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June 23, 2019 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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All right, so let's, you know what, let's go straight into questions.
Let's do that.
I'll do my other thing perhaps another time or later if the questions slow down.
But if you've got yearning burnings in your philosophical craniums, shoot them my way, and I will do my very, very best to... Yeah, it's a reboot, right?
Who knows, right?
Didn't you work in tech?
Yeah, yeah, I know, I'm telling you.
I don't know what it was, a reboot and didn't change a thing, and who knows, right?
It's just some Windows thing, I guess.
I feel radicalized.
Not showing up on DLive.
Well, yeah, I can't really do much about that.
Sorry.
Favorite band is Queen!
My favorite band is Queen.
And I love the 70s and 80s stuff.
Not so much the dance stuff.
You know, it's funny.
I was actually in a video.
If anyone finds it, just let me know.
I was in a video.
Back in the day when I was getting into acting and all of that, I went for an audition for a music video and I was in there dancing and stuff like that and they said, you know, they needed people to carry the singer in at the very beginning and they chose a couple of people and it wasn't me and this is how amoral and power lusty and hungry I was way back in the day.
Do I know the band Rush?
And they chose the four people to carry the singer in and be the opening people in the video.
And I went up there anyway with a couple of my friends.
And when one of the guys went to the washroom, I just slipped into his place and ended up being the guy who carried the singer into the video.
Do I know the band Rush?
I've actually seen the band Rush twice live.
And, you know, I like some of their songs.
And I find a lot of their songs kind of, you know.
Geddy Lee's voice does take a little bit of getting used to.
but actually Geddy Lee went to my high school back in the day, obviously older than me.
But Red Barchetta is a great song.
It's a really, really great song.
And Rush is one of the reasons I got into philosophy, because one of my best friends in junior high school was into Rush.
Of course, the drummer for Rush, Neil Peart, who's had a really, really tragic sort of middle age and onwards, He was into, I guess he was into two things, Tolkien and Ayn Rand, and of course he wrote a lot of the lyrics for, I think he wrote all the lyrics for Rush, and so that's one of the reasons I ended up that way.
I've never gotten massively into Rush, although I get that the technical expertise of their songs is fantastic, they're incredible musicians, and Geddy Lee is an amazing singer.
Never been massive performers, though.
And... Yeah, but, you know, a great band.
A great, great band.
I do not like Rush.
Gamma males.
Or, as a friend of mine said, three not-so-good-looking guys.
Let's see here.
Yeah, I mean, I don't know if you guys really want to follow all this gossip, but Lauren, I mean, I don't... I don't know.
Trying to figure out the truth and falsehood, like, there's some stuff I won't even sort of get into it, but, you know, I assume we all have better things to do with our life than chase gossip.
So, all right.
How do I stop being cripplingly depressed?
Oh boy, that's, I'm sorry to hear that, Hugh.
That's a very, very tough situation.
If you want to give me more info, that'd be fantastic.
But how do I stop being cripplingly depressed?
So think of the word depression, right?
So depression Depressed kind of means two things.
So depression is something that's, it's like a crater, right?
Something that's pushed down.
If you think of squishing your thumb into Play-Doh, that's kind of like a depression, right?
Depressing your thumb in.
But depression also refers to, so it's the crater, but it's also the very act of being pushed down.
So I guess my question is, if you are depressed, is something or someone depressing you?
And do you have people around you?
Who care?
So I'll tell you something, when I was a kid, we used to play these war games.
Like most British kids, or maybe kids from Europe, there was still a fairly long shadow of the Second World War.
All the comic books that I read were from the Second World War.
Or around the Second World War, the subject of the Second World War.
So we used to play these games, right?
If you could see someone and you shoot them with your imaginary finger pistol and the whole argument was, oh, you didn't shoot, you missed or whatever, right?
But occasionally I would pretend to be wounded to test if my friends cared about me, right?
Like, would they be like, oh, Steph's wounded, let's just leave him for dead or whatever, right?
So I'd be like, oh, they got me in the leg, man!
I don't think I said man because I was not a hippie but oh they shot me in the leg and I'd go down like a sack of potatoes tossed off the side of a super tanker and you know to their credit my friends would come back and cover me and drag me to safety and so on and if you are depression is a sort of you are saying I'm wounded like is there something wrong with my life with my mind with my environment and so on and it's kind of like it's a way of asking do people care about me
And if they're like, oh man, you're depressed, sorry you're not entertaining me at the moment, I'm outta here, that's gonna make you sadder, but I think that is something that is important information to have.
So, being depressed, are you in a hole and nobody's reaching in to get you?
Well then I think you need to find people who are more caring in your life.
Or are you being actively pushed down?
Listen, I'll tell you this, there's no conceivable way, no conceivable way that I could do what I do.
if I still had the same social environment that I had twenty years ago like when I started doing this show I've had mad high crazy ambitions since I was really really young I had a sense of my potential and when you have a sense of your potential it's gonna torture you unless you really really work to achieve it
That is – have you ever had it like you look at a band and you're like, man, I could do that better or you look at an athlete.
You're like, oh, I could do that.
Well, that may be because you're delusional or it may be because you have a sense of what is possible for you and you want to work to achieve it.
So, when I first started doing this show, I was very excited about it.
Like, I could actually have a way of talking about my greatest non-human love, which is philosophy.
I had a way of talking about philosophy with the world, with no gatekeepers, and I could really test my wits against the world and work to challenge and stimulate and push back against the irrationalities of the world.
In other words, bringing all of the very well-honed skills that I had developed by having a crazy person attempt to squish my face into their otherworldly, anti-rational, anti-empirical madness for 15 years straight.
You know, you get some muscles when you have a crazy person trying to dump their insanity into you for 15 years.
You either succumb or you become strong beyond the gods, so to speak.
There's your gift.
When I first started doing this, this is back in 04, 05, you know, 15 years ago or so, I was like user 4 on YouTube.
When I first started doing this, I was very excited and I went to my friends and, oh my goodness, this is going to be the most amazing thing ever, it's going to be fantastic, I'm going to change the world, and they were like, meh.
They didn't push back like, no way, right?
Or they weren't like, yeah, man, you know, you've always wanted to do this.
They were like, yeah.
They just weren't there.
They weren't opposing.
They weren't supporting.
They weren't, you know, opposition is a kind of support, right?
I realized like I had to hoard my ambition away from the indifference of people around me and the people who are in my life now I support enormously what they're doing they support enormously what I'm doing so it could be that you have great potential that you can't manifest because of the indifference or hostility.
Hostility isn't so bad indifference is the worst right?
So find People who believe in you, I know that's tough to do, because when you're depressed you kinda need resources, you need someone to believe in you so that you can go and do something.
It's hard to go and do something when you're already depressed.
But if you at least can find the cause, right?
And look, I don't know what the cause is, I'm just sort of theorizing here, right?
But if the cause is that you have significant potential, I don't think we're insane that way, right?
Like, here's an example, as I've said before.
I really, really like to sing.
But I'm not a great singer.
I can carry a couple of tunes okay.
I'm not a great singer, right?
So I was never tortured by like, oh man, I should be the leader of a band.
Like, if I could sing, I'd be a great frontman because, you know, I like chewing up the scenery when it comes to performance.
But I was never like, and I'm not tortured by, oh man, I should have gone and been a singer, right?
I mean, I should have, yeah.
I'm not tortured by that, right?
I think that when we have a sense of our own potential, it has something reasonable about it.
It has something accurate about it.
So maybe, just maybe, Hugh, you have a potential that other people don't like, like it upsets them, because maybe they have potential and they're staying small, right?
They're hiding their light under a bushel and so to speak, right?
So I would say Maybe people are keeping you down because they're afraid of your capacity for greatness.
Maybe people are squishing you down because if you rise they'll feel small.
Human beings will do an enormous amount to avoid ego death or ego diminishment and if you think your life is about your ego you're very easy to manipulate.
If your life is about principles and service to the world then it's almost impossible to manipulate you which is why those who want to control you will try and detach you from larger principles which is why philosophy gets attacked and why are threatened by that potential and that's why they are not helping you because you staying small serves them so I think if you have great potential which you fail to achieve you will end up unhappier than if you don't have great potential or fail to achieve even mediocre potential
So the burn says, I am a South African.
Flee or stay?
Please help.
My answer is flee.
I actually have, believe it or not, oh man, I have a PowerPoint presentation on the history of Zimbabwe, but unfortunately it's about a four hour, no, no, it's about a five to six hour presentation.
I mean, my advice is get out.
It's not going to It's not going to get better.
It's not going to get better.
Demography is destiny.
And it's not going to get better.
So bsim says, you used to argue for anarcho-capitalism.
How do you square this with your present-day positions?
It's a fine question.
And I've given an analogy before.
I'll touch on it briefly here, right?
So let's say you and I are driving to Vegas.
We're gonna go for a weekend of shows and gambling and fun, right?
We're driving to Vegas, and I thought I'd filled up on gas, but I didn't.
So, like, bing bing, the gas, low gas indicator light is on, and I turn off the highway, and you're like, hey man, we're going to Vegas!
I'm like, yeah, but we can't get to Vegas with no gas, so I have to turn off the highway to get the gas so we can get to Vegas, right?
And then everyone's saying, hey man, he's not driving straight to Vegas anymore, what's the matter?
It's like, no, the goal is still to get to Vegas.
The goal is still to get to Vegas.
The problem is that we're out of gas, right?
So if you look at what's happened to objectivists, a lot of social justice warriors and objectivists, if you look at what's happening to libertarianism and a lot of leftist infiltration of libertarianism, if you look at the fact that atheists have rejected the great and glorious gift of universally preferable behavior, my rational proof of secular ethics, if you look at all of that, and you also look at the changing demographies of the West, We just don't have time for what I've always said was a multi-generational solution of peaceful parenting.
The peaceful parenting is happening.
I was just on a call with a woman that's going to come out as a show as a mom.
We're having questions about parenting.
She had questions about parenting.
Hundreds of thousands of kids are not being hit because of what I've done and that's a fantastic accomplishment but it's not going to be enough soon enough to change things so I still don't know whether any political action is going to work.
I mean, just look at Brexit, right?
It's been three years and they're still not doing it, and they're probably going to blow past the October 31st deadline and so on, but the goal is still to state the society, because that's the only society consistent with the non-aggression principle, but it's not going to happen if demographics keep going the way that they are.
So that is important.
All right.
Let me just see here.
And I love you, Stefan.
Woo!
Well, thank you, calloused man.
Calloused man.
It sounds like you've got calluses.
Let me just see here.
Why do English songwriters make no sense like tears for fears?
Yeah, well, you know, Queen is not... Great singer, great band, but not necessarily the best on lyrics.
And, you know, who does have some pretty good lyrics?
Some of Jim Morrison's spoken word poetry is pretty good.
So, um... Thoughts on existentialism?
Don't like it.
I don't like it.
I don't like any kind of ism.
Not even jism, but... No, I don't... The ism should be philosophy, because all say, you know, are you an objectivist?
Are you a libertarian?
It's like, no, I'm a philosopher.
You don't ask a scientist if he's a Darwinianist or a Dworkinist or whatever, right?
I mean, he's just a scientist, at least ideally.
So existentialism or the idea that existence precedes essence, It's very much a blank slate philosophy, and the problem with the blank slate philosophy is it denies the basic science that all personality traits plus IQ are heavily influenced by genetics, right?
As I've said before, IQ is 80%.
Not even me, right?
Everyone says these are my opinions.
Repeating what the data and the science says that IQ is 80% genetic by our late teens.
And I was surprised to hear that.
I thought it was in your middle age.
So the idea that existence precedes essence, that we can kind of choose to be whatever we want, places such an enormous emphasis on the environment for the cause of social change, right?
How do you change society?
Well, you just change the environment.
Right?
Like your consciousness is a function of your relationship to the means of production, right?
That's the argument that the Marxists have, right?
That if you're in control of the means of production, you have a certain class consciousness as a bourgeoisie, as a capitalist.
If you are distant from the control over the means of production, if you're a worker and so on, then you have another class consciousness.
And of course, if you don't manifest that class consciousness, it's still true.
It's just false consciousness in the same way that If you don't believe as a woman that you're a victim of patriarchy then you have internalized misogyny.
There's no disproof for the argument.
So existentialism by saying that we have no essence and we are shaped by willpower and the environment is false, anti-scientific, and Of course, when you look at, this is the great competing story, so to speak, and story is not quite right, but narratives, this is great competing narratives, right?
There are big discrepancies.
in human outcomes, right?
Big discrepancies in human outcomes.
Some people are a million times richer than other people.
Some people's sports abilities is a million times better than other people's sports abilities.
Some singers are a million times better than other people, sometimes even than other singers.
And so there's this vast disparity in human achievement, particularly in a free market meritocracy.
Now, the disparities in the past were explained by religion, right?
So why was there a king and why were you just a peasant or a serf?
Well, there was a king because God had appointed the king to be his representative on this earth and to disobey the king was to disobey God, and so you accepted your place in the great chain of being, right?
The aristocracy was the brain, the clergy was the soul, the serfs were the arms, and the soldiers, well, the serfs were the working arms, the soldiers were the sordid arms, and so on, right?
So you had this whole story about here's your place in society and here's why.
And what happened, of course, was that relied upon the earth being the center of the universe, and, you know, the sun and the The planets and the stars and the Milky Way all rotating around the Earth, right?
Now, when the cosmology got from fantasy, from theology, to reality, right, through Copernicus, through Galileo, through Takia Barahi and others, And the Sun was put at the center of the solar system and the Earth was put in orbit and then it was further understood later that the Sun is going around the Milky Way which is one of a hundred billion galaxies each of which has a hundred billion stars and we're kind of in the middle of nowhere because there is no anywhere, no center, no nothing, right?
Then what happened is this conception which was fought enormously strongly against by the powers that be, this shift of cosmology because it didn't take long when the earth was no longer the center of the solar system for the aristocracy to fall, right?
And this produced tyranny in some places like France and in some places in Prussia and so on and in other places it produced a freedom like in Holland, in England, in America and so on and then with the freedom you get vastly different outcomes and so the question is well how can you explain these vastly different outcomes?
Because to an empiricist, human beings don't look that different.
The great basketball player is not a million times taller than a bad basketball player, but he makes infinitely more money.
So how do you explain Human disparities.
Because human disparities are dangerous for society.
Because it creates alphas and betas and omegas and gammas and zetas and all this kind of stuff and those who are low on the total totem pole of sexual market value get really angry and resentful and can't compete!
Right?
They can't compete.
So because there's this hunger to compete with the alphas you get these manipulators, right?
Languicides I call them.
People who parasite based on language.
The languicides come along And they say, well, the only reason that that guy's an alpha and you're not is because his ancestors stole from your ancestors.
He was a slave owner.
He was a colonist.
He was an exploiter.
It's his genetics or his, his family tree or whatever.
And so we're going to go and get that guy's money and give it to you.
And that, because when you fall down the rung of sexual market value, you, you freak out, you panic and you lose your ethics because your genes are like to hell with ethics.
We just want to bang something and make a baby, like whatever.
Whatever is going to raise our sexual market value.
So look at a single mom.
A single mom has very negative sexual market value in the absence of the welfare state or in the absence of alimony and child support and so on.
And so if you start taking that stuff away, she panics because who's going to want to be with her, right?
And her genes create, I guess back to existentialism, her genes create this existential panic, this annihilation panic.
And so when you get a free market, you get wide disparities in outcomes.
You know, the factual argument is that people have vastly different value to customers in the marketplace, right?
I've talked about this a million times, so you can look back on past shows, but you know the square root of any group of people produces half the value in a meritocracy.
So you got ten thousand people, a hundred of those people produce half the value, and ten of those people produce half the value of that, right?
So ten people out of ten thousand 10 people out of 10,000 produce one quarter of the value of that entire group.
So of course they're going to end up with vastly more power and influence and money and so on.
It's just the way things are.
It shakes out all over the place.
It shakes out in the same way.
In business, in sports, in music, in you name it.
Gymnastics.
It's always the same basic pattern.
And so the answer that the existentialists give is that the reason why there are vast differences in human outcomes is because of exploitation and parasitism and a lack of belief in yourself and a lack of faith in yourself and so what they say is they say well the reason Bobby is not succeeding relative to Danny is because Danny is really confident
And so if we say to Bobby, you can do anything you want, you can achieve anything you want, and you try and, you know, vomit self-esteem down his gullet like a mama bird with some half-chewed up worms, then everything's going to work out, right?
It's just a matter of confidence, right?
Which is where the whole self-esteem movement comes from, which is not, well, it's not valid, it's not true, it doesn't, right?
He's a bad singer, because he's a good singer!
The bad singer, you can be as great as whoever, right?
I mean, it's not fair, it's not valid, it's not true, right?
So the existentialists look at the disparities in human outcomes and they're almost pure environmentalists.
In other words, they say it's the environment or that environment can be external exploitation or whatever, or it can be, well, the environment includes your belief in yourself, right?
So you see all of this garbage and this shows up in movie trailers, you know.
All you have to do is believe!
And these texts come flying.
Believe!
Believe in yourself.
Have faith in yourself.
And it's bullshit.
It's not true.
It's not true.
Confidence comes from achievement.
Achievement doesn't come from confidence.
Vanity comes from overconfidence.
And if you can make someone believe that they should be equal to everyone else just because they believe, you're setting themselves up for rage and failure, right?
Because they're going to fail and they're not going to say, well, I was lied to about my potential.
What they're going to do is they're going to say, evil forces are equal outcomes and people don't have equal outcomes in a meritocracy, so they then start to see
oppression and and sexism and racism and all of this everywhere everywhere and they then become enraged because they believe so the existentialist and and the Marxist is the social cultural Marxist the post-modernist and so on believe that everyone can have the same outcome if you simply tweak the environment and if you get people to have the same confidence As if they'd actually achieved something, right?
So if you want to have confidence, go out and do difficult things, right?
I have confidence in things that I'm good at, right?
And, you know, things I'm not good at, I don't have confidence in, right?
So it's not... And if I want to become... Let's say I want to become a piano player, right?
So there's no point saying I have great confidence in my piano abilities.
What I need to do is just practice piano until I become good.
I mean, I don't necessarily mean Keyboardist for The Doors or Keyboardist for Supertramp, good.
But you know, decent, right?
Good.
Then I'm going to have confidence, right?
Just believing in myself.
To become a great keyboardist, all you need to do is believe!
Just believe!
And of course, if I don't practice and don't become a great keyboardist, it's not like there's some sinister cabal of keyboardists out there who believe in my achievement, right?
So, I'm not a fan of existentialism.
I think it's incredibly toxic.
And this is why those Who have this story of exploitation and internal confidence as the answer as to why people have different outcomes.
This is why they're so hostile to conversations about IQ and so on because it's a massively competing theory.
And it's going to completely change the world when people finally accept the facts just as it did with the solar system.
Oh, did feminist frequency go broke?
Thoughts on feminism?
Anita Sarkeesian.
Thank you.
Yeah, I don't know.
I've never talked to her, of course.
I watched a couple of videos of her many years ago, and I have not thought about her in many, many years, so... I don't know what to say.
I don't really have much opinion.
Thoughts on repealing the 19th Amendment?
Okay, so women vote generally, right?
Women vote for the left, particularly single women, particularly...
Well, originally you had to be a landowner and so on in order to vote, right?
And you should not, I mean, ideally there's no government, right?
But the idea that you can Vote on government spending objectively when you are dependent upon government spending on you is, I mean, it's a joke, right?
I mean, this is just ridiculous.
I mean, the whole reason we have anti-bribery laws is because we know that money can buy people's allegiance, right?
So if you're in the position of giving some contract out and you're in the government and somebody bribes you $50,000 to give the contract to them, well, it's not written down in paper.
It's not down by law, right?
I understand that, and government money is just bribery.
I mean, people can't be objective about the welfare state when they're dependent upon the welfare state.
People can't be objective about the military-industrial complex when the companies and jobs depend upon endless wars.
So, I mean, it is a joke, right?
I mean, it would be a step in the right direction that only net tax contributors can vote, but even that's going to be tough.
It's going to be tough.
All right.
What's in relation to this?
That's interesting.
Now, nepotism is when you give a job to your son or your brother or whatever it is, right?
So now nepotism can be a positive thing.
So if you are I mean, okay, I'll give you my example.
It's a little creaky, but when I get older and creakier, then is it nepotism or is it just like, okay, I know this person's abilities, this is how they've been raised and so on, right?
So that's a reasonable thing to do.
It saves time, it's efficient, it's effective.
Plus, of course, keeping money in the family, keeping power in the family can be beneficial.
But of course, there can be efficient upsides to it.
If you have a son who's 30 and you want to give him your business, and you've trained him in the business, I think it's a reasonable thing to do.
Now, it can be frustrating to other people, and so there's, you know, the balance.
Other ambitious people may walk away saying, oh man, I wanted that job.
But if the kid is good, right?
The 30-year-old son or daughter is really good and can grow the business and can give people more opportunity, then it can be good.
So nepotism is, I think, fine.
It can be efficient.
It can be a positive thing.
But again, it can be negative as well.
But it's just not automatically negative, I would say.
I was born out of wedlock.
What shall man do?
Well, don't take it personally that Don't take it personally about the mistakes your parents made, right?
Let's see here.
Stefan pretends to defend Western civilization, but the Shekels are too good for him to talk about the root cause of the problem.
Oh, this is the Jewish thing, right?
The Jewish thing which just goes round and round and round and round.
So, I mean, I've said this before, I've got lots of stories, sorry, I've got lots of arguments and data and interviews about this and I have made my case a wide variety of times and even if you, I don't believe this, but even if you did believe that a certain group is just really, really terrible, well, other people have to accept their offers, right?
So, You have to convince people to stop taking stuff for free.
It doesn't really matter who's providing it.
How long do I think it will be before the dollar crashes?
It's tough.
You know, it's – There's no way – What is going on with Federal Reserve policy and what are their plans?
And so, you know, there's simply no way to know for sure.
And the other thing too, I mean, the dollar would have crashed already if it wasn't for computers and the dollar would have crashed already if it wasn't for, say, women coming into the workforce to artificially swell government coffers with tax money at the expense of future generations' births and so on.
So, I don't know.
I don't know.
It's sort of like saying, well, this guy's a chain smoker.
How long before he gets sick?
Well, I guess you can survive chain smoking miraculously, but it's really, really hard to know.
So something you said last week stuck with me.
You mentioned in New Zealand men are being disproportionately ripped off by our tax system.
Very believable, but I'm wondering if you can elaborate further.
Yes, I do believe that I can.
Let me just see here.
I will get the...
This...
This article.
Ah, yeah.
Okay, here we go.
Okay.
Let's see here.
Men pay 200% of the taxes women do.
here, men pay 200% of the taxes women do.
And I will give you some of the data here, right?
So the much-ballyhooed gender pay gap receives an inordinate amount of attention in the gynocentric mainstream media.
However, the gender tax gap is completely ignored.
Why?
Because it paints a very unflattering picture of women and directly contradicts the don't-need-a-man narrative, right?
Oh, this whole site is no longer available.
Excellent!
So, let's see here.
I'm just trying to get to the source thing here.
Oh yeah, here we go.
Research from Victoria University of Wellington examining taxation and government welfare spending by age and gender in New Zealand shows that women... Let's go back to the graphs.
Economically, women cost more to the state than they benefit.
The government is literally paying women to be alive.
So, women receive more government benefits than they pay into the system during the course of all their lives in all but a short window, roughly from age 40 to 60.
Even then, women receive far more government benefits than men.
So, the cumulative fiscal impact per capita per sex.
Women are a net drain on government resources and therefore male taxpayers from birth until death.
Women end up with an average $150,000 lifetime deficit between what they pay into the system versus what they take out of it.
Importantly, men would wind up a net surplus at the end of our lives if socialist governments didn't force us to support women with our tax dollars.
So it can be said Western governments are broke because of women, and Western governments are wealth redistribution agents that rob productive men to pay unproductive women.
If men didn't have the burden of women and weren't forced to carry both their weight and their own, we could work a lot less and enjoy life a lot more.
And, uh, yeah.
So, you know, this, this, um, uh, wage gap, 77 cents women are paid versus men, but a 200 cents for a dollar tax gap has never been mentioned.
Right?
Right.
So, this up, um, if you like, uh, New Zealand, uh, tax gap and so on, you can find the, uh, the source.
but uh... it is uh... it's pretty rough you know it is pretty rough and it's common right throughout the western world women use more health care resources women live longer uh... women uh... of course if they have kids they use even more health care resources and uh... women have more old age pensions and so on so for sure uh... men pay the taxes and women reap the benefits on average, right?
And this is exactly what you'd expect.
It used to be that in marriage, right, the men would pay for women to stay home and raise the kids and it was a great exchange of value and all that, but that doesn't change just because women aren't married, right?
You still need all of this, right?
All right.
All right.
Let's see here.
What are your thoughts on the People's Party of Canada's platform in Canada?
I think it's something that people should really, really look into.
I think that they're the only party that is accurately representing what Canadians want, which is some control over mass immigration and mass refugee resettlement.
Would I ever have a Christian philosopher like Jay Dyer on?
I would.
I think it's very interesting.
Hey Stefan, what are your thoughts on the drone shot down over the Strait of Hormuz and the American threats of attack?
Trump's recall half a tax.
Well, didn't he end up attacking?
Well, I think it's... I mean, it's lunatic, right?
So Jared Kushner has, what is it, fifty billion dollars is his plan to help out Palestine and so on, right?
So Trump can't even get five billion dollars for a wall in America, but Jared Kushner can take money from the American taxpayer to the tune of fifty billion dollars to
drop it all over in in palestine and and it's i mean it's ridiculous right and people gonna get very very upset about this idea that the primary focus of america should be what's going on in the middle east rather than what's going on the southern border it's not gonna uh... it's not going to end well uh... yes so if you if you want d live dot tv uh... forward slash free domain you can uh... do all of that
If you like, that's where you can watch the show as well.
Yeah, I have fast internet, so I really don't know.
It is 720p.
I don't know what's going on.
Maybe there's something monkeying about.
I do not know.
Let's see here.
I've been tubed.
All right.
Well, yeah, if it's really bad, we'll try it another time.
How do I quit drinking when I'm physically dependent on it?
That's a medical question.
So, you know, as far as self-knowledge goes, I can help you out, but talk to your doctor about that.
Let's see here.
Superchat is... No, I'm not doing Superchats at the moment.
Let's see here.
After the 2020 election, do you think Trump will have the Fed raise rates, then use the crisis that will come back to transition to a new economic system?
Well, I think that the Democrat contenders for the presidency are crazy, weak, deranged, and not going to succeed.
I don't think the Democrats are going to succeed.
So there could well be, it could well be the case that the Fed is going to raise interest rates before the election in 2020 in order to crash the economy and then everyone's going to freak out and vote for socialism.
So that's a definite possibility.
So, ENG, notice me senpai.
Yes, I have.
All right.
Maybe pause the stream for five minutes and fix the sound.
Should I?
Should I do that?
Actually, it's exactly the same setup that I did before.
The multi is not so bad, right?
Let's see here.
Still bad?
Still bad.
Shall I restart?
Audio is just not synced.
It sounds fine.
Shall I restart?
It's just desyncing a little bit.
People are whining too much.
Stevan, shall you ever tackle Wikipedia's unsolved problems in philosophy?
You know what?
Let me just make a note of that.
That is a very, very good thought.
Good idea.
Yeah, that's a great idea.
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