Feb. 13, 2020 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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| Hey everybody, Stefan Molyneux from Free Domain. | |
| Just dropping by, this is 20 of, as we used to say when I was growing up. | |
| I didn't say 20 to 8, we said 20 of 8. | |
| And I just wanted to remind you, in case, well, I mean you could do something else with your evening, but why? | |
| Why would you? So Jay Dyer. | |
| And I are going to be having a debate right here, live-streamed to YouTube. | |
| We're also going to stick around afterwards for a Q&A. And we are going to be getting down into it. | |
| I have a feeling it could end up being just a little bit contentious. | |
| I could be wrong. I could be wrong. | |
| I was wrong. I was wrong once before. | |
| Oh, it was a terrible, terrible time when I was seven. | |
| No, eight. No, no, I was seven. | |
| That's right. I was seven. I was wrong. | |
| It was a horrible, horrible thing. | |
| So, yeah, it seems to be working. | |
| This is streaming from the very technology that we will be using. | |
| First time I tried it, I got the fabled blue screen of death, and then Windows did about 14 updates. | |
| You know, people say that Bill Gates owns the patent on the coronavirus. | |
| He should know all about viruses. | |
| He made Windows. | |
| So, I hope that you will join us tonight for what is going to be a truly spectacular debate about reason, reality, truth, God, virtue, society, politics, and... | |
| You'll see why Jay Dyer is actually a little bit misnamed. | |
| Should be D-I-R-E. But I'm not going to be keeping this going. | |
| I just wanted to drop by. Give it a test and see. | |
| Oh, look. I'm 53 and I have a pimple. | |
| Isn't that lovely? Knee problems and pimples. | |
| I love middle age. All right. So I hope that you guys are going to stick around. | |
| And I guess if you guys know, I don't know much about good old Jay, but I can have a quick look in the chat here. | |
| And see what's going on. | |
| Is it coming through? Okay, right? | |
| 720. I think it's only 25 frames a second, which makes me look like old-timey Clark Gable. | |
| People say Jay Dyer is unstoppable and unbeatable. | |
| Well, it could be the case that the unstoppable force meets the immovable object. | |
| His name is not Jay Dyer. | |
| I reject that. | |
| Jay is not a gamma male. | |
| No, he's good. He's good. | |
| He's smart. Probably the most interesting thing to watch of a Wednesday night when you have the flu and have been watching the interwebs about coronavirus. | |
| Oh man, I hope you're fine. I'm sure you will be. | |
| I'm sure you will be. | |
| Let's see here. Better be able to support your presuppositions. | |
| 60K now infected. | |
| 15 new cases in 24 hours. | |
| Oh yeah, man. This is the one. | |
| I'm telling you, I have not been alarmed. | |
| About this kind of stuff in the past, but I'll tell you this right now, my friends. | |
| I'm alarmed about this one, and I am not one who is massively easy to alarm. | |
| You could even say I am disarmingly unalarmedly. | |
| All right. So what else do we have here? | |
| Any other thoughts before we go on? | |
| Somebody says, I would love to have you on my show sometime for a chat. | |
| Love your show. Thank you. | |
| Send me an email. | |
| The communists will go personal. | |
| No, no, no. He's against communism. | |
| He's against communism. | |
| He's a nice Christian boy. | |
| Jay's mom says he's a very nice boy. | |
| Hey. But enough about his fiance. | |
| All right. What's the topic? | |
| I just told you. Sorry if you came in late. | |
| And love from the Pilbara Desert in Australia? | |
| Ah, good. | |
| I'll try and work in a little dry humor, he said, working in a little dry humor. | |
| Apparently the coronavirus has peaked and may be stabilized very shortly. | |
| I will tell you, I do not believe that to be the case. | |
| But, like in many things, I am overjoyed to be proven wrong. | |
| And I just wanted to mention as well, for those of you who don't know, so those of you who have very kindly, generously, and I've wonderfully signed up for Wii subscriptions on the Subscribestar channel. | |
| That's Subscribestar.com forward slash free domain. | |
| Three bucks a month. | |
| What is that? Ten cents a day. | |
| Ten cents a day. Ten cents a dance! | |
| And so I've set up a server, a chat server, a voice server, and we actually had a good chat last night about potential ways to approach this debate today. | |
| So if you do sign up, when you do sign up, you will get an invite to the server wherein you can chat with other listeners and myself. | |
| I was around chatting with people today while I was working on prep for the debate. | |
| So, I hope that you will think about that. | |
| Sorry to give Mr. Pitch here. | |
| But it's kind of cool. | |
| I mean, it's funny because it's like, it's old school, man. | |
| Really old school. Because way back in the day, we used to have a community server message board until it became vulnerable to DDoS attacks. | |
| And... We used to have a chat room, and we used to have, like, great debates on there, and so I'm hoping to bring that back, and the way that we'll do it is through Subscribestar, so thank you. | |
| Stefan is going to get crushed by the Dyer wave. | |
| Jay Dyer is the reason I am an Orthodox today. | |
| All right. And Hail Cobra, I don't know, is that something to do with... | |
| Stefan is very smart, but his presuppositions are unjustifiable. | |
| Presuppositions. Doesn't it sound like something you take before you take the hemorrhoid treatment? | |
| All right. Will you support Trump this year? | |
| I will support the facts this year as I do every year. | |
| What is the debate topic? Reason, evidence, empiricism, metaphysics, you name it. | |
| It's going to be really, really cool. | |
| I hope you have a fruitful discussion tonight. | |
| Hey. Is that a reference to Genesis? | |
| We'll see. Will this be like the debate with Peter Joseph? | |
| Well, we shall see. | |
| I've been looking forward to it today, so I'm pleased. | |
| I'm glad that we're doing it, and he's been around for a while, and I actually mistook him for another guy on the internet, so I'm glad to have had that conversation. | |
| It is going to be lit, I will tell you that for sure. | |
| You know, he is a tough and wily and intelligent and well-educated and well-read, I wouldn't say opponent, but debate partner, I suppose you could say. | |
| And somebody said, I just watched your Myths of World Wars video from 2007. | |
| Ooh, yes, when the resolution was lower and my skin was smoother. | |
| Peter Joseph is a Marxist? | |
| Yeah, kind of, right? Kind of. | |
| I wonder how bad the chat's going to get. | |
| You'll lose if you start from observation, Steph. | |
| I am hosting the debate and it's going to be live streamed, which is great. | |
| I'm really, really working to try because I produce so many dang shows that I'm really, really trying to find ways to minimize the amount of sort of post-production labor that is needed in this kind of situation. | |
| Steph is top 10 sexiest males of YouTube. | |
| Actually, I will tell you this too, my friends. | |
| That's all 10. It's not just I'm not in the top 10. | |
| I am the top 10. All right. | |
| Let me just adjust my tool belt and the snake I have wrapped around my snake. | |
| All right. Steph obviously will win. | |
| Now the truth will win. The truth will win. | |
| Would you ever cast a bronze sword with Sargon? | |
| Doesn't Sargon do Dungeons and Dragons? | |
| I actually had this. | |
| I was talking about this with my daughter the other day that I have this thought about running a Dungeons and Dragons campaign over Skype and live streaming and all of that because I was a really, really good dungeon master, really atmospheric and good characters and so on. | |
| Would you or anyone be interested in that? | |
| Just let me let me know because I do like me some Dungeons and Dragons. | |
| That is very, very cool. | |
| Steph, do you have any volunteering opportunities? | |
| Make the case. | |
| Jay will go after your ability to make universal claims. | |
| Steph, will you ever do a truth about Andrew Jackson? | |
| I'd love to hear it. Throw some slides together for me, man, and I'd be happy to. | |
| Let's see. You're awesome, Steph. | |
| Thank you for all that you do. Thank you so much, my friend. | |
| That's very, very kind. It is a wonderful privilege. | |
| Here's something I don't understand. | |
| Let's see. Jay Dyer shit-talks the papacy not being necessary for survival of the church, yet the Pope saved East from swimming in monophysitism. | |
| I'm gonna have to plead the fifth on that one. | |
| I don't know what that what that means. | |
| What will the Jay Dyer debate be about? | |
| The role of reason in the pursuit of knowledge? | |
| Do you believe there's an imminent pandemic now? | |
| Yes, I do. D&D is mental push-ups for the imagination. | |
| It's true, man. It is really true. | |
| Boy. Boy, oh boy. | |
| Would you be posting it on YouTube? | |
| Yeah. Steph, did you know you can cook a steak in the dishwasher? | |
| Hey man, just because somebody's out there washing your dishes doesn't mean you should insert a steak into them. | |
| Unless they're a vampire, in which case you really should. | |
| Please don't hold any punches. | |
| Smash the guy in this debate. Sweep the knee! | |
| All right. All right. | |
| Stefan is the strongest debater. | |
| You know, I got to tell you, here's a little funny little thing about my body. | |
| Whenever a camera is on me, my nose gets itchy. | |
| You see this in, you know, I'll just be doing this and I'm like in the middle of it. | |
| So I'm basically just going to take a weed whacker up there and hope for the best. | |
| How much time have we got before we go? | |
| Ten minutes. All right. Stef, do Skyrim videos. | |
| I'd like to. It's a bit old now, isn't it? | |
| Are they ever coming out with a new one? | |
| Let's see here. Pro tip, Jay rambles a lot, but he doesn't have a clear argument. | |
| If you asked for a formally valid syllogism, he'd faceplant. | |
| We'll see. We'll see. | |
| What is a Scandinavian? | |
| Yeah, I saw that. Will you be doing another video on the coronavirus? | |
| You've provided the best info I've seen so far. | |
| Good luck for the debate, too. Thank you. | |
| I will. I will be doing one tomorrow. | |
| And for those of you who are invited to the server through Subscribestar, please remember to... | |
| I will be watching that for debate tips in there. | |
| So that would be great. | |
| The nose itch thing could be bright lights. | |
| What does that mean? What does that mean? | |
| I don't know. Jake Dyer's IQ is too high and he still has hair. | |
| How can he lose? You know, he is a tasty slab of man meat. | |
| There's no question. He's a good looking guy, for sure. | |
| Do you have post-it notes? | |
| I am a post-it note! | |
| I don't know what that means. Good thing I bought the art of the argument today. | |
| Yes, that's right, my friends. | |
| The Art of the Argument, available for a little while. | |
| Anyway, you can get that on Amazon. | |
| You can see the link, artoftheargument.com. | |
| How long will the debate be until last man standing rules is going to be how it goes? | |
| Take notes, chat. Steph is going to put on a clinic. | |
| Please do a show on negative interest rates and the cash ban in Australia. | |
| How long will the debate be? | |
| A long time. I don't know what the CETA agreement is. | |
| That's the Chinese one. And probably 242 new deaths in the province. | |
| Yeah, it's bad. | |
| It's bad. Any advice for apathy? | |
| Apathy is rage spread thin, so figure out what you're angry about and why you want to. | |
| See, if people have bullied us to be successful in our lives because it feeds their vanity, then we're like, well, to hell, I'm not going to feed your vanity. | |
| I'm going to be a failure, and it usually means that you're angry. | |
| Stefan, ass or tits? | |
| False dichotomy. Why on earth would you want to choose? | |
| All right. Jay fills them books with post-it notes. | |
| Steph, as a business person, you should benefit from the low interest rates. | |
| Well, except that the low interest rates means less savings, which means less investment, which means less worker efficiency and all that kind of stuff. | |
| Truth about Einstein. | |
| What happened to that, Stefan? Oh, boy. | |
| If I had a dime for every project I've got somewhat finished, I'm about two-thirds of the way through The Truth About Emanuel Kant. | |
| I can't finish it! | |
| Oh! That even hurt my dad, Funny Bone. | |
| I'm sorry about that. I'm just sorry about that. | |
| Will you discuss the nature of objective truth? | |
| Yes. Hey, it's free real estate. | |
| All right. All right. | |
| Why is the camera bobbing? | |
| Oh, sorry. It's sitting on something and I've got a mask going here. | |
| Or maybe I'm bobbing too. | |
| Jay will be condescending. | |
| His tactic is to anger. | |
| Yeah, we'll see. | |
| We'll see. Is the debate on the kill stream? | |
| I don't know what that means. | |
| I'm just, like, you can stream to, like, custom servers and stuff like that, but for this one, I'm trying not to get... | |
| I've sort of got this new rule. | |
| Don't try more than one horrible technical thing at once. | |
| So I'll just stream this to YouTube. | |
| Please go on the Joe Rogan Show again. | |
| You know, it's not going to happen. | |
| It's not going to happen. Hey, Molyneux. | |
| Hey, Apple. I'm a single black woman in my 40s. | |
| Love your work. Love you back. | |
| Thank you very much for your kind words. | |
| I'm glad that you find it useful. | |
| What's your favorite brain food? | |
| You're smart. Well, obviously papyrus with Aristotle's blood and semen all over it. | |
| Are you afraid of Einstein due to anti-Semitism? | |
| I don't know what that means, I'm afraid. | |
| Jay annihilated Nick Fuentes. | |
| I don't know. Nick's a smart guy, man. | |
| He's a smart guy and a good debater. | |
| Outrageous guy in many ways, but some real talent. | |
| Steph and Joe Rogan are oil and H2O. What time does the debate start? | |
| My gosh, in about five minutes. Okay, listen, I better jump off this. | |
| I just wanted to jump on. Test the tech. | |
| Say hello to my lovely friends out there. | |
| And it's all coming through nice and smooth and clear, which is great. | |
| And the debate's going to be free right here, right here on YouTube. | |
| So I will just turn this off and see you guys in a couple of minutes. | |
| Feel free to give me suggestions and thoughts in the chat. | |
| And love you guys. |
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