Stefan Molyneux
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Sunday Morning Live 16 March 2025

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In this episode, I explore the intricate relationship between truth, addiction, and human dynamics. I discuss why people cling to their beliefs despite contradictory evidence, suggesting that various addictions can obstruct the pursuit of honesty. Our conversation examines the historical context of truth-telling versus social acceptance, particularly regarding gender dynamics, where men often suppress independent thought for validation.

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Transcript
00:00:00Good morning, good morning, good morning! Everybody, I hope you're doing well.
00:00:05It is the 16th of March 2025. Hey, look at that, got the year right this time.
00:00:10And I hope you're doing well. Happy to chat with you about philosophy, reason, evidence, whatever is on your mind this morning.
00:00:25And thank you for the tip. Thank you for the tip.
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00:00:34Good morning, Stephan and community.
00:00:36Quick question, if time allows.
00:00:39When obvious truths are pointed out with facts and evidence,
00:00:43what is it that goes on in someone's mind to double down and refuse to see it?
00:00:47Love your show. Thanks for all that you do.
00:00:51Well, that's a good question. That is a very good question.
00:00:59So, one of the...
00:01:09There are those who love truth and those who love sex.
00:01:15These are overlapping circles and not completely overlapping circles.
00:01:25So, those who love truth and those...
00:01:30It's really not just loving sex. Those who are sex addicts cannot love the truth.
00:01:34I mean, no addicts can love the truth because addiction relies on lying to yourself
00:01:41about whether you're addicted, what the nature of the addiction is, how much you need help,
00:01:45and what emotions you're covering up through the addiction.
00:01:50So, if you are a sex addict, which a lot of people are,
00:01:59if you are a sex addict, then you can't accept the truth
00:02:06because the truth will bar you from sexual access with a not insignificant number of people.
00:02:16Everybody knows, of course, the kind of cliche that if you are a conservative,
00:02:22then liberal women won't sleep with you, right?
00:02:24So, if you're a sex addict, you can't afford the truth.
00:02:28If you are a status addict, then you can't afford the truth
00:02:34because if you're a status addict, the first thing that evildoers will do is attack and destroy your status.
00:02:44I may not be entirely theoretical in this argument.
00:02:50So, if you're a status addict, then you are too vulnerable to rejection as a whole.
00:02:57It could be sexual rejection, professional rejection, deplatforming.
00:03:01It could be rejection for romantic reasons.
00:03:06So, if you are a status addict or if you get your sense of self from something other than truth, reason, and evidence,
00:03:15then whatever your vulnerability is, you will simply be attacked for that.
00:03:21So, if you're high status, they'll attack your status.
00:03:23If you want to have a good reputation, they'll attack your reputation.
00:03:26If you want to be seen as smart, then they will call you dumb.
00:03:31The people who want to manipulate and control you will always try to figure out what your weaknesses and vulnerabilities are
00:03:41and to control you according to those, right?
00:03:45So, the people who opposed what I was doing were constantly sniffing and probing to see what my weaknesses and vulnerabilities were.
00:03:52And they would attempt, of course, to use those to control me.
00:03:57So, for instance, I was called a cult leader when what I value the most is independent thinking
00:04:04and I specifically do not tell people what to do and would rather hopefully give them the mental tools to be able to make their own decisions.
00:04:14So, because I value independent thinking so much, you know, being called a cult leader was designed to, you know, be the most upsetting or whatever, right?
00:04:23So, people reject truth and evidence because they are addicted to something else.
00:04:37Now, some of that addiction is understandable, right?
00:04:42From an evolutionary standpoint, we're not designed to tell the truth if telling the truth interferes with reproduction.
00:04:48So, all of those in the past who valued truth over all else generally did not reproduce unless they valued truth later on,
00:04:58in which case their children's reproductive success would be lower.
00:05:05So, the way that society is often corrupted is the propagandists target women to say this type of man is unacceptable, bad, wrong, toxic, racist, sexist, whatever, right?
00:05:27Whoever the truth tellers are, are coated with this toxicity shell and then women recoil from them.
00:05:36Now, women will recoil from these men not because of their own desires necessarily, but because of a fear of criticism from their female peer group.
00:05:49The male peer group is never, like a young woman's male peer group in terms of like not family related, but a young woman's male friends can never be objective about who she dates because most men befriend women because they want to sleep with them.
00:06:02So, they're not going to be objective about who the women are dating and they'll generally put down a man.
00:06:10The females, if the man is of high quality, the female friends are upset that the high quality man chose her, not them, and so they will often put him down and so on.
00:06:22And so, when you program women to reject men who are truth tellers, then men, foundational survival mechanisms kick in with men so that they conform to what women want because they have a drive, as we all do, to reproduce.
00:06:48So, this is the Eve, Garden of Eden stuff, that because women score higher in trait agreeableness and there has been a movement, of course, for many decades to transfer women's loyalty from men to other women.
00:07:06Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, men come and go, but sisters are forever, I mean the metaphorical sort of friendship sisters.
00:07:13There has been this process or this goal of moving women's loyalties away from men and towards other women and that way the female hive mind can be easier propagandized and then men can more easily be brought to heel because men will try to do what women want.
00:07:31Because there were times in human history, and it's insane, the numbers are insane, so I haven't obviously independently validated this, but according to stuff that I've read, there were times in human history where 17 women reproduced for every one man.
00:07:49And women are programmed that way, to go for the highest alpha male, and monogamy is kind of a new thing, and monogamy is what civilization is, and if monogamy goes, which it's definitely going, situationships are harems.
00:08:06It's a lot of women clustering after the top tier or two of men, so you program women to reject actual independent thinking men, and then men face a very foundational pressure to conform to what women like and want for reasons of reproduction.
00:08:33And that way men are tamed and cucked.
00:08:37And most men, a lot of men don't want to play that game.
00:08:42A lot of men don't want to play that game, and so they've just checked out of society.
00:08:47I don't want to be programmed and have my identity and thoughts stripped away by women's susceptibility to propaganda, which again, women's susceptibility to propaganda is why we have culture.
00:09:02It's why we inherit values, right?
00:09:04So it's not a criticism.
00:09:06All of these evolutionary things, the fact that we got to the top of the food chain and have this amazing brain and civilization is because of the teamwork of men and women, right?
00:09:15Men and women are the ultimate team when working together.
00:09:19But the strength of cultural transmission through women, which is a bit of a hive mind, becomes a weakness when it's no longer cultural moral values that are transmitted, but instead what is transmitted is civilizational shredding propaganda, right?
00:09:36So people reject, in particular men, will reject truth, reason, and evidence because deep down they want to reproduce more than they want to be right.
00:09:50Because being right and not reproducing means that whatever genetic components are bound up in the quota of rightness or independence go with you, right?
00:10:01Hopefully that helps.
00:10:05Good morning, Steph. A question about your novel, Almost. How true is Churchill's statement to von Ribbentrop, Germany did start World War I?
00:10:13Well, for that, I would recommend, I'm not going to reproduce it here, of course, but the truth about World War I is a presentation that I gave.
00:10:24So you can go look that up at fdrpodcast.com.
00:10:28You need a toga.
00:10:34Or not.
00:10:38Or not.
00:10:39Alright, thank you for your tip.
00:10:41Question. Would like to hear your thoughts on people who base their identity on their favorite sports team, the car they drive, etc.
00:10:48When I see the superfans or the Harley Davidson lifestyle guys, it just makes me cringe.
00:10:53Part of me feels bad for judging them, but the other part of me is like, dude, you're fat and you're not on the team.
00:11:01They don't give an F what you think. Stop talking about the Chicago Bears and your Harley 24-7.
00:11:11For most groups, the price of entry is the erasure of the self.
00:11:19For most groups, the price of entry is the erasure of the self.
00:11:22And by the self, I'm simply talking like independent, rational thinking, objectivity, first principles, you know, philosophy.
00:11:30Most groups will only accept you to the degree that you erase yourself.
00:11:38So if you go to a sports team, and like, please understand, sports fanaticism, it's not an accident.
00:11:46It's like it's a consciously done thing to keep people distracted from larger issues and to get their two minutes hate on the other team.
00:11:53And yeah, my team and it's all exploitive.
00:11:56I mean, I did a show many years ago on just how much money is stolen from the taxpayer for these stupid fucking teams.
00:12:06It's embarrassing. You're literally cheering on your own enslavement because the stadiums and like, it's just huge amounts of taxpayer money.
00:12:16So you're cheering on the people who steal from you.
00:12:20And it's not an accident, right? It's not an accident.
00:12:24And in general, the more successful the ethnicity, the less interested they are in sports, right?
00:12:31For obvious reasons.
00:12:34So if you, you know, if you want to join a, if you want a community, if you want a group, well, the price of the group is the erasure of your identity.
00:12:46With the exception of this group, right?
00:12:48This, this, we few, we happy few, we all get together and we try to encourage each other to think more, to be more original, to be more authentic, to be more honest.
00:13:01So in this group, the price of entry is individuality and thinking and reasoning and so on.
00:13:10And those who come in with massive amounts of propaganda, well, they're not particularly welcome.
00:13:16I mean, it's fine to have the conversation, but, and also, you know, I just wanted to buy, by the by, this sort of thought struck me the other day.
00:13:24So, by the by, you know, there are people who float around this community in a predatory way, right?
00:13:32So if you publish a book on human anatomy and pain centers, then hopefully doctors who want to treat people, reduce their pain and so on are the ones who study it.
00:13:42But torturers and sadists will also study it, right?
00:13:45Because they want to find out what the pain points of humanity are.
00:13:47So don't assume that everyone who's floating around here is of good intention and so on.
00:13:55And I just, I would find it just such a base act of humiliation to beg entrance to a group by erasing what I think and feel.
00:14:07I just don't, I just, it would just be embarrassing. It would be super cringe.
00:14:16All right. Thank you for the tip, Dylan.
00:14:20Good morning, staff.
00:14:22Recently, my dad has been working on my mom's air conditioning unit.
00:14:26They've been separated since I was a baby.
00:14:28Long story short, last week was the first time in my life my parents didn't blame anyone else for their failures as parents after reminiscing on old times.
00:14:35Them actually taking accountability for once feels good.
00:14:41Well, the last thing I'd want to do, I watched again, my family watched.
00:14:50We're going through a little bit of a watch, watch old movies my daughter loved when she was little.
00:14:55And so we did Toy Story and we did Finding Nemo not too recently.
00:15:02And Finding Nemo is just absolutely iconic and it's really, really great.
00:15:07And good feelings gone. Good feelings gone.
00:15:10I used to use that sometimes when bad, something bad would happen.
00:15:13Oh, good feelings gone.
00:15:15And so I don't want to take away any of your positive feelings, but what the living fuck does it do for you now?
00:15:26Well, now that my childhood is all completely gone, my parents are nicer to each other.
00:15:32Now that I'm a grown ass adult with all of the velociraptor hindclaw deep nail gouges on my heart from my parents fighting like cats and dogs throughout my entire childhood,
00:15:45they've achieved some minor rapprochement.
00:15:51They've achieved some minor, they don't, some laying down of the arms.
00:15:55What the hell good does it do for you now?
00:15:58So if they can get along, why didn't they get along?
00:16:03Got to be careful of this stuff, man.
00:16:08There are a lot of people, well, not a lot.
00:16:12There's some people who advocated for lockdowns and the unvaccinated should be locked inside their homes who are now like,
00:16:18well, it is kind of true that there are significant menstrual issues, but you know, they're kind of temporary, right?
00:16:23So people are admitting the truth now.
00:16:26This is my question.
00:16:28My question is always what good does it do me now?
00:16:37What good does it do me?
00:16:44That's an important question.
00:16:49Oh, and by the way, we're going to do an hour for the general public and then we're going to do an hour.
00:16:55For donors.
00:16:57Maybe now. Let's do 50 minutes, 50 minutes of general public and then we'll do X amount of time,
00:17:02depending on questions for the donors.
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00:17:17So, yeah, this was my question, right?
00:17:20Well, okay, well, what good does it do me now?
00:17:24Let's say, and honestly, this has happened, but let's say somebody, you know, contacts me and says,
00:17:31hey, man, I'm really sorry you got deplatformed four and a half years ago.
00:17:36Well, four years ago or three years ago.
00:17:38And I'm like, okay, and what good does it do me now?
00:17:46There's an old saying in the business world that the bank will give you CPR and a life vest
00:17:51only after you've already made it to shore.
00:17:53So when you're out there drowning, they just stare at you.
00:17:56But once you get to shore, they'll give you a life vest, a life saver, and they'll do CPR on you.
00:18:04And it's like, bro, I already made it to shore. I don't need your help anymore.
00:18:10Help is important when it's needed.
00:18:13Later on, what does it matter?
00:18:18What does it matter?
00:18:20Now, they blew up their entire fucking marriage when you were a baby.
00:18:29Trust me, I know a little bit about this one, too.
00:18:31So they blew up your entire marriage when you were a baby.
00:18:38And you grew up without the health, wealth, and protection of a two-parent household.
00:18:43You grew up in the environmental toxin, an environmental toxin of a one-parent household.
00:18:51And now that you're many, many years an adult, oh, look, there they had a time where they got along.
00:18:58Oh, that feels good, man. Bullshit, it feels good.
00:19:06Why not do it when it mattered?
00:19:13Why not do it when it mattered?
00:19:18Guy dying of lung cancer.
00:19:20Ah, quit smoking. I guess that's good. Ish. Fine. Whatever.
00:19:27But this is why, like, don't let things set. Don't let things rot. Don't let things go off.
00:19:34Don't wait. Don't wait.
00:19:38Don't wait.
00:19:40If you got something to say, say it.
00:19:45Don't wait. You got an apology to make? Apologize.
00:19:49Don't wait. Don't put it off.
00:19:51You got a reconciliation that you want to pursue? Do it. Absolutely. Do it.
00:19:58What is the point for people saying now, oh, you know, the lockdowns went too far?
00:20:02The fuck is the point? It's all gone. It's all done.
00:20:08If you don't help me when it matters, I don't care what you say afterwards.
00:20:17If you don't help me when it matters, I don't care what you say afterwards.
00:20:26And once you become an adult, once you become an adult, it's too late for your parents to fix themselves.
00:20:37Once you become an adult, it's too late for your parents to fix themselves.
00:20:41Right? Can you imagine?
00:20:44Your mom coming up to you when you're 30 and she's saying, you know what, I just took a bunch of hormones.
00:20:48I'm lactating. I'm going to breastfeed you.
00:20:52Sorry about your circumcision. Sorry about all the stress.
00:20:55I'm so sorry for smoking like a chimney when you were in my womb.
00:21:00I was always common sense this way.
00:21:05When I was six years old in boarding school, I wrote to my father, dear Tom.
00:21:10And of course, my mail was read before it was sent because, you know, you got to propagandize about how great the school is.
00:21:19Hey, I didn't get beaten today. I'm thrilled.
00:21:22So he's like, no, he's your father.
00:21:28It's like, not in Africa, he's not.
00:21:31No, that's your father.
00:21:34No. And I remember referring to him throughout my childhood as my ex-father.
00:21:39And people were like, what do you mean he's your ex-father?
00:21:42He's still your father. I'm like, not in Africa, he's not.
00:21:45He's my mother's ex-husband and he's my ex-father.
00:21:51Because he doesn't father, doesn't parent.
00:21:54He gave me absolutely zero fucking advice on how to live.
00:22:04Can you imagine your father, when you're 40 years old, sitting you down and saying,
00:22:08well, son, I'm going to teach you how to spell cat.
00:22:18Here, I know you're 40 and a gymnast, but, or you were a gymnast,
00:22:22but here, I'm going to hold your hands while you learn how to walk.
00:22:27It's like, did that shit already, dad? Already know how to walk?
00:22:31You missed. The bus, you missed the boat. You missed it all.
00:22:35I don't get this later thing.
00:22:38I don't get this later thing.
00:22:42Well, my parents separated when I was a baby, fought like cats and dogs throughout my childhood,
00:22:47but one day they had a nice day.
00:22:51What good does it do you now?
00:22:55I'm sorry, I don't mean to laugh, but seriously, what possible good does it do you now?
00:23:08Well, son, I know you're 50 and I know I'm 75 or 80, but here's the thing.
00:23:16I bought you some diapers and the next time you want to have a crap,
00:23:21if you could crap your pants and then I could wipe your ass and put you in the Depends,
00:23:25that would be excellent. It's like, I'm 50. I don't need diapers.
00:23:31Get away from me, you creep.
00:23:35You rock it? You see what I'm talking about?
00:23:40Yeah. Oh, I'm seeing the questions from everywhere.
00:23:54Nuko on Rrrrrumble says,
00:23:58The German intelligence service now admitted to reporting the lab leak theory to the government,
00:24:03who covered it up. Anyone who purveyed that theory was labeled fake news and banned from the media.
00:24:08Yeah, I mean, I did a case against China, right? Of course it was a lab leak. Jesus Christ.
00:24:15Sorry, don't mean to say that on a Sunday morning in particular. My apologies.
00:24:20Holy heck. Holy heck. Right now, people say, well, what does it matter?
00:24:26What does it matter where it came from? Well, it kind of matters, frankly.
00:24:32Why does it matter?
00:24:36Let's make this a conversation, right?
00:24:42Why does it matter where COVID originated?
00:24:49Real question, real cue.
00:24:53And why?
00:24:56Well, you do that.
00:25:03All right.
00:25:06Will the donor section involve shirtlessness? Honestly, if the donor section wants me to be shirtless,
00:25:12I will chew my own shirt off from right up here. Absolutely.
00:25:17Yeah, that's right. Well, I know you've been married for 20 years, son, but I'm going to tell you where babies come from.
00:25:27Oh, my gosh.
00:25:34All right, so people say, Hidden Dragon says, exposes media lies.
00:25:39Good to know who was responsible for it. I do not agree. That doesn't mean you're wrong.
00:25:45Then we doubt the government telling us to vax and lock down if another government caused this.
00:25:50Because there will never be restitution or even accountability. They'll pretend it never happened.
00:25:55Can't form a narrative if people know the truth. No.
00:26:02No. No, that's not why.
00:26:07It gives an accurate view of what actually happened in 2010 to 2022. Nope.
00:26:23So. Of course, as usual, I'm not a doctor. I'm not an expert.
00:26:28This is just my amateur foolish opinions. But nonetheless, I will tell you why.
00:26:35This melonhead thinks that it's somewhat important to know if it came from a lab leak at the time.
00:26:42Because. In general, the theory of transmission is, oh, no, there's a virus that seems to have a vague foothold on infecting humans.
00:26:54It's vague. It's it's weird. It's you know, it's not good.
00:26:58And so we're going to limit human contact. Why?
00:27:02So that it doesn't learn how to get better at infecting humans.
00:27:09Right. That's the purpose. We don't want it to get better at infecting humans.
00:27:18Because it starts off with just like this vague maybe hooking in here and there.
00:27:22Right. We want to limit because the more it scales to humans and the better it then the better it's going to get.
00:27:30At infecting humans. So we want to have lockdowns and we want to have isolation and stay in your homes.
00:27:37And while the six foot distance thing just came from some high school kid's science quote project.
00:27:43Right. So the whole the whole theory of rationality behind these things was, oh, my gosh, this thing jumped from nature.
00:27:51Some weird mutation made it vaguely able to infect human beings.
00:27:54So we got to limit the spread so that it doesn't get better at infecting human beings.
00:27:59However, however, of course, if COVID was created in the lab specifically to infect human beings,
00:28:11then lockdowns, social distancing, stay at home, none of that means a goddamn thing.
00:28:19Because it's already optimized to spread.
00:28:25Does that make sense?
00:28:28It's already optimized to spread. So it doesn't matter.
00:28:31It's not going to get better at what it was designed to do.
00:28:36For any cleavage site and all that kind of stuff.
00:28:43And of course, when people were freaking out about COVID, if they had found the lab leak, well, it might have led back to the funding.
00:28:52And the funding was a little dicey, to put it mildly.
00:29:04So that's why they couldn't talk about the lab leak at the time.
00:29:11Because if they'd said, no, it's designed to spread to humans.
00:29:16So we're just going to have to live with it because it's not going to get better at that, which it was already designed to do.
00:29:21Again, just my amateur, foolish opinion.
00:29:25Thank you, Anthony. I appreciate your support.
00:29:29More than words.
00:29:32All right.
00:29:35So let's get to your comments.
00:29:47Off topic.
00:29:51Oh, leprechaun thing. Yeah.
00:29:54All right.
00:29:57Somebody from local says, you've had some very helpful advice slash insights on sibling relationships.
00:30:04A lot of my cousins and I have children, and I can clearly see how the issues that our parents had from our grandparents that negatively affected my siblings and my cousins.
00:30:16The sticking point is that my cousins are open to improving their parenting of their kids.
00:30:21But just accept how their parents are because they're too old to change.
00:30:26All of my aunt's uncles are 75 plus.
00:30:30So this still makes family gatherings uncomfortable.
00:30:41I'm not sure what your question is.
00:30:43I mean, that's a comment.
00:30:47So the issues that our parents had from our grandparents.
00:30:54That's some bullshit language, my friend.
00:30:56I say this with all love, affection and respect, but that's some serious bullshit language.
00:31:03Are you saying it's just dominoes?
00:31:05Like, come on, man, you've been around this conversation long enough to know that's not going to get past this particular puck grabbing goalie.
00:31:12Are you saying, well, our parents had these dysfunctions from their parents?
00:31:20Now, we don't have any choice about our genetics, but we certainly have choices about our morals.
00:31:36Is it a domino theory?
00:31:40Well, my parents don't really have any free will.
00:31:43They just inherited all of their traumas from their parents and I can try my best to blah, blah, blah.
00:31:48What is the magic line?
00:31:51I mean, somebody explain this to me.
00:31:53I mean, in all seriousness, in all humility, explain this magic line.
00:31:57Where some people are responsible for what they say and do.
00:32:03And other people are not responsible for what they say and do.
00:32:08Just help me understand this.
00:32:10Why do some people get responsibilities and some people get excuses?
00:32:15I would like to know.
00:32:18If you don't change, if you refuse to change, if you avoid changing and if you reenact your traumas on your children without empathy or improvement, you get forgiven.
00:32:32But if you strive to improve, you get this massive crushing weight of responsibility, higher standards and expectations, and now you're morally responsible.
00:32:42So the people who don't try to change are not responsible.
00:32:46And the people who try to change are held to a higher standard.
00:32:50Talk about rewarding people for doing wrong and punishing people for doing good.
00:32:54What the ever-living hell are you talking about?
00:32:58Help me understand.
00:32:59If I refuse to change, then I just get forgiveness and I'm too old to change and it's a domino theory and I had no free will.
00:33:09But if I develop some self-awareness, some higher standards, observing ego, third eye, whatever you want to call it, read books, go to therapy, spend all this money, deal with all this stuff, go through all this destabilization of working to change and improve,
00:33:23well, clearly you're morally responsible, you're held to a higher standard, you better not do bad because you're trying to do good,
00:33:29where the people who don't even try to do good get all this forgiveness.
00:33:33Good lord.
00:33:34It's like the only people you throw in jail are the people who quit being criminals and all the criminals get get out of jail, free cards from here to eternity.
00:33:41Ah, but they didn't have any choice, you see.
00:33:44How do you know?
00:33:45How the hell do you know?
00:33:48You can't read people's minds, you can't read people's secret hearts and child abusers won't tell you the truth about anything.
00:33:54How do you know?
00:33:56They couldn't have done better.
00:33:58You don't know that.
00:34:01I default to the free will position unless there's medical evidence of significant brain damage or dysfunction.
00:34:14You default to the free will position.
00:34:17And this is validated and proven with abusive parents.
00:34:20You've heard me ask this about a zillion times of call-in partners.
00:34:31Oh, my father had such a temper.
00:34:33He would just beat us.
00:34:34He had a real volatile temper.
00:34:35He just lost his shit, right?
00:34:37Really?
00:34:38Okay.
00:34:39Did he ever do that at a mall?
00:34:40Ever do that in front of a cop?
00:34:41Ever do that when there was a security guard around?
00:34:43Did he ever do it at church?
00:34:44Did he ever do it when he was dropping you off at school?
00:34:46Did he ever do it at a parent-teacher con?
00:34:47Oh, no, no, no, no.
00:34:48He never did that.
00:34:50Well, then don't tell me there was some demonic epileptic possession of his temper.
00:34:53He couldn't control his temper.
00:34:54He could perfectly control his temper.
00:35:00Why do people keep trying this stuff with me?
00:35:04It's a little wearying.
00:35:05Oh, a tiny bit tiresome.
00:35:07Honestly, why?
00:35:08Why do you try this stuff with me?
00:35:10The issues that our parents had from our grandparents,
00:35:13that negatively affected the choices they made.
00:35:17The choices they made.
00:35:18No, no, but you see, they didn't have that kind of choice.
00:35:22They were too traumatized.
00:35:23They this, they...
00:35:24You don't know that.
00:35:25What you do know is that all of the supposedly uncontrollable temper
00:35:30was always perfectly controlled.
00:35:34When you were in public.
00:35:36Yes, indeedy.
00:35:38Yes, indeedy.
00:35:39They were always perfectly in control of their temper.
00:35:44You know, if someone's got Tourette's,
00:35:46they'll do Tourette's in front of a police officer.
00:35:49They'll do Tourette's at an airport.
00:35:51They'll, like...
00:35:56But everyone who's had,
00:35:58almost everyone who's had an abusive parent,
00:36:00has seen that.
00:36:03Flippos witcheroo.
00:36:06Phone rings.
00:36:08Hi.
00:36:09Hi, how's it going?
00:36:10Oh, so nice to hear from you.
00:36:12I was just thinking about...
00:36:15Boom, boom, boom.
00:36:16Door knocks.
00:36:17Oh, hi.
00:36:18Oh, I've been looking forward to this packet.
00:36:20Thank you so much.
00:36:21Click.
00:36:22Right?
00:36:27Don't give me this domino shit, man.
00:36:30And stop rewarding people who've refused to change.
00:36:35Stop it.
00:36:37Just stop it.
00:36:38Well, they're too old, they lack the capacity.
00:36:40You don't know that.
00:36:41Don't make these bizarre claims.
00:36:44For facts, not only not in evidence,
00:36:46but contradicted by all the empiricism of them
00:36:48perfectly controlling their tempers when in public.
00:36:52I'm telling you, man, just stop this shit.
00:36:54Or at least don't bring it to my attention.
00:36:57Huh.
00:37:03Huh.
00:37:07Sorry, 500 character limit.
00:37:09Yes, our parents def had responsibility.
00:37:11Question, don't give me this.
00:37:13Now you're making yourself excuses.
00:37:18Oh my god.
00:37:19Stop it, man.
00:37:21You see, when you defend manipulators,
00:37:23you become manipulative.
00:37:25That's how it spreads.
00:37:27When you defend manipulators, you become manipulative.
00:37:30Right?
00:37:32A lot of my cousins and I have children,
00:37:35and I can clearly see how the issues that our parents had
00:37:38from our grandparents that negatively affect my siblings and my cousins.
00:37:45It doesn't take, it actually would take,
00:37:48the bad choices my parents made
00:37:51is actually fewer characters.
00:37:53Don't give me this 500 character,
00:37:55like don't insult my intelligence, bro.
00:37:57Don't give me this 500 character bullshit
00:37:59when it takes less, and fewer characters to be honest.
00:38:04I don't mind that you had an illusion here and a bad habit,
00:38:07but when you start insulting my intelligence,
00:38:09we're not going to be on super friendly terms.
00:38:11Don't give me these absolutely pathetic lies.
00:38:14Seriously.
00:38:16Oh no, the reason that I gave my parents and grandparents excuses
00:38:19and said that it was a domino thing
00:38:21is because of the 500 character limit.
00:38:23No, that's not true at all.
00:38:26Just be honest.
00:38:30Yeah, I kind of fell into an old bad habit of thinking.
00:38:33Sorry about that.
00:38:34Hey, no problem.
00:38:36It's so, it's so, I don't know why,
00:38:38why do people not do this?
00:38:39Why do people not do this?
00:38:41When they pull a manipulation, and it happens.
00:38:44I do it, you do it, every year.
00:38:46You pull a manipulation, some bad habits,
00:38:48you're talking about core family issues,
00:38:50so you pull a manipulation.
00:38:52And then say, well, yeah, you're right.
00:38:54Sorry about that.
00:38:55Um, yes, they are.
00:38:57Fine, but don't say, oh no, it's a 500 character limit.
00:38:59And that's why I had to say that.
00:39:03Right?
00:39:04Don't, please just don't, just don't.
00:39:09And to me, like of all people,
00:39:10like I've got this truth radar of the gods, right?
00:39:14All right.
00:39:15So he says, sorry, 500 character limit.
00:39:16Yes, our parents def have responsibility.
00:39:18Question.
00:39:19How to navigate making progress,
00:39:21helping my cousins with their kids,
00:39:22while not applying those same principles
00:39:24to their parental relationships.
00:39:27How to navigate making progress,
00:39:29helping my cousins with their kids,
00:39:31while not applying those same principles
00:39:33to their parental relationships.
00:39:38So one of the things that you want to do
00:39:42as a whole in life,
00:39:44when you're asking a question,
00:39:46is,
00:39:49are you asking for the impossible?
00:39:51This is sort of a fundamental question, right?
00:39:53Are you asking for the impossible?
00:39:56So you're saying,
00:39:57how do I transfer universal principles
00:39:59without applying them universally?
00:40:02You can't do it.
00:40:03How do I transfer or inculcate
00:40:05or encourage universal principles
00:40:08without applying them universally?
00:40:11How do I have a scientific theory
00:40:13that explains the roots of gravity
00:40:15but excludes the moon and the earth?
00:40:17Now, if it's a universal theory,
00:40:19it's going to encompass the moon and the earth.
00:40:24So how do I get people to be moral,
00:40:26which is universal?
00:40:28How do I get people to follow
00:40:30universal moral principles
00:40:32while carving out massive sections
00:40:34of their personal relationships?
00:40:36Spoiler!
00:40:37You can't!
00:40:38What are you doing?
00:40:39You can't!
00:40:40What are you doing to me?
00:40:44I really want to transfer
00:40:46universal moral principles
00:40:48to my cousins and their kids
00:40:50while specifically excluding
00:40:52their own parental relationships
00:40:54from these universal principles.
00:40:56You can't!
00:40:57And you can waste a lot of time
00:40:59if you want,
00:41:00and you can appear to be a rank hypocrite
00:41:02if you want,
00:41:03because you will be,
00:41:04and look, again,
00:41:05I'm not a perfect person,
00:41:06I have my hypocrisies,
00:41:07and so on,
00:41:08I'm not saying this
00:41:10with any sense of superiority,
00:41:12but I sure wish people had told me this shit
00:41:14when I was younger.
00:41:17You can't.
00:41:21How do I tell my cousins
00:41:22that parental moral responsibility
00:41:24is universal and absolute,
00:41:26but doesn't apply to their own parents?
00:41:28I'm sorry,
00:41:29but you see how funny this is?
00:41:31It's a tragic comic,
00:41:32but it's funny.
00:41:35Oh...
00:41:37You can't!
00:41:40You can't.
00:41:44And you can either have it implicit,
00:41:46or you can have it explicit.
00:41:49These contradictions,
00:41:51this hypocrisy, right?
00:42:07Someone says,
00:42:08parents, mid-rant at me,
00:42:09phone rings, all civil and polite,
00:42:10and the call ends,
00:42:11rant and abuse start up again.
00:42:12Yep.
00:42:13Sure.
00:42:14They have control.
00:42:16My parents were jerks,
00:42:17they could not help being awful
00:42:19because they did not want to change.
00:42:22What?
00:42:23They could not help being awful
00:42:24because they did not want to change.
00:42:29I don't understand that.
00:42:31That's a real,
00:42:32that's a real Gordian knot.
00:42:37All right.
00:42:42You are welcome for the help.
00:42:46Thank you, Nick.
00:42:51My name is Nick.
00:42:52Oh, what does that mean?
00:42:53I'm...
00:42:54I don't know,
00:42:55just something my father thought of
00:42:56while he was shaving.
00:43:01Ah.
00:43:03Ah.
00:43:12All right.
00:43:19While I wait for your next question,
00:43:23I want to talk about
00:43:25the wealthy.
00:43:28I want to talk about the wealthy.
00:43:33I'm not talking about any
00:43:37particular
00:43:39wealth.
00:43:41I'll get to your question after,
00:43:42but I just gave you one.
00:43:46So, I will tell you
00:43:48something interesting about the wealthy.
00:43:51So,
00:43:54when you continually
00:43:56exploit and trash talk people,
00:43:58it's kind of a weird thing.
00:44:00People will
00:44:01continually exploit and trash talk people,
00:44:04and then
00:44:05they're shocked
00:44:06when it bounces back
00:44:07in any way, shape, or form.
00:44:10Now,
00:44:13it's important to look at the world
00:44:15through the eyes of a billionaire.
00:44:16I know this sounds a bit odd,
00:44:18but, you know,
00:44:21be patient with me for a sec.
00:44:23So, it's important to talk about,
00:44:25or to look at the society
00:44:27through the eyes of a billionaire.
00:44:28So, what a billionaire,
00:44:30and it could be super rich or whatever, right,
00:44:31but what a billionaire sees
00:44:34as a whole
00:44:35is a billionaire sees
00:44:37a whole bunch of greedy,
00:44:39dysfunctional people
00:44:41constantly demanding
00:44:43that society
00:44:47steal from the billionaires
00:44:49in order to fund their own
00:44:51often retarded lifestyles.
00:44:54From, like, from the point of view of
00:44:56a billionaire who's
00:44:58probably a genius, right,
00:45:00what do they see?
00:45:02Well, they're constantly getting blamed,
00:45:04they're constantly getting attacked,
00:45:06and society,
00:45:07and the people as a whole,
00:45:08particularly in democracies,
00:45:10society is constantly
00:45:12hating on them
00:45:13and wanting to take away
00:45:14their property
00:45:15and their rights
00:45:16and their savings.
00:45:23Now, I myself
00:45:26probably because I got into
00:45:28Austrian economics in my mid-teens,
00:45:30cool guy that I was,
00:45:32I was always grateful
00:45:35that there were restaurants
00:45:37I could work with,
00:45:38that there were newspapers
00:45:39I could deliver,
00:45:40there were bookstores I could work in,
00:45:41there were hardware stores I could work in,
00:45:43that people made messes
00:45:44so I could go into the offices
00:45:45and clean them up at night.
00:45:46I was always grateful for that stuff.
00:45:50I wasn't creating my own jobs
00:45:53when I was 11.
00:45:57I went to work in a bookstore
00:45:58putting the New York Times together
00:45:59on Sundays
00:46:00and other various tasks
00:46:03in the bookstore.
00:46:07I was grateful.
00:46:09Thank goodness
00:46:10somebody built a restaurant
00:46:11because me carrying food around
00:46:12in the desert
00:46:14won't make me any money at all.
00:46:16I was always very happy
00:46:17that there were businesses
00:46:18and, you know,
00:46:19I was happy that people
00:46:20had started stuff up
00:46:21and made the sacrifices
00:46:22and so on.
00:46:24So, rather than saying
00:46:25to the billionaires,
00:46:26wow, thank you guys so much
00:46:27for creating all these jobs,
00:46:28all these businesses,
00:46:29all these companies,
00:46:30giving me a place to work
00:46:31because I can't create that myself,
00:46:33instead of there being
00:46:34any gratitude,
00:46:35they're like,
00:46:36oh, the rich are predatory assholes
00:46:37and we should tax them
00:46:38for everything they're worth.
00:46:42So, I mean, to me
00:46:43it's kind of funny
00:46:45that you can just
00:46:46continually attack
00:46:47and insult people
00:46:49without ever imagining
00:46:50what that's going to do
00:46:52to your relationship
00:46:53with them.
00:46:55What's that going to do?
00:46:56How are the billionaires,
00:46:57who, by the by,
00:46:58have a lot more influence
00:46:59than the average person,
00:47:00including you and me,
00:47:02how are the billionaires
00:47:03going to feel about a society
00:47:04that blames them for everything
00:47:06and wants to prey on them
00:47:07for all of their success,
00:47:08never give them
00:47:09a moment's thanks?
00:47:11I mean, this is what Elon Musk,
00:47:12I'm not including him
00:47:13in this at all, right?
00:47:14I'm just saying that
00:47:16Elon Musk was saying
00:47:17that he paid the most taxes
00:47:18of any human being
00:47:19in history,
00:47:20didn't even get
00:47:21a thank you note, right?
00:47:22Instead, everybody's just
00:47:24attacking and brutalizing him.
00:47:29Because people only ever think,
00:47:31do I like billionaires
00:47:32or am I resentful
00:47:33and want to
00:47:34tax them and control them
00:47:35and take away their property
00:47:37and steal from their
00:47:38and the inheritance
00:47:39they want to give to their kids
00:47:40and just hate on them
00:47:41and so on, right?
00:47:43You know, the idea
00:47:44that you can just hate on
00:47:45or hate on
00:47:48billionaires or the wealthy
00:47:50forever and ever, amen,
00:47:51and the billionaires
00:47:52are never going to have any
00:47:55incentives or thoughts
00:47:56or motives of their own
00:47:57in response to that
00:47:58is a wild thought to me.
00:47:59And it's part of
00:48:00sort of the narcissism
00:48:02of those who are
00:48:03less successful.
00:48:06I mean, you become,
00:48:07again, free market stuff,
00:48:08I get that there's exceptions,
00:48:09but you become a billionaire
00:48:10because you have empathy
00:48:12to what the market wants
00:48:13and needs, right?
00:48:15And you are helping
00:48:18to provide what the market
00:48:19wants and needs.
00:48:25My wife surprised me
00:48:26with a test drive
00:48:27of a Tesla,
00:48:28not that I'm buying a Tesla,
00:48:29obviously, right?
00:48:31But I was talking about
00:48:33how I thought
00:48:34the sort of self-driving stuff
00:48:35was incredibly cool.
00:48:37My wife surprised me
00:48:38with a test drive
00:48:39of a Tesla,
00:48:40which was a lot of fun.
00:48:41And it blew my mind.
00:48:44It absolutely blew my mind
00:48:47how good that car is.
00:48:53I mean, I'm driving
00:48:54an eight-year-old
00:48:55second-hand car,
00:48:56so it's not exactly like
00:48:57I can trade that in
00:48:58for anything useful,
00:48:59but it was
00:49:00absolutely incredible.
00:49:02Absolutely incredible.
00:49:04Whisper quiet,
00:49:05self-driving,
00:49:06went everywhere,
00:49:07did everything,
00:49:08did everything right,
00:49:09even in the rain.
00:49:10Unbelievable.
00:49:11Absolutely,
00:49:12staggeringly
00:49:13incredible
00:49:15technology.
00:49:19Beyond belief.
00:49:20Beyond belief.
00:49:35So you don't listen, right?
00:49:36I said,
00:49:37I'm talking about
00:49:38free market stuff.
00:49:40Yeah,
00:49:41I'm talking about
00:49:42free market stuff.
00:49:43You must listen.
00:49:44If you don't listen,
00:49:45no one's going to want
00:49:46to talk to you, my friend.
00:49:47One of the key points
00:49:48about being
00:49:49écoute,
00:49:50one of the key points
00:49:51of being in a relationship
00:49:52is to listen.
00:49:53So when I specifically say,
00:49:55I'm talking about
00:49:56free market stuff,
00:49:57and you bring up
00:49:58the military-industrial complex,
00:50:04you're not listening.
00:50:06Halliburton is not
00:50:07at all free market,
00:50:08for the most part, right?
00:50:12So,
00:50:16do they rely on government power
00:50:17and do they get funded
00:50:18from taxation?
00:50:19You know, those are
00:50:20some basic hints.
00:50:21Like, if you want to start
00:50:22talking about the free market,
00:50:23you need to have a definition
00:50:24of the free market,
00:50:25which means not
00:50:26fundamentally dependent upon
00:50:27government power
00:50:28and fundamentally funded by
00:50:30involuntary tax dollars.
00:50:39Oh, boy, oh, boy.
00:50:41It's wild, man.
00:50:44It's exhausting,
00:50:45and I'm not going to engage
00:50:46with this guy, right?
00:50:47Honestly, it's exhausting
00:50:48when you put your caveats in
00:50:49and people are like,
00:50:50well, what if you,
00:50:51you don't even know stuff,
00:50:52you don't even understand
00:50:53the free market, man.
00:50:55All wealthy people
00:50:56are warmongers.
00:50:57It's like,
00:50:58no, they're not.
00:51:02So,
00:51:04the modern idea
00:51:05that billionaires
00:51:06are somehow
00:51:07better people
00:51:08because they're billionaires
00:51:09is very dumb.
00:51:14Well, let me ask you this.
00:51:16Are they better
00:51:17at making money than you?
00:51:18Again, talking about
00:51:19free market.
00:51:20So, billionaires
00:51:21become billionaires
00:51:22because they satisfy
00:51:23a need in the free market,
00:51:24if they're in the free market,
00:51:25or primarily.
00:51:26Not everyone is
00:51:27in the free market, right?
00:51:28I mean,
00:51:29we're transmitting this
00:51:30on government-developed
00:51:31TCPIP protocols,
00:51:32so whatever, right?
00:51:33But,
00:51:34but,
00:51:36billionaires
00:51:37are better at making money
00:51:38than you and me.
00:51:40Can we at least go
00:51:43with that?
00:51:45You know who's
00:51:46a better basketball player
00:51:47than I am?
00:51:48Larry Bird.
00:51:50It's a,
00:51:51it's a better
00:51:52basketball player.
00:51:54Freddie Mercury's
00:51:55a better singer.
00:51:56Brad Pitt has
00:51:57better hair than I do.
00:52:01So,
00:52:03so, yeah,
00:52:04they're better
00:52:05at making money
00:52:06than you and me.
00:52:07Does that mean
00:52:08they're better people?
00:52:09Well, you haven't
00:52:10qualified anything.
00:52:11Wrong!
00:52:12They're billionaires
00:52:13because they make
00:52:14every decision
00:52:15based on money.
00:52:16Right.
00:52:17So, tell me how
00:52:18I know you've never
00:52:19run a business.
00:52:20You've never run a business.
00:52:21I don't care to listen
00:52:22to people, but no,
00:52:23I've run businesses.
00:52:24I've been an entrepreneur
00:52:25for like,
00:52:26gosh,
00:52:2730 years.
00:52:28More.
00:52:29Over 30 years,
00:52:30I've been an entrepreneur.
00:52:31So,
00:52:32if you've never
00:52:33run a business,
00:52:34I really don't care
00:52:35what you have to say
00:52:36about this stuff.
00:52:37You're just a reactionary
00:52:38ideologue who's got no
00:52:39experience in the field.
00:52:40If you want to,
00:52:41if you run a business,
00:52:42you have to please
00:52:43your customers.
00:52:44You have to have
00:52:45empathy for what they
00:52:46need and what they want.
00:52:47So when I was running
00:52:48a software business,
00:52:49I was chief technical
00:52:50officer.
00:52:51I had to figure out
00:52:52what the customers wanted,
00:52:53so I had to go and
00:52:54talk to them and ask
00:52:55them and understand
00:52:56their business and
00:52:57understand how a software
00:52:58served that need,
00:52:59served that business,
00:53:00and in a relatively
00:53:01cost-efficient manner,
00:53:02I had to build what
00:53:03customers wanted so
00:53:04that they would be
00:53:05willing to part with
00:53:06their hard-earned money
00:53:07voluntarily to me.
00:53:17So,
00:53:18you've just never
00:53:19run a business.
00:53:20Every decision's
00:53:21based on money.
00:53:22What does that mean?
00:53:23It doesn't mean anything.
00:53:27How do you get
00:53:28the money
00:53:29from people?
00:53:30You have to provide
00:53:31what they want,
00:53:32which is why I do
00:53:33a lot of live streams
00:53:34and some solo shows.
00:53:35I do the live streams
00:53:36because I get a sense
00:53:37of what questions
00:53:38people have and how
00:53:39I can help them and
00:53:40where the
00:53:41thoughts are in people.
00:53:42So,
00:53:43if you run a business,
00:53:46freedomain.com
00:53:47slash donate to help out.
00:53:48But yeah,
00:53:49if you run a business,
00:53:53you have to serve
00:53:54people's needs,
00:53:55right?
00:54:00You have to serve
00:54:01people's needs.
00:54:02And,
00:54:03to do that,
00:54:04you have to ask them
00:54:05questions and provide
00:54:06value,
00:54:07right?
00:54:11So, they don't just
00:54:12get
00:54:13money because
00:54:14they think about money.
00:54:15Lots of people
00:54:16think about money.
00:54:17They don't become
00:54:18billionaires,
00:54:19right?
00:54:21So,
00:54:23you just,
00:54:24you should not
00:54:25talk about things
00:54:26that you have
00:54:27neither
00:54:28practical
00:54:29nor even theoretical
00:54:30understanding of,
00:54:31right?
00:54:37There's a word for
00:54:38business owners who
00:54:39ignore customers.
00:54:40Bankrupt.
00:54:41Yeah.
00:54:42Yeah.
00:54:45So,
00:54:46like,
00:54:47the important thing is
00:54:48to,
00:54:49you have to know
00:54:50how you look
00:54:52to people
00:54:54who
00:54:55know what they're
00:54:56talking about.
00:54:58I've spent
00:54:59far more time
00:55:00working as an
00:55:01entrepreneur
00:55:02than I ever did
00:55:03working for people.
00:55:04So,
00:55:05it's just important,
00:55:06and,
00:55:07obviously,
00:55:08I'm no business
00:55:09genius,
00:55:10blah, blah, blah,
00:55:11right?
00:55:12But,
00:55:13I've certainly
00:55:14walked the walk
00:55:15for 30 plus years,
00:55:16right?
00:55:17So,
00:55:18if you have no
00:55:19experience and you're
00:55:20talking to someone
00:55:21with over 40 years
00:55:22experience in philosophy
00:55:23and over 30 years
00:55:24experience as an
00:55:25entrepreneur,
00:55:26you might want to
00:55:27listen and learn.
00:55:28It's just a possibility.
00:55:30It's just a possibility.
00:55:31Like,
00:55:32if I was,
00:55:33uh,
00:55:34new on a movie set
00:55:35and
00:55:37Marlon Brando
00:55:38was there and was
00:55:39willing to give me
00:55:40advice on how to
00:55:41be a good actor in
00:55:42movies,
00:55:43I would,
00:55:44um,
00:55:45I would listen.
00:55:46There's a story that
00:55:47Tom Cruise says about
00:55:48Paul Newman.
00:55:49They were in a movie
00:55:50called The Color of
00:55:51Money,
00:55:52and,
00:55:53uh,
00:55:54they shot in Chicago
00:55:55in the winter,
00:55:56and
00:55:57Paul Newman
00:55:58showed up in a
00:55:59big old coat and
00:56:00all of that,
00:56:01and he's like,
00:56:02yeah,
00:56:03you did your
00:56:04wardrobe without
00:56:05asking where you
00:56:06were going to be
00:56:07filming and went,
00:56:08right?
00:56:09So,
00:56:10it's a rookie
00:56:11mistake,
00:56:12kid,
00:56:13and he learned
00:56:14all about that,
00:56:15right?
00:56:16So,
00:56:17I have over 40
00:56:18years experience in
00:56:19philosophy,
00:56:20I have over 30
00:56:21years experience as
00:56:22an entrepreneur,
00:56:23so when I'm
00:56:24talking about
00:56:25money,
00:56:26you might
00:56:27want to,
00:56:28you might want to
00:56:29listen.
00:56:30You might.
00:56:31Saying a rich guy
00:56:32is good at getting
00:56:33money is like
00:56:34saying the
00:56:35murderer is good
00:56:36at killing.
00:56:37Yes,
00:56:38that's right.
00:56:39Yes,
00:56:40that's right.
00:56:41A guy who
00:56:42opens a Froyo
00:56:43shop that has
00:56:44really good
00:56:45frozen yogurt is
00:56:46exactly the same
00:56:47as a serial
00:56:48killer.
00:56:49Oh,
00:56:50my God,
00:56:51I'm
00:56:52going to
00:56:53die.
00:56:54Oh,
00:56:55my God,
00:56:56have you,
00:56:57I assume you
00:56:58played a lot of
00:56:59hockey when you
00:57:00were young.
00:57:01Sure,
00:57:02like taking
00:57:03investing advice
00:57:04from a guy
00:57:05who's constantly
00:57:06begging for
00:57:07donations.
00:57:08Yes,
00:57:09asking is
00:57:10begging,
00:57:11absolutely,
00:57:12absolutely,
00:57:13asking is
00:57:14just begging.
00:57:15That's
00:57:16very funny.
00:57:17That's
00:57:18very funny.
00:57:19That's
00:57:20very funny.
00:57:21That's
00:57:22very funny.
00:57:23You know,
00:57:24vanity is one
00:57:25of the worst
00:57:26things,
00:57:27really,
00:57:28honestly.
00:57:29Vanity is
00:57:30one of the
00:57:31worst things
00:57:32when you think
00:57:33you know something.
00:57:34So,
00:57:35when you think
00:57:36about enough
00:57:37of that
00:57:38phone troll,
00:57:39and I appreciate
00:57:40that,
00:57:41I really do,
00:57:42it gives me
00:57:43some giggles,
00:57:44and we'll go to
00:57:45Donner in just
00:57:46a sec,
00:57:47but the one
00:57:48thing that's
00:57:49very funny to
00:57:50me,
00:57:51or really
00:57:52funny to me,
00:57:53is that
00:57:54you know,
00:57:55you've worked
00:57:56your 80 hours
00:57:57a week for
00:57:58many, many,
00:57:59many years,
00:58:00and you've
00:58:01built up these
00:58:02big companies
00:58:03that hire
00:58:04thousands or
00:58:05tens of
00:58:06thousands of
00:58:07people.
00:58:08But,
00:58:09when all you
00:58:10see is people
00:58:11raging at you,
00:58:12and they're
00:58:13attacking you,
00:58:14and they're
00:58:15you know,
00:58:16throwing paint
00:58:17on your
00:58:18products or
00:58:19whatever it is,
00:58:20and they're
00:58:21the billionaires
00:58:22like the
00:58:23people.
00:58:24Of course,
00:58:25I can't speak
00:58:26for billionaires
00:58:27and whether they
00:58:28do or don't
00:58:29like the people,
00:58:30but I can tell
00:58:31you that if I
00:58:32were in their
00:58:33shoes,
00:58:34I might be
00:58:35building bunkers
00:58:36and not
00:58:37working to
00:58:38fix things.
00:58:39Because when
00:58:40you attack,
00:58:41insult,
00:58:42and degrade
00:58:43those people
00:58:44who have
00:58:45significant power,
00:58:46they will,
00:58:47sooner or later,
00:58:48stop using
00:58:49that power
00:58:50and they
00:58:51will become
00:58:52indifferent
00:58:53to your
00:58:54suffering.
00:58:55I mean,
00:58:56we can see this
00:58:57in a lot of
00:58:58ways with the
00:58:59sort of dogecats
00:59:00and people
00:59:01crying,
00:59:02oh,
00:59:03oh,
00:59:04but I'm
00:59:05getting fired
00:59:06and now I
00:59:07have to take,
00:59:08I have to get
00:59:09child care
00:59:10for my child
00:59:11and all these
00:59:12terrible things
00:59:13are happening
00:59:14and people are
00:59:15like,
00:59:16well,
00:59:17first of all,
00:59:18you're a government
00:59:19for a couple
00:59:20of decades
00:59:21and secondly,
00:59:22you all seem
00:59:23pretty thrilled
00:59:24and keen to
00:59:25have society
00:59:26shut down
00:59:27for the sake
00:59:28of a vax,
00:59:29right?
00:59:30I mean,
00:59:31this is the
00:59:32people that
00:59:33I,
00:59:34if I ever
00:59:35have debates
00:59:36with people,
00:59:37it's kind of
00:59:38rare now
00:59:39about socialized
00:59:40medicine and
00:59:41they say
00:59:42medicine is a
00:59:43human right.
00:59:44I'm like,
00:59:45well,
00:59:46but they
00:59:47shut down
00:59:48so let us,
00:59:49oh,
00:59:50why would the
00:59:51billionaires like us
00:59:52most vote for
00:59:53government to
00:59:54take what they
00:59:55earned?
00:59:56Yeah,
00:59:57do the billionaires
00:59:58like you?
00:59:59So,
01:00:00it's kind of like
01:00:01you can have
01:00:02every villain
01:00:03for the past
01:00:0430 years has
01:00:05been Russian,
01:00:06Russian,
01:00:07right?
01:00:08I mean,
01:00:09so you can
01:00:10villainize the
01:00:11Russians and
01:00:12all that happens
01:00:13is that the
01:00:14Russians don't
01:00:15particularly like
01:00:16or care about
01:00:17attacks have
01:00:18blowbacks and
01:00:19very competent,
01:00:20brilliant people
01:00:21who hire
01:00:22millions of
01:00:23people around
01:00:24the world,
01:00:25like a cluster
01:00:26of the super
01:00:27rich.
01:00:28If society
01:00:29just wants to
01:00:30pry on them and
01:00:31tear them down and
01:00:32pull them down and
01:00:33tax them and
01:00:34control them and
01:00:35bully them and
01:00:36threaten their
01:00:37employees and
01:00:38torch their
01:00:39products and so
01:00:40on,
01:00:41like at some
01:00:42point the
01:00:43billionaires are
01:00:44going to be like,
01:00:45I really don't