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March 2, 2020 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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Izzy's First "Ask Me Anything"!
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We are doing a new A new type of show.
A new type of show today, which is the Isabella Ask Me Anything.
And whose idea was this?
I think it was mine. I think it was your idea because you've been chatting away with a couple of people.
It was so fun.
Yeah, really, really.
I loved it.
See, I tell you, best listeners in the world, right?
I know.
Really nice, really funny.
Yes.
I love some of the names.
I'm sorry.
I put in the names.
I saved some questions I've been mentioning a bit in the chat, but some of the names I actually am not sure how to pronounce, so I apologize for that.
I can pronounce this one, mustard snack.
Anyway.
I know.
I like that one.
All right.
So you have a list of some questions, right?
Yes, I do.
So, when are you guys doing the AMA? That would be now, 6pm.
Can I read them? Yes, go for it.
Yes, so when are you guys doing the AMA?
A name I cannot pronounce.
The...
Xyrol?
Xyrol.
Yeah.
Good enough.
When are you guys doing the AMA?
That would be right now.
Right now.
All right.
6.06 p.m. EST. EST on Sunday, March 1st, 2020.
Yes.
What is your favorite...
Same person, by the way.
What is your favorite board game or card game and why?
Hmm.
That's hard to say.
I mean, I used to be into board games more.
We would have like these epic week-long Monopoly battles to the end.
Oh my gosh. I think probably I have to say card game and it would be either I made a card game called Spades.
Please, I haven't stolen anyone's name, I swear.
At least to my knowledge anyways.
Maybe they stole my name. Okay. And it's actually fun or cheat.
I like that game a lot. Cheat is a great game.
Cheat is so fun. You are very good at that.
Frighteningly good. I know. Mom's the best.
I think she has a lot of lucky cards because I saw one time she didn't even have to peanut butter once.
Do you know, if people have a lot of lucky cards, it has a lot to do with skill, too.
Yeah. Yeah, I mean, luck is like if you have just a couple of hands, you can get good luck, but if you're constantly better, it's usually skill.
Yes, it could be skill, but, I mean, sorry, probably skill, not could be.
And also, sorry, no, go ahead.
Well, it's kind of like when we go and play...
Mini putt, right? Like mini golf?
Every now and then you'll get a hold of one or I'll get a hold of one, but we can't really reproduce it too often.
So there's less luck, whereas if someone who does it every time, that's good.
And also, I will typically count ahead, like my rounds and my cards and stuff, I'll count ahead like five rounds sometimes.
And that's how I know if I'm winning.
And that's why you'll notice that evil gleam in my eye.
So you would say, not so much board games, but card games, the one that you've created, which we'll explain one day because it's really good.
Yeah. And cheat.
All right. And why? Why cheat?
Well, it's just hysterical.
And the games sometimes last for 10 minutes in the game.
Because you're allowed to cheat and lie.
But you're caught. Actually, I'm going to be honest.
I'm scarily good at lying.
Yes. Yes.
So, that's, I think, another reason I'm good at that game.
I think best in the family.
What do you say? I hesitate to rank everyone by lying levels, but you're good.
Now, should we go to, what's the school subject you find...
Sorry, you go ahead. What's the school subject?
Same person. I'll tell you, but it's a different person.
How's that? What's the school subject that you find the most challenging, and what are you actively doing to improve your skills?
Sorry, what are you doing to actively improve your skills in that area?
Hmm. I jump ahead, so...
No, what... Sometimes don't read properly.
I probably...
Every single one. Okay.
Math. I hate math and I also find it boring.
It's a bad combo. And it's hard. I hate it.
It's boring and it's hard.
Well, and... Sorry for you math lovers, but it sucks.
No, here's... I think that the big problem is that you don't know the purpose.
Yeah, like... Because it's okay...
There's an old saying from a philosopher named Nietzsche.
He said, give a man a why...
In other words, why you would do something.
He can bear almost any how.
Right? So if somebody just said, go climb some cliff, you'd be like...
Why? Right, right? But if you said, go climb some cliff because there's a bag of diamonds at the top, you'd find some way up there, right?
No, I wouldn't because I wouldn't believe the person.
No, but if you knew it was true.
Okay, okay. Right? You'd find some way out.
Yeah, I'd do it. Although that's good skepticism.
And so we got into math, in a way, when we did our Dungeons& Dragons, because you had to do probability and percentage and, you know, like 1 out of 20 is 5%, all that kind of stuff, right?
Yeah. So when you had a purpose for the math, you were happy to learn it.
But just learning math for the sake of learning it, plus when you see everyone in the world using calculators, it's kind of tough, right?
Yeah. All right.
Actively improve your skills.
We do drills.
We do practice and all of that.
I mean, also math.
I don't mind the basics and I understand that you should know it.
But I mean, stuff like, hey, here's how you measure a triangle and here's how you find the area and the perimeter.
I'm like, honestly, I don't care for that stuff.
I mean, I get it's helpful in some ways.
How would it be helpful? Construction?
Yeah, I mean, if you needed to build something big and you needed to know the area or something, it would be pretty, like engineers would do that, right?
Yeah. Alright. So, I mean, but I'm not planning to become an engineer.
Not planning to become an engineer.
And, I mean, they never gave me, they never gave me a why.
Not you guys. Well, so we sort of said that you should have a good idea how numbers work.
Because just punching things into a calculator is just like magic.
And you can't tell if you slip a digit or something like that.
Or the decimal place is in the wrong place.
So it's a good idea to know how much.
But, you know, when I sat down to do long division with you again, I'm like...
Oh, I remember that.
Mom has to actually help both of us.
Oh, yeah, for sure. It's like, are you my age?
Is mom tutoring? No kidding.
It's seriously long division is impossible and I hate it.
So what is your favorite dessert?
Cakes are disgusting. Not a fan of cakes.
I like chocolate cakes, but I only like them because I have the chocolate shaving.
But you've never particularly liked icing or that kind of fluffy cream.
No. I don't mind that icing that hardens.
Like the stuff you put on gingerbread houses, but icing on cakes.
The fluffy stuff is not good.
Yeah. To me, it tastes like oil.
It tastes like fluffy oil. I don't get that.
I find it too sweet to eat.
Also, like, I mean, the stuff on the gingerbread houses, which we still have.
Don't ask questions.
What's it called?
I don't mind a tiny bit of that.
Yeah.
But a lot of it, I really, like, it's not good.
Right.
Okay.
And you don't like pies.
I do.
I like a bit of pies.
The crust. I like the crust. I love the crust.
I'm going to love the crust. I'm going to marry it.
Logan X, I think it is.
Logan and then there's an X at the end.
We haven't said your favorite, though.
Oh, my favorite? Sorry. I lied.
What would it be? Well, I think it's the stuff you make yourself.
Oh, I make chocolates. I don't think so.
You don't like that stuff too much? I do like it.
I honestly think gingerbread house.
Gingerbread house is your favorite dessert?
Yeah. Alright, good to know. I love it.
Alright, now the correct answer.
See, that's interesting because the correct answer is always carrot cake with cream cheese icing.
I said you just like that cream cheese.
Oh, I just liked it, yeah. The fluffy stuff is different.
Logan, and then there's an X, Logan X. What do you appreciate most about your life?
Me wonderful parents.
Oh, very nice. What do you think about kids that go to public schools?
How they act? What they think is cool?
Do you think you're missing out on anything?
No. In fact, I think they're missing out on a lot.
They act...
Let's just say their conversational skills are pretty bad.
Well, some kids you've known for a while, we won't say where, but some kids you've known for a while, you've actually...
You were trying to measure their conversational stuff, right?
Oh, gosh. I got...
I think it was in grade one.
Or something. And I got about 42 seconds where I was saying most of it.
Yeah, so in terms of having extended conversations, so we've been having conversations with you since you were a toddler.
Yeah. And the back and forth, like we can sometimes sit for an hour or two if we've got a long drive, and we'll just chat, right?
Yeah. But a lot of kids don't seem to have much, like kids can't teach each other how to have a conversation.
It has to be kind of adult down.
Yeah, or even older kid.
Even older kid, right. But if the older kids haven't learned either, then they can't teach.
Yeah, true. So it's the conversational length that is a big problem.
Yeah. What is your favorite activity to do with your dad?
I'm gonna bring up roleplaying.
Please bring up roleplaying. It's basically Dungeons and Dragons-ish.
Except it's with like more...
It's more active stuff.
So instead of dice rolling, can you hit this?
We have to throw a ball into a box.
Right. Or if a monster is trying to attack you, I have to throw a ball and hit you.
And I have to dodge. And you have to dodge it.
So it's kind of exercise-y.
And we try to avoid the dice rolling.
We try to make it like puzzles that you can figure out.
Because dice rolling is completely random what happens when it rolls.
It's basically just gambling with hit points.
Yeah. So we do a lot of this role-playing.
We've been doing this for four or five years now.
Thousands and thousands. We have a storyline that has gone from you first going out on your first adventure to now having extraordinary powers.
We've done time travel back to the present.
You've gone to other dimensions.
Yes, it was hilarious.
You've tamed dragons. I ran for mayor.
I ran for mayor.
Yeah, because you were running against a communist and...
We went through the whole process of going out to get signatures and raising money and making promises and how to become mayor.
Oh my gosh, my first one was this dude.
By the way, as you know, I love dragons.
I'm sure of it. So this was the first one, the first house that I had to go to to try and get a sign.
He said, well, I like dragon zoos and I want to have permits in this town.
I'm like, okay, blah, blah, blah, whatever.
And I basically agreed to it.
And the next person said, I hate dragon zoos.
And... I really, I can't do one.
I'm allergic to dragons or whatever, right?
And then I said, yes, I hate dragons too.
And after that one, I also got campaign managers.
And I said, didn't you literally just say that you were going to do dragons on the first one?
I said, well, if I become mayor, I can do anything I want.
Which was funny, for sure.
So you know now the temptation to get votes is to say different things to different people, right?
Yeah. If you just want power, right?
Yes, except I wanted power because I could fix it for good afterwards.
That's almost a temptation.
I didn't do that afterwards.
I didn't actually do a lot of anything.
I didn't lie afterwards.
I only did that because I was just testing out my lying skills and also because, you know, I have to experiment.
Okay, so... Oh, that was also Sully Kid, by the way.
So, yeah, so favorite thing to do is role-playing, for sure.
Yes. Conversations, I like.
I also like wandering around the mall with our new walkie-talkies, which we haven't gotten to yet, but...
We'll get to that. Walkie-talkies are epic.
All right. DeLoop20, what is your favorite book?
What, are you asking me? I'm thinking.
I think it's your AMA, darling. Okay, Dad.
I'm thinking. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay. So, my favorite series.
Maybe you already know this. Well, we did Famous Five for a while.
We did Mallory Towers and Famous Five.
Yes. Because those were books I read when I was a kid, but go ahead.
Yes, and that one before that, it was a detective one.
Oh, Emily and the Detectives.
Yeah. With the weird dream in the middle.
Yeah, I didn't like that. No, but that...
That dream was scary. Okay. But it was a good story.
Yes, my favorite series is Wings of Fire and I think my favorite book of that is book 10.
Wings of Fire, yeah.
Book 10 or book 2.
We did, I don't know if I'll ever upload it, but we did an online quiz of Wings of Fire and you were just like, boom, boom, boom.
Oh, I got them all. And you're like, who is Sonny?
Because I'm trying to get him into the series and it's actually working out.
But he likes it.
Right. And who is Sonny was one of the questions.
And Sunwing? Dad, that's not even a type of dragon.
Right, right. So that's your series.
Okay, next. Yes. Rod G, what is your favorite joke?
I actually don't think I have one.
Yeah, you know, we don't do a lot of jokes, really.
I mean, we laugh a lot, but I'm...
And it's a funny thing, too, because I don't really know that many jokes.
Yeah, me neither. I like to sort of make up funny stuff.
I do that, too. Like, we laugh hysterically during role-playing, for sure.
Oh, my gosh. I was literally on the ground laughing at one point.
Really funny. All right.
Have you ever been bullied?
No. No. I don't think you have.
No. Yeah. Listen, I mean, this is hard for people to understand, particularly if they had it kind of rough growing up, but nobody's ever raised their voice to you, right?
No, I don't think so. Nobody's ever yelled at you.
Nobody's ever called you a name.
No. Certainly, obviously, never been hit.
So... Except for that playful smackiness.
Yeah, well, you know, play fights. That's not...
That's good fun. Yeah. That's good fun.
All right, next. Yuri...
Yuri. Yuri.
Yes, Yuri. What is your favorite Dungeons& Dragons character that you've ever created?
Well, the only one that I ever have, obviously.
That's right. Which is named Jenna.
It was originally Jenna Hero and then it was Jenna Galaxy when I became a bit more realistic with the names.
Now it's... Oh, now it's been...
It was for the Mare race.
I had to change my name, partly because I did a memory race because people knew me.
Well, let's just talk about that for a sec.
So you had become so well known.
You saved the entire of this part of the world from an invasion.
So in this part of the world, humans enslaved dragons.
But on the other side of the world, dragons enslaved humans.
Yes. And the dragons from the other side of the world came to rescue the dragons that were enslaved in this type of the world.
It was a huge invasion. We won't get into the details.
But you became kind of world famous by thwarting that invasion through a variety...
I stopped it. Yeah, you stopped it. And so we then had to do a giant memory erase and kind of reset because everybody knew you, right?
Yes, and I came up with the memory erase and also...
Oh, what's it called?
I had to change my...
I didn't have to, but I decided to change my name to Olivia, but it's been changed back now.
We're also doing an In the Future, which is hilarious.
Well, we've done a time travel.
Before. Two!
Well, now you're on a cruise ship with coronavirus.
Well, not exactly coronavirus, because there are creepy hallucinations.
An illness of some kind is spreading among the passengers.
One person thought her saliva could cure the virus.
Right. Oh, also, the second time I went back in time was also a hysterical area, and I rescued Donald Trump from a hijack on a plane.
That's right. Very cool. Which was hilarious, to be honest.
So, your character is an elf thief.
An elf thief, yeah. A good thief.
And you're lawful, neutral...
No, I'm neutral, good, lawful to friends.
Neutral, good, but if you have...
The lawful is just kind of gone now.
Lawful to friends, okay. Ish, I don't know.
Alright, next. Oh, sorry, what is your favorite movie, Same Person?
Oh, you missed one. Oh, sorry.
What is the longest time that you've spent on a drawing?
Well, honestly, I'm going to say maybe four hours, but overall, it took me two days to complete one.
Right, right. Except, I wasn't working for 48 hours.
Right. What is your favorite movie?
Hong Kong Fight for Freedom.
No, that's not a movie, that's a documentary.
What is my favorite movie?
I'm going to answer the least favorite in another question.
Okay, so just the history of movies with us.
So when you were younger, you liked movies, right?
I mean, we watched Frozen a lot.
We watched the Toy Stories, although you don't really remember those.
We watched Finding Nemo. Oh, God, Toy Story 4 was hilarious.
I think one of my favorites that we've seen is Tangled.
I think Tangled has to be it.
It was a Christian director who made that.
Best Disney movie I've ever seen.
I think it was the last Christian director that they had for a Disney movie because it was about 10 years ago.
It was also probably the last good movie they ever had.
I think so, yeah. They're pretty rough now.
They're pretty rough. Okay, so yeah, but we don't really watch movies anymore.
We watch some nature documentaries from time to time, but...
I think Tangled, I have to say.
Yeah, I think so. It might be...
Yeah, I don't know. Next.
Endless Rage. I like that name.
Why haven't you convinced your father to do more gameplay videos with you?
Minecraft was funny as hell.
Yeah, that was true. We had a lot of fun doing that.
It's actually been me. I'm mad at Minecraft and I'm now on strike.
Please tell people your...
Disputes with Minecraft. I don't know if everyone got this.
The number one, by the way. I don't know if everyone got this, but I called it the server glitch.
And it was where the skin just kept glitching up like crazy.
And now I used to go on Minecraft servers all the time.
I also, I think I mentioned on some of the Minecraft videos that actually people were copying my skins.
A couple people I saw.
Because you worked, you can create your skin.
It's quite a detailed thing that you can do.
You can buy them, but you can also make your own, right?
Yeah. And you worked on making your own.
And then you just, they didn't show up on the server.
Yeah, it's just, it literally, it gave me this weird pinky green skin with like no eyes and stuff.
Oh yeah. And I was, I didn't play, I think it happened for like a month or something.
You got really upset. A long time, I got really mad at them.
Yep. And I didn't play, I quit playing on the servers.
Sorry, they had this update with all these...
Bees. I don't get it.
Like, why would you add bees? Why would you add features like bees that the feature didn't even work and remove features like being able to correctly display the skin that makes the game playable?
Yeah, they added the bees after all that, but I mean, they should have put all their energy on actually fixing.
I don't know if it happened to everyone, but I know it wasn't just me who got the skin problem because all the other people I saw had it too.
Do you remember we went through the math of how many people probably stopped playing and realized that that server glitch probably cost them about $2 million.
It was insane. Because you can also buy skins, you can buy custom-made maps on the servers.
You buy the coins, right? My favorite was Cubecraft.
Which is the one I liked using, and it definitely had the server glitch.
It was one of the servers. And then they fixed it, and then it got worse again, right?
And then it came back for like a week, I think.
Or a couple days, or I don't know.
But it was really bad, and I was so mad.
I just basically, and actually that whole thing, I just started playing less Minecraft.
I mean, because I was playing the servers, and I just kind of went out of it, and I got other stuff.
And another game that I've actually been playing on and off for, not my entire life, since I was five or so, called Dragonvale.
Yes. Which is super fun.
I recommend it to people who like dragons, although I have some dragons that look literally insane.
That's true. But let's not get into that right now.
All right. So, but just for those who don't know, there are, on SubscribeStar, there are a couple more Minecraft videos and also one of our early Rocket League videos.
One or two of our early Rocket League videos is up there.
Oh, we have those? Okay, good. I'm glad.
I'm actually getting good. You actually think she's getting very good at Rocket League.
I'm starting to feel obsolete. Anyway, next one.
Craig. Is that how you say it?
Craig. Craig. Craig.
Okay. What is your favorite type of poutine?
Is that the stuff you put on french fries?
Because all of it sucks. It's like gravy and cheese.
Oh, I hate that.
You're not a fan. It hurts me.
Yeah. But you don't like french fries or poutine or anything like that.
I don't mind french fries, but overall I have to say I just like them.
All right. What does it mean to be a good friend?
What do you look for in potential friendships?
Hmm. I think a good friend, you have to be loyal.
I think you should help them if they're really upset or something, obviously.
I think being sort of, not there for them, but if stuff like...
If they say, hey, why don't we go out, blah, blah, blah, somewhere?
Or maybe why don't we go out to a cafe, get some drinks or whatever?
Maybe if you say no, maybe you have some reason, but you shouldn't say no the entire time.
Because otherwise they will be like, well, why should I keep asking her if she says no the entire time?
Be nice. I think you have to have some shared interests.
You have to have shared interests. For sure.
Oh, and yeah, this reciprocity thing too.
Because, you know, we've known a couple of people and you'll text them and it'll take them a day or two or sometimes even longer.
They don't even reply sometimes. Or they don't reply or something like that.
But you can't really have much of a relationship if there's not much back and forth.
Yeah. Oh, what was I going to say?
Oh, yeah. Also, if you meet someone, this is for the, what do you look for in potential friendships?
Yeah. Meet, treat them as you treat, like, yourself, if you know what I mean.
Do, do, so they say treat others like you would like to be treated.
Yes, and then they, then you treat them after maybe the first couple days, you treat them the way they treat you.
I think that's a good rule. I'm bad at that.
Why? What do you mean? I just try and be the nice.
I'm like, oh yeah, sure, whatever. Oh, you keep trying to be, yeah, yeah.
Okay, I get it. But you know, you've got to learn.
You've got to find out if this works, right?
Mustard Snek. How do you make friends?
What are some questions you like to ask people you just met?
Ooh, good one. How do I make friends?
I kind of explained that a bit in the last question.
So, mustard snack, you can hear that from Craig.
Yeah. What are some questions you like to ask people you've just met?
I like to ask them, obviously, what's your name?
What do you like to do?
What are your hobbies? What are your hobbies?
How many other friends? Are you homeschooled?
Where do you go to school? Whatever, stuff like that.
Have you traveled? Yeah, what's your favorite place to go to?
Or, oh, I don't travel. I'm like, oh, why not?
Or something like that. Nadia.
Is that how you pronounce it? Nadia, yeah.
When, if you have kids of your own in the future, what is the one thing you would do differently than your parents with regards to raising your children?
That's a good question. I don't know what to do.
Differently? Yeah. Well, here's the thing, right?
So what people don't know if they haven't listened to the show for a while, and we actually just did this yesterday.
So what we do is we sit there and say, okay, is there anything that we'd like to improve in our family?
Yeah, we do that. Anything we'd like to be doing differently and so on.
And so we're constantly tweaking things because you're changing, I'm changing.
And so we're constantly having conversations about how to improve things.
So if there was something that you'd like to have had changed, we would have already talked about it because we do it at least once a month, sometimes more.
Next one from her.
When, if you see parents spank their children, what were your thoughts on it?
Did you ever ask their parents why you weren't spanked?
I've actually never seen parents spank their children or hit their children.
Have I? No, but we do sometimes see...
Oh, parents yelling and snapping.
Parents kind of yelling and being mean to their kids and all that.
Yeah. We can sometimes talk about that quite considerably.
I used to. I mean, I wouldn't necessarily do this now with you around, but I used to intervene more strongly.
You should. Certainly, if I saw a parent strike a child, I would just walk up and say, look, please don't do this.
This is not the way, this is not going to work out well for you in the long run.
It's a little different when you were younger because if it gets really tense or they get really upset.
And it's also kind of delicate because let's say that, and we've talked about this before when we were in a store and we saw that this giant dad, remember that giant overweight, bald dad, lean over his kid in the soap store and was just like, well, you already, we already asked you if you wanted to go to the bathroom.
And we were right there.
He was getting really, really angry, right?
Now, the problem is, of course, the challenge with this kind of intervention, you go in and you say, come on, this is not how you really want to be dealing with your kids, right?
Yeah, but if he's that mean and stuff and angry...
Well, here's the thing. What he could do is he could say to his kid, you embarrassed me.
Look what you made. And he could take it out more on the kid.
It's a really, really difficult and delicate thing to do.
And I used to do it more, but since you were young, I didn't want you necessarily get involved in that kind of stuff.
But, you know, now that you're older...
I think you should do it more. Yeah, maybe you're older now, I will.
No, I never asked my parents why I wasn't spanked.
I don't think I asked. I think you guys just told me, basically.
Like, peaceful parenting works better than anything.
Also, the thing is, too, I mean, it's not like you'd sit there to yourself if you were raised without spanking.
It's not like you'd sit there and say...
Why aren't I spanked?
Why aren't my parents hitting me?
That would be good.
I'd love to be hiddled in.
Yeah, yeah. Dad, can you just smack me?
Okay. We don't know, we don't hang out with any parents who yell or who hit their kids or anything like that.
So it's not like you would even, it's not like other kids would come and say, oh I get spanked and you'd be like, well what's that or anything.
We don't even know kids like that.
My question, have you ever been confronted by bitter people angry about your dad's work?
If yes, what happened? I actually haven't.
No, no, it's actually funny because although the reputation online has taken a few blows over the years, everyone we meet, you know, all when we were down in Australia, when we would go to conferences, remember you would sit there and co-sign the books with me at the book signing table?
Now that's a bit of a self-selecting group, but we've had tons of people.
Do you remember we were at that restaurant and the waiter came up and wanted to buy our dinner for us and all of that?
Yeah. So nobody has ever come up and been mean to me, to my face, ever.
There's been once or twice people like, oh yeah, you run that philosophy show.
And you can tell they're not hugely fans, but it's never been really negative or hostile.
No. Um, Bruno and then a G. Bruno G. I told my wife about this AMA and given she's an artist, concept artist and illustrator, she's curious about if you're considering getting yourself more seriously involved with art.
She's seen your dragons on Twitter and she likes them.
Um, no, I think I'm just gonna keep art as a hobby.
Right. And...
Yeah. I mean, I like drawing, but I wouldn't do it professionally because, honestly, my hand gets tired after about 10 minutes of shading.
Oh, the shading itself.
Yeah, it's very delicate. Well, of course, if you get older, your muscles will be stronger.
I know, but I've been drawing for years, and it still feels the same.
Well, we'll get into sort of your ambitions in the future, but it's not where your heart lies.
It's something you love, but your heart lies somewhere else.
Yeah. Tyler, what is the most important advice your dad gave you?
Communists suck. Yeah, communism is not a big thing.
I'm getting that definitely from the Communist Manifesto.
Oh yeah, we've been doing that book.
Important piece of advice.
The funny thing is I don't actually give you a lot of advice.
No. I'll do some tweaking occasionally and stuff, but...
Yeah, a little tweak here and there, but as far as advice goes, I mean, I think just I'm sort of modeling decent behavior and decent interactions with people.
I don't... And also, I mean, you have very good judgment.
I don't really need to give you a lot of advice because you don't sort of do things that I disagree with very much.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah, I think so. Pav, do you enjoy homework?
No. Yeah, you might as well finish that question again.
Homework. Yeah, do you enjoy homework?
Okay, so what's the story with homework?
Never. Homework is a nightmare.
I hate it. Some kids get a huge amount, right?
I hate it. Even stuff like I have to review my spelling test.
No. I'm not reviewing my spelling test.
It takes five minutes and it's the end of the world.
Okay. If something is enjoyable, right?
I'll do it. We were talking yesterday, you and I, about the periodic table of the elements, right?
Yeah. And you'd heard about it before from someone else and kind of glazed out, but when I sort of explained why it was important and why it mattered, it's like...
I like that cool matter that makes up a table sometimes.
Sorry, atoms. Oh yeah, the atoms that make up a table in your hand.
It's like how you couldn't go through it.
You should be able to push your hand through the table because there's so much space but you can't.
If that person had told me, it would have just...
I would have been able to learn it.
I would have found it interesting. I wouldn't have spaced out and started thinking about roleplaying.
Right. Okay, next one.
Do you prefer the company if kids your age are adults?
Was this different when you were younger?
Yeah, when I was younger, I liked older kids, and now I prefer adults.
That was Mitch. Catrinable.
Yeah, Catrinable, yeah.
Catrinable. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would that be and why?
I like this property right here, and I'm planning to make a house in the backyard and, you know, like, live there.
Wait, wait.
Wait. Poland.
Poland. Nah, I hear.
I can still catch pigeons.
Wait, wait. No. Australia and the lizards?
No. I could buy one.
Actually, I could catch one and say, this is totally my support animal.
Take it over that way. Kinidosaurus, I think it is.
Tell us about something that was hard to do or learn, but you persevered and triumphed.
What did you tell yourself to get through it?
Did your parents do say anything to help?
Yeah, good luck with us coaching you on how to do things that are hard for you.
It didn't work that way. No!
Yeah, it doesn't work that way.
So I've gently tried to sort of nudge Izzy in a particular direction, but it's like trying to handle a viper.
Is that like a sort of venom?
No, it's like trying to hold water.
That's right. You can't do it.
It's like you cannot do it.
Cannot will you to do stuff, right?
It's like pushing string. If you ask me, I'm like, okay, sure.
If you say Izzy did stuff, no.
I will never do this.
So something that's hard to do and learn.
I mean, you've really, really worked hard on your dragons, for sure.
We were cleaning out my closet the other day.
I remember we came across a dragon that you did when you were three.
Six. Was it six?
I don't think I drew dragons when I was three.
I think I was typically five or six.
So we found a dragon you drew when you were six.
And of course, like, you know, four or five years, you can really see the difference, right?
It was called a silver spike dragon or something like that.
And it was really bad.
They were like, yeah, the two legs came out of one side and stuff, but...
So, okay, so when you do a dragon, like you have sometimes sat with you or watched you do a dragon or you say, I'm going to go do a dragon.
And then when you do the picture, it kind of goes wrong.
Like, and how, what do you say to yourself to get back and do it again?
I don't. I'm just like, and this didn't work out, try again.
Okay, okay. Alright, so it's not like a big story you've got to tell yourself or pump yourself up or anything.
I'm just like, okay, the face messed up, whatever.
Sometimes I'll stop, sometimes I'll do it again.
I don't really tell myself to do it again.
If I feel like trying another try, like some days I just cannot draw.
I will do like four tries on a dragon.
Doesn't work. I try a different try, it doesn't work.
I'm like, forget it, I cannot draw today.
Oh, it's kind of like singing sometimes.
Some days, the voice is good for singing.
Some days, the voice is bad for singing.
Even singers have the same issues. In the morning, I could sing.
I cannot sing at all, I mean.
Because my voice just hasn't talked for a while.
Oh yeah, so we've been doing a little bit of karaoke sometimes.
We just sing along with songs.
And I remember I did Ocean Eyes from Billie Eilish.
And my voice was really good.
And I tried, I think it was Ocean Eyes the next day.
And it sounded nowhere close.
Yeah. And I know that because we recorded it and we listened back.
Next. What's the worst movie you've ever seen?
Same person. Everything from Disney except Frozen 1 and...
I don't know what's worse.
Maleficent 2 or Frozen.
No, Maleficent... Sorry for interrupting.
Maleficent 2 was actually interesting.
Frozen was just like an entire nightmare.
Frozen 2, you mean? Frozen 2, sorry. Frozen 1's good.
Frozen, Frozen 1, whatever.
But the thing is, too, we don't really...
I mean, the last time you said, I want to watch a movie, was probably three years ago.
Probably. Maybe more. Even now, I'll be like, you have to.
Yeah, we don't really watch...
We watch maybe one or two movies a month, so...
Yeah. All right. Jim Jones, what's your favorite academic subject?
So, which is basically...
Math, science, education basically.
So yeah, I mean English, social studies, math, science, geography.
Social studies is a nightmare.
Social studies is a nightmare. English is okay, except I have to read.
I don't mind reading.
You like to read if you choose the book.
I like to read if I get to choose the book, and if I find it interesting, like, all about salt.
I'm like, I don't care.
I don't care about salt.
I mean, I don't even like salt half the time.
I like it on my cheese and tomato sandwich, and that's it.
Otherwise, it's disgusting.
And on my french fries.
Favorite? It's funny because, you know, the learning that we do tends to be more like I'm researching something and we'll talk about it.
I've been doing a lot of research on coronavirus, so we'll talk about that, right?
I'm trying to make fun. So the learning that we do is like, we don't sort of, I mean, we have a curriculum that we're going through, but for the most part, it's conversation.
We sit down, we chat about something, or if I have an interesting listener questions, we'll talk about this.
If I have a good listener call, we'll talk about that.
So there is a lot of Quote, education, but it's just kind of woven into the conversation.
Yeah. And of course, role-playing has a lot of education.
It does. We'll do a whole show one day.
Let's just say, I've even done trials.
Oh, we went through a whole trial.
Three. A court trial, right? Three court trials.
Two. Two? The rules of evidence and depositions and cross-examination and all of that stuff we went through and now you know how all that stuff works.
And there was magic and it was even harder.
But if I'd sat down and said, we're going to learn about courts, you probably would have fallen asleep.
But if you're part of the process and you care about the outcome, it's much more exciting.
Yeah, probably. Will you marry a bald man when you grow up?
I don't know. I mean, I'll marry...
I don't care if he's bald or not, but I'll marry a man who I like.
Yeah, who you can trust, who's a good man.
Obviously, who I like is what I said.
I said that. Yeah, whatever. I cannot talk.
What career do you see yourself as having?
You mean after you go to university?
I'm never going to university or college.
That's what you said. All right. So what career?
I mean, this is... YouTuber. YouTuber.
Right, right. I'm going to do a funny video channel.
I'm going to do a call and show channel maybe when I'm older.
And what else am I going to do?
I'm going to do Minecraft. Gaming.
Gaming. Gaming. I think...
Yeah, no, because when you get older, Minecraft, they will have gotten rid of all the blocks and it'll be like...
No, it'll be a nightmare. I don't want it to be...
I'm kidding. I don't want, like, the blocks.
No, so it would be something to do with, you know, talking with people, showing things that you do.
Yes, and I only have to wait two more years until I can get a channel.
That's right, actually. On YouTube, anyways.
Johnson Brown. Dad, do you like parrots?
Okay. I like parrots.
Oh, I mean, sometimes when we're in the zoo and the parrots are there, we can spend quite a bit of time, especially if we can hold them or something.
Yeah, feed them and stuff. I also put, I think, I like parrots, by the way.
And in Minecraft, you like parrots.
Yeah, I actually like the one, I like horses and parrots in Minecraft because they each, almost all of them look a little bit different.
Right. Which is, well, the parrots are five different types of parrots and, like, two gazillion types of different types of horses.
And I like them because, like, all the dogs and the wolves look identical.
Right, right. The wolves, like, can be turned into dogs or whatever.
So do they... No, there are three different kinds of cats.
So I had a bit of a cat upset.
No, there are more. So I'm used to the old time when there were three, but now there are, like, two gazillion types of cats, too.
Right, right. But just stuff like that.
I like the cats, the...
Parrots and the horses, just because they're all looked a bit different.
Oh, they're puppies as well.
Yeah, they don't have them. We were just in a story yesterday with a puppy.
It was a golden retriever and it was falling asleep in my arms.
So beautiful. I wanted to buy it for like $2,000.
$1,000. $1,200, I think.
That's insane. Alright, next.
I decided to put the most important, the one that I think is the most important, and that you can get a lot of value from, so that sticks with everyone.
George Moe. What is the airspeed philosophy of an unladen swallow?
Unladen swallow. Yeah, that means without carrying anything?
Yeah. Yes. I thought that was about the most important thing here.
That's a very important question. All right.
Now, let's see here.
Are there any new questions? Let's just have a look here.
So this person says, I'm paraphrasing a bit, are you aware of how many children don't have happy childhoods?
I mean, have we really talked about that much?
No, I'm actually not aware.
I mean, I think it's a lot probably, but...
Yeah. And, you know, we wouldn't have much, I mean, certainly we wouldn't have much in common with parents who spanked children or who yelled at children.
And it would be a pretty tough thing for those children to be in this kind of environment and then have to go back, which is not a bad thing.
I mean, I went to people's environments that were better than my own house, and I think it was actually a good thing.
But it would be tough, I think, to have a lot in common with those kinds of kids.
Yeah, me too. Yeah, I think so too.
Let's see here.
I think that is...
Those are the questions.
I'm just going to have a quick question in case...
Ask Isabella what she thinks about her dad.
I don't know if there's much to talk about there.
I mean, it's pretty positive, I think.
Yes. Let's see here.
Are there any areas in which you significantly or profoundly disagree with your father on philosophy or in philosophy?
I don't think there is. No, I don't think there is.
I mean, so, yeah, you and I have different...
I mean, oh, I know, it's not philosophy, really, but here's something that we've had disagreements about, and we just talked about this today.
So, we go to a play center.
Yes. Right? And how many of the other parents are in there playing with their kids?
Zero. Well, occasionally one.
Occasionally, but usually there's, like, moms on their phone, and sometimes moms...
Which I find really annoying, and I want to yell at them.
Right. Right. So, what happens is, of course, I'm in there and, you know, we're having a blast doing something, some hide-and-go-seek or some chase game or something like that, right?
And then all the other kids.
They gravitate towards us, right?
Yeah, it's really annoying. I mean, I don't blame them, but...
I mean, it's what you would do if you were in their shoes, right?
I wouldn't because, I mean, like other parents and stuff would be like, no, I'm just going to hide away here.
Maybe, yeah. I'd also just like, let me just do the monkey bars or whatever.
But I have a very tough time.
Saying no. Saying no to those kids.
Well, sometimes... Sorry, go ahead.
Well, I just... I mean, maybe I see myself in them when I was a kid or maybe I'm like, you know, if they can have a positive interaction with an adult, you know, that's going to help them in their life.
And so I'm very much like, sure, kids, come and play with us.
Well, sometimes you're like, sure.
And I'm like, actually, we're sorry, but I came here because I kind of want to play with my dad.
Yeah, yeah. And the kids just like look a little disappointed and I give you a glare because you opened your mouth to say something and...
No, and you've helped me with that, because for me, it's really tough to say no in that kind of situation.
Yeah. But you're more comfortable with it, and I mean, that's been great.
So there's some disagreement about that, but I mean, I think that you have...
I think it's a decent balance. I think sometimes it's worth the play, but sometimes it's not.
Yeah. All right.
Let's see here. Anything else?
Oh, has Isabella done any programming?
Oh, no, I have not.
I mean, I've done the design, for sure, of our game, which we mentioned in the AMA chat.
Yes, so the game. We put together a little computer game.
You want to tell people a smidge about it?
We'll do a show on it. Yeah, so there's a number guess, a number 1 to 100, which was fun, and each time the number changes color.
And also, you better make sure you can get it available for my tablet.
That's right. And so it records how many guesses it takes.
It also records how long it took you to guess if you check the box.
Yeah. And then we also, so what else?
We did the number guessing game, and we did...
Oh, it also keeps your record.
Keeps the record. I don't know if we could get it for all time.
I think we could get it all time. The whole time.
The next thing we did was the math game.
The math game, yeah. We have an easy, medium, and hard, and there's division, subtraction, multiplication, addition.
Yeah, we did the whole thing. And it's like one number, two numbers, or three numbers.
I think we have another one.
Oh, yes. Well, no, we want to do a trivia game.
Yes, and we also think we might do a memory game.
A memory game would be fun. Because I don't think that would be too hard.
I don't know. It's up to you.
I've sort of explained the programming, but no, you haven't done any direct programming.
I can't do it yet. I think we've been working on it for like four days.
We worked on it in total for about 10-15 hours.
Right, right. About, and I can't learn that fast.
I'm sorry, but I just know. I remember the me, the slash me or something like that.
Oh, me dot to reference the form.
And then there was end if.
Yeah, yeah, end if, if and end if.
Yeah. What is it like living with a world-renowned philosopher?
Delicious. Delicious, all right.
Let's see here. Have you attempted video or filmmaking?
Since you like to draw, how about animation?
I've done a tiny bit.
You've done more than a tiny bit.
Fine. Go. Gatcha Life.
Okay, do you want to break that down for people who don't know what that means?
Okay, sorry. I'm just going to say, no, do you want Gatcha Life's good enough?
No, so it's this app that has like 10 million downloads or something.
I've actually never really looked it up online.
Yeah. But I am using this and I'm making animations and stuff with another app called Kind Master, I think it's called.
It's actually a really good editing app, but it takes a little while to get the hang of it.
But there's cool stuff, like I can make them walk across the screen, which doesn't actually happen in the actual app, but I've also made some hysterical videos.
Very funny. Like, we each have a character, and we get to design it.
Well, I mean, we basically just look as close to realistic as in real life.
But, um... I've done some very funny, like, we've mentioned the candy shop that I have, like, where you steal from my candy shop, and then one nightie sneak out.
Sorry, I sneak out and I put in some candy.
It's not exactly poison, but it's a funny thing.
And then you come back and you eat it, and then in the morning you're blue.
You're just, like, this light blue.
That's right. Your skin is entirely light blue.
That's right. So you do some very, like, they're called skits, like short funny stories about the family.
Yeah. And you animate them.
Skits? Yeah. S-K-I-T-S. It's like a short, funny script about jokes.
And I make them up as I go.
Like, I think, oh, but this is an idea.
And then as I go, I start thinking, oh, that would be hilarious.
And oh, what can I add to this?
Oh, yeah. Oh yeah, very good.
Very funny stuff. I really love watching this.
I also made one where I cloned you.
How many? 342.
You made 342 clones of me?
Which, you know, one of me is just, you know, that's 342 times better.
We also need a bird stuff and a cat stuff.
Of course. I don't even know why you can give the Gatcha Life people ears and tails and wings.
Why would you do this?
Right, right. And like, red hair.
I think we are good with questions, right?
Anything else? Nope. That's it.
All mine. All right. Well, listen.
Thanks, everyone. Did I actually get 30 questions?
Who knows? Yeah. Go ahead.
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It was. We should call it a Q&A. Who knows?
AMA. AMA's original.
Yeah, well, it's funny, because all the things you ask would be questions, right?
Yes. All right.
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