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Aug. 23, 2021 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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Philosophy Takes Flight! Friday Night Live with Stefan Molyneux 20 Aug 2021
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Hey everybody, hope you're doing well.
Stefan Molyne from Free Domain.
It's going to be a little bit grim tonight, but very important.
And good evening. I'm not even going to bother with the tech rant that my Radian software install kept going from 99 to 100 back to 99%.
I finally just had to reboot twice.
Now we're smooth as silk.
What can I tell you? We're live, but we have wrestled the strange psychic reads into submission.
And, yeah, I hope you guys are having a great evening.
We are going to get into it tonight.
And we are going to be dealing with some very serious stuff.
And I guess if we have any...
Excuse me.
What? Sorry, just a quick question.
If you can hit me with a Y, do you see a duck on my left shoulder?
It would be to your right.
Can you see it? Somebody's saying that there's a cat.
You see a cat? You see it, right?
Meow. Why?
Okay, good. I thought it was a filter.
Hello. Hit me with a Y. Views are going up based on that duck, and in fact the duck is based...
Would you guys like to see...
Hit me with a Y if you would like to see another duck.
I do have another shoulder, and I in fact have a head.
All right.
Let me know if you can see the other duck.
See if you can guess which one is called Buttercup.
Duckpocalypse. It will dump on you.
Oh, it certainly will, and it certainly has.
Wait, more ducks? You guys can't be saying...
You can't be saying more ducks.
Oh, it's like a circus act here.
Oh, there we go.
There we have...
Duck Center.
Duck Central, they are here, babies.
The yellow one is Buttercup, Izzy.
Since you have brought the ducks into the studio and introduced them into the show without much...
They actually will often eat my ears.
And his beard. Yeah, if I have a bit of a beard, then they will attempt to groom me, which is actually quite, quite intense.
Yeah, it's more intense when they try to eat.
But they're going around the back.
What's happening? Oh, there they are.
Okay, so here are our three ducks.
Izzy, would you like to tell anybody about the ducks?
Come a little closer if you could.
What, me? Yeah, yeah. Okay, go.
So, this one is Pumpkin, personality traits, extremely pecky, likes to, well, okay, he's pecked my eyelid about three times now, and my tooth once.
He eats pretty much anything that looks like it could possibly be food.
The yellow one is Buttercup.
She is, um...
Extremely lazy. She seems to be the smartest, but she's, like, you put her down on her lap, she'll be asleep within five minutes.
Oh, that's true. She doesn't really move much.
This one, quite active, but probably needs a diet because it runs really slowly and it waddles, like, mad.
This one is the least bonded with us, unfortunately, but all of them will still follow us around.
Oh, yeah, wherever you go, they will, of course, follow, much like a husband.
And what kind of ducks are they?
Muscovies? Does anybody know?
Is it Muscovy or Muscovy?
Do you know their sexes?
No. So apparently their genitals are in a pouch and it's private and we've not been very keen on having Me Too duck moments.
Yes. But someone said that this one's female, but we have no way to confirm.
Yeah, we don't know if they're female.
If that's true or not, we're going to believe to believe her.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. But we are not 100% sure yet.
But they are extremely cute, and they are nine days old, in fact.
And they do this incredibly cute stretching of their legs at their back.
Are they the edible kinds?
Okay, you guys got to go get some dinner before you do my show because people are like, oh, duck eggs are good.
Are they edible ducks? I would very much, oh, you had a chicken that got eaten by a hawk.
Oh, we had that too, but not a chicken.
It was a bantam eating of the year.
It was a bantam chick and it got taken by a hawk.
Next will be baby pigs, yes, but not on my shoulder.
On your shoulder. And how many...
Okay, what's... Anybody, hit me with a guess.
How long do Muscovy ducks live?
Anybody? Muscovy.
Muscovy? Okay, how much do...
How long do Muscovy ducks live, if you're not hungry?
Because... Not around this crowd.
Not around this... No, just... No, no, yeah.
Just hit me with a guess about how long...
Yeah, how long do they live? 80 years?
Okay. 10 years, 22, 8, 8, 2...
Shall we say?
Yeah, assuming we're not in Chinatown.
Okay, yeah, so it's not 80 years, it's 20.
Yeah, so they live 8 to 12 years in the wild, but of course it's predation, illness, accidents and so on, but in captivity they can live 20 years.
So Izzy will be 32 by the time they get to the end of their span as a whole.
So yeah, I was kind of surprised at that too.
We have access to a pond, so it's not far.
Yeah, 20 years for a duck. That's right.
Which is the Morfling Duck.
See, that's the whole point?
You can never tell. For those of you who don't know, it's a game called Goose Goose Duck.
Very fun game. I recommend it.
Kind of like Among Us, but more complex.
So that's a lot of... That's what the Morfling Duck reference is.
Yeah, Goose Goose Duck. You guys should get the game.
Now, somebody has asked, as far as duck eggs, what do we have in terms of duck potential, Izzy?
Oh, yeah. So they lay...
What is it? Up to 16 eggs?
Eight to 16 eggs.
Eight to 16 eggs. So they're not like chickens, which do like one a day.
We had chickens for a while.
They do eight to 16 and...
How many times a year?
Three. Three times a year in the summer, they can do eight to 16 eggs.
And... Yeah, so that's a lot, right?
36 to... Whoa, 48.
Sorry, I thought he was slipping a little.
He's fine. French people eat duck eggs, hence Molyneux.
Yeah, well, we're not going to eat these.
I'm not going to eat the duck eggs. Can they turn super cyan?
I think that's an anime reference, which we don't understand.
I do not watch anime, and no one else in our family does.
Right. So what we do in this household is we have a game called Duck Eggs, where we have eggs and we say, duck!
Okay, no, we don't actually do that.
Those ducks are selected.
Oh, we've got to poop. Could you get me a...
Yeah, yeah. We got it.
Oh, somebody's going to do that in slow-mo.
Oh, my God. I will, of course, be pausing for a shower before we keep going.
Are they showing their butt to the camera?
They are. Hold on. That's early Jim Morrison.
I brought a little bit of soap and water.
What are their names? Oh, yeah.
So this one is pumpkin.
This one is dumpling, the one that's showing its butt.
And the pure yellow one is buttercup.
Now, whose is whose? Mine is Dumpling.
I was going to choose Buttercup, but my mom chose Buttercup, so I'm fine.
Sorry, mine is not Dumpling.
Mine is Pumpkin, my dad's is Dumpling, and my mom's is Buttercup.
Carpet Bomber of Truth says, Hello from Houston.
The chicks love Stefan. Yes, well, I'm quite the player, let me tell you.
I mean, he's not, but...
Whittle Duck Butt. That was actually the name of my first punk band.
No, it wasn't any of that.
Alright, any other questions about the docs before we move on with our regularly scheduled live stream?
How do you remember their names?
Well, no, they're different colors, right?
They all look pretty different. And, uh, so that's kind of how we remember them.
Like, the pure yellow one's easy, and then there's a really dark one, which we can remember pretty easily.
And the one that always, well, sometimes, occasionally gets confused is Dumpling.
They get confused for pumpkin occasionally.
Occasionally. Occasionally.
And, um, that's the only time we'll ever mess up the day.
Yeah, so the pure yellow one's easy to see.
And then the other ones have different colors on their backs.
One is mostly dark, and the other is semi-dark.
And that translates to white and black when they get older, right?
So we've got a pure white one, we've got a mottled one, we've got a largely black one.
I think, right now, I think the prettiest one is the yellow one.
But I think when they grow up, the prettiest one is going to be pumpkin, the dark one.
Right. Do they smell nice?
What do they smell like? They smell like wood shavings.
Yeah, we have a whole area for them with wood shavings, food, drink.
Occasionally we'll put in raspberries.
We have some raspberry plants, so I'll pick the raspberries and put them in.
They really like raspberries. Would you like to come a smidge closer or you can stay off camera, but if you could tell people a little bit about their morning routine and what they're like in the morning?
Okay, so in the morning, they are the most energetic.
So basically, you put them outside, right?
They stay with you, so we don't mind taking them outside.
They'll run away, and then they'll come back to you, and they'll follow you around.
But what they do in the morning, they just sprint everywhere, and they eat anything that could be moving, even if it's a toe.
Yeah, but they love the crickets, man.
They would just pull those out of the ground almost.
Oh yeah, we have no crickets anymore.
They will poop everywhere worse than chickens.
Oh yeah, no, that's true.
No, we haven't noticed that. Maybe that was just the ducks that you had.
It's so weird, okay?
They're like machine guns. I'm holding them.
It's fine. You come over and we put them on your lap because you want them.
And they all poop at once, like every single time.
They go to me, they don't poop on you, they poop.
Yeah, so the theory, of course, is that they mark the territory of those they love the most.
And so because they love me the most, they will poop on me the most.
It's just the way it is. Even though I was the one who sat with them when they were three days old.
Yeah, well they first bonded with you, yeah.
No, they follow all of us around.
And it's very cute, and we really like them.
I was kind of hoping that all of us would get an equal amount of bonding, but it was mostly me because I sat with them for like three hours.
Well, then you've spent the most time around them.
Sorry, not three hours, an hour and a half, my bad. I'm seeing the wrong thing.
But, yeah, we just, I sat with them when they were three days old for like an hour and a half on the drive back from where we got them, and they kind of bonded with that.
They like the smell of staff.
Well, I mean, obviously they have excellent taste.
Somebody says, when I had a duck, we had to keep moving the enclosure around the yard to help heal the mud patches.
Yeah, that makes sense.
We don't lift them outside, though, because we have hawks nearby.
Yeah, we have hawks.
Do they shed feathers?
Very rarely, a dumpling, which is the middle one that is showing its butt to the camera, will be grooming the other ones, like they groom each other, and will occasionally be quite aggressive and will yank out feathers, but not really, no.
They groom each other, which is the cutest thing, right?
It is. But, yeah, it's pretty funny.
Alright, any other questions, or shall we move on to our regularly scheduled Friday evening livestream?
Every time they stretch out their legs, I feel it's a poop jet occurring.
Do the ducks think they can fly?
No, but oh my gosh. Do you want to tell them about the cute little things they do?
Oh yeah, it's the cutest thing. So when you put them in the water, now they don't like the ponds, but when you put them in like a bathtub or a bucket of water, they start cleaning each other and get really happy.
And then when you take them out, they will all start running around in circles, wiggling their butts and flapping their wings to dry themselves.
They have the tiny wings. Oh, they have tiny wings, yeah.
Yeah, so every time they eat, they wiggle their butts.
I mean, that's common in our family as a whole.
But no, every time they wiggle their butts, they stretch out their legs, and then they groom themselves and each other like crazy, and then they will stretch up and flap their tiny, tiny little wings.
But they will eventually be able to fly.
Yes. The thing that's the cutest for me is either when they flap their wings or they yawn.
It's really cute. You'll be stroking them when they're tired and they just yawn, and it's super cute.
Oh, they do yawn, yeah. And they will fall asleep on you, which is kind of cool.
And yeah, you heard you just can't get one.
They need another duck to be with.
Yeah, they're social animals, right? We were asking, is it okay if we just take one?
We weren't planning to. We were actually planning to get two, but we paid a little extra, so we got three.
Yeah, so what happened was we rescued a duck from the wild, and then we returned it to the wild once we found a bunch of ducks that seemed friendly with it, and we missed the ducks.
And so what we did was we found a farm where they had ducklings, and we said, hey, can we...
Borrow the ducklings. And they said, sure.
And we were just going to go for one, and then two, and then...
No, we're going to get two. But we're going to get two.
That's right. And then we ended up...
It was just me and my mom. You were busy.
Yeah, yeah. But we were like, we should get one for each of us.
So we ended up getting three. We paid like an extra $5.
And they really do care for each other.
An extra $10. And they're like, yeah, you can take three.
Yeah. They really, really care.
They really... You just saw one you own?
Well, it's getting close to their bed.
Well, bedtime's what, 9.30 for them?
Bedtime's typically 8 to 9.
8 to 9, yeah. It depends.
If we're being interesting, then they will stay awake because, like, if we're giving them food or, like, stroking them or something, they will stay awake because they don't want to go to bed, but eventually they'll just get really tired.
But if we're being boring and just, like, having them sit on us and not really paying much attention, they'll fall asleep really fast.
Well, and the funny thing was, so one morning, So Izzy was a child of no sleep.
And we sort of kept this up for, I think, about eight months.
And then we did the cry it out, which was brutal.
But it wasn't brutal. It was brutal for our hearts, although you learned it pretty quickly.
But... What happened was, you know, if you ever talk to my wife about, like, sleep and Izzy and all that, she'll, like, have a facial tick and burst into tears or whatever, right?
But the funny thing is that the ducks...
Well, when you had one in your room, the first one, right?
He would wake up early in the morning, and you came down, you said to Mom, like, man, it's really, really tough waking up to take care of...
No, I did not. I said that to you, not Mom, because I knew Mom...
Oh, I said it to Mom. Yeah, I told you to keep...
You foolishly confided in me.
Okay, come on. You're usually pretty...
This was too good a secret to keep.
So yeah, Izzy was saying it's kind of tough when they get up early in the morning.
I'm like, really? Yeah, at least I let them cry it out, though.
Yeah, but we don't know how old that first one was.
No, we thought it was about four and a half weeks or so, because it had its tail feathers coming in.
And it never bonded with us in the same way.
It would fall asleep on us, but when we would take it outside, you had to put it on a little piece of wool.
It was a really soft leech that would loosen and tighten, and I had it kind of around its chest, like not just around its neck because it would hurt itself, but it went insane when we took it outside.
It wanted to run. And they will actually do their, they will do this thing where, of course, they tuck their beaks into their, their beaks into their, under their wings, their tiny wings.
These ones can't do it yet. They try to, but Well, their beaks are bigger than their wings, right?
So, yeah, it's pretty.
It's pretty cool. Pumpkin yawned again.
He keeps yawning. What are their virtues?
Oh, very loyal. They take care of each other.
Stiff-necked staff. Nah, it's fine.
It's nothing like hitting the gym, so this is no problem, but...
Yeah, and they're very affectionate with us, very affectionate with each other.
They take care of each other. They watch out for each other.
They groom each other. I think they're very nice animals.
Oh, it was really funny. So I had the ducks next to me, and we were having a tickle fight, right?
You came in and tickled me.
I don't even remember why. Usually and everything.
And so I put them on the ottoman, like that was next to the couch we were on, right?
Yeah. And when you were tickling me, they all started chirping and they got really upset because it looked like you were attacking me.
They did, yes, they thought. That's right.
Dogs will do that too with tickle fights, right?
I think they pecked your shoe or something.
Yeah, and I'm like, kudos to them.
The moral courage to protect the mistress, very, very important.
All right. Anyway, should I take them?
I think, yeah, you can get them down here safely, right?
Can you actually grab one because I don't want to go on camera, of course.
Hang on. Let me move off here.
There we go. There we go.
Maybe keep Buttercup for the show?
No, Buttercup. Shouldn't hear about Twitter.
All right. There you go.
Thank you so much. Yeah, yeah. They're all going together.
All right. All right.
I have duck shavings everywhere.
All right. Do you want me to give that little thing?
No, no. I'll change my shirt.
You sure? Yeah, yeah. Hold tight.
Do I have another scene here?
Yeah, yeah. I'll be...
Give me just a sec here and we'll get into the show.
Okay. I'll just take them and put them back into their box.
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