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Friday Night Live 7 March 2025

In this episode, I examine the socio-political challenges facing England and the historical conflicts that shape modern society. Reflecting on personal connections, I question the narratives of past victories and their implications today.

We discuss the cyclical nature of peace and war in Europe, highlighting how interests profit from ongoing conflict. I also address ethical responsibilities toward family amidst mental health discussions and the misconceptions surrounding government healthcare.

Through dialogues on emotional burdens and societal expectations, I urge listeners to base their choices on reason rather than sentiment. Finally, we emphasize the importance of proactive action over mere hope in effecting change. This episode is a concise exploration of history, responsibility, and the need for decisive action in our lives.

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Transcript
00:00:00Good evening, good evening, welcome to your Friday Night Live. Here to take your
00:00:05thoughts, questions, issues, challenges, problems, criticisms, whatever is on your
00:00:10mind, can be run through the big chatty forehead of Chatterbox. Teeth chomping
00:00:18philosophy syllables such as I bring to the fore, to the fore. So if you've got
00:00:27any questions, issues, challenges, or problems, what is going on? I've been
00:00:32watching what's happening to England. It's very hard to witness. Any solutions
00:00:35to this? No, no, at least no solutions that we can really talk about in a
00:00:40philosophy show.
00:00:45See, this is all predicated on the belief that England won the war, right? And I
00:00:51think people are waking up to the fact that it does not appear to be that
00:00:55England won the war. In fact, I don't think people even know what the war is.
00:00:58So, no, it is, it's really, it is sad, it is sad. I mean, obviously, it's sort of my
00:01:05home country, my homeland where I grew up, so it's very sad to see, but at the same
00:01:11time, it was the entire, it was the country that threw me to the wolves and
00:01:14left me half-beaten and bleeding with child abusers and sent me to school
00:01:19where I got caned. So, the wages of sin, the wages of sin, what can I tell you?
00:01:29All right, let's, while I'm waiting for the questions to come in, I'm sure I've
00:01:33got a few things saved to chat about.
00:01:42Ian Carroll on Joe Rogan? Interesting, interesting, and well worth watching,
00:01:53well worth watching.
00:01:58So,
00:02:03it looks like the tariffs between Canada and the US, I don't know, are they on, are
00:02:09they off? Up and down like the Assyrian Empire, but it's wild.
00:02:16Yeah, it's a negotiating tactic, well, it's just a negotiating tactic and all of that,
00:02:20so. What did you think of that crypto summit, Steph, if you watched it? I did
00:02:26not. Did England ever really recover from the cost of two world wars? Yeah, so
00:02:32Europe has really been in the target eye of the warmongers since the early part
00:02:37of the 20th century, because you see, Europe, at least Western Europe,
00:02:43Franco-Prussian War of 1871 excluded, but Western Europe was at peace for about a
00:02:48hundred years, right from the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 to the start of
00:02:52World War I in 1914, Western Europe was largely at peace. Well, peace is not good
00:02:57business for the blood mongers.
00:03:02So, they don't, peace does not sell to the demonic blood
00:03:13mongers of mankind, and so that couldn't be allowed. There was an era of
00:03:18peace in Western Europe now, you know, there was the dark satanic mills, there
00:03:22was the enclosure movement, there was people getting kicked off their land and
00:03:25so on. I understand all of that, and that was not fun, certainly by modern
00:03:29standards, but there was relative peace. So, Europeans, and in particular of course
00:03:36European males, have been brutally targeted for well over a century now,
00:03:42because we kind of figured out that you could have a free market, you could help
00:03:48the poor, you could have a small government, non-war mongering society,
00:03:58which was 19th century plus, early part of the 20th century. And if you go look
00:04:05back at those videos, I mean it's, there's this meme like, you know, the women are
00:04:08like, man he didn't even cry during Titanic, do men even have emotions? And
00:04:13it's a guy, you know, with a blackened heart face looking at pictures of early
00:04:1620th century videos of European civilization.
00:04:22It's horrible. So, in the whites, Western Europeans, in a sort of wide combination
00:04:30of Roman law, Greek philosophy, and Christian morals, created the magic key
00:04:37that unlocks the potential for a genuine and lasting peace. Well, say the
00:04:43war mongers, fuck that. We can't have that, that's no good. And so, the wars
00:04:52began, and the wars have been continuing, targeting to a large degree, though of
00:04:57course not exclusively, sort of white Western Europeans, and in particular
00:05:01males. And of course this is still going on, because we unlocked the key, small
00:05:08government free markets, that led to the potential for a war-free society, a
00:05:13society free of war, but that can't be allowed for the sociopaths whose only
00:05:18desire is to wake and disassemble human beings for fun, shits, giggles, and profit.
00:05:23Can't have that, can't have that. And so, yeah, the blood, flower, and future of
00:05:30Europe was destroyed in the, and I've got the truth about the origins of World War
00:05:37One, the truth about World War One, is a presentation you really should watch at
00:05:41fdrpodcast.com, just do a search for World War One. Oh, is it the truth about the
00:05:46First World War? One of the two. Anyway, it was a family war. Well, I mean, just
00:05:52about everybody who fought was related to each other in some way or another, so.
00:05:59War was murdered with small government in the free market. War was murdered, and
00:06:06you know, like, it's like that horror movie where you, you kill the bad guy, and
00:06:10then the hand comes out of the ground as you're getting away, and comes right
00:06:15right. So, small government, free markets, murdered war, and then war staged an
00:06:24amazing comeback, and has been ruling the last 111 years. We've been this close to
00:06:36being, to being free. Have you seen what's been going on with destiny? I don't
00:06:51watch many nature document, documentaries on bacilli. I mean, why on earth? Okay, I'll
00:06:57bite. What has been going on with destiny? I have no idea what's been going on with
00:07:05destiny. The last I heard, there was some sex tape allegations, or stuff flying back
00:07:12and forth, but, you know, hyper rapid-speaking, blue-haired, tubby intellectual
00:07:22non-entities are not stuff I particularly focus on, so. Is the Peaceful Parenting
00:07:27audiobook of the full version or the condensed version? It's the full version.
00:07:30What ethical responsibility does a sibling have to a mentally ill brother
00:07:39who has treatment-resistant schizophrenia?
00:07:48Well, parents
00:07:51have foundational ethical responsibilities for children, because
00:07:57parents choose to create children, and choose to have children in their life.
00:08:04As a child, you do not have the same ethical responsibilities for your
00:08:08parents. I know you're not talking about parents here, but just to sort of build
00:08:12the case. As a child, you do not have the same ethical responsibilities for your
00:08:16parents, because you did not create them, or choose to have them in your life. That
00:08:21which we create, we are responsible for, right? Which is, if some guy is an
00:08:25arsonist, and he sets a fire, he's responsible for all the resulting damage.
00:08:29If I push a rock off the top of a hill, and it rolls down and bounces and
00:08:33destroys your car, I'm responsible for that, because I created the rock going
00:08:37down the hill, right? It didn't happen on its own, didn't happen by accident, I
00:08:40created that. So that which we create, we are responsible for. Did you create your
00:08:46parents? You did not. Did you create your brother? You did not. The ethical
00:08:51responsibility lies with your parents.
00:08:58They created your brother. Now, I'm obviously no expert, far from it,
00:09:05obviously. So none of this is any kind of medical or psychological advice, but my
00:09:10understanding is that there are genetic predispositions to schizophrenia,
00:09:19but schizophrenia is activated, at least to some degree, by childhood trauma.
00:09:29So, if your brother has treatment-resistant schizophrenia, which I'm
00:09:35very sorry for, it's a very, very difficult situation to deal with,
00:09:41then the question is, did he, your brother, experience significant trauma as a child?
00:09:47Now, as his brother, you have very little control over the trauma that, I mean, if
00:09:56you're an older brother, or, you know, significantly older, or somewhat older,
00:10:00maybe you tormented or teased or abused him, or whatever it is,
00:10:05but,
00:10:12you have very little control over the potential trauma that your brother had
00:10:16inflicted upon him by your parents. So, if your brother's schizophrenia has
00:10:22something to do with, and again, I know the science is sort of up and down with
00:10:26this kind of stuff, so this is all very tentative and, you know, usual caveat, but
00:10:30if your brother's schizophrenia has something to do with the trauma that
00:10:32your parents inflicted upon him, then they are very much responsible for that.
00:10:40So,
00:10:44that makes a lot of sense. Both parents are dead, though. Lots of childhood trauma
00:10:48from the parents. Physical, emotional, sexual, nine out of ten, ACE score.
00:10:59Well,
00:11:02I'm, I mean, I'll just be frank with you guys, I'm fairly cut-and-dried, maybe
00:11:09it's sort of base Anglo-Saxon
00:11:13practicality, but I'm fairly cut-and-dried with this stuff, and the way
00:11:17that I would look at it, if I were in your shoes, it's not a perfect moral
00:11:21answer, I'm just telling you the way that I would look at it, is I would look at my
00:11:24brother and say, well, I did not create him, I am not responsible for him, I am
00:11:28not my brother's keeper, and I cannot fix him, and
00:11:35I did not inflict the trauma upon him that may have triggered some aspects of
00:11:39his schizophrenia. I am not responsible for this. Now,
00:11:46if you won the lottery, or if you, you know, came into some massive chunk of
00:11:51resources, would it be nice for you
00:11:56to help your brother out a little, to find some home for him, to pay for some
00:12:00home for him? Yeah, I would say that. I personally have rejected money from
00:12:05inheritance in order to help a relatively close family member who has
00:12:10cognitive deficiencies. I think it's nice, and there's nothing wrong with that.
00:12:17However, I put everything, at least I would recommend putting everything
00:12:23through this cold, hard, Darwinian lens. I'm doing this straight up with you guys,
00:12:26cold, hard, Darwinian lens, which is, does this help me get a quality woman or not?
00:12:36Because your goal, your job, in a way, in a very real way, especially you guys, right,
00:12:42especially you guys, because you're in the top 1% of intelligence, which means
00:12:46you kind of have a responsibility to have kids. Sorry, you just kind of do, right?
00:12:53Because you inherited all of this amazing intelligence, because smart
00:12:57people ahead of you, behind you, in a sense, smart people behind you had
00:13:02children. So you've got all of these smart genes. I'm not saying it's all
00:13:10genetic, right? 80-85%, whatever, by late teens, right? So you've got all these
00:13:16smart genes because intelligent people ahead of you had children, right?
00:13:27So you've got to pay it forward. You've got to pass the intelligence forward.
00:13:33You've got to, you enjoy being intelligent, right? Life is way better, for me, at
00:13:38least. Obviously, I don't have a comparison, but life is way better being
00:13:42smart, for me, right? I couldn't really picture what it would be like to look at
00:13:47the world and not really have much of a clue what's going on and be sort of
00:13:49emotionally reactive and not really grok the consequences of even remote, like
00:13:55reasonably complex decisions and just be easily lied to and propagandized.
00:13:59Like, I just, to me, that's not, I couldn't, I can't imagine not
00:14:04functioning at that level at all. I mean, this is no hate, no contempt, no
00:14:12negative or anything. I just, I am so grateful for the gift of intelligence
00:14:16and it is a gift. I did not earn it. I'm so grateful and humbled for the gift of
00:14:21intelligence
00:14:25that I feel a very deep and sincere obligation to pay it forward. In the same
00:14:30way that if I inherited, I don't know, a hundred million dollars, it wouldn't be
00:14:34mind blow, right? On blow. It wouldn't be mind blow.
00:14:41So you, you have an incredible inheritance of intelligence. You who
00:14:53listen to what we talk about here, this is a very high IQ show. So you have an
00:15:00inheritance. You were given the most staggering gift, which is intelligence,
00:15:05human intelligence, right? It's the only intelligence we really have. The highest
00:15:09gift possible because your ancestors had kids. You kind of got to pay it forward.
00:15:13I mean, it's just a decent thing and an honorable thing and a positive thing to
00:15:21do. So if your brother, let's say you have him move into your house and he
00:15:29stresses you out and he's kind of crazy and he needs to have a rage room and he
00:15:32breaks things and you're tired and you're stressed and you can't date and
00:15:37and you don't do well at work. Well, who's that helping? Doesn't make him
00:15:42better. It just makes you worse. So let me tell you something. Here's a very,
00:15:46very significant and important thing to think about when you're trying to engage
00:15:52in any relationship whatsoever. Is there a net positive in the interaction, right?
00:16:00Is there a net positive in the interaction? Really, really important. Of
00:16:03course, by definition, two people trading in the free market, it's win-win.
00:16:07Otherwise it wouldn't happen, right? So by definition in the free market, trades
00:16:11in the free market are both people are better off because they're voluntarily
00:16:14trading, right? You want the dollar more than the pen you have. The other guy
00:16:18wants your pen more than the dollar he has. So you're both better off, right? So
00:16:22with regards to your brother, even if you accept the responsibility, which you
00:16:27don't have to with regards to what your parents created and then wrecked, I
00:16:31think, possibly, you have to say, okay, if I pour heart, mind and soul into my
00:16:39brother, what is the net calculated positive outcome? Well, let's say he is
00:16:5020% happier. I know this sounds like utilitarianism and pragmatic happiness
00:16:56calculations. Just bear with me and we'll address that in a sec, right? Just
00:17:00look at this. So let's say your brother is 20% happier and you're 50% unhappier.
00:17:06That's a net negative of the happiness in the world. Man, I know we can eyeball
00:17:11these things or we can sort of whatever, right? So look at this calculation. Now
00:17:19let's say that, and there's also a genetic calculation, your brother is very
00:17:23unlikely to ever have children. If you devote yourself to taking care of your
00:17:27brother, then you also become very unlikely to have children. You're
00:17:31miserable, you're bitter, you're angry, you're frustrated, you're resentful for
00:17:35an obligation you never chose. You did not create, you did not make, you did not
00:17:39have him as your child and you did not break him as your child. So listen,
00:17:47sentimentality destroys more men than bullets. Sentimentality destroys more men
00:17:57and women and cultures and civilization. Sentimentality is one of the greatest
00:18:01and most toxic environmental virulent pathogens in the world. You must fiercely,
00:18:08fiercely, fiercely guard yourself against sentimentality. Sentimentality generally
00:18:17arises when you have a moral absolute that is based upon appearance rather
00:18:28than results. Well, but he's my brother. I have to take care of him. How will it
00:18:33look if I don't? What will people say if I don't? Can I justify it to myself?
00:18:44Sentimentality is when you provide resources based upon the desire to look good
00:19:00rather than do good. You know, like I'm passing by this guy, he's homeless. I'm
00:19:06going to give him 20 bucks because I just feel so bad that he's homeless. I
00:19:10feel so sad that he's homeless. That's all about you. It's not about what's
00:19:13better for him, right? If he's just going to go and take that 20 bucks and buy
00:19:18drugs or pay that 20 bucks and go gamble or pay that 20 bucks and go buy liquor,
00:19:22you're not doing him any good. It's just about you want to feel good and the
00:19:27sentimentality is the moral self-praise you give yourself for performing an
00:19:32action regardless of the actual good it's adding to the world.
00:19:35Do you see what I'm saying? I'm not saying do you agree, but I don't want to
00:19:45over-explain or under-explain. Do you sort of get where I'm coming from?
00:19:49And sentimentality is, oh, how could you? But she's your mother. Your mother is a
00:19:54saint. Your father, this is your father. You have to take care of your father,
00:19:58right? It is emotional bullying. It is shock and horror and so on, right?
00:20:05This is the old thing. It's like, well, but if you want to get rid of socialized
00:20:08medicine, people are going to die in the streets. And look at people's general
00:20:14health. Jesus, Lord, God Almighty, sorry for the name in vain stuff, but holy
00:20:20crap, let me tell you guys something. I was just looking this up. Just the other
00:20:24day, my wife and I were just kind of curious because, you know, we were in
00:20:27pretty robust health and so on, right? And I was kind of like, hey, I wonder,
00:20:35I wonder how many people over like in sort of our age group, like sort of late
00:20:4250s, 60s, what kind of health outcomes are going on, right? I thought I had
00:20:51saved it, but I didn't. So let me just have a look here. It's insane.
00:20:58I wanted to make sure I get the actual math.
00:21:01Oh, it's wild, man. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't care about your cookies.
00:21:15So let me see. Sorry, I have to throw in percent here. It's a crazy percent.
00:21:19It's a crazy percent. Oh yeah, here we go. Here we go. I found it.
00:21:2394.9% of adults age 60 and over have at least one chronic condition.
00:21:34Right? So 19 out of 20 adults age 60 and older have at least one chronic
00:21:39health condition and 78.7% have two or more. Isn't that wild?
00:21:4942% of adults 60 and older are obese, not overweight, obese.
00:22:03Isn't that wild? So what do we got? 10 common chronic conditions for adults 65 plus,
00:22:08hypertension, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, obesity, arthritis, ischemic
00:22:13coronary heart disease, diabetes, chronic kidney disease, heart failure, depression,
00:22:17Alzheimer's disease, and dementia. Oh my God.
00:22:25And this is up considerably from the past.
00:22:31No, it's absolutely, it's crazy how sickly people are. Now, you know, 70, 75% of health
00:22:40issues are lifestyle related, which means you chose, you made bad choices and you got sick.
00:22:47So people are like crazy unwell. People are crazy unwell.
00:23:06I mean, this is, there's bone health issues. Uh, there is of course the diabetes management
00:23:12of diabetes is going to take 15 years off your life. As far as I've read.
00:23:17It's mad. Now I I'm 58. So I'm, I'm getting there. I'm getting there. And you know, maybe I'll
00:23:26have some, um, uh, some issues, but, uh, nothing, nothing yet.
00:23:34Nothing yet. And of course, on average, a 65 year old can expect to live another 18.9 million years.
00:23:47Crazy. 27% of the U S adult population has multiple chronic conditions,
00:23:56which costs the American healthcare system over a trillion dollars each year.
00:24:00It's the usual 90 to 95% of healthcare costs are five to 10% of the population.
00:24:06And two thirds of your entire lifetime's healthcare costs are in the last couple of months
00:24:12of your life. I did eight and a half hours of exercise last week because it's really,
00:24:24really important. And, uh, in 2022, 36.3% of older adults had not seen a dentist
00:24:31in the last year. Now I go every, I used to go every three months. Now I go every four months.
00:24:35You just have to take care of your teeth.
00:24:45One in five adults age 65 plus have untreated dental caries or cavities. I don't know why
00:24:51they're put that way. One in four older adults have a behavioral health problem, such as depression,
00:24:56anxiety, or substance abuse. People aged 85 plus have the highest rates of suicide compared to any
00:25:03other age group. In 2020, over 11,000 adults age 65 plus died from alcohol induced causes.
00:25:11Oof. Oof. Let me tell you, people are sick. They're just sick. And what is it about? It's
00:25:23only one or 2% of the U S healthcare budget is spent on prevention. Of course, of course,
00:25:28because chronic diseases make money.
00:25:37And so waiting until people get sick and then medicating for them forever is by far the most
00:25:43profitable model for the healthcare system as it exists. By 2060, almost a quarter of the population
00:25:54is going to be 65 or older. Flu, is it flu or pneumonia that's called the old man's benefit,
00:26:01a benefactor? It's really something. Yeah. People are like crazy unwell.
00:26:11People are just crazy, crazy unwell.
00:26:15Oh, you know, you don't see, I mean, and of course, when you see really old people,
00:26:26they tend to be very skinny, right? You don't see old fat people.
00:26:35Percent of non-institutionalized persons with hypertension measured high blood pressure or
00:26:39taking high blood pressure medication. This is from 2017 to March, 2020 men aged 65 to 74,
00:26:46almost 72% men aged 75 and older, 83.2% women ages 65 to 74, 73.7% women aged 75 and older, 84.1%.
00:26:57It's brutal. And of course, I'm at the age where people's health decisions
00:27:14are really catching up with them. People's bad health decisions are really, really catching up
00:27:20with them. Social isolation and loneliness is a big problem. People who have hearing loss tend
00:27:30to get a little bit more dementia. People who are isolated and lonely have higher risks of dementia,
00:27:36serious health problems, and so on. About eight in 10 older adults struggle to use medical
00:27:42documents like forms or charts. Harder for them to make well-informed health decisions.
00:27:50It's wild.
00:28:00So, if I could get on my knees and beg you to do your best to maintain your health,
00:28:05I would get on my knees and beg you to do your best to maintain your health. It is
00:28:10a difficult, ugly world out there when you have chronic health conditions.
00:28:21And so, yeah, when you say, well, but without government health care, people are going to die
00:28:27in the streets. It's like people are just dying in their homes. They're sick because the government
00:28:31health care system makes money when you're chronically ill. I mean, look at the mad
00:28:37incentives that happened over COVID. Thank you, James. Oh, yeah, freedomain.com to help out the
00:28:43show. Yeah, the mad decisions made under COVID where hospitals got massive amounts of money when
00:28:47people died. They got massive amounts of money for treatments that seem somewhat questionable,
00:28:51like massive ventilator and remdesivir and all kinds of stuff. Very few people can staunchly
00:28:58resist incentives. I can say with regards to my career, I could be thought of as someone who's
00:29:04pretty good at resisting rational incentives, right? But my incentives are long-term, recent,
00:29:12not short-term material gain, right? So they want to be sentimental. They see a sick person,
00:29:23and they want that person to be better. Oh, thank you for the tips. Boy, that's really
00:29:27nice. I'm sorry I didn't see those. Let me just get to the people as a whole. I will say
00:29:35thank you to The Great Khan, thank you to Mobius Mirage, and a big, big thank you to Rai Vila.
00:29:42That's very, very kind. He says, people, donations are down. Let's fix that. You know,
00:29:45Steph has given you way more value than dang near anyone. Help the show out. Thank you.
00:29:53Somebody says, oh, the guy who donated says, we've established previously that you will take
00:29:56your shirt off for us. How much for you to take off your shirt, put on a red lobster suit,
00:30:02and read quotes from Jordan Peterson on stream? Unfortunately, Jordan Peterson's new haiku
00:30:08fortune cookie quads are just terrible for me. Just terrible. I just can't do it. All right.
00:30:15Let's see here.
00:30:22Fly me to the moon. All right. Somebody says, how do you feel about Derek Chauvin being pardoned?
00:30:29It seems wrong not to pardon him, but if he is, it will cause all sorts of weird stuff. It's sad
00:30:35we can't as a whole be for proper justice, and it's all based on race.
00:30:40Well, I talked, of course, about this a lot at the time, and
00:30:49there are definitely reasons to question the narrative that Derek Chauvin's
00:30:56knee on George Floyd's shoulder is what caused him to die. I mean, didn't the guy have hypertension?
00:31:02He had COVID. He had heart disease. I think he had a heart tumor. He had drugs in his system,
00:31:09lethal doses of drugs in his system, and he complained that he couldn't breathe long before
00:31:14he was on the ground, and Derek Chauvin used a knee restraint that was approved and trained by
00:31:20the department. It looked terrible. Of course, it looked terrible. I mean, it broke my heart to see
00:31:26this guy dying on the street. Oh, it was horrible, and of course, when you see something like that,
00:31:32people want a scapegoat, and of course, unfortunately, as is often the case,
00:31:38it was an election year, and thus racial animosities are ginned up to the breaking point.
00:31:42So, all right. Any plans to do shows with other public intellectuals?
00:31:51Would love to hear you talk with Sam Harris. Oh, no.
00:32:00I think I'd rather be locked in a rolling barrel with porcupines and destiny.
00:32:05Sam Harris? No, no. I can tell you with great confidence, I have no plans to do a show with
00:32:14Sam Harris. I can tell you that with complete and utter confidence. Sam Harris. This is the
00:32:21guy who said with regards to Hunter Biden that he wouldn't care if Hunter Biden had dead children in
00:32:31his basement. That would be completely immaterial to him. So, if Hunter Biden was a serial child
00:32:39murderer, that wouldn't matter to Mr. Moralist Sam Harris. So, I can absolutely guarantee you
00:32:45that I shouldn't laugh because it's so tragic. The idea that I would have… No, sorry.
00:32:53It's not… Do not hold your breath. Please, I'm begging you. Do not hold your breath.
00:33:03Sorry. No, it's not a thing. It's not a thing.
00:33:09Steph, is that show that got you banned with the two cops still available? Yeah,
00:33:13I think you can do a search for it. Yeah, it was a really enjoyable show as well with a white cop
00:33:19and a black cop talking about their experience arresting people and how some people just
00:33:23completely freak out, have massive medical crises when they get arrested. It's like a panic attack
00:33:28or something like that. Train kept rolling all night long. All right.
00:33:37Let's get to your comments. Freedomain.com. Of course, to help the show. Sorry, I lost my…
00:33:54All right. Oh, so this is the guy. That's okay, Steph. Challenge accepted. I'm going on a date
00:33:57tomorrow with a lovely lady. We had quite the chat today and have been talking over text for a
00:34:03while now. Changing my life's focus to being an amazing husband and father makes day-to-day
00:34:09decision-making so much easier. Good, good. Yeah, like I was talking to a guy today. Let's keep it
00:34:17abstract. I was talking to a guy today. He wants to reconnect with someone in his life that he's
00:34:22kind of estranged from. And I said, well, what is the benefit for the person you're estranged from
00:34:31having you back in his or her life? What's the benefit? You have to look at things from the
00:34:39outside in. You have to look at things from the outside in. So, you have like with the guys,
00:34:45so the guy's got the schizophrenic brother. And again, with great sympathy, I say, you have all
00:34:50of this history with your brother. You have all of this connection. You have all of this sense
00:34:54of obligation and guilt. And most times, sentimentality is not what is the right thing
00:35:00to do. The biggest problem with sentimentality is how do I explain this to other people?
00:35:08How can I explain this to other people? With regards to my own mother, my mother is old.
00:35:15She's unwell. She's had mental health issues. She's been institutionalized. She's sad. All
00:35:20of these things are true. All of these things are true. If your primary moral concern, and I say
00:35:26this having fallen down this pit many times myself, so I say this with all humility. If your
00:35:31primary moral issue is, oh my God, how am I going to explain this? Let's say I meet some woman.
00:35:36Jeez, okay, I meet some woman. And I really like her. She's very thoughtful, moral, and sensitive.
00:35:44And then I say, oh God, I don't have anything to do with my brother. He's schizophrenic.
00:35:49Oh my God, she's going to think I'm so cold. She's going to think I'm so mean. She's going
00:35:52to think I'm thoughtless, and callous, and hedonistic, and I don't care about.
00:35:59And then it's even worse. We internalize. So much of sentimentality is how the fuck do I explain
00:36:04this to myself? How do I explain this? How do I explain this moral decision to myself?
00:36:13I can't explain it to myself means I have no free will to say no.
00:36:20Can you explain it to yourself? If you can explain it to yourself and you're comfortable
00:36:25with your decision, or as comfortable as you can be with difficult decisions,
00:36:30can you explain it to yourself?
00:36:36If you say, I can't possibly explain not seeing my schizophrenic brother to myself,
00:36:40you have no free will. You can't choose. Because sentimentality has turned you into an NPC. It's
00:36:46turned you into a programmed robot. I don't have an excuse. I can't think of a reason. I can't
00:36:51explain why I don't want to see my brother. I can't come up with a convincing story that
00:36:55makes it okay. Therefore, I have no choice but to pour resources into this bottomless hole.
00:37:07And, oh man, so much of what I do, and I thank you again so much for your support,
00:37:11but so much of what I do is around trying to restore free will to you by giving you
00:37:17objective moral principles and counter narratives to other people's arguments.
00:37:24Other people's arguments.
00:37:28You know, I mean, the entire purpose, in my view, of the welfare state, for instance,
00:37:32was not to help the poor, since it doesn't. The entire purpose of the welfare state
00:37:35was to buy votes and get enough people dependent upon state redistribution of wealth that you
00:37:43can't undo mass immigration for people not looking for a better life, but looking for
00:37:49free money from the government, right? That's really the ultimate bait-and-switch.
00:37:55Yeah.
00:38:03Several of the jurors in follow-up interviews said they only voted to convict him because they
00:38:07feared the race riots if he got off. Yeah, wasn't there a BLM protester who ended up getting in by
00:38:13saying he could be neutral? Could be. Thank you, Chris. I appreciate that. I appreciate that.
00:38:25Oh, regarding the schizophrenic brother, he definitely won't have kids.
00:38:30First two suicide attempts, he chopped off his penis with a steak knife, second time
00:38:34he cut off his testicles, this is his third attempt via wrist-slitting, oh god, oh man,
00:38:45I feel that, I feel that in my man parts, oh god, oh, I'd have hit the eject button
00:38:58long ago, I cannot, I cannot be in relationships with people who are self-destructive, I can't
00:39:04do it, I just did a call-in, this is my fourth show today, I've done three call-ins already
00:39:09today, and now tonight, but I can't be in relationships with people who are doing self-destructive
00:39:14stuff, I just, I can't, I can't, because if I care about them, and I'm helpless at
00:39:18their self-destruction, it's just like, you know, it's watching a loved one play Russian
00:39:21roulette via webcam, I just, I can't, I can't do it, I can't do it, yes, absolutely, I've
00:39:30made decisions along those lines just a few hours ago.
00:39:37Working out isn't even that hard to do, it takes a small percentage of your day to add
00:39:40years to your life.
00:39:41Honestly, especially now.
00:39:42I mean, one of the things, my wife and I enjoy playing some game, a board game called Catan,
00:39:47which you can get it online, and yeah, I'll prop the Catan up, and I'll do my weights,
00:39:54and you know, do my moves in Catan, and like, it's, I can do cardio, and read, it's really
00:40:00not that big a deal, you just have to get used to it.
00:40:06I start to feel terrible if I skip the gym, people who never work out don't know how much
00:40:09better they could feel.
00:40:10Yeah, true.
00:40:11True.
00:40:12Hey, I'm here for the stream tonight.
00:40:21Oh, good, I was going to make a snarky comment, then I realized it's James.
00:40:26Husband's grandma was overweight and made it to 90, but her overweight daughter only
00:40:29made it to 61.
00:40:35Making it to 90, you know, it's not longevity, it's life quality that matters.
00:40:44So if you're overweight, and you're just kind of tottering along, and you're staggering
00:40:47along, and your joints are killing you, and you've got arthritis, it's like, oh, well,
00:40:51I made it to 90, but you might have been preferred to not to, right?
00:40:58Interesting how they changed the blood pressure numbers in 2018 to get more people on meds.
00:41:02Yeah.
00:41:03When the government pays for medication, it pays to keep people sick.
00:41:08It's almost like a Kwan or a Haikyuu.
00:41:12Yeah, when the government pays for medication, it pays to keep people sick.
00:41:17Thank you, Sepanta, for the tip.
00:41:23How hopeful are you for the near future, five to 50 years?
00:41:25I don't do hope.
00:41:26Yeah, I don't do hope.
00:41:27Hope is a substitute for action.
00:41:30I hope that girl likes me.
00:41:33It's like, find a way to make her like you.
00:41:35I hope I get the job.
00:41:36Find a way to make them want to hire you.
00:41:39Hope to me is a paralytic.
00:41:42It's like you just lose your limbs, and you just leaf in the stream.
00:41:47Hope is emasculating.
00:41:49Hope is helpless.
00:41:50Hope is hyper-feminine.
00:41:51Hope is gay.
00:41:53So I don't do hope.
00:41:56I didn't sit there and say, ooh, I really hope the world becomes more rational.
00:42:02No, I started a giant philosophy show.
00:42:04I don't hope things.
00:42:06I hope my wife likes me.
00:42:07No, I just make sure she's having a great time in the relationship.
00:42:09Ooh, I hope my daughter wants to spend time with you.
00:42:11No, I just make spending time with me a lot of fun for her and a very positive experience
00:42:15for her.
00:42:16So I don't do hope.
00:42:19I do action.
00:42:25I don't hope that I'm in good health.
00:42:27I eat well, I exercise, and I did like, what, 18,000 steps yesterday, right?
00:42:35So I eat well, I exercise, I get my blood work done, I get my checkups, and I sleep
00:42:42well, and so on, right?
00:42:43So again, I hope that works, but hope is so often a substitute for action.
00:42:52Because when you say you hope for something, you're saying you can't achieve it.
00:42:58Hope is an insult to your capacity to achieve what you want.
00:43:06I hope I have enough money for retirement.
00:43:08Just save your money, do the math.
00:43:14I hope that people like me.
00:43:15No, find a way to tell some jokes or whatever it is.
00:43:18Find a way to be warm and friendly and listen to people and, right?
00:43:23Don't hope.
00:43:24Do.
00:43:25And when you do, you don't need hope, because you've done the best you can.
00:43:32Researchers found that people who ran for 30 or 40 minutes five days a week slowed their
00:43:35cellular aging by nine years compared to others who lived a sedentary lifestyle.
00:43:40Hey, Steph, I'm taking no excuses seriously.
00:43:45It's the opposite of excuses taking responsibility.
00:43:47Also, what have you done in the past to catch yourself in an excuse?
00:43:52Well, just get married and have a teenager.
00:43:55Yeah, they'll catch you in every conceivable hypocrisy.
00:44:06So it's the opposite of excuses taking responsibility.
00:44:12Well, it's not just the taking of responsibility.
00:44:15It's the giving of responsibility that counts.
00:44:18If there's no excuses for you, then there's no excuses for anyone else, right?
00:44:22So when I was sort of confronting my, let's say, mother, right?
00:44:25I was confronting my mother.
00:44:27I didn't take any excuses.
00:44:28I said, well, I didn't take any excuses for the low quality of our relationship, and I
00:44:32also didn't give her any excuses either.
00:44:35So when I say I don't take, I don't make excuses for myself, I also don't give excuses
00:44:42to other people.
00:44:43Obviously, my daughter, when she's younger and so on, although her excuses are mostly
00:44:46gone because she's mostly grown.
00:44:49So does Steph have a good Kermit impression though?
00:44:52Good Kermit impression?
00:44:53I haven't heard Kermit in a long time.
00:44:56I don't know.
00:44:57Actually, it's probably going to hurt.
00:45:04I'm hopeful.
00:45:05I'm just curious on your views on how soon things will go uphill.
00:45:08I don't know what that means exactly.
00:45:14For the most part, I'm quite healthy, he says.
00:45:15I work out regularly.
00:45:17I don't have bad habits like smoking, alcohol, or drug use.
00:45:19I don't order takeout often.
00:45:21I think the worst health habits I have are diet related.
00:45:23I occasionally eat pre-made frozen meals and some of those canned foods, pre-made bars,
00:45:28amongst other things, are questionable.
00:45:29Yeah, I have a little bit of a weakness, which I've pretty much curbed for artificial
00:45:34sugars, because I have a sweet tooth and I've basically mostly given up sugar for the last
00:45:39two years?
00:45:40Was it January?
00:45:41I think it was not last January of the year before.
00:45:46So I have very little sugar now and I will occasionally dip into the land of alcohol-based
00:45:52sugar substitutes, which is not good for me.
00:45:57Dr. Berg says that the junk food industry and Big Pharma work together.
00:46:03Big Pharma treats the diseases caused by seed oils and junk food, and junk food industry
00:46:06lobby for nutritional guidelines like the food pyramid.
00:46:12Please watch The Fall of Minneapolis.
00:46:15Is that a documentary?
00:46:19It's amazing when you look at the old nicknames for American cities and then think about everything
00:46:25that's changed.
00:46:26All right.
00:46:27Yeah, Sam Harris's mom, was she a showrunner for Golden Girls or something like that?
00:46:38All right.
00:46:39Have I ever read Bastiat the Law?
00:46:46I think I have read that.
00:46:47I'm old enough now that I can't remember everything I've read.
00:46:51I used to remember everything I've read, but...
00:46:57I often take a bunch of phone calls related to my volunteer work.
00:46:59I'll do a farmer's walk while talking with my kettlebell.
00:47:03It's great.
00:47:04Yeah, I mean, why you would take phone calls sitting down is beyond me.
00:47:10My nephew was Catan World Championship 2016.
00:47:13Ooh, remind me never to play him for money.
00:47:22I have an early morning race tomorrow for St. Paddy's holiday, but I want to go to the
00:47:25bar tonight to remain social in between things.
00:47:27Do you think it's okay idea to order non-alcoholic beer?
00:47:30Yeah, I think the only beer that I've had in the last couple of years is Michelob Ultra.
00:47:35What's the old joke?
00:47:37What's the...
00:47:38Well, what's the saying between sex in a canoe and American beer?
00:47:43Well, they're both fucking close to water.
00:47:47Thank you for the show, Steph.
00:47:52Thank you, Josh.
00:47:53I really, really appreciate that.
00:47:55That's very kind.
00:47:57Just added sugar, so do you still eat fruit and stuff?
00:48:00Yes.
00:48:01I eat my sort of go-to thing, which I'll have once every day or two.
00:48:04My daughter makes me this very nice no sugar yogurt, Greek yogurt, with some cut up fruit
00:48:13and a little couple of threads of honey.
00:48:16It's really nice.
00:48:17But yeah, I still do fruit.
00:48:19Yeah, the added sugar and everything is gross.
00:48:22It's gross.
00:48:25Hope seems to be the gap between concept idea and action implementation, which is never
00:48:30bridged when hope is in the way.
00:48:38Do you ever think of leaving Canada because of the repressive regime currently in place?
00:48:42Where would you go?
00:48:43Well, people keep asking me this, and I'm a little confused because you ... I'm just
00:48:51going to say this to everyone, just up front and overall, right?
00:48:59You need to look at what is legally required to change countries.
00:49:07Just look it up.
00:49:08Honestly, it's three minutes reading.
00:49:10What is legally required to change countries?
00:49:20Just take it from there.
00:49:21Rather than asking people questions, look it up.
00:49:24That's the thing to do.
00:49:25I don't know.
00:49:26If Trump got rid of the income tax, it'd be pretty damn tempting.
00:49:32Let's see here.
00:49:33Hello, Steph.
00:49:34Hope you're doing well.
00:49:35No question.
00:49:36Please accept my humble donation.
00:49:37Thank you very much.
00:49:38That is very kind.
00:49:40I very deeply, greatly, and humbly appreciate your support.
00:49:46Thank you so much.
00:49:47Have you read the Elon Musk-Walter Isaacson biography?
00:49:50No, I have not.
00:49:53Don't worry.
00:49:54You'll be in the 51st state soon.
00:49:58Yes, yes indeed.
00:50:03That's pretty funny.
00:50:05I think Greenland's got a much higher likelihood of getting into the states first.
00:50:11So, let's see here.
00:50:15Yeah, Dr. Sherry Tenpenny, she says if a child gets all the vaccines in the entire schedule,
00:50:22they get almost 13,000 micrograms of aluminum and they get almost 600 micrograms of mercury
00:50:27plus over 200 different chemicals.
00:50:29That's why they've never been proven to be safe.
00:50:33I have no way of evaluating that.
00:50:35So, I can't tell you whether that's true or false.
00:50:40Okay, help me understand this, and I of course could look this up too, but you know, you
00:50:47all are younger people, so you can help me out with this.
00:50:51Is Theo Vaughn a comedian?
00:50:52Like he seems, he's like, I didn't know who he was, and suddenly he's not a Renaissance
00:50:56painter, he's like a mullet-haired guy with a strange but effective sense of humor who
00:51:02seems to though rent his way into sitting across from J.D. Vance and joking about cocaine.
00:51:11What is the story of Theo Vaughn?
00:51:13All right, somebody says, hey, hey Apple, I was thinking of booking a one-on-one private
00:51:17call with you in regards to my career and future.
00:51:20When I hear you speak about how you've tackled career challenges and the steps you're always
00:51:25taking to improve your life, I'm very inspired.
00:51:27Is this something you would consider?
00:51:28Yeah.
00:51:29Hey man, if you want to call me about anything, I'm a wide open book.
00:51:36If you want to set up a private call, there is no particular topic that would be off-limits
00:51:43to moi.
00:51:44You know, because it's funny, you know, like I'll do private calls with people and they'll
00:51:47be like, oh, I'm sorry, I'm off on a tangent.
00:51:50I'm like, hey man, it's not a public call.
00:51:52In a public call, I kind of have to manage it for the general audience, I have to sort
00:51:55of make sure I keep things moving along in the right way to the general audience.
00:52:01And in a private call, there's absolutely none of that.
00:52:05It's a completely different experience.
00:52:08Stephen says, highly recommended.
00:52:09Yeah, thank you.
00:52:10I appreciate that.
00:52:12Theo hides his power level.
00:52:13He's smarter than he portrays himself to be.
00:52:15Yeah, no, I get that.
00:52:16I get that, but it's very interesting.
00:52:23Theo Vaughn first became famous from an NTV reality TV show called Road Rules and then
00:52:29became a comedian.
00:52:30Oh, cool.
00:52:31Okay.
00:52:32I can second that, Stephan's private calls are worth every dollar.
00:52:36Good.
00:52:37I'm very glad to hear that.
00:52:38And there's a bunch of testimonials as well, so.
00:52:43And it's funny because sometimes the private calls are so wild, I'm like, man, this would
00:52:49be a great show, but no, it must never see the light of day.
00:52:53Theo interviewed Trump too.
00:52:54Yeah, he did, right?
00:52:55It's pretty wild.
00:52:56I mean, good for him.
00:52:57Good for him.
00:52:58Yeah.
00:52:59And it's funny how people think that J.D. Vance is like some sort of hillbilly.
00:53:06It's like, no, no, it's very clearly his mom was a nurse, made well over a hundred thou
00:53:10a year.
00:53:11He lived in a pretty nice neighborhood, lived in the suburbs, so he's not a hillbilly that
00:53:16way.
00:53:18A baron apparently is a fan of Theo and was the one to recommend his podcast for his father
00:53:25to be a guest.
00:53:26Well, I mean, that's the value, of course, of having a young son when you're old, right?
00:53:30Is that he can get you up on the latest, the latest events and things.
00:53:34Pardon me.
00:53:36Oh, so sneezy.
00:53:39I should have a sneeze shield here, but I've got, I've got a road amp and I'm like afraid
00:53:43to touch any buttons.
00:53:44I really am.
00:53:46If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
00:53:48That's for system updates.
00:53:50But yeah, I just, I'm like, oh, I should, I should lower the volume for, for when I
00:53:54sneeze and it's like, I really shouldn't because there's no mute button here.
00:54:00I just going to have to play with dials and Lord knows what's going to happen then, right?
00:54:05Somebody else, same for the call-in shows.
00:54:08Yeah.
00:54:09The private call-in show is a very different experience.
00:54:11You can talk about whatever details you want to, names, places, people, dollar figures
00:54:15and so on.
00:54:16And, um, I actually did have, I had a call-in show with somebody.
00:54:21I can talk about it because he said he can publish it.
00:54:23He said I can publish it, but it was a, a rather complicated business discussion.
00:54:30And of course you guys know me from sort of the podcasting philosophy world, but I have,
00:54:36and it's not unrelated to what I've done here, but I've had, I have a lot of experience in
00:54:43the business world and negotiations and contracts and things like that, so.
00:54:47I can third that private calls.
00:54:49Okay.
00:54:50Sorry.
00:54:51Uh, Steve says, got tipping, get tipping and or subscribing everyone.
00:54:54If you can, Steph won't be around forever, despite how healthy he is.
00:54:56Let's do what we can to support his work while we can.
00:55:00I appreciate that.
00:55:01Have you seen that joke?
00:55:06You go up to someone and you say, someone in this office has been possessed by an owl.
00:55:10Who?
00:55:12Could you talk about rent-seeking?
00:55:15What are some of the most striking examples of it that come to mind?
00:55:20Right.
00:55:23So a rent-seeking, I, uh, my memory, I'm just going to check the technical definition before
00:55:29I do.
00:55:30Rent-seeking is when you seek a value above and beyond market wealth, right?
00:55:35Um, uh, market conditions or standards, uh, Rick, uh, so, um, Investopedia, let's just
00:55:42double check.
00:55:43Right.
00:55:44Uh, what is rent-seeking?
00:55:46Rent-seeking is defined as any practice in which an entity aims to increase its wealth
00:55:50without making any contribution to the wealth or benefit of society.
00:55:54It's typically done by manipulating the political environment and can result in social harm.
00:56:00A common example of rent-seeking is the act of lobbying for government funded subsidies,
00:56:04right?
00:56:05Well, I don't know, without making any contribution to the wealth or benefit of society, I wouldn't
00:56:11quite agree with that, much though I don't want to disagree with the fine folks at Investopedia
00:56:16because if you get a bunch of government funded subsidies and then you create a bunch of jobs
00:56:21or you create a bunch of R&D, you open up a new factory, you come up with some new,
00:56:25a wonderful tool.
00:56:26I mean, you are adding to the wealth or benefit of society.
00:56:30So to me, it's when it's very specifically win-lose, uh, rent-seeking is when it's just
00:56:37a straight up pillage.
00:56:39So government funded subsidies, you're still using it to create jobs.
00:56:42Now, is it a net?
00:56:45To me it would be if it's not a net benefit or adding to the wealth of society.
00:56:48So let's say the government gives you $5 million and you create 50 jobs, right?
00:56:55I mean, society is not down exactly $5 million because it gets redistributed to the people
00:57:01who are making work, right?
00:57:06Now if you take the $5 million and you say to people, just dig holes and fill them in
00:57:11again, dig holes and fill them in again, then that's a different matter, right?
00:57:15Then you are taking away from the net benefit of society because you're not adding any benefit
00:57:20at all, right?
00:57:21It's just a net negative, right?
00:57:22So I would say when you, uh, rent-seeking is when you use force or fraud to gain unjust
00:57:35benefits that would not be achievable in a free market to the net negative of society.
00:57:40Now, the net negative of society is a given if you use force or fraud to transfer resources
00:57:46because it's not win-win free market trading, but idea that say without making any contribution
00:57:51to the wealth or benefit of society, that to me is not quite the same thing, right?
00:58:02So let's see here.
00:58:03The concept of rent-seeking, 1967, blah, blah, blah, Adam Smith.
00:58:10Smith's studies suggested that entities earning income from wages, profit, and rent to create
00:58:15profit usually requires the risk of capital and the goal of gaining a return.
00:58:19Earning wages comes from employment, however, rent is the easiest to obtain of the three
00:58:22income sources and can require little risk.
00:58:27Yeah, rent-seeking is the byproduct of political legislation and government funding.
00:58:32Yeah, for sure, for sure.
00:58:35So yeah, businesses say, give me this money and I will create jobs.
00:58:41And then the government gets to say, look at all the additional jobs that have been
00:58:44created.
00:58:45And of course, if the money is borrowed, particularly from the future, then it's like some uncle
00:58:52who gives you a car, but it turns out he stole it and it just gets taken back later.
00:58:56So that would be an example of something like that.
00:58:58So yeah, rent-seeking is terribly common and unfortunately, rent-seeking is required for
00:59:02businesses now.
00:59:03I'm sure you know this, but business leaders, particularly at the CXO level, have what's
00:59:09called a fiduciary responsibility, which means if it's possible for them to get government
00:59:13subsidies, they kind of have to, otherwise they could lose their job and even in more
00:59:16extreme cases get sued because they are not...
00:59:21If the government offers them a bunch of subsidies and they don't take it, they can lose their
00:59:24job.
00:59:25So it becomes some sort of absolute these days, right?
00:59:29Staff could be around forever if we can achieve the singularity.
00:59:32I'm donating to the brain in a tank fund.
00:59:36Interesting.
00:59:37Assuming that hasn't already happened.
00:59:42James has said, this is from D-Live, love is alive.
00:59:48In your opinion, is the threat of World War III real?
00:59:51The French president said that he would make all his nuclear weapons available to Europe.
00:59:57Well, they certainly are poking the bear, right?
01:00:04Like literally, they're just pushing up against Russia and they are just...
01:00:10Russia has...
01:00:11You know, when you turn on the show and I won't watch anything just by the by anymore.
01:00:15Anything where there's some geopolitical thing, which can be fun to watch if it's well-written
01:00:22and if Russia is the bad guy, I just turn it off.
01:00:26I can't do this propaganda.
01:00:28It's been around for a long time.
01:00:29They loved Russia.
01:00:30The left club loved Russia when it was communist.
01:00:31They hate it now.
01:00:32It's Christian and nationalist.
01:00:34So they are just absolutely cornering and pushing against Russia, right?
01:00:42Because Russia, as I said a couple of weeks ago, Russia accepted in 1991 the reunification
01:00:47of Germany on the condition, and this was promised at the time, set in stone that NATO
01:00:54does not move one inch to the east.
01:00:56And since then, it is just relentlessly pushed, relentlessly pushed, relentlessly pushed.
01:01:00And then there are bioweapons labs in Ukraine and Ukraine is gonna try and get into NATO
01:01:07and there's a bunch of Russian speakers in the Donbass region in the east of Ukraine
01:01:10being shelled by the government.
01:01:13There was the color revolution funded by the US in 2014.
01:01:17I have got all of this stuff on my shows if you want to check them out back in the day,
01:01:22sort of the deep background of what's going on.
01:01:24So yeah, they are just really trying to war with Russia.
01:01:35And my gut says, which is not anything true, right?
01:01:42You understand this is just nonsense gut.
01:01:45My gut says that, so America is going to withdraw some of its funding from Europe,
01:01:56which is an absolutely necessary thing to do.
01:01:59In fact, Europe would not have been able to experiment with mass migration if it had actually
01:02:04had to pay for its own defense.
01:02:05So America funding Europe has been an absolute catastrophe for the West.
01:02:12And so America withdraws some of its funding, maybe even America withdraws from NATO.
01:02:20Then the Europeans have to divert money from social programs to the military, which is
01:02:26going to cause uprisings domestically, which they will then use as an excuse to clamp down
01:02:31on the domestic population.
01:02:35They will probably try a test case provocation with Russia, but I think they're going to
01:02:40find quite quickly that the domestic population is not going to fight for them.
01:02:49Because the governments in Europe have been so absolutely unresponsive, like Europeans
01:02:54have wanted low immigration for decades, and so the governments have been so absolutely
01:02:59unresponsive to the demands and requirements of their citizens that a lot of citizens in
01:03:07Europe do not view their governments any longer as representative, which means that
01:03:10they won't fight to preserve them.
01:03:15And then what?
01:03:20And then what?
01:03:23Well, that's as far as I'm going to go right now.
01:03:29That's as far as I'm going to go, because the next part is a whole different thing.
01:03:33The next part is a whole different thing.
01:03:36So I don't think that there's not going to be nukes flying back and forth.
01:03:40The elites don't want to be vaporized.
01:03:45I mean, there's a certain amount of complete sociopathic people in power who will ride
01:03:51the bomb straight into the ground, but most of them enjoy having power, and therefore
01:03:57they don't want nukes to be flying back and forth.
01:03:59So I don't think that's a real thing.
01:04:03Steph, when you bought your new Volvo back in the day, 98 Volvo S70, red, beautiful car,
01:04:09but a bit of a lemon, what were some of the benefits?
01:04:12Did it help you with business deals?
01:04:13Was it worth it buying the expensive car?
01:04:16Well, no, the migrants are not going to fight for Europe, but the non-migrant population
01:04:22is unlikely to fight for Europe.
01:04:26I mean, the best way to take over a country is to demoralize those who might defend it.
01:04:34What were some of the benefits?
01:04:35Well, it wasn't like it helped me to close business deals, but the board was very clear
01:04:40with me that if they were going to give me a car allowance, which they did, that I had
01:04:45to buy a decent car, because they said, look, when you go and pick up the head of manufacturing
01:04:51from a Fortune 500 company, you can't show up in a beater, right?
01:04:55You can't be sitting there trying to open the window with a coat hook or something,
01:05:03with a coat hanger, seven cars, seven different colors, and you got to thump the radio twice
01:05:09to make it work, and it only gets AM.
01:05:12And so, yeah, it's got different mirrors on either side.
01:05:17So no, I had to have a nice car to pick things up, right?
01:05:23Can you imagine the parents of the Rotherham victims going to war for the UK government?
01:05:27That is the most horrifying and appalling situation.
01:05:31I mean, I've talked about the evils of statism for decades.
01:05:35That and Jimmy Seville is almost beyond comprehension.
01:05:43Almost beyond comprehension.
01:05:46It is that you would arrest people trying to rescue their own children is, I mean, honestly,
01:06:06I can't say.
01:06:07I can't say what I think, I really, I can't.
01:06:12It would scald the fabric of reality, honestly.
01:06:19I don't, you know, I'm not wishing anything on anyone, but it's hard for me to think of
01:06:25bad things, accidental bad things that could happen to the architects of those policies
01:06:29where I'd say, oh, that's a shame.
01:06:40All right.
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01:07:50You can get it in your life, you can't get it in the world.
01:07:53You can get it in your life these days, you cannot get it in the world as yet.
01:07:58I live in paradise.
01:08:00The world is hell.
01:08:01I live in a paradise in a sea of hell as a whole.
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01:09:09And it's not like the currency is the same now as it was 20 years ago.
01:09:15Let's see.
01:09:19Let's see what's happened over 20 years.
01:09:25What has happened over 20 years?
01:09:30All right, so $100 in two, yes, my eyes are doing beautifully.
01:09:39Maybe more reading will help.
01:09:412005, calculate.
01:09:45All right.
01:09:49So $100 in 2005 now takes $163 in 2015.
01:10:00The value of donations has more than halved since I started.
01:10:03I'm going to have to up donations.
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01:10:11And again, no price rise in 20 years.
01:10:14I think it's acceptable.
01:10:16It's not like the ping you get from Netflix every eight minutes.
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01:11:01Have you read Will Durant, historian?
01:11:02Yeah, I've read his history of philosophy or at least good chunks of it.
01:11:06The HVAC company I work for is growing very quickly and is running into heavy resistance
01:11:10from the local suppliers and competition.
01:11:11My boss thinks it might be a situation where they're in collusion to keep prices up artificially
01:11:15like he had seen happen in the nineties.
01:11:17Yeah, this is an old quote from Adam Smith, where there's like no gathering, a group of
01:11:23tradespeople all engaged in the same business that doesn't result in some conspiracy against
01:11:28the public.
01:11:29So it would not shock me, but these things can never be sustained without the state.
01:11:34So we don't want collusion between companies.
01:11:36And the only way to have that not happen is to keep the state out of things.
01:11:44Someone asked in a recent flash stream, what does it mean when one thinks in their dreams?
01:11:51I've had this experience this week.
01:11:52I'm curious about your thoughts, Steph.
01:11:54What does it mean when one thinks in their dreams?
01:11:59You mean you just sit there thinking in your dream?
01:12:01I'd need more context for that.
01:12:03Sorry.
01:12:06I hadn't gone on a vacation for a long time, says James.
01:12:08I had a bit of a sticker shock when buying plane tickets and such.
01:12:11I just had to remind myself, double my expectations.
01:12:13Yeah, for sure.
01:12:15All right.
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01:12:47All right.
01:12:48Have yourself a beautiful day, my friends.
01:12:49Lots of love.
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