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Stefan Molyneux
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Sunday Morning Live 20 April 2025

In this episode, I discuss the importance of establishing explicit agreements in relationships to prevent conflicts from unspoken expectations. By exploring various scenarios, I highlight how unclear boundaries can lead to emotional manipulation. I reflect on modern dating challenges and the influence of socio-economic factors on partnerships, emphasizing the need for honesty about desires and boundaries. I also critique societal narratives that create unrealistic relationship standards, reinforcing the value of clarity and accountability for healthier interactions.

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Transcript
00:00:00Good morning, everybody. Happy Easter to Yusuf and Molyneux from Free Domain here to discuss
00:00:09whatever is on your mind, philosophically speaking, and giving you notes, updates,
00:00:18thoughts, and insights. So, I had a conversation with someone the other day. This is like just
00:00:26straight-up philosophy stuff. So, I had a conversation with someone the other day about
00:00:31a marriage, and they were having a lot of conflict. And one of the things that I
00:00:42mentioned or wanted to raise to his sort of thoughts and attention was the idea that you
00:00:50cannot negotiate implicit contracts. So, if you have, let's say, consistent disagreements with a
00:01:00friend or a spouse or something like that, then you need to take the rules of engagement,
00:01:08the rules of the conflict, you need to take those and make them explicit so that you can get some
00:01:14kind of agreement on how to navigate disagreements and disputes. So, if you're in a relationship
00:01:23where, let's say, the woman, when she's upset, she storms around a little, slams drawers, and so on,
00:01:30and that makes you kind of nervous, and then you end up appeasing and so on. Well, I think, I mean,
00:01:37sort of my advice in general is to have the rules in relationships as explicit and conscious as
00:01:47possible. That goes like 99% of the way towards resolving, or at least having clarity about how
00:01:56the issues can be resolved. You know, we always say in philosophy that defining your terms is really
00:02:00important, right? You really can't have a debate without defining your terms clearly, otherwise you
00:02:07end up just manipulating language and sophistry and so on. And really, it's the same thing in
00:02:13relationships when you have conflicts. If what you want to do is you want to take the rules that you
00:02:22want to have followed and make them explicit. Now, you can negotiate about the rules, of course,
00:02:27right? But without a conscious conversation about the rules in a relationship, you're just bouncing
00:02:36off and reacting emotionally, and usually historically, to things. So, I really wanted to give you that
00:02:42piece of advice that, in general, in the relationships that I have that have worked the best in my life,
00:02:48the rules tend to be very explicit and very sort of well understood. I mean, it's funny because when
00:02:56you think of tyrannies in a political sense, there is an old Ayn Rand argument that tyranny is not
00:03:04harsh laws. Tyranny really is no laws, no rules. You're not really sure what's legal, you're not
00:03:09really sure what's not, and it's often up to the whim of the prosecutor or the court or the state
00:03:14as to who or what gets pursued.
00:03:17So, the real tyranny is when you refuse to define the rules in relationships, like, obviously,
00:03:28sensible rules like no raising your voice, no intimidation. Generally, unless you need a specific
00:03:35cool-off time, it's usually a good idea not to avoid each other but to rather engage. Because there's
00:03:43kind of a passive aggression in avoiding someone, you know, it's sort of saying, you're too angry
00:03:49for me to deal with, you're too irrational for me to deal with, so I'm going to have to just go
00:03:52somewhere else instead.
00:04:00But, if you can engage and have conversations in a way that brings the rules that you want to have
00:04:09followed up to the surface where they can be negotiated, then you are really laying a framework
00:04:15of definitions within the relationship that allow you to know whether you are succeeding
00:04:20in the relationship or not. So, this is one of the things that I would say. If you look at your
00:04:25relationships, you look at the ones that are working the least well. If you look at the relationships
00:04:29that are working the least well, almost certainly the relationships that are working the least well
00:04:34are the ones that have the fewest explicit definitions and contracts, if that makes sense.
00:04:41So, try and float them up to the surface, try and negotiate them, and then, of course, after
00:04:47you negotiate your contracts with each other, then you have recourse. It's one thing to negotiate
00:04:55the contract. It's quite another thing to hold someone to that, right? So, once you get agreement,
00:05:02you can't have really successful relationships without an agreement on rules. I mean, imagine if
00:05:10you had a cell phone contract with someone, and that cell phone contract, they could just charge
00:05:15you whatever they wanted. It didn't really matter. I remember, oh gosh, what was it? Modern family.
00:05:22I think they went to Australia, and one of the guys was like, I'm afraid to turn on my cell phone
00:05:26because I don't know what the data charges will be. And so, obviously, people were quite nervous
00:05:31about data charges in foreign countries. So, what they did, of course, is now they have these sort
00:05:37of international roaming agreements where you pay a certain amount of money to access your data from
00:05:42overseas, and you know what that is ahead of time rather than just like crossing your fingers and
00:05:47seeing what kind of outrageous number you're going to get. So, in general, it's funny because
00:05:54economically, we kind of understand this, right? You probably wouldn't order food from a restaurant
00:06:00where there was no price on the menu, right? Unless you're royalty, I suppose. But you wouldn't do
00:06:09that because you wouldn't know what the contract was. You wouldn't know what you were paying for what
00:06:14you were ordering. So, things need to be defined ahead of time so that you know what kind of
00:06:22decision you're making, and then people need to stick to it, right? So, float your implicit contracts
00:06:29to explicit contracts, define your terms, agree on those terms, and then hold each other to those
00:06:35terms. I mean, if you said you went to a restaurant and you ordered a burger that was like, gosh, I don't
00:06:42know what a burger's at, 15 bucks, right? 15 bucks for a burger. So, I got a sit-down place, and you
00:06:47kept the burger and fries, it's $14.95 or whatever, and then the bill comes, and it's like $24, and you
00:06:54would call the waitress over or the waiter over, and you'd say, hey, man, the menu says $14.95,
00:07:00now it's $24. Oh, sorry, right? So, then you have to hold people to those standards after
00:07:06the contracts are defined. So, I hope that makes some sense. It's a really, really important thing
00:07:15in life. What are the contracts? What is acceptable versus unacceptable behavior?
00:07:21And are people willing to agree to and commit to the definitions of good behavior and the avoidance
00:07:30of bad behavior? And can they be called on it afterwards? Like, there's really no point having
00:07:34contracts if you can't be called on it afterwards. There's no point printing the price of food
00:07:39on a menu if people can just ignore it afterwards and charge whatever they want. So, I just wanted
00:07:49to mention that. And let's get to your questions and comments. As you see fit, as you like, please
00:07:57do not forget freedomain.com slash donate. Really would appreciate that. Somebody says,
00:08:04I agree with you that men should do their best to reproduce. How do we do that with modern
00:08:08women? They are so toxic. Hmm. So, there's a couple of thoughts I have about that. And I say
00:08:23this with all the humility of a guy who's not been in the dating market for a quarter century.
00:08:27So, um, is this a real life? Is this just fantasy? Uh, what you see online is a very skewed
00:08:41and biased sample of humanity, right? You know, the doom scrolling, like if you're subscribed
00:08:47to the right or I guess the wrong kinds of feeds, you can just, oh God, oh God, it's bad,
00:08:53it's bad, it's terrible, it's terrible, right? So, um, the women who are online are generally
00:09:00not representative, right? It's a very skewed sample because especially if they're chronically,
00:09:05I say this myself, right? Especially if they're chronically online, if a woman is chronically
00:09:10online, then she is a particular type of personality, probably quite attention seeking. Again, I'm aware,
00:09:19but I'm doing it for philosophy, not for ego. Um, so, modern women have, I say they're on the
00:09:30spectrum. It's a bell curve, right? There are some people who are more extreme on either end,
00:09:35more conservative, more liberal, more, um, modest, more exhibitionistic, more introverted,
00:09:39more extroverted, and try not to substitute real world empirical explorations and examinations.
00:09:47Try not to substitute a very filtered online experience for what's going on in the real
00:09:56world. So somebody says like when social media has vague community guidelines, yeah, that's a,
00:10:06that's a big issue. That's a big issue. So when social media has, um, well, you're not allowed to
00:10:12do this, you're allowed to do that, but there's no specific rules that you know ahead of time,
00:10:16whether you are going to pass or fail, whether you are going to do
00:10:21what's within the guidelines or not what's within the guidelines. So, and then like all you can do
00:10:28is just appeal and cross your fingers for the most part, right? And I don't think I've ever seen,
00:10:34you know, like in your inbox, right? Then you, you get this, uh, updated terms of service
00:10:40and it's never, we've made things more clear. And now you'll know ahead of time,
00:10:45whether or not you'll now know ahead of time, whether or not you're in compliance with the
00:10:50requirements or the standards, you'll just know that doesn't happen. Does not happen at all.
00:10:56It always gets to be more vague.
00:11:04Good afternoon, Park. Thank you for dropping my happy Easter to all. Freedomain.com slash donate.
00:11:09Would appreciate that.
00:11:12BomaGa says, not dealing with issues because the other person is throwing a tantrum
00:11:15and backing down. You just reinforce the behavior.
00:11:18Hmm. My worst relationships are the people I know I can't rely on. Well, um,
00:11:29let's see. Why would you have relationships with people you can't rely on? I'm not sure.
00:11:40Have you seen the taming of the shrew with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor?
00:11:43I have not. I think the only one of theirs that I saw was a very boring, although like every young
00:11:50man, oh boy, I remember the milk bath scene from, uh, was it Cleopatra? Um, and they did a,
00:12:02it's a completely terrifying play. Um, is it Edward Halby? Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?
00:12:09Right. He actually got the title, I think from in the, in the bathroom, right? Who's afraid of the
00:12:14big bad wolf? Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? He has, and I remember studying this in university.
00:12:20He wrote this play, who's afraid of Virginia Woolf with George and Martha. And of course,
00:12:25George and Martha, I assume named after George Washington and Martha Washington. And
00:12:30it is a play about two absolutely codependent sociopaths
00:12:38who rake each other verbally over the coals. It's a dinner party with a really corrupt older
00:12:46couple and a younger, more innocent couple. And it is just absolutely horrendous. Absolutely
00:12:54horrendous. It's, it's on the lines of, um, uh, uh, don't look back in anger by John Osborne.
00:13:01Uh, just absolutely. There was a kind of fifties, sixties thing, and it was kind of resurrected
00:13:08with Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson recently, which is just, or I suppose Vince Vaughn and the
00:13:15breakup, Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston, where you just see these relationships where people are just
00:13:23having the most brutal, destructive, exhausting, invasive, intrusive, lacerating kind of interactions.
00:13:31Ah, just horrendous. Just horrendous. So,
00:13:39and these, of course, are relationships where the contracts are not explicit. The rules of behavior,
00:13:50the rules of standards, they're not explicit, they're implicit, and therefore,
00:13:53open to manipulation, right? I mean, I've always thought it would be a good rule in society.
00:14:04And tell me what you guys think. It would be a good rule, let's say in a legal system,
00:14:10it would be a good rule to
00:14:14say, if you didn't prosecute Bob for this crime, you can't prosecute Joe for this crime.
00:14:26I mean, I know that there are very complicated sentencing guidelines in most Western
00:14:30prison or court systems, but if you didn't prosecute Joe for this crime, you can't prosecute Bob for this
00:14:38crime. I think that would be a very, very important rule to have in a sort of rational and moral legal
00:14:46system because the selective prosecution does seem to be quite a thing. Like, some people who lie to
00:14:54Congress seem to get into a whole world to hurt. Other people who lie to Congress, not so much.
00:15:01Not so much. Not so much.
00:15:06All right. What do you call the phenomenon that people think extra Twitter trends accurately represent
00:15:10public opinion?
00:15:14Well, it's not new to social media. It's just more divergent with social media because, of course,
00:15:19in the past, it was mainstream history. It was mainstream media as a whole, the news,
00:15:25and so on. I mean, in the Vietnam War, Walter Cronkite finally came out against the war and
00:15:35that changed everyone's opinions of the war because they were like, I don't know, he was like the most
00:15:38trusted journalist in America or something like that. And that was, of course, the Vietnam War really
00:15:44was the last time you had independent journalism in a war, actually filming things, sending it back,
00:15:48and people could see the actual horrors of what was going on. And that changed people's perspective
00:15:56on the war to the point where, I think after that, the army was like, I think we're only going to have
00:16:00embedded reporters now. We're not going to have reporters out there shooting footage of whatever
00:16:06they want and then it getting on the news. But, of course, in general, in general, the
00:16:11anti-war movement was driven by pro-communist sympathies and so on. So, I think in general,
00:16:24there's always been this problem that, well, it's not a problem, I mean, it's just a fact, right,
00:16:28that a small number of well-connected and very powerful people tend to drive social discourse.
00:16:36And now there's a fragmentation, of course, of social discourse in that you can go to a variety of
00:16:41social medias, you can follow a variety of different people. And the phenomena that people
00:16:47think actually represents public opinion, I mean, really, this goes all the way back to, I mean,
00:16:54particular superstitions and the value of the king and so on. You have to navigate,
00:17:00you have to navigate the falsehoods in your society, right? I mean, because, I mean, certainly
00:17:08those who ignored all of the taboos in our evolution didn't tend to do very well, to put it mildly.
00:17:15Like, those who just said, ah, I'm not going to ignore all of the taboos, I'm going to ignore all
00:17:20of the tripwires and so on, I'm just going to go speak my mind and so on. Well, I mean, I got a whole
00:17:27novel about this called Just Poor. You should get this at justpoornovel.com. It's free. It's a great,
00:17:31great book. And you should check that out. So, because we all have to navigate the landmines,
00:17:45tripwires, and taboos of society, if you can establish something as a taboo, and I mean,
00:17:51we all know taboos in our society, it's easier to see them in other societies and so on. Like,
00:17:58you know, in China, it's pretty tough to criticize the Communist Party. There's other things you can't
00:18:04criticize, really, in the West very easily. So, you have to build these taboos up pretty early on
00:18:13and pretty consistently, and they're incredibly profitable, right? Which is one of the reasons
00:18:17why the media is so interested these days in propaganda, rather than sort of exploration
00:18:23of the human condition or pursuit of truth, because it is building a set of you can't talk
00:18:28about, you must never discuss, like all of this kind of stuff. And once you can establish a topic
00:18:36as a taboo, then you get staggering amounts of profit from that, because you can advance an agenda
00:18:46without pushback. All right, let's see here. Somebody writes, I went out with a girl last
00:18:58few, oh, last week. Sorry, he rewrote it underneath. I went out with a girl last week, spent a few hours
00:19:06with her, and really liked her. She wanted to hug me, etc. This morning on Easter, she texted me,
00:19:12recently made the decision to step away from dating for a while, nothing to do with you,
00:19:16just personal reasons, sorry to have made plans with you only to cancel like this. We're supposed
00:19:19to see her tomorrow. Thoughts? She said she wanted kids, because she had a small window,
00:19:25but works 24-7 in engineering. Hmm. That's a slice of her text, not the full.
00:19:38Hmm.
00:19:42Let me see here. I'm going to try my, inhabit another person's brain. I have to do this as
00:19:53a writer. I also do this in role-playing, of course, right, in the call-in shows. So why
00:19:59would she want to step away from that? So my guess is that she wants to maintain her career
00:20:14and avoid the responsibility of settling down and getting married and having children. So
00:20:25in her career, I assume she's an older woman, since she's in her 30s, I assume, because you say she
00:20:30has a small window, right? So she's got a small window. If she decides to take that window,
00:20:39right, if she decides to take that window,
00:20:43then her whole life is going to change, right? Her whole career trajectory is going to change,
00:20:49and she's going to move from an area that she feels hyper-competent in, right? So if she's an
00:20:58engineer, then she's probably been working on, you know, things like, you know, whatever engineering
00:21:03stuff, like taking apart and putting together clocks. So she's probably been working on that
00:21:08since she was a little kid. Probably got Meccano sets and Lego sets and learned how to code and all of
00:21:15that kind of engineering stuff. Like my daughter had this electrical set, you know, sort of put
00:21:22together and flip gates on and off and stuff like that, right? Thank you, C2. So she's probably,
00:21:33let's say she's 35, and probably since she was five or six or seven, she's known she's been
00:21:39interested in that sort of engineering, physical side of things. So she's got 30 years in on that.
00:21:42She's got her education. She's got, you know, a decade plus of work experience, and she's very
00:21:48competent. She's very good at that. Now you, I assume, expressed your desire to have children,
00:21:56right? So you express your desire to have children, and then she has to look and say,
00:22:05okay, so if I continue going out with this guy, then he wants kids, which means it's unfair if I
00:22:15don't want kids. I have a small window, which means I will have to move, excuse me, I will have to move
00:22:21from a sphere or an area where I'm highly competent and well-paid, well-rewarded, high status, my own
00:22:30office, whatever she's got, right? Team lead, project lead, whatever. Excuse me. So she's going to have to move
00:22:38from highly compensated, high status, high competence, high confidence situation to what?
00:22:52To dating, engaged, marriage, hopefully that sequence, pregnant, mother.
00:23:03And I assume you said, or she may have got this impression, or maybe you said it more explicitly,
00:23:08that she would want to, or you'd want her to stay home with the kids, maybe some homeschooling and
00:23:12stuff, whatever it is, right? But sometimes you may get that instinct, or maybe you said that.
00:23:16So then that would imply maybe giving up her career, right? She'd give up her career. She gives
00:23:29up her income. And then as I assume a fairly fiercely independent woman who's been raised on,
00:23:35you know, don't trust a man, don't need a man, right? Then I imagine she would then say,
00:23:41I'm then going to move from independence to dependence. I'm going to have to learn how to
00:23:48trust someone that that person, i.e. you, will be there and provide for kids and my security and all
00:24:00of that kind of stuff, right? So my guess is that she saw that fork in the road, consciously or
00:24:17unconsciously, explicitly or implicitly, she saw that fork in the road and she decided against it.
00:24:25She decided to stick with the familiar. Moving from a situation of competence to incompetence
00:24:31is very tough for a lot of people. You have to have a lot of confidence, right, to move from
00:24:36high-status, high-competence environment to low-status, low-competence environment.
00:24:45This is why a lot of people kind of get locked into a career or locked into
00:24:48a friend group or something like that, because trying to get to a different place
00:24:52competence is really, really challenging for people.
00:24:59So I would imagine it had something to do with that. You know, if you guys are,
00:25:03if you guys are talking about
00:25:10having kids and she's in her 30s and so on, then you're provoking a very big decision machinery
00:25:18in her mind, if that makes sense. Any thoughts about the recent historic
00:25:27all-female astronaut mission? You know, somebody can strap me to the back of a horse
00:25:34that doesn't make me Genghis Khan.
00:25:35All right.
00:25:51All right.
00:25:54Oh, sorry, there's a conversation about this woman, but I'm not sure who's saying what.
00:25:58All right.
00:26:05Somebody says, I remember how Jerry Maguire started.
00:26:11He and his then-girlfriend, very superficial, and she was clear that the relationship is
00:26:15based on physical and social standing. She was very cold and offered no loving support.
00:26:19She said, we agreed that we would always be brutally honest with each other.
00:26:23Tom Cruise.
00:26:24Actually, I think it was you who added the brutal part.
00:26:28It's been a long time since I've seen that movie, but I do remember it opened well.
00:26:31But, um, what's her name? Squinty McSquinty, uh, the actress. Um, it's a good actress, actually.
00:26:46But that movie was an absolute, complete and total simp slash cuck fest.
00:26:55Just a simp cuck fest.
00:27:03Um, my neighbor has two rabbits.
00:27:08So, you've got a super cute, uh, kid, the kid with the spiky hair.
00:27:14Super cute kid, who's her daughter.
00:27:17Who's, oh, sorry, who's her son?
00:27:18Who's her son?
00:27:21Renee Zellweger, thank you.
00:27:22And, uh, Tom Cruise is a super good looking, super charismatic, high flying, optimistic money machine.
00:27:36And he's thrilled to raise another man's child, and he's thrilled to get involved with a single mom.
00:27:41And, you know, she's just so fantastic at relationships that, uh, he, he's really the one at fault, right?
00:27:48You completely, right, he's really the one at fault.
00:27:50Yeah.
00:27:52And the reason why Show Me the Money works is basically that's what a lot of the single moms, you know, by virtue of necessity, kind of need to do, right?
00:28:00Show me the money, show me the money.
00:28:03So, it was a brutal movie as far as that goes.
00:28:08And, I mean, Renee Zellweger plays these kinds of characters, right?
00:28:12These, uh, mid-single moms or mid-women.
00:28:16Um, and it is, of course, the dream.
00:28:21And, you know, everybody, everybody has this, I guess, fantasy when you're younger, you know, that if you're just sort of an average, attractive person, then, but somehow, just as an average, attractive person, all of these, uh, amazing supermodels or, you know, for women, it's like these uber jacked stud muffins.
00:28:39They just fall all over you and fight over you and all that kind of stuff.
00:28:45And that is a very, very tempting, very tempting big fantasy for people.
00:28:51Um, it's pushed in order to destabilize the family, right?
00:28:56To, to raise people's expectations about who they can actually marry is a fantastic way to destabilize the family, to end up with a lot of single moms, depending on the state, and so on.
00:29:08Uh, you just raise people's expectations.
00:29:11I mean, if you can genuinely convince people that they deserve $3,000 an hour, no matter what, then they'll turn their nose up at regular jobs, regular employment, you know, 20 bucks an hour, 50 bucks an hour, whatever it's going to be.
00:29:24Because if you raise people's expectations, then anything that manifests below that, which is going to be just about everything, is viewed as deficient.
00:29:36And, of course, you can see this in, uh, you know, the sort of famous studies off dating apps where, like, 80% of men are considered to be unattractive, whereas for the, for the men, the bell curve is actually kind of simple, kind of even in terms of women's attractiveness.
00:29:51But for the women, you know, everything is shoved over to the left of unattractive, and there are basically no attractive guys.
00:29:56And, and, so, these movies where, and this was Bridget Jones's diary too, right?
00:30:11Bridget Jones's diary, I think the last one I saw, oh gosh, it was Hugh Grant and, uh, Colin Firth both, um, dying and fighting.
00:30:25And, and would do anything, move heaven and earth to get together with Renee, uh, Zellweger.
00:30:31And, I mean, I thought the original movies were, were kind of funny, but it's a, it's a really rough, it's a really rough metric to keep pushing on people, right?
00:30:39Which is, you know, this is what you deserve, right?
00:30:43You, you deserve the world, you deserve, right?
00:30:45What is it, there's, um, I remember this from, again, a pretty bad movie that I don't remember very well that I saw many years ago called Bull Durham.
00:30:53Susan Sarandon and Kevin Costner.
00:30:56And, you know, like, Wet Sloppy Kisses the last three days, stuff like that.
00:31:01And, if I remember the, the line right, um, that the, Susan Sarandon plays a, uh, a wee, a wee bit of a harlot.
00:31:13A wee bit of a harlot.
00:31:16And, there's something about, let me just see here.
00:31:19All right, I want to make sure I get this, because it's been decades since I saw it.
00:31:35Yes, here we go.
00:31:37Oh, quote.
00:31:41Um, so Annie is fitting Millie in her wedding dress.
00:31:44Annie says, do you think I deserve to wear white?
00:31:49Do you think I deserve to wear white?
00:31:50Because she's not a virgin, right?
00:31:51I assume, right?
00:31:54And, I think, um, I think the Susan Sarandon character says, honey, we all deserve to wear white.
00:32:10And, I remember when I first saw that, it was one of these little, little goosebumps that I got.
00:32:15Which is, you know, wow, there's a tiny smidge of philosophy.
00:32:19In this here movie.
00:32:22We always, and we all deserve to wear white.
00:32:33That's a kind of, a bit of a female thing.
00:32:36Like, everyone gets a trophy.
00:32:37It doesn't matter if you're a virgin.
00:32:38Because the white, white wedding was supposed to be either Billy Idol's cocaine reference,
00:32:42if that's what it was.
00:32:43But, it's supposed to be, if you're a virgin, you can wear white.
00:32:50So, when she says, we all deserve to wear white.
00:32:53Everyone gets a trophy.
00:32:55Nobody should be judged.
00:32:56And, that's how it goes.
00:32:58And, so, the Bridget Jones stuff, it's, you know, I mean, the Bridget Jones original, um, was, you know, well-written and funny and so on.
00:33:08But, it's all about what gets pushed and why.
00:33:11What gets pushed and why.
00:33:13And, nothing friendly to family really gets pushed outside of more specifically Christian media circles.
00:33:19It's, it's really tragic.
00:33:23I mean, even though, even though, in, uh, Bridget Jones' diary, the before is pretty clear.
00:33:33Sorry, I shouldn't say the before.
00:33:35But, before she ends up, you know, getting her happy ending.
00:33:39You know, she's just home alone.
00:33:40I think she's got a cat.
00:33:42She's got wine.
00:33:43You know, it's just bad all around.
00:33:45It's just bad, sad, depressing.
00:33:46And, she has, you know, the friends who, single women keep women single, right?
00:33:51The friends who talk her out of good relationships or anything like that.
00:34:00All right.
00:34:04Oh, about regarding this date, this small window thing was more her talking about the fact that she really wants kids and acknowledging a woman's time is different.
00:34:09Yeah, but the fact that you're talking about that on the first date is interesting, right?
00:34:16Muscles looking meaty today, Steph.
00:34:20Well, I did have a workout before the show.
00:34:26Somebody says, hi, Steph.
00:34:27It's been a great experience moving around recently.
00:34:30Got away from a trash planet neighborhood.
00:34:32Now I'm surrounded by mountains and red dirt, et cetera, and don't know how to make a living here.
00:34:37Oh.
00:34:37Was that something you thought of before you went to where you are?
00:34:42I'm not sure.
00:34:46I did see your comment on creativity.
00:34:48Freedomain.com slash the night.
00:34:53I have not seen the movie Ninochka.
00:34:57Ninochka.
00:34:57We'd have to discuss, and didn't get far enough to discuss, oh, the woman having, the engineer woman having kids.
00:35:09I feel like I bring a lot to the table with earning potential too.
00:35:13Yes, but a woman only views your earning potential as reliable as her trust of you.
00:35:20Right, I mean, so you having a high earning potential could be a bait and switch.
00:35:31In other words, you know, there's a lot of media out there too, sort of sleeping with the enemy stuff or the burning bed.
00:35:39That was some Farrah Forza movie.
00:35:40But where the guy seems perfect.
00:35:44He seems absolutely wonderful.
00:35:45This is, it ends with us too.
00:35:47Jason Baldoni and Blake Lively.
00:35:49Look at that.
00:35:50I apparently have woken up my celebrity naming matrix.
00:35:53It's been dormant below these many moons.
00:35:55But it is, oh, this guy's perfect.
00:35:58He's good looking.
00:35:58He's wealthy.
00:36:00And then he turns into a, you know, controlling, brutal, vicious a-hole.
00:36:09I mean, it's funny because I remember reading a book.
00:36:14Gosh, entirely inappropriate book to me to read.
00:36:17Oh, I think we had just moved to Canada.
00:36:19So I was like 11 or 12.
00:36:21And if anybody ever remembers the name of this, you could message me, a host at freedomain.com.
00:36:26H-O-S-T, host at freedomain.com.
00:36:29There was a book and it was about a guy, a woman.
00:36:32She married this guy who turned out to be a real sociopath and, you know, cruel and mean and controlling.
00:36:37And this is endless, you know, like, the guy who seems great and then he just kind of chips away at your independence and all that, right?
00:36:45And, you know, like the strawberries in the cane mutiny.
00:36:50And in this book, I think the only thing I really remember, and I remember this because I lived on an apartment floor where there was a corridor and you'd go down to the end to dump your garbage into the trash chute.
00:37:03And I remember, I kind of remember why he was doing this, but I remember that the character in the book, he took the garbage and walked all the way down the corridor, put the garbage in the chute and walked all the way back.
00:37:16And he was completely naked.
00:37:18And this was a kind of a red flag, a warning flag about how crazy he was.
00:37:22All right.
00:37:36I wonder how much the divorce rate would go down if the West went back to arranged marriages.
00:37:41I don't think it would help at the moment.
00:37:44I'm not saying that it would be a good thing to do.
00:37:46Obviously, it would not be a moral thing to do.
00:37:47But the problem, of course, with arranged marriages is that you kind of need a culture that has maintained the skill set of arranging marriages.
00:38:00And the West has not done that.
00:38:03Right?
00:38:03The West has not done that.
00:38:07If you've arranged marriages, look at sort of maybe sort of India, Pakistan, there's an entire industry.
00:38:13And, you know, women are trained and I guess men maybe I think is mostly female.
00:38:17But the women are trained on what is a compatible marriage and what works and all that kind of stuff.
00:38:25And I mean, who are you going to go to for an arranged marriage in the West, even if we were to accept, which I don't, that this would be a moral thing.
00:38:33Or at least not immoral, which it would be.
00:38:35But who would you go?
00:38:36Are you going to go to the boomers for arranged marriages?
00:38:40Gen X millennials?
00:38:41Who has the skill to figure out compatibility and get people together in that context?
00:38:48I would argue not many.
00:38:58Let's see here.
00:38:59Somebody says, I'm fed up with filling out applications and getting told I need to jump through X hoops and nothing happens.
00:39:15Haven't applied to any work here because it's embarrassing.
00:39:18Yeah, isn't it?
00:39:19I mean, it's one of these lies where they say, well, you know, we need a lot of skilled immigrants.
00:39:23And it's like, but there's like a hundred applications for every, like one tech job sometimes, right?
00:39:30You know, I'll sort of tell you, it's a little story about myself.
00:39:34It was fairly, fairly influential for me at the time.
00:39:37So as you probably know, I co-founded and grew a software company back in the 90s.
00:39:42And it was environmental and health and safety software.
00:39:45And it did pretty well.
00:39:47Did pretty well.
00:39:47And I remember after I left that, for reasons that aren't particularly important right now,
00:39:55I remember after I left that, I spent about a year and a half writing novels.
00:39:59I wrote my novel, The God of Atheists.
00:40:02I wrote my novel, Almost, which you can, freedomain.com slash books.
00:40:07You should check them out.
00:40:08They're great, great books, in my humble opinion.
00:40:10Anyway, so I ended up, while I was, I took one of Canada's premier writing courses.
00:40:20I got a great writing tutor or teacher.
00:40:24I got an agent and I got amazing reviews, particularly of The God of Atheists.
00:40:31It was amazingly well-reviewed by sample reviewers.
00:40:33And I kind of thought I was on my way, but I needed some income because I spent a bunch of
00:40:38money traveling for the books and all that stuff.
00:40:43Well, I didn't travel.
00:40:43I traveled later for just poor.
00:40:45Anyway, so I remember going back on, gosh, what was it?
00:40:53Monster?
00:40:54Is that still running?
00:40:56I don't think so.
00:41:02Is it still running?
00:41:03It must be.
00:41:05Yes.
00:41:06Okay, so yeah.
00:41:07I think it was monster.com, could have been something else.
00:41:10But I remember having, I put my resume together and, you know, if I do say so myself, it was
00:41:17a pretty impressive resume.
00:41:18I mean, I was chief technical officer.
00:41:21I did a lot of sales.
00:41:22I did marketing.
00:41:23I wrote presentations.
00:41:25I did installations, you know, and I had dealt with, I won't really get into the names
00:41:33because it doesn't really matter.
00:41:34But almost every company or organization that I had worked with was well-known, like Fortune
00:41:43500 stuff and so on.
00:41:45And I had, you know, great relationships.
00:41:49I managed like 30 people.
00:41:51I had great relationships with customers.
00:41:54So, you know, obviously not some big old powerful business genius, but, you know, I thought it
00:41:59was a fairly impressive resume.
00:42:01I wrote RFPs, requests for proposals, did sales presentations, helped negotiate, navigate and
00:42:07close deals.
00:42:07And wrote the core software code for the entire organization.
00:42:12And so, it was, I thought, you know, I thought a pretty impressive resume.
00:42:21And yet, and yet, and yet, I don't know if you've had this experience because I thought,
00:42:26you know, well, geez, I've really, you know, I started out as a maintenance programmer in COBOL
00:42:31and ended up as a chief technical officer dealing with Fortune 500 companies.
00:42:35I thought it was pretty good.
00:42:37Honestly, legit, I thought it was pretty good.
00:42:40And I thought that there would be headhunters.
00:42:42I thought there would be people who wanted to, you know, that there might be some bids.
00:42:47I might have my pick because I had really put my, my time in and, and developed my skills.
00:42:56And it was all verifiable and all that kind of stuff.
00:42:58I had great references.
00:42:59And yet, and yet, there was almost nothing.
00:43:10It was wild to me.
00:43:11It was wild to me.
00:43:15I mean, I did end up getting work and it was fine, it was a good job, but I really had
00:43:20to go and pursue it and work contacts and all that kind of stuff.
00:43:22But just having all of that experience and skill and, you know, verifiable, measurable goodies.
00:43:37All right.
00:43:38Oh, so this is back to the date.
00:43:39The girl is 23 and I'm 24.
00:43:43Okay.
00:43:43So if she's 23 and she's an engineer, I'm not sure why you're having conversations about fertility windows.
00:43:52But again, I'm not a dating guy.
00:43:59So, I mean, if it's any cancellation, it's not, you're not alone.
00:44:03I mean, everybody says, well, geez, you know, we're short all of these workers.
00:44:06We've got to import all these workers.
00:44:07But if you're short of workers, then the people who are already in the country should be getting massive amounts of demand for their skills and job, right?
00:44:22All right.
00:44:33All right.
00:44:34Let's see here.
00:44:37Yeah, Monster.com.
00:44:47Apparently, they're still running.
00:44:59Knowledge is knowing tomatoes are fruit.
00:45:01Wisdom is knowing they don't go in fruit salad.
00:45:04It's true.
00:45:07Somebody writes, recently, you gave advice that it is best in a marriage for the children if both people are religious or non-religious.
00:45:19While I understand that it may be confusing for children to be presented with two different explanations of the world,
00:45:25I think that in many ways, a combined logical and religious worldview could be synergistic.
00:45:30If the atheist partner is willing to be open-minded about going to church and allowing the children to choose faith, is atheism a deal breaker?
00:45:35You know, it's really tough to write these kinds of prescriptions for relationships as a whole.
00:45:43So I would just say that, I mean, certainly there's a—you can bring a lot of reasoning into Christianity.
00:45:49You can bring a lot of reasoning into Christianity, and you can bring a lot of anti-rationality into atheism, right?
00:45:56Because atheists tend to be more on the left, right?
00:45:58So, far more tyrannical than any theology could be.
00:46:04So, you need more than just those two categories to determine the metaphysical and, I would say in particular, epistemological or the study of knowledge.
00:46:17You need a lot more than just those two categories to know how sensible the ideas are in that, if that makes sense.
00:46:24Sam Altman has said that saying please and thank you to ChatGPT is wasting millions of dollars in computing power.
00:46:35I thought that was interesting.
00:46:36Obviously, happy to take questions and comments.
00:46:39I'm just going to scoot over to a couple of my notes.
00:46:42And please don't forget freedomain.com slash donate to help out the show.
00:46:46South Korea apparently says it will not fight President Trump's tariffs.
00:46:54All right, so let's see what to do.
00:47:11I have $138 billion, Charles Schwab, CEO, confirms it will launch Bitcoin and crypto spot trading.
00:47:20They have 37 million customers, massive.
00:47:23That's from the Bitcoin historian.
00:47:25This came out yesterday.
00:47:27Yeah, that's a big deal.
00:47:29It's a big deal.
00:47:34Rational Wiki wrote, years ago I read about this university professor, Christy Turner, who was the leading expert on a tribe in the American Southwest.
00:47:44And he discovered that the Anasazi tribe, which had been adopted by New Agee hippie leftists as a sort of symbol of spiritual nobility and peacefulness, had in fact been vicious warmongers who ate their enemies.
00:47:58When he published his research, he received death threats from the New Agee hippie leftists.
00:48:03And just in the past three years, several new lines of evidence have emerged of mass ritualistic child sacrifice in pre-Columbian peoples.
00:48:15But the myth of peaceful indigenous tribes and civilizations persists in American culture, because this is what the media and schools reinforce.
00:48:22Right.
00:48:23That is very true.
00:48:25The professor conducted extensive research on cannibalism and violence in the prehistoric American Southwest, and their findings particularly concerning the Anasazi and their interactions with possibly Toltec invaders sparked significant controversy and debate.
00:48:46The Turners proposed that cannibalism in the region, evident through the examination of remains found in kivas and other sites, might have been a form of social control or terror used by an elite class within the Chaco civilization.
00:48:58The evidence for cannibalism include the discovery of human bones that showed signs of having been cooked and eaten, alongside tools or traces of human blood, and human myoglobin found in coprolites, indicating human flesh had been consumed.
00:49:13It's around AD 1150.
00:49:16Turner's hypothesis further suggests that the practice of cannibalism might have begun with the rise of the Chaco civilization around AD 900, peaking at the time of its collapse around AD 1150, and was possibly influenced by the Toltecs, who were thought to have used such practices for control and to instill terror.
00:49:35I mean, there's a reason why Cortez and his conquistadors were able to take down an entire civilization, though wildly outnumbered.
00:49:44It's because, I mean, in part it's technology, and of course in part of it, it's because the local tribes just hated the brutality of the Aztecs in particular.
00:49:52There.
00:49:54So, why do you think this noble savage myth is pushed?
00:50:01I have a theory.
00:50:04Why do you think...
00:50:05Let me up here.
00:50:06Why do you think that the noble savage myth is pushed so hard?
00:50:10my guess
00:50:25oh you watched Apocalypto recently
00:50:27that's a Mel Gibson movie right
00:50:28that author is not correct about Toltex
00:50:31well it's ChatGPT so
00:50:32take it for what it's worth
00:50:33so because it's something
00:50:36to project ideals onto perhaps
00:50:38yeah but
00:50:40there's a real compulsion to push this stuff
00:50:43as a whole
00:50:43I mean I don't know for sure
00:50:51but my guess because I talked about this
00:50:53way back in the day gosh
00:50:542018
00:50:55in Australia
00:50:57so I talked about this
00:51:00one of the things that's really important
00:51:03to demoralize a country
00:51:04is to
00:51:05you make the people feel corrupt
00:51:09immoral or evil
00:51:09you put them in an impossible situation
00:51:11right
00:51:11so you say well
00:51:12there were all of these wonderful
00:51:13loving
00:51:14peaceful
00:51:15at one with nature
00:51:17noble savages here
00:51:18and you all just came
00:51:19and blew them away
00:51:21with your evil
00:51:22industrial
00:51:23bang sticks
00:51:24right
00:51:24and so what happens then
00:51:27is you feel guilty
00:51:31you feel bad
00:51:31you feel like your
00:51:33civilization is like a
00:51:34ugly
00:51:35satanic mill
00:51:36staying on
00:51:37the former
00:51:38Richard Scarry
00:51:40beautiful world of
00:51:41peaceful interactions
00:51:43and so on
00:51:44right
00:51:44and
00:51:47you
00:51:48you're not going to
00:51:49give it up and go home
00:51:50so you just stay
00:51:51and feel bad
00:51:52right
00:51:52I think
00:51:53by portraying the people
00:51:55that you displaced
00:51:56as noble savages
00:51:57it gives you the original sin
00:51:59of success
00:52:00right
00:52:00if that makes sense
00:52:04and so it's easy to
00:52:06demoralize
00:52:07if that makes sense
00:52:08it's easy to demoralize
00:52:09people
00:52:10as a whole
00:52:11all right
00:52:30what do we got here
00:52:30yeah I think
00:52:37to demoralize
00:52:38the west
00:52:38as a whole
00:52:39yeah for sure
00:52:41so to make people feel guilty
00:52:54for experiencing
00:52:54higher living standards
00:52:55yeah I think
00:53:00yeah
00:53:01the idea
00:53:02so of course
00:53:05the noble savage stuff
00:53:07is pretty common
00:53:08you even have it
00:53:10in Christianity
00:53:10with the Garden of Eden
00:53:11so the noble savage stuff
00:53:13is pretty common
00:53:13but
00:53:14it really became popular
00:53:18under Rousseau
00:53:19right
00:53:20before it was like
00:53:21the Hobbesian view
00:53:22or
00:53:23Hobbes
00:53:23sort of
00:53:25there's this sort of
00:53:25competing
00:53:26views
00:53:28is that
00:53:28the Hobbesian view
00:53:29nature red and tooth and claw
00:53:30like it's just
00:53:30nature
00:53:31in a state of nature
00:53:32life is nasty
00:53:33brutish violent
00:53:34and short
00:53:34and so we've sort of
00:53:36band together
00:53:37for the protection of the state
00:53:38so that we can have
00:53:38some kind of more
00:53:39civilized
00:53:39life
00:53:40and this is compared
00:53:44to the Rousseauian view
00:53:45which is more
00:53:46that
00:53:46there was these noble
00:53:50savages
00:53:51and you know
00:53:52man is born free
00:53:52but everywhere he's in chains
00:53:54there's noble savages
00:53:54that were kind of
00:53:55captured by the evil
00:53:56capitalists and
00:53:57statists and so on
00:53:59and turned into dead slaves
00:54:00and all of that
00:54:00yeah I would normally
00:54:15have done this
00:54:16if I was sort of
00:54:16doing more current events
00:54:17thing
00:54:17the Florida State
00:54:19University shooters
00:54:19biological mom
00:54:20kidnapped him
00:54:21fled to Norway
00:54:22amid bitter custody
00:54:23battle
00:54:24years before
00:54:25deadly rampage
00:54:26and a bunch of
00:54:28court documents
00:54:29that there was a
00:54:30absolutely brutal
00:54:31divorce
00:54:31kidnapping
00:54:32you know
00:54:33international
00:54:34yoinking
00:54:35and stuff like that
00:54:36and
00:54:36it became a bit
00:54:40too repetitive
00:54:41to keep doing those
00:54:43shows
00:54:43somebody says
00:54:49there's a really good
00:54:50video essay series
00:54:51on the Conquistadors
00:54:51by DJ Peach Cobbler
00:54:53I wasn't sure you were
00:54:55going to say that
00:54:55it's equal parts
00:54:56hilarious entertainment
00:54:57and harrowing
00:54:57historical record
00:54:58I appreciate that
00:55:00Steph
00:55:06honest question
00:55:07honest question
00:55:07since you've opened
00:55:08yourself to religion
00:55:09are you now at all
00:55:10curious about astrology
00:55:11or numerology
00:55:12etc
00:55:13no
00:55:14I'm of the
00:55:15I'm like the mom
00:55:18you know
00:55:18her son texts her
00:55:20what time was I born
00:55:21and the mom's like
00:55:23stay away from her
00:55:23because
00:55:24thank you for the
00:55:27subscription
00:55:27I appreciate that
00:55:28donations
00:55:29welcome at
00:55:29freedomman.com
00:55:30donate
00:55:30no
00:55:32the idea that
00:55:34our nature
00:55:37is determined by
00:55:38giant suns
00:55:41hundreds of light
00:55:42years away
00:55:42is not
00:55:43credible
00:55:44I've mentioned it
00:55:47before of course
00:55:47I'll just touch on it
00:55:48briefly here but
00:55:48I do accept that
00:55:51particularly in
00:55:53climates where
00:55:54there's a high
00:55:54degree of variability
00:55:55between
00:55:57summer and
00:55:58winter like
00:55:58temperatures
00:55:59that
00:55:59when you're
00:56:02born in the
00:56:02year could
00:56:03have some
00:56:03effect on your
00:56:03personality
00:56:04so if you're
00:56:04born in the
00:56:05fall
00:56:05in the fall
00:56:06in a cold
00:56:06climate
00:56:06then
00:56:08what happens
00:56:10is
00:56:10your first
00:56:13experiences of the
00:56:14world are all
00:56:14indoors
00:56:15whereas if you're
00:56:17born in the
00:56:17spring you'll be
00:56:18out a lot
00:56:19more
00:56:19so
00:56:25I can
00:56:28certainly
00:56:28see
00:56:28that
00:56:29in
00:56:30again
00:56:30sort of
00:56:31high
00:56:32variability
00:56:32temperature
00:56:33cultures
00:56:35that
00:56:35when you're
00:56:36born in the
00:56:36year it's
00:56:37going to
00:56:37have a big
00:56:37big effect
00:56:38I'm still
00:56:38trying to
00:56:39lose 10
00:56:39pounds
00:56:39I think
00:56:40I'm
00:56:40mostly
00:56:40done
00:56:40I haven't
00:56:41checked
00:56:41in a while
00:56:42but I
00:56:42think
00:56:42I'm
00:56:43mostly
00:56:43done
00:56:43so
00:56:44I think
00:56:45I'm
00:56:45good
00:56:45but thank
00:56:46you
00:56:46if that
00:56:47was a
00:56:47concerned
00:56:48question
00:56:48yeah it'll
00:57:02be interesting
00:57:03to see
00:57:03I watched
00:57:04this
00:57:04compilation
00:57:05of doctors
00:57:05admitting
00:57:06that their
00:57:06medical
00:57:06training
00:57:07on vaccines
00:57:07consisted
00:57:08primarily
00:57:08of memorizing
00:57:09the vaccine
00:57:09schedule
00:57:09and regurgitating
00:57:11the safe
00:57:12and effective
00:57:12narrative
00:57:13without question
00:57:13and
00:57:15boy that's
00:57:16I won't
00:57:17keep
00:57:17harping
00:57:17on it
00:57:18but it
00:57:18is really
00:57:18going to
00:57:18be
00:57:18something
00:57:19to see
00:57:19what
00:57:21happens
00:57:21hopefully
00:57:22before
00:57:23September
00:57:23but I
00:57:23assume
00:57:24by September
00:57:24they'll have
00:57:24some
00:57:25kind of
00:57:25preliminary
00:57:26answers
00:57:27about
00:57:29the cause
00:57:30of the
00:57:30immense
00:57:31rise
00:57:31in
00:57:32autism
00:57:33particularly
00:57:33in
00:57:34America
00:57:34all right
00:57:41see if
00:57:53you have
00:57:53any other
00:57:53last
00:57:54questions
00:57:54or
00:57:54comments
00:57:55what do
00:57:58you think
00:57:58about the
00:57:59Alberta
00:57:59separation
00:58:00movement
00:58:00rebel news
00:58:00is pushing
00:58:01it very
00:58:01hard
00:58:02I don't
00:58:04have any
00:58:04particular
00:58:04thoughts
00:58:06about it
00:58:07certainly
00:58:09the
00:58:10redistribution
00:58:11aspect of
00:58:12the
00:58:13equalization
00:58:13payments
00:58:14generally
00:58:15flows away
00:58:15from
00:58:15Alberta
00:58:16it used
00:58:17to be
00:58:17Alberta
00:58:18BC
00:58:19and Ontario
00:58:19with the
00:58:20net
00:58:20contributors
00:58:20and now
00:58:22not so
00:58:22much
00:58:22to put it
00:58:24mildly
00:58:24and I
00:58:25think
00:58:25is it
00:58:25just
00:58:26Alberta
00:58:26who's
00:58:26left
00:58:26now
00:58:27or
00:58:27something
00:58:27like
00:58:27that
00:58:27but
00:58:28it's
00:58:29rough
00:58:29so I
00:58:30can
00:58:30understand
00:58:31that they
00:58:31want to
00:58:31keep
00:58:31more
00:58:31of their
00:58:32own
00:58:32money
00:58:32but
00:58:33I
00:58:34don't
00:58:34think
00:58:35it's
00:58:35particularly
00:58:35viable
00:58:37option
00:58:37nice to
00:58:46see you
00:58:46my friend
00:58:47the thing
00:58:47about mass
00:58:48tragedies
00:58:48is that
00:58:49most people
00:58:49overlook
00:58:49the impact
00:58:50of bad
00:58:51childhoods
00:58:51on these
00:58:52things
00:58:52we can
00:58:53sit there
00:58:54and say
00:58:54it's evil
00:58:55and that
00:58:55somebody
00:58:55made these
00:58:56decisions
00:58:56and these
00:58:57experiences
00:58:57don't excuse
00:58:57an evil
00:58:58decision
00:58:58like that
00:58:58my
00:58:59disappointment
00:58:59is that
00:58:59people
00:58:59don't see
00:59:00things like
00:59:00that
00:59:00and think
00:59:01oh my
00:59:02god
00:59:02I need
00:59:02to raise
00:59:02my
00:59:02kids
00:59:03better
00:59:03yes
00:59:03that's
00:59:04a
00:59:04very
00:59:04good
00:59:04point
00:59:05that's
00:59:06a very
00:59:06good
00:59:06point
00:59:06I mean
00:59:07that's
00:59:07certainly
00:59:08where I
00:59:08go to
00:59:08first
00:59:09where I
00:59:10go to
00:59:10first
00:59:10is
00:59:11what kind
00:59:12of childhood
00:59:12now I'm
00:59:13not a
00:59:13determinist
00:59:14obviously
00:59:15the fact
00:59:15that somebody
00:59:16has a bad
00:59:16childhood
00:59:16does not
00:59:17make them
00:59:18into a
00:59:19bad person
00:59:19but it
00:59:21does seem
00:59:22like people
00:59:22who make
00:59:23bad decisions
00:59:23or evil
00:59:25decisions
00:59:25in this
00:59:25way
00:59:25like this
00:59:26shooter
00:59:26do in
00:59:28general
00:59:29seem to
00:59:29have these
00:59:29very bad
00:59:30childhoods
00:59:30so
00:59:30somebody
00:59:34says
00:59:34could be
00:59:35born in
00:59:35March
00:59:36though in
00:59:37Manitoba
00:59:38that can
00:59:38still be
00:59:38very cold
00:59:39but I do
00:59:40appreciate being
00:59:40outdoors
00:59:41the idea of
00:59:41being stuck
00:59:42in an office
00:59:42is kind of
00:59:42torture to
00:59:43me
00:59:43well I
00:59:44mean
00:59:44unless you're
00:59:46Swedish
00:59:46is it the
00:59:46Swedes who
00:59:47just take
00:59:47their babies
00:59:48and just
00:59:48put them
00:59:48in a
00:59:49little
00:59:49ice thing
00:59:50so
00:59:51I think
00:59:53that
00:59:53you're not
00:59:57taken right
00:59:58out
00:59:58right
00:59:59so March
00:59:59April
01:00:00May
01:00:00June
01:00:00yeah
01:00:00you'd
01:00:01be out
01:00:01you know
01:00:02you'd be
01:00:02out
01:00:03sitting in
01:00:03the backyard
01:00:03in sort
01:00:04of June
01:00:04with your
01:00:05some sort
01:00:06of parasol
01:00:07over you
01:00:07so you
01:00:07don't get
01:00:08too
01:00:08things don't
01:00:09get too
01:00:09bright
01:00:09so you
01:00:13wouldn't be
01:00:14straight out
01:00:14into the
01:00:16cold in
01:00:16March but
01:00:17I would
01:00:18imagine in
01:00:18the summer
01:00:19right
01:00:19you'd be
01:00:20out a lot
01:00:20more
01:00:20you going
01:00:22there first
01:00:23is why your
01:00:23perspective is
01:00:23so valuable
01:00:24oh thank you
01:00:24I appreciate
01:00:25that
01:00:25thank you
01:00:25very much
01:00:26all right
01:00:30let's see
01:00:31if we have
01:00:31any last
01:00:31comments
01:00:32questions
01:00:32yeah there
01:00:44is a
01:00:45I don't
01:00:48know
01:00:48it feels
01:00:49like it
01:00:50feels like
01:00:50we were
01:00:50having these
01:00:51conversations
01:00:51like 15
01:00:52years ago
01:00:52but there
01:00:53are these
01:00:54conversations
01:00:54going on
01:00:55at the
01:00:55moment
01:00:55about all
01:00:56the boys
01:00:56being
01:00:56they're kind
01:00:57of being
01:00:57left behind
01:00:57and so on
01:00:59and the girls
01:01:00are getting ahead
01:01:00and the girls
01:01:01are doing well
01:01:01and so on
01:01:02but
01:01:02I mean the
01:01:20the female
01:01:21teachers
01:01:21mentor the
01:01:21girls
01:01:22and they
01:01:24tend to
01:01:25dismiss the
01:01:25boys
01:01:25they get
01:01:26annoyed by
01:01:26the boys
01:01:26they often
01:01:27will recommend
01:01:28drugging the
01:01:29boys for
01:01:29boring schools
01:01:31so the
01:01:32teachers
01:01:32generally
01:01:36and you
01:01:38know eradicating
01:01:39male teachers
01:01:39from young
01:01:41boys lives
01:01:42particularly when
01:01:43there's so many
01:01:43fatherless children
01:01:44out there
01:01:44eradicating teachers
01:01:45from young
01:01:45boys lives
01:01:46is very
01:01:47it's very
01:01:48essential to
01:01:49sort of
01:01:49demoralizing
01:01:50a country
01:01:51and I
01:01:53mean they've
01:01:53done these
01:01:53studies where
01:01:54once you
01:01:55take off
01:01:56once you
01:02:01take away
01:02:02the ability
01:02:04for the
01:02:04teachers to
01:02:05know whether
01:02:05it's a boy
01:02:05or a girl
01:02:06who submitted
01:02:06work
01:02:07the boys
01:02:08tend to get
01:02:08marked up
01:02:08and the girls
01:02:09tend to get
01:02:09marked down
01:02:10there's a
01:02:10real sexism
01:02:11in marking
01:02:12for a lot
01:02:12of teachers
01:02:13female teachers
01:02:14in particular
01:02:14because you
01:02:15know they
01:02:15girl power
01:02:17get ahead
01:02:18you know
01:02:19all that
01:02:19kind of
01:02:19stuff
01:02:19the idea
01:02:28of the
01:02:28noble
01:02:29savage
01:02:29so someone
01:02:30is like a
01:02:30form of
01:02:31survivorship
01:02:31bias to
01:02:33ease the guilt
01:02:33of westerners
01:02:34I'm not sure
01:02:35it holds the
01:02:35same weight
01:02:35without ascribing
01:02:36to blank slate
01:02:37theory
01:02:37I'm sorry
01:02:39I'm not quite
01:02:39sure that I
01:02:40understand
01:02:41Bill Mega
01:02:42writes
01:02:42speaking of
01:02:43raising kids
01:02:43my niece
01:02:44just got
01:02:44married to
01:02:44a mom
01:02:45both in
01:02:45the church
01:02:46happy day
01:02:46for this
01:02:46proud uncle
01:02:47congratulations
01:02:48congratulations
01:02:49to everyone
01:02:52involved
01:02:52have you
01:02:56listened to
01:02:56the Douglas
01:02:57Murray
01:02:57versus Dave
01:02:58Smith debate
01:02:58if so
01:02:59what do you
01:02:59think
01:02:59and what
01:03:00do you
01:03:00think
01:03:00about
01:03:01credentialism
01:03:01yeah
01:03:04so I
01:03:04did a
01:03:04show
01:03:0559
01:03:0517
01:03:06had to
01:03:07do
01:03:07with
01:03:07that
01:03:08um
01:03:10I mean
01:03:19I suppose
01:03:21I mean
01:03:22people can
01:03:22say
01:03:22well you
01:03:23have to
01:03:23have gone
01:03:24there
01:03:24right
01:03:25to have
01:03:26you know
01:03:26you have to
01:03:27have gone
01:03:27to Ukraine
01:03:27to have an
01:03:28opinion about
01:03:28the war
01:03:28whatever it
01:03:29is right
01:03:29but
01:03:30I mean
01:03:31I'm not sure
01:03:33that people
01:03:33do get to
01:03:33go to
01:03:34Ukraine
01:03:34are they
01:03:34part of
01:03:35a sort
01:03:35of junket
01:03:35where
01:03:36they're
01:03:36sort of
01:03:36led
01:03:37around
01:03:37and
01:03:37and
01:03:38they're
01:03:38told
01:03:38things
01:03:38it's
01:03:39not
01:03:39exactly
01:03:40objective
01:03:40right
01:03:41it's
01:03:41not
01:03:41like
01:03:41you're
01:03:41out
01:03:42there
01:03:42doing
01:03:43raw
01:03:43research
01:03:43with
01:03:44your
01:03:44own
01:03:44eyeballs
01:03:44you're
01:03:44kind
01:03:45of
01:03:45in
01:03:45a
01:03:45protected
01:03:45environment
01:03:46where
01:03:47you're
01:03:47shown
01:03:47particular
01:03:47things
01:03:48I
01:03:49think
01:03:49Douglas
01:03:50Murray
01:03:50did
01:03:52say
01:03:52that
01:03:53Ukraine
01:03:54was
01:03:54going
01:03:54to
01:03:54win
01:03:54the
01:03:54war
01:03:54hasn't
01:03:55happened
01:03:55I
01:03:56think
01:03:56Douglas
01:03:56Murray
01:03:57was
01:03:57I
01:03:57felt
01:03:58that
01:03:58the
01:03:58overthrow
01:03:59of
01:03:59Gaddafi
01:04:00which
01:04:01opened
01:04:01up a
01:04:01lot
01:04:01of
01:04:01mass
01:04:02migration
01:04:02to
01:04:03Europe
01:04:03that
01:04:03that
01:04:03was
01:04:03a
01:04:03good
01:04:04thing
01:04:04and
01:04:05was
01:04:07he
01:04:08I
01:04:08think
01:04:09he
01:04:09was
01:04:09four
01:04:09let
01:04:12me
01:04:12just
01:04:12check
01:04:13here
01:04:13I
01:04:23think
01:04:23he
01:04:23was
01:04:23for
01:04:23it
01:04:24I
01:04:40should
01:04:41just
01:04:41go
01:04:41straight
01:04:41to
01:04:42Grok
01:04:42why
01:04:42do
01:04:43I
01:04:43waste
01:04:43my
01:04:43time
01:04:43I
01:04:46will
01:04:46go
01:04:46straight
01:04:47to
01:04:47Grok
01:04:47I
01:04:49am
01:04:49foolishly
01:04:49typing
01:04:50into
01:04:50a
01:04:50search
01:04:50engine
01:04:51oh
01:04:52madness
01:04:52yes
01:05:02Douglas
01:05:04Murray
01:05:04supported
01:05:04the
01:05:05Iraq
01:05:05war
01:05:05in
01:05:06his
01:05:062006
01:05:07book
01:05:07neoconservatism
01:05:08why we
01:05:08need
01:05:08it
01:05:08he
01:05:08argued
01:05:09in
01:05:09favor
01:05:09of
01:05:09the
01:05:102003
01:05:10invasion
01:05:11okay
01:05:12so
01:05:17that's
01:05:22not
01:05:23ideal
01:05:23that's
01:05:28not
01:05:28ideal
01:05:28so
01:05:29I
01:05:29mean
01:05:30if
01:05:30you
01:05:31get
01:05:31pretty
01:05:31significant
01:05:32things
01:05:32kind
01:05:33of
01:05:33wrong
01:05:33right
01:05:34if
01:05:34he
01:05:35thought
01:05:35that
01:05:35Ukraine
01:05:36was
01:05:37going to
01:05:37win
01:05:37the
01:05:37war
01:05:37years
01:05:37ago
01:05:38and
01:05:38it
01:05:38hasn't
01:05:39that
01:05:40seems
01:05:40important
01:05:40that
01:05:42seems
01:05:42a
01:05:42little
01:05:42bit
01:05:43more
01:05:43important
01:05:43than
01:05:44whether
01:05:44Dave
01:05:44Smith
01:05:44went
01:05:45to
01:05:45Ukraine
01:05:46or
01:05:46Israel
01:05:46or
01:05:46wherever
01:05:46right
01:05:47all
01:05:59right
01:06:00I
01:06:01just
01:06:01look at
01:06:04predictive
01:06:04power
01:06:04I
01:06:07just
01:06:07look at
01:06:08predictive
01:06:08power
01:06:09how
01:06:12well
01:06:12have
01:06:13people's
01:06:14predictions
01:06:14held up
01:06:15over
01:06:15time
01:06:15that
01:06:17seems
01:06:17important
01:06:18and
01:06:23you know
01:06:23I mean
01:06:23people get
01:06:24things wrong
01:06:25of course
01:06:25right
01:06:25but
01:06:26have
01:06:30they
01:06:31I mean
01:06:33it's
01:06:33pretty hard
01:06:33to call
01:06:34I did
01:06:34a whole
01:06:35show
01:06:35on this
01:06:35I was
01:06:37actually
01:06:37interviewed
01:06:37on television
01:06:38back in
01:06:38the day
01:06:38by
01:06:38happy
01:06:39Martin
01:06:39about
01:06:39this
01:06:39Iraq
01:06:41a decade
01:06:41of
01:06:42hell
01:06:42it's
01:06:43worth
01:06:43having a
01:06:44look at
01:06:44fdrpodcast.com
01:06:45you can
01:06:46just type
01:06:46in the
01:06:46search
01:06:46window
01:06:47Iraq
01:06:47Iraq
01:06:48a decade
01:06:48of
01:06:48hell
01:06:48and
01:06:50it's
01:06:57it's
01:06:57it's
01:06:57pretty hard
01:06:58to make
01:06:58a case
01:06:58that
01:06:59the
01:07:02Iraq
01:07:02war
01:07:02was
01:07:02a good
01:07:04idea
01:07:04pretty
01:07:04hard
01:07:05to make
01:07:05the
01:07:05case
01:07:05that
01:07:05the
01:07:06destruction
01:07:06of
01:07:07Libya
01:07:07was
01:07:08a good
01:07:08idea
01:07:08now that
01:07:09there are
01:07:09$400
01:07:10a head
01:07:10open air
01:07:11slave markets
01:07:11in Libya
01:07:12so I
01:07:18don't know
01:07:19if people
01:07:19circle back
01:07:20and say
01:07:20what they
01:07:21got wrong
01:07:22yeah the
01:07:33show is
01:07:332371
01:07:34Iraq
01:07:34a decade
01:07:35of
01:07:35hell
01:07:35it's
01:07:36rough
01:07:36man
01:07:37research
01:07:37is
01:07:37rough
01:07:38somebody
01:07:40said
01:07:40I thought
01:07:41you were
01:07:41already
01:07:41relatively
01:07:42skinny
01:07:42I was
01:07:42surprised
01:07:43when you
01:07:43said
01:07:43you wanted
01:07:43to lose
01:07:43more
01:07:44weight
01:07:44yeah
01:07:45it's
01:07:46not
01:07:46like
01:07:46I
01:07:46have
01:07:46I
01:07:46mean
01:07:47I
01:07:47don't
01:07:47have
01:07:47any
01:07:48particular
01:07:49gut
01:07:49or
01:07:49anything
01:07:49like
01:07:49that
01:07:50but
01:07:50just
01:07:51for
01:07:51me
01:07:51as
01:07:51I
01:07:51sort
01:07:51of
01:07:51age
01:07:52I'd
01:07:52like
01:07:52to
01:07:53stay
01:07:53a
01:07:53little
01:07:53lighter
01:07:53because
01:07:54it's
01:07:54less
01:07:54pressure
01:07:54on
01:07:54the
01:07:55joints
01:07:55and
01:07:55less
01:07:56pressure
01:07:56on
01:07:56the
01:07:56heart
01:07:57and
01:07:57all
01:07:57of
01:07:57that
01:07:57kind
01:07:57of
01:07:57stuff
01:07:58so
01:07:58it's
01:08:11wild
01:08:11to
01:08:11me
01:08:11how
01:08:11so
01:08:13many
01:08:13of
01:08:13the
01:08:13Western
01:08:13powers
01:08:14I mean
01:08:14it shouldn't
01:08:15be
01:08:15but it
01:08:15is
01:08:15it's
01:08:15wild
01:08:16to
01:08:16me
01:08:16how
01:08:16so
01:08:16many
01:08:16of
01:08:16the
01:08:16Western
01:08:17powers
01:08:17just
01:08:19ended
01:08:19up
01:08:20throwing
01:08:20their
01:08:20entire
01:08:21weight
01:08:21in
01:08:22Ukraine
01:08:23like
01:08:24they were
01:08:25just
01:08:25part of
01:08:25a war
01:08:26I mean
01:08:28they were
01:08:28supplying
01:08:29you know
01:08:30if you're
01:08:31supplying
01:08:31weapons
01:08:31you're
01:08:32kind of
01:08:32part of
01:08:33the
01:08:33war
01:08:33right
01:08:33it's
01:08:36wild
01:08:36all
01:08:48right
01:08:49let's
01:08:49see
01:08:49here
01:08:49let's
01:08:50see if
01:09:04you had
01:09:04any
01:09:05other
01:09:05last
01:09:05questions
01:09:05comments
01:09:06hello
01:09:08astros
01:09:10somebody
01:09:12says
01:09:12I just
01:09:13started
01:09:13trying to
01:09:13quit
01:09:13sugar
01:09:14again
01:09:14not
01:09:14that
01:09:14I
01:09:14consider
01:09:15myself
01:09:15particularly
01:09:15bad
01:09:16but it
01:09:16doesn't
01:09:16take
01:09:16much
01:09:17to go
01:09:17overboard
01:09:17how
01:09:18has
01:09:18your
01:09:18abstinence
01:09:19from
01:09:19sugar
01:09:19been
01:09:19going
01:09:20not
01:09:21too
01:09:21bad
01:09:21not
01:09:21too
01:09:22bad
01:09:22I'll
01:09:22still
01:09:22have
01:09:22an
01:09:22occasional
01:09:23weakness
01:09:24for
01:09:24if my
01:09:25wife
01:09:25comes
01:09:25home
01:09:25with
01:09:25them
01:09:26like
01:09:26some
01:09:29almonds
01:09:29in
01:09:30dark
01:09:30chocolate
01:09:30or
01:09:30whatever
01:09:30it
01:09:30is
01:09:31so
01:09:32and
01:09:33it's
01:09:34pretty
01:09:34good
01:09:34my
01:09:36daughter
01:09:36has
01:09:36convinced
01:09:36me
01:09:37and I
01:09:37think
01:09:37she's
01:09:37right
01:09:37that
01:09:38fruit
01:09:39is not
01:09:39fruit
01:09:40is
01:09:40sugar
01:09:40and fruit
01:09:41but it's
01:09:41fine for
01:09:41you
01:09:41and so
01:09:42I will
01:09:43if I
01:09:43feel
01:09:43like the
01:09:44urge for
01:09:45something
01:09:45sweet
01:09:45I'll
01:09:46have a
01:09:46little bit
01:09:46of
01:09:47plain
01:09:48yogurt
01:09:49some
01:09:50blueberries
01:09:50raspberries
01:09:51strawberries
01:09:51a little
01:09:53bit of
01:09:53granola
01:09:53maybe a
01:09:54drizzle of
01:09:54honey
01:09:54and that
01:09:55hits the
01:09:55spot
01:09:56I think
01:09:56it's
01:09:56pretty
01:09:56good
01:09:56as a
01:09:58hole
01:09:58somebody
01:10:02says I
01:10:02was going
01:10:03to travel
01:10:03to New
01:10:03Jersey
01:10:04this
01:10:04weekend
01:10:04and I
01:10:05see an
01:10:05entire
01:10:05interstate
01:10:06highway
01:10:06is closed
01:10:07due to
01:10:07sinkholes
01:10:08but there's
01:10:08money to
01:10:08send to
01:10:09Ukraine
01:10:09yeah I
01:10:11mean
01:10:11bitter
01:10:12bitter
01:10:12laugh
01:10:12is
01:10:12bitter
01:10:12yeah
01:10:14bitter
01:10:14laugh
01:10:14is
01:10:14bitter
01:10:14oh you
01:10:23cancelled
01:10:23it
01:10:23yeah
01:10:24yeah
01:10:26all right
01:10:27well listen
01:10:27guys I
01:10:27really
01:10:28appreciate
01:10:28your time
01:10:28today
01:10:28thank you
01:10:29so much
01:10:29for dropping
01:10:29by
01:10:30freedom
01:10:30to help
01:10:31out the
01:10:32show
01:10:32massively
01:10:33deeply
01:10:33and humbly
01:10:33and gratefully
01:10:34gratefully
01:10:34gratefully
01:10:35appreciated
01:10:35and I
01:10:37will talk
01:10:37to you guys
01:10:38soon
01:10:38I've got
01:10:39some good
01:10:39shows
01:10:39coming out
01:10:40over the
01:10:41next
01:10:41little
01:10:41while
01:10:42and
01:10:43maybe
01:10:43I'll
01:10:43do a
01:10:44little
01:10:44reading
01:10:44of how
01:10:45the
01:10:45new
01:10:46book
01:10:46is
01:10:46coming
01:10:46along
01:10:46and
01:10:47I'd
01:10:49love to
01:10:49get your
01:10:49thoughts
01:10:50and feedback
01:10:50on that
01:10:50and thank
01:10:51you for
01:10:51everybody
01:10:51who said
01:10:52that they
01:10:52enjoyed
01:10:52what I
01:10:53had
01:10:53already
01:10:53written
01:10:54so
01:10:55lots of
01:10:56love from
01:10:56up here
01:10:56my friend
01:10:57take care
01:10:58I'll talk
01:10:58to you
01:10:58soon
01:10:59bye