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Stefan Molyneux
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Wednesday Night Live 2 April 2025

This episode covers socio-economic issues, focusing on tariffs and trade barriers, while tackling listener questions. I analyze G20 tariff rates, the implications for America's trade position, and the market response to tariff announcements. We also discuss ideological motivations behind tariff beliefs and the disproportionate crime rates attributed to a small population segment. The conversation shifts to honesty in relationships, the impact of deceit, and cultural reflections on Val Kilmer's films and media franchises like Star Wars. I emphasize the importance of fostering meaningful dialogue and encourage audience participation in future discussions.

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Transcript
00:00Let's just get started right away with our Wednesday night live
00:04late night in Berlin
00:06First we take Manhattan. Then we take Berlin. I hope you guys are doing well
00:13And let's get into your questions comments issues challenges
00:21I
00:23Don't know if you're interested in the economics of tariffness
00:27Terrifying
00:29this is from
00:31Cane kohler the great in
00:342023 the United States had the lowest trade barriers among g20 nations and imposed lower tariffs than most of them
00:42Trump's right. We don't have free trade and America is getting
00:46ripped off
00:50So this is something he was talking about I remember him talking about this stuff in the 80s back in the day, right
00:58Yeah, so I mean Argentina
01:0025% South Korea 23% United Kingdom 22%
01:05Japan is even at 12% Mexico at 10% United States is 6 6 or 7%
01:12It seems reasonable
01:14To be honest with you. It seems it seems kind of it seems kind of reasonable now, of course
01:20Canada according to some reports has agreed to drop some of the tariffs based upon
01:25Retaliatory tariffs
01:29From America, and so this is what we were talking about way back in the day right way back in the day
01:40So, yeah
01:43Peter Schiff, of course is writing the risk assets are tanking after hours as Trump's tariffs are worse than expected
01:50Dow futures are already down of a thousand which is 2.5 percent S&P futures are down 4% and
01:55Nasdaq futures are down 4.5 percent Bitcoin is only down 3.5 percent gold. However, the true safe haven hit a new record high
02:04Yeah, you know, it's um
02:07It's a funny thing that that people have this belief that you can get some sort of progress and change
02:12Or a sort of realignment of the whole economic system without there being dislocations and change
02:20It's just crazy
02:22crazy factual true
02:24But a little crazy why people think that this is a thing or that this is a valid or or anyway
02:32Now Val Kilmer died
02:35Very good-looking guy a good actor
02:37and
02:38It was a he did a he spent like a year and carried it to play Jim Morrison
02:43In a film called of course the doors as an Oliver Stone film not a great not a great movie
02:48but he was fantastic in it and
02:51Played the character super well
02:53They had to basically peel him out of Jim Morrison's old leather pants and he spent a year in character to get ready for that
02:59Movie man was dedicated. I've never seen I've never seen heat and I've never seen tombstone, but those are the two other
03:07Movies that he's supposed to be quite good in top secret
03:10It was a very funny movie that he made when he was young
03:12He's a Juilliard graduate and ended up doing just kind of song and dance stuff
03:17Thank you, Donny. Thank you Anthony. I just kind of did this kind of funny goofy song and dance stuff
03:23It was by the guys who made airplane later a very funny
03:26very funny movie
03:30According to bricks news Canada has conceded to the president Trump and agrees to remove all tariffs if the United States does
03:39Crazy I mean actually perfectly sane
03:44Let's see here
03:48Did you know that the Sun this is a it's a fun
03:52On on the world of engineering is a fun
03:56account on X space fact
04:00The Sun
04:02Converts millions of tons of its mass into pure energy every single second by fusion causing its gravitational pull to weaken over time
04:09This means earth is better able to escape
04:12We're moving away from the Sun at a rate of 1.5 centimeters every year every year in that well
04:25All right, what else do we have
04:31If you have questions comments, I'm certainly happy to put my brain that way that way inclined
04:43And India India's
04:46Prime Minister Narendra Modi now considering cutting 23 billion dollars worth of tariffs on United States imports
04:54That's quite something to
04:58According to autism capital on X
05:01Vietnam has cut all tariffs on American goods in response to Trump's reciprocal tariffs
05:07So I wonder I
05:10I
05:11Wonder how the libertarians are reacting to this
05:14No tariffs are bad tariffs bad. It's like, okay
05:18But it's a form of self-defense to say I'm gonna raise tariffs in us unless you lower
05:23Yours are they following this are they pursuing this are they accepting this or anything like that?
05:31This
05:33Candice Horbacks Horbacks
05:36Had a very a very big
05:40Rant, I guess it was a rant
05:43About her marriage and how she almost divorced her husband
05:46now I
05:48Don't know. Maybe it was an excess of hard manual labor when I was younger
05:53But I do have kind of a tough time listening to people complain about how difficult it is to run a family in the modern
05:58world
06:00You know, I mean, you know
06:03Back in the day, right?
06:05Back in the day there was
06:09No laundry machines had to do it by hand you to get your own water from the well
06:15There was no air conditioning. No heating
06:18No vacuum cleaners
06:20No dishwashers
06:23You to go and get the wood by hand to make to bake anything I just find it
06:29Is it just me?
06:29I just find it kind of tough to hear people talk about how difficult it is to
06:34Raise a family into these kinds of things at the moment
06:38Crazy she's got four kids and her husband works as a line man
06:42Which is I think an electrical guy can make good coin 250 300 with overtime and all of that
06:47but she's getting mad at him because he didn't empty the dishwasher before going to work and
06:53He says well I had to get to work and she's like well
06:56But but now you made me late for work. It turns out she's an influencer
06:59Basically, I think working from home with an Annie at least that's what I've read. I don't know the actual fact
07:04But I don't know man. There are just some people who can complain about just about anything
07:10Just about anything
07:15All right
07:17You
07:25Yeah
07:37Yeah, sorry for the slight murmur cast I'm just on some ear meds and
07:41It's buzzing a little bit when I talk, but I'm sure it'll be better very soon very soon
07:47a
07:54Lot of times a lot of times people are
07:57Ideological purists because they don't want to swing any weight in a conflict or in a debate
08:03So they say well, I'm against tariffs not because
08:10You know some absolute purity purity spiral in the abstract but because
08:17They don't want to annoy people by threatening tariff escalation and causing conflict and all that kind of stuff. So I think that's a
08:24It's a fairly big issue for a lot of people
08:30But I wonder if the I wonder if the
08:33Libertarians are saying, you know, if if the tariffs end up being lowered lowered because of all of that all of Trump's stuff
08:39I wonder if they'll acknowledge that I have doubts
08:42All
08:51Right since see what else I have for y'all
08:57This is according to
09:01Steve Stuart Williams and I've seen this kind of data before I did the truth about crime many years ago
09:05I want to check this out a small number of criminals commit commit to the vast majority of crimes
09:11One famous study found that just 1% of the population is
09:15Accountable for 63% of all violent crime convictions
09:18It's not while 1% of the population accountable for 63% of all violent crime convictions
09:24Which is why when you want to destabilize a society you just keep
09:28people out of jail
09:31I
09:36Thought this is interesting this guy doth Powell wrote
09:39Don't forget your worth Kings
09:42If you're at least six feet tall
09:44Not obese and you earn over $100,000 a year. You are as a male
09:490.45 percent of the US population or less than 1 in 200 American men
09:53So that's not married any race at least six foot tall
09:56Not obese earning at least hundred thousand per year
09:59and this is
10:01Population ages 20 to 45. It's 0.45
10:05Percent of the population in that world. I
10:13Thought this was interesting
10:15Again, this is world of engineering
10:17The first powered flight by Orville Wright was slightly shorter than the wingspan of the largest planes today
10:23It's not wild
10:26No wild
10:28This was a science
10:31There are more hydrogen atoms in a single molecule molecule of water than there are stars in the entire solar system
10:39Took me a moment
10:43Black Rock CEO and appropriately named Larry Fink says the US dollar is at risk of losing its reserve status to Bitcoin
10:51Wowzie, that's really something
10:54Things I don't particularly believe
10:57Argentinian president Javier Millet has declassified documents
11:01Confirming that Adolf Hitler survived World War two escaped to Argentina with the aid and assistance of the US and its allies
11:07Lived for another 20 years and fathered two daughters. I have doubt I
11:12Have could be right. I have I have significant debt
11:16All right
11:21Carl Hendrick on X wrote
11:24This is an extraordinary post from a college professor about their students lack of ability to focus and read books incredibly depressing
11:34He wrote most of us students are functionally illiterate
11:38I
11:39Think I'm going to read this
11:42He he wrote most of us students are functionally illiterate, this is not a joke by functionally illiterate, I mean
11:49Unable to read and comprehend adult novels by people like Barbara Kingsolver calls and Whitehead and Richard Powers
11:54I picked these three authors because they're all recent Pulitzer Prize winners an objective standard of a serious adult novel
12:01Furthermore, I've read them all and can testify that they're brilliant captivating writers. We're not talking about Finnegan's Wake here
12:06But at the same time they aren't young adult romanticy or Harry Potter either
12:12Wow
12:14It must be kind of depressing I think to
12:19To deal with the digital
12:23Digital kids the digital kids. It must be very tough. It must be very tough. I
12:30I
12:32Think I think I'm trying to think among my friends when I was sort of a teenager
12:36I think I was the only one really plowing through serious literature
12:40Yeah, I think so
12:43But it must be really tough. Now. It must be really tough now for
12:48For teachers as a whole and try me crazy. It's like a whole different set of language or
12:55All right
12:57Duff Powell also wrote a
12:59Household needs to make a minimum of a hundred and forty thousand two hundred and twenty eight dollars to afford a median home
13:05That means only twenty seven percent of households can afford a median home
13:11Eighty percent of households earning a hundred and forty thousand two hundred and twenty eight already own
13:16So fifty percent of the housing market is chasing five point four percent of the homebuyers that can afford a home
13:22But that does not already own one
13:24This ends exactly like you think it would
13:27Yeah
13:30Um
13:31FX hedge wrote a couple of days ago
13:346.1 million Americans are in default on their mortgages
13:386.1 million Americans the delinquency rate for FHA
13:42Insured loans have reached eleven point three percent the highest in years. I
13:46Think we've seen this movie before
13:51Elon Musk did call for an end to the Federal Reserve. It is a consummation devoutly to be wished
14:00All
14:05Right, let's see here this is very true and this is from Nietzsche
14:12He wrote marriage as a long conversation
14:16When entering into a marriage one ought to ask oneself. Do you believe you are going to enjoy talking with this woman up into your old age?
14:24Everything else in marriage is transitory. But most of the time you are together will be devoted to conversation. That is absolutely true
14:34Absolutely true
14:37This is also interesting
14:40I'm noticing this of course as my daughter gets gets older right should be 17 this year
14:46Sahil bloom wrote
14:4895% of the time you have with your children is gone by the time they turn 18
14:52Just just put that through your noggin. Just work that through your noggin, right?
14:5795% of the time you have to the children is gone by the time they turn 18
15:02in that wild
15:05No matter how many times you do something that will come a day when you do it for the last time
15:09There will be a last time your kids want you to read them a bedtime story the last time you'll go for a long walk
15:14With your sibling the last time you'll hug your parents at a family gathering the last time your friend will call you for support
15:21That's very true
15:23You know people think oh I have
15:25You know, maybe 20 years left with my parents, but if you only visit them 10 times a year, it's not 20 years
15:33Right, it's just 20 visits it's not time it's it's proximity that matters I think and people forget that I think a lot
15:44I
16:00Think we did all of that. So let me just dip back in here
16:03See, do we have questions comments issues challenges? Sorry again. I'm just murmuring a little bit. I'm sure it'll be better soon
16:14All
16:18Right
16:26Sorry, I normally would come with more but I thought we'd have some questions and maybe my lack of
16:34Visceral energy is killing the conversation. I'll just give people a couple more minutes in case there's a any other comments or questions, but I have
16:43Reached deep into my bag of tricks and don't have much more. So if you have a question or comment
16:47I'm certainly happy to help and answer as best I can. Otherwise, we'll have to do an early night
16:56Going once once twice
17:04It's a term just gonna I'm just gonna refresh here
17:12Maybe I'm just not getting comments. Oh
17:18Maybe we are
17:23Good sorry, I just they weren't showing up. Okay. Good. Good. Good. Um, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Oh
17:32Yeah, a lot of comments my apologies I thought like my god my the most boring podcaster in history
17:37I
17:39Hey Steph, I had a really great weekend going to see my kids genuinely had an awesome time
17:43Glad to catch your stream while I'm manually scanning a bunch of paperwork on a flatbed scanner
17:49Thank you, all right
17:55Yeah, dark holiday in tombstone I'm in my prime
18:01Yet the director was asked if Val Kilmer was difficult to work with he's like I never met Val Kilmer
18:06I only met dark holiday
18:09Let's see here
18:12Hi Steph, I have a tongue-in-cheek question slash comment
18:16Have you ever noticed that business owners seem to have a stronger immune system than the typical w-2 employees?
18:24Entrepreneurs never seem to get sick push through minor ailments. Whereas others
18:28Always seem to use all of their leave year in and year out
18:32But business owners always seem to be demonized and not appreciated for their hard work. Yeah. Yeah
18:37Yeah, so I mean, there's a lot of people and I kind of get it, right?
18:41but there's a lot of people who
18:45Are just trying to you know get through life on the bare minimum, right?
18:49And you know, it's like hey man, if I have five six six days before the end of the year
18:53I got to take them, you know, they're just trying to get by on the bare minimum
18:58It's not a kind of life that I've ever really wanted to live in that kind of way, but
19:03It definitely is a thing. It's a definitely a thing for a lot of people
19:12All right, thank you for the tip I appreciate that
19:21It's just a matter of stake stakes do
19:24One of the big challenges with being a business manager or owner entrepreneur is to get people to
19:34Invest in the business as if it's their business
19:38But that makes sense
19:40To get people, you know, I'm not laying I'm not laying stones. I'm building a cathedral that kind of thing, right?
19:46And
19:52People are only saying tariffs are bad because it's bad for multinationals. So they disseminated that sentiment down to the plebeian masses. Hmm. Yeah
20:01Yeah
20:04Now arbitrage right which is where there's different values in different countries is a really tough part of a free market economics, right?
20:10It's a really tough part of free market economics is that there's just people out there in the world
20:14Who are willing to work for a lot less I
20:20Understand the libertarian arguments to someone but it only makes sense if both parties refrain from tariffs. Yeah. Yeah
20:31All right, somebody writes last week I was witness to a trash planet woman who cried wolf
20:38We're doing tree work in a semi rural area suddenly over my chainsaw muffs we hear a woman screaming help help
20:45I need a neighbor over and over again
20:46It was the kind of screaming you expect from a broken leg or trapped under a car
20:50I quickly marched through the woods phone in hand
20:54911 ready and just as I emerged from the bushes it stops
20:59It turns out that it was a row between a woman and her boyfriend
21:03Mmm, that's not good
21:08He says I made sure that she was okay and told her told her and her
21:12130-pound nearly naked boyfriend that you make that kind of racket and the cops are gonna get called. I hate trash planet. Yeah
21:19Hello Astraeus. Welcome. Welcome
21:26My boss usually pushes through sickness, but he got covered for three weeks and it laid him low. Hmm
21:32Let
21:34Me ask this question of you guys I was thinking about this earlier this week. Yes this question of you guys
21:40How many?
21:42Really good liars, do you know?
21:48How many really good liars do you know people who can just you know
21:51Spin it off and spin it yarn spin the yarn and push it forward. How many really good lives do you know?
21:56I
22:01Used to know quite a few I
22:04Mean I worked in the business world. I used to know quite a few and
22:09They really they do feel to me very much like a different species, you know a
22:16Debate an innocent argument or a debate or something that I have with myself on a regular basis is
22:23Do liars suffer?
22:26From their lying
22:27Do liars suffer from their lying? I don't honestly know. I
22:33Don't honestly know. I mean, I know it costs them in some sort of abstract way. They can't fall in love
22:38They can't get close. They can't be vulnerable. They can't be obviously very reliably honest, so they can't really have good relationships
22:46but
22:48You know if if I had the ability to fly but didn't know it I wouldn't miss it
22:56So do they do they suffer
22:59Now they're aware that they're lying that they feel humiliated because to me lying is largely an act of cowardice. I
23:05Mean can't be manipulation and exploitation. It's largely an act of cowardice. But man, do they do they suffer?
23:12You know, I have you have you had this experience?
23:15Have you had this experience where you know, there's somebody in your life. You've known for a long time. They're not particularly virtuous
23:21put it mildly and
23:24And
23:31As you get older you kind of wait for the the punishment to come if that makes sense
23:38You can't wait for the punishment to come
23:43Otherwise it's sort of like somebody watching somebody be a chain smoker and continuing to run their
23:50Marathons or something like that, right? It's crazy
23:55Well, you divulge who you're going to vote for a candidate selection and why I don't think so
24:01Let's see here one my mother-in-law who's a great liar, I'm sorry to hear that Rachel at least two off the top of my head
24:10She does suffer oh your mother-in-law does suffer because her three sons have no respect for her. I'm sorry about that
24:15Maybe my dad says someone I have cut them all out of my life. Mm-hmm
24:21When I grew up with in another I work with currently the guy at work does it with no obvious trouble or remorse?
24:26Yeah, it's not wild isn't it? No friction
24:29We can tell every time she's lying. It's written all over her face
24:36Yeah, it's wild
24:38It's just people who and and there is there is a lot of people who are
24:42It's just people who and and there is there a I mean, I wonder what is the percent of passion pathological liars
24:52It's not small I
24:56Think we saw that ever covered, right
24:59I
25:09Pass logical lying lacks a consensus definition that appears to be compulsive and without with it without reason
25:16Let's see here
25:22I'm just trying to think if there's a percentage here
25:29Yeah, there certainly is some there's some physical markers for it in brain matter for sure
25:49Does it say the kid says
25:58Everything you need to know will it give me a percentage is that everything I feel it is
26:11Yeah, but they can really drive you crazy and it is it is such a profitable
26:17It is such a profitable approach to things
26:21That I would be surprised if it was less than
26:255% of the population
26:28I
26:39Don't think there is
26:42Over a one-week span about 95% of people report telling at least one lie. Yeah, I think that's fair. Ah
26:51Yes
26:53The first person to write about pathological lying was the first person in a PhD in psychology in the u.s
26:58G Stanley Hall in 1890 Hall published an article about dishonesty in a group of 300 children
27:04He studied in discussing the various types of lies that the children told he mentioned that about 7% of them seemed to exhibit
27:11pathological lying
27:13He argued that some children would take on entirely fraudulent personas often in seek of attention
27:18Others would develop very sophisticated tricks cons and lies
27:23Hmm
27:24He went on to make the case that if these pathological liars were not treated properly and drastically
27:29The children would move into adulthood becoming imposters
27:32charlatans and adroit liars
27:40See here, I'm just trying to think if there's any how these it's pretty pretty old data
27:44Yeah
27:46Yeah, but they really can drive you crazy and it's a it's a big heavy
27:50It's a heavy price that you have to pay in terms of human trust having those kinds of people around, right?
28:04Somebody writes my best friend through grade school was a compulsive liar mostly to look cool or get admiration ultimately it led
28:11No one really trusting it led to no one really trusting or respecting him really smart guy
28:15But seemed almost an addiction to him still keep still keep in touch from time to time
28:20But he's married and divorced with a child now. Hmm
28:23Our NPC is lying to themselves avoiding truths or investigation. Hmm
28:34Speaking of Canada, how crazy are they actually over the tariffs Tim pool reported that his security reported
28:40He had the highest number of death threats ever
28:42Coming from Canadians stemming from his joke tweet about America annexing Canada. Of course, that's not gonna happen, right?
28:49it's not gonna happen, but I
28:51remember reading many years ago that Canada has sort of a younger sibling relationship to America which means kind of testy and always looking to
28:58one up and
29:01kind of
29:02Wanting to level up or over level. So anytime there's any aggression coming from America bonds Canadians together in a bond of
29:10wholly resentful younger sibling steel
29:18Rachel says lots of influences on social media constantly lie to their audience. Yeah, I think that's true
29:26And and there doesn't seem to be much circling back, you know, oh, yeah that reminds me speaking of circling back
29:32I made a comment a while ago about how
29:36The
29:39Railways railways in America as they were developing ended up with a similar gauge
29:43For trains and somebody pointed out that this was in fact a government mandate and I looked it up and I was wrong
29:48It was in fact a government mandate that having been said I think it would have been much more efficient for there not to be
29:54a government mandate
29:55Because what happens when the government gets control of the railroads and the politicians, right?
30:00Then they they buy votes by having the railroad go all over the place Thomas de Lorenzo
30:05was it Tom woods of Thomas de Lorenzo wrote about this that
30:09Rather than having a fairly straight line you end up with these trains winding all over the place because the politics get in
30:15So there's a certain amount of efficiency that came out of the state, which is the same gauge which does reduce competition
30:19Which is not great, but you do end up with these sort of lower intestine
30:24spaghetti strap
30:27Train routes, so there is a certain amount of inefficiency
30:30But I just wanted to be actually about that somebody did point that out and I appreciate that correction. Thank you
30:41Somebody says I find it wicked how seamlessly my co-worker lies. Yeah, when you see it happening, it's why are they like?
30:46This is hollow glass empty soul thing going on
30:50Somebody says if we're counting people we've cut off
30:54My
30:55Ex-boyfriend long-distance not doing that ever again lied about his immigration status for at least a few months possibly longer
31:01Still not sure what his endgame was with that exactly. I
31:05Assume it's to get married and try and get his citizenship that way
31:10That's strange, right
31:12I
31:19I'm afraid to refresh over here. But let me see. I just want to make sure I'm not missing any comments elsewhere
31:42I
31:45Sorry people are just typing so I'm just gonna wait for those comments to catch up
31:48But yeah, I don't I don't know. I mean, I think I think that people do suffer
31:54I think people do suffer, but I don't think they know that they suffer
32:00There's a I mean a pretty terrifying book as a whole is the catcher in the rye and in it
32:07Holden Caulfield is told by a rather creepy
32:11older
32:12Teacher that he is the kind of guy. I remember the episode two bits and I did a show on this many years ago and
32:19One is he's shooting rubber bands from the corner in an office and the other is that he's falling and doesn't even know
32:26That he falls. It doesn't even know you're falling
32:32And you don't even know that you're falling if you have, you know
32:35No particular honesty or connection or correction or dedication truth and openness and directness if you don't have any of that
32:43Do you even miss or know what you don't have?
32:47again to me
32:49It's uh, it's terrifying. I mean, maybe there's a bit of an old vengeful Old Testament God part of me
32:56That's just like but they should suffer
32:59But they should suffer oh
33:02Oh, yes, James did some great work this week
33:09Free domain calm forward slash playlist
33:15So free domain calm forward slash playlist James we should also mirror that to playlists plural right because it's more than one or there will be
33:24Yeah, free domain calm slash playlist we are and we have resurrected those playlists
33:31They're really really good as peaceful parenting ones IQ ones just about wide variety of playlists that
33:37You can also go to FDR podcasts calm under the playlists container
33:46Yeah, and there was a
33:48Fan of the show who did all the original curating of the podcast and we really do thank him for that. It's great
33:54Jared says I was always struck with Holden's
33:56Contemplation about punching the toothbrush into his roommate's throat. Yeah
34:02yeah, I mean he
34:06Brought JD Salinger and Holden Caulfield had a lot of sublimated murderous rage
34:14Never remember the the
34:17Roommate with the pimples and squeezing the pimples and it's just a visceral and vile
34:22a
34:25Lot of a lot of what people do when they get really angry you get sort of venomously
34:31bitterly ragefully angry is they surround themselves with more and more ugliness until they just
34:36Lose their minds and then give themselves permission to do terrible things
34:42Surrounding yourself with ugliness is one way to end up losing your temper in unholy ways on the world
34:52I
34:58Just making sure that I still got yeah, okay
35:00We're still getting that text coming in but they seem to be a little slow today. And again, thank you for your patience as I recover my
35:07Voice free to man.com slash donate to help out the show
35:11Chris says I think you're right Steph. I don't think liars like that even know what they're missing
35:16Or they have lost their true selves in the midst of the lies
35:21They've spun through time, yeah
35:24You know certainly and this is I think that would give this piece of wisdom for sure
35:28That's certainly in the second half of your life. All of your relationships are defined by what you did in the first half
35:34I mean you can change and there's options to change but it's really hard as you sort of move forward
35:44But
35:50It is
35:54If you've based your
35:56Marriage on lies if you've based your relationship on your children with lies if you've based your career on lies
36:01I mean really for the second half of your life
36:03I mean, are you gonna start telling the truth you'd have to uproot everything rewind everything and start all over again
36:12All right
36:14I
36:16So I mean no Canada does have some free speech
36:20I mean, I know that America has the First Amendment, but there seems to be a fairly endless number of ways around all of that
36:28The Jordan Peterson's issue was not foundationally around free speech if I understand this correctly, but because he's a psychologist
36:34He has certain professional obligations that he has to fulfill and that's a little bit different from just pure free speech if that makes sense
36:42I'm not justifying what was done to Jordan Peterson, but there's a different matter than just pure sort of legal free speech
36:56Somebody says I'm obvious. Yeah, I rented from a guy that I was worried about as a liar and the second-worst landlord in my county
37:04He never took advantage of me, but I was on guard
37:07He was a multimillionaire but lived in one of his run-down tenements
37:10I think he spent so much of his life tricking and scheming. He's never enjoyed his wealth
37:15Yeah, yeah
37:17a lot of people become wealthy and
37:20Obviously, it doesn't bring them connection love joy happiness
37:23Certainly doesn't bring them virtue, especially if they got their money in less than honorable ways
37:33What's it gonna say
37:37I
37:47Really can't believe that they're still making Star Wars movies. It's amazing to me
37:54And you know, it's wild I didn't realize this but it kind of makes sense in a way
37:59Val Kilmer in the original Top Gun had only 10 minutes of screen time in that while
38:04Talk about owning the minor role, right? It's something that I remember from theater school
38:08I had a director tell me there are no small roles only small actors
38:13It's kind of true
38:26All right
38:29It's
38:31Funny to think that I think it was
38:35Probably 12 years ago that I did an entire show on the difference between male and female sports abilities
38:43It is so difficult to be
38:47So far ahead of your time so to speak
38:58Hmm all right
39:02Do you do you guys do Nintendo at all? Sorry just completely yank topics from side to side
39:08Do you guys?
39:10Do Nintendo at all the switch?
39:12My daughter was gonna buy one many years ago when she was little we were gonna go half-sies
39:17But she ended up she liked a game called sound shapes. I think it was called sound shapes
39:21She wanted to be able to play in the car
39:29All right
39:36Sim says liars honestly believe there are geniuses
39:40Like they've breached some great secret of reality that lying has advantages. Why would they give up a superpower?
39:47So they can do something as disgusting as tell the truth
39:53And also, yeah, thanks James for the update
39:56We had we have a chat bot for the staff but a eyes which are fantastic by the way
40:04And I think have more inflection than I do at the moment, but
40:08The Sephora eyes we had trouble with the provider. There was some technical hiccups up there. And so we've got them all resurrected and
40:16Running up running up
40:19So
40:21Yes, if you're a supporter how you can go to premium dot free domain calm and be sure to check out the AI's we've got
40:28Peaceful parenting AI that's also available at peaceful parenting calm the staff bought AI, which is the general one
40:33We've got the Bitcoin AI. We've got the call-in AI like really really good stuff
40:41Somebody says my kids have a switch, but we don't use it very often. Mm-hmm
40:46Austin
40:48Marry your car with my kids is a lot of fun. Yeah
40:51It's not playing games for the time being but I have a switch
40:54Yeah, I haven't played I think Baldur's Gate was the last game that I played and I mostly did that to play with my
40:59With my daughter who had a lot of fun with that
41:03But I haven't played a game and and I can't find anything that just seems fun
41:08Yeah
41:14Yeah free domain.com slash playlists, yeah, so plural playlist or playlists will work
41:21Somebody says I used to love Star Wars Disney murdered
41:23It's so hard that I no longer care and it sold off all old books comics games, etc
41:30You make enough horrible sequels and the love of the original is ruined. Yeah
41:34The only way to remain pure is to skirt success, I think I've done a pretty good job of that overall. I
41:43Love to play some Zelda games, but I don't have any time for goofing off
41:47Yeah, I mean I used to be able to I just pick up a tablet and you know
41:50If I've got 20 minutes to while away
41:52But I just don't um, I
41:55Mean, I'll play the new doom just because already know the weapons. That's about it
41:59It's really hard to find the new goods I
42:01Just play the old Halo games from time to time. Don't want to learn any new games. Yeah. Yeah, I get that
42:07Yeah, I think most people aren't just playing old games, right?
42:11Metal Gear Solid was my game series waiting for
42:14Hideo Kihoma's death stranding 2. Yeah, I think I used to play some World War 2 games
42:19But it just you know, I think white people were shot enough in the 20th century that they don't need me faking it as well
42:25I'm sure somebody says I'm sure you would not find this child-friendly, but I saw Novocaine at the drive-in with my kids
42:32It was a fun movie a bit graphic, but at least it was entertaining
42:35Paths of Exile 2 is great Paths of Exile 2. I think so. I'll make a note of that
42:42Also now that I'm working on a new book
42:45Don't really have much time for gaming
42:48I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do that
42:51I did see. Oh gosh
42:56Demi Moore's horror movie
43:07I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do that
43:12I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do that
43:15I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do that
43:18She was in striptease
43:22I really should know this one. Cocoon? No, not Cocoon. Gosh
43:37It was a pretty pretty bad movie it was an interesting idea
43:40But a pretty bad movie and it just went completely nuts
43:44Pretty bad movie and it just went completely nuts
43:48After all of that I like towards the end the substance that's right the substance
43:52Yeah, it was an interesting idea, but they didn't know what to do with it and they just went
43:57Completely nuts and over the top towards the end and it became sort of boring
44:08Have you ever played any of the Ultima games, um, yes
44:12I did I played Ultima 3 and I played some of Ultima 4. I enjoyed those
44:16I thought they were very good Lord British. I like the fact that it started off with a moral quiz
44:19I thought that was very cool
44:21That was very cool
44:24Steph did you review Black Bag? Michael Fassbender's new film? I have not but I will make a note of that. Thank you
44:38Um
44:42I recently started somebody says I recently started a new job within the same organization with a former co-worker
44:47He is friendly and cordial. However, not very good at teaching slash sharing work knowledge
44:53He was previously laid off 15-ish years ago and seems to be still bothered by it. What advice
44:58Would you give for breaking the ice?
45:07I mean honestly, um if you want to talk to people at work
45:12The best place to start is their hobbies
45:15What do you do outside of work, what do you do what do you do for fun?
45:19You get to know a lot about a person by the hobbies that he's chosen so
45:25George Lucas says somebody and Steven Spielberg are the peanut butter and jelly of great movies Lucas himself unrestrained has bad writing
45:32Uh, you know what? I always think about
45:35um
45:36What I always think about with those two is the really creepy indiana jones
45:40Lines
45:48Yeah, let me just see if I can find it
45:56Um, I talked about this some years ago, but I always think about this
46:04Um
46:07Uh indy turns up at marianne's bar in nepal
46:09It's the first time the characters have seen each other in a decade after marianne greets greets indy by slugging him across the face
46:15a vague and sinister conversation
46:17Ensues between the two that alludes to a heated past
46:22I've learned to hate you in the last 10 years
46:24Marianne tells indiana after sucking him when indiana says he never meant to hurt marianne
46:28She responds. I was a child. I was in love. It was wrong and you knew it
46:32But
46:34India indiana then counters with you knew what you were doing
46:41Um
46:42Later indiana learns that marianne's father and indy's mentor abner has died
46:46Upon the news indiana tries to console marianne, but she snaps. Do you know what you did to me to my life?
46:55But I think that
46:57Um
47:00There was a um, let's see here they was they were going to make it even younger I think originally
47:09Um
47:10So somebody writes i'm watching indiana jones for the first time
47:13And one of the earliest scenes indicates indy had a relationship with marianne
47:17While she was minor a bit of googling and math has these specific ages coming out to indy being 27 and marianne being 15
47:23That's very strange, right
47:29That's a very strange thing to put in right
47:40Um
47:43Yeah, somebody wrote that marianne was 15 in the original script and novelization for raiders
47:48Since it wasn't specified in the movie. This was later retconned indiana
47:52Jones the ultimate guide making a 17
47:54Yeah
48:02I mean, I was just a child could mean any number of things. Of course, right?
48:12But um the writer is yeah indiana jones
48:22Do
48:36Yeah, it's not uh
48:38It's not good. It's not good. It seems like a
48:42It's like the orgy in in stephen king's novel. It just seems a bit obviously beyond gratuitous and just kind of horrible
48:48Like why why why does it need to be?
48:52Uh
48:54People say somebody says co-workers always appreciate sweet
48:58Pastries doughnuts cookies candy, etc. They'll tell you anything. You'd like to hear to keep the gravy train rolling into the office. Yeah
49:05Uh, somebody says is it pointless to try and help liars so they'll otherwise damaged heal there are so many people with unhealthy
49:13Mindsets in this world. I find it hard to believe it can be fixed without dealing with the people blind to truth
49:22Well, i'll just
49:24Um, I don't call people up randomly for call-in shows
49:27Right free domain.com slash call by the way free domain.com slash call
49:31I don't uh, I don't call people up randomly for call-in shows, right? I wait for them
49:36To call and contact me
49:38right
49:39I don't think your doctor, you know comes by every day and says hey, how you doing?
49:42You okay anything any problems right? He waits for you to usually I mean
49:46He'll wait for you to or she'll wait for you to come in and talk, right?
49:49right
49:51So for the most part
49:53um my general
49:55my general
49:57belief is more than a belief but but
49:59My general approach is that 90 percent of people. I don't think for themselves
50:06It's not any big negative it's not any big hate it's just
50:09having read a bunch of psychological experiments having studied psychology at the university level having um,
50:16You know spoken to to I don't know countless people over the course of my life in general
50:21as a whole
50:2390 of people I don't really think for themselves
50:27I mean even when it seems sort of like the covid vaccine mandate and it was like
50:32With the covid vaccine mandate, I mean a lot of people, you know, two-thirds to three-quarters
50:37Sometimes 80 of the population just did it and of course a lot of people
50:41Didn't take the vaccine but not because of necessarily independent thought but because of other
50:46Sort of prejudices and so on, right?
50:49so
50:51in general
50:54I view
50:5690 of people as not really thinking for themselves
50:59Again, I say this with sympathy and I've certainly worked my best to try and help people think for themselves as I try to
51:04Help myself think for myself
51:06but
51:07in general
51:09I think that
51:10People don't think for themselves
51:12If people aren't going to think for themselves
51:14You have no hook or purchase or traction or grip by which you can cause them to change their course
51:19It's like trying to grab a greased pig, right?
51:29All right
51:30So I I don't try to change people unless you know, I get a strong sense that they very much want to change
51:37And are willing to do what it takes
51:39And of course if people want to change, you know generally like they really want to change in the long term
51:44Send them to
51:46The therapist and if they'll go to a therapist, maybe they'll listen to you
51:50Uh, chris says thanks steph for the jesus brings a sword and dealing with bad emotions
51:56Episodes I found a lot of value in both
51:59In both identifying bad emotions as a response to negative stimuli clarified a toxic environment i'm in or aps
52:07I'm, not sure about aps. I am still going to church
52:12How do you provide excellent content for free free domain.com slash donate to help that
52:19Oh rtr.ai
52:22Yeah, rtr.ai is also yeah, you can send them to the real-time relationships ai as well
52:26um
52:28There is a huge price to pay if you think for yourself. I don't blame them. I just wish they couldn't vote
52:34Well, I mean I would rather people voted in the marketplace of ideas and economics rather than the political realm
52:40But I hate what you're saying. Yeah
52:47Oh, I saw proximity syndrome, that's what aps. Yeah. Sorry. I think that's uh, I think that was mine, right?
52:53Thank you for the reminder
52:56I thought it had something to do with the power supply asymmetric power supply
53:00But no
53:02That was wrong. You quoted me and I missed the uh, I missed the quote. Sorry about that
53:08All right, any of the last questions comments, let's see here
53:13One weird side effect of all of the art ai generation is the filth mongering
53:19Fetish artists will have to get real jobs because no one is going to pay commissions
53:23For what they can get for free. Hmm. Yeah
53:28Yeah, yeah just out of curiosity today I did run a variety of plot thoughts through ai
53:35and uh
53:37I it's interesting. I don't find it. Obviously. It's not particularly original actually it's interesting. Um,
53:43Let me just see if I can find this. There's a website
53:48Where you can look up
53:53And find out
53:56What books chat gpt was trained on
54:04Um down down down
54:11Yeah, I can't find it right now but you can look it up there's a um
54:15Um
54:20Uh, you can um look up on a website which books chat a chat gpt was uh
54:31Was trained on and you can uh, you can look up see if your favorite books are in there. It's interesting. I certainly did
54:45Uh, thanks again as always staff strongly considering a paid call then I think it would be important to do soon
54:50Sooner rather than later. I'm sure
54:52It's not like your money's getting more valuable over time, right?
54:56All right, any other last questions comments issues I appreciate your hour with me
55:03Tonight and I will get back on the schedule of regular bellow calls soon. I'm sure
55:11I'm just waiting for the last question to come in
55:15I
55:18Type away my friend
55:21Apc is common brand of ups uninterrupted power supply. Thank you. I appreciate that
55:27I appreciate that. Well again, sorry for a bit of a murmur cast, but we'll get that all sorted out soon
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