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Sept. 9, 2021 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux

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ELIZABETH HOLMES AND THERANOS! Wednesday Night Live

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	Good evening, everybody.
	Hope you're doing well, Stefan Molyneux.
	It is the 8th of September, and I'm winding down the age of 54.
	Yes, that's right.
	Any feelings on dating a stripper, either current or ex?
	Yeah, I mean, no.
	Don't do it.
	Stripper means sexual abuse.
	Stripper means drug addiction.
	Stripper means she's used herself as a toilet for men's semen gaze and fingers.
	All due respect for the difficulty that these women went through, but can you turn a hoe into a housewife?
	Well, the answer to that has been pretty evident for a long time.
	Do I think Elizabeth Holmes will be thrown in jail?
	I think yes, since the system is out to get white people.
	So I assume she's a liberal and she has the one-two punch, right?
	So Elizabeth Holmes, for those of you who don't know, she was the, seemed like 12-year-old CEO of Theranos.
	Theranos was a giant scam, which was, see, she was in her early 20s and she was just brilliant and she could figure out how to make a machine with no engineering training and totally young.
	She could figure out how to make a machine that could take a pink prick of blood and test you for hundreds of potential ailments because...
	Uncle died! Even though this didn't turn out to really be much of the case.
	It was a mass psychosis of the first order and just shows you how ridiculously bad the people in charge's judgment are.
	Because if you look at her board of directors, it was full of just top-tier politicians and business leaders who didn't seem to have a freak.
	She turned on those high-beam baby blue eyes.
	And dressed conspicuously like Steve Jobs, and suddenly it was just like, shut up and take my money, pretty lady, which is just mad.
	See, with something like physics, mathematics, software, high tech, you can be a young genius.
	You can be, and you can make immense contributions to the field.
	Healthcare, it's just a little bit more scientific.
	And also, a lot of stuff has been tried before.
	And there's a huge amount of regulatory hurdles to go over.
	And so the idea that somebody in their early to mid-20s is going to have some revolutionary thing with regards to healthcare and medicine is highly unlikely.
	And it is just one of these things where, Christ, just show me that it works.
	If you're going to invest, what is she?
	She became one of the youngest billionaires ever because her, of course, company was valued immensely.
	And it's just like, show me it works.
	Show me it works! There's a big thing that's going on in Silicon Valley.
	Silicon Valley, you know, most startups fail and startups massively over-promise and under-deliver.
	In fact, one of the reasons I got sick and tired of the software company is it's a psychopathic lying race to the bottom of how many customers you can pretend stuff works better than it does.
	And I just couldn't.
	I couldn't. I couldn't.
	I couldn't do it anymore.
	And this has nothing to do with the companies that I worked for, just, you know, companies that I worked with.
	So there is just a certain amount of sociopathic bullshit that goes on in the software space, and some of it pans out.
	You know, to be honest, to be fair, some of it pans out, most of it doesn't.
	So what they're going to have to do is they're going to have to try and prove that Elizabeth Holmes acted with knowledge that what she was saying was false.
	Because it's one thing to say, it's going to be the greatest thing ever!
	You know, you go past these, you know, you ever see these one of the, some place in the middle of nowhere, it's like, best coffee in the world!
	And it's like some greasy run-down half-shack with a half-shaven guy in the back.
	And it's like, best coffee in the world!
	Now you're going to, hey, that's not true, man.
	It's like, So if you say, you know, we're going to create the greatest software ever, you know, well, do you genuinely believe that?
	Is it fraud to say we're going to build the greatest software ever?
	I mean, I said at the beginning of this, I was going to build the greatest philosophy show in the history of the planet.
	Pretty sure I did with your help and consideration, which I really, really appreciate.
	So when she said, you know, we're going to have this great company.
	It's going to do these amazing things.
	We're going to take a pink print of blood and test all the...
	Well, it's not fraud if she genuinely believes that's going to be the case, but it just doesn't quite pan out.
	So that's the big question.
	However, I think she told one investor that she had FDA approval when she didn't.
	Now, that's quite a different matter.
	That is quite a different matter.
	Now... If you are making a claim that something is true and you know that it's not true, well, that's a little bit closer to fraud, at least in my sort of understanding and opinion, right? I'm no lawyer, but this is sort of how I understand that it works.
	So she's got the one-two punch, right?
	She does the typical thing when a woman gets in trouble, right?
	Does anybody want to know what does a woman do when she gets in trouble?
	With the law. Want to give me any guesses?
	What does she do?
	What does she do?
	What do women do?
	Plead the belly. Yes, it looks pretty, for sure.
	Yeah, so... She does the one-two punch, right?
	So the one punch is, oh, look, I got pregnant.
	And now I'm a mother and I care so much for my children.
	So there's the one-two punch, right?
	Something not available to, well, let's just say most men.
	So she pulls the one-two punch.
	The one-two punch is, I'm a mother.
	That's the one punch. The knockout blow generally is, I'm a victim.
	Oh, my gosh.
	This guy, Sonny, whatever his, Barwani or whatever his name is, the Pakistani guy.
	She hid her relationship with him from employees, from investors, from the board and all of that.
	They were shacking up together. And she's just like, well, he was a total bully.
	He controlled what I ate.
	He controlled what I said.
	He told me that all of my success was simply due to the fact that it was his ideas and he just broke me down.
	So she's complaining that he was abusive towards her and broke her down and was psychologically manipulative.
	Of course, he denies all of this.
	And... So, yeah, she's a mother, and she's a victim.
	She's a victim. Which only goes to show, like a woman can be in charge of the biggest startup on the planet, be worth over a billion dollars, and she's still a victim.
	She's still a victim.
	Oh my gosh!
	No, she's not going to go there.
	I don't think... See, here's the problem, right?
	Here's the problem. So, you know what?
	Let's get some facts here, shall we?
	Since you guys are interested in this story.
	I'm not going to quote this stuff off memory because, you know, it's kind of important, right?
	No, what do you mean pathetic?
	It works. It's not pathetic.
	It works. If being pathetic works, they'll do it.
	What's she going to do? I mean, she's destroying, obviously, feminism, right?
	She's completely destroying feminism because now anybody who invests in a young female is going to be like, well, if the last young female got off with massive fraud, in my opinion, then I'm not going to invest in a young female because she could just defraud everyone and get off scot-free.
	Okay, let's see.
	Derenos, board of directors.
	And one of them completely threw his own grandson under the bus.
	That is pretty, pretty wild.
	Okay, let me just, you won't believe, you won't believe this.
	Oh, maybe you will. I don't know.
	Maybe you will. Okay, so Theranos board members, right?
	Ramesh Sunni Balwani.
	So, accounts of wire fraud and conspiracies, you commit wire fraud, blah, blah, blah.
	Okay, so, who was on the board of directors?
	They didn't really have much medical expertise as a whole.
	One of the board members, David Boies, was also the company's lawyer, which is kind of a dual role, which is not particularly great.
	So George Shultz died in February.
	When is this? 2021.
	So he died in February. So he was the former U.S. Secretary of State.
	And that's not great.
	So, yeah, former Secretary of State was on the board, had no clue, apparently, that the whole thing was a complete smoke and mirrors bullshit festival.
	Henry Kissinger. Henry Kissinger.
	Henry Kissinger also on the board and all of that.
	So, he was the last surviving member of former President Richard Nixon's cabinet.
	He was served as Nixon's Secretary of State.
	So, that's interesting.
	Yeah. Who else?
	Gosh. There was other people as well on this board.
	I was really quite mad.
	Now, of course, if I heard that former secretaries of state and so on were on the board, I'd run screaming from the whole thing.
	So, yeah, this is as of 2015, right?
	Who was on the board, right? George Shultz, former U.S. Secretary of State.
	Gary Roughead. Sounds like a poor name, but Gary Roughead, retired U.S. Navy Admiral.
	William J. Perry, former U.S. Secretary of Defense.
	Sam Nunn, former U.S. Senator who served as Chairman of the Senate Armed Forces Committee and the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.
	James Mattis, retired U.S. Marine Corps...
	General, Richard Kovaciewicz, former CEO of Wells Fargo, Henry A. Kissinger, former U.S. Secretary of State, William H. Frist, heart and lung transplant surgeon, and former U.S. Senator, William Friederge, former Director of the Centers for Disease Control.
	And prevention. Former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
	Isn't that interesting?
	So, Riley Bechtel, chairman of the board of Bechtel Group, a construction company.
	Sunny Balvani, president and COO. And, of course, Elizabeth Holmes and, you know, all of that.
	So... And yes, Theranos was still struggling to make its revolutionary new technology work six months after being valued at $9 billion.
	I'm sorry. I shouldn't laugh.
	I shouldn't laugh. But yes, six months after being valued at $9 billion, they still didn't have anything that worked.
	They would actually take blood samples and they would send them to other labs to get those blood samples processed while claiming that they were being processed by their own labs.
	They actually bought some of this stuff and put it in the basement.
	The big old massive takes forever and takes like, I don't know, four liters of blood or something like that.
	I'm exaggerating, of course. But yeah, this was completely obvious from the beginning, right?
	And it's just wild.
	And so these are the people, right?
	These are the people who are in charge of society, making massive decisions for society as whole, top-tier politicians, and they had absolutely no clue what was going on.
	And indeed, I can't remember which one it was, but one of them really, his grandson came to him and said, this stuff doesn't work, and he just threw him completely under the bus.
	And let's see here.
	Yeah, women get off or less sentences for the same crime as men.
	Yeah, for sure. Of course, right?
	For sure. She said the Pakistani guy forced her to live under Sharia law at home.
	Is that right? Well, what's wrong?
	Doesn't she like diversity? What's wrong with that?
	Yeah, she signed a deal with Walgreens that said the tech was done.
	Same with other investors. But, you know, I've been in front of investors trying to raise capital, in fact, successfully raising capital.
	You know what they ask? They ask for proof that you've got what you...
	You know, they ask for proof. It's not difficult.
	It's not difficult. It's so simple.
	If somebody wants you to invest...
	Gosh, what was it? Betsy DuVoy put in, like, an ungodly amount of money.
	Someone put in, like, $100 million or whatever.
	So if somebody wants $100 million and they make these claims...
	That their machine can do a pinprick of blood and can diagnose hundreds of potential ailments, whereas you need massive amounts of blood elsewhere and so on, something which seems physically impossible.
	I mean, it seems physically impossible.
	Because a lot of this blood stuff, you've got to put it through processes, you've got to spin it, and how can you get that from one drop?
	Each one of these tests are for separate things.
	So how can you get hundreds of tests out of one drop of blood?
	Like, it doesn't make any sense, even from an outside perspective.
	This isn't even close.
	This isn't even close.
	It's like the fusion in a jar thing.
	If somebody says, I've got fusion in a jar, how about you show me?
	Just a quick question.
	Empiricism. To me, somebody comes to me and says, not that I have any kind of money like that, but let's say I want a massive amount of money.
	Oh, $100 million. Okay, fine.
	I don't believe it. I don't believe you.
	But let's say that I'm kind of talked into the meeting.
	It's like, okay, no problem. Bring your machine.
	Bring your machine. I will put my pinprick, take my pinprick of blood, put the blood into the machine and then give me the results.
	And then what I will do is I will go to a proper lab and I will get my blood tested and I will compare the results.
	I don't understand why that's so complicated.
	Like I genuinely, I have no clue why that is so complicated.
	If you say that you have this machine, I'm sorry again, I shouldn't laugh because literally people died from this.
	People, I mean, I'm pretty sure, this is what I understand, right?
	Put the machine on the table, pinprick of blood, put it in the machine, give me the results.
	And I will then compare that To proper lab results and see if they match.
	I don't understand why that's so complicated.
	It's just a pinprick of blood. It hurts a lot less than, I don't know, losing $100 million, as some people did.
	Oh, was Dr. Fauci's wife a part of it as well?
	I don't know about that. Yeah, isn't that wild?
	How on earth could that not have happened from anyone?
	You're like, well, she dropped out at 19, or failed, or dropped out, and then she's just like, oh, I've got this amazing machine.
	And, of course, the media fawns over her because everybody's looking for, you know, the female Steve Jobs, and, you know, it's such a boys club, and she's young, and she's pretty, and all of that.
	And so everybody's looking for the next Steve Jobs, and instead they found the next Bernie Madoff, right?
	So... Oh, is it a different last name?
	Mrs. Fauci? Anyway, so, yeah, it's pretty wild.
	And here's the thing, right?
	So, people got results that were inaccurate and, I assume, made important decisions based upon those results.
	Some people who went to Theranos for markers for, I don't know what, I'm guessing something like cancer or something like that, let's just say, well, if they got negative results, then they're like, whew, excellent, I don't have cancer, maybe they did, maybe it spread, maybe they died.
	How they get people on wire fraud, I have no idea.
	Like, why that's a thing.
	I don't understand the US legal system.
	I don't understand the legal system as a whole.
	It mostly seems to be run for the benefit of lawyers.
	But if you falsify people's medical results knowingly, if you know that your machines aren't accurate and you give people medical results from those machines...
	How is that not manslaughter?
	Again, I'm no lawyer, but in a sane universe, it would seem to me, isn't that just plain out manslaughter?
	Uh... It would seem to me, if I pretend to be a surgeon and kill someone by cutting into them, oh look, I faked something and someone died.
	So I don't know what's going on.
	But my guess is something like this.
	So my guess is something like this.
	So Schultz, I guess, Schultz is dead as of February, but because the board is full of some very powerful people...
	They're going to have to not bring in the heavy-duty stuff because that's going to spread, right?
	Because if she's guilty of fraud, which seems to me pretty obvious that she is, but, you know, we'll see from the trial.
	But if she's guilty of fraud, what did the board know?
	And when did they know it?
	And do they have a responsibility when you put your name to something and you put your credibility to something and you put your reputation to something and people invest because you're part of it and you've got credibility, which is why they were on the board in the first place?
	Are you responsible for whether it works or not?
	I kind of think you are, if that makes sense.
	I kind of think that you are responsible for it.
	And if people get very sick and or die, because you put your name to something without ever checking whether it actually works or not, and you talked it up and pumped it up as something that works and you've never actually checked to see if it does work or not, How does that not spread to you?
	And you could argue, of course, that let's say that Elizabeth Holmes was under the death grip of Sonny Balwani or whatever.
	Okay. Well, George Shultz wasn't in a Sharia-style relationship with Sonny Balwani, right?
	So you could argue, I think, that the reason you have a board is because she's a kid, basically, in the business world.
	She was in her early, mid-20s or whatever, right?
	So she's a little kid, as far as the business world goes.
	So you need older and wiser and more seasoned and more experienced people to act as an oversight because she's so young and inexperienced to be running a multi-billion dollar company.
	So if you're brought in as the adult in the room, so to speak, and you're brought in to oversee...
	The young, inexperienced person, don't you have a greater responsibility in a way because you're older and you're wiser and you've been around the block and you've been in business before and you know there's capacity for fraud and all that kind of stuff?
	And of course, because...
	This is literally people's lives.
	This is literally people's surviving or not surviving illnesses.
	It's not like, oh boy, you know, we pushed out a release and it crashed.
	You know, oh dear, the Facebook release or whatever, it crashed.
	Well, that's a real drag for sure.
	Nobody's dying. Nobody's dying.
	But this stuff, I don't know, it's just crazy.
	So, I don't think you should have put on a wig and fixed your eyelashes.
	Invested would have thrown billions at your companies.
	Yeah. And of course she has this.
	She had this baritone. She talked really low.
	And then occasionally you can hear her squealing like a little anime character and so on, right?
	Was she above average attractiveness?
	Oh yeah, for sure. I would say she was very pretty when she was photographed in the right kind of way.
	She had kind of fluffy hair and all of that.
	But, you know, skinny, laser blue eyes, high cheekbones, and massive amounts of makeup, right?
	Because that's what you need. Because, you know, nobody would have invested in Steve Jobs without makeup.
	Jimmy Kimmel? Yeah, Jimmy Kimmel, what did he say?
	Unvaccinated COVID patients should not get ICU beds?
	Sure. So the more they pump this stuff, the more I'm concerned that this winter vaccines are going to cause problems and they're going to have to blame it on the unvaccinated.
	So be aware, be aware, beware.
	Every 12-year-old on the internet knows the rule.
	Picks or it didn't happen. Right, right.
	Right, picks or it didn't happen, right?
	So, man, it's really sad.
	What is Stefan talking about?
	I'm sorry. I lost track a while ago.
	I'm just kidding. Yeah, Schulze's grandson got a low-level job in the company, became one of the key whistleblowers, and then he got sued, and his grandfather, I don't think, stood behind him, and it was just brutal.
	Just brutal.
	All those men on the board have in common is government work.
	You never have to look at things, if things work in government, until things are implemented.
	Yeah, I think that's probably quite true.
	Not all of them, though. I think one of them came from the more private sector.
	There's no completely private sector anymore, but more private sector, so...
	Well, it just shows how incompetent people are about the very obvious stuff, how strangely unknowledgeable they are about things as a whole, and how accountability, of course, at those levels simply doesn't exist.
	So she'll probably get some form of sentencing and so on, although they're both pleading innocent, right?
	They'll probably, everyone will get involved and tangled up on whether she was being abused and what abuse means and how much it was and they'll forget about the bigger picture stuff and they don't want to have any particular MOABs land on her because the splash damage to the board would be pretty intense and it would be kind of tough.
	They'll just isolate her.
	Maybe they'll throw her under the bus like she was the bad person in order to avoid the splash damage going to the more powerful people on her board because it would seem to me that they're pretty responsible as well.
	From a moral standpoint, I think that they're in a way more responsible for her than she is.
	But again, I'm no lawyer.
	That's just my particular opinion.
	All right. Yeah, one year of house arrest under...
	Sorry, let me just see here.
	All right.
	I love you, Steph. I love you guys back.
	Thank you so much. That's very kind.
	I walk on the floating upward draft of your high praise.
	Thank you very much. What if Jimmy Kimmel said gay men who have risky unprotected sex and get AIDS should not get treatment?
	Well, for sure. But of course, we all know how this works, right?
	So the gay community tends to vote on the left, so they get protection and anybody gets attacked who says that they have some agency in illness.
	But the people who aren't getting vaccinated tend to be on the right.
	They tend to be conservative.
	They tend to be Christian. And so, yeah, it's open season on white Christians as it has been for the last 50 years plus, right?
	Ah, right. Some leftist woman with a gorilla mask threw an egg at Larry Elder.
	Well, sure. Because, because she's going to get away with it.
	And even if she, like, here's the thing, right?
	So when I did my presentation on Joseph McCarthy, Alger Hiss went to jail for perjury because he denied that he was ever a member of the Communist Party.
	Turns out that he was. And, you know, he spent a fairly pleasant time in prison, helping other prisoners with legal issues, so him becoming quite popular.
	And when he got out, there was a big party for him, and he was embraced with open arms as a martyr to the cause.
	So, yeah, I mean, You can do a lot of crazy stuff if everyone's on your side, and it feels just kind of right.
	But these days, if you do any kind of sane stuff, you'll get, you know, torn down.
	All right.
	You know what? Let me just do something here.
	Since we are having some requests for duck updates, let me just see if I can get...
	See if I can summon the ducks as I am wont to do.
	See if we can bring them down.
	You guys won't believe it. I probably have to zoom out so you can see the ducks.
	They're absolutely huge, right?
	How are the ducks? They are fantastic.
	They are huge.
	And my daughter and I took them out to a river because we want to introduce them more to water today.
	And they loved the river, but we had a bit of a heart-stopping moment because they suddenly swam out into the middle.
	And because there was a big storm here in Ontario, the river was swollen and fast-moving, and so they started to head down, and we had to sort of sprint after them and catch them, and that was all quite exciting.
	So, let's see here.
	Are you letting the vax go in the end?
	Are they dinner? No, we're not going to eat the ducks.
	Like, absolutely not. I've only eaten one thing that I've killed, which was a turkey buzzard in Africa.
	So, no, I would never in a million years do that.
	Stephen Molyneux, philosopher, father, duck summoner.
	I am the duck. Whisperer.
	Jimmy Kimmel made another Ivermectin horse joke.
	Well, sure. Yeah, yeah.
	Whites are becoming a despised minority.
	Yeah, yeah, for sure. I talked about this, I don't know, 10 plus years ago, and you can only repeat yourself so often, right?
	So you've got to let them fly away someday.
	No, but they won't, right?
	The ducks won't fly away because they're bonded with us.
	And so when we had chickens for a while, the chickens stayed close and would put themselves to bed every night and all of that.
	All right, so while we wait for the ducks, do you guys want to You want to talk a little Bitcoin?
	Do you want to Bitcoin it up?
	You want to dip into Bitcoin? Because there's some stuff that we could talk about with regards to Bitcoin that I think would be very interesting.
	But I want to gauge your level of interest.
	For some people, Bitcoin is a horror show of regret.
	So, wait, do I hear something?
	Doth I hear a squeak with my past mid-century years?
	Oh, what do we have? All right, all right.
	Here we go, here we go. A duck.
	She's going to be a little upset because her siblings aren't here and she's also bigger now and doesn't like being carried.
	Right. Would you like to slither in that side of the chair?
	That side. Okay, there we go.
	Is there anything that you would like to talk about with regards to our duck buddies?
	Yes, I will talk about a bunch of stuff.
	Do it. They are 29 days old now, and they are getting a lot of their adult feathers, and their wings are growing like crazy.
	If she does end up jumping off, I will catch her, don't worry.
	Alright. But yeah, they're growing mad still.
	They're still growing insane amounts.
	We think we have two females now.
	I'm so confused. So this one's Buttercup.
	She's 100% a female, we think anyways.
	I really think she's a female.
	And then we have Dumpling, who's our male, we think.
	Also the coolest. Yeah, it's because it's his.
	Objectively, though. Objectively the coolest.
	Remember that. Is that sarcasm, young lady?
	There may have been some sarcasm. You can't get sarcasm at the age of 12.
	It's illegal. I can't get sarcasm at the age of 12.
	I don't know if you guys remember this from the last time.
	Look at that. It's a Nazgul.
	Sorry, go ahead. Um, and, uh, but Pumpkin, who's, uh, we don't know 100%.
	He's really big, so he might be a male, but, I don't know, like, his feet are quite small, and he kinda acts a bit more like Buttercup than Dumpling, so it could be female.
	We really hope it's female, though, because then we'll have to get another female to make it a happy pack of ducks, at least that's what we've read online.
	Hey, don't groom my hair.
	Oh yeah, they like to groom us, because obviously they think we're ducks too, or at least they're bonded with us, and they groom their parents.
	So, they groom us, and it's literally the worst feeling ever, like on your feet, when they try and...
	It wasn't bad for a while, right?
	Then their bills got bigger.
	And also ticklish, and also just genuinely horrible.
	But yeah, they are super cute.
	Can you get a stroke? Here we go.
	But... I like the little laser sounds, like...
	Oh yeah, so do I. Those super cute chirps.
	What else is new? Oh yeah, they're starting to get their adult feathers, so this one's getting pure white.
	Where's it going? I don't want to go on the camera.
	Where's it going? He's on your shoulder.
	It's okay, I know.
	Yes, they are starting to get their adult feathers and big wings, right?
	A bit insane. That's all right.
	Do you want to take him? I will hold him for now.
	Let me take him to my head.
	Let me take him here. He's getting very upset because they're obviously a lot bigger now.
	Yeah, they're bonded with each other, right?
	Yeah, they're obviously a lot bigger now and they're more upset being carried and stuff like that.
	So we try not to do it too often, but we're doing it only for the live stream at the moment.
	Right. What else is new?
	This one's going to be pure white, we think.
	Maybe a little black part on his head.
	There seems to be a little black spot.
	Let's see. Oh yeah, we have Pumpkin, who's going to turn out brown mostly.
	Which is pretty cool, because you don't often see brown muscovy ducks or anything.
	You know she's comma when she can see you.
	That's true. Although when I hold her, she gets pretty upset sometimes.
	Fair enough.
	But yeah, our pumpkin's going to mostly be brown, which is pretty cool.
	I really like the brown ones. And Dumpling's going to be really mottled, a big mix of both colors.
	From what we can see from his new feathers coming in.
	Should I bring the other ones, or should we just stick with this one?
	Hang on, can you take our friend Buttercup?
	All right, so yes, let me ask the audience here.
	I think that they would be interested.
	All of them are named after food.
	Dumpling? Do you eat buttercups?
	You eat buttercups? Oh, butter.
	You mean the butter pot? Oh, that's actually true.
	I never even noticed that. Dumpling?
	Pumpkin? Buttercup?
	Ooh, we've got a duck salad going on here.
	That is very funny. I thought you can recognize a duck's gender by the color of their feathers, or does that only work for wild ducks?
	I don't know about the feathers.
	Alright, I'm going to take her upstairs.
	She's quite upset by being away from her siblings.
	Okay. Can you just bring me the biggest?
	Bring me dumpling and we'll do dumpling for a sec.
	Thank you very much. We are not feeding them GMOs, in fact.
	We are not. I like big ducks and I cannot lie.
	So, what a hot chick.
	That's right. Why about Bitcoin if you can just invest in ducks?
	Yes, we will do Bitcoin in just a second.
	We will do ducks in just...
	Will you have to do anything special when they start trying to fly?
	No, they won't go far from us.
	Like, no matter where we go, they follow pretty closely.
	Now, we actually tried taking them into some woods today, and they didn't like that too much, so they wouldn't follow us into the woods.
	But they will...
	Follow us wherever we go.
	And they will always return to us.
	They're a flock species, a herd species, so to speak.
	So when they bonded with us, as they have, because we got them when they were a couple of days old, they won't go.
	They won't go far. Why so many ducks?
	There's only three. Ducks are loyal and dumb as hell.
	Oh, actually, the Muscovies is one of the smarter ducks.
	And they are absolutely lovely creatures, like my favorite creatures that we've had.
	All right. What do we got? Here we go.
	This one's claws are very sharp, so good luck.
	Okay. Alright.
	This is the giant of the species.
	Our male. I don't know if you can see the duck feathers there.
	He's getting his adult feathers. He's got his little wings.
	Oh! Okay. It's okay.
	It's alright. Are you just going to stand like that or do you want me to take him?
	No, it's fine. Okay. Don't poop.
	Poop. Don't do it. Don't do it.
	Do it! Sorry, I didn't get too loud.
	I don't even know where he is, he's just on my back of my neck, right?
	Oh yeah, by the way, you said, cannot wait for their first quack.
	Fun fact, these ones don't really quack, actually.
	They just chirp, right? The males will hiss, and the females will make a quiet chirping noise.
	Which is a pretty cool thing.
	Do you want to stand like that, or do you want me to take him?
	I have a feather in my ear.
	You can stand like that, good luck. I think he likes that spot.
	Can you see him on the camera as you've got this eye?
	I cannot see the camera at the moment.
	Okay, no problem. All right.
	Before he poops, we should probably take him if you don't mind.
	Do you want me to show pumpkin? No, I think that's good.
	Thank you. It's okay.
	All right.
	Just before. He's like a pirate, but instead of a parrot, he has ducks.
	That's right. Thanks very much.
	Appreciate it. Yeah, that's a big duck.
	That's a big duck. Duckretes for the next duck name.
	Oh, I got feathers all down my back now.
	Oh, somebody's a barber.
	Quack, quack, quack, quack. So, yeah, so for food, we took them out.
	So last night, there was a huge storm.
	In fact, hail happened here in Ontario.
	And I love lightning storms.
	And the rain was medium to not horrible.
	And so my daughter and I, Izzy and I, took the ducks out at about 9:30 at night, and we took them down the road a little ways because there were lots of worms out.
	So they love the worms.
	They will take minnows.
	They love crickets, anything that creeps and crawls, although we keep them away from wasps and bees, of course.
	So, yeah, they will eat that.
	There's some stuff they can't eat.
	They can't eat spinach, I think, and so on, but we do get them a pretty specialized duck feed that has all of the nutrients and protein that they need, and then we just take them into the woods, or we take them to a park, or we take them to, like, wherever they can roam around and get the insects from the grass, and it just seems to be working very well.
	So, they can eat some veggies, although they don't tend to like them quite as much.
	Eat the duck eggs? I don't think I've ever tried duck eggs.
	All right. Let's just see here.
	Thank you very much.
	Oh, you had a bitty bad storm in Chicago, right?
	This is turning into only ducks.
	Yeah, that's right. Okay, so let's talk Bitcoin.
	Okay, so hit me with a why.
	I heard things have escalated from booing Trudeau to throwing rocks at him.
	I think it's gravel, and I don't approve of it, but they're throwing gravel at him.
	And, you know, as the totalitarian medical state tends to escalate, you know what happens.
	People get frustrated. They're not allowed to protest.
	They don't have free speech. Everything gets broken up, so people get aggressive.
	It's sad. I've said this forever, right?
	The reason you allow free speech is so you don't get political violence.
	And political violence will escalate to the degree that free speech is suppressed.
	I wrote all about this in a novel over 20 years ago.
	You should check it out. freedomain.com forward slash almost.
	freedomain.com forward slash almost.
	And... You, yeah, so, I mean, people aren't able to have conversations, and so they'll end up throwing gravel.
	That's, you know, that's just the way it is, right?
	So, have you read The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin?
	Well, yeah, of course.
	Of course, he's been on my show a couple of times.
	Great guy. Great guy.
	All right. So hit me with a Y if you did okay in Bitcoin.
	I'm not saying multi-zillionaire or anything, but you're relatively okay.
	Hit me with a Y if you don't have a lot of regrets.
	Hit me with an N if you do have regrets.
	I just kind of want to gauge where the audience is with this kind of stuff.
	So hit me with a Y if you're okay.
	And hit me with an N if you have regrets.
	No, I don't think it's too late to get into Bitcoin, but again, that's just my opinion.
	Okay, so you all did pretty well of Bitcoin.
	I went in at 45,000 Canadian.
	That's pretty good, right? That's pretty good.
	Got in late about 35k.
	That's pretty good still, right? Pretty good.
	Why? I've never lost but never gained.
	The ride has been fun. Never invested.
	I'm a bit broke. Why at 8k?
	Why I did okay? Yes, thanks to you.
	Well, I appreciate that. All right, so...
	If you have done well, it's really, really important to process what's going on in the Bitcoin world because the Bitcoin world and the libertarian world, as you know, significantly overlap.
	And the amount of Bitcoin regret that's out there of people who you probably told about Bitcoin and they didn't get into it.
	They may have rolled their eyes.
	They may have scorned you. They may have done just about anything.
	It's a bubble and you're going to lose all your money.
	It may have been pretty tough.
	To gauge. Sorry.
	Very tough. I think I got a bit of dander.
	But it may have been pretty tough.
	To sail against the headwinds of other people's skepticism or hostility or indifference or laziness or distraction or whatever it is that has caused them to not get involved in, without a doubt, the very largest investment and economic opportunity in the history of the world.
	I am not exaggerating.
	Bitcoin is the fastest asset ever to go to a trillion dollars.
	It is, without a doubt, the greatest investment opportunity and growth scenario in the history of the world and probably now.
	Forever. Because if the goal is that significant portions of the world economy end up in the Bitcoin universe, Then the upper level of Bitcoin per Bitcoin like there will be people down the road who's like the whole corners like can you imagine that guy in the castle owns a whole Bitcoin because it's going to be worth that much yeah I said my first show on Bitcoin was like 2010 or 2011 so it's bad for the environment yeah yeah it's way better for the environment than fiat currency which fuels overspending in war So,
	here's the thing. It's one thing to have some money in Bitcoin.
	Good for you. But how are your friends doing?
	Now, you are going to have a problem with your friendships and your relationships.
	And there is a real problem, I think, in the libertarian community at the moment, which is why it's splitting into Bitcoiners and left libertarianism.
	The left libertarianism is largely driven by people who miss the boat and are frustrated and upset and angry and can't process the emotions and so turn leftist and resentful.
	So that's just the way things are.
	When you do well, and when you've tried to help other people do well, if they didn't listen to you, I mean, how can you, I mean, almost like how can you blame yourself if you missed on the biggest economic opportunity in the history of the world ever?
	for.
	So it's tough.
	And I would just urge you to be aware and be careful.
	Be careful around people.
	Because when you do well and other people do badly, especially when you tried to get them into it and they didn't listen, attacked, undermined, ridiculed you, whatever, right?
	And of course, the fact that El Salvador is now accepting Bitcoin as legal tender.
	It's legal tender. And I think the reason why there was a dip in price over the last day or two is because a lot of people were expecting this to happen, move Bitcoin to El Salvador, maybe move to El Salvador, and then could sell it without much taxation.
	And so that probably had a lot to do with the dip as a whole.
	So this is the...
	I have the same regret with Bitcoin that I have with Free Depay.
	That's not getting into it earlier, right?
	When you say Bitcoin, do you mean altcoins as well?
	Me? No. No, I don't.
	So you have to be aware, I think, or I don't have to.
	I would suggest you be aware that when you've tried to help people and they have rejected your help, And you succeed and they fail.
	Nine times out of ten, they will sabotage your ass.
	I'm sorry to say it.
	It's an unfortunate aspect of human nature.
	When you succeed, and you've tried to help other people succeed, and they have failed.
	And it's not just a matter of luck.
	Like, let's say... I don't know.
	Don't play the stupid lottery, right?
	But let's say you play the lottery.
	You try and talk your friend into buying his way in.
	He's like, no, I don't want to spend 50 cents on a stupid lottery.
	And then you win $10 million and you could have had $500,000 for 50 cents or whatever, right?
	Well, that's just kind of...
	He's not going to blame himself that much because there's no way you could have known and it was just kind of random and just kind of accident and so on, right?
	So... That is one thing, but if you've really struggled and strived to help people understand this incredible opportunity and they haven't partaken of it, do you understand the amount of regret and hostility and anxiety that they're going to have?
	How are they going to deal with it?
	It takes a huge amount of maturity to be able to deal with that kind of stuff.
	And how are they going to deal with it?
	If you continue to stick around with people who you've succeeded and they failed even when you tried to help them, the odds are they're going to try and sabotage you.
	I'm sorry, that's just the way people work as a whole.
	Maybe not everyone, right?
	Maybe there'll be some big difference.
	And see, here's the thing.
	The Bitcoin thing is like, again, it's a one-two.
	It's a one-two punch. Because not only did they miss out on Bitcoin.
	The biggest economic incentive and opportunity and growth in the history of the planet.
	But now that COVID has hit and the economy is slowing down, there's a hyperprinting of money.
	People are finding it harder and harder to get ahead.
	Their housing prices are going up.
	So not only did they not get into the life raft, but the storm is coming.
	So because the storm is coming, they didn't get into the life raft that I'm sure you and I begged them to get into, the amount of hostility and fear and anxiety.
	When people get mad at themselves, most times they will simply channel that because they can't contain that level of self-criticism.
	They cannot contain that and they will redirect it towards hostility, towards someone else, and often that will be you.
	No, I don't think it's too late to get into Bitcoin at all, but...
	That is a big question.
	Can anyone suggest a guide on how to purchase Bitcoin?
	Just look it up.
	I don't know what you're doing. It's just kind of annoying.
	I'm sorry. I just find this kind of annoying.
	Hey, can somebody tell me where do I get a Bitcoin?
	What is Bitcoin? It's like you're not going to get an answer in the middle of a chat session while a philosophy show is going on.
	What are you doing? Go look it up.
	Go read tons of videos.
	I don't understand. I don't understand this.
	You know, because people, it's also kind of annoying to me because people are trying to listen to what it is that I'm saying.
	And when you say, how do I do this big thing that is, you know, risky at times and needs a fair amount of knowledge, you're going to ask people, stop listening to Steph and help me.
	I'm sorry, that's just a little selfish, if you don't mind me putting it so bluntly.
	It's a little selfish. Let people listen to the show.
	Make a bookmark for yourself to go and find out the information that you need to find out.
	But if people are just like, well, how do I? Help me!
	Help me! Stop listening to Steph!
	Help me! Help me! It's like, no, no.
	That's not the way to do it.
	That's not right. That's not right at all.
	No, it's fine. It's fine. I'm just sort of pointing it out.
	I'm just sort of pointing it out. Totally fine.
	There's nothing wrong with making mistakes as I see them, but just be aware.
	Just be aware. Lots of bullshit to sift through.
	Former Walmart executive and e-commerce billionaire Mark Lohr wants to build the world's first woke city from scratch somewhere in the U.S. Yeah, yeah, good luck with that.
	If it succeeds, they'll tax it.
	If it fails, they'll tax it.
	Somebody should send him everyday anarchy, and that's how you should try and figure out your city.
	We built this city on anarchy.
	CryptoDad is a great channel for instructions like that.
	Yeah, just let people listen to my show, and don't try and drag them off into your info-hungry stuff, right?
	Yeah, just forget the guy.
	No, just tell him to go look it up.
	Don't start engaging with people who are trying to distract you from what we're trying to talk about here, because he can look that up anytime, but the show is live, and you're here live, so just do it this way.
	If you have any other questions regarding Bitcoin, I'm certainly happy to hear them and to chat about them.
	And let me just check here in case anybody does have questions.
	Can Latin America get ahead due to the early adoptions?
	Yeah, so I mean, it's the big question, right?
	So if you think about, you know, there was a telegraph, and then, well, there was a Pony Express, then there was the telegraph, then there was the telephone, then there was the cell phone, then there was the internet, and then there was Skype, and all that.
	So, and the people, like in Africa, they got ahead of the technology curve because they kind of missed out on sort of the copper wire telephone thing and went straight to cell phones.
	So they saved themselves a whole bunch of Building and waste, in a sense, and infrastructure just leapfrogging straight over what is going on.
	Would you guys like some hope?
	Would you like something positive to enjoy tonight?
	Would you like to have a spring in your step and helium in your heart and be floating up into the stratosphere of pure joy and hope?
	Would you like a little of that? Because, you know, things can be kind of negative as a whole, but I can tell you, I can tell you precisely what is going to happen and how great it's going to be.
	The pandemic is our salvation.
	I mean, as far as liberty goes.
	Do you want to hear the reasoning?
	You want to hear what's going to happen?
	All right. Yes, hope is needed.
	Yes, hope is the opposite of love, I heard.
	So, yes, I will tell you what's going to happen.
	So, what's going to happen is there are a lot of people who are skeptical of the state and who hold crypto.
	And so a country, a region, a whatever, is going to emerge that is going to galt-skulch all of the smartest and wisest and wealthiest people in the liberty movement.
	And they are going to find a way to bring the most productive and most intelligent and most liberty-loving people.
	And how are they going to do that?
	They're going to lure us there with liberty.
	They're going to lure us there with freedom.
	Because a lot of people, a lot of people I'm talking to are looking to get out.
	Looking to get out of wherever they are.
	Because, you know, they can see the steps that are coming, the writing on the wall.
	This is not that complicated, not that hard to figure out, right?
	Rudimentary, cursory understanding of history.
	So, at some point, someone...
	And maybe it's El Salvador.
	The guy is super smart. Who's in charge of it, right?
	And so at some point, someone is going to say, holy crap, if I can lure these people to where I am with the breadcrumbs of liberty, it'll be the new Atlantis.
	It will be the new Goldscotch.
	If I can just figure out how to get these people to come.
	If it's going to be citizenship based upon Bitcoin ownership.
	If it's going to be tax breaks based upon whatever, right?
	There's going to be some place in the world, and probably more than one because they'll be competing with each other.
	There's going to be some place in the world that is going to scoop up the digital nomads, put them in its economy, and become immensely wealthy.
	You keep looking for that eruption.
	It's going to come. In the same way that America lured everyone in from the old world with freedom, with liberty, separation of church and state, Bill of Rights, Constitution.
	So there is going to be a place, and they always emerge in history, there is going to be a place, especially now that people are so immensely portable, there's going to be a place where people Get lured to on liberty.
	And keep, yeah, whether it's Central Europe, whether it's someplace in Southern or Central America, someone is going to figure this out.
	And it's not that hard to figure this out.
	Someone is going to say, wait a minute, okay, we've got a trillion dollar asset and massive portions of it are held by a relatively small number of people.
	Okay, what do I need to do to bring those people here?
	Now, some countries are already doing this under COVID. Like if you look under digital nomad on the internet, you can go and find tons of places, a lot of tropical places, beautiful places.
	They'll give you a year, they'll give you two years, you can come, you can work, it's very little taxes, it's a beautiful environment, you're on the beach, right?
	So, and this just looking for digital nomads, right?
	They're looking for people who can work anywhere and who want to escape whatever's going on with COVID, right?
	So, at some point, and I imagine, like the real inoculation, the real vaccine is being under communism for 70 years or 50 years, depending on Russia or Eastern Europe.
	At some point, some country, some region, some land, some...
	It's going to be like, it's going to put out the bat signal.
	Come. It's going to be the Bitcoin signal.
	Come here. Come here. Come here.
	And we will build the new Atlantis together.
	Whether it could be seasteading, it could be just about anything.
	And there will be a brain drain, just as there is from, unfortunately, the third world countries, the first world countries, there will be a brain drain and people will just get out.
	And, you know, because a lot of them will be white males, of course, because of whatever, right?
	So... There is going to be a new Atlantis.
	There is going to be a place.
	Don't worry. Keep your eyes peeled.
	Keep yourself mobile.
	There will be a place to get to.
	It's such a powerful opportunity and it's such an obvious opportunity.
	Someone's going to do it.
	Someone is going to do it.
	And Panama has lower taxes than the US. Yeah.
	Yeah. I don't know that it's going to be a place under a federal structure.
	I consider it's always going to be Texas or whatever.
	What was it? Colorado in Atlas Shrugged.
	I don't think it's going to be some place under a federal structure.
	And I'm not going to be...
	You know, it's all going to be legal stuff.
	It's all going to be, you know, above the board and all of that.
	But there is such a frustration with increasing restrictions and there is now a very strong sense that there is no return to normal.
	I mean, it's not, right?
	There's endless booster shots and vaccine passports that are going to morph into social credit scores and it's all very predictable.
	So there is such a hunger for a free place to go A place of freedom to go.
	That someone, where there is enough of a market demand, somebody will supply.
	Somebody will supply.
	And that's really, really important to understand.
	I mean, imagine if you could get a bunch of whales in the Bitcoin space or the Ethereum space or whatever.
	Imagine if you could get a bunch of whales to come and set up shop in your country.
	Imagine what that would do.
	Imagine what that would be like. It would be amazing.
	It would be amazing.
	So, that is my hope.
	Remember, things always look darkest before the dawn.
	You understand all of that, right?
	Things always look darkest before the dawn.
	And if all you're doing is staring at the state, you will...
	Right. You will be ploughed under.
	Be of good cheer. Be of optimism.
	There's nothing that is done as yet.
	It's not over yet.
	It's not done yet.
	There are moves left that we can't even conceive of at the moment.
	Do not give up hope.
	Do not succumb to despair.
	And for this, I will give you 5,000 lemons.
	We're just going to hand it out here.
	Just going to hand it out.
	Here we go. Do not...
	Do not succumb to the sin of despair.
	Please, my friends, do not do it.
	We have never had more capacity for freedom, never had more capacity for mobility, never had more capacity for the free movement of free-ish people to aggregate in a place where liberty can be rediscovered and shone as a giant light to the rest of the world who might follow suit as best they can.
	Please, I'm begging you, don't give in to despair.
	Don't let them win. Don't let them take down your joy.
	Don't let them take down your happiness.
	Don't let them take down your optimism.
	Look, I've had the living crap beaten out of me all up and down the internet for 15, 16 years straight, and I wake up loving the day.
	I wake up enjoying the day.
	I wake up happy to be alive and excited about the future.
	Please, please don't give in.
	Please don't let them win.
	Please don't let them plow you under.
	Please don't let them put you into a spiritual grave before your body.
	Turns to ash.
	Please drill upwards like you are trying to crack through the ice to get a breath of air in order to survive.
	Please don't let them win.
	Of course they're trying to chisel back and they're trying to get you to despair and they're trying to get you to break down and they're trying to get you to fall down and give up and give in and they're trying to make it look like an understanding of the world and a thirst for liberty is its own punishment to drive anybody away from you, to make you full of so much negativity that your message can't inspire, can't grow, can't spread anywhere.
	Still you must be a beacon!
	You must hold strong!
	In this world, you must hold strong!
	It is not an option to fold and fade and give up.
	I know.
	It's strong wind and there are nails and fireballs in it.
	And it's hard sometimes.
	I get that. I understand.
	I understand. And you may give up on your country, as your country.
	I mean, you don't leave a country. Your country leaves you and you just recognize that.
	But you don't give up on liberty and you don't give up on your happiness and you don't give up on your optimism.
	Because then, the light is out.
	The light is out. You understand, people are only able to navigate...
	By the stars that we represent in the night sky.
	If we go out, if we fuck off and fade out, people will have no capacity to navigate and they will be swallowed alive by the Leviathan, by the state.
	Hold Fast.
	Hold firm.
	Continue to be optimistic.
	It is a war of passion.
	It is a war of optimism.
	They're optimistic. They're going to control.
	You must. You must be mobile.
	You must be optimistic.
	You must still be a light through which people can navigate this darkness.
	Because if we go out, there's nothing left.
	You understand? If they get to wet finger us, if we go out, there's nothing left.
	Nothing. They win.
	And a dark tide sweeps over humanity for how long?
	With all the technology they have?
	For how long? If they put us out, it might be thousands of years before the light returns.
	We don't Who holds this literally sacred flame of freedom, of reason, of truth, philosophy, virtue, value.
	We who hold this, we cannot let it go out.
	How many people died to hand us this treasure?
	How many? Dozens of people in my family alone died or shredded, hung on barbed wire.
	Eaten from the inside out by mustard gas.
	My mother was likely raped by communists.
	Father's family, half destroyed, mostly destroyed in the First World War, and what was left from the First World War was taken out of the Second, just to give us this light.
	You understand? Just to give us this light.
	And we stare it in, we let it go out.
	Do you know how long it took to gather the wood to spark the fire to light this light, and how many people have died to hand it to you?
	And what would they say?
	Looking down, From heaven, what would they say about their sacrifice if you succumbed to despair?
	What would they say? I'm so glad I died so that you, with digital currency and a passport, could give up.
	I didn't give up when the yellow mustard gas was rolling towards me, but you give up because there's a mask mandate.
	No.
	No.
	Abso-fucking-lutely not.
	Right.
	No. Never.
	There is always hope.
	There are always options.
	There is no excuse for falling from the line.
	There is no excuse for For turning tail and burrowing into the sin of despair?
	None! You stand up.
	You stand firm.
	You hold these values.
	You hold these truths. You inspire people.
	You keep this flame alight.
	Oh, you're damned even worse than our enemies.
	Even worse. Because they have no intention or desire or virtue in keeping this flame alight.
	You let it go out, that's on you.
	And if you gotta go some other place to keep the fire going, you go there.
	But you don't give up.
	You don't give up.
	Ever. They can take a lot from you They cannot take your will to survive and your optimism to win.
	Please, don't leave me alone here.
	Don't leave your brothers and sisters alone here.
	We all need each other so much.
	We are all linked arm in arm.
	Don't leave us.
	Don't flee. Don't crumble.
	Don't fall. If you do, we all do.
	We all do. It doesn't take a lot for the tear, for the break to become a tear, to become a hole, to become a rout.
	You wake up. You read the news.
	And you say, yes, there are new challenges.
	There are new problems.
	But we can solve them.
	And we can find a way.
	We can find a way. Don't let them.
	You know how much they want you to despair?
	Do you know how much they want to wet finger the stars in the sky so humanity has absolutely nothing left to guide itself with?
	Do you know how desperately they want that?
	For everything to be dark.
	For people to be in such a darkness that their eyes are useless and meaningless.
	And it doesn't matter how far away the light is.
	As long as you can still see it, there's something.
	Your eyes still work.
	There is a light somewhere.
	Find a way. Get a community.
	Strengthen your heart. Dig into your resolve.
	And I would go one step further.
	You won't believe me.
	It's like that line from the old Robbie Robertson song.
	Thing is not to be afraid of it.
	No, I'm not afraid of it.
	I like it. It's good. She said, you like it now, but you'll learn to love it later.
	What if instead of the sin of despair, you rise up, onward Christian soldiers, you rise up and you say, I embrace this.
	I treasure it.
	I am glad. I am glad that this intellectual challenge occurred within my lifetime with the Internet, with inspirational figures who refresh me,
	who inspire me, who I can in turn refresh and inspire, that I have a lusty enough throat that if I must sing the song of intellectual war, I'm glad that I was born.
	Such a fantastic choir around me and so many opportunities to do good in this world.
	St. Crispin's Day.
	Henry V, that speech.
	Look it up. That was a battle where the king said there will be many asleep in bed who wish that they were with us on this day.
	Do you understand that in 500 years, in 1,000 years, in 10,000 years, they will look back at this moment of history and they will see who stood firm and who succumbed to despair, who folded, who caved, who dropped, who ran, who burrowed and buried themselves, and who did not?
	Isn't it glorious?
	To strike a match with the tinder of your mind that could be visible for 10,000 years.
	Isn't it glorious to stand in the face of those who would take our liberties and argue and debate and reason and inspire?
	No violence. No initiation of force.
	No terrorism.
	But a mere civilized will of rational integrity.
	It's glorious.
	Would you rather be 10,000 years from now in a free society, that's probably a little boring, a little bit complacent, a little bit routine.
	And there will be people, particularly young men, of course, who look back at this moment in history and said, Oh God, what I wouldn't have given to be back there in the thick of things with these magnificent bastards.
	As I wake up and look across my free city where I have things to do and, you know, we'll travel, we'll explore space and it's kind of neat and it's kind of cool, although there's a lot of barren planets out there.
	But oh, God!
	To have been back then.
	When things hung by a thread.
	When the future looked, at times, hopeless.
	To be back there with them in that moment of deep glory and potential.
	What I wouldn't give to be back there in that incredible fight of intellect and resolution.
	What would you have given to be back putting out the fires at the Library of Alexandria?
	What would you have given to be back voting on the trial and death of Socrates?
	What would you have given to be back at the time of Jesus?
	Those moments of high encapsulated drama and power in human history are incredibly rare and we're right in the heat and heart of it.
	I would not Want to live in any other time.
	I dream and yearn of the future that we can create through freedom and reason.
	But I'd rather live here.
	Now! Laying the foundations, building the basement up of what we can be.
	My role in this fight is unclear.
	To stand for truth, reason, evidence, principles, virtue, honesty, integrity, and don't back down in your conversations with people.
	To shake them awake with the core gravitas of your resolution.
	Right? To plant yourself so deeply in the rootedness of the world that the world will have to rotate around you if it is to continue moving at all.
	That is what you do.
	To push back against the rage and the resentment and the frustration and the hostility of the immature and the unwise and the easily manipulated.
	Gandalf, Bridge, Balrog.
	You understand? If you'd tell, we can't win that guy, he's too big.
	There'd be no movie. There'd be no drama, no excitement.
	You want to stand with Gandalf on that bridge?
	Or do you want to live in the Shire and worry about people not returning books you lent them?
	Be incandescent truth.
	Thank you.
	Do you see? The incandescent truth.
	Have people's eyes adjust to a brighter world.
	Have people recognize and realize the depth and power of their humanity, the infinite gift of infinite thought that has been bestowed upon us by a potentially accidental universe.
	That at a time when we need a lamp, Lightning strikes a tree, it bursts into flame, and it falls into our hand, and the torch is what we can navigate with.
	That is the incredible impossibility of us being born at this time with these capacities and this technology, that we reach for something and it appears as if given us by the gods.
	Oh, it burns! Run away to the dark.
	No. No.
	A thousand times no. You push back intellectually.
	You push hard philosophically.
	You wake people up with the intransigent resolution of your opposition to violence.
	I can't do it.
	You can't do it.
	We can do it. Maybe.
	Maybe. There has to be a maybe or there's no honor in it.
	There's no honor in playing mini-pup with a two-year-old.
	There has to be only a maybe or there's no honor and there's no grandeur.
	There's no glory if it's a certain thing.
	And you fight intellectually, rationally, philosophically.
	And if the time comes where you cannot fight for reasons of safety, Then you find another way.
	You find another place.
	You retreat. Regroup.
	And fight again. That's what you do.
	That's what you do. The small band of resolute people win.
	I would give you an analogy from the military sphere which has nothing to do with what we're talking about intellectually or philosophically.
	And this is amoral.
	It's not a justification.
	It's simply an analysis of power.
	You look at Gandhi facing down the British Empire, the British Navy, the most powerful army and navy the world has ever seen.
	You look at the Taliban facing down $700 billion plus a year, thousands of nukes, aircraft carriers.
	The Taliban looking down the U.S. military saying, we got this.
	We got it. Gandhi.
	Yeah, we got it.
	We'll win. Are we facing that?
	No. We're facing disapproval.
	We're facing hostility. We're facing lies.
	We're facing slander. Which adds up to one.
	Ooh, people have bad thoughts about me.
	They're not scuds, right?
	It's a glorious time.
	It's a glorious time.
	It's a time of high drama, high intellectual power, high potential, and the future is staring at us with bated breath.
	Are they free or are they not?
	Are they in liberty or in chains?
	Bated breath. Does it go one way or the other?
	They can't change it because they're in the future.
	The past can't change it because they're in the past.
	Only us, only we, can do it.
	And that is a sacred duty that has been handed to us at this inverted pyramid, this fulcrum of history.
	To be peaceful. To be rational.
	To have such deep integrity that the world slips its moorings and pursues a new path.
	Hopefully never to return.
	So I hope that helps.
	Any other comments, questions, issues?
	You know, it's funny that when people it's funny that when people hear a speech like that and they start quoting little poppy songs and stuff like that, okay, well, you're excused.
	You don't have to stay. Well, we got this.
	Because you're just trying to diminish what it is that's being talked about because you don't want any responsibility and you can't handle any grandeur.
	That's fine. All right.
	Any other last questions or comments?
	Thank you. Appreciate that.
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