15So I just experience other people as just the sea people.

00:35:19They're just the underwater people.

00:35:23It's slow motion sickness, right?

00:35:25And again, no hate.

00:35:27It's not their fault.

00:35:28It's just that my mind works very rapidly,

00:35:30and other people's minds just seem kind of painful.

00:35:34And I used to get quite frustrated because I used to be like,

00:35:36get there faster!

00:35:38And it's like, no, that's unfair because they're underwater.

00:35:40They can't run because every time they try to run,

00:35:42they just bounce off and float a little bit,

00:35:48and then they have to wait to come back down,

00:35:50and then they might run again, but they just float a little bit more.

00:35:53They're just zero gravity people, right?

00:35:55They can't run.

00:35:59They can't run.

00:36:06Having to constantly explain stuff to people who can't understand

00:36:08is super frustrating.

00:36:09Well, and that's just the intellectual stuff

00:36:11because with the intellectual stuff comes the emotional stuff.

00:36:18When the slow types gravitate to project management

00:36:21and provide negative value.

00:36:22Yeah, because a lot of people who are just kind of really slow

00:36:25are perceived as thoughtful.

00:36:28There was some actor who was trying to give another film actor advice,

00:36:32like, how do you look so thoughtful?

00:36:34And I just look down at a spot on the floor and kind of space out.

00:36:43Elon Musk, he struggles to speak because he has so many other thoughts

00:36:45going on at once.

00:36:46Well, Kevin Samuels, he would sometimes start three different thoughts

00:36:49at the same time.

00:36:56You're describing my husband's job to a T.

00:37:00Yeah.

00:37:03It is genuinely difficult for people.

00:37:06Freedomain.com slash donate, by the way, to help out the show.

00:37:08I'd appreciate that.

00:37:09It's genuinely difficult for people because they can't comprehend

00:37:13how good you are at things.

00:37:18Right?

00:37:19They cannot comprehend how good you are at things.

00:37:24They just get baffled and confused and annoyed.

00:37:28And in general, when I was a kid, I was constantly told by people

00:37:32to slow down.

00:37:34They would just get annoyed.

00:37:37I remember when my brother, we had these TVs, right?

00:37:39We always had these cheap old, like, 12-inch black and white TVs

00:37:43with these ripples on them because we always got them secondhand.

00:37:46Trying to watch Wimbledon was like a dreamscape from a Besson film.

00:37:50And when I wanted to go from channel 12 to channel 4,

00:37:56I'd just go...

00:37:58And I'd always land on channel 4.

00:38:00It was pretty easy, right?

00:38:02And my brother would get so mad.

00:38:03You're going to break the TV.

00:38:04It's like, I'm not going to break the TV.

00:38:05It's...

00:38:08And people would always just slow down.

00:38:10Like, no, speed up.

00:38:13But that's not possible, right?

00:38:21I mean, the only thing worse than being frustrated by slow people

00:38:24is just being a slow person.

00:38:27I can't imagine.

00:38:28I can't imagine being baffled by dust motes

00:38:31and confused by anything beyond the range of the moment.

00:38:36Because, you know, you've got your narrow area of sad expertise

00:38:39and then there's just these vague shadows of things that move.

00:38:44And, you know, the worst thing about being the average

00:38:46is how much they fucking fake it.

00:38:48Ooh.

00:38:49They fucking fake it.

00:38:51They fake it, the stinky-assed, middle-of-the-bell-curve liars.

00:38:55They lie.

00:38:57Have you ever had this where you're talking...

00:39:00I used to have this in the business world sometimes

00:39:02with marketing people.

00:39:04I remember there was one when I had my first programming job.

00:39:06Some guy had a spreadsheet and he was telling me how it was.

00:39:09In fact, it was a trader out there on the work floor.

00:39:12And he was telling me about it was a neural net.

00:39:14And I'm like, that's not a neural net.

00:39:16That's a spreadsheet, you liar.

00:39:20You realize just how many people are faking it.

00:39:22And it's really crippling.

00:39:24Like when you hear people, I understand tariffs.

00:39:27No, you don't.

00:39:29No, you don't.

00:39:30I mean, if you've done Austrian economic stuff

00:39:32or basic free market stuff and so on,

00:39:34you know, Paul Krugman and people are just bullshitting.

00:39:36They don't know what they're talking about.

00:39:38They don't have any particular principles.

00:39:40They're just saying shit.

00:39:42They're just saying what is popular.

00:39:44They're saying what gives people more power.

00:39:46And they get paid and elevated based upon their ability

00:39:49to just fucking lie.

00:39:53I was reading The Economist, God help me.

00:39:55God help me.

00:39:56I used to read that thing a lot.

00:39:57Now it's just become a complete, pathetic, low-rent rag.

00:40:00But I was reading The Economist

00:40:02and they were talking about the relationship

00:40:04between Elon Musk and Donald Trump.

00:40:07Now, you know, like it or not,

00:40:09like it or not, Elon Musk and Donald Trump are stone geniuses.

00:40:12I mean, Donald Trump, obviously,

00:40:14by far the biggest comeback in political history

00:40:16ever on the planet that will ever occur.

00:40:19Guy basically wandered in from being a real estate and TV.

00:40:22Like he did real estate.

00:40:23He did TV stuff.

00:40:24He was successful in just about anything he touched.

00:40:27And then he just decided to go into politics

00:40:32and beat out, what, 17 other men and women

00:40:36to get the nomination and won and then survived

00:40:39and then, you know, was 94 felonies and then come back.

00:40:43I mean, it's just absolutely staggering.

00:40:45A man is a stone genius.

00:40:46He's a stone genius.

00:40:48And as robust as human beings can be fashioned

00:40:51without using spit shine and colloidal silver and diamonds.

00:40:57And Elon Musk is an absolute stone genius

00:41:00in terms of he understands politics.

00:41:02He understands rockets, business, PayPal.

00:41:05He was a computer software guy even as a kid.

00:41:09Insanely productive and insanely brilliant.

00:41:14And so, you know, these absolute dipshit writers

00:41:17at The Economist putting all these snarky comments.

00:41:20You know, the bromance between Elon Musk and Donald Trump

00:41:24is shaky at its core.

00:41:25And it's like, you don't fucking know.

00:41:27You don't even operate on the same planet as these guys

00:41:31and you're putting your snarky little shit in

00:41:33about how their relationship goes.

00:41:35And it's like, you don't know.

00:41:36You don't know.

00:41:37You don't know.

00:41:38You just nyeh, nyeh, nyeh, nyeh, nyeh, nyeh.

00:41:40Ugh.

00:41:41Just sad.

00:41:44Ah.

00:41:45Yeah, so most people, they're just lying.

00:41:47They're just faking it.

00:41:48They have no clue what's going on.

00:41:50They have no clue what's going on.

00:41:51I mean, talk to people about politics

00:41:52if you've had any robust understanding of politics

00:41:55from sort of the ground up.

00:41:57And do that and you'll just realize.

00:42:00Like, you'll just, the scales will fall from your eyes.

00:42:03And what was it, Michael Crichton used to talk about this

00:42:06where he'd say, there's this, the Russ Gellman effect

00:42:09or something like that where it's like, you know,

00:42:11you're reading through the newspaper

00:42:13and they happen to be talking about an article

00:42:15you're deeply knowledgeable about

00:42:16and you're like, well, that's not even close to accurate.

00:42:19That's not even close to true.

00:42:20They're getting everything foundationally wrong.

00:42:22But then you go to some other thing

00:42:24where you're not an expert

00:42:25and somehow you think that they're doing something

00:42:27better or more realistic.

00:42:29I mean, journalists of all people

00:42:32claim to be experts in everything.

00:42:36All right.

00:42:37Yeah, yeah, that's just falsifying it all.

00:42:39Somebody says, when riffing with people,

00:42:41I sometimes get the feedback that I'm too serious

00:42:43because I talk about some heavy-duty topics.

00:42:45From my point of view, it seems like it's related

00:42:48to the competency disparity you're talking about right now

00:42:51because I think of myself as fairly jovial

00:42:53and having a good sense of humor.

00:42:55What's the best interpretation of this feedback?

00:42:57$30 donation incoming.

00:42:59Thank you, I appreciate that.

00:43:02So, yeah, I mean, what do people mean by heavy topics?

00:43:10So what people mean by heavy topics

00:43:13is stuff they know they should be thinking about,

00:43:16but it's inconvenient for them to do so.

00:43:21Stuff they know they should be thinking about,

00:43:23but it's inconvenient for them to do so.

00:43:25They just call it heavy, man.

00:43:26Just heavy.

00:43:29Somebody says, I felt that way

00:43:31at my first two jobs working in kitchens.

00:43:33Immediately came in, cleaned, organized,

00:43:35and streamlined the kitchen and made the job 10 times easier,

00:43:38and they all hated me, except the owners.

00:43:42Somebody says, I can relate to this a lot,

00:43:44but from a blue-collar point of view,

00:43:46the dumb blue-collar workers are a few tiers

00:43:48below the dumb white-collars.

00:43:52Yeah, why don't you just learn Spanish?

00:43:54Then you can just chat with so many more people.

00:43:56Simples.

00:43:59Everyone else's problems, to the dumb,

00:44:02everyone else's problems are obvious and simple.

00:44:08You know, like,

00:44:10the governments that can't fix a fucking

00:44:13pothole on the ground

00:44:17totally care about the temperature

00:44:19100 years from now.

00:44:26Absolutely.

00:44:28The governments that can't fix

00:44:30the schools that they can literally

00:44:32see from their offices,

00:44:34they can't fix those schools,

00:44:36but they can totally reform Afghanistan.

00:44:44Oh, it's great.

00:44:46Absolutely fantastic.

00:44:48Every time the government deals with me,

00:44:50it's really frustrating and annoying,

00:44:52but every government agency I have

00:44:54nothing to do with is staffed by

00:44:56massive angels who just want the very best

00:44:58for humanity and have no self-interest

00:45:00or corruption whatsoever.

00:45:04Uh, thoughts on DeepThink.

00:45:06DeepThink?

00:45:08DeepSeek?

00:45:10Is there another one, DeepThink?

00:45:12I've read that when the Chinese have copied

00:45:14Western computer chips, they've often been

00:45:16able to improve performance by 15%.

00:45:18It's much easier to have marginal innovations

00:45:20when you can skip 95% of the development.

00:45:22I assume DeepThink is built upon

00:45:24massive amounts of stolen Western code

00:45:26with some improvements.

00:45:28Yes, you know,

00:45:30it must be very tough

00:45:32for all of the non-profits

00:45:34that stole everyone's work

00:45:36to have their work stolen as well.

00:45:38Damn it! You just want to be that thief

00:45:40that keeps the stolen goods.

00:45:42Otherwise, it's totally unjust.

00:45:44Totally unfair.

00:45:46And what is this saying?

00:45:48That people are saying that

00:45:50it's not fair to AI?

00:45:58Work was always wanting me to pair.

00:46:00Program. It drives me mad.

00:46:02Oh, yeah.

00:46:04I had to help a guy at work

00:46:06the other day. He was just dumb.

00:46:08Frustrating for me, but I felt sorry for him.

00:46:10Don't get me started on project managers.

00:46:12Come on, man! There's got to be a place

00:46:14for the women.

00:46:20I think Musk has difficulty speaking

00:46:22due to severe trauma.

00:46:24Why do you think he has difficulty speaking?

00:46:26I think he's quite eloquent.

00:46:30Steph, I've heard some people say

00:46:32that Kevin Samuels faked his calls.

00:46:34They were scripted.

00:46:36Some even provided proof.

00:46:38Do you think it matters?

00:46:40I don't particularly believe

00:46:42that the calls were scripted.

00:46:44You'd be wrong.

00:46:46But I don't think so.

00:46:50When I do come across

00:46:52great blue-collar workers,

00:46:54it's fucking amazing.

00:46:56I love blue-collar work.

00:46:58I work as a welder primarily.

00:47:00Some of the things I build

00:47:02and or help build are awesome.

00:47:04Yeah, that's true.

00:47:06You think too much.

00:47:08You overthink things.

00:47:10Really.

00:47:12People get really mad

00:47:14if their cell phone slows down

00:47:16or if it has to be rebooted or something.

00:47:18So people overthink things, yeah.

00:47:28So people are like,

00:47:30the tariffs that Trump is going to

00:47:32tomorrow slap 25% on Mexico

00:47:34and on Canada

00:47:36and then 10% on China

00:47:38and people are like, well, these tariffs

00:47:40are going to raise prices.

00:47:42My brain is so small

00:47:44it can only hold one variable.

00:47:46I can't do more than one variable.

00:47:48Well, tariffs are going to increase

00:47:50the price of goods coming in

00:47:52to the country

00:47:54and therefore,

00:47:56tariffs will make things more expensive

00:47:58and drive inflation

00:48:00because everything else is equal

00:48:02and nothing changes

00:48:04no matter what.

00:48:06I mean,

00:48:08it would be different if it was a free market.

00:48:10It would be different if it was a free market, right?

00:48:12Then I could understand, tariffs would be bad.

00:48:14But, I mean, everybody understands

00:48:16who's got half a brain, right?

00:48:18Not even, a quarter of a brain.

00:48:2010%, 10% is all you need.

00:48:22The tariffs

00:48:24are there to move jobs domestically

00:48:26and the reason why it's important to move jobs domestically

00:48:28is that it's infinitely more expensive

00:48:30for the government to have people on welfare

00:48:32and disability

00:48:34than it is for them to actually have jobs

00:48:36and contribute to the society.

00:48:38So that's pretty obvious.

00:48:40It's pretty obvious.

00:48:42Also, what is America having? A Vietnam and a half

00:48:44every year from fentanyl, a lot of which is coming in

00:48:46through the southern border, but some through the

00:48:48northern border.

00:48:50And they need this shit to be

00:48:52sorted out because

00:48:54it's catastrophic for the economy

00:48:56to have 100,000 or more people die a year

00:48:58from fentanyl overdoses, not to mention those

00:49:00who get crippled or half-brain

00:49:02destroyed and end up as half-vegetables

00:49:04or unable to work because of

00:49:06fentanyl poisoning and so on.

00:49:08So Trump needs the countries

00:49:10to sort out the fentanyl issue

00:49:12and one of the leverages, one of the ways

00:49:14he's going to do it is through

00:49:16tariffs.

00:49:18So if tariffs

00:49:20reduce

00:49:22the amount of fentanyl coming into the country

00:49:24then that's going to bring prices down

00:49:26because fentanyl deaths

00:49:28are incredibly bad for the economy as a whole.

00:49:30Think of all of the amount of time, effort

00:49:32and energy that's poured into a human life

00:49:34and if it just gets wiped out through fentanyl

00:49:36all of that time, effort and energy

00:49:38from the parents, from the teachers,

00:49:40from the dentists, from the

00:49:42doctors, like everyone

00:49:44just gets completely wiped.

00:49:46They were enslaved

00:49:48because they put all of that

00:49:50effort in on the

00:49:52belief or idea that the life was going to continue.

00:49:56Yeah, I mean

00:49:58I think in general

00:50:00there are

00:50:02maybe 10 to 20

00:50:04thousand people who are truly essential

00:50:06in the world and everyone else is just kind of

00:50:08along for the ride.

00:50:10I mean in terms

00:50:12of like basic economic productivity

00:50:14and so on.

00:50:16I mean if you think of the number of people in the

00:50:18music industry versus the number of acts that

00:50:20genuinely sell and make a lot of money

00:50:22it's not more than

00:50:24a few thousand.

00:50:26Not more than a few thousand.

00:50:32...

00:50:36New study looking at ancient DNA

00:50:38from Eastern Eurasian

00:50:40populations obtains and analyzes

00:50:42polygenic scores and finds, quote,

00:50:44positive selection for cognitive related traits such as IQ.

00:50:48Oh, well, boy, that's a shocker.

00:50:50I'm really glad that that has

00:50:52been explained.

00:50:54Been examined, been explored.

00:50:56Oh, man.

00:50:58Per CNBC

00:51:00CNBC,

00:51:02this is from yesterday,

00:51:04a record number of consumers are making minimum credit card

00:51:06payments. The share of active credit card

00:51:08holders just making minimum payments

00:51:10rose to 10.75%

00:51:12in the third quarter of 2024,

00:51:14the highest ever in data

00:51:16going back to 2012.

00:51:22And also, I mean,

00:51:24the powerhouses of

00:51:26like we're at the top of the arc, man.

00:51:28I mean, Trump will reverse

00:51:30some of that with

00:51:32return to some portions of meritocracy

00:51:34or wouldn't it be fantastic if they could get rid

00:51:36of the Department of Education?

00:51:38But,

00:51:40so,

00:51:42in 2022,

00:51:44Q1 revenue for Apple was

00:51:46$123.9 billion.

00:51:50In

00:51:52Q1

00:51:54revenue, well, it can't be.

00:51:56It has to be 2024, right?

00:51:58Apple Q1

00:52:00revenue, because Q1

00:52:02would be January to March of this

00:52:04year, and of course it's only

00:52:06the end of January.

00:52:10Yeah, there's something not right with this.

00:52:12And this had 2.8 million views.

00:52:14Let me just click on it,

00:52:16because that's not right.

00:52:18So,

00:52:20the post is Apple Q1 revenue was

00:52:22$124.3 billion.

00:52:24New Q1 revenue was

00:52:26$123.9 billion.

00:52:280.3% revenue growth over 3 years.

00:52:30We've had about 15% inflation.

00:52:32Since then,

00:52:34iPhone sales are negative year over year.

00:52:36This is not a growth company.

00:52:50So,

00:52:52this is just incorrect, right?

00:52:54Because you can't have, you could have,

00:52:56when this was posted, you wouldn't even have

00:52:58month 1 revenue.

00:53:00So,

00:53:02this is the kind of thing that just kind of

00:53:04bugs me.

00:53:06Now, let me just,

00:53:08you can't have, because they say

00:53:102022,

00:53:120.3% revenue growth over

00:53:143 years, so that would put us to 2025,

00:53:16but you don't have

00:53:18Q1. Q1 is quarter 1,

00:53:20so January to March,

00:53:22end of March, so

00:53:24something's not right about all of this.

00:53:26And let's see,

00:53:28has anyone pointed this out?

00:53:30Just having a look here.

00:53:32No.

00:53:38Yeah.

00:53:40Yeah, it's very sad.

00:53:42It's very sad that people,

00:53:44nobody seems to have even noticed that there is

00:53:46no possibility of having 2025

00:53:48Q1. Now 2024,

00:53:50could you say 2022

00:53:52to 2024?

00:53:542024,

00:53:56maybe they mean Q1

00:53:582024.

00:54:00But he says we've had 15%

00:54:02inflation since then, over 3 years.

00:54:04So,

00:54:06no, could only be 2 years.

00:54:10Nobody's noticed this.

00:54:12But yeah, so Apple is,

00:54:14Apple has

00:54:16just turned into

00:54:18a, um, it's all

00:54:20just a bunch of equality of outcome,

00:54:22social planning, and so on.

00:54:26It's wild that they still have not

00:54:28released the name of the third pilot.

00:54:30Apparently, like from the crash,

00:54:32the Black Hawk crash, into the passenger

00:54:34jet over DC.

00:54:36So, from AF Post,

00:54:38they say the pilot in command of the Black Hawk

00:54:40that crashed into the passenger jet over DC

00:54:42with a woman, they say they had 500

00:54:44hours of flight experience, which doesn't seem overly much.

00:54:46But,

00:54:50they won't release the name.

00:54:52Is it a Black woman?

00:54:54Is it a trans woman? I don't know.

00:54:56I don't know.

00:55:00It's pretty, uh, pretty wild

00:55:02how you just don't get

00:55:04facts. If it breaks

00:55:06the narrative, you just can't get

00:55:08facts.

00:55:10Alright,

00:55:12so let me get back to your questions

00:55:14and comments. I'm not going to do a super long show tonight

00:55:16because, uh, I'm still, uh,

00:55:18um, my energy's kind of fading

00:55:20in and out based upon, I don't know,

00:55:22the mystery goop that's going on with my

00:55:24virus attack. I'm going to have to

00:55:26set fire to this microphone.

00:55:34Alright.

00:55:36The worst is when average or slow people around you

00:55:38think they're smarter than you. They just don't understand.

00:55:40No.

00:55:46I can tell Steph worked out before this stream

00:55:48and it's not just the muscle shirt.

00:55:52Yeah, the mediocre white man, I mean, it's, uh,

00:55:54very sad.

00:55:56I thought Steph was sick. How is he so on fire tonight?

00:55:58I've been gathering myself

00:56:00all day. You know, one of these things where it's like,

00:56:02I think I'll get up.

00:56:04I think I won't.

00:56:06I think I'll lie down for a little more.

00:56:10Uh, yeah, tariffs are

00:56:12infinitely superior to income tax, for sure.

00:56:18Did you see the videos of the planes, of the plane

00:56:20crashing into houses in Philadelphia?

00:56:22Yeah, I mean, uh,

00:56:28I mean, this is Atlas Shrugged territory, right?

00:56:36The square root of half the productivity,

00:56:388 billion people on Earth,

00:56:40is 10,000 people producing half the value.

00:56:42Yeah, for sure.

00:56:44I'm a little unsure about those fentanyl overdoses.

00:56:46Isn't it drug users

00:56:48taking it and ODing because it's mixed

00:56:50in their heroin, weed,

00:56:52or W-slash-E, uh, whatever?

00:56:54Does it somehow get into the hands

00:56:56of non-drug users? Yeah.

00:56:58It does, so, I mean,

00:57:00yeah, because, uh,

00:57:02you can't even take a Tylenol.

00:57:04You should, right? But you can't even,

00:57:06you can't even take a Tylenol from anyone,

00:57:08because you don't know what the hell's in there.

00:57:12Don't take anything

00:57:14that, in my view, doesn't come directly

00:57:16in a sealed package

00:57:18to you.

00:57:22A vast majority of Chinese people don't have an inner voice,

00:57:24though. They might be intelligent, but they don't

00:57:26have the same spirit that Westerners do. Is that true?

00:57:28I mean, I know a third of people don't seem to have any inner voice.

00:57:30Is it clustered by ethnicity

00:57:32that way?

00:57:34Yeah, fentanyl is wildly

00:57:36powerful. Even small amounts of residue

00:57:38encountered secondhand can be fatal. Yes, very

00:57:40true. Very true.

00:57:42But the condoms in Gaza,

00:57:44I think, are used for weapons.

00:57:46I think that they're repurposed as weapons.

00:57:48All right.

00:57:52Let's see if I've got any other last comments

00:57:54or issues.

00:57:56The trust in the

00:57:58media is collapsing.

00:58:00Collapsing continues.

00:58:02The slow death, I think that's wonderful

00:58:04because, of course, the media did not want Trump to get in

00:58:06and Trump got back in.

00:58:08So that's quite powerful.

00:58:10I did... God help me.

00:58:12God help me.

00:58:14This is like

00:58:16a gambling addict going back to a casino.

00:58:18Hit me with a why.

00:58:22Hit me with a why

00:58:24if you watch any of the confirmation hearings

00:58:26for, what was it, the triple?

00:58:28Hotel, Tulsi Gabbard,

00:58:30and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

00:58:32I'm afraid I did.

00:58:34I'm not proud of it.

00:58:36I'm not proud of it at all.

00:58:38And I was like, I shouldn't watch this.

00:58:40I shouldn't watch this.

00:58:42But my hand couldn't stop it.

00:58:44Just couldn't stop. It's like on my honeymoon.

00:58:46Just couldn't stop it.

00:58:50Did you watch any of these things?

00:58:58It is really...

00:59:00You know, the memes coming out of it

00:59:02are actually quite powerful.

00:59:06The memes coming out of it are really quite powerful.

00:59:08So, you know, the long-suffering men

00:59:10with the screeching heartbeats

00:59:12around them, of both the male and female persuasion,

00:59:14you know, when they've layered in

00:59:16all of these women and some men,

00:59:18you know, just...

00:59:20Right?

00:59:22I mean, they're just not smart people.

00:59:24And Robert F. Kennedy

00:59:26was harangued

00:59:28by a guy who he actually

00:59:30was roommates once in college

00:59:32and they went to each other's weddings

00:59:34and he's had him testify before. Totally friendly.

00:59:36But it's all just a show.

00:59:38It's all just a show. It's all nonsense.

00:59:40It's all, you know, it's the old George Carlin thing.

00:59:42It's a big club and you ain't in it. Neither am I.

00:59:44Right?

00:59:46But they're just not impressive people.

00:59:48They're just all of the city gotcha stuff, right?

00:59:50Yeah, Bernie ranting about

00:59:52one season.

00:59:54I mean, the man has a completely

00:59:56tin ear. Do you remember,

00:59:58gosh, what was it, Tucker Carlson ending Mike Pence's

01:00:00career by saying,

01:00:02well, I care more about Americans

01:00:04than people in Afghanistan.

01:00:06And Mike Pence is like, that's not my concern.

01:00:08It's like, that is a bad answer.

01:00:10At least fake it, right?

01:00:12At least just fake it.

01:00:14And

01:00:16seeing these silly gotchas

01:00:18going in these confirmation hearings,

01:00:20like, here's a onesie.

01:00:22Like, I gotta tell you, man,

01:00:24vaccines, I'm not

01:00:26saying good or bad. I'm just

01:00:28reading the room, man.

01:00:30Vaccines?

01:00:32A lot of skepticism, man.

01:00:34People are finding out, well, hang on a sec.

01:00:36The Amish

01:00:38have no vaccines

01:00:40and the Amish aren't dying in droves

01:00:42and the Amish don't seem to have much

01:00:44autism, right? These are just facts.

01:00:46I don't know if they're true or not. These are just sort of things that I

01:00:48have heard. It seems to be the

01:00:50case. You know, I certainly

01:00:52think since COVID,

01:00:54anybody who still believes anything

01:00:56the government health agencies

01:00:58say at all, it's

01:01:00almost beggar's belief.

01:01:02Right? I mean, only, what is it?

01:01:04Only a few percentage points of people in Africa

01:01:06got vaccinated and they're fine.

01:01:08Not a winter of

01:01:10severe disease and death for people

01:01:12in Africa, right? So, it is

01:01:14anybody who

01:01:16believes. And so, there's this splash damage

01:01:18that came out of COVID and

01:01:20it's only two weeks, well, two years.

01:01:22And then we're going to pretend nothing

01:01:24happened. But

01:01:26everything is now

01:01:28open to question, right? There's a principle

01:01:30in law which is false

01:01:32in one thing, false in everything, in that if you can

01:01:34prove that a witness is lying, then you

01:01:36assume that they're lying about everything.

01:01:38And

01:01:40this is like, please understand,

01:01:42just to read the rooms

01:01:44in the rooms around you,

01:01:46everybody's reality is, post-COVID,

01:01:48is hanging by a thread.

01:01:52Everybody's reality is just hanging

01:01:54by a thread.

01:01:56Because, if you've

01:01:58ever been told someone is a really bad person

01:02:00and then you go and talk to them or meet them or see them

01:02:02or chat with them, and they're actually kind of

01:02:04reasonable and nice, then the bad person

01:02:06is the person who's lying about

01:02:08the, quote, bad person, right?

01:02:10So,

01:02:12the amount

01:02:14of lies

01:02:18that were going on around COVID

01:02:20are

01:02:22absolutely staggering.

01:02:24Like, it's...

01:02:26We get it, right? We get it, right?

01:02:28But for most people, the idea

01:02:30that they were

01:02:32absolutely

01:02:34lied to

01:02:38about so much around COVID,

01:02:40it's

01:02:42really destabilizing

01:02:44to people.

01:02:46The idea

01:02:48that

01:02:50they have only been

01:02:52pretending to be virtue, when in fact

01:02:54they've just been blindly obedient

01:02:56to pathologically

01:02:58false sociopaths?

01:03:00Oof.

01:03:02Oof.

01:03:04I don't know, man.

01:03:08I would like Kash Patel

01:03:10to change his name to Bitcoin Patel.

01:03:12Nice.

01:03:14Yeah, I read his last book.

01:03:16It's pretty good.

01:03:18Somebody says, for the first time in my life,

01:03:20I turn on the news, and it's all good news.

01:03:22Like, Trump is cutting harder and deeper

01:03:24than I ever thought he would.

01:03:26Yeah.

01:03:28Well, and you don't get

01:03:30Trump's second term

01:03:32without

01:03:34the gap four years, right?

01:03:36You don't get that, because Trump, when he went in

01:03:38was like, oh, reach across the aisle,

01:03:40let's find a way to work together with these people,

01:03:42and that's all gone,

01:03:44right? That's all gone.

01:03:50Oh, is there an animation of the

01:03:52Fountainhead coming up? That's good.

01:03:54That movie was not good. I never watched it.

01:03:56More than the first 10 or 15 minutes.

01:04:00Ah.

01:04:02Well, yeah, I mean,

01:04:08ivermectin was like, didn't it win

01:04:10the Nobel Prize or something like that, and then

01:04:12they just referred to it as horse paste?

01:04:14Not fit for human consumption,

01:04:16even though it has been one of the most

01:04:18successful medicines in human history.

01:04:20And they just, because they had to say

01:04:22there's no treatment for COVID in order to get their

01:04:24emergency use authorization, right?

01:04:26So,

01:04:28just,

01:04:30the scale at which people are being lied to,

01:04:32thank you, Matt,

01:04:34the scale at which people are being lied to is

01:04:36almost beyond

01:04:38their comprehension.

01:04:40It's almost beyond their comprehension.

01:04:42They're just right on the edge of,

01:04:44holy shit, everything is

01:04:46false. Everything

01:04:48is false.

01:04:52And that is

01:04:54really tough.

01:04:56It's really tough for people

01:04:58to process.

01:05:00Really, there's going to be a lot

01:05:02of,

01:05:04like, severe breaks

01:05:06with reality from people.

01:05:08Right, so,

01:05:10I mean, even the fact now that

01:05:12people as a whole are saying,

01:05:14even the CIA is saying, yeah,

01:05:16pretty much a lab leak, right?

01:05:18I mean, this is partly why, I think it's partly why

01:05:20I got cancelled was my presentation

01:05:22called The Case Against China.

01:05:24The Case Against China.

01:05:26China.

01:05:28So, yeah, I mean, I was cancelled in part for that.

01:05:30No fun being early

01:05:32after a while. Hey, I'm early!

01:05:34That means I get all the arrows in my back

01:05:36and then people use me for fertilizer

01:05:38for their future falsehoods.

01:05:44All right.

01:05:46China.

01:05:48China.

01:05:50The number of people who went

01:05:52along with COVID-19 and the Vax

01:05:54totally shocked me at the time.

01:05:56Well, I mean, I hate to sort of say

01:05:58it shouldn't have shocked you,

01:06:00but if you know anything about

01:06:02the Stanley Milgram experiments,

01:06:04people, like, the majority of people

01:06:06will be murderous

01:06:08if guys in white coats tell them to.

01:06:12Like, the majority of people

01:06:14will literally

01:06:16kill other human beings

01:06:18if they're told to.

01:06:20They have no morals.

01:06:22They have no conscience

01:06:24to speak of.

01:06:26They have no inner voice.

01:06:28They will

01:06:30murder people

01:06:32if they're told to.

01:06:34And they might resist it

01:06:36and they might feel sweaty about it.

01:06:38They might feel, I think your stance

01:06:40on George Floyd was probably the final straw

01:06:42for you getting banned. Yeah, for sure.

01:06:44It's when I was doing the interview with,

01:06:46I did an interview with two cops,

01:06:48one black cop, one white cop,

01:06:50and the risk

01:06:52of people's just health going

01:06:54into a death spiral when they get arrested

01:06:56and that it didn't necessarily mean

01:06:58that the chokehold was bad and all of that.

01:07:00And, um,

01:07:02yeah, that was clearly too much.

01:07:04That was too much

01:07:06for people because they needed

01:07:08their summer of

01:07:10murder, right?

01:07:14So, people

01:07:16are kind of hanging on by a thread

01:07:18as this kind of unspoken

01:07:20contract in society at the moment that we don't

01:07:22fucking talk about that stuff.

01:07:24Do you have this?

01:07:26Hit me with a why if you have this in your

01:07:28social or familial circle.

01:07:30You just can't talk about this shit.

01:07:32Do not circle back. Do not say,

01:07:34oh, are you not going for your eighth booster?

01:07:36Why not? Why not?

01:07:40You want granny to die? Why aren't you going for your

01:07:42eighth fucking booster?

01:07:48Do you have that?

01:07:50Do you have that?

01:07:52People just, they won't

01:07:54won't fucking talk about it.

01:08:02I mean, when I meet people,

01:08:04I'll bring it up.

01:08:06When I meet people, I'll bring it up.

01:08:08Hey, how was COVID for you?

01:08:10Things got a little fucking crazy there,

01:08:12didn't they? Things got a little nuts

01:08:14there, didn't they?

01:08:16COVID is just gone.

01:08:18It's memory halt, right?

01:08:20Don't talk about COVID like the

01:08:22Germans after World War II. Oh, are you kidding?

01:08:24The Germans have done nothing but

01:08:26talk about World War II after that.

01:08:28Got two people to talk about it.

01:08:30I don't think it was quite

01:08:32so mad in the UK, though.

01:08:34It was pretty mad in the UK.

01:08:38It was pretty bad.

01:08:40No, I said,

01:08:42I will openly say, I meet people socially,

01:08:44whatever, playing pickleball or whatever,

01:08:46or tennis, I meet people socially, like, yeah,

01:08:48how was COVID for you?

01:08:50Things got kind of crazy

01:08:52there, right?

01:08:54What was your relationship like with the unvaccinated?

01:08:56Do you think

01:08:58they had a point?

01:09:00I will ask people. I'm not letting

01:09:02this shit go. I am not letting this shit go.

01:09:04No fucking

01:09:06chance.

01:09:08I will not let this go.

01:09:10I'm not letting

01:09:12people get away with that.

01:09:14Bunch of ghouls.

01:09:20No, I won't.

01:09:22And it's optimistic and all of that.

01:09:24Actually, it is an act of love to not

01:09:26people completely gaslight the past.

01:09:28It's an act of love, but

01:09:30people don't like it. They get tense, really tense, right?

01:09:32Nobody wants to look back in the mirror and say,

01:09:34oh, I guess I was a useful idiot for

01:09:36evildoers.

01:09:38Nobody wants to look back and say that.

01:09:40Right?

01:09:42Too bad.

01:09:44Maybe you shouldn't have been.

01:09:48I won't do it.

01:09:50I won't do it, man.

01:10:00Yeah.

01:10:02And I say,

01:10:04do you know anybody who's got sick?

01:10:06Post, uh...

01:10:08Oh, I said, do you know anybody who didn't take the vax?

01:10:10Do you know, did they get sick?

01:10:12Do you know the people who did take the vax?

01:10:14Did they get sick, or did they have any health issues?

01:10:16And it all just comes out. It all just comes out.

01:10:18No, I'm not.

01:10:20I will keep talking about this shit

01:10:22until 18 minutes

01:10:24after I'm dead.

01:10:26No, it's gone.

01:10:32No, it's gone.

01:10:34It's absolutely memory halt.

01:10:36And don't.

01:10:38Don't, like,

01:10:40don't let it get memory halt, man.

01:10:42Don't let it get memory halt.

01:10:48I won't do it.

01:10:50I won't do it.

01:10:54Made my life pretty fucking uncomfortable at times.

01:10:58And then I had to explain

01:11:00why everybody was losing their fucking minds

01:11:02to my daughter.

01:11:04Though not in those terms, of course, right?

01:11:10I won't let it go either.

01:11:12They don't get to erase their actions. Nope.

01:11:14Nope.

01:11:16That's a good point, Steph.

01:11:18Most of the time, very seldomly, do I hear others bring it up.

01:11:20And get this, every time they do, they whisper.

01:11:22Even if no one else is around. Yeah, for sure.

01:11:24Tom says,

01:11:26the COVID narrative gave crime bullies the perfect excuse

01:11:28to abuse people around them.

01:11:30I took the opportunity to dismiss all those people from my life.

01:11:34It's good to see Trump shut down

01:11:36gain of function. They were working on some seriously

01:11:38bad stuff down in Texas under Biden.

01:11:40Yeah. Yeah.

01:11:44Somebody says,

01:11:46I'm not letting HIV or 9-11 go.

01:11:48Most people still believe nonsense about both.

01:11:50Well, I'll tell you this, though, man.

01:11:52I mean,

01:11:54it's a different matter if you participated

01:11:56in things yourself.

01:12:02Yeah, what was it?

01:12:04Somebody was grilling Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

01:12:06It's like, so you think that Lyme disease

01:12:08was a bioweapon? He's like, yeah, probably did say that.

01:12:12If you go down to the woods today,

01:12:14you're in for a big surprise.

01:12:28All right.

01:12:30It says, I mentioned COVID to a couple

01:12:32of pretty smart engineers about a year ago,

01:12:34and they realized how much they forgot about it.

01:12:36We ended up having a productive conversation about it.

01:12:38Okay, let me ask you this question.

01:12:40It's a really, really big question for me.

01:12:42I think about this a lot. Honestly,

01:12:44this is like half an obsession for me.

01:12:54How many people in your life

01:12:56would stand up for you no matter what?

01:12:58Even if it cost them their jobs,

01:13:00even if it cost them their income,

01:13:02even if it cost them their reputations.

01:13:04How many people in your life would stand up for you

01:13:06no matter what?

01:13:08I think I have maybe

01:13:10six or seven.

01:13:12Maybe five. Maybe six.

01:13:14Six.

01:13:26I'm really fascinated,

01:13:28and I remember this watching the movie

01:13:30Goodfellas many years ago, where

01:13:32Joe Pesci and Robert De Niro

01:13:34are like best friends

01:13:36for decades.

01:13:38They're criminals, of course, right? Sociopaths, but

01:13:40they're best friends for decades, and then

01:13:42Joe Pesci goes too far and ends up having to be wiped out,

01:13:44and

01:13:46the Robert De Niro

01:13:48character is just, you know, chatting away

01:13:50with him and then leads him into the basement where he gets killed,

01:13:52right? No bond.

01:13:54No bond.

01:13:56I do listen to some

01:13:58true crime stuff from time to time,

01:14:00if I'm sort of doing other things,

01:14:02and the number of times it's like, well,

01:14:04this guy went missing, and his family is now

01:14:06in their twentieth year

01:14:08of raising awareness, of funding

01:14:10private investigators, and

01:14:12they're still trying to find him. They're still trying to find out

01:14:14what happened to him.

01:14:20And that's wild to me.

01:14:22I mean, it's not wild to me in terms

01:14:24of my current family. My family of origin

01:14:28they wouldn't

01:14:30you know,

01:14:32it's not like they wouldn't get a cup of water if you were dying of thirst.

01:14:40So I'm really

01:14:42fascinated by this question

01:14:44of, in particular

01:14:46family of origin bonds.

01:14:48You know, because everyone's like, oh, family is everything, and

01:14:50you know, family, you do for family,

01:14:52and you make your sacrifices for family,

01:14:54and people would do just about anything for family.

01:14:56But that's

01:14:58not how it played out under COVID, man.

01:15:00That is not

01:15:04how it played out over COVID.

01:15:06That's for sure.

01:15:08For sure.

01:15:10People turned on family members like a bunch of rabid jackals

01:15:12on a wounded

01:15:14baby zebra.

01:15:16Not pretty, man. Where was the loyalty?

01:15:20Where was the loyalty?

01:15:22Where is the love?

01:15:24Where is the love?

01:15:30Yeah, because I do hear

01:15:32these families, you know,

01:15:34they're still trying to find the

01:15:36killer of their daughter, you know,

01:15:3820 years later, and they're just, you know,

01:15:40they just really

01:15:42dig in, and it becomes

01:15:44their mission in their life, and all of that.

01:15:46Like, that's just wild.

01:15:48The family of origin stuff.

01:15:52It took, like, three

01:15:54minor disagreements for my entire family.

01:15:56I shouldn't laugh, because it's a long time ago now.

01:15:58It took about three

01:16:00minor disagreements for my family

01:16:02of origin stuff. My family of origin

01:16:04structure just completely collapsed

01:16:06for me to become

01:16:08absolutely

01:16:10unacceptable.

01:16:12It's simply unacceptable.

01:16:16Because this woman wrote

01:16:18about this

01:16:20on X

01:16:22recently. I think

01:16:24about this a lot. I really do think

01:16:26about this a lot. Let me just find it here.

01:16:34Oh, did I go past?

01:16:36God help me.

01:16:42I will find it.

01:16:48Oh no! Oh God!

01:16:52Alright, I will find it.

01:16:54But yeah, and basically this happened

01:16:56Oh yeah, here we go. This is from

01:16:58Snafu, and he

01:17:00wrote,

01:17:02My wife received a DM out of the blue from a friend

01:17:04of four decades, informing her

01:17:06they were no longer

01:17:08friends. Goodbye forever, more or less.

01:17:10This woman

01:17:12was in her wedding. She'd gotten

01:17:14pregnant very young, kept the baby, and

01:17:16married the father. Most of her friends cut her loose,

01:17:18because she was no longer free to go out and party, but my wife

01:17:20stuck with her.

01:17:22She often babysat the kids

01:17:24at no cost. This young couple

01:17:26didn't have two nickels to rub together, so mom and dad

01:17:28could spend some time alone together.

01:17:30She is the godmother of at least one

01:17:32of the kids, and was a major presence in their lives

01:17:34as they were growing up. They called her aunt,

01:17:36so and so.

01:17:38The missus supported

01:17:40this woman through her affair,

01:17:42encouraging her to end it, near divorce,

01:17:44and years later, in her final divorce,

01:17:46we later attended her second wedding.

01:17:48The parting

01:17:50message was a generic rant about

01:17:52Trump and MAGA, along with some low-quality

01:17:54anti-Trump memes. Nothing

01:17:56specific about anything my missus had said,

01:17:58or done. The woman apparently

01:18:00copy-pasted it and sent it

01:18:02to multiple people.

01:18:04She subsequently posted a virtue-signaling announcement

01:18:06that she was cutting ties with all the bad

01:18:08people. My wife

01:18:10very rarely discussed politics with this woman,

01:18:12and doesn't post political content on social media.

01:18:14The weirdest thing is that

01:18:16I never thought of this woman as especially far-left.

01:18:18She's just a

01:18:20typical, middle-aged,

01:18:22UMC, suburban, liberal, white woman.

01:18:24I don't really know what to say about this.

01:18:26It's just where we

01:18:28are now, I guess.

01:18:34So,

01:18:36it happened, of course, with Trump.

01:18:38It happens with accusations

01:18:40of various bigotries and so on.

01:18:42It happened with COVID,

01:18:44of course, in a fairly

01:18:46brutal fashion. Thank you, David.

01:18:48And,

01:18:50just no bond.

01:18:54Just no bond.

01:18:56Just

01:18:58erased.

01:19:00Just erased.

01:19:06Steve says, the quickening effect of COVID

01:19:08was dizzying to live through. It'll never

01:19:10wear off. Kind of like those who lived through the

01:19:12depression. You just can't

01:19:14lose sight of these experiences.

01:19:20There's a guy down the road to me whose son died

01:19:22in a pool on holiday. He started a charity

01:19:24in his name and are very active doing events.

01:19:34My local lake has a great public

01:19:36walking path around it. They had signs saying,

01:19:38only walk in a clockwise manner to prevent

01:19:40COVID. I made a point to walk

01:19:42counterclockwise every time.

01:19:58Close to half of the J6s were turned in by

01:20:00their family members. Unbelievable.

01:20:02Yeah, there's

01:20:04this thing, there's this big battle

01:20:06going on on X at the moment

01:20:08which is

01:20:10what are

01:20:12the concentric rings of

01:20:14care? Right, so

01:20:16the Christians are saying, look, you

01:20:18take care of your kids, your family,

01:20:20then your

01:20:22extended family, then your

01:20:24neighbors, then your town,

01:20:26then your state, your country,

01:20:28and then, you know, at

01:20:30some point, you can help others, right?

01:20:32But you gotta take care, you know,

01:20:34you see this other orienting versus inner

01:20:36orienting, right? People who are more

01:20:38bonded to others and people who are

01:20:40the other, the alien, the different,

01:20:42foreign, versus more bonded to themselves.

01:20:46And so

01:20:48a lot of

01:20:50cynical atheists and agnostics

01:20:52try to sort of trap

01:20:54the Christians

01:20:56into

01:20:58endless foreign aid

01:21:00and so on because you have to take care of everyone

01:21:02and you have to love everyone as yourself

01:21:04and this is not

01:21:06true in Christianity as a whole

01:21:08that you're supposed to take care of your

01:21:10kids, your family, your extended family, and so

01:21:12on, and then, you know, if there's stuff left over at the

01:21:14very end. But that is

01:21:16foundationally really difficult for people.

01:21:18I'm thinking about

01:21:20this a lot today. What is it that

01:21:22motivates people as a whole?

01:21:24What is it that

01:21:26motivates people as a whole

01:21:28to love

01:21:30that, or to claim to love

01:21:32that which is most distant

01:21:34rather than actually have loyalty

01:21:36to them or those who are

01:21:38supposed to be closer?

01:21:42I mean, you know, the sort of

01:21:44typical example is

01:21:46and a lot of it is sort of the liberal white women

01:21:48who are like, we have to save

01:21:50you know,

01:21:52things in Africa, right?

01:21:56We have to save the people in Africa,

01:21:58right? Even though people in

01:22:00Africa, unfortunately, one of the reasons why AIDS

01:22:02spreads quite a bit is because they use sand

01:22:04as a stimulant

01:22:06in sexual activities,

01:22:08which of course creates abrasions and so on, right?

01:22:10So people who are like, I

01:22:12want to help people

01:22:14in Africa, and yet

01:22:16they don't do much for their own local community

01:22:18if anything.

01:22:20It's a very

01:22:22interesting mindset to me.

01:22:24It is

01:22:26a very

01:22:28interesting

01:22:30mindset.

01:22:32And so

01:22:34the idea that you should take care

01:22:36of the people who are closest

01:22:38to you

01:22:40first and foremost, and then

01:22:42and only later

01:22:44have care and concern

01:22:46for everyone else

01:22:48in the world, and basically

01:22:50because there's so much to take care of locally,

01:22:52there's so much to take care of locally,

01:22:54you never end up having much for the world

01:22:56as a whole.

01:22:58So, what are your thoughts

01:23:00as to why?

01:23:04Somebody, Jared says

01:23:06they can feel good without ties

01:23:08to the outcomes.

01:23:10That's some truth to that.

01:23:12Steve says, politics sat me on my ass

01:23:14and showed me there's no loyalty in it.

01:23:16My trust expands to my immediate family,

01:23:18and de-food free-domainers

01:23:20ranchers, and that's about it.

01:23:22A bit of trust for sincere Christians.

01:23:24Yeah.

01:23:30I think, if I had to guess

01:23:32I don't know the answer to this

01:23:34because it's a big old question, right?

01:23:36But I think

01:23:38the reason why people

01:23:40focus on

01:23:42helping people on the other side

01:23:44of the world, is it doesn't require

01:23:46them to be personally

01:23:48virtuous in their lives, right?

01:23:50Obviously they can say things, maybe they even donate money and so on.

01:23:52But, in order to say

01:23:54like for people to say

01:23:56and to believe, well you should take care of your kids

01:23:58your husband, your wife, your family

01:24:00first

01:24:02would indicate that you have those bonds

01:24:04at all. And a lot of people

01:24:06don't.

01:24:10A lot of people don't.

01:24:12I mean,

01:24:14let me ask you this. How many

01:24:16people

01:24:18what percentage of people in your

01:24:20life would you

01:24:22do you accept or do you believe

01:24:24have genuine

01:24:26deep moral love and attachment

01:24:28to those around them?

01:24:34What percentage of the people in your life

01:24:36would you say have deep and moral

01:24:38and virtuous love and attachments

01:24:40to those in their life?

01:24:46It's not as common

01:24:48as you might think.

01:24:50And I think people still want the dopamine of

01:24:52quote being loved and being good, so they just do

01:24:54things elsewhere where

01:24:56they can't be questioned, right? You send money

01:24:58to build a house in Africa, everyone's like

01:25:00grateful, they send you letters saying how wonderful you are

01:25:02but

01:25:04they don't judge

01:25:06you morally, they don't call you up

01:25:08on your shortcomings, they just praise you

01:25:10because you give them money, right?

01:25:16I think it is a way of

01:25:18gaining a sense of

01:25:20appreciation without actually having to be personally

01:25:22virtuous.

01:25:24If that makes sense.

01:25:38Yeah, it is pretty wild.

01:25:40In the past 24 hours, all the stuff

01:25:42that has gone on from Trump's

01:25:44executive orders is really

01:25:46something.

01:25:48It's going even faster

01:25:50than I expected.

01:25:54All right.

01:26:02So

01:26:04So

01:26:06Higher percentage

01:26:08the more rural and red you go.

01:26:16It's easy to be seen as

01:26:18a beneficent contributor when the standards are almost

01:26:20non-existent. It's treasonous too.

01:26:24Well, it would be

01:26:26interesting to see,

01:26:28I mean we know that single

01:26:30women vote left

01:26:32and unmarried.

01:26:34So to me,

01:26:36if you can keep women single

01:26:38with or without children,

01:26:40I don't know what the difference is. I think single mothers vote

01:26:42quite left as well.

01:26:44If you keep women single, then they tend to mother the planet

01:26:46which is highly profitable.

01:26:48It's like, why is it that women

01:26:50are constantly encouraged to divorce men?

01:26:52Because when they divorce men under the modern

01:26:54laws, look at McKenzie,

01:26:56is it McKenzie?

01:26:58If they divorce their

01:27:00men, then they get

01:27:02millions or hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars

01:27:04which then leftists can

01:27:06pilfer from them under the guise of

01:27:08altruism.

01:27:16All right.

01:27:18Well, I can feel my energy beginning to fade

01:27:20so I don't want to do anything less than

01:27:22maximum quality. So I will close

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01:27:30I completely sympathize, understand

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