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| Hi everybody, Stefan Molyne from Freedom Main Radio. | |
| I hope you're doing well. | |
| Hey, you want to know something really cool? | |
| Really fantastic. | |
| We are coming up to the waning days of 2016. | |
| The days of wine and food and good conversation. | |
| So, I'm doing a little bit of a review of this show. | |
| Over the years, how did we do? | |
| How did we do? | |
| Well, let me tell you a little bit about how we did. | |
| This number is the bare minimum. | |
| It's probably much larger than this, but this is what I can verify. | |
| This show, Free Domain Radio, in 2016 has done well over 100 million views and downloads. | |
| Oh! | |
| Can a brother get an echo? | |
| Yes! | |
| This show, Free Domain Radio, has done well over 100 million views and downloads. | |
| Boom! | |
| Take that, sophists! | |
| Boom! | |
| Take that, people who are really bad at philosophy but maybe can become better. | |
| Yes, that is what we have done together as a community. | |
| Yes, there is me in the giant space-orbiting ping-pong ball of truth, but the reality is it comes down to you, my friends. | |
| I can't push out the show. | |
| I can just put the show... | |
| On YouTube, I can put the show at fdrpodcast.com. | |
| It is up to you to share and to subscribe and to tell people about it, and I thank you enormously for that. | |
| You know, I don't spend money advertising the show, and I don't have any ads in the show. | |
| Can you imagine some of the deep and amazing conversations that we have being interrupted by, hey, would you like to buy X? It really would be pretty catastrophic and pretty terrible. | |
| And this is why I can do what I'm doing. | |
| Not beholden to advertisers. | |
| Not beholden to, of course, the powers that be who say, ooh, that's a little bit controversial. | |
| We'd better not add and enable that. | |
| And suddenly it's like, oh no, I'm hunting pigeons in parking lots for food like I'm in Venezuela. | |
| So I don't have to do that. | |
| I don't have to be subjected to the whims of advertisers and to the whims of those who control advertising and Do you know why? | |
| Let me tell you why. | |
| Do you know why? | |
| Stand up, please. | |
| Take a bow. | |
| Take a curtsy. | |
| Give yourself a disco spin. | |
| Give yourself a foot rub because it is you, my friends, who have made what I'm doing possible. | |
| I am merely the match. | |
| You are the one who strikes it and turns into fireworks. | |
| The entire world And I am immensely, incredibly, deeply and humbly grateful for the faith, the support, the love that you all have shown upon what it is that I'm doing right here, right now. | |
| I just want to tell you that is enormous for me. | |
| History has never seen a bigger explosion of philosophy in the world. | |
| Socrates had to wander from person to person. | |
| Academics wrote books. | |
| Now, Ayn Rand did write some fantastic stuff and get it out into the world, but seriously, oh, well over 100 million views and downloads. | |
| That's not even counting books. | |
| It's not counting torrents. | |
| It's not counting mirrored sites. | |
| It's just what I can confirm from what I do. | |
| So yes, it's been quite a year, and I wanted to thank you for that, and put in an ask, which I think is very, very important. | |
| Yeah, okay, there was Donald Trump, there was Brexit, there was anti-globalism as a whole, and what I do here played an important part in all of those phenomenons. | |
| And I want to do more. | |
| I continually want to do more. | |
| Ah, it is the job of restless minds to forever be dissatisfied with what is, and that is why we have this beautiful thing called civilization. | |
| So, yeah, I want to do some upgrades. | |
| I want to do some expansions. | |
| And I want to grow. | |
| And I need you for that. | |
| I can't do it alone. | |
| I can't will all of this. | |
| I'm not the Federal Reserve, you know. | |
| I can't will money into existence. | |
| I need your help for that. | |
| I need your help for that. | |
| Look, if you're consuming these resources, you know, right? | |
| I mean, they're not free. | |
| I spend a lot of money on this show. | |
| And I actually have a... | |
| I don't know. | |
| I... Kind of old school preference for food and shelter. | |
| It's kind of cold up here in Canada. | |
| So I need your help. | |
| If you're consuming this stuff, you know it costs money. | |
| And you know that being a free rider on other people's generosity is not the most honorable place on the planet to be. | |
| You know you need to do the right thing. | |
| Just go to freedomainradio.com slash donate and help me out. | |
| Help me out. | |
| Make what I'm doing possible. | |
| Put your stake in the future of Western civilization. | |
| You know, we are moving the needle here. | |
| We are moving the needle. | |
| And there are lots of crazy organizations in the world that get huge amounts of money from people who want them to enact their nefarious plans. | |
| Hey, how about a few bits of bakshish for somebody who's bringing reason and evidence and peace and good parenting and good relationships and all of that to the world? | |
| How about we rational people get behind our institutions in the same way that some crazy people get behind their institutions? | |
| It's just a thought! | |
| But whoever has the most resources generally wins. | |
| An army marches on its stomach, and an army survives or fails, I guess, as people learn by continuously and foolishly invading Russia in the 20th century and before. | |
| An army succeeds or fails based on its supply lines. | |
| So I need you to pass me resources so that I can do what I do better, more powerfully, in a wider context, in a better way in the world. | |
| And you're able to achieve that at freedomandradio.com. | |
| Let me just give you a few technicals. | |
| You don't need a PayPal account. | |
| You can just use a bank card. | |
| You can use a credit card. | |
| If you have a PayPal account, it's even easier. | |
| You can sign up. | |
| It's the most helpful thing because I need to know how much money I have next month rather than up and down roller coaster. | |
| So if you sign up for a subscription, that is enormously appreciated. | |
| You know, 20 bucks a month. | |
| 20 bucks? | |
| That's like the price of a cup of coffee every two days. | |
| And hey, you get to do a significant part in helping to save Western civilization, or as I like to call it, civilization. | |
| Come on, can you give up a coffee every two days? | |
| You can find that kind of money in the back of your couch. | |
| Remember, that's the hope and change that Barack Obama promised. | |
| The change, I think, maybe fell between the seat of your car, and maybe it's in the back of your car. | |
| You know, the back pocket. | |
| You know, if you live in a cold climate like I do, every now and then you put on a winter jacket, you put your hand in the pocket and go, woohoo! | |
| Cash from last year! | |
| I mean, it's significantly diminished because of central banking, but still, I may be able to buy something with it. | |
| So please, please, I'm not asking you to dig deep. | |
| Don't send me a kidney. | |
| You know, we always have to return those. | |
| 20 bucks a month, 50 bucks a month, 10 bucks a month, whatever you can manage, whatever you can handle, that's what is important. | |
| And, um... | |
| I really, really need those resources and I'm going to do good with them and I'm going to continue to grow. | |
| Why not do 200 million next year? | |
| Lord knows it is going to be pivotal fulcrum year in the future of the planet. | |
| You know, all we've done is got onto the battlefield right now. | |
| With some decent ammunition, verbal ammunition. | |
| We've gone onto the battlefield. | |
| We haven't even really started the battle as yet. | |
| That comes over the next year or two. | |
| And for that, I need your resources. | |
| And there's really nothing we can't do together as a community. | |
| There's no amount of penetration we can't make. | |
| There's no amount of spreading a philosophy that we cannot achieve if we put our hearts and minds together into it. | |
| And so I really, really do need your resources. | |
| We've got a huge fight coming up. | |
| There's all this fake news pushback and all of these left-wing micro idiot tanks that are supposed to say, oh, this is true and this is false because Lord knows they did such a great job in the election year and around Brexit and other things. | |
| So we're going to get a lot of pushback. | |
| There's going to be an attempt to submerge this kind of information. | |
| There's going to be an attempt to use algorithms to push it further down in people's queues. | |
| And I'm gonna need resources to overcome that. | |
| So this is what is important. | |
| You can hang on to your money and then see where it goes as fiat currency takes over and as leftism takes over. | |
| Or you can take at least some portion of it, provide it to the people you care about so that they can do the great job in the world of protecting the future and protecting civilization and continuing to make the world a better place. | |
| So I look forward to your support. | |
| This is like buying war bonds in a time of intellectual combat, the like of which the world has never seen before and likely will never see again. | |
| Because if we win, I think we win for a long time. | |
| But if we lose, I fear, I really fear, we lose forever. | |
| Let us not take that approach. | |
| I mean, you get I am all in, right? | |
| I am 150% all in. | |
| And I need your level of commitment because that's what it takes to win this most essential battle of mankind. | |
| So please, please, please, my friends, give me what I need to get the job done. | |
| So let me be very clear. | |
| Eyeball to eyeball, please, will you help me out at freedomainradio.com slash donate. | |
| I have proven over the last 10 years beyond a shadow of a doubt that I am able to deliver well over 100 million views and downloads over the past year. | |
| Why not a quarter billion next year? | |
| Why not even more? | |
| There's nothing we can't do. | |
| So please, please help me out. | |
| freedomainradio.com slash donate. | |
| It's going to cost you a few bucks. | |
| We have a world to win and we can do it. |