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Sept. 12, 2018 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux

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	Welcome, everybody. Live stream.
	I enjoyed the format last time.
	I'm going to enjoy the format even more.
	Welcome to see so many friends coming in on this Tuesday night.
	Ah, Tuesday night. I'm afraid that always gets that Sheryl Crow song stuck in my head, but don't worry.
	I'm not going to get it stuck in your head as well.
	So, yeah. Let's get straight to the super chat.
	So, one super chat from Scott Woodford.
	Hey, Scott.
	How you doing? Are offended people a myth?
	That is a great question.
	That's a great question. It's hard to know what is true and what is false, Scott, when there's so much power in being offended.
	You know, if you're a rich guy and you pay for everyone every time you go out, you know, hey, let's hop on our jet skis and go to some foreign place that's really cool and we'll get you the champagne room and like caviar and all the gold you can eat.
	I mean, how do you know who's really your friend when you're paying for everything?
	How do you know who really is upset by race baiting stuff if it's still so profitable to be offended and to get upset and to get your way?
	So I don't think that offended people are a myth.
	I think that there are some people who are genuinely offended.
	But given how much power there is in being offended, if you are like, you know, it's such the opposite of when I was growing up.
	And this may be sort of a generational thing, but when I was a kid, if you got offended, you lost.
	You know, you just lost.
	If you were upset and so on, like, there's no crying in baseball.
	There's no crying in philosophy.
	And so, I don't know.
	I think that there are people who are offended for sure, but given how profitable and how powerful it is to be offended, and how much social dominance comes with being offended and hurt and upset, literally shaking, it is...
	It's tough to know. So they're less of a myth than unicorn, but they're certainly not nearly as prevalent as what What you say.
	Superchat Max Stahl asks, will open conflict break out in at least one European country due to the shenanigans of the migrant hordes?
	P.S. You're a glaring omission on the IDW list, although it isn't a treehouse club.
	Oh, I broke this code.
	I get it. The intellectual dark web.
	Intellectual dark web.
	Thug life. Intellectual dark web.
	Yeah, so the intellectual dark web is a slicey-dicey thing that the mainstream media has done to separate original thinkers into the acceptable and the unacceptable.
	It's a way of causing division.
	It's a way of saying to people, well, if you don't touch really unpleasant topics or really topics that are very uncomfortable for the left, we'll give you nice photos and so on.
	So, you know, I think it's a strategy that, I don't know whether it's working or not, but a glaring omission on the IDW list.
	Well, you know, they have their preferences, I have my preferences, and I wish them well.
	Will open conflict break out at least one European country?
	It seems likely.
	It seems likely.
	And the migrant hordes, there was some concern about Turkey releasing all of the migrants that they have stored up into Europe.
	And I'm sure that they're keeping them there as a weapon of negotiation.
	But the real hordes are yet to come.
	And the real hordes are those who will end up fleeing, not just South Africa.
	See, a lot of the blacks are going to South Africa because it's still relatively stable compared to some of the other basket cases around.
	When South Africa starts running out of food, then...
	The wave will go north, and that's going to be a big, big challenge.
	All right. We've got a lot of Super Chats here.
	Let me just grab them and snag them.
	Make sure I don't miss any here.
	And I really appreciate you guys coming in.
	Really appreciate your kind words.
	I see them. I notice them.
	I love them. It's beautiful.
	So thank you, everyone.
	Let's... Do questions.
	I kind of like this rapid-fire format.
	Not that I don't like hearing everything about people's childhoods, but...
	iHeartCryptoverse, Super Chat, says, thank you so much for your videos and especially your live chat.
	Well, I appreciate that, and I hope you guys know just how much I love what you guys allow me to do, what you encourage me to do, what you support me In doing, if you want to head over to freedomainradio.com slash donate, always gratefully, gratefully appreciate it.
	And I hope that I do you proud.
	You know, I am so aware when I record something, when I plan something, when I do the research for something, especially when I'm out there giving live speeches, like I'm going to be at the Eagle Forum in St.
	Louis this weekend, speaking on Saturday afternoon.
	There's the preview of Hoaxed for backers and so on.
	There's this Mike Cernovich's great, great A movie on fake media, fake news.
	I am very aware that I represent a community that has invested a lot in me.
	And I am really aware of carrying your reputations, your commitment, your financial support, your shares.
	And so I am very sensitive to that.
	And, you know, please let me know when I go astray.
	I always aim to do you guys proud.
	Because StephBot doth represent.
	So... Yeah, Mac and Liberty, looking forward to seeing you this weekend in St.
	Louis. Keep up the great work.
	And let me tell you something, when I go for a speech, when I go for a conference, when I go, I'm there.
	And I'm there to meet, to greet, to chat.
	Like, I'm not bungeeing in and out.
	There's no, like, backstage where you can't get.
	I'm there to chat. So, you know, bring on your talking jawbone, because I'm going to listen and I'm going to chat, and I'm looking forward to that.
	Super Chat, Eric Butler, my contribution to the truth.
	Thanks, Stefan. Thank you very much.
	Super chat, Leon. Well, okay, so this is follow-up.
	This is one of the rare follow-ups. So for the older call-in shows, you know, people are always like, hey, I wonder what happened to this guy.
	So Leon, great to hear from you.
	So Leon, he said, hey, Stefan, this is the furry from last year.
	Since that time, I've gotten married and have a kid on the way.
	So this was the sea otter.
	The guy who was a particular kind of river sea otter.
	That was his furry fetish.
	I'm going to go out on a limb here.
	Correct me if I'm wrong, Leon. When you say you've gotten married and have a kid on the way, I'm going to assume that it's not to another river otter and it's not a baby river otter that you have on the way.
	A pup, I think they're called.
	But congratulations. That is absolutely fantastic.
	Dak9554. Dab.
	Dak says, Should I quit my six-figure business to build an app that I think will change the world?
	I just had a baby six months and I live a very comfortable life.
	It depends. It depends.
	So do you have a reasonable amount of savings?
	Do you have enough to bridge you over should things go bad?
	Do you have a good enough reputation in your industry that if you can't make money on the app, can you get back into your industry?
	Do you have the opportunity of transitioning through some consulting?
	Can you work part-time? There's lots of ways to jump from one to the other.
	So when I started doing this show, I was, of course, in my car driving to work and doing my executive stuff in the software field.
	If you can find a way to ease over, I mean, it's one thing to say, you know, I'm 20.
	I have no dependents.
	I'm going to rule the world.
	It's like, okay, well, that's great.
	But if you've got a baby and if your wife doesn't work and so on, you might want to find a way to just have it be a little bit less jarring.
	Whoa, that is some bad focusing.
	Hold on a second here. Let me see if I can fix that up because...
	We are blurred out, right?
	That's not just me, isn't it?
	I don't have my glasses on. Let me see if I can fix that.
	Oh, there we go. Yeah.
	Actually, I looked younger when it was blurry.
	All right. Sorry about that. I just noticed that.
	All right. So yeah, find a way to transition as best you can because, I mean, I'm a big one for going all in, but not to the point where you can't function because you're stressed about putting food on the table.
	Super Chat, Alex May.
	Will Eastern Europe survive Arabia?
	Yes. Eastern Europe and Central Europe is very staunch when it comes to maintaining their identity, which is one of the things you get when you suffered under communism for so many decades.
	The central planners, the bureaucrats, the euros, they will come and go.
	And I do think that...
	It will survive. And it's interesting, too, when you look at the relationship between places like Hungary and the EU, just say no.
	You know, it's the old thing that the old Nancy Reagan adds about drugs, just say no.
	It's like, migrants, just say no.
	What are they going to do? They don't have an army.
	I know they want one.
	They're itching to get one.
	But the EU does not have a functioning army at the moment.
	So if you just say no, I guess they can withhold money.
	But so what? Because you're going to spend all that money on migrants anyway, so.
	Let's hear. Super Chat.
	I? Panamat I. You know, someone's going to say something that's a really rude word in a foreign language phonetically on their Super Chat name.
	I accept that as something that's going to happen and I'm willing to roll with it.
	Just wanted to say I enjoy your work also since watching your show and reading your book.
	I assume that's the art of the argument.
	I have become noticeably obnoxiously intelligent in my college.
	Thanks for that. I hope Mike lets me on your show.
	Someday. Well, I appreciate that.
	Obnoxiously intelligent. You know, when you are intelligent and right, it's one thing to be intelligent.
	It's another thing to be intelligent and right.
	And putting those two together can be a real challenge for people.
	And I do think that it's well worth it.
	Pursuing. Intelligence should be used to ruffle the feathers of complacent people.
	Otherwise, it just, you know, intelligence is going to make someone miserable.
	It might as well be others rather than you, because if you let them win, then it just makes you miserable.
	Alright, Super Chat. Luke Battiston has asked, in your estimation, where does generalized anxiety come from?
	How is it different from nervous anticipation?
	Alright, now that's a great question.
	So nervous anticipation is, you know, like when I'm going to go and give a speech...
	I get excited even before sitting down doing these live chats.
	I want to make sure I'm ready and I'm looking forward to it.
	I'm a little nervous because I want to do a good job.
	And so that's nervous anticipation.
	It's like the little boost of adrenaline that gets you going so that you can perform at your peak, at your best.
	That's good stuff. Generalized anxiety usually has to do with the presence, in my opinion, with the presence of some form of predation.
	In your environment.
	Somebody's exploiting you.
	Somebody is using you.
	Somebody is belittling you.
	Somebody is standing between you and your dreams.
	You know, a lot of people floating around the world, like the tiny little hungry vampiric Mosquitoes of dream killing, you know?
	Like, they won't say, your dreams suck, you're never gonna get...
	They're just like, oh, that's interesting.
	Yeah, well, good luck, I guess.
	You know, like, just slightly damp.
	Slightly damp. More fires are put out by a slight damp chill than by any negative downpour of hostility.
	And so I think the generalized anxiety is you're in danger.
	And the danger can be objective.
	Like, maybe you are.
	People are out to get you or whatever.
	But generally that's not generalized anxiety.
	Generalized anxiety is when I think you have a danger in your environment that you haven't identified and therefore acted on in an effective way.
	So I would say that if you feel that kind of generalized anxiety, do your scan for danger, do your scan for risk, do your scan for problems around you, people who are hostile, people who are undermining you, people who aren't enthusiastic.
	for what it is that you want to do with your life or who you are not enthusiastic to support and that would be the first place.
	It probably isn't the last place but it certainly is the first place that I would look and that certainly was like when I had insomnia Lordy, lordy, lordy, that's a long time ago now.
	I think it was about 16 or so years ago.
	I had about 16 months of terrible insomnia and it's because I was sleepwalking through my life.
	It's because I was not fulfilling my potential because the fulfillment of my potential came at the extreme cost of the egos of those around me, right?
	So Those around me thought that they were superior to me, thought that I was a bit of a fool and thought that, you know, I was just some randroid and didn't think for myself and so on.
	And so they were just all kind of keeping me down.
	Just all kind of keeping me down.
	I had a friend at the time.
	It's funny, you know, it feels very screw tape letterish if you've ever read the C.S. Lewis book.
	It was a friend who was kind of...
	It was a guy I worked with. He was kind of a shallow guy.
	But he started getting into self-knowledge, started talking about his dreams, started reading Jung, and had the most amazing dreams.
	He had a dream where he was...
	Entering a city to conquer it.
	He conquered the city and then he found a tiny model of the city right in the center of the city that he couldn't conquer.
	Talk about your true self.
	It's amazing. It's a great dream.
	So he was really coming to life.
	He was coming alive. And then there was this other guy who was kind of dragging, who was trying to drag him back to a world of useless sports viewing and drinking and just like nothing.
	And that guy actually sat down with me once and he said, you and I are fighting for the soul of this guy.
	You and I are fighting for the soul of this guy, and I'm gonna win.
	And he did. And he did.
	So there were people around me who their ego was invested in being superior to me.
	And when you have those people around you in your life, they will do just about anything to keep you down.
	And so if you have a dream in your heart, a song in your mind, whatever it is, Just keep pushing, keep being great, keep expanding, keep extending.
	And if people stay with you, fantastic.
	They can be invigorated and inspired by your example.
	But most likely, especially people who knew you when you were younger and who are alarmed at your potential, those people will try to hold you back, will try to hold you down.
	And I would say, well, you have a choice.
	You can stay small. And you can feed the egos of others, or you can be everything that you were intended to be.
	You can extend and expand your powers, your opportunities, your abilities, your strength, and take the consequences as they come, which I think is well worth it.
	Super Chat for $5 from Fikarg Smith Omniscience.
	No message. Well, I appreciate that.
	Thank you very much. Superchat.
	Raymond Martin says, So you sand and sand and sand.
	What do you end up with?
	A pile of dust. The death of the good for the sake of the perfect.
	This principle has changed my life.
	Oh! Oh, perfectionism, man.
	Oh, man. It is...
	I have such a love-hate relationship with perfectionism because I want every single time, I want it to be the very best thing that I can conceivably do.
	And not just that I can conceivably do, I want it to be the very best thing that can be done with human intellect, with communication, with philosophy, with commitment, with passion, with humor, you name it.
	I want it to be like every podcast is Bohemian Rhapsody, right?
	That's what I aim for.
	Obviously, I think I achieve it a lot of times, at least as far as that's about as good as I can do at the time.
	But nonetheless, like, let me give you an example.
	Here's a little sort of behind-the-scenes view at my process.
	So I did this video on Jim Carrey talking about the wonders of socialism.
	And he said, you shouldn't have to lose your home because your mom gets sick.
	Except his mom was sick, as he's pointed out.
	She was a drug addict, an opiate addict, a painkiller addict, I think it was.
	And he did end up being homeless.
	And this is one of these truths in denial stories that is really quite...
	Common in life.
	And so I did this video, I had this idea beforehand, and I forgot to note it down, and usually I'll remember, but because I went so deep into self-knowledge at the end of that video, I forgot.
	And it was like an hour and a half later, I was like, oh man!
	I forgot to put that great point in where he says, you shouldn't lose your house because your mom gets sick.
	But I'm sure that Jim Carrey becoming homeless as a child had something to do with his mom being sick.
	So in a socialized environment, socialized medicine environment, he did lose his house because his mom was sick.
	Anyway, so... And part of me is like, oh!
	Like, I did that once.
	Which video was it?
	I think it was Maleficent or something.
	No, it was... Oh, yeah, that's right.
	It was... Beauty and the Beast.
	I had an idea after, like it was almost ready to go.
	I had an idea and I had to pull it down and re-record, not re-record, record something and insert it and all that.
	You can see the gaps in there. It was about the guy where love is death and so on.
	So it's tough.
	You know, you try and do the very best with the ideas you have at the time, but there's no question that sometimes, and it can be like an hour after you publish it, you're like, oh man, here's a great idea.
	Maybe I can put it in somewhere else.
	And so that does happen for sure.
	So I understand the search for perfection is all very well.
	But to look for heaven is to live here in hell.
	Aim to be great. Aim to do your maximum.
	Recognize it's going to improve.
	And when you get those, you just have to recognize that that's you trying to become better.
	And you've got to shed that regret like a snake shedding its skin.
	Super Chat, long-time listener, says, I appreciate you for expanding my thoughts and the great guests you have introduced me to, like Owen Benjamin, Jordan Peterson, and Lauren Southern, to name a few.
	Thank you much.
	I appreciate that. Thank you very much.
	It's a great... I love talking to you guys as well, but the privilege to speak to such brilliant people is a great honor for me as well, and I think very useful to the audience as well.
	And because I want to serve philosophy, I want to serve humanity as a whole, it's not like, well...
	I don't want you listening to those guys, because that interferes with you listening to me.
	You know, there's more than enough ears to go around on the planet.
	And stuff that you can get from Jordan Peterson is going to be some different stuff than you can get from me.
	Stuff you get from Lauren Southern, it's going to be different than you get from me.
	And it always, I think, a great tapestry of possibility.
	All right, Super Chat.
	Samuel Condre says, how can I get tickets to see you in St.
	Louis? I can't find it on Freedomain Radio.
	The answer is, are you ready?
	FDRURL.com forward slash Eagle Forum.
	FDRURL.com forward slash Eagle Forum.
	Get them quick. I think they're close to be out.
	All right. Super Chat.
	Matt says, Eric Weinstein replied to your earlier tweet saying he neither avows nor disavows you.
	He's just unfamiliar with your work.
	He's a fantastic thinker.
	Will you reach out to establish a dialogue?
	I don't know. I've not really thought about it much.
	He's followed me on Twitter for about a year.
	I don't know how he's unfamiliar with my work if he's followed me on Twitter for about a year or so.
	Maybe he follows people to ignore them.
	Maybe they're shadow banning his followers.
	I don't know. So when someone says something that to me doesn't hang together, like, oh, I don't know who the heck this guy is who I've been following for about a year, I don't really know what to say.
	Like when you start a relationship, a potential relationship off with something...
	I mean, maybe he follows me and has no idea what I talk about, although it's not like the titles of the shows are completely different from the content, right?
	So I'm not usually that heavily inclined to begin to approach people who I'm not sure are telling the exact and whole truth the first time I interact with them.
	So we'll see. We'll see. I mean, we'll probably run into each other and find that we like each other, but, you know, sometimes that's tougher on the internet.
	All right. Superchats.
	Igor Kravchenko.
	You ask socialists, have you ever run a business?
	Similar to advocating peaceful parenting.
	Being met with, have you ever had kids?
	Now, that is a great question.
	Now, the important thing is, if somebody tells me that they follow Austrian economics, that they're very much into private property, free market, and that kind of stuff, I don't say, have you ever run a business?
	Because they're correct.
	But when someone says...
	Owning a business, to profit from owning a business, you must exploit the workers by paying the workers less than the value of their labor.
	Then I have to say, well, have you ever run a business?
	Because what they're saying makes no sense.
	Of course, you should not pay workers everything that they're producing because you have to build a factory and you have to pay for that too, right?
	So the reason I ask socialists who run a business is because they're wrong.
	Now, peaceful parenting being met with, have you ever had kids?
	Well, one answer to that is, do you think slavery is wrong?
	Yes. Have you ever had slaves?
	Hmm. Do you think that beating up your girlfriend is wrong?
	Yes. Have you ever beaten up your girlfriend?
	You can have moral opinions without having gone through the experience.
	Of course, in fact, you have to have those moral opinions before you go through the experience because you don't want to find out that beating up your girlfriend is wrong after you beat up your girlfriend.
	You want to know that ahead of time.
	So you have to figure out how to be a parent according to moral standards before you become a parent because otherwise you're trying to build the plane after you're leaving the ground.
	So, all right. Super chat from Silly Goose, who says, I noticed that race and IQ seems to go in order of the widespread use of written language.
	Is that relevant?
	Well, I think it's one of these circular relationships.
	So, there are a number...
	I actually wrote a whole novel about this called Just Poor, about the geniuses in history whose work we enormously benefit from, whose names we don't even know.
	Like, who was the first dude to say...
	Fire is good.
	Rub sticks, rub sticks, rub sticks.
	You know, and next thing you know, you have the capacity to control fire.
	First guy to invent soap.
	The first person to figure out written language, to start to communicate that way.
	The first one to tie language to abstractions.
	Like I was just telling my daughter the other day, that once at night, when she was very, very young, Once at night I was standing with her at the top of stairs and there was a skylight.
	And through the skylight you could see the moon.
	And we were standing.
	I was just rocking her. She was just a baby.
	And she looked up and she said, moon.
	And I looked down at her.
	And what I saw was the most amazing.
	I looked down and I saw the two little gleams of the moon reflected in her eyes.
	I was coming down through the skylight into her eyes.
	So she was saying moon at the same time as two little moons were showing up in her eyeballs.
	And I thought, what a wonderful example of the connection between abstractions and And sense data and the mind.
	Like the idea was in her mind, the moon was in the sky, and the two little reflections of the moon looked like they were deep in her brain.
	It was an amazing, amazing experience.
	And so, yeah, people who began to figure this stuff out.
	Once you figure out written language...
	Then what happens is those who are better with written language do better as a whole, right?
	They can begin to trade. They can keep ledgers.
	They can record ideas so they don't have to keep reinventing the wheel.
	They can write down the safe plants.
	They can begin to codify and store their knowledge.
	And that means that those who are better at reading will generally have greater reproductive success.
	And so the invention of reading really helps, I think, spur up IQ. But of course, it takes a certain amount of This is what I was talking about in Australia.
	Don't kill your geniuses.
	You know, don't kill your geniuses.
	Now, the West, of course, has killed its fair share of geniuses, but we're a little bit better than most.
	There's a lot of geniuses who do get killed, but we do let enough of ours live that we can have significant progress.
	At least for now. So yes, I think that there is some relationship.
	When written language spreads, you get smarter people doing better, which increases the spread of written language.
	So that is fantastic.
	All right. So let me get here a little bit more.
	Super Chat from Jay Mello.
	They call him I wish I could contribute more, but Brazilian currency doesn't help me, even though.
	Thank you so much for all your hard work.
	So, I mean, this brings us to the topic of supporting philosophy, supporting the show.
	Now, there's lots you can do if you don't have philosophy.
	Money, right? I mean, for whatever reason, and for heaven's sakes, if you don't have a lot of money, don't send it to me, right?
	Keep it for yourself, keep it for books, keep it for food, keep it for, you know, the donations for people who have some capacity to donate without them having to switch from whole wheat to white bread or some god-awful compromise, so...
	I would say that, you know, talk about philosophy.
	If you want to talk about the show, fantastic.
	If you want to share the show, that's fantastic.
	If you just want to share the ideas, there's lots you can do to help philosophy, which is really the important thing, rather than just helping me.
	There's lots you can do that doesn't have anything to do with spending money.
	So just remember that.
	Though I appreciate the thought. I really do appreciate the sentiment.
	I appreciate the idea, but...
	It is not essential.
	The philosophy is not only served by cash donations to what it is that I do, although, of course, I gratefully appreciate it.
	Superchat, Ryan Walker asks, do you believe paying down private debt is more important than paying public debt in a country?
	Now, by that, I think he's asking, should you be as debt-free in your personal life?
	Well, yeah. Now, of course, the people who pay down their own debts Unless you just want to send your money off to the government to pay down the public debt, which they won't pay it down.
	They'll just use it as collateral to borrow more.
	I would say trying to be as debt-free as possible is a good thing.
	That having been said, there's some caveats.
	Like, you know, if you borrow $10,000 to invest in Bitcoin in 2011, well, that probably was a debt worth getting into, right?
	If you borrow to have a house, then that can be a very good investment relative to Renting a place or whatever, right?
	If you're going to rent a place, then you should take the money that you were going to put on a down payment and invest it somewhere or find some way to grow it if it's in yourself or whatever it is.
	But I'm not that hostile to debt, as long as your debt is not just in goofy consumer stuff.
	You know, like going into debt for a bigger television...
	That's kind of retarded. You shouldn't do that.
	You know, going into debt to buy a better computer so you can be a better web developer or programmer and so on, you know, so when you go into debt, just try and make sure it's something that is not just a consumer good, that is not something that's going to depreciate.
	Going into debt to buy an expensive car, not really a great idea because the car's going to depreciate.
	So if you're going to go into debt, do it to have a roof over your head, do it to, you know, going into debt to...
	To get educated, like I took the Humber School for Writers course and I borrowed some money from my retirement savings to do that, had to pay it back, but it was worth it because I had a good teacher and really helped me sort of figure out how to write better and all of that.
	So, yeah, I think paying down your private debt is good and try to limit your debt to something that is going to increase in value over time.
	So... Superchat Jokul says, how does it feel knowing that you and Mike might be responsible for Trump being elected, given how close the race was in so many swing states?
	Well, that's pretty wild.
	That is pretty wild.
	I think that Trump...
	He has been doing somewhat fairly well.
	Where he has been doing well is in the economy, and I know some of these GDP numbers and growth and jobs and unemployment numbers are a little bit fudgy, a little bit fungible, let's say, but he has been doing a great job in that.
	And what that does, of course, is it gets more people into working and fewer people on welfare.
	The more people who are working, the more people want smaller government.
	And this is something I talked about even in the election, that the soft landing is trying to convert as many people from being dependent on the government to being productive.
	And that's a great way to slow down or reverse the size and power of the state.
	So, yeah. Definitely a collective effort from a lot of people, yourselves included, those of you who are interested and shared the ideas.
	But it's pretty cool.
	It's pretty cool. Not just for the positive stuff that Trump has done, but for the absence of the negative stuff that Hillary has done.
	I mean, if you look at what's going on in social media and people like Roosh V got his books yanked from Amazon, which is horrendous, this sort of modern book burning where you basically just...
	What do you do? You just vanish.
	Like, you just vanish.
	You go down the memory hole. There was a book there.
	Now there's no longer a book there.
	It's there. It's gone.
	It's vanished. It's remarkable and terrifying.
	At least when there's book burning, there's a glow.
	There's some heat. There's pictures.
	You know, like you've seen these terrifying books, these terrifying videos of Nazis burning books and so on.
	At least there's visuals.
	At least something is visually being destroyed that you can recoil from.
	But just, you go to the website, it's like 404, not available.
	And it's like, this unpersoning is really kind of chilling.
	And something that Solzhenitsyn said in the Gulag Apicalogo was, archipelago, sorry, was that he said, so many times they would come for you, the secret police, Stalin's secret police.
	He said, they come for you in the middle of the night.
	And people would just vanish.
	Like, you'd wake up the next morning, hey, where's Ivan?
	Oh, he's gone.
	And he said, how many times have I thought that if people had just raised a fuss, if they'd fought back, if they'd done something, that it would have been very quickly impossible to control the population in this kind of way?
	And we have to raise a fuss about, you know, like their books, don't like the books, absolutely irrelevant.
	This guy should not be having his books yanked.
	He should not be having his books yanked from Amazon.
	That's not part of the agreement that people enter into.
	Well, you know, if we just don't like it, vanish, right?
	I don't know if, I mean, as far as I know, there's no particular explanation.
	If there is, then, you know, that's one thing, but as far as I know...
	Just got vanished. And of course, they're going to choose people where you say, well, I don't agree with everything, or I don't agree with much, or I don't like him at all.
	It's like, well, of course! Of course they're going to start attacking people like that.
	I mean, everybody has a temptation to say it.
	I'm sure I've said it too, but we've got to avoid that temptation.
	Like, of course he's the least popular person around.
	Of course, right? They're not coming from Oprah, right?
	They're not coming for...
	Santa Claus Letterman's new show or something like that.
	They're going to come for whoever's the least popular, whoever's the hardest to defend.
	That's natural.
	So, no. This is wrong.
	It's absolutely wrong. And it would be a lot worse if Hillary was in power.
	So, yes, I am quite proud of that.
	Superchat, end quick, says, Stefan, are you ever annoyed by the amount of prattling that self-proclaimed educated people do?
	Hmm. So, many years ago, oh boy, I can't remember the name of the movie.
	It was something like Hollywood Shuffle. I saw...
	It was a movie made by a black guy.
	It was actually a good movie, and it was about how black men are stereotyped in Hollywood.
	And... There was one black guy came in for an audition and he was like, well, I've gone to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts and I studied under Gielgud and I've done this and I've done that and all this education, right?
	And then he sat down, gave a terrible reading and it was like, you are like the most educated and worst actor I've ever seen in my life.
	And that to me is a lot of what education is.
	I will tell you straight up, Almost nothing that I provide of value to the world came through any formal education that I got.
	I mean, it breaks my heart even just thinking about it.
	Almost nothing that I provide of value to the world through this show has anything to do with any formal education that I received.
	And that's really tragic.
	And so for most people, when they say, well, I have a PhD or I have a master's or something, I just assume that they're more wrong.
	They're just like, that's more, could be wrong.
	You know, there's some people who, you know, Tom Woods has a doctorate and is obviously a very smart guy and has amazing things to say and very charismatic speaker and all of that.
	But for the most part, right?
	But for the most part, more education means more error, more propaganda, more, you know, and that's, they dangle this piece of paper in front of you that says you can make more money, but to make more money, to get this piece of paper, you have to lie terribly, and you have to believe terrible lies as well, so.
	All right. Superchat Jason Hornbuckle says, well that's a swashbuckling name, some claim that libido drops in long-term monogamous marriage especially when kids come into the picture.
	Is this true and necessary in your opinion or just a result of unhealthy relationships?
	Well if you're a dude, get your testosterone checked.
	Get your testosterone checked.
	Yes, sexual activity in general It's going to be somewhat less when kids come into the picture, particularly when they're babies, right?
	They're up all night and it's leaky and it's messy and everyone's tired and so on.
	And that's fine. That's totally fine.
	It's a different kind of intimacy.
	Lots of intimacies other than just sexual intimacy.
	I know you guys all know that, but I just want to sort of remind...
	Everyone else or people who are new to this.
	The intimacy of lying together and holding a baby and watching that baby sleep peacefully or not sleep peacefully or be awake and screaming and so on.
	There's a real intimacy. We made this.
	There's a person here.
	We made a person. This is incredible.
	It's an incredible thing.
	And so there's a kind of intimacy in terms of all of that.
	Now, as far as sexual desire in a long-term relationship, there should be no reason that it drops.
	No reason whatsoever that it drops.
	And it should, in fact, go the other way, because you're getting better at knowing what the other person likes.
	So I would not do that.
	And it is... It is a big problem, you know, just to get straight up men's issues here.
	If a man...
	Like, if a woman says to a man, I'm going to stay home and raise your kids, but you've got to make the money.
	Obviously, somebody does, right? Now, if he just stops giving her paychecks...
	If he just stops giving her paychecks...
	A friend of mine, his wife did that, and he used to make her go into his underpants to get his paycheck, which I think gave him a circumcised paper cut or something like that.
	It's kind of funny. But...
	If she says, I'm staying home, you've got to make the money, then he's got to make the money, right?
	Or he's kind of broken the vow, right?
	And if a woman in a long-term relationship, it's a marriage or whatever, if she just starts withholding sex, well, that is breaking your vows.
	That is, you know, you can't do that.
	You can't do that. I mean, you have to find out what's going wrong.
	And you have, like, assuming the guy didn't have an affair or she's traumatized or something like that.
	But if she's just... I've decided not to have sex with you anymore.
	It's like, well, the man's kind of hosed then, right?
	Because where's he gonna go?
	What's he gonna do? And the woman, if the man decides to stop giving her money, she can divorce him and take it anyway.
	But if a man in a monogamous relationship, if the woman just stops having sex with him, what is he going to do?
	And ladies, absolutely unfair.
	Divorce the guy, maybe. Then he's at least free to go and have sex with other people.
	But you cannot break your vows in that way where you're just like, I'm not having sex with you anymore.
	Maybe you're having problems.
	Maybe you dislike each other. But you can find ways.
	Around that, you can go to therapy.
	You can figure out what's going on.
	Maybe the sex isn't that great.
	You can figure out what you like or be more honest about what you like.
	But this, I'm upset with you, therefore I'm not going to have sex with you, is a huge disaster, massively unfair to the man and is actually quite common.
	There are a lot of sexless relationships, a lot of sexless marriages out there, and it's terrible.
	Super tat, shield wife, Steph, what was your favorite D&D character?
	Well, I will tell you about two.
	I didn't like the Wizards so much, because it's like, I'm gonna hang back and cast a spell.
	You know, I kind of like being up there, sword and shield, frontline, you know, like you've got the fighters up front, and then you've got the wizards and the clerics healing it.
	It's just like I cast a spell.
	It's not as cool as I'm going to hit him on the head with the broadsword and roll the dice.
	So I was much more into the frontline gambling because D&D is just a kind of abstract gambling.
	So my first character that I kind of lasted with...
	Oh, man, this is so sad.
	I shouldn't tell you. I shouldn't tell you guys.
	When I do this, my daughter casts a truth spell on me.
	So truth spell, okay. So...
	I had a dwarf, and this is, I guess, I was...
	I so vividly remember...
	Gosh, I can't even tell you guys this.
	I so vividly remember being over the first night playing Dungeons& Dragons.
	The campaign was called Caves of Chaos.
	I was a fighter, and I remember we came across some orcs, and they said, oh, there are people with pig faces and so on.
	I so vividly remember that.
	It was astounding. It literally popped into my life like IMAX in the brain, and boy, that's not a sign of...
	The addiction to vivid fantasy life and stuff that doesn't cost you much money, you know, greasy pizza, some RC Cola, and you're good to go for like six hours, eight hours maybe.
	So I had a dwarf named Sarek, and it's sad that I remember this like 40 years later, but I had a dwarf named Sarek who had eight hit points, and can I tell you, this is so sad, so sad.
	So in Dungeons& Dragons, I don't know if you do it now, but back in the day when you'd go up a level, which took a long time, a lot of work, when you go up a level, you roll a dice, To figure out how many more hit points you have.
	So I had to roll an eight-sided.
	I got up to third level. I had to roll an eight-sided dice twice more.
	I started with eight. And the first time, I rolled a one.
	And the second time, I rolled a three.
	And I tell you, that stuck with me for a while.
	Like, I am so unlucky.
	Because, you know, I could have had up to 24 hit points.
	But I didn't. I had 13, which is, you know, vulnerable.
	So that character ended up dying.
	A guy who later became a professor of engineering was our dungeon master, which meant that there was no pity from the engineer.
	So I was guarding the rear as we were escaping a bugbear lair, and I just got cut down.
	And yeah, that was kind of rough.
	But my long-term character was Argoth.
	Argoth was a paladin, as you can imagine.
	So a paladin, a holy knight, a And has healing powers and has, like, really, really cool stuff going on.
	Can wield some amazing weapons.
	And I played that guy, man, all the way to the sky.
	And... I remember, I guess I finally sort of stopped playing when I was about 16 or so, maybe 15 or 16.
	And I remember I played Argoth, the paladin, all the way to the point where he became a demigod.
	Like, he did a service, he killed evil dudes, and then he got elevated to demigod status, and then that was sort of the end of it.
	But, yeah, that was my favorite D&D character.
	And... It was really cool.
	And I rolled well for him.
	So he made up for Sarek.
	Oh, I can't believe these ladies.
	We had a guy, too, when we were playing Dungeons& Dragons who was an amazing artist.
	He actually became an artist. And he used to do these cartoons.
	He used to do these cartoons.
	Oh, man. OK. I could do this all night.
	I'm going to stop after this one.
	One more story. So the guy who did cartoons for our Dungeons& Dragons campaigns, they were pretty funny, actually.
	I wish I still had some.
	I'm sure they're somewhere around. But anyway, so I was into Pink Floyd's The Wall.
	I got into it because a cousin of mine in South Africa...
	Played it when I was...
	No, I was 16. Yeah, I was still playing.
	No, no, I was 16 or so.
	Yeah, I was 16. So I went to South Africa when I was 16.
	My cousin played...
	I'd heard Another Brick in the Wall Part 2, you know, We Don't Need No Education.
	But he played it to me, and I loved The Helicopter and Stand Still, Laddie!
	It's great music. Dark, dark music, but great music.
	And I used to listen to Side 3 of The Wall...
	Every night before going to bed.
	And... Oh, drown out.
	Family fights and all that.
	But also the music was great.
	Anyway, so... The guy who was doing the cartoons for our Dungeons& Dragons...
	It became a running gag how much I liked this album.
	And my brother actually hid it for me for quite some time.
	Which I can understand in a way.
	But... He drew a picture of us playing Dungeons& Dragons.
	There was something... And in the background...
	It was from the song Mother.
	Mother's gonna make all of your nightmares come true.
	And there was that wafting out.
	And my mother was cleaning up or tidying or something and found this and completely freaked out.
	And we had to sort of explain to her it was on an album.
	I like the album. Like it was wasted because she thought it was about her.
	Mama's gonna make all of your nightmares come true.
	Well, it kind of was, but we had to kind of, oh, no, it's just on an album.
	I just like the music. I didn't really notice the lyrics.
	All right, so all of this work that has to be done when you have a leak.
	Superchat, Krillin876, what do you think of the British singer Morrissey?
	Do you still talk to Peter Schiff?
	I spoke to you when you filled in for his show.
	I do talk with Peter Schiff, and I like Peter a lot.
	What do I think of the British singer Morrissey?
	Talented guy, a very interesting singing voice, just wanted to point out, and boy, oh boy, oh boy, I was just, it's funny, it's an odd coincidence, because I was just listening, cranked up last weekend in the car, to the greatest, one of the greatest songs ever written,
	and one of the greatest recordings ever done, which is the Smith's How Soon Is Now, with this Banshee wail of a guitar and these amazing drums and just an amazing, amazing piece of music, like gloriously powerful piece of music.
	And Morrissey did it in like two takes, which is, you know, he got some notes and so on, and he just went in and they did it in like two takes.
	It was an amazing, amazing thing.
	And I'm going to grab the lyrics here because the lyrics are just fantastic for that.
	That song. And I am human and I need to be loved just like anybody else does.
	It's an incredible piece of lyrics.
	Let me just see here. Welcome to my forehead.
	My five head. And it's one of these songs, nobody ever knows the lyrics until the internet, right?
	I am the sun and the air of a shyness that is criminally vulgar.
	I am the sun and air of nothing in particular.
	Of course, everyone thinks it's I am the sun and the air, you know, like some elements and so on.
	You shut your mouth. How can you say I go about things the wrong way?
	I am human and I need to be loved just like everybody else does.
	So you shut your mouth like somebody who gets no feedback.
	Like you're kind of going about trying to get love the wrong way.
	You shut your mouth. I deserve to be loved.
	You know, that's really tragic.
	That's somebody with no input who can't be negotiated with and who's terrifyingly self-attacky to the point where they have to pretend to be certain.
	But there's an amazing piece of lyric here where he says, there's a club if you'd like to go, you could meet somebody who really loves you.
	So you go, and you stand on your own, and you leave on your own, and you go home, and you cry, and you want to die.
	What a snip!
	What a snapshot of depressed, self-hating, goth nihilism.
	You know, I go to a club to meet someone who loves me.
	You stand on your own. You leave.
	You don't do anything. You don't interact with anyone.
	You don't bust out any dance moves.
	You don't smile. You just stand there in the corner being cadaverous.
	And you leave on your own, and you go home, and you cry, and you want to die.
	That's how lonely you are, but you can't reach through the glass of your own nihilism to grab anyone in the world and get their attention and be someone of value.
	And he says, regarding love, When you say it's gonna happen now, well, what exactly do you mean?
	See, I've already waited too long and all my hope is gone.
	Waited, waited, waited.
	Now, of course, This is about mom.
	Come on. This is about mom.
	This is about somebody lying in a crib, crying and crying.
	No one's coming. No one's helping.
	No one's listening. It is amazing.
	Now, this charming man's a great song, too.
	This is fun. But I think he is an amazing singer, an amazing performer.
	There is a kind of terrifying negativity and nihilism to him a little bit that I'm not sure I've really figured out.
	I don't really know much about his childhood and his history and all of that.
	But I am...
	I don't know a lot of the Smith songs.
	But the ones that I have heard, I really like.
	And again, How Soon Is Now?
	Man, I remember dancing to that as a teenager at nightclubs, like I used to start going to nightclubs.
	I've got a high forehead. I used to start going to discos and nightclubs when I was like 15 years old.
	And I remember I was considered to be a bit of a nerd until all of the high school kids came in and I was like busting moves on the dance floor, picking up girls and all of that, chasing women like you're supposed to at that age.
	And suddenly I was like the cool kid and, you know, it's funny how things change.
	But I remember dancing to How Soon Is Now and just like, ah, that is glorious, absolutely glorious music and very powerful.
	So, yeah, I would say that I'm a fan of certainly some of their work.
	All right. Super Chat, Mac and Liberty says, I'm involved with politics as a libertarian and truth seeker.
	I'm also a cosplayer.
	That community is very leftist.
	People want to keep hobbies and politics separate.
	But I do both and love it.
	Any advice? Well, the first advice, my friend, I would give to myself.
	Because after the traps comment of the last show, I have to make sure I'm using the right terminology.
	So I thought you meant trapezoids, like muscles.
	Turns out that is not what is being referred to.
	So when it comes to cosplay, I think I saw...
	A couple of people talk about it online.
	Costume play! It's a performance art in which participants called cosplayers wear self-made costumes and fashion accessories to represent a specific character.
	So, I don't know.
	See... I can see that being fun, you know, like people who do live-action role-playing, you know, like female athletes.
	And when I was in theatre school, I was friends with a guy, and we went...
	Actually, it's kind of funny, though.
	We dressed up as uber-nerds, like thick-rimmed glasses, pocket protectors, like just...
	And then we went to a very funky nightclub, and I'm a good dancer, but we just danced really badly, but really enthusiastically.
	And I think people didn't quite know what to make of us, but we had a lot of fun doing it, and we ended up chatting with some women who were, you know, we were playing the nerds, but kind of not, and they were kind of fascinated by whether it was real or not.
	I guess that was cosplaying, but that was a fun night for sure, and ended up in a very fun place.
	So, cosplayer is very leftist.
	See, the interesting question is, why?
	Our cosplay is very leftist.
	And I think leftism comes out of a fundamentally...
	It's a fundamental insecurity about whether you can make it in the world.
	Can you make it in the world?
	So going back to the Jim Carrey thing that I was talking about earlier, so Jim Carrey looks at his mother and sees a wonderful, fragile, smashed-up person, you know, like one of these, they call them the moth women in Tennessee Williams Place.
	They're attracted to the light, but they burn up in the light.
	And these hyper-fragile people is kind of what the welfare state brings into society.
	Like, that's why people feel that there's such a need for the welfare state, because all these broken people out there who can't make it, who can't survive.
	Well, what if you just get sick?
	It's like, doesn't anybody love you?
	Don't you have any health care insurance?
	You know, like, why?
	You know, but they're just isolated and fragile and doomed and, you know.
	So keeping this insecurity alive is foundational to the growth of state power.
	And if you believe...
	That you can make it in the free market, you'll be keen for a free market.
	And if you believe that the free market is going to destroy you, you're never going to be able to compete, you're going to starve.
	I remember some girl many years ago when I was auditioning for the National Theatre School, there were like three rounds of auditions and it was really brutal.
	And I met a girl...
	Who was in the first round of auditions and we chatted and we went for a coffee and all that.
	And then I went to go and work up north for the summer and she wrote to me.
	And part of the way that she...
	She actually had some amazing writing to me because she was really into...
	And she actually really did introduce me to musical theater.
	And I remember that she wrote to me the most creative and wonderful letters.
	Really imaginative woman.
	And one of them was...
	Oh, you know, there's this song, Revolution, by the Beatles, you know, you say you want a revolution, well, you know.
	And he says, compare this to Les Miserables, you know, where it's like, you're going to take down the bourgeoisie and rip their heads off with a piece of sawdust or something.
	And I just remember she had...
	She wrote me flirty emails where she redacted, like she cut out letters about the things that...
	Anyway, it was really... She was a very fun person.
	But one thing she did write to me was she said, you know, well, you're probably going to be, you know, ruling Broadway while I'm sleeping in a bus shelter.
	Like, she was really trying to build me up.
	And there was kind of ego feeding and so on, which was alarming, right?
	People who praise you that much, it's dangerous.
	It's not... They're trying to...
	Yeah. Yeah.
	Yeah. Yeah. Why can't you just be with people?
	And there probably is a similar insecurity or I have to be me plus.
	Like, I can only survive if it's me plus the welfare state.
	I can only be interesting if it's me plus this costume and so on.
	And again, not just saying all costumes are bad, but if it becomes kind of a habitual thing, I wonder if there's not this insecurity.
	Because if we can solve the problem of insecurity, we get a free market, we get freedom.
	All right. Superchat.
	Celine... Banken says, can women who cannot have their own kids help change the future of kids?
	My dear, my dear, of course, of course, of course, of course.
	In fact, you can do it more than women who have children.
	Now, first of all, if you want to have kids and you can't have kids, which is a common problem.
	What was I just reading that since the 1970s, male sperm counts have declined significantly.
	59% I think it is.
	I mean, it's a huge public health issue.
	But, so first of all, Celine, if you want to have kids and you can have kids, I wish to extend my very deepest sympathies.
	That is a very, very hard and very sad thing, and I've Understand.
	It's a very, very difficult thing, so I really wanted to sympathize with you about that.
	But because you can't have kids, you have a lot more time than people who do have kids, so you can do things like promote peaceful parenting, anti-spanking messages, you can talk to people, you can post, you can do a lot.
	You can start a charity if you want.
	You can do a lot to spread the message, more so than people who are bound up with having kids.
	So yes, you certainly, certainly can.
	So Superchat Abix says, after listening to your many podcasts, I'm still so scared of living.
	I think she means leaving. Leaving my toxic family.
	How can I overcome this fear?
	Again, massive sympathies, my friend, for your toxic family.
	That is a terrible way to start life.
	Yeah, that which doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
	But, you know, people still don't go around pounding their knees with two-by-fours because they're stronger for overcoming it.
	You still don't want that kind of suffering.
	So, here's the question, right?
	So when you, if you, like, so you have a toxic family, and you want to leave your toxic family, family of origin, I assume you're talking about, not your husband or whatever, or wife.
	Here's the question. When you grow up in a toxic family, how do you know whose feelings are who?
	Whose feelings are whose?
	This is a very, very important question.
	With Jim Carrey, as I talked about, I think it was his mother's preference for socialized medicine so that she could have the government as her dealer, and he just absorbs that, and he thinks those are his feelings.
	He genuinely thinks those are his feelings.
	If you're scared of leaving your toxic family, how do you know the emotion is actually yours?
	In other words, how do you know it's not their emotion?
	That they are implanting a fear in you of leaving them so that you'll stick around without them having to become better people.
	Because if a relationship is hanging by a thread, then you should try and be, if you want to keep the relationship, you should try and be a better person, right?
	Obviously. If you don't want to become a better person, you can kind of terrorize the other person into being afraid of what's going to happen if they leave.
	And, like, people do this—I mean, I'm sure you've—if you've been in a bunch of relationships and broken up with someone, they will often say, like, if you say, well, I want to leave, and you get up and you, oh, yeah, that's right, walk away, that's what you always do, you know, people will give you this curse.
	Like, if you leave them, you are— Playing out some psychodrama that you're never going to be free of and it's just another running away.
	It's like...
	You know, I mean...
	So you're walking down a dark alley and some guy jumps to you with a knife and wants to take your wallet and you run away.
	Oh yeah, run away.
	That's what you always do. It's like, yeah, I do that.
	People have a knife and I want my wallet.
	So another thing that people do when they try to give you these voodoo curses when you want to leave a toxic relationship...
	And they say things like, well, the one common denominator in all your failed relationships is you.
	And it's like, yes, that means I choose bad people, so I shouldn't choose you.
	I've got to go find better people to choose because you're part of the pattern of me failing relationships.
	Or, you know, you're just going to recreate this problem in the next relationship you have.
	And it's like, not if I choose a different person other than you.
	What if I choose someone who doesn't tell me such horrible things when I want to not be in this romantic relationship?
	So the first question I would ask is, Who's scared?
	If it is a genuinely toxic, destructive, abusive family, you'll be better off, I think, being out of there, obviously, right?
	So there's not that much for you to fear, but...
	If you leave, they feel worse because you got out, right?
	And so how do you know that the fear is even yours?
	It could be their fear, which they're implanting in you, so you'll stick around without them having to up their game and becoming halfway decent people.
	All right. Super Chat.
	Oh, Michael to Michael.
	Say that three times fast.
	Do you find it interesting that African...
	Families hit and harm their children, but African people moan about dictatorships.
	Well, yes, of course. I mean, I talked about this all the way back with my Michael Jackson video.
	I talked about this in my Trayvon Martin-George Zimmerman video, and I talked about this in my video about Aretha Franklin, which is, who harmed Aretha Franklin?
	Well, she got pregnant at 12, she had a baby, and then she had another baby within a year or two, and She was abused and so on, and her father impregnated a 12-year-old and had orgies in the church.
	And so who harmed Aretha Franklin?
	Was it white patriarchy?
	No. I mean, not that much anyway, right?
	So, yeah, if you want to be free, and Tommy Sotomayor is a great person to check in about this, does great shows.
	If you want to be free, look at who's causing you the most harm.
	And this is why I do talk to people about, you know, personal relationships and family issues and so on.
	Who's causing you the most harm?
	Yeah, the state caused me harm as a child, but didn't beat me up.
	Didn't beat me. That was my mother, right?
	So when it comes to being terrorized, being tyrannized, being enslaved, being brutalized, being abused, the government does it financially, I mean, in terms of taxation and some hyper-regulation and so on.
	But as far as the actual violence that I've experienced in my life, it came from my family, not from the state.
	And so if I want to be free, that's the facts, the relationship, the reality that I need to address first.
	And that's what I did.
	And then, and only then, I think you can speak about abstract tyrannies more effectively.
	All right. Superchat, T. Hambone.
	Don't forget to keep up the fight, educating people about the Fed and their fiat monopoly on currency.
	We need to start this conversation like a brush fire.
	Thank you for your work and keep it up.
	Yes, I think that is absolutely essential.
	People who think that there's a free market, but the government controls interest rates, currency, and debt is, well, they're just wrong.
	They're just wrong. So I agree with you.
	It's not money.
	They're little debt slave notes.
	That's all they are. Subitat, Dean Little says, how do you think the state will end?
	Civil war, cryptocurrency, libertarian states out-competing non-libertarian ones?
	Well, it's interesting because if you look at Europe, the strongest countries are those who were brutalized the longest under communism, as I talked about earlier.
	So we can see where hyperinflation is going to kick in in places, like real hyperinflation, more than the couple of thousand percent even that they're horribly having to deal with now.
	Places like Venezuela and so on, they are starting to move towards things like cryptocurrency as a potential solution to their currency woes.
	And so humanity, it's so frustrating.
	It's so frustrating because if they just listened to reason, they wouldn't have to go through all these disasters.
	But they don't listen to reason, so they do have to keep going through those disasters.
	And so knowledge, progress, freedom generally tends to be Scar tissue.
	In the West, of course, Europe is not immune from this.
	I mean, how did you end up with some degree the separation of church and state?
	At least for now, well, 300 years of religious warfare raging from end to end.
	Why did Europeans stop invading each other?
	Well, partly because of nuclear weapons and partly because two giant world wars that killed 70 million people.
	So it would be really nice if people listened to reason and evidence But what you will not learn through reason, you have to learn through bitter experience.
	So I think that there will be some significant freer countries coming out of the countries going through socialist disasters, and then all the countries flirting with socialism will say, no, no, no, we're going to get it right this time.
	We're going to put our fork in the electrical socket and get illumination rather than a shock.
	Alright, so, super chat.
	Tactical boomerism. Love the work that you do.
	Without your content, I wouldn't be where I am today politically.
	Great to see you streaming. Keep it up.
	I will, brother. Sister.
	Thank you very, very much.
	I appreciate that. Norkel Buckshot.
	I love these names.
	I love these names. Norkel Buckshot.
	That's actually, I'm just going to repeat that for the rest of the night.
	Please send your best regards to my brother Nathan Dale.
	He is the person who turned me on to you.
	Thanks for your wisdom.
	Hmm. Beautiful.
	Well, thank you, Nathan.
	I appreciate you turning on NorCal Buckshot to the wisdom and you never know, you know, just pass a podcast along.
	It can really turn a life around, can save a life and all of that.
	All right, Christian McNally says, long-time listener, got to pay off that tab of 50-cent episodes.
	P.S. The free books are mind-blowing, going through real-time relationships at the moment.
	Thanks for opening my eyes, brother.
	I appreciate that. That's very kind, very nice.
	So yeah, this is sort of way back in the day.
	Eh, it's 50 cents a show.
	You know, some of these shows are like two hours, three hours, four hours.
	And so the argument sort of back in the day was, you know, a movie's 10 bucks and a movie is two hours.
	And what's going to affect your life more, a movie or some real powerful philosophy that is going to blow your mind and change your life?
	And so I would say that, you know, it was just a way of having people sort of recognize the value, is to say, well, what if you kick in 50 cents a podcast?
	You know? And you could even say, what if you kick in 50 cents of a podcast, you finish?
	Not one you start and, you know, for some incomprehensible reason.
	Don't finish. So...
	Yeah, it's a way of trying to figure out what kind of value the show is providing.
	And I do think that it's worth that for sure, and probably quite a bit more.
	All right, so here we go.
	Let's get a couple more.
	Thank you, everyone, for your patience.
	You guys are some pretty fast typists.
	I get whiplash. It's sort of like back in the day when you would fast-forward your VCR tapes past the credits.
	That's what this chat looks like.
	Super Chat, the Hobbs ate Calvin.
	That is not a sentence I ever thought I would say.
	How do I ask better questions?
	Also, how can we ask Mike questions?
	Well, operations at freedomainradio.com.
	How do you ask better questions?
	That actually is a very good question.
	So, here's the thing about questions, and I've done my share of Q&As.
	In my life, like the live Q&As.
	And you know. You know there are people who genuinely want to know something, and they are admitting their ignorance by asking a question.
	And then there are other people who want to make a speech and pretend that it's a question.
	So the best questions are the ones you genuinely don't know the answer to but really want to know.
	So let me give you an example. So I went to summer school as a teenager so that I could get out of high school earlier, you know, in the same way that a Wolf will sometimes chew off its own arm to get out of the trap.
	So I went to some school to get out early.
	And then I ended up working up north.
	Now, it was a friend of my father's who gave me the job gold panning and prospecting.
	And I read up a bunch on...
	The theory was, so glaciers come down, and then the glacier will find some gold near the surface and will scrape it along.
	So you find some... Gold and then you figure out where the glacier had come from that may have deposited that gold and you should be able to go back to find the source and that's where the mine was.
	It's a good theory and that's what we worked with for a while.
	Anyway, I remember going downtown for my job interview for this and we talked a bit back and forth about all this kind of stuff and then I said, but what makes the glacier actually move?
	And this is a... I didn't know, you know, because you think ice is hard.
	You grow up in the cities, ice is hard.
	You grow up in the country, you recognize ice is kind of malleable, but...
	And he gave me this look like, what?
	Is the earth round? And he's like, well, it's just like slow water.
	The weight is pushing it forward. I'm like, ah, okay.
	Yeah, thanks. But, you know, it takes an odd kind of...
	I genuinely did not know the answer to that question.
	Like, why does the glacier actually move?
	What's... What's pushing it?
	You know when you're a kid and you're stuck in traffic and you think that there's like three cars at the front just going really slowly?
	It's just one of these things. I didn't know the answer.
	But I'm glad that I had the answer because then it kind of made sense.
	Now, if I'd sat there and thought about it, I could already figure it out.
	But anyway, that kind of stuff.
	So just be willing to look like an idiot.
	And then you'll get the best questions in general.
	Super Chat. Kathleen Cohn.
	What do you do with excessive existential thoughts?
	So, the way that existential thoughts are when you start thinking about, like, is this a simulation?
	What is reality? This and that and the other.
	So, the best way to combat excessive existential thoughts is to place yourself in situations of peril, excitement, and joy.
	I mean, when you're having an orgasm, and if it's a Kathleen, I assume that You got the multiple options.
	You don't really have existential thoughts when you're having an orgasm, right?
	Because it's like... It doesn't get much better.
	So you don't... Oh, I wonder if this orgasm is a simulation or whatever.
	I guess maybe if you've got a VR helmet on or something like that.
	If you imagine being in the woods and thinking that you're being chased by some animal...
	You know, like I went for a walk today and I'm walking along.
	And you know those...
	Those dogs that are so big, it's like their barks don't even catch up with their mouths.
	Like, they can't even shape the bark because their huge dino jaws are just swinging back and forth, spraying sweat and spit like a garden sprinkler.
	And so I'm walking along, and it's like, feeling a little uneasy.
	There could be a fence.
	On the other hand, there might not be a fence.
	And I was reminded of when I went hiking with my father in South Africa in, like, when I was 16, and we came down out of the mountains after a couple of days up there, where we met some very nice Christians.
	We come down, and we're going through one of the black areas, the ghetto areas, and we are set upon by a pack of lean, mean, hungry, single-headed Cerberus-style wild dogs, a lot of wild dogs, like the kind they have in Detroit now.
	It's terrifying! And I was just going through my growth spurt.
	I was a pretty small kid.
	And it was really scary.
	Like, I mean, we were ringed by these dogs.
	They were snarling. They were snapping. They were hungry.
	And we didn't have any food to throw them.
	And even if we had, they probably would just come back for more.
	And they charged. I remember my dad just booting the dog to kick it aside.
	And I was like, I don't know what to make of this.
	It was like astonishing and terrifying.
	But I can tell you this.
	I'll tell you this very quickly and passionately, Kathleen, that when we were surrounded by these feral dogs in Africa, I was not having any existential thoughts.
	Not one existential thought was going through my mind.
	It's like when we went to the Serengeti, when we went to the National Park up there.
	I still remember this, yeah, this wine.
	So my dad's like, he's a photographer.
	He was a photographer and a good photographer, too, and a good artist.
	But anyway, he's like, I must get this.
	I must get the picture of this elephant.
	Kind of deep voice. And So he's like edging the car forward.
	And it was one of these like crappy old blue Fords.
	Edging the car forward, almost there.
	And I'm like, you know, I'm not exactly mutual of Omaha Wild Kingdom helicopter pilot here, but I do get the sense that the elephant be not pleased with our presence.
	And he's like, almost got it, right?
	It's got to be framed right. And then the elephant charges us.
	My dad throws the camera in the backseat and backs the car up because it couldn't turn around, right?
	And I remember, you know, the sound.
	This is, I guess, the cars back then, the cars in the time.
	Like, we're backing up and this elephant's charging us.
	And I can tell you that, Kathleen, not one existential thought in my mind at all.
	Not one. Hope I don't get crushed.
	It'd be really nice not to end up as a piece of sardine and a tin can as an old Ford.
	That wine would probably keep going as I die.
	Yeah, put yourself in great positions of great pleasure and great challenge and deep meaning and passion and power.
	Like, do you ever listen to just a beautiful piece of music and you'd ever sit there and say, well, I wonder what all this is for and I wonder why I'm here and I wonder what is real.
	It's like, I'm wandering through crystalline caves of audio bliss.
	All right, Super Chat, David Hunter says, hi, Steph, no cue.
	This donation was one of my mom's last wishes before she passed.
	I'm late on delivering on this one.
	Cheers. Oh, David, that is a powerful thing to hear.
	It's a powerful thing to hear.
	And thank you.
	And thank you, mom. That's just wonderful.
	and right super chat daniel reen said would you still be against mass immigration to the west of the people immigrating with high iq and well-behaved e.g japan is it all iq and behavior or is there something bigger for the west to protect well i heard about the east asians when i was in australia and new zealand and And let me tell you, there were a lot.
	I went on Puffing Billy in, I think it was Melbourne.
	And my wife and I, my daughter, the security guards, we were the only white people on the train.
	And this was a big tourist attraction.
	Literally the only white people on the train.
	So we couldn't talk to anyone.
	We couldn't have any kind of easy chats.
	We couldn't point things out easily because we didn't really seem to speak English.
	And I got to tell you, some of these cliches, they were kind of manifest, you know.
	It's like... Can you put down your selfies and actually look at the beautiful landscape?
	No? All right. Okay. So, yeah, there's differences.
	There's differences in culture.
	There's differences in history.
	Now, if there's no welfare state, if there's no affirmative action, if there's like none of this statist garbage manipulating the free market, come one, come all.
	Because you're going to come, and I want people to adapt to freedom.
	I don't want them to adapt to the West as it is, because I don't want to adapt to the West as it is.
	I want people to adapt to freedom, to voluntarism, to the non-aggression principle, to private property.
	I want people to adapt to virtue, to truth, to philosophy.
	And, yes, Chinese and Japanese people can do that.
	People from Somalia can do that.
	But they can only do that if we're actually free.
	If there's a welfare state, well, what are they there for?
	All right. Superchat.
	Hillmanant, or Hillmanant.
	How can we account for the very small percentage of young black males committing 50% of the murders?
	How do we fix this? Well, the welfare state end helping.
	There's an old story about...
	A herd of elephants.
	And poachers took the males, the adult males, and then the young males grew up and they were violent, they were rapey, they were problematic, and so on.
	And the only way they could solve it was to introduce adult male elephants into the herd, and they began to restrain and train the young men.
	So the welfare state, by taking the father out of the household, it's not just true for blacks, but for a Problems, the war on drugs causes significant problems.
	See, the war on drugs means that if you have a greater capacity to be violent and to reason, you're going to have a great time in the war on drugs.
	And this is where the whole rap culture comes from.
	So we know with young black males, we have the average IQ in the mid-80s, which is the sweet spot for criminality.
	We have father absence, which does not help.
	We have trashy culture, which does not help.
	And we have...
	The war on drugs, which raises the value significantly of criminal activity.
	So, how do we fix this?
	I hate to sound reductionist, but the answer is always freedom.
	The answer is always freedom.
	You've got to get rid of the welfare state.
	I've said it before, I'll say it again.
	Men had to go to war, women have to give up the welfare state.
	That's how we save civilization, but...
	I don't know whether people are going to do that.
	I mean, the welfare state, like, it's going to end either way.
	Like, there's this funny thing where people say, oh, you don't care about the poor.
	It's like, well, what are you going to do with your precious poor when the government runs out of money?
	Because it's going to, right?
	It's going to run out of money, guaranteed.
	It's going to run out of money.
	And what are you going to do then?
	What are you going to do with the people who are dependent on the welfare state?
	What are you going to do with people who are dependent on government health care and so on?
	Like, what are you going to do with these people When the government runs out of money.
	And of course, there generally isn't an answer to that kind of stuff, which is a real shame.
	All right. Superchat.
	F-U-C-K. I wonder what that could mean.
	Could you book Cody Wilson on the show?
	Cody Wilson.
	Unless he makes tennis rackets.
	Let's see here. Cody Wilson.
	An American crypto-anarchist, free-market anarchist and gun rights activist, best known as the founder, director of defense, distributed.
	Well, there's not one picture of him smiling, so...
	Maybe.
	I will look into it. I appreciate the tip.
	Thank you very much. Robert Atkinson.
	Let's try this again. Have you tried playing D&D with your daughter or any board games?
	Yes. We have played board games.
	We have something called... Well, we played Monopoly for a while.
	Now we've got something called Fantasyopoly, which a friend gave us, which is...
	Like Monopoly, but with Dungeons& Dragons characters.
	Yes, we played Dungeons& Dragons with my wife and my daughter, and my daughter loves it.
	And we have evolved from Dungeons& Dragons, which is sort of pen and paper sitting around and so on, to a form of conversational Dungeons& Dragons.
	We call it role-playing, where she explores the world.
	She loves taming dragons.
	She started off by battling monsters.
	Now she just wants to Enlist monsters into a better way of life and it turns out you see that the evil dragons, funny story, evil dragons are evil because they were raised brutally, right?
	I mean, so you've got your basic red dragons and the way they teach their children to fly is they just throw them off cliffs.
	And whoever survives survives and so on.
	And you've got other dragons who will try to eat their own children and other dragons who will ignore their children and the children either figure out how to hunt or they starve these baby dragons.
	And so she is now finishing up what has been more than a year-long quest to find the evil dragons and talk to them about peaceful parenting and try and find...
	There are dragon zoos in the world where these boss wizards keep these dragons in zoos and then people come and see them.
	And she has been going through this process.
	Of finding dragon zoos and freeing them.
	And she's also hunting down criminals, capturing them, going through a trial with them.
	So she learns all about how trials work and so on.
	And we've tried to figure out just ways in which policing and trials could work in the absence of a state and so on.
	So it's a very complex, lengthy, powerful conversation we've had for probably...
	I'm saying two and a half years or so, maybe three.
	And we were just doing it tonight before the show, cleaning out her lizard cage and so on.
	So yes, she will prefer role-playing to just about anything else.
	It was funny, the other day, she was supposed to be doing some math, and I come down the stairs, and she's just staring off into space.
	I'm like, what are you doing? She's like, I know I was supposed to be doing math, but I just spaced out and thought about role-playing.
	Yeah. She's got all these great plans and all that.
	So it's a very, very cool thing.
	And she also, there's a town, one of the towns is called Sea Town for a couple of reasons.
	It's the third town along, so ABC. It's by the sea, so it's Sea Town.
	And also it was a communist town.
	And she liberated the communist town.
	So it was really pretty, pretty cool.
	And one day maybe we'll write a book about it because it's really cool adventures and it's a very vivid world that we've, I've come up with and that she's participated in.
	So All right, Super Chat, Phony Tony, only the greatest living philosopher, Stefan Wall-U, can answer this complex, intimidating question that has long plagued man, and that question is, which is superior, boobs or butts?
	Hmm. Well, I suppose some of it has to do with ethnicity, if I understand the rap goddess booty calls, but boobs or butts?
	I would say that...
	It really depends how hungry your babies are, and I think that answers itself.
	All right. Superchat Kene or Keen says, can you debate the user destiny?
	Also, will there be any changes when power regimes fall, like the end of Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe, Venezuela, Vietnam, etc.?
	Well, there is potential.
	There is potential for things to change when regimes fall.
	But of course, the big challenge is, which way do they change?
	And hopefully, if the population is educated on free markets, limited government, small government, no government perhaps, there's a possibility that...
	The tombstone of the dictator can fall and shatter on the flat earth of freedom.
	Superchat Jeff Fruit says, we'd love to see you and Elliot Hulse do a video again.
	Keep doing what you're doing.
	Thank you very much. I really enjoy my chats with Elliot.
	Andy says, what is the best way of becoming a programmer Android developer without a degree?
	Come on, Andy. You know the answer to that one.
	We are, as Aristotle says, we are what we repeatedly do.
	Why am I a philosopher? I don't have a PhD in philosophy because that's what I do.
	So, I would say, if I was starting out now, find something...
	So, the way that I started originally was I liked computer games, and so I programmed computer games.
	In fact, I programmed computer games so well that people accused me of playing computer games when I said I was learning them.
	But... Find a game that you really like, and I would assume that there's lots of game development tools for iOS or Android, and just find some way of recreating it.
	Maybe you can, or find some way to come up with a new idea for a game, or adapt an existing game, and have that as your goal, and maybe you can sell it and make some money.
	So computer games are a great way to do it, because it's very vivid, very visceral, and a lot more fun to work on.
	And that's what I started with, although I did end up mostly in database programming, so...
	Matthew Bailey, won't you please come home, says, do you agree with this?
	Love is taking pleasure in someone else's happiness, and hate is taking pleasure in someone else's unhappiness.
	No. Sorry, happiness and unhappiness are subjective states.
	So, for instance, if you have a sadist, In your vicinity and that sadist gets to torture someone, then the sadist is happy.
	And I think they've even seen the endorphins that have been released when the sadist gets to torture someone.
	So taking pleasure in someone else's happiness...
	Oh, look.
	My brother is a sadist and he likes torturing people.
	Just theoretically. He likes torturing people.
	He's happy, so I should take pleasure in that.
	No, sorry. Meanwhile, if...
	If you kidnap someone and then that person gets away, you're unhappy.
	So do you hate taking pleasure in someone else's unhappiness?
	Well, if you're the guy getting away from being locked in the basement and it's going to rub the lotion on its skin, then you want your captor to be unhappy.
	So, no, I'm sorry. All right.
	I asked for it. Chronicus 559.
	This is what he has asked me to say.
	You're the light of my life.
	Fire. Fire.
	Of my loins. All right.
	Super Chat, Derek. I assume he's oily.
	Says, how does one manage hopelessness?
	As a single white male, the future seems a bit bleak.
	Odd way to spell it. But, well, you understand that hopelessness is what the enemies of civilization want you to feel, right?
	I mean, there is that particular aspect of things, which I think is quite important.
	So, hopelessness...
	Occurs when you believe that there's no possibility of altering the outcome or altering the future.
	And there is. There is every capacity.
	It's going to take a lot of resolution, a lot of willpower, a lot of broken relationships, and a lot of standing tall until people come around.
	You know, when you stand up, like I saw people snipped out the last...
	Bit of the last Super Chat where I was talking about, you know, if someone around you is wearing Nike, you sit down, you reason with them and so on.
	And if they reject reason and evidence and they're just like a friend or acquaintance, cut them the hell out of your life.
	And then, of course, you know, every idiot in the world says, he says you should ditch people, ostracize people for wearing Nike.
	And it's like, no, no, no. It's an ostracized people who rejects reason and evidence.
	The Nike is just one way in which you find that out.
	Of course you have to reject people in your life who reject reason and evidence.
	The funny thing is, is that I talk about ostracism and these people say, I can't believe you listened to Stefan Molyneux.
	You should never listen to him because he suggests this.
	It's like, so ostracism is your solution to me saying that ostracism is the solution.
	I see. You might want to look in the mirror a little bit.
	So just get out there and act.
	You don't know who you're going to affect, how powerfully you're going to improve things, and fight off the hopelessness.
	Like, you know, snap out of it, man.
	We need you. Super Chat.
	John Aldrich, what's the philosophical argument against the notion that it's evil to kill animals?
	So glad you are doing live shows now.
	I've been listening for years. Well, thank you, John.
	So, morality requires a comprehension of morality, which is why crazy people, while we might put them in prison or restrain them in some manner in a free society for killing people, we don't consider them morally responsible because they're insane.
	If a baby pees in your eye, you know, like that scene from some movie with Patrick Swayze, he ad-libbed it, like some kid peed in his eye and he's like, oh, he's going to be a fireman.
	That was great. But if a baby pees in your eye, just an accident, because the baby's not morally responsible.
	But if a teenager pees in your eye, well, that's assault and it's egregious, right?
	So for morality to apply, then...
	Whoever you're applying it to has to be able to comprehend morality, and because animals don't work with those kinds of abstractions, their brains are not developed enough, they don't have the capacity to engage in moral conversations.
	Like, you can't take a pig's foot and put it on a contract and say, well, now we're legally bound, right?
	Because the pig doesn't understand what the hell you're doing, right?
	So... Now, this doesn't mean that we should be cruel to animals.
	This doesn't mean that animals' feelings are irrelevant.
	This doesn't mean that it's not nice to not eat animals.
	These things are all wonderful and good things to pursue.
	I, myself, was a vegetarian for quite some time.
	I just couldn't quite get the energy that I needed from it, so I do eat a little bit of meat now, but...
	You can't cover animals with good and evil because animals don't fundamentally comprehend good and evil and are not capable of reciprocal, abstract, moral relationships like human beings.
	But again, the opposite of that doesn't mean we do whatever we want, right?
	Still try and be decent with them.
	Superchat, Chronicus 559.
	Thoughts on the future of cryptos.
	Great technology like DOS. See, DOS... It was really tough to work with.
	And then Windows came along, and then touchscreens came along, and all kinds of cool stuff.
	Mice came along in terms of all that.
	So when it was still DOS, most people just used it for work, and maybe they'd play a couple of games, but that was about it.
	So crypto has...
	I mean, if I was an entrepreneur, I'd just be finding ways to wrap crypto in user-friendly stuff.
	And the fact that the checks and balances are tough, the fact that you can lose your coins, the fact that you can send out the wrong address by accident, I mean, there's, you know, again, ways to solve it, but people are nervous about it, and I understand that.
	So cryptos is fantastic technology, and it just needs, for people who are interested in cryptos, to be more interested in people and find ways to wrap cryptos in user-friendly stuff, user-friendly ways of working, so that people feel more comfortable substituting their money for cryptos, their current currency. All right.
	Can you decipher the lyrics and meaning of throbbing gristles discipline?
	Next. Maybe.
	Not right now. I'll think about it.
	All right. Superchat. Fotar2002 says, Dr.
	Peterson says that to be good, you have to be dangerous and not use it.
	I spent most of my life trying to survive family issues.
	How would you interpret his opinion?
	Yeah, I understand where he's coming from.
	It doesn't mean that he's right or I'm right.
	I understand where he's coming from. Because...
	It's like, again, go back to Patrick Swayze, right?
	I've never seen the movie, but I just remember this from the...
	Let me know in the chat if the movie's good.
	Roadhouse, right? He says, it's important to be nice until it's important to not be nice.
	And... If somebody's really nice, there is always the fear, I think, that they're nice because they're scared, or they're nice because they're overpolite, or they're nice because they don't have to fight back, or they're nice because they want to comply and they want to be agreeable to everyone and so on.
	So you do have to have the capacity to be stern, to be harsh, to be difficult, and that way, when you're being nice, it really means something.
	I have always operated on the general argument or idea that you treat people the very best you can when you first meet them, and after that, you treat them the way they treat you, right?
	So Patrick Gower in New Zealand was chatting nicely when we were coming down in the elevator with Lauren Southern and I, and you should check out this.
	It's on Kalen Robinson's channel.
	Check out this interview.
	And then, you know, he gets all kinds of harsh and nasty and so on.
	It's like, okay, so if you're going to break the rules, I don't have to follow the rules.
	If you're not going to be nice, I don't have to be nice.
	If you're going to be harsh, I can be harsh.
	If you want to match wits against me, my friend, well, Mr.
	Nice Guy is going bye-bye for just a little while and you get to meet somebody quite different.
	And that's always kind of surprising because I'm actually a pretty nice person until it's time to not be nice.
	And I think people saw that and I think appreciated it when I was being harshly treated by the media in New Zealand and in Australia.
	I was pretty frank with them, and I was pretty stern and strict with them, and they earned it.
	So I do think that you don't want to end up not being assertive or not being tough because you're afraid.
	People will sense that. You have to have the capacity to be harsh, and that way when you're nice it means more.
	Super Chat. Adam Meinhart says, how do you define socialism?
	And at what point would you say the US is primarily a socialist country?
	Where would you draw the line in the sense of policy?
	The US is a socialist country, primarily.
	Absolutely. No question.
	No question. If you count how much of the GDP the government takes, and you count how much unfunded liabilities and national debt there is, and you count the government controls the currency and academia and the media to a large degree, and also Socialism controls primary school education and just a third of people in America need a government license just to get out of bed and earn a buck in the day.
	It is a socialist country.
	Socialism is government ownership of the means of production and the fundamental mean of production is currency, is money.
	And once the government has that, There's nominal private ownership, but as far as you can say, well, nominal private ownership, doesn't that mean fascism and so on?
	It's like, eh, you know, it's just collectivism.
	It's just various violations of the initiation of the use of force.
	But certainly more than 50% of every dollar spent on health care is spent by the government, which means that the health care is more than 50% socialized.
	And you can say, well, private control, public profit, and so on.
	All right, Superjet. Oh, sorry.
	And by the way, in communism, people say, well, it's totally different because there's no private profit.
	It's like, sure there is. Sure there is.
	Come on. You think those Dachaus along the Black Sea came out of nowhere?
	Of course there's private profit in communism and socialism.
	All right. Superjet.
	All right, here we go. For your nullia, Hussein McCarthy.
	Thank you, Stefan, for all your wonderful videos.
	I look every day to see what you contribute to my quest to intellectual information and education.
	Thank you very much. Appreciate that.
	Super Chat. Fran Tucker.
	Wait, wasn't she that whiny-voiced actress who played a nanny?
	Anyway. Oh, and who also was brutally attacked, if I remember rightly.
	So Fran Tucker. Many thanks for waking my brain up from its coma.
	Well, I appreciate that. You know, my brain was...
	There's an old saying about...
	Who was it?
	Cunt. That he was awoken from his dogmatic slumber.
	And I certainly was woken up from my dogmatic slumber...
	By a wide variety of factors and forces, and I really appreciate that people are accepting that I'm trying to pay it forward and move it on.
	Okay, Super Chat, 99 problems!
	But women ain't one, I guess.
	Hi, Steph, I'm a daily viewer and monthly member.
	I guess the daily affirmation calendar with catchy quotes just wasn't enough.
	Thank you for filling in.
	I appreciate that. Super Chat, Profit111, love your work, started watching.
	After your trip to Australia.
	Yeah, it's interesting, eh? He's an evil Nazi white supremacist.
	Oh, I gotta go see this.
	Huh. Huh.
	Hmm. Well, it seems kind of reasonable.
	I guess I can't argue with that.
	Well, he seems to have a lot of empirical evidence for that.
	So, yes. If you try to strike me down, I shall become stronger.
	Do you believe there will be any country in the world that will have a white majority in 50 years?
	Again, this is kind of passive, man.
	So whites are, what is it, one-tenth of the world's population.
	Whites are already a tiny minority relative to the world as a whole.
	So don't be passive.
	If you want to see a different kind of outcome, work for it.
	Super Chat. Trent Strong.
	I was pretty disappointed to hear Sam Harris reasoning for not doing a show with you.
	Any update or progress with a possible conversation with him?
	No, I don't.
	I would not hold my breath for me to have a conversation with Sam Harris.
	You know, he had this guest on and anyway, he did end up retracting and all of that.
	So, no, I do not.
	I would not hold my breath, you know.
	Never say never, but I don't believe that's imminent.
	Superchat. Oh Michael T. Michael.
	Hey, that seems familiar. Do you have any advice for someone studying computer science at uni or just advice for new uni students?
	I don't know. I had a guy join my company when I was a chief technical officer who had a PhD in computer science.
	He was terrible.
	Couldn't last to save his life.
	So, I mean, that's just my personal experience.
	I would much rather look at what people have actually built that they can show me than see a bunch of transcripts on a piece of paper.
	So... Superchats, KF, could we increase intelligence by augmenting hormone levels such as testosterone growth hormone and insulin to increase brain volume and impact the physiological components of intelligence like height?
	Well, you're asking the wrong guy because that's a pretty technical question, but I do believe, it's just my gut instinct, I don't know if it's true or not or valid or not, but I do believe that if we're going to end up being able to improve It's got to be done from, like, conception onwards.
	Like, I don't know... Flowers for Algernon, this book, that only now I see its sinister aspects many years later, that there's no such thing as the personality, and people can just kind of come and go, and there's no such thing as the bell curve, and you can get smarter and dumber and all this kind of crap.
	It's really... It's a terrible, terrible, terrible book, and I can see why they gave it to us in junior high school, but...
	Can you just inject stuff into an adult brain and make someone smart?
	I don't know, man. Like, if you want to affect someone's height, maybe this is what you mean.
	You kind of want to do it when they're growing, not when they're tall.
	Can you imagine your bones stretching out now?
	Like, I had lumbago when I was a kid because my bones were stretching.
	My bones were going longer than my tendons.
	It's really uncomfortable. It's pretty painful.
	So, I don't know.
	If there's a way to increase intelligence, I mean, there's the slow walk, which is...
	Smarter people got to have more babies and less smart people going to have less babies over long.
	That's the free market solution. Or maybe there's something with the IQ 200 babies that people have talked about on my show that have been worked on in China.
	Well, see, yeah, I was talking about this in the Colin show.
	Like, China is doing very well.
	Because, one of the reasons is because they can actually talk about race and IQ, and Islam is doing very well, or quite well, because they can talk frankly about male and female nature, but those two topics are denied to the West, and so we're failing, and this is why I want to break down those taboos, so that we're not constantly fighting other cultures and races with two hands tied behind our back.
	So, Super 10, Ken DV Gun Bearer.
	You changed my mind about conservatism.
	Bring on the philosophical intellectualism.
	I've been trying to spread the word and truly enjoy learning more as I go.
	Keep up the great work, Steph. Thank you, buddy.
	Really, really appreciate it. Super Chat, Colby Callahan.
	Ah, there! Any anarchist besides you, me, and Michael Maas?
	Are you still anarchist? Is Mars a chance to start a truly free and peaceful society?
	What does the Mars Society Manifesto look like?
	No, I don't want to be chased off the planet.
	Boy, that's reason flight that's interplanetary in nature.
	So no, I don't want to be chased off the planet.
	Yes, technically and philosophically, anarcho-capitalism is...
	An unassailable position.
	Like, I couldn't write everyday anarchy and practical anarchy and then change my mind without really, really good arguments.
	So, yes, I remain absolutely the same.
	But let's just put it this way.
	It's a dance with the new listeners.
	You understand. You understand, right?
	Okay. Arminius Calgacus, about time you do this, XD. Thanks.
	I appreciate that. Super Chat, Elle DeGrave, why is it so difficult to have conversations about real issues with people in daily life?
	I think so many people were distracted.
	Well, there is true. There's truth of that, my friend.
	They are distracted, but they're afraid.
	They're afraid. They're afraid because...
	You ever watch the movie The Blues Brothers?
	We're on a mission from God.
	That movie, which I watched a bunch of times when I was a kid and introduced me to a lot of great music...
	You know, you have a bigger calling, you have a higher calling than your next dose of dopamine, your next sexual encounter, your next video game achievement, your next, your next nothing, nothing, food, food, whatever, right?
	If you have a higher calling, people are ambivalent about that.
	Like, everybody loves someone who has a higher calling.
	Oh, he's a hero, he does. But to actually ask people to do that in their own lives, to put aside immediate material...
	Comfort for the sake of a larger goal.
	It's tough. So when you start talking about big ideas with people, then you start talking about big commitments.
	When you start talking about big commitments, you interfere with the chair-sitting, plush-butt laziness.
	And so it's not so much big ideas that people are afraid of, it's Being reproached by their own conscience for their small lives, because we can all be a whole lot bigger.
	So if you can understand that, hopefully that makes sense as to why it is so difficult.
	Now, yeah, because people, you know, people have trouble even losing weight when they know what they have to do and they know that they're overweight and their health is on the line.
	So asking people to become moral is a big challenge.
	All right. Another couple more.
	Gosh, I really could do this all night.
	All night long.
	All right. Peter Martin.
	Hey, Steph. Just wanted to say thanks.
	Your work on peaceful parenting has freed me from the chains of my abusive Amish father.
	I am free of both my parents' role in the emotional neglect and physical abuse in my childhood.
	Oh, man, Peter. I am sorry to hear that.
	And good for you, man.
	Good for you. This kind of freedom is hard to get a hold of once you get it.
	And how you manifest it is so powerful for people.
	Thank you. Superchat.
	Bookily, Owen Benjamin speaks of you with nothing but kindness and respect.
	Would you consider going on the road with Owen Benjamin?
	Philosophy and comedy seem perfectly juxtaposed.
	I'd buy the special.
	I like Owen enormously, and his peaceful parenting is a wonderful thing to watch, and I have a huge amount of respect for him as well.
	I like the road.
	I haven't really talked about this.
	Oh, I guess I will. I really liked Australia and New Zealand.
	Bit of a bit of a premature accent but I really liked Australia and being on the road getting up there you know walking out to such a wonderful crowd the standing ovations even when I walk into the room the the fun of playing with the crowd the striding back and forth across the stage the you know going for laughter and knowing that I can't go for too much laughter and You know,
	it's a really delicate and powerful thing to do to speak about such controversial issues right there at Ground Zero, especially when you know there's hostile people in the crowd tweeting out misinterpretations and slander about everything that you're saying and so on.
	I just mean slander colloquially there.
	But I really, really liked it.
	So it's tough, though.
	You know, I was talking to Owen, and he's saying, you know, cancellation's a big issue.
	Cancellations are a big issue, venue cancellations.
	So I'd like to do more stuff on the road.
	Really, really enjoyed it. My daughter had a blast.
	My daughter had a blast on the road.
	She just loved it.
	And so she's certainly keen for all of that.
	So we'll see. We'll see.
	I'm open to it. Super Chat Vale, how do I find the root cause of internal resistance to self-improvement and replace it with a drive for it?
	Well, to circle back to the earlier caller, my friend, How do you know it's your internal resistance?
	See, feelings are collective endeavors for the most part.
	Like, a lot of people implant their ideas, their thoughts, their feelings into you.
	And so how do you know?
	How do you know that it's you who's scared of self-improvement?
	The real question is, you know, the question of who benefits, que bono.
	So the real question is, who...
	is harmed by your personal growth.
	Who's going to experience negative emotions or difficult life circumstances because of your emotional growth?
	And I would suggest looking to that first before anything else to try and figure out whether the feelings are yours or whether the feelings are someone else's.
	Super Chat, Howard Rourke.
	Love that name. Thank you so much, Steph.
	You have had a massive impact on my life and therefore my son's life.
	Keep up this life-saving work.
	I absolutely intend to.
	Thank you very much. And say hi to your son for me.
	Super Chat. Fly in Gato.
	Okay. As a full-time YouTuber with a second full-time job, any suggestions for knowing when to take a break?
	Yes. When you're dead.
	It's an old weird Al Jankovic song.
	I'll be mellow when I'm dead. I don't know.
	I mean, it's tough.
	It's tough when you have a really big and powerful drive, assuming you're doing something important and good.
	It's hard. It's hard to take a break.
	And you can ask yourself what you want, you can ask yourself what's best for the world, and you can ask yourself also what is sustainable in your life.
	You know, like I did, what is it, my day?
	I mean, I did some work this morning, I did an hour and a half show with Dave Smith on a Teen Vogue article, believe it or not, and then I did an interview for the Eagle Forum this weekend, now I'm doing two hours tonight.
	You know, I'm in my 50s, and when should I take a break?
	Well, When the world is better.
	When the world is better.
	All right, let's do one or two more.
	And then I must pack it in.
	I want to say goodnight to my daughter.
	All right, let's just do three more.
	And listen, thanks everyone so much.
	Don't worry, come back.
	It's not the last time I'll do this because I like these a lot.
	All right, Debjit S says, what's the best way to repair a dysfunctional sibling relationship if the younger one is still an adolescent?
	Yeah, adolescent is tough because if there's a dysfunctional sibling relationship, it probably comes from dysfunction in the parental relationship for you both.
	And if the adolescent is still under the control of the parents, it's a very delicate operation.
	So I would say honesty about your own experiences and curiosity and openness to the adolescent talking.
	Knowing, like, say, here's what happened for me.
	Don't ever tell him what's happening to him because he's an adolescent going to push back like crazy or is still forming his own identity, which means...
	He's like a pinball bumper when it comes to input.
	But talk honestly about your own experience and be open to him talking about his experience and recognize that it might take some time.
	Jason Lozano, do you have any plans on making a presentation on monarchism?
	I don't. And if you want more on monarchism, then...
	Democracy, the God that Failed is a good book, and there are some other books, but other people have done work on that that I wouldn't try to replicate.
	All right. Natalia Puravida said, Are the high prices of Toronto real estate solely a result of supply and demand?
	My husband and I rent in Toronto for work and to be near his aging parents.
	Is it smart to continue renting or should we buy a house far away?
	No, it's not a result. I mean, you could say to some degree everything's supply and demand, but the supply is 300,000 people pouring into Canada every year who all go to live in the cities, right?
	They all go to live in it. Like, when I was talking to this woman in Australia in the street interviews that I did, she's like, well, most of Australia is uninhabited.
	It's like, yes, it is. There's a good reason for that, which it's mostly desert.
	So... I, you know, is it smart to continue renting?
	I think if you can live outside of a city, it's not a bad place to start.
	It's not a bad, it's quiet, you know, it's a lot of country and the air is cleaner and so on, so that's something to think about.
	Chuck, have you ever asked Jordan Peterson about the non-aggression principle?
	So, when it comes to really talking to people about fundamental issues, that to me is very much, I mean, that would very much be a private conversation.
	I'm going to sort of jump in an interview.
	That would be a private conversation where you really have to lay the case out slowly and patiently and carefully and make sure there's understanding and affirmation every step of the way and so on.
	And when you change...
	I don't know what his beliefs are on the non-aggression principle.
	I know that he does support very mild physical punishment of children and so on, so it's probably not a very deep principle for him.
	But I simply assume a man that intelligent has probably just never been exposed to the arguments from the ground up.
	And when you do expose anyone to arguments that foundational...
	And they accept that it's a life-changing thing, and some people welcome that, and some people don't.
	I have no opinion about Jordan Peterson, whether he would or wouldn't, and I certainly would have no objection to talking to him about it, but it would be a very slow, patient, and private conversation, which, you know, some people have an interest in, and some people don't.
	Oh, nearly 4 a.m.
	in London. Oh, I'm sorry.
	I'm sorry. Could...
	Okay, we'll just do a couple here so we get the non-super chatty chats.
	All right. Joanne, Hwani Lockheed?
	Joanne Lockheed? Happy birthday!
	Happy birthday, happy birthday.
	I hope you have a wonderful, wonderful day.
	Are you going to do a follow-up history with Jim Penman?
	That's interesting. Yeah, I liked him.
	Biohistory, that's well worth checking out.
	So I'm just going to see if there's anything else absolutely essential.
	Anyone else? Anyone want to join the unofficial FDR Discord, right?
	That's a chat. Okay, right.
	New Brunswick is in Canada.
	I agree with that.
	So, all right.
	Press W to build the wall.
	Is my birthday coming up soon?
	It is, in fact.
	It is, in fact. It is in, I guess, just under two weeks?
	It is Monday. September the 24th, my friends.
	That would be Monday. September the 24th.
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	My birthday is coming up. I will be 52.
	I'm planning to talk to Dr.
	Pesta again soon. Always a great pleasure.
	And let's see.
	I think. Thank you for all of your work.
	My family has previously donated $40 to you and hope to again.
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	Are you assuming I don't?
	All right. Yeah, I'm going to make sure I keep my energy up.
	Stefan, do you think we should stop being friends with people who own Nike?
	Lovely, lovely, lovely.
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