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Sunday Morning Live 2 February 2025

In this episode, I analyze the growing trade tensions between the U.S. and Canada in light of the fentanyl crisis, which has become the leading cause of death for Americans aged 18 to 45. I discuss President Trump's declaration of a national emergency, imposing a 25% tariff on Canadian imports to pressure Canada into stronger action against drug trafficking.

I contrast the urgency in the U.S. with Canada's oblivion to the crisis and challenge listeners to prioritize public health over economic concerns. I critique the Canadian government's responses and advocate for compassionate dialogue and actionable solutions, emphasizing the human cost of inaction and inviting listener engagement on this critical issue.

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00:00:00Good morning, everybody. It is the second of February 2024-wife 2025. That's it. Done it.
00:00:07And listener says, I've got through the first half of your novel, The Future.
00:00:11It's amazing, with many hypotheticals packed into, packed all into just one book.
00:00:17Hello from dystopian communist UK.
00:00:20Hmm.
00:00:22This happened once, to me once, because some debris got into my eye and I couldn't get it out.
00:00:27Yeah, my mother used to lick my eyeballs to get things out.
00:00:30It was quite intimate, in its own weird way, but I'm sure quite effective.
00:00:36But, yeah, the glued shut eyes are horrible.
00:00:39I swear I've had a cold since October.
00:00:42Yeah, this is, you drink lots of fluids, yeah, appreciate that.
00:00:45I'm on a lot of zinc, a lot of vitamin C, and some bed rest.
00:00:51And I also find, believe it or not, cardio, like sweating it out, helps quite a bit.
00:00:55So cardio and some weights helps a lot.
00:00:58But, yeah, it's a nasty bug.
00:01:00And I haven't been sick like this, oh gosh, I honestly can't remember.
00:01:06I remember shortly after my daughter was born, I got a bad bug.
00:01:09But that was like 16 years ago.
00:01:12And I have half of my friends have the same thing.
00:01:15And it just kind of comes and goes.
00:01:17Like it's weird, normally you get sick, it gets bad, it gets better and you're done.
00:01:21But this is like, you're on the couch.
00:01:23Okay, couple of days, oh, no, no, now you've got brain fog.
00:01:28Oh, now brain fog has lifted a bit, but now you have a sore throat.
00:01:32Oh, sore throat's backed away a little bit, now you've got a cough.
00:01:35And it's just weird.
00:01:39Maybe it's to do with that fog.
00:01:42But it's something, man, it's a strange kind of illness.
00:01:46It's like a sine wave rather than a general arc, which is the way these things go.
00:01:52But I haven't had a flu.
00:01:54Honestly, it's been probably 30 years since I've had a flu.
00:01:58Well, that's what you have when you have kids.
00:02:02I caught a nasty cold around New Year's and the cough lingered for about a month.
00:02:06Yeah, that's right, that's right.
00:02:13Yeah, it was an odd bunch of symptoms.
00:02:17And the brain fog is tough, man.
00:02:20I don't particularly mind what happens to my body.
00:02:23Just leave my brain alone.
00:02:25But the brain fog is tough.
00:02:26I hope you feel better soon.
00:02:27Thank you, I appreciate that.
00:02:31I went on a second date with a girl yesterday.
00:02:33I asked her what healthy masculinity was.
00:02:35She went silent and never answered the question.
00:02:42Sorry, I'm not sure I understand.
00:02:45You asked a very deep and complicated philosophical question on the second date?
00:02:52Alright, well, that's an approach.
00:02:54I suppose that's an approach.
00:03:02So, hit me with a why if you would be interested in the trade war that is erupting
00:03:09between China, America, Mexico, and Canada.
00:03:14Hit me with a why if you'd be interested in understanding that trade war better.
00:03:23How soon do I text a girl after I get her number?
00:03:25I would say certainly the next day.
00:03:31Yes, you would be interested.
00:03:34Would you be interested?
00:03:36Alright.
00:03:38Well, we'll go over some facts and then we will go over some philosophy.
00:03:43Kind of the usual, right?
00:03:47So, the president has expanded an existing national emergency declaration,
00:03:51the US president, of course, to include the threat posed by the influx of illicit drugs,
00:03:55particularly fentanyl from Canada.
00:03:58This action underscores the perceived inadequacy of previous measures
00:04:01to address this public health crisis.
00:04:05So, Canada legalized a bunch of the ingredients for fentanyl
00:04:09and there's a bunch of other stuff to do with the TD Bank that is a little bit separate,
00:04:14but we'll get to that in a bit.
00:04:17But it's pretty wild.
00:04:19So, an additional 25% ad valorem rate of duty is imposed on all products from Canada,
00:04:25effective 12-01-2025.
00:04:30This tariff aims to pressure Canada into taking more aggressive actions
00:04:33against drug trafficking organizations
00:04:35and to curb the flow of illicit drugs across the US-Canada border.
00:04:41So, and it's 25% and then the government of Canada has responded to all kinds of tough talk.
00:04:50Well, their income is not threatened, but other people's will be.
00:04:54And so they've said, you know, basically we're gearing up for a trade war,
00:04:57we're going to go to the mattresses, but don't worry, we'll give you COVID-style relief.
00:05:01So that's the new thing, right?
00:05:03Ever since COVID, if the government does stuff that costs you money,
00:05:06they can just throw borrowed or printed money at you and apparently it's totally fine.
00:05:11But America said 25% with Canada, Canada's responded with 25%
00:05:17and then I think Trump has threatened to go to 50% and so on, right?
00:05:22So the order cites a public health crisis due to drug overdoses,
00:05:27particularly from synthetic opioids like fentanyl, which being smuggled from Canada.
00:05:31It also references increased domestic production in Canada,
00:05:34especially in British Columbia, contributing to international drug distribution.
00:05:39The link to terrorism is primarily related to the designation of cartels
00:05:42and other organizations as foreign terrorist organizations
00:05:45and specialty, sorry, specially designated global terrorists.
00:05:49That's part of an executive order on January 20th, 2025.
00:05:55So this is a policy shift from Biden to Trump.
00:05:59They're using trade policy as a tool to combat drug trafficking.
00:06:07So Trump posted on social media today,
00:06:11I've implemented a 25% tariff on imports from Mexico and Canada,
00:06:1410% on Canadian energy and a 10% additional tariff on China.
00:06:18This was done through the International Emergency Economic Powers Act
00:06:22because of the major threat of illegal aliens and deadly drugs
00:06:25killing our citizens, including fentanyl.
00:06:27We need to protect Americans and it is my duty as president
00:06:30to ensure the safety of all.
00:06:32I made a promise on my campaign to stop the flood of illegal aliens
00:06:35and drugs from pouring across our borders
00:06:37and Americans overwhelmingly voted in favor of it.
00:06:40So what is known about the production and distribution of fentanyl
00:06:53in relation to this order?
00:06:55So over 90% of the precursor chemicals used to manufacture fentanyl
00:07:00are produced in China.
00:07:02These chemicals are not fentanyl itself but are critical for its synthesis.
00:07:07While China has taken steps to regulate some fentanyl-related substances
00:07:10following US requests, manufacturers often modify compounds
00:07:14to evade these regulations leading to new forms of fentanyl analogs.
00:07:19In Mexico, Mexican cartels have become significant producers of fentanyl
00:07:23using precursor chemicals imported from China
00:07:25to manufacture the drug in clandestine labs within Mexico.
00:07:31The majority of fentanyl enters the US through the US-Mexico border.
00:07:35It's often smuggled in by American citizens
00:07:38who are involved in more than 86% of fentanyl trafficking cases
00:07:43between 2017 and 2021.
00:07:48There's a growing concern about fentanyl and other synthetic opioids
00:07:52being smuggled from Canada, especially from BC,
00:07:55where there's heightened domestic production.
00:07:58So fentanyl can be disguised as legitimate mail or products,
00:08:02making it challenging to detect,
00:08:04especially through postal and courier services.
00:08:08Fentanyl, of course, is smuggled in both through official ports of entry,
00:08:12less monitored water areas, often concealed in vehicles or on individuals.
00:08:19So that is a very big deal.
00:08:25Now, of course, there's stuff to do with terrorism,
00:08:27which is important as well,
00:08:29but the idea that you want to sort of figure out
00:08:37how the fentanyl is getting in and try to get to respond to it
00:08:41is pretty important, right?
00:08:44Let me just... I want to get this.
00:08:48Last I heard, it was about 100,000 a year.
00:08:58Okay, so in 2022, around 73,838 people in the United States
00:09:04died from a drug overdose that involved fentanyl.
00:09:07Because it's crazy, man.
00:09:11It's absolutely crazy.
00:09:13It really is kind of a war, right?
00:09:16In 2021...
00:09:18No, but that's a number I was thinking of.
00:09:20Over 107,000 Americans died of overdoses,
00:09:23the highest total ever recorded.
00:09:2671,000 of these 2021 overdose deaths
00:09:29involved synthetic opioids, primarily fentanyl.
00:09:36So fentanyl, of course, is a powerful synthetic opioid
00:09:3850 to 100 times stronger than heroin or morphine.
00:09:41Every day, over 150 people die from overdoses
00:09:43involving synthetic opioids like fentanyl.
00:09:46Now, of course, this is not people who are necessarily addicted to fentanyl.
00:09:50This can be people who just take a pill at a party,
00:09:53which, of course, is unwise.
00:09:55But they don't necessarily know that they're taking fentanyl
00:09:59because it's such a tiny dose that can kill you.
00:10:03In 2022 alone, fentanyl caused about 200 deaths per day.
00:10:07Over a quarter million Americans have died from fentanyl overdoses since 2018.
00:10:11Fentanyl overdoses more than doubled between 2019 and 2022
00:10:15with over 73,000 deaths in 2022.
00:10:22In the United States, fentanyl overdose deaths
00:10:24are the highest in the U.S.
00:10:26in 2022 with over 73,000 deaths in 2022.
00:10:34So that is a Vietnam a year, right?
00:10:48That is a Vietnam a year.
00:10:57I'm just going to double-check this number.
00:11:03Oh, Vietnam War? No, it's worse than that.
00:11:05The Vietnam War was 58,220 U.S. military.
00:11:12So it is, give or take,
00:11:16a Vietnam and a third, Vietnam and a half.
00:11:21So if you are an America First,
00:11:26if you are interested in protecting
00:11:35your citizens, then this has to be sorted out.
00:11:43The slaughter, this is a form of
00:11:48bioweapon warfare, almost.
00:12:00And this is why when people get upset about this,
00:12:06like there was a, I can't remember,
00:12:08some American politician was like,
00:12:09well, but tomatoes are going to get more expensive
00:12:11and this and that and the other.
00:12:13I mean, it is tone-deaf in the extreme.
00:12:16It is tone-deaf in the extreme because
00:12:19most Americans now exist within a social
00:12:23and family structure where somebody
00:12:26has been grievously harmed or killed
00:12:30by these drugs.
00:12:37So if you have, of course, lived in a family structure
00:12:40or you're in a family structure
00:12:43where someone has been harmed or killed
00:12:46by these drugs, I'm not sure you're fucking concerned
00:12:50about the price of tomatoes.
00:12:52This is the disconnect.
00:12:54You know, there was some woman who was like,
00:12:56oh, well, without the illegal immigrants,
00:12:59when white women can't get blueberries
00:13:02for their smoothies, like it's completely bizarre to me.
00:13:06It's a very bizarre kind of mindset for me
00:13:10to even think about that people are like,
00:13:12yes, but the price of tomatoes and blueberries
00:13:14might be a little tougher to get.
00:13:16It's like, so a Vietnam and a half a year
00:13:19from this evil shit?
00:13:22And people are like, oh, but the price of gas
00:13:26might go up a little bit.
00:13:27Or like, I'm sort of missing,
00:13:30I'm missing a context here if you guys can help me out.
00:13:34Like how could anyone think that this is something
00:13:40that is going to be compelling to people?
00:13:49I don't understand.
00:13:53I mean, if I had a family member who died of overdoses
00:13:56and somebody said, well, but, you know,
00:13:58the short-term cost of tackling some of these overdoses
00:14:00is that the price of tomatoes might go up a little bit,
00:14:03it'll be like, it's completely bizarre to me.
00:14:10I don't fundamentally understand this processing
00:14:14other than it's supremely cold-hearted people.
00:14:18I don't want to over-explain this,
00:14:21but I don't understand how this is considered
00:14:24to be compelling at all.
00:14:33Ugh.
00:14:36But let's talk about it.
00:14:41A guy named Brian Tyler Cohen
00:14:46said Trump just launched a trade war against Canada
00:14:48over fentanyl.
00:14:49The U.S. seized, wait for it,
00:14:5043 pounds at the U.S.-Canada border last year.
00:14:5343 pounds.
00:14:56And according to Bennett's phylactery,
00:14:58that's 10 million lethal doses.
00:15:04Would you be happy with cousins dropping like flies,
00:15:11foaming at the mouth and stroking out
00:15:14and having heart attacks and dying
00:15:16if it meant that you could save 10%
00:15:18on the price of your tomatoes?
00:15:20Like, I don't, I don't understand,
00:15:24and I don't mean to sound all kinds of precious,
00:15:26like, oh, like I genuinely don't understand
00:15:29how that is considered to be a compelling argument.
00:15:32It's absolutely bizarre to me.
00:15:45I mean, people are dying by the stadium load
00:15:53and dying in the most horrible kinds of ways.
00:16:01And even if they don't die,
00:16:03they can be injured, they can be crippled,
00:16:08they can be brain-dead.
00:16:09So, I mean, the people who die is just part of the equation.
00:16:12Or they can become addicts,
00:16:14and it destroys the family structure.
00:16:18It's wild to me that all of this misery and agony
00:16:22would somehow be countered by,
00:16:24ah, yes, but the price of tomatoes
00:16:26might go up a little bit.
00:16:31I don't, I don't understand that.
00:16:40And wouldn't there be just a kind of empathy thing as well?
00:16:43I mean, I don't often think about what it was like.
00:16:50I don't really think about what it's like to run a country
00:16:53because it's a pretty appalling situation.
00:16:57But if I was running a country
00:16:59and my country was being used as a conduit
00:17:01to bring drugs that slaughtered people by the stadium full
00:17:06into another country,
00:17:07I would feel terrible for this other country
00:17:11and I would do whatever it took to solve that problem.
00:17:21I mean, Canada and the US have the largest undefended border,
00:17:25they're allies, they're trade partners,
00:17:27and it's like, then why,
00:17:29why is it so hard for the Canadian government
00:17:31to do something about all of these drugs flowing in?
00:17:35Or the criminals?
00:17:44Now, one of the things,
00:17:48sorry, let's see here.
00:17:52Most people in Canada would disagree that Canada
00:17:54is complicit in the problem.
00:17:55I feel like muggle Canadians have their mindset locked
00:17:58in 1990s Canada peacekeeper freedom supporting progressive.
00:18:01Yeah, but I mean, who cares what the average person thinks?
00:18:04The average person doesn't think.
00:18:06The average person regurgitates propaganda.
00:18:10I would no more take the average person's, quote, thoughts
00:18:13than I would eat vomit that they threw up on the sidewalk.
00:18:17It would be repulsive.
00:18:18I'm not going to let that shit in my head.
00:18:20So, yes, what normies, quote, think is beyond irrelevant
00:18:23to anybody with half a brain, right?
00:18:25I'm not including you in that, but yeah.
00:18:28So, what most Canadians think is absolutely beyond irrelevant.
00:18:36So, weak people don't balance risk and reward.
00:18:42Weak people fight no matter what,
00:18:44especially when it's other people
00:18:46who are going to suffer from the conflict or from the combat.
00:18:51So, the countries like Mexico and Canada,
00:18:56they cannot win this trade war.
00:19:00They cannot win this trade war.
00:19:03So, Mexican exports to the U.S. as a percentage of GDP, 35%.
00:19:13Over a third of their GDP is Mexico exporting to the U.S., 35%.
00:19:22U.S. exports to Mexico as a percentage of GDP, 1.2%.
00:19:281.2%.
00:19:31What can you say, right?
00:19:34Canada exports to the U.S. as a percentage of GDP, 22%.
00:19:38U.S. exports to Canada as a percentage of GDP, 1.5%.
00:19:43So, 10 to 15 times size differential, and they think they can win.
00:19:56That's crazy.
00:19:58You can't.
00:20:00You can't win.
00:20:02So, in the Norwegian news, I know we're dipping over Norway a bit,
00:20:11in Norwegian news, they say, well, Trump has these sky-high tariffs.
00:20:19Norway is saying Trump has these sky-high tariffs.
00:20:22Here are just a few of Norway's import tariffs.
00:20:25People are going to get a good education on economics
00:20:28if they want over the next month or two.
00:20:32So, the import tariffs on cheese coming into Norway is 277%.
00:20:37Beef, 344%.
00:20:39Lamb, 429%.
00:20:42Milk, 443%.
00:20:44Potatoes, 191%.
00:20:46Beets, ah, yes, what Beyoncé wants you to bring.
00:20:51Beets, 158%.
00:20:53Roses, 249%.
00:20:56Baker's yeast, 21%.
00:20:58Cassine-based glue, 21.2%.
00:21:00Women's tops, 10.7%.
00:21:07Ah, lovely.
00:21:09Yeah, so, they have almost a 500% tariff on certain goods.
00:21:14So, they're like, oh, but Trump.
00:21:17Oh, my God.
00:21:20It's crazy.
00:21:23All right, let's get a little bit more.
00:21:37So, Trump imposes a 25% tariff on Canadian goods.
00:21:41Apparently, he's being a real bully.
00:21:43But it wasn't too long ago that Canada imposed a 250% to 300% tariff on American dairy.
00:21:51So, I mean, it's all kind of boring.
00:21:54But, you know, these kinds of things.
00:21:56He's just terrible for doing 10% of what we did.
00:22:07Fentanyl is now the number one.
00:22:08This is according to Rapid Response 47.
00:22:10Fentanyl is now the number one killer of Americans aged 18 to 45.
00:22:14Its ingredients are produced in China, Mexico, and Canada.
00:22:17They aren't stopping its flow across our borders.
00:22:19Until they cooperate to stop the flow of poison into our country, they will all pay a tariff.
00:22:26It's a little hard to argue.
00:22:35Now, of course, with China, there's the continual problem with intellectual property as well.
00:22:40Like the copy-paste stuff that goes on.
00:22:44So, that's a big issue.
00:22:50Canada's GDP, 2.14 trillion.
00:22:53U.S. GDP, 27.36 trillion.
00:22:57If Canada were an American state, it would be number four in GDP.
00:23:03So, when you're faced with an overwhelming foe, standing and fighting,
00:23:08especially when it's other people, like it's like the generals,
00:23:10generals sat in the lines on the map, moved from side to side.
00:23:13It's an old Pink Floyd song.
00:23:15And so, the generals are like, we're going to stand.
00:23:17It's like, well, you're not going to stand, right?
00:23:19But other people are going to suffer.
00:23:27The Texas economy is larger than Canada's.
00:23:31Canada's also planning to target Republican states in retaliation for Trump's tariffs.
00:23:36Canada's also planning to target Republican states in retaliation for Trump's tariffs.
00:23:41Which is wild.
00:23:43And I don't really follow politics anymore,
00:23:46but Justin Trudeau resigned after being ousted by his own caucus.
00:23:49He has no legitimacy to speak or act for Canada, but nonetheless.
00:23:55And, of course, John Flynn on X points out,
00:23:58why are people getting so freaked out about a 25% tariff?
00:24:01Our own government has already been charging us about 100% on many things.
00:24:04And it's true.
00:24:05If you buy a beer, it's 20 bucks and change in the duty-free.
00:24:11But if you buy it from a government liquor store, it's 42 bucks.
00:24:22So, Jeff Park wrote,
00:24:25You simply have not yet grasped how amazing a sustained tariff war is going to be for Bitcoin in the long run.
00:24:30Yeah, BC Premier David Ibai
00:24:34Bibi? Ebbi?
00:24:35Says he directed BC liquor sales to immediately stop buying American liquor from red states
00:24:39and remove the highest selling brands from those states from the shelves of the province's liquor stores.
00:24:47It's, of course, terrible for the reputation of Canada.
00:24:51That Canada would rather have a trade war than stop poison from entering its supposed ally to the south, right?
00:25:05Trump has said that if Canada retaliates on the 25% tariffs, he's going to double them.
00:25:14And Pierre Poilievre also is a lockstop.
00:25:19This is sort of a younger sibling hyper-aggression with other people paying the cost.
00:25:24It's really kind of sad, right?
00:25:26Anthony Pompliano, that's a great account on X, wrote,
00:25:36The second bill that George Washington signed as the first American president was to establish tariffs on all imported goods.
00:25:42The Coast Guard was literally created to enforce the tariffs.
00:25:45Tariffs are one of the most American traditions we have.
00:25:48Maxine Bernier says,
00:25:54It's important to understand that the 25% tariffs announced by President Trump today are not imposed on Canada.
00:26:01They will be paid by American consumers and businesses who buy goods imported from Canada.
00:26:05Tariffs are a tax, and Americans who will have to pay more or go without our products will be the first to suffer.
00:26:12So this sort of, I understand the argument, and I remember a friend of mine talking about,
00:26:20Thank you David.
00:26:21Oh yeah, for freedomain.com slash donate or to tip would be very much appreciated.
00:26:24Did quite a lot of work with James on tariffs this morning and last night, so if you could help out I would really appreciate it.
00:26:30So, I understand, so there's this old argument that says,
00:26:37Japan and America, right?
00:26:40America comes up with a cure for cancer, and Japan comes up with a cure for AIDS.
00:26:45But then Japan says to America, we're not going to take your cure for cancer because we're going to put a tariff on it or block it or ban it.
00:26:51Would that make sense then for America to not take the cure for AIDS?
00:26:57Well no, of course it would make sense.
00:26:59Even if Japan doesn't want America's cure for cancer, America should get a hold of Japan's cure for AIDS.
00:27:04I understand all of that, but the problem is this is just back to the one variable situation.
00:27:09This is just the one variable situation, like that's the only variable.
00:27:15Americans probably don't particularly like their citizens being poisoned at a massive industrial scale and slaughtered by the stadium full every year.
00:27:28And of course there are massive economic issues as well, right?
00:27:35So it costs, depending on how you count it, depending on where you are, a couple hundred thousand dollars to raise a child.
00:27:41If that child dies a fentanyl, all of that investment is for nothing.
00:27:46It's worse than for nothing because then you also have heartache, depression.
00:27:49You know, parents who have to bury their children are not exactly the most motivated and enthusiastic participants in the economy.
00:27:55So it's just absolutely catastrophic.
00:28:01Even if you just look at it from the economy, it is absolutely catastrophic for the economy for people to die, particularly young people to die.
00:28:10Before they even really pay any taxes, before they get their life started, and there's a lot of young people.
00:28:15Even if you take the human element out of it, which would be completely bizarre.
00:28:22But the idea that, well, you know, there are these tariffs and they're going to be costly.
00:28:27Well, first of all, they're not, right?
00:28:29They're not.
00:28:30So people make this sort of fundamental mistake as if there's only one variable to change, right?
00:28:34So they say, oh, well, they put a 25.
00:28:36So this is the trade from the U.S. to Canada and you put a 25% extra tariff on it and the price of all of that goes up 25% and that's deducted from the U.S. economy.
00:28:49It's like, nope, nope.
00:28:52That's actually not what happens because people change their behavior based upon the tariffs.
00:28:57They stop buying from Canada and they start buying domestically.
00:29:00Now, from a domestic government standpoint, and I'm sorry, this is like basic 101 public choice stuff.
00:29:07But from a domestic government, having jobs created locally rather than buying things from overseas is vastly better.
00:29:16Now, in a pure free market, you could make the case either way.
00:29:19But for governments, you absolutely want to get people off welfare.
00:29:23You want to get people off unemployment insurance or employment insurance.
00:29:29You want to get people off disability if there's any way that they can work.
00:29:34And the way you want to do that is to raise wage, to have raises wage, to have raises, to have wages raised.
00:29:43Sorry about that, I will be more coherent after the cold.
00:29:46So, how do you raise wages?
00:29:52Well, you increase demand.
00:29:54How do you increase demand?
00:29:55Well, one of the ways that you can increase demand is to stimulate the domestic productions of goods and services rather than buying from overseas.
00:30:01Now, I get, you buy from overseas.
00:30:03If it's cheaper and more efficient, that's more money that you can use to build things in your domestic country.
00:30:07But that's very convoluted.
00:30:09But for sure, if you put tariffs on about goods coming into the country, then it will stimulate domestic production.
00:30:19So, it is, all the behavior is going to change.
00:30:31Somebody wrote, banning American beer is more of a public service than a retaliation.
00:30:39What is it? There's an old joke in Canada.
00:30:42What is the same between sex in a canoe and American beer?
00:30:46Well, they're both effing close to water.
00:30:48I like this.
00:30:58The World Bank, according to Carter Hughes, the World Bank, quote, misplaced $41 billion in climate change funds and no public records detailing where the money is has been found by investigators in October.
00:31:08So, Tom Quiggin wrote about this, understanding the Trump tariffs.
00:31:15Remember I said we're going to talk about the TD Bank.
00:31:17So, there's this fellow named Bharat Masrani, born in Uganda.
00:31:23He is the overall head of TD Bank of Canada and its foreign holdings.
00:31:26Under his, quote, leadership, TD Bank ran a massive money laundering operation that was working for Mexican cartels who were moving Chinese fentanyl.
00:31:33TD Bank was now paying a $3 billion fine put in place by the United States Department of Justice.
00:31:41Nothing has happened to this fellow other than he has to bail out the bank early with a bunch of money.
00:31:48Canada has done nothing to him nor any of the other risk financial officers involved.
00:31:54So, if this is true, then that would be one reason why.
00:32:10Alright, let's get to some other questions and comments.
00:32:14Now, I mean, I guess, and I don't mean to be overly insulting, but the libertarian purists are autistically screeching about tariffs being bad.
00:32:22Yep, I absolutely get that. I absolutely get that.
00:32:26But tariffs are less bad than a hundred thousand people dying a year.
00:32:39Right? You understand that, right?
00:32:42You know, sometimes in life, a purist is someone who says we never have to choose between two bad options.
00:32:49Right? That's what a purist says.
00:32:54That there's a perfect, wonderful option with no downside, which never exists in politics or economics.
00:33:05So, I'm fine with people making the case against tariffs, but if they're not talking about the fentanyl deaths, then it doesn't matter, right?
00:33:23So, if you look at, this is Saikara and Jetty wrote, trade-weighted average tariff rate via Claude.
00:33:35US 2%, Mexico 4.3%, Canada 3.1%, EU 3%, China 4.4%, India 6.9%, Japan 2.5%.
00:33:46So, that's quite different.
00:33:51Charles Benoit wrote, it's so much worse than that. Trade-weighted lets countries off the hook from their protective tariffs that exclude imports.
00:34:00And also the use of tariff water, apparently that's an important term.
00:34:05And I won't, WTO bound tariff rates, USA 3.4%, Japan 4.5%, European Union 4.9%, United Kingdom 6%, Canada 6.6%, and it goes all the way up to India at 48.5%, Mexico 36.2%, and Pakistan 60.9%.
00:34:24So, again, the US is the lowest.
00:34:30The US is the lowest.
00:34:33So, the fact that it's doing what other countries have done much more for decades is people without context.
00:34:41They don't do the research, they don't understand things.
00:34:47Alright, but here's the thing, man.
00:34:52Understanding.
00:34:57Understanding how big the US economy is, is hard to process.
00:35:06Again, this is from Sagar Anjetty.
00:35:08He wrote, the US is 4% of the world's population, but roughly 30% of global consumption.
00:35:16Tariffs work for us precisely because we have the most desirable consumer market on earth and can force concessions in a way no other country can.
00:35:24So, with global consumption at approximately 53 to 55 trillion and US consumption at roughly 14, sorry, 15 to 16 trillion, we can calculate the 15.5 trillion US divided by the 54 trillion global US is 28 to 29% of global consumption.
00:35:43This high percentage reflects several factors.
00:35:46High per capita income, well-developed consumer credit markets, strong retail infrastructure, cultural emphasis on consumption, large middle and upper middle class, high discretionary, spending levels.
00:35:57So, the fact that the US has by far the largest economy that people are desperate to gain access to.
00:36:08And that it should not throw its weight around to stop poison from entering across its borders.
00:36:18It's incomprehensible.
00:36:23I mean, if you're going to say, well, America and Canada are best friends and allies and so on, then you should stop the flow of fentanyl and other poisons into America.
00:36:39Right?
00:36:41I mean, if your landlord says, oh yeah, we're best buddies and then he allows for fungus to get blown into your apartment through the vents making you sick because it makes him money, would that be believable?
00:37:00I do not think so.
00:37:03All right, so let's get to our...
00:37:10Yeah, so people are like, well, trade wars are bad.
00:37:13It's like, okay, so just tell me that you don't care about people dying from fentanyl.
00:37:18Okay.
00:37:21It's not a variable.
00:37:23And if that's not a variable in your equation, I mean, I've done call-in shows.
00:37:30Listen, I'm not trying to say that I'm some deep knowledgeable person about this, but I certainly done call-in shows with people who've lost children to drugs.
00:37:39And it is absolutely brutal on the family.
00:37:47That there is really almost nothing worse.
00:37:52There's really almost nothing worse that can happen to a human being.
00:37:58So if the only thing that people are talking about is the trade war and they're not talking about, I don't know, the terrorism of fentanyl, then they're just telling me that they are, you know, to me at least just mouth-breathing sociopaths who only look at one variable and don't care about children dying from fentanyl.
00:38:24All right, let's get to your comments.
00:38:31The Canadian government's theory is that America implementing tariffs will hurt Americans, and yet they fail to mention that Canada implementing retaliatory tariffs will hurt Canadians.
00:38:47All right, let's look it up.
00:38:59I mean, what is Canada's angle here? No, we don't want to stop the drug influx.
00:39:03Never mind the fact that they look ridiculous and are obviously going to lose.
00:39:08Well, the special relationship, I know that's generally referred to with regards to England, but I think England and America, like the fact that England is threatening to arrest Americans for social media posts, is the whole Anglo-American alliance stuff, the whole English-speaking alliance stuff, is all falling apart.
00:39:32Because this is a near-permanent destruction of US-Canada relationships, right, of the US-Canada relationship, which has been an incredibly productive relationship through most of its history.
00:39:47So this is the destruction of it, because if America, I assume that Donald Trump has been begging Canada to do something about this fentanyl and this terrorism for quite some time, I'm sure he talked about it in the first term and so on, but he didn't have quite the same mandate as he has in this term.
00:40:05So I assume that Trump has been trying to talk about this with Canadians and Mexicans.
00:40:10Sheingold, I think, is the new leader of Mexico.
00:40:15And so if you say to someone, I'm desperate for you to stop all of this poison coming into my country and killing my people, and they're like, yeah, we'll get to it, and they don't, that is not coming back.
00:40:37So Jack Posobiec, when Bernier was talking about the tariffs, Jack Posobiec said, why don't you talk about the fentanyl at all?
00:40:46Why don't you talk about the fentanyl?
00:40:56And that's very interesting.
00:41:00So is it going to, the people who understand this stuff are very clearly seeing not just what the Canadian government is doing, but also what the Canadians are doing, because the Canadians, you know, like the boomers can be programmed to do anything, right?
00:41:22But the boomers are just most part blank NPC receptacles.
00:41:25So now they've been programmed to just dislike Americans, right?
00:41:28Even though they probably have a bunch of homes, second homes in America.
00:41:31But so this is one of the reasons why what your government does matters in a democracy, because it reflects on the will of the population.
00:41:41And so if the Americans are seeing that the Canadians are cheering on this trade war without mentioning the fentanyl or terrorism at all, well, that is very important.
00:41:56And that is not, that goodwill is not coming back anytime soon.
00:42:10Does Trump have specific things he wants to do?
00:42:17Well, the general perception is that the Canadian law enforcement knows where all of these fentanyl production labs are.
00:42:23So just arrest and stop it.
00:42:35All right, let's get your comments here.
00:42:50And you have any other questions, I'm happy to chat.
00:42:53You can buy things from other places.
00:42:57You know, I mean, there's some stuff that you can't grow much of in America, but, you know, people, they want their country back.
00:43:07They don't care about the price of bananas and tomatoes.
00:43:22James says, I know, but it's a serious topic and not fair to people in Canada who are frustrated with their government for its policies.
00:43:30But Trudeau called an election was voted back in.
00:43:38So Canadians are going to be judged in a democracy, right?
00:43:41The Canadians are going to be judged by the government.
00:43:50All right.
00:43:59Fentanyl is murderous, yeah, it really is.
00:44:10Good parenting stops children from taking drugs.
00:44:13Maybe we should work on good parenting and stay at home mothers.
00:44:16I've seen men not demanding a roommate and instead demanding a wife.
00:44:19I see so many men calling their wives lazy if they stay at home.
00:44:27Well, let me ask you this, my friend, Polaris, what efforts have you made to spread peaceful parenting?
00:44:35What successful efforts have you made to spread peaceful parenting?
00:44:39I mean, I've made the book free and I've, of course, been talking about it for 20 years and debates and podcasts and done presentations and all of that and wrote an entire book, which I've handed out for free.
00:44:52And it has yet to make any even insignificant cultural impact.
00:44:56It's like it never happened.
00:44:58But maybe you're a zillion times better than I am at this.
00:45:03And so if you're saying, well, we should do the promote parenting thing, promote peaceful parenting, I'm fantastic.
00:45:10I'm thrilled.
00:45:11So here, tell me what you have done that has been very successful in promoting peaceful parenting.
00:45:19Because honestly, you just sound like a bitter do nothing kind of person, to be honest.
00:45:25And, you know, lecturing me or people here that we should promote peaceful parenting.
00:45:32But, you know, I'm certainly happy to hear what you've done.
00:45:34What have you done that has been really successful?
00:45:36If you could give me links to where you've posted about it and where people who you've engaged with people about it, I'd be fantastic.
00:45:43But if your general argument is we should promote peaceful parenting and you've done really fuck all to do that, then that's just a bunch of nonsense noise, right?
00:45:58All right.
00:46:06Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
00:46:13Somebody says last year I told my father I don't want to see him for the rest of the year because I'm afraid he'll scream at my 19 month old son like my grandfather did to me.
00:46:22And he did when I was eight years old.
00:46:24He said he would get therapy, but so far he hasn't been and quote, can't formulate the problem in his mind and justifies that he did his best as a parent.
00:46:31I've tried reasoning with him, but with no results, I see less and less of a chance to ever want to see him or my mother again.
00:46:38And listen, I mean, I may not be the best person to talk about with this stuff anymore.
00:46:43I mean, this is so far in the rear view for me and I'm doing my best to sort of empathize and so on.
00:46:51But I have not talked to my mother in more than a quarter century.
00:47:01My father is dead and I have nothing to do with anyone else in my family.
00:47:06And it's been almost the same amount of time.
00:47:11I mean, listen, I understand you're in the throes of it.
00:47:13You're in the midst of it.
00:47:14And I really sympathize with that.
00:47:16But it was such a great decision for me, such a positive decision for me.
00:47:20It saved my life.
00:47:22It saved my life.
00:47:24Because there's no way I would have the wife I have or be the father I am or do the work in the world that I do if I hadn't done all of that.
00:47:35So while I deeply sympathize, you probably want to talk with people who are going through it.
00:47:42Because for me it's just like, well, so your father won't apologize, won't take responsibility, so dump him.
00:47:51Like if he's still abusive and still justifies the abuse that he did and might threaten your son.
00:47:56Did you see that the Colombian president backed down on sending back the deportees after Trump threatened tariffs on Colombian goods?
00:48:11Well, that was more than tariffs, right?
00:48:13Looks like the bargaining chip works.
00:48:16Well, that's the interesting question about tax on remittances, right?
00:48:22So remittances are money sent out of America to other countries.
00:48:29Tax on remittances would be interesting.
00:48:33I mean, one of the ways that you would deal with mass immigration is you would tax remittances very highly.
00:48:41Especially because sometimes the immigrants come, they end up on welfare, and then they're taking American taxpayer money and sending it to foreign countries, which of course is completely destructive.
00:48:51So you would simply tax, right?
00:48:54The third world countries have a massive incentive to send people to America or other countries so that they get money sometimes through work, sometimes through social programs, and then they send that money back, which is great for the economy.
00:49:10At least in the short run, for the country sending the people, right?
00:49:25So the Colombian president, yeah, I mean, he recognized that he was going up against a Goliath, and he is not, and so he backed down.
00:49:36But, you know, a lot of the other people are going to talk tough and thump their chests, and of course other people have to suffer from that, right?
00:49:48It's pretty crazy that remittances are even allowed.
00:49:51Alright, any other last questions, comments? It's a low-tip day, and I'm not getting any response back from the guy who seemed to be very keen on spreading peaceful parenting.
00:50:09You know, just in general, if you think something needs to be done, just fucking do it.
00:50:13Just do it.
00:50:17Right, so if people say to me, well, the important thing is to spread peaceful parenting, I'm like, show me where you've done it.
00:50:22Because I don't want to waste time or give honor to people who are just telling other people to do stuff that they consider important.
00:50:29I mean, if a fat guy tells me it's really essential to maintain a healthy weight, I'm not going to listen to him about anything.
00:50:35Yeah, it's important to spread peaceful parenting. What have you done? I know I've certainly done my part.
00:50:42So, what have you done?
00:50:46And if you haven't done much, why would I care about what you think other people should do?
00:50:52If it was important to you, you'd do it yourself.
00:50:55I'm an empiricist. I don't care what you say. I care what you empirically have done.
00:51:00I don't care what you say. I care what you empirically have done.
00:51:04And I don't, you know, this is my year of bluntness, right?
00:51:08So, if you're going to say to me it's really, really important to spread peaceful parenting,
00:51:12I'll expect you to be able to show me 20 bookmarks of places where you've spread peaceful parenting.
00:51:18And engage with people and share things and all of that.
00:51:30Someone says, I hear your voice in my head echoing that all the time.
00:51:32If you see something that needs to be done, just fucking do it.
00:51:35Yeah. I thought the world needed more philosophy. Did I go and complain to everyone?
00:51:45Do you think that, did I just go and complain to other people that things needed to be done?
00:51:53Somebody says, you are so correct. Equals no one should state anything on here, they should only do.
00:51:58Well, that's passive-aggressive bullshit, right? I mean, that's really sad.
00:52:01That's kind of pathetic, honestly.
00:52:03You can state things on here. Of course you can.
00:52:07Right? You can say, I really think peaceful parenting is really important.
00:52:13And here's what I've done. Here's what I've found. I've tried these 20 different things.
00:52:17Here's what I have found to be the most effective. Right?
00:52:21So, here's what I've done.
00:52:23I mean, I know listeners who have decided to print up cards with peacefulparenting.com
00:52:30and leave them around places. Is that ideal? I don't know.
00:52:34Is it something? Yes, it is.
00:52:36So, I'll listen to them when they say it's important.
00:52:41You are always passive-aggressive, Steph.
00:52:49I know I am, but what are you?
00:52:53Edward says, I post a book on Twitter when people start threads about how good it is to hit children.
00:53:01That's great. That's great.
00:53:03And again, what sort of response are you getting?
00:53:06Are you talking about it in your personal life?
00:53:08Are you intervening with people as a whole?
00:53:12If you see people being aggressive to their children, do you intervene in public so the children see it?
00:53:16I've certainly done all of that stuff. It's not fun.
00:53:18Posting stuff is fine. There's nothing wrong with that.
00:53:22Stop being a victim, so now you laugh because it's right.
00:53:25Oh my God. That's really funny.
00:53:29That's really funny.
00:53:32All right.
00:53:34Yeah, I mean, if you're doing stuff, but here's the thing.
00:53:37I see, I check what's going on in the community every day,
00:53:41and I haven't seen any posts, and maybe there have been some that I've missed,
00:53:45but I haven't seen any posts in recent memory where people have said,
00:53:50here's what I have done to spread peaceful parenting.
00:53:55I've tried this approach. I've tried this approach. It's important to me, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:53:59And listen, that's fine. I'm not saying that you have to do it at all.
00:54:07But then don't say it's really important to do.
00:54:14Then don't say that it's really important.
00:54:16If you're not doing it, can you imagine if I was just whining and complaining
00:54:19that people needed to do more to spread philosophy?
00:54:24I mean, I've done the most to spread philosophy,
00:54:27and again, it's mostly the technology,
00:54:29although I certainly do have a certain amount of skill in this area,
00:54:32but I've done more to spread philosophy than any other single philosopher in history.
00:54:38Because I've had like a hundred million views and downloads
00:54:41of pretty core and essential philosophy.
00:54:45And again, it's the technology. This is not me in some magic.
00:54:49It is the technology. I'm in the right place at the right time.
00:54:52But as far as spreading philosophy,
00:54:57I've done the most.
00:54:59And I say that with due humility and gratitude for the technology
00:55:03and gratitude for you, the supporters who've made all of this possible,
00:55:06but yeah.
00:55:14So...
00:55:21I didn't just say things need to be done.
00:55:24I do them.
00:55:26I do them.
00:55:29All right.
00:55:31Dylan says, a lot of guys I work with,
00:55:33I talk with them about peaceful parenting,
00:55:35they just laugh that I don't agree with hitting and screaming at kids.
00:55:38Smash my head.
00:55:39Right, and I'm sorry about that,
00:55:41but that's an example of something that doesn't work, right?
00:55:43Somebody says, I think I've spread peaceful parenting to 20 people at least.
00:55:47And what I've learned is what a monumental task it is
00:55:52to get people to even listen and consider.
00:55:54It looks like a near impossible undertaking.
00:55:56I get that it's worth it and will be great in the long run,
00:55:58but it's an uphill start for sure.
00:56:00That's very true.
00:56:02Someone says, I talk with my sister about her childhood.
00:56:05I use peaceful parenting as a valuable reference.
00:56:07That's the most I've done so far.
00:56:09That's not harmful.
00:56:14Oh, he's still yapping.
00:56:16I was here to listen to something important,
00:56:18yet all you do is say how great you are
00:56:20and then play victim if someone says something you don't like.
00:56:23Yeah, you're kind of a nasty specimen, really.
00:56:26Yeah, that's just nasty.
00:56:28I'm just calling you out, right?
00:56:30I'm just calling you out.
00:56:31People call me out.
00:56:32That's fine.
00:56:33You'll survive.
00:56:34Peaceful parenting has really helped me with my kids
00:56:36and explaining my views to my husband.
00:56:38Thanks for that, Stafford.
00:56:39You're very welcome, and I really do appreciate it.
00:56:41When you make it in your own life, that's very important as well.
00:56:44So I really do appreciate all of that.
00:56:46It is great, great to see.
00:56:49And I'm not trying to criticize people.
00:56:52I mean, it is not necessarily your job to spread peaceful parenting.
00:56:56I'm just saying for the people who say it's really important to spread,
00:56:59I have every right to ask, what have you done to spread it?
00:57:03I mean, I don't know.
00:57:04Maybe you're just used to saying things without people.
00:57:07I'm an empiricist,
00:57:09so it's nice that you have this sentiment,
00:57:11but I want to see how it's actually played out in practice, right?
00:57:14If it hasn't played out in practice,
00:57:16then the good thing is I don't have to listen to the stuff that you're talking about.
00:57:20And, you know, you're just a talker, right?
00:57:23And Lord knows we all know people who are just talkers, right?
00:57:26They just say stuff.
00:57:27Things should happen.
00:57:28This should happen.
00:57:29This should be different.
00:57:31This should be better.
00:57:32And they don't actually get off their ass and do anything about it.
00:57:35So you're just a yapper, as my daughter would say.
00:57:38You're a yapper.
00:57:39And that's fine.
00:57:40It's just that nobody has to take anything you say with any seriousness, right?
00:57:44If you want to be taken seriously about things that you claim to be important,
00:57:48you should do something about them, right?
00:57:51It's not that complicated.
00:57:52I mean, I just did this whole show yesterday.
00:57:56It'll be out over the next day or two, I'm sure,
00:57:58which is an examination of the Proverbs.
00:58:01By your fruits shall ye know them, right?
00:58:05How do you know an apple tree is an apple tree?
00:58:08Because it produces apples.
00:58:10And how do you know that someone cares about some moral thing?
00:58:13Well, they've done something about it in a practical, real way.
00:58:16If they haven't done anything about it, then they don't care about it.
00:58:19And they're just making noise.
00:58:21They'd rather talk about how important they are
00:58:24and how much they care about virtue.
00:58:26But they don't actually want to go out and do any real difficult work of virtue in the world.
00:58:30I mean, we all know people like that.
00:58:33I'm not supporting that.
00:58:35There's no hate in me for it.
00:58:37But I don't want to support that.
00:58:39And I don't want to enable people's delusions about their own virtues,
00:58:47that all you have to do is say how you think the world should be
00:58:52and complain that it's not that way without actually doing something about it.
00:58:56If you want to go and do something about it, that's fine.
00:59:01Then I'll start listening after you've done it for a while.
00:59:04But it's the armchair quarterbacks, you know,
00:59:06it's the people who are like,
00:59:08oh, this and that and the other should happen with business.
00:59:12And it's like, well, have you ever actually run a business?
00:59:15You know, like all these people who are like,
00:59:18you know, wages are too low.
00:59:20It's like, well, have you ever started a business and bid up the wages by hiring people?
00:59:24Well, no.
00:59:25Well, then why would I care?
00:59:27You're just saying stuff.
00:59:28It's like all the people who are like, we should take in more migrants.
00:59:31It's like, to your house?
00:59:33Oh, okay.
00:59:34Well, then you're just making noise.
00:59:37It's just noise.
00:59:39And I know that people can get the drug of virtue by talking about virtue.
00:59:46But I'm just not going to participate in that.
00:59:49You know, if somebody's 300 pounds and they refuse to diet and exercise
00:59:54and they're gaining weight and they say, I'm slimmer than I used to be,
00:59:59I'm not going to participate in that.
01:00:01I'm just not going to agree with their self-assessment
01:00:04because that's not nice to people.
01:00:06It's not nice to people to participate in their falsehoods.
01:00:10It's not kind.
01:00:11It's not generous.
01:00:12It is bad for them and it's bad for you.
01:00:16So if somebody who's 300 pounds goes to 330 pounds and they say,
01:00:21I'm really losing weight, I'm going to say,
01:00:23but you're not.
01:00:26No, you're gaining weight.
01:00:29If you're going to come in my face and tell me that you're losing weight,
01:00:32I'm not going to say, oh, yes, very much.
01:00:34You've lost a lot of weight.
01:00:35How nice.
01:00:36How good.
01:00:37It's like, I'm not a slave that way.
01:00:39If people say stuff that's false, I'm going to say that's false
01:00:45because I'm not a slave.
01:00:48And that's what slaves do is they have to nod and agree with lies.
01:00:58So you understand that people saying falsehoods
01:01:01and demanding that you agree with them is a humiliation ritual.
01:01:06It's a humiliation ritual.
01:01:08So people who are aggressive and say X, Y, and Z really aggressively,
01:01:12they are engaged generally in a humiliation ritual
01:01:17where you have to agree or they'll get aggressive.
01:01:22And I'm just not going to participate in that.
01:01:27I'm just not going to participate in that
01:01:31because I'm not going to treat people like children.
01:01:33So when your kids are little, when they're pounding away on the piano,
01:01:36you say, oh, that's lovely or whatever because they're little kids.
01:01:39I'm not going to treat adults like that.
01:01:42If somebody plays piano badly and asks me what I think,
01:01:44I'm going to say that's not very good.
01:01:48Now, if you've only been practicing for a couple of weeks,
01:01:50maybe that's all right as far as that goes,
01:01:52but objectively it's not very good.
01:01:57So if someone says it's really important to spread peaceful parenting,
01:02:01then I'm going to ask them what they've done about it.
01:02:03And if they haven't, then I'm not going to pretend that
01:02:11they believe anything that they're saying
01:02:13or that they care about at all.
01:02:15They just want people to perceive them as good people.
01:02:20They don't want to actually do the hard work of being good people.
01:02:26Somebody says, I saw a vid from the Jolly Heretic.
01:02:28It talks about how virtue signals are particularly nasty psychopaths.
01:02:32In fact, oh, is that right?
01:02:33I'm not saying this listener is that way,
01:02:35but I'm just saying that if you want to do good in the world,
01:02:40I applaud that.
01:02:41I think that's great.
01:02:42If you want to do good in the world, great.
01:02:44But you understand that most people only talk about virtue.
01:02:48They won't do a goddamn thing about spreading it.
01:02:51They just talk about virtue.
01:02:54Because actually spreading virtue is a dangerous game.
01:03:00Actually spreading virtue, actually doing good, is a dangerous game.
01:03:04And people would much rather yap about it than do it
01:03:08because yapping about it is safe.
01:03:10And doing something about it is risky.
01:03:12If you start to talk to people about IQ or peaceful parenting
01:03:17or other sort of controversial or contentious topics,
01:03:20they can get mad at you.
01:03:21There can be blowback.
01:03:22They can work to get you fired.
01:03:24And I'm not saying you have to do any of that.
01:03:27Again, it's a free will situation.
01:03:30But then don't say that it's super important to do.
01:03:33That's all.
01:03:35Just say, yeah, I'm too scared to spread virtue.
01:03:40Look, I'm not going to come down on you about that.
01:03:44I understand that.
01:03:46I understand that, trust me.
01:03:48So I'm not going to come down on you like a ton of bricks
01:03:50for saying I'm too nervous to really spread virtue.
01:03:54I don't want to talk about peaceful parenting with the people in my life
01:03:57because they're just going to get mad at me or ostracize me.
01:04:02Okay, that's fine.
01:04:03You want those people in your life is a whole other question.
01:04:06But it's just honesty.
01:04:07That's all that's really I'm looking for.
01:04:10It's just honesty.
01:04:14But the people who are like, yeah, super important to spread peaceful parenting,
01:04:17well, what have you done?
01:04:20Steph, you're a jerk.
01:04:21It's like, okay, look, I don't mean to be the guy who takes away your dopamine
01:04:25of I'm so moral delusion.
01:04:29But it's just talk.
01:04:30You're just yapping.
01:04:32You're just yapping.
01:04:34It's not a real thing.
01:04:39All right.
01:04:40Well, thanks, everyone.
01:04:41I'm sorry it's such a short show,
01:04:42but I probably have to go faceplant on the couch for a little bit more.
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01:05:18And have yourself an absolutely wonderful Sunday, my friends.
01:05:21Lots of love.
01:05:22Talk to you soon.
01:05:23Bye.
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