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It's a little chilly out here up in Canada, so I... Well, I checked the news this morning, and whenever Candace Owens is using exclamation marks, it is well worth checking out.
So we're going to have a little bit of a chat about...
Kanye West? Yee?
Is it yee? Or yee?
I assume it's yee.
Kanye? Maybe it's yee.
I guess I would be Anne.
If I just took the last two letters of my first name, you could refer to me as Anne or I guess Ayn, like Ayn Rand.
Anyway, welcome everybody.
Join us on this show.
Cool. It's really, man, it is autumn out there today.
You know, there's this kind of chill in the air that you take a breath in and you feel like you're just injecting Freon into your bone marrow.
So it's one of these days where it's nice to be in a warm, toasty studio with a, oh, should we do a simultaneous sip or is that copyrighted?
Anyway, so...
Thank you for joining.
Thank you for your kind words.
I hope you're doing well.
And yeah, okay.
So is Kanye West insane?
Yes, winter is coming. That's good.
I didn't really think about that. Winter is coming.
So I'm going to just do a little bit of a chat.
I certainly will take the super chats in a bit.
But right now, I just wanted to do a little bit of a chat because for those of you who don't know, listen, this doesn't really matter because it's like a big part of my life, but I have had a pretty ambivalent relationship.
Oh, coffee. I have had a bit of an ambivalent relationship with Saturday Night Live.
I think some of the stuff they've done has been very funny over the years, but I think they last broke me...
Oh, they had Captain Picard on.
Oh, what's the name of that actor?
Jean-Luc Picard.
They had him on, and they did some show about poop and some skit, and it was just like...
This is terrible. This is terrible.
And the worst thing with comedy these days is just how boringly predictable it is.
You know, men aren't that smart.
Women are wonderful.
Trump is bad.
You know, like, all whites are goofy.
Like, it's just so boringly predictable.
And... Yeah, so Kanye West was on Saturday Night Live last night, and let's talk a little bit about that, because I just thought it was pretty wild.
So Adam Driver was in, who ever since I accidentally saw, oh, that show Girls.
Oh, man!
What a... It's like dipping your face in an acid-laced tunnel to hell itself.
But Adam Driver was in.
And of course, you know, Adam Driver, you know, probably can on the left.
He's in the whole Star Wars rebooting and so on.
So what happened was Adam Driver was guest hosting and Kanye, I think, was a last-minute replacement for Ariana Grande.
And he grabbed the mic and then he...
I don't know. It was like a come-to-Jesus moment, for sure.
Because it sort of reminded me of that really wild scene in the Blues Brothers movie with James Brown.
And, you know, they had the organ music going and he was really doing the pulpit thing.
And, you know, it's funny because I know he's a rapper.
I think he can sing a little bit too, but...
So he comes out and he starts talking about...
How the producers were trying to prevent him from wearing his MAGA hat.
Very interesting.
So, yeah, they complained that they were trying to bully him and so on.
And it's pretty wild stuff.
It's pretty wild stuff because what happens is...
Can I do a video on the Calurgi plan?
Sorry, I'm being distracted by all of that.
If you can hold off at the Super Chats just until I've done my...
I'll be able to see it more clearly.
But can I do a video on the Calurgi plan?
I've heard about it quite a bit.
I have not done any in-depth research into it, but I will certainly put it on the list.
It sounds... Interesting.
But, you know, when it comes to Jewish stuff, Jews have a lot of variety in their thinking, and you don't want to say what one crazy person who's Jewish says and says this has something to do with Judaism as a whole because there's so many different flavors and so on.
But anyway, I will certainly keep that in mind, and I appreciate that.
So, yeah, back to Kanye. Hey, look, you know, this is the great thing about live streaming, my friends.
This is the beautiful thing about live streaming.
I finally have a good excuse for my tangents.
See, it's always live streaming in my brain to scroll, scroll, scroll.
So it's great to have a good excuse for my tangents.
And yay.
So Kanye was talking about how the media is so like 90% liberal and Hollywood is 90% liberal.
So it's kind of easy for everyone to think it's just one story or one way.
And I love this phrase.
You know, people were saying, he was saying, people are saying to me that I'm in a sunken place.
That is a really great phrase, a sunken place.
Because, you know, a sunken place, I think of a ship, you know, like the Titanic, it goes down to a sunken place.
There are bodies in there, it's crustaceans, there's barnacles, there's fish swimming in and out of ice socks, and so it's a great, it's a sunken place.
So there's a period of inactivity and being below the surface, but it's also a place of treasure.
I love that ambiguity about the description.
It's a sunken place.
So often, you know, the pirate ship goes down with all the treasure and the doubloons and all of that in place.
So I like that.
So he did talk about bias in the media.
And he said, I want to cry right now.
Black man in America is supposed to keep what you're feeling inside right now.
The blacks always want Democrats.
You know, it's like the plan they did to take the fathers out of the home and put them on welfare.
Does anybody know about that? That's a democratic plan.
And just amazing, amazing stuff.
You know, he says he's going to run for president in 2020, reaffirms that.
Calls for a dialogue, not a diatribe.
That is some good stuff.
That is some Johnny Cochran compression and sing-song and, you know, it's beautiful.
So I think that was cool.
He said in his speech, you know, there's this respectful thing where he says, you know, thanks everyone for giving me a platform.
I know some of y'all don't agree with me, but I appreciate that and that's really...
Really cool. So that was very interesting.
Reading the media this morning, talking about how they just, they can't help themselves almost, right?
They can't help themselves because what he's saying, they can't say, well, what are you talking about?
The media is 90% liberal.
It's actually, in Washington, it's closer to what, 97, 98% of the reporters donated to Hillary in the last campaign or something like that.
So, yeah.
They can't refer any facts, right?
And, you know, the fact that the Democrats are paying poor families and a lot of black families are paying them only if there's no father present in the household.
Yeah, that is pretty interesting.
Curtis Miller says, dragon energy against the Democratic sanctuary.
Some people call it a plantation, but...
Now, let me just, so, okay, this may be because I'm 52.
Like, maybe that window, I just, I vaulted from 51 to 52, so now I just don't understand contemporary culture.
Maybe I have become like my mother, who continued to refer to a CD player as a gramophone.
I guess for a lot of the younger listeners now, a CD player is pretty much indistinguishable from a gramophone.
But if someone could explain to me in the chats, I will have a look here.
If someone could explain to me in the chats, why was he singing and dancing in a Perrier bottle?
I don't understand that.
I mean, the song was okay, I guess.
But help me, people.
Give me the bat signal from youth.
Why was he in a...
Perrier bottle. I mean, is that paid product placement?
I think the guy's worth like, what, hundreds of millions of dollars?
I don't think that he really needs the product placement advertisements.
I didn't really figure out.
Yeah, I don't know if anybody has any answers, but it seemed a bit odd to me.
Because, you know, one thing that's dynamic about rap, and there's a couple of rap songs that I like.
Where is the Love is one of my favorites, but...
Well, and Gold Digger is pretty good.
No one knows. Is that right?
Nobody has any clue. A white privilege bottle.
I just, yeah, I don't.
I thought there was going to be some, you know, maybe some spritz coming out the top at the end or something like that.
And, uh, you titled your stream Kanye West, yet you aren't hip to pop culture.
Well, listen, I'm, I'm happy if, if nobody knows it, then I'm not out of the loop as far as pop culture goes.
So if, if nobody knows what the hell the Perrier bottle was about, then I'm not out of the loop.
But if I am, um, Maybe it was a reference to the Sting song.
Message in a bottle.
I don't know. Anyway, who knows?
But it was.
Now, let me tell you why I think it's important.
And not just for the standard reasons.
It exposes the media who said, Kanye West went on a bizarre rant.
It's like, it's not a bizarre rant.
The guy's making arguments.
He's quoting some facts.
And it's not a bizarre rant.
It's only bizarre. And he's really confirming.
They're confirming it, right? Because when Kanye West says the media is overwhelmingly liberal, Then, when the media says, well, it's just a bizarre rant.
We don't understand what he's saying.
It's weird what he's on about.
Nobody gets it. Everyone hated it in the audience.
He was booed. People scowled.
Driver walked off.
And it's like...
He's absolutely confirming everything that he's saying.
So, that, I thought, was...
He's so rich he can dance in a giant bottle.
Yeah, I guess that's true.
But... He's really confirming what the media is saying.
The media was saying that the audience didn't like it.
That's not an argument.
The audience didn't like it.
Of course, the audience is going to SNL, so they're used to that kind of stuff.
They're used to very, very lefty stuff.
And so...
He very much, the media very much confirmed what Kanye West was talking about.
And I'll tell you this too. I mean, the man has mad charisma, obviously, no question.
And he's very talented musically and great with language and turns a phrase and so on.
But I'll tell you, I mean, the black guys who were standing behind him, you know, in that kind of Malcolm X vaguely bodyguard-ish pose, they were smiling because his enthusiasm and his affection for, you know, Kanye West, standing for the West, that was going to be the original title of the live stream, but I... People seem to be quite positive.
Of course, they're a little shocked.
Of course, they're a little shocked because that's not the way things are supposed to roll.
He was even talking about how the rappers are 90% liberal, and that's pretty wild.
So I thought it was a great moment.
Let me tell you why.
So clearly, he has frack you money up the Yazoo, right?
There's no question. He's got just about as much as you could possibly imagine.
So it's not for that.
But here's the thing. You know, if you're an artist, You want the crowd to like you.
The crowd has to like you.
And I, you know, I fight this and I'm aware of this with, you know, now that I'm able to interact with the audience directly in this way, I'm sort of very, very happy about it.
But I want you guys to like me.
But this is a challenging thing.
I want you guys to like me because if nobody likes me, then nobody's going to want you to listen to the show and I can't get philosophy out of the world.
I want you to like me.
But here's the thing.
If I end up being a slave to your affection for me, then I can't bring you to the truth.
So the only reason I want you to like me It's so that you'll listen to me talk about philosophy, reason, evidence, arguments, and so on.
And so if you like me only because I say things that you want, I pander to you, I praise you, and all of that kind of stuff, well, that's not a very good reason to watch a philosophy show.
So I want to be liked, but I want you to like the truth through me.
I want to be the sort of clear pane of glass that occurs.
So Kanye works the audience, knows his audience, has been a rapper for...
Man, I don't know, decades, I suppose.
And so he wants the audience to like him.
So to stand up there and go against the instincts of a performer, to tell something to the audience that they just don't want to hear, That's not easy.
I really respect him for doing that.
That is a powerful thing to do.
And it very much goes against what the instincts of a performer is.
Because, you know, a politician is usually trying to speak to a crowd.
You know, like if you're a Democrat politician, you go out and then you say, oh, I'm going to have this rally and a whole bunch of people show up who like you.
So you're usually speaking to people who like you.
Politicians often will not go on shows where they're going to be challenged, where there may be hostility.
So even for politicians, it's tough to speak to a crowd that doesn't like them.
There's a great scene In the upcoming movie, Hoaxed, which I'm in.
And I only say that not because, you know, you should watch it because I'm in it, but if you like me, I think you'll find the movie very, very powerful.
Sorry, if you like philosophy through me.
I'm the wall on which the gallery hangs the picture called philosophy.
So he did a very, very powerful thing.
He went against the instincts of a performer.
He challenged his audience, which is a very, very tough thing for a performer to do.
You know, I have been occasionally somewhat dismissive of the Kardashians, and I'm not going to say that I'm entirely wrong.
But when you see Kim Kardashian, who's married to Kanye West, and they have conversations about this kind of stuff all the time.
I'm actually one degree of separation.
I've done shows with Candace Owens.
Anyway, so she talks about the Armenian genocide.
That's Kim Kardashian.
She's Armenian, of course. And They have conversations about what's good for America, what's good for, in particular, the blacks in America, and the fact that they're willing to challenge the two of them, two extraordinary powerhouses of cultural shift and cultural phenomena.
The fact that they're willing to challenge narratives is really powerful.
And it's not easy to do.
You know, I've known some people who've made a lot of money, and it doesn't fundamentally change who you are.
It doesn't... Like, everyone thinks it will, but the studies have shown pretty clearly that if you get beyond sort of like a bare minimum regarding income, it doesn't really make that much of a difference regarding who you are.
So, I... I really respect that they're doing it.
They don't have to do it. It's going to cost them money.
Without a doubt, it's going to cost them money.
It's going to cost them support.
It may even cost them friendships.
And is he going to be allowed back onto SNL anytime soon?
Well, it's going to harm his career.
And people who are willing to take a bullet to their finances, to their career, to their opportunities, to their possibilities, to their bookings and so on, You know, respect.
What can I tell you? That is some powerful stuff.
And I think it's fairly hard to overestimate just what kind of impact this can have.
Because for people, you know, if you like someone, this is the amazing thing about, you know, I just kind of learning all this stuff as I become sort of a public influencer.
But if you like someone, then it's hard to just really dismiss what it is that they have to say.
And that is...
That is really tough for people to figure out because people like him so much, it's really tough to just dismiss what he has to say.
So people may start looking up things and say, well, you know, the effect of the welfare state has been to destroy the black family, which in the 1930s was stronger than the white family.
It has been to promote illegitimacy to the point where I think Candace Owens was telling me that like 60...
60% of black babies are killed in the womb, and 75% of black kids are born into fatherless households.
I mean, it's just terrible stuff.
It's terrible stuff. So I just really wanted to put out mad props.
It's a hard thing to do, to stand up.
I remember years ago, I went and gave a speech in Brazil where I was telling a bunch of politicians how terrible the state was.
It's kind of tough to stand up and say stuff that is directly oppositional to most of the beliefs and passions of your audience.
As far as mad props go, Kim Kardashian, things I was not sure I was ever going to say.
But hey, you follow the evidence where it is.
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West.
Great job. Now, Matt Damon.
Oh my gosh.
Matt freaking Damon.
Calended actor. Don't get me wrong.
Entirely corrupted by Hollywood.
It's been one of the great sadnesses in a way.
Actually, I shouldn't say. That's a bit hyperbole.
It's been a minor oof seeing Ben Affleck and Matt Damon who had such promise and such brilliance with Good Will Hunting.
Basically become, well, from Ben Affleck, like a bloated, drunken, divorced, gambling addict mess.
And for Matt Damon, you know, pound for dollar about the most successful actor of the modern age, because they've done all these studies, like you get the most bang for your buck by hiring Matt Damon.
He's a very talented actor, no question.
But you know, watching him do this cheesy shtick Where he was playing Brett Kavanaugh.
Oh, look, he's drinking a lot.
Just constant references to drinking and so on.
I'm an optimist. I'm a keg half full kind of guy.
Just cheesy, bad jokes.
Not clever, not deep.
I'm willing to laugh at people who I sympathize with if the jokes are good.
But they were just no cheap shot, dumb jokes.
He drinks. And there's two things regarding Matt Damon that I think are somewhat important.
I've heard that there are indications that he knew some stuff about Harvey Weinstein before Weinstein was outed by Ronan Farrow.
You remember when Ronan Farrow published stuff that was verifiable?
I don't know. It's kind of tough to get on the moral high horse regarding that kind of stuff.
Well, he's an actor, right?
He plays moral people, I guess.
Not so much a lived experience.
But the other thing, too, so you could look up an interview from a year or two ago with Matt Damon.
I'm very much paraphrasing here, but the interview goes something like this.
He says, look, if I've got a $100 million movie coming out or I've got a movie coming out that I'm personally very invested in that I really care about, and someone says, hey, Matt Damon, you grabbed my ass and stuck your tongue down my throat.
You know, in the past, we'd sit down for mediation.
We'd figure something out. But he says, now, with social media, these stories go viral.
It's like, I don't care. I will spend 10 years in court.
I will spend $10 million because you cannot take my good name.
I've worked too hard to preserve it.
So, you see, when it's Matt Damon being accused of something, he will fight it and he will be noble and he will defend his good name and that's when it's Matt Damon.
When it's Brett Kavanaugh, then he will go on with a bunch of chortling idiots and giggle at this guy whose life is being destroyed by unverified accusations.
So... To hell with you, Matt Damon.
I'm just saying that right now.
To hell with you, Matt Damon.
Maybe you can go back to Mars and find conscience or ethics or something like that.
So that...
Okay, one other thing I just wanted to mention here before I get to the questions, and I appreciate that.
I'll keep my eyes on the chat in just a sec.
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Women. It's this funny thing.
One of the most powerful intellectual exercises that I learned many years ago, there used to be a restaurant, I don't know if it's still there, called The Daily Planet, which was at Young and Eglinton.
And I have this great memory of, I don't know, I was about 19 or 20.
And I had a couple of bucks in my pocket, which was not the most common thing in those days.
And I couldn't afford a meal, but I could afford...
They had a really great appetizer, which was like some cream cheese phyllo pastry thing, you know, back when you could eat those things because you were young.
But... I remember I had a book of Voltaire's essays, and I was sitting, it was a beautiful summer's night, I was sitting on the patio of great light, and I had a nice latte, and I was eating this pastry, and I was reading Voltaire.
Ah! Just a glorious little encapsulated bubble of a perfect evening that is just great.
And I remember reading this sort of exercise that was somewhat common at the time.
I'll give you a little bit of sort of intellectual history back then.
So when Europe hit the New World, I mean, sometimes literally, sadly, but when Europe hit the New World, they brought back, you know, they were called barbarians, or mostly called savages at the time.
They would bring back the indigenous population from North America, and they would get a view of their own society through the eyes of The natives in North America and other places who'd never had anything to do with their society.
And that's pretty fascinating.
I mean, basically, it's the equivalent of we bring back space aliens who are sentient and conscious, and can you evaluate our society?
And there were a lot of essays and stories and sometimes even novels written, which was the view of Europe from the eyes of the, quote, savages of the indigenous populations that they had discovered.
And it's a great way to figure out what's insane about your own society.
So, you know, they were mocking the genuflections of the aristocracy and some of the ornate rituals and so on.
Because, you know, when you grow up in a particular culture, it seems like reality to you, right?
But if you grow up in something completely different, then it's very foreign to you.
And it was a very powerful exercise.
And it actually did quite a bit to dislodge some of the more irrational thought processes in Western civilization.
So the reason I'm telling you all of that, which I remember reading in that wonderful evening in the Daily Planet, lo those 30 plus years ago.
Man, you never think you're going to get old, but it sure beats the alternative.
But the reason I'm saying this is because when I think of...
Space aliens coming down.
And look, I mean, if you read the foreign press, you read the foreign press, and I mean, they all think that Americans have lost their minds, and that's wild.
But anyway, can you imagine all of the Muslims looking at America at the moment saying, wow, we could adopt Western legal standards, we could adopt Western approaches to claims of sexual abuse and assault, but I'm not sure it's a great ad for Western systems at the moment.
But if you think, so some space alien comes down, and he reads about all these women who say, there are these desperately terrible men out there, these rapists, these patriarchs, these assaulters, these abusers, these pedophiles, terrible men out there, right?
And then, if I were the space alien, I'd say, okay, well, what is it that most determines How a human being turns out.
I mean, outside of certain aspects of free will, what are the two biggest predictors?
And the biggest predictors, of course, are genetics and environment.
The biggest predictors are genetics and environment.
Philosophy, of course, would aim to eclipse that over time to the degree that it's possible, but genetics and environment.
So then they'd look at the West and they'd say, wow, there's a lot of, these women say that there's so many terrible men around.
Genetics, you've got an environment.
So the genetics, who chooses the genetics?
In other words, who is in control of reproduction in the West?
And the answer, of course, is women.
Right? Women are in control of reproduction in the West at two levels.
One is that most sex is voluntary for women, and so they get to choose who they have sex with because They control the supply, right?
Men are automatically in demand in general when they're young.
Women control the supply of sexual access.
So women control who has sex.
And then women control who gets born because abortion is legal throughout Western countries.
So in order for a man to grow to adulthood, well, in order for a boy to be born at all, he has to pass the first hurdle, I guess the first two hurdles.
Number one is the woman has to have sex with the man, and number two, she has to bring the baby to term rather than abort the baby, as is tragically common.
And that's women who are in charge of that, right?
The woman can get accidentally pregnant, accidentally or accidentally on purpose pregnant, and then she can force the man to be stuck in baby jail for sometimes 18, 20, 24 years, depends on how long it may go and higher education and the man's commitment and so on.
But the man has no control.
Once the woman gets pregnant, he can't opt out.
He can't say, listen, I don't want to have anything to do with this and all that.
So this Yeah, James, I see your...
Sorry, just to interrupt the story for just a sec.
I will get to the Super Chas in a sec.
It doesn't mean I'm a minute or two or three.
So, yeah, first two hurdles, have sex, be brought to term.
Now, the second... So that's the genetics, right?
That's the genetics. Because when a woman chooses the man who impregnates her and chooses to bring that baby to term and have the baby be born...
Then she's choosing half the genetics of that baby.
She's choosing the only half of the genetics that she can choose.
She can't choose whether her own genetics get passed to a baby that grows in her womb because that's just going to be the way the genetics work.
So half the genetics she has no choice over, 100% of the genetics she has choice over, she's choosing by having sex with some particular guy.
So if she has sex with a guy who's Shifty, irresponsible, who's a criminal, who's low IQ, who's, you know, all this kind of stuff, right?
If she chooses to have sex with a guy like that, chooses to bring that baby to term, Then she is choosing the genetics that are going to be more likely to lead to a man being dysfunctional or criminal or abusive or negative or whatever.
So women are in control 100% for the most part.
100% of the genetics that can be chosen are chosen by the woman.
So women have 100% ownership over the genetics of the babies that they produce into the world, right?
To the degree that it can be chosen, they choose it.
And I know that there's exceptions, incest, rape, and so on, but in general.
So that takes care of the genetics argument that women are very close to 100% in control of the genetics of the men that they produce.
That's number one. And we know that there's no portion of personality that genetics does not influence.
Personality as a whole significantly impacted by genetics at every tested level in the known universe.
So then we have the question of environment.
Okay, so that's the genetics.
What about environment?
The space alien would say, what about environment?
And then the answer would be, well, I guess the standard would be, okay, who controls the first five years of a child's life?
First five years are when personality is formed.
It's very tough to change anything after that.
The bad news about personality is it's hard to change.
The good news about personality is it's hard to change, which means if you go through a lot of hardship, you're probably going to right yourself and come back up to the general level of happiness that you have.
So then the question would be, so women control virtually 100% of the genetics of men who are produced, and women, of course, boys and girls.
So who controls the first five years of a child's life?
The influential years, the most influential years.
And the answer to that is women.
Women. Women for the most part.
And there are exceptions.
I'm just talking about the general rule.
So women are stay-at-home moms, or women go back to work and put their kids in Daycare.
And, you know, I worked in a daycare for years as a teenager, and I was the only guy.
Only guy. Quite a few ladies around.
And then if they go to kindergarten, the vast majority of teachers of young children are women.
So women control close to 100% of the genetics, and women control 90-plus percent of the environment.
So if men are being produced, like, this is the basic argument, right?
Personality, habits, tendency towards criminality, and so on, there's a lot of genetics and environment involved.
And we can't really talk about free will of fetuses, and we really can't talk about free will of toddlers, because they're still learning any of these sorts of things.
Free will doesn't really show up until much older, which is why we don't put kids in jail.
So, if women control the genetics and women control the environment, then how can women stand back and say, well, there's just all these terrible, incomprehensible men out there.
We don't know where they came from or how they ended up so mean.
I mean, they can do it.
Of course, they can do it.
But it's mental. It's embarrassing.
It's ridiculous. It's false.
It's false. And this is the kind of like women say, oh, I want to be empowered.
I want to be empowered. Yeah.
Yeah. I want you to be empowered, too.
It just may not look exactly like you think it's going to look.
Empowerment may be kind of a bit different from what you think it's going to look like.
Empowerment is going to be, if there's a lot of evil in the world, and evil has a lot to do with genetics and environment, and women control the genetics and environment, then women control the spread and flow and creation of evil in the world.
Significantly. Not exclusively.
Not exclusively. But significantly.
Women choose who have sex.
Women choose who get born. Women control the early childhood environment that so foundationally shapes personality.
Stop complaining. Start fixing, ladies.
I invite you. That's what they call empowerment.
All right. That's my two little intros.
Thanks, everyone. I'm going to just have a wee scroll back up here.
And if you would like to throw in a couple superchats, I would be most grateful and will do my best to answer questions that make sense to people.
Now is the time.
Do you think radical socialists would take over the US in the next 200 years?
I hate to sort of say, well, there's an inevitability.
There may be an inevitability.
I'm fighting it like heck, but it's going to be a lot less than 200 years.
They would be very close to getting their agenda finalized if Hillary had won.
I mean, that's how close it was.
You see the Kavanaugh hearings.
This is how the left act when they're not in power.
Can you imagine how they'd be if they were in power?
It would be monstrous.
It would be a lot... They want it a lot faster and they've had a lot more of a head start.
And I believe if it wasn't for social media, if it wasn't for the internet, they'd already be mostly in charge.
Rachel Gerard says, Steph, thanks for all of your amazing work.
I went back to my partner. I have a son with him as a result of your work on single mothers.
Oh! I am glad to hear that.
Assuming that he's not some evil, nasty, vicious guy who was produced by gynocentricism in the past, I would hugely recommend that as a plan.
Assuming you can work things out and get to a reasonably positive relationship, fantastic.
Good for you and good for your kids, of course, right?
Cassie says, this channel has helped me win so many arguments.
Can I tell you a guilty secret?
I have to watch this tendency myself.
Let me know if this hits you guys as well, but it certainly does hit me.
Here's my little guilty secret.
I love winning and arguments.
I mean, I'm not saying it's better than sex, but it's not far behind.
Like, just in terms of, like, when you get a really good, boom, you get a really good argument in.
I mean, it's that Jordan Peterson, Kathy Newman moment where it's like, ha, gotcha!
You know, there is this, like, mm, it's good.
It's a good feeling.
It's a good feeling. Of course, it's personal victory, you know, chest-thumping alpha gorilla stuff, but it is also...
A pushback against irrationality, the kind of irrationality that can really lead to evil.
Oh, that's a chilling comment.
The motto of modern Western women, abort and import.
I'm not saying you're wrong, but it's cold, man.
It's cold. All right, let's see here.
Ethan Long says, I'm not overly familiar with you or your work.
How would you describe yourself and what you do?
Well, I'm a philosopher.
Hi, Ethan. Thank you for the super chat.
I am a philosopher, so I work with a relentless focus on empiricism in that the evidence of the senses trumps all Hypotheticals.
So we come up with conjectures or hypotheses about how the world works in terms of physics or medicine, science, biology.
And philosophy, it doesn't really matter.
I mean, it's the same approach as you come up with hypothesis.
The hypothesis has to be rational because you're trying to describe things that happen in reality.
Reality is objective and rational, which we get through the evidence of the senses.
So all of your ideas about the world have to first be checked for internal consistency.
So they have to be rational.
They have to be consistent with themselves.
They can't be rampant self-contradictions, right?
So in physics, it would be kind of the argument that if you said, well, gases, when heated, both expand and contract at the same time.
Or... Gravity is the force that both attracts and repels matter based on mass simultaneously.
You'd say, well, it can't be both.
Or if you have an equation that says, if I assume that the number one is the same as the number three and you go forward from there, then you have a contradiction and you can't You can't go forward.
So rational arguments bolstered with empirical evidence is the way that I work.
And I have been doing that for 12 years.
Won't be long now till we're at a million subscribers, which is very, very cool because, you know, people say, well, there's other people who have many, many more subscribers.
And that's true. But the reality is, It's not quantity, it's quality.
Remember I said I wanted you to like me and I was going to use praise?
It's not just praise.
You guys are the people who are going to shape the future.
You guys are the people who are going to make the future into the image of reason and evidence because you are the smart people, you are curious and interested in all of that.
Jamie B says, is it the sex or the argument, or is it just all around releasing the hormone?
As beings, we have one desire, to release the hormone.
Yeah, I mean, there is the dopamine and all the kind of happy joy juice that floats around in our brain, but there's honorable ways to get it, and there's dishonorable ways to get it.
Someone says, how can I know I am an NPC, an on-player character?
Just look down at your keyboard.
If someone else is typing, you may in fact be an NPC. All right, let's have a look here.
Oh, I didn't even notice that.
Jane Reynolds says, how do we wake people up?
Every time I try and explain what is really going on, you can see people glaze over or look at you as though you are mad.
Thankful for your advice. Well, Jane, that's a great question.
It goes back to the earliest philosophers, even the pre-Socratics, but Socrates certainly had this.
So the way that I approach it is it's very much like triage.
And what I mean by that is so...
If you're in a war and you're a doctor, and there's lots of injured soldiers coming in, some big battle, or, you know, this also occurs if you are an ER doctor and there's been some multi-vehicle crash or some people coming in.
So there's people you can't save.
And like, even if you had a massive team, right?
So, you know, some guy comes in and he's bleeding out and he's like minutes from death.
You can't save him. So then you move on.
There's people who...
You can save, but if you don't deal with them right away, they'll still be okay.
So people who've got big gashes and cuts, you can patch them up and they'll be okay until you can get a transfusion or sew them up.
They're stabilized. And then there's the people who you can save, but only if you act now.
And that's sort of my approach as well.
So people who are kind of curious, kind of thinking about things, they're going to come to some pretty interesting and reasonable conclusions over time.
The people who...
You can really have a strong effect.
And people who have influence.
You know, I'll tell you a story.
This is from years and years ago.
I had a friend, and he worked in media.
And I used to have a lot of arguments with him or debates with him.
And I remember the one that finally got through to him, oddly enough, was based on Zoning.
Zoning of all things, right?
So you know how the government says you can build here, you can't build here, this type of house, that type of house.
And the reason that I spent some...
And if he finally got it, it's like, oh yeah, it'd be kind of cool if cities just kind of grew organically based upon negotiation and so on, right?
And the reason that I was willing to work with him so long is that he was an influencer.
He was somebody who was in the media, and this is like 20, 25 years ago.
So, um, there was no alternative way to get things out.
And I thought, you know, I'll spend some time on him because he's got a magnifying effect.
Like if I argue with him, then he's in the media, so he may influence thousands, millions of people down the road.
So try to find the people who have the most influence because most people kind of remember, just look, look out through history.
How many people are remembered?
How many people have an influence?
How many people have an effect? Very, very, very few.
And the more abstract the field, the fewer people have an effect.
So, most people, it doesn't matter if you change their mind, because their mind will just be changed by whoever else comes along.
And if they don't have, like if they don't have gifts of eloquence, and I hate to put it this way too, If they're not...
Even their looks matter.
Like, if you can wake up a beautiful woman, that is better all other things being equal than waking up an ugly old man.
Like, I'm sorry, that's just the reality of the way that life works and how knowledge gets transferred.
You know, I was thinking I did this Sheryl Crow thing the other day, and I was listening to a couple more of her songs the other day, and my friend the communist that's...
I'm gonna... some puppy song about his son.
My friend the communist. So if you have a very beautiful woman, Sheryl Crow, a very beautiful woman, talking about my friend the communist, that's a way of giving people a positive view of communism.
These things are not accidental.
So if someone's in a position of influence, if someone has great eloquence, if somebody's very good-looking, then, you know, I hate to say it, but they are more worth spending time trying to influence.
Now, of course, everyone knows that, so other people were trying to influence them more as well.
All right, Bill Hoover, no question, but I just wanted to say thank you very much.
Muffils, thank you for the super chat.
He says, your view on this, the Kavanaugh Shite show.
We'll destroy the leftists in the midterms and not prove Freud's theory of humanity's death wish, aka Republican cowardice.
Yeah, you know, seeing this insanity around Kavanaugh, that's like rank, vicious evil.
It's one of these real bifurcating lines.
Like, it really splits things in two.
You know, it's like those...
You ever see those cooking shows, like they slice and dice cucumbers or peppers or something like that, and then, you know, they separate them for, I guess they're going to put them in two different pots or something like that.
This is one of these cleaver separation.
So if you are pro denied allegations, you understand?
These are not just unfounded allegations.
These are denied allegations.
So Blasey Ford, every single one of her witnesses says, no memory of it, never went to that party, didn't happen.
Her best friend says, I never went to a party with her.
I mean, we never met Kavanaugh, right?
So, these are not unfounded allegations.
This is not he said, she said.
There's been an investigation. And I was reading that the Democrats have tried to bring something against Kavanaugh in Maryland and got kicked out because the investigation has been done.
The investigation has been done.
And... It's denied.
These are not just unfounded allegations.
These are denied allegations.
They're as false as false can be.
You say a bunch of people witnessed this and they all say it never happened.
That's it. You're done.
It's as false as false can be in these kinds of situations.
And even if you say believe women, well, it's a woman who denies what Blasey Ford says.
So anyone who can't see that is...
A deranged, useful idiot for an increasingly violent leftist paradigm.
Like, it's just it, right?
I mean, it's just it. It's just it.
So I'm hoping that it doesn't just destroy the leftist, but it also destroys relationships.
I'm really hoping that because, I mean, I know that I get in trouble for saying this stuff, but Too bad I'm over wanting everyone to like me.
The only thing I have to be responsible for is the truth of my own conscience fundamentally.
So I hope that people sit down with each other and say, no, no, no.
You can't just say believe women because it's a woman who's denying this allegation.
You can't just have these crazy things where a woman can make allegations.
She can't remember the date.
She can't remember the location.
She can't remember the year. She can't remember...
How she got home. She can't remember how she got there.
Come on. And then everyone who she says was there denies it.
You can't have that as the basis of any kind of rational system of law or any kind of judgment of a human being.
You cannot have that.
It is evil to have that as a standard.
Okay. So other people are going to say, well, I believe her anyway.
Well, then just a horrible human being.
With no sense of justice or proportion.
And you hate men. Because we all know this is only going to be applied against men, right?
So you hate men. We get it.
You hate men. And if you're a horrible human being who hates men and wishes to give women the unholy power to destroy a man based upon disproven allegations, like, I don't want to have anything to do.
I'm a man. Like, people, you've got to start taking this personally.
Because it's really freaking personal.
You have to start taking this personally.
Because it's your father, it's your son, it's your uncle, it's your husband, it's your brother.
It's you, if you're a man.
Like, someone's still pro-Blazy Ford.
Or the other women.
I mean, the last woman, you can look her up yourself.
But if you're still pro all of this stuff, then you want to give women the power to destroy men's lives.
You really want that.
And that's just really, really nasty.
And I would not be friends with somebody Who wants men thrown in prison on a whim and say so?
I just think I won't do it. I won't be friends with someone like that because you can.
If they want you to be thrown in jail on a whim or have your life destroyed, your reputation destroyed on a whim, if they want to abandon the rule of law and expose you to the most horrifying kinds of abuses and slanders and predations, no, no, no, no. I guess you'll need to build another front door to help people out.
Oh, let's see.
I could squint at that. Peter Boehmk.
I'm sorry if I got that wrong, but it's not the easiest thing to say.
No question. Just saying thank you, Stefan, for me and my family.
Thank you very much. I appreciate your support.
And what do we got here?
I don't even know what that is.
Hang on a sec. Mr.
Keys, 1983.
Oh! 1983?
1983? Why does that seem like such a familiar year?
Were you anywhere in Maryland?
Did you live anywhere near Chevy Chase in 1983?
Did you see anything that may have occurred in that situation?
I don't know.
Dun-dun-dun. That is, yeah, that's very kind.
Thank you, by the way, for that very kind, fine support.
Jamie B says, the first six years of your life is how you define yourself, love yourself.
Ages 7 to 12 is how you define society, love others, society.
At 13, you go through puberty, and the cycle starts all over.
I'm going to... I mean, I'm trying to figure it out.
My brain is tired. It's 15 minutes.
I'm going to... I think more than that.
By the way, I just wanted to ask...
I'm trying a new connection here.
How's the old video looking?
I'm actually afraid to check it because it's going to eat up.
It's going to eat up bandwidth. How is the...
Yeah, how is the connection looking?
It's good? Sweet!
I look good. Yeah, I'd like to...
Is it... It's still like what?
Like, I don't know, 10 frames a second or something like that.
Because, you know, this way people are going to have a tougher time freeze-framing me and claiming that I'm a reptile.
So thank you very much.
Forrest Grump. Oh, that's pretty funny.
It says, keep up the good work.
Thank you. I certainly plan to.
Very kind. Oh, still a little blurry?
Needs more forehead.
You know it's an 8-head, right?
You know that it's an 8-head. And I don't...
Is there a way to pause? There's buttons down here I've never even looked at.
Is there a way to pause the chat?
Stefan cares more about an American rapper than the people of Europe.
Well, I get the frustration that comes out of that.
And I sympathize.
The idea that...
These are all unrelated, that if I'm talking about Kanye West, that these are all unrelated.
So let me tell you how, if you want to know the threads, let me tell you how talking about Kanye West is in fact helping the people of Europe.
So when Kanye West talks about The Democrat plan through the welfare state to destroy the family, well, what he does is he begins to get people to question the virtue and value of the welfare state.
And the welfare state is the fundamental devil's bargain that is destroying the West.
The welfare state is the fundamental devil's bargain that is destroying the West.
Not only does it mean that women no longer have to choose good male providers, but it also means that women don't have to have kids to take care of them in their old age, because, you know, Social Security, pension is all part of the welfare state.
And it also, this is the giant crate of gold that brings the Bilbo Baggins of Africa to Europe, right?
I mean, because they get all this money through the welfare state.
So I just wanted to point out that anything that is helping to undermine the virtue, automatic virtue and value of the welfare state is a good thing for the people of Europe.
Because if you can't get rid of the welfare state, it's a losing battle against immigration for sure.
All right, so what else do we have here?
Joe Long, thank you very much.
Philip Book, you're an inspiration to any serious philosopher.
Thanks for everything you do.
Well, thank you very much, my friend.
I really, really appreciate that.
Oh, please. I'm so sorry if we get this all wrong, too.
But this has more umlauts than a heavy metal album cover.
Niedzwiec Wuschtek.
Niedzwiec Wuschtek.
Music related. What would be your advice for a blues folk musician having a hard time returning to writing and recording music?
That is very interesting.
From high up on my lonely cloud, far down can I see.
A barren plains my heart to search for one to comfort me.
That was a song I wrote.
I actually, I think I wrote one or two songs in my life back when I was hanging out and a rather unhelpful member of a garage band.
But anyway, hard time.
So, I mean, the question for me in terms of motivation is always somewhat similar.
And Why are you doing something?
If you're doing something just for you, it is an unsustainable situation.
So let's say that you have, I'm sure you do, have good talent for blues and folk.
And these are two music forms, particularly blues, that I absolutely adore.
So if you have a real talent with this stuff, then I guess what I would say is, What are you doing it for?
If you're doing it for money, well, you know, maybe you make some money and so on, and then where does your motivation go?
If you're doing it for fame, well, you're going to become famous, and then when does your motivation go?
If you're doing it for virtue, for helping the world become a better place, for making things better, then there's no shortage of evil in the world.
There's no shortage of things that you can do to fight.
And it's always struck me And, you know, maybe there's songs that I've missed in this, but it's always struck me as kind of sad how banal most lyrics are.
It's really kind of sad.
And that if you put a great, powerful lyric together with a song, since the 60s protest songs, there really hasn't been much really good political stuff to me in music as a whole, just, you know, The revolution.
You know, it's funny.
Okay, let's just listen a little bit.
So back in the day, way back in the day, when I was working up north, I had a pen pal relationship with a woman.
And she was sending me...
She was really into Les Mis. She really got me into Les Misrables, the musical.
And she was sending me these very funny letters.
And one of them I remember was...
She was quoting the Beatles.
You say, you want a revolution?
Well, you know.
And she was like, that is kind of bland.
And then she was quoting to me the lyrics of Les Mis.
Red, the blood of angry men.
That's a real revolutionary song.
And it took a little while for me to realize that Colm Wilkinson was the real revolutionary singer, not John Lennon.
But anyway. So, having really good lyrics would be...
I mean, where's the big powerful anti-communist song?
And I think the way it works is this.
Let's say someone comes up with just some fantastic tune.
Like, I'm sure you guys know the history.
I've talked about it before on the show.
The history behind Yesterday.
Oh, we're on a singy day today, but...
So Paul McCartney just woke up with the tune for Yesterday floating around in his head, and he kept saying to people, do you know this song?
Because I'm sure I know this from somewhere.
And he actually had, he wrote down just some goofy lyrics.
Scrambled eggs. Oh, my dear, you have got lovely legs.
That was his, like, just nonsense.
And then he finally ended up writing the song.
But let's say you have a great tune like Yesterday.
If you want to put an anti-communist spin on that tune, I think your producers are going to say, well, why would you want to get political?
It's such a great song. It's going to make you a billion dollars.
If you get political, half the population is going to hate it and blah, blah, blah.
So I think that's how really great tunes get co-opted to the most bland stuff like, baby, I miss you.
I love you. You're haunting my dreams.
Anyway, so just be in it for something really, really powerful.
And I think that will be pretty good.
So James...
James Lehman says, the economy and social hierarchy inside the world of Warcraft is similar to the real world.
You think it can be studied as social ecosphere.
I never played World of Warcraft.
I was a Skyrim guy because I guess I'm just an isolationist or something, but I have heard about that stuff, but I'm not knowledgeable enough to figure it out, but I'm sure it would follow similar patterns.
Normal Science, thank you very much for your question.
Bill Hoover. I believe you're part of an institution.
No, I'm just kidding. How much of today's political climate is due to McCarthy's failed attempt to expose the commies?
What do you think about Trump's connection to McCarthy through Roy Cohen?
Is there an international commie cabal that is using the USA to enrich themselves?
Well, of course, there's an international commie cabal.
Communism is international by nature.
Yes. McCarthy...
Worked extraordinarily hard to try and expose the communist rot in the West and largely...
Well, so...
And Coulter's argument is McCarthy sacrificed himself, and he died young basically from stress, but that McCarthy sacrificed himself to hold off the spread of communism for a generation in America.
And I think it's a pretty powerful argument.
He did as much as humanly possible.
He took levels of abuse that are hard to imagine.
Certainly in the internet age, it's hard to imagine the levels of abuse because we have the right of reply in the internet age, right?
I mean, this is what I really saw.
The media interactions that I had, like, I don't know, 11 or 12 years ago, uniformly terrible and horrible and just wicked.
And there was very little right of reply.
Like, nobody knew my channel and all that, so...
When it came to going to Australia with Lauren Southern and New Zealand, we did a bunch of interviews and we just...
I threw a cell phone on and had a little recorder on the desk so we could publish the whole interview.
20 to 30 times the number of people saw the whole interview that we had recorded compared to the actual stuff that they produced, the articles and the hit pieces and so on.
So there is some right of reply now that did not exist before, and that is kind of a different situation.
McCarthy didn't have that right of reply.
I mean, he... He ended up suing, I think it was a newspaper for slander and won, but nobody ever knows that kind of stuff.
It doesn't...
It didn't play because he didn't control the media, so...
Yeah, there is a...
But to...
For McCarthy to have succeeded...
For McCarthy to have succeeded, so much would have had to change politically.
So how did...
Communism spread in the West.
Well, through movies, through television, and prior to that, through academia.
And, I mean, the history is fairly clear that the communists who lost against the National Socialists in a sort of organized crime turf war, you know, like one house against another in the Mafia, The collectivists and the communists who lost against the National Socialists in Germany, a lot of them fled to the United States where they got jobs in academia during and after the war.
After the war, the government program called the GI Bill, which paid for universities.
University education for returning soldiers.
It was really terrible.
So they went overseas to fight communism in many ways, or to fight collectivism in the form of National Socialism.
They went overseas to fight it, and then they got back, and the government paid for them to be indoctrinated in collectivism in the universities in America.
It was... I mean, it's horrible when you think about it, that you watch people get their heads blown off, get their limbs blown off, get wounded for life, to fight against collectivism in Europe and the Pacific Islands and Italy, Italy's in Europe and Japan and so on.
And then what happens?
Well, you get indoctrinated into collectivism through your universities when you return, and even if you don't, other powerful intellectuals do.
And then the State Department, largely because of the communists infesting it, hand over China To Chairman Mao in 1949 and with Russia and with China, close to a third of the world's population groaning under communist dictatorships.
And the communism has only embedded and spread through that.
I think it was 40,000, something like 30 or 40,000 communists teaching in American universities.
That reminds me, feel free to throw another super chat in if you feel like hijacking the big chatty forehead.
Somebody made a good point, unverified, but it's an interesting point, which is that one of the reasons why it's tough to allow students who are groaning under horrendous, literally medieval surf-like Conditions of entrapment through their student loans, like you can't even discharge the student loans in bankruptcy.
One of the reasons why it's tough to push back against that, of course, a lot of these student loans have been bundled into larger instruments to be traded, and those instruments command a higher premium because the student loans are considered to be undischargeable, which means people basically have to pay them forever.
And because of that, what has happened is if you start unwinding These student loans, if you give people the capacity to discharge the student loans through bankruptcy, then that's going to flow outwards like the housing crisis.
And given that the student loan debt is like, what, $1.5, $1.6 trillion these days, it's going to be pretty tough to unwind that kind of stuff.
So it's a very interesting point that it's the damn financial system that's entrapping the students as well.
Joe Long says...
Is it time for imperialism and colonization again by the Western world?
Too many countries are failing and become a burden to the Western world.
Any way to do this humanely?
No. No, imperialism, colonialism were terrible.
They were terrible all around.
It did not civilize most of the world as a whole.
And it was a huge burden on the domestic population, which I can completely understand.
So no, they just got to have, you know, tend your own garden to go back to, um, To go back to Voltaire, as I was talking about earlier.
No, that's not the way to do it.
Another super chat says, you so effing sexy.
Well, that's not an argument.
It's not wrong, but it's not an argument.
Thank you. Kenny O says, can you go out and do more sidewalk conversations throughout the US, Canada, and other places you weren't?
We'll pay for it. Well, that's very nice of you.
I'm not sure with that. I appreciate that.
I did enjoy those. See, I mean, I look at the numbers.
Let me... Okay, this is a big sort of topic, so I guess I'll bury it right in here in the middle of a live stream, but look...
I get a lot of messages like, dude, can you come to my country?
Can you come to my town?
Can you come to this? Can you come to that?
And, you know, I don't mean to nag you guys, but don't be so passive.
If you want something to happen, make it happen.
If you want me to come to the Netherlands, make it happen.
Just make it happen.
Be a leader. Sit down, figure out a venue, make sure you can lock it in, figure out how to get me there, figure out how to make it worth my while, you know, and I'll Not like I'm going to charge a billion dollars for a speech or anything like that, but, you know, just type and stuff.
It would be nice if this happened. It's like, yeah, it's like me saying, be nice if there was a philosophy show that really helped people learn philosophy.
It's like, just go make it happen.
So as far as the sidewalk conversations, well, I enjoyed doing them, and it was fun.
But the, you know, one of the challenges is...
It didn't do that many views in terms of videos.
I mean, you guys only see, well, you see usually less than half of the views that are going on on the channel because there are the views that occur on YouTube, but then more views usually are occurring.
FDRpodcast.com if you don't just want to listen or want to watch Then come to YouTube if you want to listen, that's fine.
Obviously, go to FDR Podcasts.
And they didn't do that well, you know?
I mean, I thought they were fun to do, and I appreciated people's conversations, and I think I did a good job.
But it wasn't that compelling to the YouTube audience, so if anybody has any particular thoughts or ideas about how to do that, please come to Poland for Independence Day.
I would love to hear more.
I would love to hear more. All right.
What have we got here? Normal science is back again.
Why, thank you. I appreciate that.
You know, one more donation and you get a lap dance.
How have our foundational institutions been affected by postmodernism and identity politics?
What evidence would you provide?
Yes, they have.
And if you want to just go read the course syllabi, all of that kind of stuff, then you can do that.
If you want to just go and audit a class, you can go and sit in.
You can raise questions and objections to find out how prevalent these ideas and arguments are.
And the reason you know that postmodernism and identity politics have infected foundational institutions is they kind of have to.
Because if you say there's no such thing as truth, there's no such thing as rationality, there's no such thing as objectivity, then you should not try and have any moral arguments at all, right?
Obviously, because it wouldn't make any sense.
So the fact that they're in there making these moral arguments means that they've told people there's no such thing as reason so that rational people will not oppose their spread of power, so.
Jamie B says, is it bad that I fantasize about being spanked by you?
Well, um...
I guess I would say that it's good insofar as you can look deep into your history and try and figure out where these fantasies may be coming from.
And on a more serious note, you know, there is an auto-erotic aspect to spanking that I just think is kind of weird and creepy.
It's been talked about by people before.
So it is an opportunity to perform a self-examination to figure out where these spanking fantasies come from, if they are, in fact, real.
But anyway, all right. Alchemy5150.
Wait, are you named after the Rush album?
All right. I consider myself a student of objectivism and Ayn Rand, and yet I have always been interested in the paranormal and ghost hunting as a hobby.
What is your view on such phenomena?
Thank you. I think I've actually wanted to do an entire show on ghosts, but actually, I want to do a whole series on mythological creatures and why we believe in them, you know, like vampires or Our analogy for sociopaths, right? They can't see themselves in a mirror.
They manipulate others. They feed off other people, not off the natural world.
So yeah, it's a way of embodying sociopathy in a way that is instructive.
But anyway, I think that's interesting.
You maybe should call into the show, but...
Yeah, there are no ghosts.
And there is no such thing as the paranormal.
And I guess what I would do is figure out where these beliefs came from.
It's the same kind of idea, right?
Where do these things come from?
Why are you interested in ghosts?
Why do you think that there are such things as ghosts?
I think that a lot of times ghosts arise in people's minds because They had a relationship that was interrupted by death before they got to say their piece.
And it's easier to believe sometimes emotionally that someone's hanging around waiting for you to catch up with them.
So figure out if there are any unfinished conversations that you had with people, and then you have to go through the pain of recognizing that that was not Completed in your life.
And that's painful, but the reason you go through that pain is so that you stop being interested in silly things like ghost hunting.
And I'm sorry, that does sound insulting.
The emotional drive for it is not silly at all, but the way it's manifesting itself is a distraction, I would imagine, from the real emotional issues that are going on.
But when you go through the pain of having a relationship interrupted by death before you got to say your piece or ask your piece, and the piece could be, I love you.
The piece could also be, I hate you, and terrible things happen, and we need to talk about it.
When you go through that pain, you get a renewed commitment to open your heart and mind to the people in your life at the present, right?
So I think that's worth doing.
Did you see the body language expert video going around on the Ford testimony?
Body language ghost channel.
Now, I did. I did watch some of it.
I did watch some of it.
I was a little bit distracted because I was doing something else.
I think that stuff is very interesting.
I don't know that it's a science.
It probably isn't.
But I do think that it's quite interesting.
And, you know, the cute face...
If it's the same one that I'm thinking of.
Like the cute face analysis and all of that.
I think the presenter probably needs to be a bit better.
Like there was a lot of intro where nothing was happening.
There were a lot of gaps. So I think it's very interesting to look at.
And I do find the body language...
Like there was a guy who analyzed the body language that...
I had, and Lauren Southern had, when we were being interviewed by Patrick Gower in New Zealand.
And I watched it, and it's kind of interesting.
It's a little surreal, but it was kind of cool, and I'm glad that people are doing it.
But... He was analyzing the body language that was going on, and I thought it was interesting.
It's not something that I sort of processed, but it was interesting to see somebody else viewing how I move in a particularly challenging confrontation.
So I think it's very, very interesting, and I thought it was very interesting.
Dylan, SM, are you voting in the upcoming Canadian election?
And if so, who would you choose?
Well, I guess I will have to do...
I'm sorry for that, and I appreciate the support.
I've been spending so much time on US politics at the moment, and for those who are confused by that, maybe I'll just do a speech another time, but I get that it's a challenge for people.
Hey, man, you live in Canada. Why are you so obsessed with the US? It's like...
Well, for a variety of reasons.
So it's next year that our little himbo gets up for re-election, and I'm going to be involved, for sure.
I'm going to be doing stuff.
The Conservatives are not that great in Canada.
They're really not that great.
They certainly have no strength when it comes to immigration, which is the big issue in Canada that Canadians desperately want to see dealt with.
Maxime Bernier has been talking about Those issues.
So I don't have a strong enough...
Sorry, I got nose hairs driving me crazy.
But I don't have enough information to, I don't know, make any kind of recommendations.
So I'll be doing truth about all this kind of stuff.
But it's still a bit early for all of that because not much is going on in Canadian politics.
I mean, I did some for the Ontario stuff.
So I will keep you posted.
Jane Reynolds, do you believe humans have souls?
Short answer, no.
Long answer, if you look at souls as a metaphor for the depth of our conscious power that goes far beyond the physical, you know, this is like a couple of pounds of wetware in a little bony prison, right?
That's it. And the depth and power and complexity of what we're able to achieve, I mean, I don't want to toot my own horn, but just look at everything that's going on.
I'm reading the chats and I'm formulating arguments and ideas and all of that and trying to pace myself.
It's a lot that's going on.
I think that the word soul is very powerful because it does capture how much we're able to achieve as sentient, conscious human beings that go so far beyond the physical that it really defies any kind of rational description.
And also, Our impact on the world can be so much larger than our lives.
So I think that it's a very powerful way of talking about it.
And I do use the word soul from time to time.
But I would not say that we have souls as would be described as an immaterial essence of our personality that survives after death.
I think we can survive, of course, in the work that we do in the world.
I mean, think of the long shadow of the gravestone of Socrates and the effect that it's had on Western civilization.
It's powerful stuff. So that would be my answer to that.
Bill Hoover, welcome back.
How does it affect society that in all of history and evolution, today's males are able to survive without being productive members of society?
Well, this is the...
Oh man, Bill, it's a heartbreaking topic for me.
So the, I don't like Freud to be perfectly frank and I'll get to that at some point.
But Freud said that love and productive work were the two essences that define successful adulthood.
If you have enjoyable, productive, positive work, and you have a reasonable love relationship, then good for you.
But men work and women reproduce.
That's the traditional methodology of survival and If men don't work and or women don't reproduce, you don't have a society.
You just don't have a society.
And what has been stripped?
Out of the West is that women no longer have babies and men no longer work.
At least a lot of women no longer have babies and a lot of men no longer work.
The same thing is happening in Japan.
It's not just a Western thing.
And the same thing in, well, as far as having babies go in China, I mean, they're kind of doomed because they had this one-child policy.
This fundamentally changed the culture.
People just aren't getting back to having two kids anymore.
So... It's horrible.
It is horrible. Productive work is a great joy in life.
Being a father is, alongside doing this work in my marriage, the greatest experience of my life.
My daughter is dying to do shows now.
She wants to do shows about parenting.
It is a beautiful, glorious thing.
I get all kind of moved on this Sunday, but it is because of you guys and your support and what it is that you do that I just...
I just get to have this amazing life, and I thank you so much for it.
I mean, I get to spend so much time with my daughter.
I get to spend so much time talking about incredibly important things in the world and having a real effect on making things better.
And I just, I'm so grateful for that.
I really don't know how to express it, even though I can be an eloquent guy sometimes, you know, when the spirit moves and shows.
But I am so, so thankful to you guys, to allowing me The twin great joys of great love and productive work.
And you guys are the best.
You really are just the greatest.
And I hugely appreciate that.
So thank you very much.
All right. Michelle.
Sorry. Sorry.
Let me just dry my eyes.
I can't read the text. All right.
Michael Fenton says, if the GOP loses the midterms and Trump is impeached or loses in 2020, do you have a room for rent over your garage?
I think the left insanity will go up tenfold.
Your thoughts? Well, it will.
If the GOP loses the midterms, Trump is going to be impeached and say, well, why?
Well, it doesn't matter. If they've got power, they'll do it.
Do you have a room for rent over your garage?
You see, I said this before, I'll say it again.
Trump has not solved the problem.
Trump has bought a little time.
Trump has bought a little bit of time.
Maybe. Maybe.
It depends if his second term is about immigration or not.
If he can get rid of birthright citizenship, if he can stop immigration, and immigration should just be stopped.
Just be stopped. I mean, it's crazy, right?
So, do I have a room for it over your garage?
Well, I'm not sure if it wouldn't be out of the frying pan into the fire, because it really depends what's going to happen in Canada here, too, right?
I mean, our immigration policy is insane.
Got 300,000 people pouring into a very small population every year, mostly from the third world.
We've got terrorist attacks and massive increases in crime, and it's just horrible.
It's horrible around, and we'll do our best.
All right. Black Pill says, do you think the cost of ostracism is worth it when it comes to being political on Facebook, Twitter, etc., as an individual?
Note, I'm in Canada as well.
Ah, yeah, you know, it's so funny, you know.
This show can be very confusing at times.
Because I do sometimes, I think, the greatest arguments, the most passionate emphasis, and they kind of just doodle themselves along.
And then what happens is I do not a throwaway show, but a show on Serena Williams that does like a million views and downloads.
And it's like, all righty then.
So I guess we're in with that.
And so it's hard to know In that Serena Williams video, I said the time for play has passed.
So think of a war, like if there was a war.
If there was a war, it would be really, really tough.
If it was a war, it'd be really tough.
You'd be separated from your family.
You'd go to boot camp.
You'd get trained.
It would just be crazy, right?
And brutal on your life and on your family and so on.
Then there'd be ostracism all over the place.
You'd be ostracized from your family because you'd be shipped overseas.
You'd be ostracized from everyone if you got your head blown off.
We do have the opportunity for a relatively peaceful argument at the moment.
I mean, it's going to be volatile, but not violent, at least so far.
And I think you know, my friend, as well as I do, that if we lose the verbal battle, the battle goes hot.
If we lose the verbal battle, the battle goes hot.
And when the battle goes hot, The opportunity is to lose everything.
So I would say it's worth the risk, in my humble opinion.
All right. Let's see here.
I'm sorry, I just seem to have lost some of the super chatty things here.
Let me just see if I got all of these.
I did. And I know I saw some more, so hang on just a second.
As I do my wee scruley, I scrule.
Do you think race matters, that all are equal?
You see, again, this is sort of the questions that you need to ask, is not what do I think, but what does the science show?
And the science shows that on average, again, you can't judge individuals, but on average, race matters.
It does matter and that there are differences between the races in a wide variety of factors from physicality to IQ to a variety of other things and health risks and so on, right?
ITM International. Well, it's a super chap with a currency I don't even recognize.
Hey, maybe it's from the future.
Can I buy all your books with your dedication slash signature?
If you come to one of my speeches, I'll sign them, but I don't have anything set up for that.
If yes, how? And from where do you take your patience when you speak with socialists?
Well, listen, we all kind of start with socialism, right?
To some degree. I mean, if you...
Like, socialism is...
Is from each according to their ability to each according to their need.
Well, that's just the family, right?
I mean, the parents have the ability and the kids have the need.
And so we all kind of, I'm not saying socialism and the family are identical because one is voluntary and one is coercive and one is personal.
The other is collectivist.
But we kind of all start that way.
And I was a socialist and I still remember very clearly in a conversation saying, well, what Canada needs a healthy dose of socialism?
When I was 14, I was just thinking the other day, I think I was chatting with Mike Cernovich about how I became a capitalist at the same time I started working out at the age of 16, which I've now been doing ever since.
But anyway, so I'm patient because that's where I started from.
That's where we all start from. And people have a lot of propaganda, a lot of propaganda.
And you really can't blame people who didn't build the society for being propagandized by institutions and systems set up long before they were born.
It's not, they're not bad.
They're just wrong. Now, once they get good information, then they get a moral choice.
Once they get a moral choice, then they start to have moral responsibilities.
So when I start with them, that's fine.
All right. Mr.
Keyes. Ah, yes.
1983. You're back.
He says, I struggle with articulating my thoughts, and I think I might be brain damaged because of that.
I always hear it is only social anxiety, but I don't buy that at all.
You don't feel... I don't feel very anxious.
Ideas. I struggle with articulating my thoughts.
I don't know about... I mean, obviously, I don't have any idea about the brain damage.
I struggle with articulating my thoughts.
I mean, I know. I can sit down here and I chat with my thoughts.
It's always frustrating to me because I think I could do better.
It's always frustrating to me because I think I could do better.
I always think I could give a better answer.
I always think I could give a more compelling analogy.
I always think I could find some way to connect the Ethernet of reason to the backjack brain of the planet.
Even that one could have come out better because some people don't know what Ethernet is.
But I always feel like I could be doing better.
I always feel that I could be doing better.
And that's just why I keep going, because I try to get better.
I try to improve. So if it's any consolation, I struggle with articulating my thoughts as well, because what's in here and what I can squeeze out through the narrow aperture of my chompy mouth is not the same thing at all.
So I think everyone does.
So maybe your thoughts aren't very clear.
I mean, don't, like, I sit down and do this, but I mean, I've been thinking about philosophy for 36 years.
So 36 years.
If you're a jazz pianist and you've been playing fairly constantly and practicing and you've been professional for 12 years and you've taken years of training, you're going to be able to just do miraculous stuff.
I remember seeing this pianist many, many years ago when Sting played Toronto, I think it was the Dream of the Blue Turtles Tour, and he was like, His piano was in front of him, and there was one behind him, and he was playing both.
And I was just like, God, it's incredible, right?
It looks like magic. So maybe your thoughts need to be more articulated within yourself, more organized, more rational.
And then it may just be a matter of practice.
I didn't just pop out of the womb with the ability to articulate like this.
I've had a lot of practice.
And see, I've done not just the articulation in the philosophical realm, which is what you guys are mostly aware of, but I did lots of improvisational Theater training at the National Theatre School in Montreal, Canada, which is the elite institution in Canada for acting.
So I did a lot of that stuff, a lot of body work to be comfortable within my body, to know how to articulate, not just talking head stuck against a white wall, but the Italian gestures, which don't come particularly natively to we Brits.
And I was in the business world.
I gave motivational speeches to employees, and I would go out and give sales pitches, and I manned booths at trade shows and talked to people endlessly about the values and virtues of our software.
And I was in marketing.
So I've just had a lot of experience in this.
You know that old saying?
It's an old joke.
It's an old joke, and it goes something like this.
Some guy... Comes up to a native in New York and says, do you know how to get to Carnegie Hall?
And the native New Yorker says, practice, practice, practice.
And yeah, that's kind of true.
So just keep practicing.
And what you can do, of course, is you can speak into your cell phone, hear it back, find out where the...
Like I was practicing speeches before I even came online, before I even started recording them.
All right, let's see here.
What else do we have? We adore you too, Stephen.
Thank you. Thank you very much.
Right, I think. Do you think the alternative right is a necessary opposition to leftist anti-white politics?
That's a very good question.
I'm not sure, again, alternative right, I don't really know what that means.
I do think that science, facts, reason, and evidence are the best way to oppose irrational arguments.
So... When people are constantly pushed down, then they will push back, and a lot of times they'll push back in a similar manner to which they were oppressed.
And the way that you push back is not by using the tactics, certainly not using the violent tactics, not using the abusive tactics, but you push back hard with reason and evidence, because otherwise you're just trading one gang for another.
You know, like, yay, we beat the communists, say, the Germans in the late 1920s, and then you get the Nazis.
We do have a bit of a troll in here, don't we?
All right. What have we got here?
Thoughts on Bitcoin Cash?
I like it. What can I say?
I like it. I think it's lightweight.
I think it's cool. I'm strong on cryptos.
I'm strong on the future of cryptos enormously.
All right. Oh, actually, did I even say the names of those people?
I apologize if I didn't. Well, one is Fishbone, the other one's Tau Jones, which I'm going to assume is not.
All right, so Henri Bogdanovich says, what came first, the chicken or the egg?
Thank you for everything. Do you know, this is a funny thing.
This is a funny thing. I actually very strongly remember writing down in science class in like grade 8 or grade 9, egg came first.
So I don't remember why, but it was obviously part of the lecture or whatever, right?
So yeah, there is that.
All right, so we had another question here that I wanted to get to.
Little Ogre says, I'm a black girl.
I watch the show a lot, but it just seems you look at black people as inferior.
I'm for facts, but my IQ is 136.
Average doesn't mean all.
You... Young lady, are entirely correct.
And I certainly have never, ever said that Black people are inferior.
I don't believe that Black people are inferior.
I don't believe in any racial superiority or inferiority.
That doesn't mean that everyone is the same.
I think of the human race like a big band.
There's some people better at trombone, some people better at rhythm guitar, some people better at drums, and so on.
That's how we all make our music together.
So I do apologize if you ever got the impression That I look at black people as inferior and you are a stone genius and you will do very well in your life.
And I hope that people don't get that impression.
When I do talk about race and IQ differences, it is important.
It is important to talk about because I think it's a way of removing racial tensions and rage and having us have productive conversations together.
So, I'm glad that you watched the show and I hope that you understand.
I never in my wildest dreams would ever imagine saying that black people are inferior or Hispanics are inferior or anything like that.
There's differences, but differences does not mean inferior.
Everybody has the same rights.
Everybody has the same opportunities.
Everybody has the same responsibilities.
But I still can't deny the basic facts of what science is telling.
And I don't like being blamed for something that I didn't have anything to do with, which are racial IQ differences.
They're facts. I don't have anything to do with them.
It's not my fault. And I don't like being blamed for it, just as you wouldn't like being blamed for something that wasn't your fault either, right?
You understand that, right? All right, somebody says, oh, I'm going to pronounce this F-U-C-K, has said, when the time for arguments is over, can you wear a military turtleneck with an eyepatch and become punished, Stefan? Oh, when the time for arguments is over, I'm hoping to keep that from happening.
Really? Caesar did nothing wrong.
This is a quote from Kanye that I can't verify, so I'm not going to read it, but I do appreciate the support.
Jeremiah True says, you have said, and I'm paraphrasing, the mental illness doesn't exist, specifically in reference to medications.
Do mental disorders exist?
Thank you. Yes, so I do have a theory of mental illness out there on the web where I basically take a philosophy, a philosophical approach.
Yeah, if you don't know how to think reasonably, if you're such, like, if you don't Know how to think rationally.
You can't connect to reality.
If you can't connect to reality, you're easily pushed over by social pressure and then you lose respect for yourself and you become unhappy and, you know, six million different bad things can happen from there.
So it's a great chat.
What a lovely way to spend some time on a Sunday.
Thank you guys so much for dropping by.
Really, it's wonderful. It's great to see thousands of you enjoying the conversation and the troll.
Right here. What have we got here?
Let's see here. So Rezbit says, there are hundreds of times more whites than Jews, but Jewish geniuses somehow outnumber white geniuses.
Thoughts? YouTube is using word filters.
You know, I don't know the numbers.
I don't know the numbers, but...
Is there a cultural element?
Well, sure. Is that cultural element influenced by the prevalence of high IQ among Jews?
Well, sure. So, I don't know.
I don't know the math, so if you want to give me a link, I'll have a look into it.
But I don't really have a good way to figure that out.
All right, here.
So, Kinney O says, well, something else.
Neil Gorsuch was more free market, but no accusations.
Why so? That's a good question.
Now, I have heard that there were a couple of accusations against Neil Gorsuch, but I'm sure that that's not true.
But let me just have a look here.
I'm going to go out on a limb here, but let me just double check something here.
I should really know this.
I think that one of the challenges is that...
Yeah, so he's Catholic too, right?
So one of the challenges, of course, is that it's the tipping balance.
Like, where does the Supreme Court go?
And is there any concern about the Supreme Court going totally nuts on a Catholic who's going to switch things over to possibly threatening Roe v.
Wade? So that is my guess.
But I, again, don't have any strong arguments as to why.
Philip Book says, my mom divorced when I was two.
How does this affect a person's development?
I'm 25 now, and my mom raised us four alone while being an alcoholic.
Wish I had more words to type.
Thanks again. I am so sorry.
I like this terrible, I mean, to be raised.
Alcoholism, I mean, I don't want to go off on a whole rant here.
I really, really hate alcohol.
I mean, don't get me wrong. I'll have a light beer like once a week or whatever.
It's nice when it's hot out, but...
Alcoholism is really tough.
It's so hard when your parent is a child and an irresponsible child.
It's really, really hard. So yeah, I think it does have a big effect on a person's development and I'm trying to maintain my enthusiasm for talk therapy after seeing some latest revelations about the psychological profession, but I still do recommend it.
I've got a show called How to Choose a Great Therapist, which is just my particular thoughts on how to do it, but I think that's the kind of stuff.
Do that kind of work on yourself, and don't be afraid to get mad at your parents.
It's a very healthy and important thing to do, if they deserve it, of course.
All right. Bill Hoover, thanks for coming back.
He says, I feel that Martin Luther's ideas that power goes from God to the individual was the pivotal moment in Western civilization.
I think Luther is the foundation of all Western achievements.
What is your thoughts about that?
I actually want to do a whole video on Martin Luther.
I did a whole course on him Well, not just, but like Protestant Reformation and so on in college.
I think it was at the graduate school level, if I remember rightly.
So let me hold off on that, Bill, and I'm sorry to not give you a great answer, but let me hold off until I refresh myself, but it's on my list of things to do, to do more of a video about that.
I would love to see a debate between you and Yaron Brook, though he doesn't seem to be a fan of yours.
For an objectivist, he seems to lean left.
I like Yaron Brook, and I love objectivism, and I would love to have a debate with him.
Night Sun says, love to talk to you sometime.
In four months, I will be 40. And how far siblings have gotten married?
Most recent one was in Cuba. Should I give up?
No, not at 40.
Maybe at 80. But no, don't give up.
And yeah, we still have a call-in show, so.
The Saturday Tech Channel with Music and Gaming says, would it ever be appropriate to call in just to check if my life is going okay, as my life is mostly okay but I could be wrong?
Well, if the mood strikes you, I'm always happy to chat.
Henri Bogdanovich says, is there a way to get the old subscriber-only shows you used to do?
Thank you. I'm not sure.
That's still on the list. John Lawless says, how does Ford know?
Kavanaugh, formal, introduced, yearbook, hearings, DNC. Well, you see, here's the thing, right?
I mean, if there is still a shred or two of integrity left in the FBI, then the FBI will be investigating Ford as well.
They need to find out who dropped her off, who picked her up.
They need to find out. See, here's a funny thing I was thinking about.
This is going to be yet another little controversial bomb I'm going to drop on the planet.
If a woman has just been sexually assaulted, and you say, what's wrong?
And she says nothing, and you can say, what happened?
And she said nothing. And you say, how is the party?
Nothing important happened. She's already lying about sexual assault.
So even the women who hold onto it and deny it and falsify it and pretend that nothing happened, they're already lying about sexual assault.
And I'm not saying I don't sympathize.
I'm just saying that it is an empirical fact.
So we shall see if the FBI does anything particularly important with regards to investigating some of the backstory.
Like, where is Christine's family?
Her Blasey Ford's family? Where is her parents?
Where are her siblings? Where is everyone standing at all with her and so on?
I don't know. Alright, just going to have a quick look, see if there's any other important things to point out before let's close things off for the day.
Why did the peanut call the police?
It was assaulted. Name the revolutions won by pacifism and just argument, one only.
There are some things that are pretty tough to figure out.
Would you debate with turd-flinging monkey?
Isn't he the guy who does reviews of sex toys?
Did I get that wrong? Will you ever do a video discussing how the white culture during the Antebellum South has birthed the current black culture?
Thanks for your time. I could, but just go to Dr.
Thomas Sowell's book, White liberals and black rednecks?
White rednecks and black liberals?
Oh, that's terrible. I really should know this, and I'm not going to get that wrong, so let me just get that right, because it's a great book, and I really should have that.
Black rednecks and white liberals.
That's a collection of six essays by Thomas Sowell, and just go read that, and it's going to be better than anything I could ever do.
Anyone know where the accusers of Roy Moore went after the election?
Well, they have served their purpose, and so that's all, right?
And it's just terrible. All right.
Well, I'm going to...
I'm not going to make any comments about Ford's neck.
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