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Aug. 24, 2019 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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Yeah, who knows? Who knows what happens?
Nothing's changed. All right. Hi, everybody.
Stephen, while you hope you're doing well.
So I thought we'd have a little chat while we waited for...
Ooh, what is it? Fifty minutes or so until episode five, baby!
Hawaii Five-O drops.
This is the episode that starts in San Francisco.
So I hope you're doing well.
Yeah, I switched from one app to another.
I mean, who knows what the difference is, but the important thing is it's working now.
So... First of all, I'm going to be heading back out of the studio, my friends.
And I just want to, since you couldn't hear it last time as the Mime Central Planet worked its magic, I just wanted to say thank you, my beautiful, gorgeous, talented, and I dare say sexy brothers and sisters.
Thank you so much for giving me the resources.
To go and do documentary in Poland, to go and speak at the EU, to go and do the documentary in California, and I'm heading back out of the studio.
And no, I'm not talking about just a roam in the woods.
I'm not talking about just going to a different room.
I am in fact going to go...
I guess from here, it's pretty damn close to being off-planet.
So I'm going to head out of the studio and get another documentary done, because I think that they're helpful, and I think that they are helpful.
Quite powerful.
So, thank you.
Again, if you want to help out, freedomainradio.com forward slash donate, freedomainradio.com forward slash donate to help out and, you know, literally can't do it without you.
So, thank you everyone so much for all of that.
So, let's see here.
Your work is known in Portugal.
The new documentary has been very captivating.
Thank you very much.
Was the Civil War really because of slavery?
I've heard conflicting information on that subject.
Well, I think that...
The argument goes something like this, that the federal government wished to assert its power over the states, and that had a lot to do with the Civil War.
Was it specifically about slavery?
Well, I don't see how it was foundationally about slavery.
If people wanted to end slavery, they could have ended.
I mean, America was the only country, I think, that had a civil war regarding the end of slavery.
So you could just say Lincoln wanted to assert more federal power over the states, and slavery was kind of an excuse.
For that. So, yeah, that is...
All right.
So, let's see. Quality on the documentary is top-notch.
Well, thank you. That's also due to John Dutoit, T-O-I-T, because he did some great work as well as that.
So, thank you very much.
Alright, so let's have a look at some questions.
We've got 40 minutes.
40 minutes before we get going here.
And let's see here.
Make sure I get some questions.
Come to Ireland! Could be interesting.
Could be interesting. I would like, you know, it would be interesting to go to Ireland and revisit the places that I was born, as it would be interesting to go to England and revisit the places where I grew up.
I was born in Ireland, spent a lot of time there, particularly in the summers, where I would sometimes meet my father, and I was born in Athlone, and then I grew up On a place called Priory Crescent, not too far from Crystal Palace in London from a very early age until I was about 11 and came to Canada.
I wouldn't say dragged to Canada, but happy to be here now compared to what's going on in England.
But it would be very interesting for me to go back.
You know what would be interesting?
And I don't know if you've had this.
I'm sure you have. But it's really interesting because you remember things, right?
But memory... Is part remembering and part creating, recreating, right?
So I'm sure you've had this when you say, I think this happened to me as a child, but I'm not sure if I just heard the story of it happening so much that I remember it from the story, right?
You're not sure if it was, right?
So it would be interesting for me to go back.
I think it would be interesting to other people.
It's a pretty universal phenomenon.
But it would be interesting for me to go back and to see...
What my neighborhood was like, you know, being bigger, and I'm sure it hasn't changed that much in 40 years or so.
I wonder what it would be like.
I wonder what the demographics would be like.
Ooh, that could be quite exciting.
Let's see here. Some fellow says, I just found out my wife has been with 100 men before me.
Okay, I have to put some noise in here so people don't make that, the new GIF. And one of them has been in vacation at a place without me knowing about their history.
What should I do? I don't know, man.
I mean, did you not know this before you get married?
These seem like kind of important topics to deal with regarding all of this.
So I would say just sit down, have a conversation.
I mean, if you didn't know this before you got married, then that's to some degree on you.
Maybe she should have volunteered it, but it's not the kind of thing that people generally...
Do volunteer.
So if you did ask her and she lied to you, that's a big problem.
That's a big problem because she misrepresented her marriage market value.
So there's dating market value, which is often hotness and vivaciousness and that kind of crazy charisma that comes with sometimes borderline personality disorder.
But then there's marriage market material, and everybody knows that dating market material and marriage market material are not the same thing at all, right?
In fact, sometimes they can complete opposites, right?
So if she misrepresented how many men she'd been with before you got married, then that's misrepresenting her marriage market material.
That's a significant problem, and you kind of got to get to the root of why that occurred.
So... All right.
We love you, Steph.
Do it all! Speak the truth till there's a crater.
I guess people are following my Twitter account these days.
Somebody says, I'm from Brazil and I would like to send you something.
Please, how can I do it?
That's very kind, but I'm not really in much of a position to accept anonymous packages these days, if that's all right.
If that's all right.
You deserve every cent.
I guess that's our donations.
I appreciate that.
Thank you. Thank you very much.
Excellent documentary on my home state of Satanville.
I mean, California.
That's great. Greetings from Boston.
Greetings back.
I love me some Boston. Obviously, seafood is...
You know, because I grew up poor and in England, and so I remember when I first had shrimp.
Oh, oh, yeah. Actually, I'm going to make my mouth water just from this point.
But yeah, I love shrimp, and I couldn't afford it for many years.
Now I have occasionally.
But you know what was amazing for me?
When I first came to Canada, a friend of mine, now dead, unfortunately, died in a horrible motorcycle accident.
But his mom took me to a place, I think it's still in business, I think in the States, not in Canada, called Ponderosa.
And they had an all-you-can-eat salad bar.
That was my first encounter with chickpeas and Thousand Island dressing.
Oh, and bottomless pop!
You know, because this is back before you knew how bad pop was for you.
I don't really drink it anymore, but...
Ooh, that was nice.
That was very nice.
Somebody says, I didn't know you had cancer.
I did, but it's deep in the rear of you now, and I think my chances of recurrence are back to normal.
You're doing great work, mate.
G'day, thank you. Preferred stock or common stock?
Well, I guess that's up to you.
Let's see here.
How do you deal with regret after leaving a relationship?
So I assume that it's you, Liam, who left the relationship.
How do you deal with regret after leaving a relationship?
Okay. The way that you deal with regret, and I'm sorry to hear that your relationship didn't work out.
I really am. But here's the thing.
You've probably heard me on the show talk to a bunch of people who've been in bad relationships and ask them what were the red flags beforehand.
What were the red flags beforehand?
Now, If you can figure out the red flags that you missed as to why you didn't stay in the relationship, if you can figure out those red flags, then the relationship is not a waste.
I mean, I don't know if you've known people.
You probably have. They just...
It's like when my daughter was little, we got her like an hourglass so she could time brushing her teeth, you know, for the right two minutes or whatever.
And with some people, you know the arc, right?
I've met the most amazing person.
They're perfect for me.
They're flawless. They're fantastic.
We're breaking up. I can't stand that person.
I hate that person. God, they drive me crazy.
I can't believe that they fooled me into being attracted to them.
Like, you know that story arc.
And it's a dismal and sad story arc.
And you kind of... Give up on even being enthusiastic about who they're dating.
And then, of course, they get all kinds of like, well, why aren't you enthusiastic about who I'm dating?
Don't you care about what if you're happy?
So don't be that, right?
Don't be that person. The way that you get good stuff out of a failed relationship, and listen, I mean, just be frank, right?
It's a failed relationship. If you...
Date someone for a significant amount of time.
It's better if it lasts for the rest of your life.
It is. And if you have a goal or a plan to have something last for the rest of your life and it doesn't, well, that's a failure.
That's a failure to sustain.
And the only way that you can get anything decent out of that failure, in my humble opinion, is...
To figure out what you missed.
What did you miss when you were getting into the relationship?
If you can figure that out, then it won't happen again.
And if you can avoid it happening again, Man, you're set.
You're set. Because it's hard to fall in love and really let yourself be vulnerable, let yourself be open, let yourself get attached, right?
Because all love ends in loss because of mortality unless you both die in some fiery plane crash, John Denver style, simultaneously.
But the only way that you can trust enough to love wholeheartedly is if...
You have figured out the warning signs and know who is trustworthy in your life.
So really figure out.
And it takes a scalding amount of honesty.
I was in a long-term relationship in my 20s.
Off and on. It went on for a long time.
You know, I think the third date we had a conflict.
And it was like, looking back, it's like, well, that's one of the reasons I got mad at everyone who was around me who weren't saying...
They weren't saying...
Don't do it. It's a bad idea.
It's not a good relationship. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
All right.
Let us continue.
I just want to make sure that I'm not missing anything.
And let's see here.
Steph likes Rush.
You know, I do like Rush.
But I've never gotten much into them.
There's a couple of songs that I really like.
And it's funny, too, because I'm quite a fan of high-voiced singers.
You know, we're talking John Anderson, Roger Hodgins, and, of course, Sting, chief of all of them, perhaps.
The guy who screams like a hobbit getting his ball stuck in a tiny vice.
Geddy Lee, who regularly does...
And I saw them a couple of times live.
They were okay, not particularly exciting in concert, but superb musicians and all of that.
Rush or Zeppelin? That's tough.
Led Zeppelin? And this is before I knew just how nasty the guys in Led Zeppelin were.
One of them was underage.
It's revolting.
You can look it up. There is something to me...
There is something truly demonic about Led Zeppelin.
And not in that kind of cool way that has a sort of dark edge to it, but like something genuinely nasty and deep and sinister about Led Zeppelin and their music, which I have, of course, Rush is kind of the complete opposite.
But yeah, Zeppelin is pretty nasty.
And, you know, ACDC has this kind of earthy, balls-to-the-walls, spinal machismo of music.
And they have a song, you know, Dirty Deeds Done, Dirt Cheap, and all that, which is kind of sinister but kind of funny.
And so they just had this sort of random, lower-class, hysterical testosterone energy, but it never struck me as particularly dark, like even like Hell's Bells or I'm on the Highway to Hell.
It was because they've got that shrieky guitar chord, positive energy to them.
I've never got that.
But, man, Zeppelin, I didn't know much about them when I was younger.
And then I had a girlfriend in my early 20s who turned me on to Zeppelin.
And, yeah, it is some seriously dark stuff, man.
It is some of the darkest music around, so I've never felt...
I always felt like if you listen to too much Zeppelin, it opens up a portal to the underworld or something, so...
I've never been a huge fan of Zeppelin.
All right, so what else can we have here?
How can we correct a fenditis that really seems to be spreading, like a spreading virus?
Listen, just don't...
Just, oh, come on. That's what I do on Twitter, right?
So people get offended by what I've been talking about, and I'm like, oh, come on, right?
Like, don't, you know, don't be silly, right?
This is fine, right? And you just have to kind of ignore it, if that makes any sense.
And, you know, and I... I've been pointing this out in Twitter when people get this massively exaggerated response to whatever it is that I'm saying or doing.
It's just like, it's hysteria.
It's just hysteria, right?
Like if I talk about how women simulate arousal through lipstick, and it's probably unconscious, but that's why it's there, and people are like, man, I hope you aren't armed.
It's like, you hope I'm not armed.
What are you, crazy? Like that's just hysterical, and you just kind of have to point out Relentlessly and sometimes annoyingly, you just have to point out when people are being hysterical and just say, you know, that's just hysterical.
And you have to be kind of strict.
You have to fence off the big person's playground of productive intellectual discussion.
So, yeah, it can be a little bit scathing when people are really interfering with a productive conversation.
It's like, you know, sorry, but the adults are trying to talk and you're not ready or fit for this kind of conversation yet.
So you just have to Push people out of the operating room when you're trying to get something done.
And don't let it be bigger than it is.
It's a very small reaction to get hysterical about ideas, and you just have to keep that.
OC says, what does one do to stop feeling suicidal tendencies?
First of all, I'm really, really sorry.
I'm really, really sorry about that.
Very scary. And of course, you know, if you are feeling suicidal, there are hotlines.
You can check yourself into emergency.
You can get resources.
So please, please, if you're feeling suicidal, Don't do anything.
Don't do anything to harm yourself.
There is a way out of it.
There are people who can help.
There are people who will care about you and who can teach you how to care about yourself.
So please, please, please, if you're feeling self-destructive, pick up the phone, reach out to someone, get help.
Do not leave a crater of shame and rage and regret on your exit to this world.
You know, you want to be lowered...
With ropes and flowers and trumpets and little dancing girls of the next generation in floral dresses.
And you want people to wipe away tears when they are mourning your passing in 50 years.
Don't be like you're found in some gruesome position by somebody who doesn't know you who then has to live with that trauma as the trauma radiates outwards from your self-destruction to everyone around.
Don't be suckered into if you're angry at people.
Don't be suckered into it.
Ending your own life to punish them because they'll still be here and you won't.
And the other thing that I would say, and please, I'm no expert on this, it's just my absolutely amateur opinions, but the sense of self-destruction, the urge towards self-destruction is in my experience and observation.
It's not scientific, it's just my personal experience and observation.
It is because someone in your life, at one point, somewhere, somehow, and probably quite deeply, and probably for a long time, wanted you dead.
Someone in your life wanted you dead.
Maybe it was a parent. Maybe it was a sibling.
Maybe it was an aunt or an uncle.
Probably someone in your immediate family wanted you dead.
Maybe it was your dad. Now the reasons for that are quite...
My mother wanted me to not be around.
She didn't want me dead, but she wanted me to not be there.
Because she had this fantasy about how glorious...
Her life was going to be like Audrey Hepburn's if she just wasn't weighed down by the ballast of me and whatever, right?
So... She wanted me to not be there, but she didn't want me dead.
And so for me, self-erasure was the big problem.
I think I may have fixed that by now.
But for you, I would guess, if I had to, I don't have to, but I'm going to, I would guess that someone in your life...
Wanted you dead. Someone in your life had murderous impulses towards you which have been internalized.
And then even if you detach yourself from that person, if you haven't dealt with the pain and trauma of somebody wanting you dead, it's going to infect you.
It's going to infect you, you know, Yuri Bezmazov style, right?
That even if the original entity is gone or dead or moved to another country, the worms still eat, they feast, they spread.
So if that's at all true, and if there was someone in your life who wanted you dead when you were growing up, Don't give them the satisfaction.
Don't give them the satisfaction of enacting this.
And you can see this in this horrible stuff that happens on the internet, right?
Where people say... K yourself and all of this stuff, right?
I mean, they're trying to activate dormant alter egos of self-destruction in people, and it really is a horrible thing to do.
So please, please don't surrender to the murderous wills that may want you dead.
Reach out and get help.
It's a phone call away. It will make all the difference.
And please, please, please do not surrender.
Don't harm yourself.
Do not take this incredible gift of life that has been gathering momentum for four billion years and has been handed to you that you are a cluster of stardust that has coalesced into a thinking and reasoning and conceptual human being who's smart enough to listen to this show.
Do not throw that all away because some a-holes in your life wanted you dead.
So I hope that helps and please keep me posted.
If there's anything I can do, please let me know.
Someone says, Random saw a video you mentioned you played D&D thoughts and validity of alignment and personal characterization.
Someone in my life who turned out to be kind of an enemy loved the character trait called abrasive.
So, alignment and personal characterization.
I think there's some value in it.
My major character for many years was a paladin called Argoth, who did so well, he eventually ascended to being a demigod and was a great way to say goodbye to a character that I played for many years.
I loved the...
The paladin's uprightness and integrity and lawful good was my kind of thing.
So I think that lawful good, lawful neutral, lawful evil, neutral good, neutral neutral, neutral evil, chaotic good, chaotic neutral, chaotic evil.
I don't know if they've all changed, but I liked it.
I thought that they were interesting.
I had philosophical arguments with people about the difference between chaotic good and chaotic neutral and so on.
And... So I think that they're interesting starting points for people to start to think about ethics, but they can, of course, only take you so far.
Daniel asks me, beer or whiskey?
Well, I'm not much of a drinker, but I do like, after a hot day of playing tennis or something like that, I will take a light beer.
Never been a big fan of hard alcohol.
Bailey's? Irish cream I used to have from time to time, but whiskey, I've had it.
It just, it really feels like something you would be taking for some kind of internal infection, so I've never really got around to it.
All right. Someone says, Stefan, help please.
Married at 20, divorced at 30.
I'm 40 now. One son.
I have custody. He just turned 18.
What should I do now? Oh, so you got...
Oh, so you're...
Okay, okay. So you're 40.
Wow. And so you had to get a 22.
He's out of the house now.
I would encourage him to get married and have kids myself, but all right.
Give me a shout about that.
I think that'd be great. All right.
Somebody says, I'm in a marriage.
She is fantastic, but I am an unappreciative beast.
How do I stop myself being a beast, Stefan?
Ah, yes, okay. So if you let people know how much you need them...
Oh, is it? Let me just...
Sorry. I'm trying to pretend I don't need glasses here.
That's some small fun. Oh, yeah, we got time.
We got 20 minutes. So, you know, I've been married...
I was 17 years, something like that, 18 years.
It's still sometimes, it's a little nerve-wracking to tell my wife just how much I love and how much I need her, right?
Because you're putting your heart and your happiness and your security in somebody else's hands.
But it's important to say that.
Because if it's true, whatever is true and meaningful, you should share with those you care about.
So I would imagine that people in your past did not handle power over you well.
Because what is love? Love is the surrender of power and of autonomy.
And so when you love someone, a significant portion of your happiness is in their hands.
And human hands can sometimes look a little bit unsteady when you're handing over the wobbly diamond stack of your personal happiness.
If you withhold from people how much you need them and you appear Howard Raukish-style isolationist and so on, then you're afraid of them leaving you.
You're afraid of them not loving you back as much.
Well, you just make that happen, right?
Bring about what you fear.
That's the great danger with this kind of stuff.
So if, you know, don't tell me, Mr.
True, don't tell me your wife is fantastic, you know, after the documentary in half an hour, 20 minutes.
Go tell your wife she's fantastic and say, I'm sorry, I'm unappreciative.
And this goes back to, like, don't let people in your past dictate how you behave in the present, particularly if those people are bad people.
So in the past, you know, giving people power over you is very illustrative.
It's why vulnerability is strength.
Vulnerability is strength. Vulnerability cuts through, clarifies and captures the essence of someone else.
Because if you give someone power over you, you find out how they handle power.
How do they handle power?
Do they handle power in a delicate and gentle and positive way?
Do they share your dependence?
Or do they like, oh, this person really needs me.
I guess I've got the reins now.
Right? Vupa, as they say in French.
So, just be vulnerable.
I'm sure if she's fantastic, she will prefer it.
Do you agree with Trump that the Fed is the real enemy?
Okay, the Fed is...
A colossal, massive enemy, no question.
But is it the cause or is it the effect?
The real enemy are those people who want something for nothing.
The people who want something for nothing.
All evil is founded upon the desire for the unearned.
You don't want to Earn a car so you go steal a car.
You don't want to earn a woman having sex with you so you go and rape her, right?
You don't want to earn a victory in a debate so you punch the guy or whatever, right?
So all immorality is rooted in the desire for the unearned.
And the Fed is a magician that pretends for a certain amount of time, and it's been a long time, that you can get something for nothing.
But you can't. So we have to remind people that you can't get something for nothing.
And the something for nothing stuff comes more from women than from men because men have to work for everything so hard.
Most men, right? So there was a woman, I think her name is Ashley Sinclair, a very pretty young woman, and she seems nice and smart and all of that.
But she... You know, she had a profile picture on Twitter, and then she posted, you know, something like this.
And this is no diss on her.
She, again, seems like a nice person, but it's just a different world.
So she posted, you know, while you all were sleeping, I changed my iconic profile picture.
And so her old profile picture was her kind of smiling.
And now it's like heavy makeup and lipstick and cleavage.
And it's, you know, a fully pumped up to the nines or the tens, I guess, kind of shot.
And, you know, again, a nice young lady.
I wish her the best, but... Man alive are you living on a different planet from, you know, bald, ostrich, egg, spotty, 52-year-old guys who are trying to make their way and their wit in the world without, well, with cleavage, but not the kind of cleavage that anyone's going to be that interested in.
So she said, oh, look, I changed my profile picture.
And she got like... Thousands of replies.
Oh, that's so beautiful.
Oh, that's so lovely. You know, I change my profile picture and people zoom in on it and say, yeah, look how ugly this guy is.
You know, it's just... I don't know.
I mean, obviously I'm no fan of the burka.
Obviously I'm no fan of the burka, but it is interesting.
It would be interesting to see what kind of success a young pretty woman would have without being a young pretty woman.
Because this is the kind of stuff that drives men a little nuts, right?
Because a woman is like, oh, I need some cash?
Okay. I'm reasonably attractive.
I'll go on Twitch and play some video games in a low-cut top and...
Bing, bing, bing, bing. Thousands of dollars magically appear in my account, right?
This one woman, Bella Dolphin or something like that, selling her own bathwater.
I've been selling her own bathwater.
I'm sorry. It's like this is not an egalitarian economic situation.
The thirst is real.
The thirst is real. So I think for women, they can get something for nothing because...
Youth and fertility markers and beauty and so on just gets stuff fired at them, like this old video I did on The Secret.
I remember that book, The Secret, you know.
The universe, if you just ask the universe for things, the universe will provide.
And it's like everybody who tends to talk about The Secret tends to be hot women.
And it's like, yeah, the universe is providing because it wants to inseminate you.
And that's about it, right?
And... This is why men often end up better at stuff, because we men, particularly if you're older like me and bald or whatever, right?
I mean, I like the way I look, but obviously I'm not 25.
But you just, you have to work harder.
You have to work harder.
And all of the shadow banning and view suppression and all of the garbage that's going on, okay, you know, it's hard sometimes.
Don't get me wrong. Sometimes it can feel like, you know, the myth of Sisyphus.
You know, just pull that. Push that.
Rock up the cliff. It always comes back down.
But it makes you stronger.
It makes you better. It makes you take more risks.
It makes you... Well, that which does not kill you makes you stronger.
And that's one of the challenges, right, with being a young pretty girl or a young pretty woman is, you know, stuff's going to get handed to you and you just have to work less hard for it, but that does give you that sense that you can get something for nothing.
And... So, who is the real enemy?
Well, the Fed is definitely a real enemy.
It enables this thirst for something for nothing, but...
Anyway, let's see here.
The one question to ask a woman would be, who else have you dated?
Oh yeah, that's from the earlier one, right?
I did discover Ayn Rand through Rush.
Can California be turned around, or should the USA break up into smaller countries?
You know, here's the thing, right?
I don't know. I have a whole answer that I'm working on for sort of what should be done.
And I won't get into it here.
I don't really have enough time. But let's say that America breaks up into smaller countries.
Well, then the productive people are going to go into, you know, five states or ten states.
And then the unproductive people are going to swarm them, right?
Right. I mean, the people who are moving out of California, as I talk about in the documentary, people moving out of California...
Well, when the tax base collapses in California, as it's doing in a slow motion way at the moment, when the tax base collapses in California, all the people who want the free stuff are just going to swarm Texas or Arizona or wherever they can go.
I mean, so, I don't know.
I don't know. This whole breaking up into smaller countries, I don't see really how that's going to happen.
I think we've just got to keep fighting the intellectual fight.
John Bonham and Neil Peart, two best drummers of all time.
Neil Peart is pretty fantastic, although, man, that guy's had a hard life.
Holy crap. Holy crap.
My brother wants to be a hypnotist.
It's thrown the family for a curve.
Would you ever encourage a career move like that?
I don't know. What's wrong with being a hypnotist?
I don't know the data in particular, but it seems like they do help people, so I think that's fine.
Do you think the intellectual's baldness is attributed to overthinking?
Well, yeah, I used to have this silly argument about how my brain was so active that it needed all the protein it could get a hold of.
So much like a little kid with a strand of spaghetti, it just sucked my hair inwards.
And you can see it starts with the neofrontal cortex up here, and it never goes away in the back because that's just for keeping your heart pumping and all that kind of crap.
Someone says, the information you gather is of the utmost salience, and I want to take the time to show appreciation for your arduous efforts.
Thank you. Thank you very much.
Very, very kind, and I really, really appreciate that.
I really, really appreciate that.
Roger Taylor is better than John Bonham.
What songs did Bonham sing?
Yeah, you know, it's funny because Roger Taylor, I mean, obviously, he had a voice so high that Freddie Mercury likened it to a dog whistle, and And in The Lap of the Gods, not revisited, but in The Lap of the Gods, he does this yowl in the middle of it.
You can see it in Live at the Rainbow Row.
Hear it in Live at the Rainbow Row. It's pretty high.
Roger Taylor didn't have a bad voice when he was younger.
She's bound to be the loser in the end.
I think it's from the first or second album.
Second album, I think. Queen 2.
Actually sounds a little bit Robert Plant-ish.
Of course, Robert Plant did have a great evil voice.
But yeah, Roger Taylor, you know, live, he's really dicey when it comes to singing.
I mean, as dicey as Brian May.
Like Brian May, when he sang for some benefit concert, Too Much Love Will Kill You.
I mean, sorry, Brian.
Great guitarist, and I liked your vocal performances on 39 and some of the stuff you did.
Sail Away Sweet Sister is really good.
That bit with Freddie in the middle is great.
And he did a nice bit to begin Who Wants to Live Forever and live when they were touring with, oh gosh, the Bad Company guy.
Oh, what was his name?
Anyway, they were touring with another singer and they did a slow version of Hammer to Fall.
Oh, there's all my Queen trivia, right?
So... They were touring and one of the musicians was just kind of playing a slow thing and Brian May comes up and says, oh, that's nice.
What is that? And they said, oh, that's just your song, Hammer to Fall, really slowed down.
And so they did that.
They actually, in concert, they started off Hammer to Fall, really, really slowed down.
And it sounds great.
And Brian sounds really good singing.
And he does a pretty good version of Love of Your Life live now, too.
But yeah, it's really kind of uncertain.
So yeah, Roger Taylor was a pretty good singer.
Owen Benjamin of Sticks, Hex and Hammer 666.
I guess I'll leave that up to your tastes.
Martin says, Hey Stefan, your latest video, Lipstick Wars, was amazing.
Everyone should understand it.
Now, I'm sure that you're... Thank you, but I'm sure you're all aware that I did try on a bunch of shades of lipstick before doing that one just to see if...
If it looked good, but I didn't obviously do that.
Okay, a woman says, my brother is in the Jehovah's Witness cult.
He was also abused as a child by one of the members.
If you haven't yet, do you plan on doing any videos on the subject?
I've actually had a bunch of conversations with Jehovah's Witnesses people throughout the years on the show.
You can go to fdrpodcast.com and you can do a search for that.
Let's see here. A great book if you want to know about unions is The People's History of the United States.
Even though Zinn is a leftist, he really knows how to show the history.
Yeah, I think Zinn is contemptible, utterly contemptible as a historian.
And I think he was just fundamentally...
Trying to dismantle any sense of cultural pride in the United States and his own cultural history is decidedly unfortunate.
All right. After coming to New Zealand, do you believe free speech is under attack here in New Zealand?
Well, yes, of course. Free speech is under attack everywhere.
As the IQ falls, as the corruption spreads, as the arguments get worse and worse, Of course you have to shut down the smartest people, and that's what free speech does.
All right, somebody says, how would you tackle overpopulation, arguably one of the biggest issues with society?
How would I tackle it?
Well, just stop the welfare state.
I mean, just stop all this massive government spending on everything, right?
Every human being alive is sustained by more than 20,000 US dollars of debt.
We have swollen as the result of debt in an utterly unsustainable way.
So... You just have to stop government spending.
Could it be a soft landing? I don't know, but it needs to be cut.
All right. Nice to see a few bears here.
That's an Owen Benjamin thing, right?
All right. We've got here another few minutes.
Another few minutes! Never talk about the Jews.
Right, Stevie? Oh, come on.
Give me some credit, for heaven's sakes.
Follow my Twitter feed.
It's on there. Yeah, I'm calling out some Jewish supremacists.
I think that's an important thing to do.
Apparently, ethnic supremacy is really, really bad.
And yes, there are certainly some big and powerful and influential Jewish supremacists which need to be discussed without a doubt.
Without a doubt. All right.
Let's see what else we've got here.
How about Ozzy? Nah, I've never been a big fan of the Black Sabbath myself.
War Pigs was alright. But I actually, okay, this is like way back.
So when I was a teenager, a guy I knew was a singer in a band and he invited me to come to do one of their shows with them.
Because they had a song called Fairies in Boots and I came out in giant boots.
And attacked, pretended to attack everyone on stage during the middle of their song.
And it was actually quite a lot of fun.
I was there at the after party and all that.
It was really cool. Have you had any personal security issues since you have become famous?
Yes. I'll leave it at that.
All right. Would you stay with and have children with a traditional virtuous woman even if you didn't love her?
Ah, but you see, if she was a virtuous woman, Then I would love her.
If I'm a virtuous man and she's a virtuous woman, then my belief is that love is our involuntary response to virtue if we ourselves are virtuous.
So, yes. All right.
Question, what's your take on the future of medicine in the U.S.? Is now a bad time to be going to medical school?
Hey, man, if you want to heal...
Go heal. You know, you will always be able to find a way to work within a system wherein you can do great good, and America is fantastic for that.
You can always decide to opt out of the paperwork.
You can opt out of Medicare, I think Medicaid and so on.
And so there's lots of things you can look up, Dr.
Kevin Smith. At the Surgery Center of Oklahoma, he's got a good website.
And the fellow I just did the show, Kevin Wacasey, I just did a show with on Jeffrey Epstein's neck.
You can look up his great blog, which is under that show.
And so I would say do all of that.
Sticks is the best. You should get Sticks on your show.
I like him, and I'm sure we'll do another show together.
We've done one, two, I think, in the past.
All right. Thoughts on discovering national pride in Poland?
Yeah, it's a powerful thing for me, man.
I mean, it was a life-changing experience going out to Poland, which is, again, why I thank everyone so much.
Thank you all so much who have given me the resources to do this.
It was a very, very powerful thing.
It was very powerful to go to a country and be able to put out on social media that you want to meet up with people to discuss ideas and have people meet up.
And listen, there were lots of people there I had significant disagreements with.
I had a very intense but positive debate with a Muslim who showed up in Poland to our evening, and it was perfectly civil, but very interesting.
I learned, I think I taught a little, and lots of people there.
We had significant disagreements.
We had a great time chatting somewhere.
The audio was actually out there on YouTube.
I mean, it's a very powerful thing.
In my home country, I can't try to go out and give speeches in Vancouver, and the leftists just bomb threats and showing up threatening people.
I mean, it's just crazy, right?
So it really was quite powerful, and whether it was because it was a significant majority white country, whether it was because it's so Christian, whether it was because it had a history of subjugation out of communism, Yes, probably to all of the above and other factors as well.
But yeah, it was a very powerful moment.
I was not the same after my trip.
For sure. For sure.
All right. Will Ghislaine be arrested?
This is Ghislaine Maxwell.
Ghislaine? Ghislaine? I don't know.
Ghislaine. Sounds like the back alley of a porn set.
But will she be arrested?
I mean, they got everything that they need on her if she's implicated in procuring these girls for Jeffrey Epstein's evil schemes.
So... You know, the older I get, if something doesn't happen quickly, it doesn't happen.
You know, like if someone owes you an apology and you don't get it within 24 hours, it never happens.
Or if it does happen, it's like years too late and it's like, well, that's nice, but, right?
Moving on, right? So...
Yeah, I wouldn't put any money on it.
And again, you know, I think that Jeffrey Epstein, you know, the majority of people, like many more people think that he's still alive than that he's dead, or that he was murdered rather than killed, right?
So this is like now 100 million Americans are conspiracy theorists, right?
Probably billions around the world. So yeah, I don't think that, I think that the information that Epstein had on people is somewhere and is still being used, in which case she's not going to be arrested.
What are your thoughts on relationship with Christianity nowadays?
Well, you know, very positive, very friendly, and keeping my heart and mind open to everything because I've sort of noticed something.
And the something I've noticed is this.
I... I criticized Christianity a lot in my early days as a podcaster when I was a strong atheist, which, I mean, I'm still an atheist.
I mean, that's where reason has led me.
But I never got attacked by any Christian organizations.
Never slandered me, never attacked me, never called me a cult leader or a white nationalist or white supremacist or all this other nonsense, right?
So, yeah. Kind of a pattern in the outlets that have attacked me.
And that pattern is not that they're Christian.
All right. So let's see here.
Lipstick is not logos.
That's true. That's true.
Now somebody says, I'm an ex-Jehovah's Witness and just finished a podcast on exposing them called Dancing in the Shadows.
I haven't checked it out, but I'll put it out.
Yang. Andrew Yang is racist towards whites.
I've certainly seen indications of that.
I really, really have seen indications of that.
Someone says, why do women sabotage a good relationship?
Because they know deep down they haven't earned it, right?
This is why people who win the lottery end up blowing the money for the most part, because they haven't earned it.
Let's see here. Howard Zinn wrote communist fairy tales, total fiction.
Yeah, I believe that. I believe that.
Someone says, if one is mixed race and feels a deeper belonging to one ethnic group than the other, does it mean that one is more genetically similar to that later group?
I don't know. You might want to do a 23andMe or whatever, right?
Let's see here. How do I get a chance as a young man without a college degree?
Well, you don't...
Oh, that reminds me.
Sorry, you don't get a chance.
You make a chance. You just create your own business.
I mean, everybody who is smart enough to listen to this show, in my opinion, is smart enough to start their own business, right?
So that's my particular thought.
All right. I want to get your thoughts on this.
So the call-in show, I have been doing a bunch of call-in shows, but because views were suppressed, I think, down quite a bit, I was a bit leery about releasing them because I was concerned about views going down even further.
The call-in shows are enormously popular.
In the podcast, but not so popular on YouTube, right?
Or on video.
And so I've got a bunch of call-in shows, but I was thinking of this.
So, would you guys be interested in, like, an actual call-in show?
Not one where it's sort of pre-screened and Skype and you line up and you wait weeks, but just here's a number call-in.
Kind of like this, but with you guys talking rather than typing.
And let me know what you think of that.
And I'll get a chance. There'll be some screening and all that kind of stuff.
Do I drink coffee? I do.
Here we go. The difference between your opinion and coffee is that I asked for coffee.
So, I would say that, yeah, let me know what you think of that.
If I just, you know, I would give it a shot.
And I would say, you know, here's the call-in number, and people call in, argue, chat, bring up whatever they like, and I think that would be fun.
I do kind of miss the call-in show, but, you know, Mike is not here, and, you know, setting it up solo and managing all of that is pretty, pretty tough.
Yeah, I could get trolled. Absolutely.
I could get trolled.
No question. But I think that would be kind of fun.
And, you know, I enjoy this kind of conversation where it's a bit shorty, shorty, short stuff, as opposed to some of the call-in shows.
Literally, we go on five hours, and it'd be like an hour and a half or two hours per call, and that would be.
But I thought, you know, and what kind of length would you guys think?
Yeah, I'll get trolled. I'll survive, right?
How long would each caller get on your live call-in show?
I don't know. I wouldn't sort of give a time limit, but...
And how long?
Do you think like an hour or two hours or what?
I mean, you can start with an hour and just kind of see how that goes.
So, yeah, Troll is fine.
I mean, I can handle trolls, right?
What do I think about Maxime Bernier?
I really do think that people should look into what he's doing.
I think he's a very interesting and important...
Thinker in Canadian political scene.
So I think that's really, really, really important.
20 minutes a call? Yeah.
Yeah, so Ayn Rand versus Murray Rothbard.
Murray Rothbard is more consistent.
So yeah, I think we start an hour, maybe two hours, you're saying?
Five minute question time limit.
No, see, I would say, and this could be more current events-y kind of stuff, because the problem is that the call-in show lineup is it takes weeks to get into the call-in show.
And so, you know, by the time it's all in, the current events kind of stuff pass.
So it'd be more, I think, more current events-y kind of stuff.
Oh, okay, we've got to stop, my friends, because...
We are just about to...
Yeah, we're just about to start.
So let's switch over to YouTube and we're just about to start the next version or the next episode 5 of Sunset in the Golden State.
So thanks everyone so much. Have yourself a fantastic time.
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