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Jan. 26, 2023 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux

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WEDNESDAY NIGHT LIVE! How I WISH I were wrong!

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	If you go to freedemand.locals.com, the pro, like the upgraded special pro section is all there for you, my friends.
	And you can get, I got a 19-part History of Philosophers series, my book, The Future is there in audiobook and EPUB format and all that kind of good stuff.
	So I hope that you will check it out.
	You can use the promo code, all caps, UPB2022 to get a free month.
	And I hope that you will avail yourself of that.
	It's a really great community. And this really is just a whole bunch of really great...
	I just published two call-in shows up there for donors.
	Hit me with an R.
	That's right.
	That's right.
	Have you guys seen the new Project Veritas thing?
	Hit me with a Y if you've seen the new Project Veritas thing with that creepy guy from Pfizer.
	Creepy guy from Pfizer.
	But I repeat myself. Have you seen it?
	Hit me with an Y if you've seen that new Project Veritas sting operation where the guy is talking about how, yeah, you know, gain of function or what do they call it?
	Guided evolution or something like that.
	Seems fine. Yeah, it's going to really help us sell some vaccines.
	Wild. Wild.
	Yeah, you've seen it?
	It's well worth looking at.
	If you want to hear...
	Yeah. The new Project Veritas thing has dropped.
	And if you want to just hear one of the creepiest snigger giggles on the planet, the guy who's talking about this stuff, it's pretty wild.
	It's really, really one of the creepiest little snigger giggles I've ever heard in my life.
	And if you've danced with the devil as often as I have, you know a good creepy snigger giggle when you hear it.
	But yeah, it's something else, right? So yeah, it's well worth watching it.
	You can find it.
	And yeah, for all the people who are like, Steph, what do you mean you wouldn't go back on Twitter?
	It's like, a bunch of people have already been banned again.
	Hey, come on back through the revolving door of no Twitter for you.
	So yeah, this is all kind of predictable and kind of dull.
	So yeah, if you'd like a rant, I have a rant.
	Are you ready to grumble?
	Yes. Here's the thing.
	Well, okay, so let me start off with this.
	So somebody was saying, Steph, do you ever get tired of being right?
	And it's horrible being right.
	It's horrible being right.
	It's horrible being right.
	I wish, I wish, I wish, I wish I was just wrong on so many things.
	I would give...
	My third testicle.
	Because, you know, you need at least 50% more to do what I do.
	I would give my third testicle to be wrong about a wide variety of things.
	God, I was rooting for that vaccine, man.
	I was rooting for that vaccine.
	And it would have been great if it had Worked, as promised, but no.
	I was rooting for, I mean, all the things that I predicted that would be disastrous that have turned out to be disastrous.
	I'm rooting for the other. Look, it's not like if you're a researcher and you're studying how bad cigarettes are for people, you're not like, hope there's cancer!
	Because, you know, you've got friends, family, you smoked, you probably smoked yourself.
	You're hoping to be wrong about all this stuff.
	You're hoping that it's not going to be as bad as you think.
	Principles being principles and all.
	You... I would love to be wrong.
	Man, the idea that I take...
	You know, like Scott Adams was doing this thing.
	It was kind of, in my view, kind of passive-aggressive.
	And I like Scott in a lot of ways.
	But it was kind of passive-aggressive.
	He was like, fine, anti-vaxxers.
	You won. You win.
	You know? Okay, you won.
	Are you happy now? It's just like, who's happy?
	Who's happy? Who's happy that things are turning out the way they're turning out?
	I don't think anyone's happy. I would love to have been wrong about all of this stuff.
	It would have been fantastic. Who got banned on Twitter?
	Oh, you can look this stuff up.
	Yeah, just people that invited back for a day and Ali and a couple other people and they just came and went and all of that.
	So, yeah, it's really pretty tragic.
	So, you ready for philosophy?
	Hit me with your hardest material. You are absolutely not ready for my hardest material.
	That I guarantee you. I'm barely ready for my hardest material.
	All right. So, here's the rant.
	So, Have you ever experienced this?
	Hit me with an eye if you've experienced this, my friends.
	I always get this...
	Strangely, somebody was telling me, you know, you get on camera, your nose gets itchy.
	Plus, I have the genuine Ardennes Forest in there now, being over 50.
	So, you have this thing where you talk about freedom.
	You talk, oh, I want to be free, free, you want to be free.
	And people are saying, well, the government has to do X, Y, and Z, right?
	And without the government, you know, who's going to keep people protected and safe from...
	Government-funded bioweapons.
	Now, who's going to keep...
	They're going to sell terrible stuff to the consumer, and there won't be any roads, and there won't be any defense, and the criminals will run riot, and blah, blah, blah, right?
	Help me understand. I try...
	I try my damnedest, people, I really do try my damnedest, to not deeply dislike humanity as a whole.
	You know, people in my life love them wonderful, love you, wonderful audience, and look in the mirror and say...
	How's it going? Good looking. Every single morning, good deal of respect for myself.
	But, you know, outside of this little jazz club of sanity, what's going on out there in the world?
	You got all these people.
	Absolutely schizoid. Like, I don't understand why people are so nuts.
	I really don't. I mean, I came from a family with lots of history of mental illness on both sides of my family.
	Just don't be nuts. Don't be nuts.
	Be sane. Be rational.
	Listen to reason. Listen to evidence.
	Don't be nuts. Don't be nuts.
	Don't be hacking off perfectly healthy body parts.
	Don't be nuts. It's not a bad slogan for life.
	Just don't be nuts, right?
	That seems to be a bridge too far for a lot of people.
	Seems to be something they just can't quite handle.
	Can't quite manage. Can't quite get there to not be nuts!
	But it'd be nice if they could.
	Because this is what's so bizarre about people.
	The history of the FDA is brutal.
	The FDA came in post-thalidomide, right?
	Thalidomide was a morning sickness drug.
	Morning after, sorry. A little bit different.
	It was a morning sickness drug for pregnancy that produced 800 or so birth defects.
	It was in Europe and then it was in America.
	And because of the media and because government wants to grow...
	It was like, oh, look at these terrible drugs that were given to pregnant women, and boy, it turns out a lot of mutations.
	And, of course, they were brutal.
	I mean, the mutations were like babies born without arms and so on.
	So we've got to have drug safety trials, this, that, and the other, right?
	I did an interview many years ago with Dr.
	Mary Ruart. This was probably 10 or 12 years ago.
	About how the FDA was to some degree culpable in the deaths of about 5 million, this is back in the day, about 5 million Americans because they withheld drugs from American consumption that were legal and safe and used all over the rest of the world.
	Beta blockers and other heart drugs and so on, right?
	So because of less than a thousand birth defects, You got five million extra-dead Americans.
	This is the general ratio for government programs.
	So there's all this, well, you see, there's all these unscrupulous people out there.
	They just want to sell you bad drugs.
	You've got to have this government agency.
	It's going to protect you from all of that.
	It's going to keep you safe, keep you wrapped up in your nice little womb.
	All the scary boo monsters will be kept under the bed and in the closet and they won't trouble you or anything like that.
	So it's kind of bizarre. So people have this belief, right?
	It's a wild belief that there are evil people in the world.
	That's not a wild belief. There are evil people in the world.
	But there are evil people in the world And those evil people are so cunning that they can completely jig up the entire economic system and sell you stuff and lie to you and evade consequences in courts and lawsuits and criminal investigations.
	All these brilliant people on the corporate side, just evil geniuses, stroking their bald cats and twirling their imaginary mustaches, putting their little fingers, billions, up to their mouths.
	Just evil geniuses out there.
	And those evil geniuses, you've got to have these government agencies to protect you from these evil geniuses, because these evil geniuses, however smart they may be, and God knows they're brilliant, they're geniuses and all, no matter how smart these evil geniuses are, they'll never ever think of taking over these government agencies and bending those agencies to their own ends.
	I mean, this is the Pfizer guy.
	I'm paraphrasing, of course, but the Pfizer guy in the O'Keefe video is saying, well, you know, the people, the regulatory agencies, they all want to come and work for Pfizer afterwards, so they're not going to be very tough on Pfizer products, because if they're tough on Pfizer products, they won't get a job at Pfizer later.
	It's called regulatory capture.
	It means if you, whatever agency you put in control of those corporations, corporations are really smart, really motivated, really educated.
	Pretty amoral.
	First thing those corporations are going to do is gain control of the regulatory agencies that are supposed to protect you.
	I mean, put on your amoral evil genius hat.
	It's not that hard. Just let go of any ethical sense that you have and be a mere cunning mammal in search of maximizing resources no matter what expense it is to the general population.
	Just be the evil genius.
	Put the evil genius... Oh boy!
	A couple of bureaucrats over there in a government agency want to control and regulate my entire industry?
	Well, we're going to have to control those people first and foremost.
	And then we'll use those people to keep everyone else out of the market so we can get monopoly pricing.
	Oh! Why is this hard to see?
	It's like the people who are like, well, you know, my...
	My father beat the living hell out of us and was drunk and trashed the place on a regular basis.
	Never had a job. Never had a dime to rub together.
	Two dimes to rub together. Lazy, violent, bum.
	But my mother...
	My mother was a saint.
	She walked on water you could barely see upwards for squinting through that halo.
	She took raisins and kissed them and turned them back into grapes.
	My father was just a monster, but my mother was an angel.
	It's literally that kind of splitting.
	If your mother's such an angel, why did she have kids with a monster?
	She ain't an angel at all.
	The man is known by the company he keeps in a woman's soul is known by the man she bangs.
	You want to look inside a woman's soul?
	Just look at whoever she's banging, right?
	Probably won't find a soul if he's a low-quality guy, but that's where you look, right?
	It's this weird thing.
	There's this magical line that evil people dare not cross.
	I remember when I played a paladin in my early teens in Dungeons& Dragons, I had the protection from evil spell.
	Ten feet around me, evil could not penetrate.
	Magic moat of voodoo virtue, right?
	As people are like, well, there's all these terrible people out there.
	They're worth sometimes hundreds of billions of dollars.
	They're incredibly cunning, incredibly amoral.
	They just wish to exploit the population.
	But you know what they'll never think of?
	Those evil geniuses with all the motivation in their known universe.
	They'll never thinking of co-opting and controlling those government agencies for their own profits.
	Never. That's just because they have a pre-teen pallidate circle of evil, a circle of protection from evil around them.
	We'll never cross their minds. Don't tell them.
	For God's sakes, don't tell them.
	Don't tell them that controlling the regulatory agencies will make their jobs infinitely easier.
	If you tell them that, they might think of doing it.
	Can't do that. Everything is like this is a weird thing.
	There are these evil people who just want to exploit us.
	But don't worry. There are these virtuous angels who are completely incorruptible.
	Who, using the might and power of the coercive state, will just protect us forever.
	But this is what happens with agencies.
	Particularly government agencies.
	I think, you know, they're founded with decent intentions.
	And maybe the first generation or two of the people who run them are fairly okay.
	You know, fairly okay.
	I mean, what's going on in the school system at the moment is...
	Quite a lot different from what was going on when I was there.
	When I was there, it was boring, but it wasn't insane.
	Now it's insane and boring, and you get drugged if you don't like it.
	Monstrous. Gulag for kids, in my humble opinion.
	So, government agencies in particular, yeah, okay, so the first 20 years, maybe 30 years...
	There's some decent people in there, and they try to do the right thing, and industry's kind of in reaction mode, and it's kind of reeling.
	And industry gathers itself and starts pushing back and controlling things back.
	And then they just install their people, the people that they want.
	But see, the thing is, because there were some decent people in there before, they get good reputations.
	Really do seem to be there to protect people.
	You know, this is vaguely believable, right?
	Not for the moral, but for the empirical.
	But then what happens is the bad people move in, but they strip mine and use the credibility of the organization that was built up by the decent people who came before them.
	Decent people get kicked out, bullied out, traumatized out, or they just retire, right?
	The bad people move in, and then everyone's like, well, this agency has a pretty good reputation based upon prior halal, right?
	Then it turns out that that's a perfect camouflage, right?
	The good people have built up this reputation and then the bad people move in and use or exploit, strip-mine that good reputation and credibility in the minds of the general population and they can do whatever they want.
	All right. Banning has been elongated.
	You accidentally beat my fancy analytics.
	So, let's see here.
	Have you seen the list of congressmen that a better investment returns than Warren Buffett?
	There's a new bill, the Pelosi bill, because Nancy Pelosi, I think one of the things that probably gave people a bit of a Martha Stewart eye roll was that Nancy Pelosi sold her share's In Google, and now they're opening up investigations into antitrust practices from Google, and Nancy Pelosi four weeks ago sold $3 million worth of Google shares.
	Wow, just a wild coincidence.
	Just a wild coincidence.
	Do you think South America will ever eradicate the massive amount of corruption they have?
	Why did they never learn from Cuba or Venezuela?
	Well... As long as governments educate the children, corruption will maintain.
	If the governments see children, they're like ducklings, right?
	They bond with whoever raises them.
	If they're raised by the state, they will always have emotional difficulties seeing the immorality of the state.
	That's just the way it is.
	If you get private control of education...
	So, yeah, then you can overcome this corruption.
	Otherwise, it's just not going to happen.
	It's not going to work. It's sad that censorship happened before the COVID vaccine arrived.
	It seemed the vast majority of people got the vaccination.
	It wasn't mainstream pushback. Well, I mean, mainstream is, in America anyway, it's largely owned by big pharma.
	So, I mean, in terms of advertising dollars and so on.
	But it's funny, you know, so if there are negative reactions that people are having to the vaccine, there certainly are some.
	How many is unknown?
	I've seen studies that vary wildly in the numbers and I don't have the competence to evaluate them and I wouldn't trust the source data even if I did have the competence.
	But it's funny to think that the people who deplatformed people like me, Because they de-platformed people like me, they didn't get exposed to skeptical voices, and therefore they probably made life decisions that may, in fact, be quite harmful to them.
	It's just one of the annoying blowbacks that happens, one of the inevitable blowbacks that happens when you censor people.
	We're going to take down our truth-tellers.
	Hey, we just sailed into a rock.
	Well, that's because you took down your truth-tellers, the people who kept the sonar on the radar who can see where the hell you were going.
	They got a lot of people with that no-vax, no-travel thing.
	My parents got it because of that and they never once traveled anyways.
	Well, isn't that the Scott Adams thing?
	That Scott Adams...
	And he said this himself.
	He said he wanted to travel internationally, right?
	And I think he wanted to travel internationally because he was married to that young strumpet, that little cupcake, that piece of croissant, that English muffin or whatever.
	Anyway, Basham, I can't remember her name.
	But yeah, he was married to a much younger woman who was very pretty and curvaceous.
	And my understanding is, my belief is, I don't know, but I think she wanted to go on honeymoon and so he got vaccinated to do that.
	And then she left him.
	Anyway, so... Yeah, the no-vax, no-travel thing.
	I understand that. I understand that.
	You know, the world that is died three years ago, right?
	Everyone's aware of that, right? The world that we grew up in, the world that was, died three years ago.
	And it'll never be the same again.
	Well, at least not for a long time.
	Do you think it's better to have standards over expectations?
	In my life I've been let down so much.
	So I think it's better not to have expectations and just to have standards, but curious on your experience.
	In your life you have been let down so much.
	Nice try! Nice try.
	Nice try. Oh my gosh.
	Oh, the tsunami of self-pity!
	Oh, my!
	I have just been... People just let me down so much.
	I'm just such a victim.
	No, I mean, look, seriously, I sympathize, but come on, dude.
	So, when you frame things in a passive way, you get relief from self-ownership, but you get repetition of the problem.
	That's just the way it is.
	If you frame things in a passive way, things happen to me.
	People let me down.
	Just everyone lets me down.
	People are just untrustworthy.
	They just let me down. Well, then you're off the hook.
	Because you've taken a problem and you've ascribed it to human nature.
	Which means, it's like saying, well, everyone around me is just subject to gravity.
	Like, yes, they are.
	As are you. And to imagine otherwise would be crazy.
	I need friends around me who are immune to gravity, who float up like helium balloons or suppositions from Stanford professors, right?
	That would be crazy. So what you've done is you say, well, just people let me down all the time.
	You've externalized the problem and you've put it onto other people.
	It's like the people who say, well, I get bullied, right?
	As adults, kids, all the sympathy in the world, right?
	And I have sympathy, but here's the thing.
	Don't try that here, man.
	Come on. Come on.
	Don't try that here. I'm not here to tell you you're a victim.
	I'm not here to tell you you're a victim.
	Why? Because if it's something that is part of reality, you're not a victim.
	Are you a victim of aging? No.
	Are you a victim of the fact that if you eat too much, you get fat?
	Nope. Are you a victim of gravity?
	Nope. Are you a victim because you have to breathe?
	You need oxygen?
	No. These are just facts.
	You can't be victimized by facts.
	Only truly hysterical people feel victimized by facts.
	I can't believe I'm aging.
	I get bald. You can't be victimized by facts.
	Now, if it's a fact that human beings are untrustworthy as a whole, in general, on principle, then you can't be victimized by that.
	It's like saying, well, I'm victimized because my friends require sleep.
	And I want to go out at night and they need to sleep.
	It's like, no, human beings need sleep.
	You can't be victimized by a fact.
	So what you've done is you've turned, people betray me, people betray the untrustworthy people, bad people.
	You've kind of blown it all out into human nature.
	You've scatterbrombed it. You've splash-damaged everyone's reputation in order to retain your sense of victimhood, which I'm sure comes from a parent, probably a mother.
	because it's a female thing, right?
	But, I mean, don't try that here.
	And you're trying to distract me, right?
	You're trying to distract me from the principle, right?
	Because you say, in my life I've been let down so much.
	Now, if it's to do with you as a kid, total sympathy.
	I can't do anything about that.
	Obviously, I can only help you as an adult.
	As an adult, you can say, I've just been let down so much.
	And you can feel sad and you can feel self-pity and so on.
	But you can't change anything.
	This is my tip to you, my good, good friends.
	This is my tip to you. Look, I hope I have some credibility with this.
	I'm still kicking it hard after being knocked down, getting back up again, right?
	And, you know, I've written two new books.
	I have done a whole new series on the history of philosophy.
	I'm still doing my call-in shows.
	I'm just hitting it hard.
	I'm doing some of the best work I've ever done.
	And the way that I do that is I reframe things.
	Language is so important.
	The matrix we live in is the language we use to describe our life.
	That's the matrix we live in.
	It's the language we use to describe our life.
	So you say, I've been let down so much.
	And that's passive.
	Things are done to me.
	Things are done to me. No.
	No, that's a hangover from childhood.
	And the childhood I sympathize for.
	But you're not a child anymore.
	So you don't want to do that to yourself?
	I mean, obviously it's complex.
	You do and you don't, right? The way that you describe it is the way your life is.
	There's no external life out there that's objective.
	The way that you describe it is the way your life is.
	Now, I'm not a subjectivist. I'm an objective guy.
	I'm not a relativist.
	I believe in absolute, material, tangible.
	I accept absolute, tangible, objective, material reality.
	But the way your life is, your experience of your life is your description of it.
	Your experience of your life is your description of it.
	So I could say, I was unjustly deplatformed, I was robbed, I was broken, I was meanly treated.
	No, I was liberated.
	Oh, I interviewed hundreds and hundreds of people and how many of them stood by me when I got deplatformed.
	No, no, no. I'm liberated, man.
	I can do what I want.
	I am not obligated to the world.
	I'm not obligated to a larger movement.
	I can do what I want.
	And what I want to do is help the future a lot more than the present.
	Because the present can't be helped, for the most part.
	Individuals can, but not the situation as a whole.
	So I'm liberated.
	I could hold on. I'm so mad.
	Of course I was treated unjustly and unfairly and all that, but, you know.
	I was liberated. I was liberated.
	People who didn't step up to help me and support me and invite me on their shows after I, you know, in some ways helped get their career started and so on.
	They betrayed me. No, they liberated me.
	I am free, baby, to do what I want.
	I'm obligated to no one.
	A lack of integrity on the part of others is almost total liberation on your part.
	It's really, really important to understand this.
	So, you say, I've been let down so much.
	Nope. That's not a fact.
	That's not a fact. That's an interpretation.
	That's a story. That's a...
	The moral of the story is, I'm a victim of people letting me down.
	Nope. No, no, no, no, no.
	No. So...
	What you want, if you want power, rather than excuses.
	If you want power in your life, you have to take ownership.
	It's the only way to have power in your life.
	You know, I can't control the weather, so I look at the weather and I plan around it.
	I can control what my hands do.
	It's kind of a difference. The more you can control, the more power you have.
	And the more victimized you feel, the less you can control, the less power you have.
	Victimhood is a drug designed to keep you enslaved.
	So people treat you badly, and first of all, they want you to ignore that they've treated you badly.
	But if you notice, if you can't help but notice that they've treated you badly, then what they want you to do is feel victimized.
	Because if you feel victimized, they can continue to exploit you.
	Victimhood is something implanted in you by bullies so you don't get away from them.
	Please understand this. Victimhood is a mental meme implanted in your brain by bullies so you don't get away from them.
	In my life I've been let down so much.
	Nope. No!
	A thousand times no. Here's what's happened in your life.
	You benefit from being betrayed.
	I don't know how. It's called secondary gains, right?
	It's a very common psychological concept, right?
	So you benefit. You might get off in it.
	You might enjoy that sick feeling of victimhood.
	You might be masochistic about it.
	And I'm not saying this like I'm some Puritan.
	I mean, I've never experienced this.
	I can't imagine. Everyone goes through this.
	Everyone goes through this. That temptation of that dark swill of self-pity, that quicksand of self-sympathy that paralyzes you.
	In my life, I've been let down so much.
	Look, either it's human nature to let everyone down, in which case you're fighting facts, which is pointless like being upset because people are subject to gravity, or there are people out there who won't betray you, and there are people out there who will betray you.
	There are people out there who won't let you down, and there are people out there who will let you down.
	Now, why are you hanging around with people who let you down all the time?
	Why? Why do you do that?
	Why do you choose to be let down?
	Because choosing the people in your life who let you down is choosing to be let down.
	Why do you do that?
	That's the fundamental question.
	Why do you subject yourself?
	Why do you subject yourself?
	To being let down.
	Why do you voluntarily walk into an arena with people you know they're going to let you down.
	You walk in there.
	They let you down.
	And then you come crying to people like me saying, well, how do I adjust my expectations so the people, oh, they just let me down so much.
	You like it.
	Thank you.
	To some degree, in some manner.
	Now, it may be a sick pleasure. It may be whatever.
	It may be something programmed into you by your parents or something like that.
	But you get a benefit. You understand?
	Every repetitive thing that happens in your life gives you some benefit.
	And you can't solve it unless you accept that you get a benefit out of it.
	I'll talk about my own life because, you know, this is not...
	Some magical beamed-in guru nonsense.
	This is a hard one. Bitter knowledge from my own life, for the most part.
	I dated women who were, you know, nice, okay-ish, but just not great quality.
	In my 20s.
	You know, good relationships.
	Not terrible, not horrible, but, you know, just couldn't get it.
	Now, of course, I just celebrated recently my 20th wedding anniversary, so let's just say I know the difference by now.
	Now, why did I do that?
	Why did I do that? Why did I date women who were, not to put too fine a point on it, beneath me and not in that fun way?
	Why did I date women of lower quality?
	Well, it was in order to maintain all of my childhood and family of origin relationships.
	Because the moment I started dating someone who was high quality, those relationships, well, they began to be a little bit of a challenge, right?
	Because when you start having somebody who is of high quality, who really loves you, who really cares for you, you just look around and say, well, wait a second here.
	How come you guys have never done anything like that?
	So I was getting gains out of having lower, not low quality, but lower quality girlfriends.
	I was getting gains and those gains were I didn't have to challenge the relationships I had in the business world, among my friends, in my family relations.
	I didn't have to question those.
	I didn't actually have to open my eyes to the low quality of people around me as a whole.
	I didn't have to go out.
	I just re-released on freedomain.locals.com my first book on philosophy, which I wrote like 15 years ago, called On Truth, The Tyranny of Illusion, about the desert.
	The desert. The desert.
	And not wanting to cross that desert to get better companions, that was, you know, that desert is really tough.
	Crossing that desert is really, really tough.
	You know, where you let go of the familiar and you just hope like hell you can somehow get to something new?
	You know, that's tough.
	That's tough.
	I'm going to see if I can dig that up.
	Oh, well, that's the audio book.
	Yeah.
	Oh, yeah, here we go.
	Yeah, I won't bother about that.
	But yeah, so look at your secondary gains.
	You'll have no control over your life if you pretend to yourself that all repetitive stimuli is never beneficial to you in any way.
	Well, people just betray me and I can't stand that.
	It's like, no, no, no, if you couldn't stand it, you'd change it.
	And you'd say, the people who betray me, the people who let me down...
	I'm going to talk to them about it.
	I'm going to tell them they let me down.
	If they don't care, then clearly they're just promising to do it again.
	And so, if having people not let me down is an important value for me, then I will change my companions so that I will have people around me who don't let me down.
	Who don't let me down.
	Right? If you have people in your life who keep letting you down, you are getting a secondary gain.
	And if you choose to continue to have people in your life who let you down, the only person who's letting you down is you.
	The only person who's letting you down is you.
	Do you understand?
	That's the only person who's letting you down.
	So.
	All right.
	Let me get back to your questions here.
	That's power. Power is...
	I have a massive role in everything that's happening to me.
	Somebody says, I watch you anywhere you go.
	Just curious what brought you back to DLive?
	Yeah, so I would livestream to freedomain.locals.com, but people pointed out that it wasn't free, that there was a price.
	And I thought it was free and you could tip it if you wanted.
	There was a price. I wanted to be able to free.
	It's the Vax fighting the last war.
	In terms of variants, the virus is always a few steps ahead.
	Yes. Let's see here.
	Isn't claiming victimhood overtaking the Vax instead of quitting simply a lack of commitment?
	Look, I have some sympathy for the people who are really cornered into this, right?
	If you could lose your job, you've got bills to pay, maybe there's a monopoly situation that you can't just go and get another job very easily.
	There's a lot of really tough stuff that happened with the vaccine, so...
	Somebody says, whenever something unfair happens, I always try and first think of how I could have avoided the situation.
	Sure. Sure.
	Sure. Would you do interviews again?
	I think they won when they stopped us from connecting.
	I'd love to see Steph and Viva Free teach biz contracts.
	Oh, he says the shanky-haired Canadian lawyer guy, right?
	Is he in Florida?
	Something like that. I think he's fun.
	Alright. Do you think vapes are this generation's cigarettes?
	Zoom seem to be hooked on it.
	Yeah, probably. I have trouble KYC-ing.
	Can I donate all my lemons to you?
	I believe you can, and thank you very much.
	I appreciate that. Has anyone noticed over the years how Steph's backgrounds ran from white, blue-gray to now black, white-pilled to black-pilled?
	Yes. Thoughts on this song lyric?
	In the desert you can remember your name because there ain't no one for to give you no pain.
	In the desert you can remember your name because there ain't no one for to give you no pain.
	So there's a lyric on codependence.
	You have an identity only when there's no one else around you because you as a child were so eclipsed by parental narcissism that to notice other people was to self-erase, right?
	So imagine that you're by a mountain stream and you're meditating, right?
	And you're really going deep into yourself and you're enjoying your communion with your deeper self and you're getting in touch with your Jungian collective unconscious, all that kind of stuff, right?
	And you hear a rustle and you look up and there's like a drooling bear 10 feet away from you.
	And some, like not some cuddly little black bear, but something, you know, brown and grizzly-like, right?
	Well, your meditation is going to take a little bit of a blow because you're in the presence of somebody or something, you know?
	You're in the presence of something that is very dangerous to you, right?
	So introspection versus danger.
	This is why you're constantly frightened by everything.
	That's why they spent a billion dollars in America pushing propaganda about COVID, right?
	So you have to be constantly afraid because if you're constantly afraid, you can't introspect, you can't find inner strength, you can't find depth, you can't find certainty.
	You can't put your roots down anywhere because you're constantly being blown around by the gales of terror.
	This is why they just bounce you around from fear to fear to fear.
	It's global warming and nuclear war and institutional blah blah blah and COVID and all kinds of mess, right?
	They've got to keep you afraid all the time because fear and introspection are opposites.
	Now, when you introspect, you get a lot of depth, a lot of power, a lot of clarity.
	I've experienced it several times in my life where just incredible things have come to me just by not doing anything and not being afraid of anything for extended periods of time.
	So, this is how they keep you from Having an identity, of having a name, of having a self.
	So, When there are people outside of your mind, which is really the only place they could be objectively, so when you have people out there in the world, if they are a threat to you, if they're in your environment and they're dangerous to you, and we think of course of the bad-tempered mom or the drunken dad or whatever slamming, throwing things around, yelling or whatever, cursing, then you have no name, you have no identity because all you're doing is trying to manage the crazy person or the dangerous person or the aggressive person or the violent person in your environment.
	You look up and you see the bear 10 feet away from you.
	Your identity vanishes.
	You're just a programmed fight or flight mammal response trying to not get a scalp eaten off, right?
	So in the desert, you can remember your name because there ain't no one for to give you no pain.
	This is somebody I've been through the desert on a horse with no name.
	So this is somebody who has fled human contact because other people cause them pain, and fear, of course, is a kind of pain.
	You finally come back to yourself because people are overwhelming to you.
	There was one of the most powerful things when I was writing it last year in my novel, The Future.
	Was the main character saying he's dominant and aggressive and kind of horrible and bossy, the whole...
	And then at the end, near the end, he says, people overwhelm me.
	That's a fact. People overwhelm me.
	So he's punching back because people just overwhelm him.
	him.
	Why did they overwhelm him?
	Because he grew up in a violent household.
	So, it's a I don't like the song myself. I really can't get into Neil Young.
	The voice is just, again, I just can't quite get there.
	But in the desert you can remember your name because there ain't no one to give you any pain.
	So this is somebody with no boundaries.
	So he can't find people who...
	You should be in social situations, in romantic situations.
	You should be among people that you feel even more yourself when you're with them.
	You shouldn't be with people who erase your name, who erase your identity, that you're just managing them all the time because they're volatile, because they're upset, because they're angry, right?
	And you pump people full of propaganda to make them volatile so that nobody else can relax around them.
	I have this description in my new book of a family gathering where a leftist tyrant comes in and there's a pregnant woman, one of her aunts is pregnant, and she says, hey, how's the cancer?
	How's the cancer coming?
	you know, that replicating cells that takes over your body to serve its own needs, right?
	And of course, this is the baby is a cancer analogy that comes out of some insane schools.
	And so you get someone like that rolling around the gathering, everyone's on alert, everyone's concerned.
	So you fill people full of propaganda and you have them turn against truth, reality, questions, Socratic reasoning, whatever, Socratic questioning.
	And that way, they're just so volatile and so angry and so hair-triggered, you program them to aggress against others so that other people can't ever be themselves.
	So this singer, the writer of this song, in the desert, you can remember your name, you get an identity, but only if you're isolated from people.
	He's never been able to find anyone who helps him feel more who he is.
	Everyone erases him.
	So he has to go to the desert.
	He has to go to isolation. He has to go monk mode, right?
	What's a good way to open conversation with a lady while out and about that catches your eye?
	Well, I remember many years ago, I used to live downtown Toronto, Young and Eglinton.
	It's called Young and Eligible. And I was picking up some Thai food and I saw a woman eating there.
	She was alone. And I just sat down.
	Don't sit down opposite her in this kind of an invasion of space, but I sat down Next table over, and I said, are you already eating alone?
	I'm eating alone. Why don't we eat alone together?
	A little joke, a little observation, whatever pops into your mind that is hopefully engaging, maybe a little bit funny, and all of that, right?
	Because here's the thing, like, I don't think...
	Like, Mindy Kaling, right?
	Quite a case study in this sort of...
	Ugh, this monstrous Velma thing.
	I can't even... I can't even...
	I can't even...
	with that Velma thing.
	But she used to play a character, I can't remember, in some show.
	And I saw a couple of clips.
	And the joke was that anytime something unexpected happened, she's like, a serial killer, you should grab a knife.
	Because she was a woman living in a big city and this kind of fear was everywhere.
	So the reason why, you know, have a little chat with the woman, how you doing or how's your day going or whatever, right?
	And if she lives in a benevolent universe thing, in other words, if she is not terrified of the planet as a whole, she just lives in a benevolent universe, like a guy who...
	Is chatting with her isn't trying to kill her, you know?
	He isn't trying to kill her.
	I remember... So, brief story, I guess, yeah.
	So, many years ago...
	I met a woman on a plane who turned out to be a literary agent.
	I had this novel called Just Poor.
	You can get it at justpoornovel.com.
	It's a great book. I hope you will listen to it or read it.
	It's fantastic. Anyway, so she was on and I chatted with her on the plane and we ended up exchanging information and I ended up sending her a copy of my novel.
	She said she liked the first two thirds.
	She thought the last third was a little weaker so I ended up taking three weeks off work.
	I flew to England.
	I rented a cottage in the middle of nowhere because...
	The novel took place in the English countryside.
	I took the oldest and remotest place I could find.
	I rented a cottage and I wrote every day.
	It was one of the strange times in my life because I used to be able to write no problem on a computer.
	With this one, I could only write it by hand.
	I could only write it by hand.
	It was really a strange situation.
	So I ended up having to retype it all again.
	But anyway, that's neither here nor there.
	So what happened was the woman I was dating at the time, I said, you know, come on out and so on.
	And, you know, she did come out and then we had a fun time.
	But she said, you know, her sister was like, God, what if he's like just inviting you out to this lonely cottage to kill you?
	Like it was something crazy like that.
	Like some... I don't know, some malevolent universe thing.
	So a good thing about chatting with a woman, if she's like, you know, tense and lives in this world of fear, and you may not want to have too much to do with somebody who lives in that malevolent universe scenario.
	So remember, if you're chatting with a woman, you're trying to find out if you like her.
	You're not just desperately trying to get her number.
	Like, if you go for a job interview, find out if you want to work there.
	Not, oh God, please hire me.
	Desperation comes off in a very insecure and non-attractive manner.
	So, if you're going up to a pretty girl, a girl you find attractive, and it's true for guys too, or whatever, right?
	But, you know, just, hey, how you doing, right?
	Come up friendly, and if she's like, ah, right?
	But if she's like, oh, yeah, I'm fine, you know, whatever then.
	So, but yeah, look for...
	The benevolent universe thing, because trust me, I've dated a couple of girls with the malevolent universe hypothesis.
	It's exhausting. Absolutely exhausting, because they're just frightened of too much, and you can't really connect with them.
	All right. So which documentary won?
	Civil War, Revolution, or Philosopher Location?
	So far, the Civil War.
	If you want to vote C, R, or P, Civil War Documentary in America, American Revolution Documentary, or History of Philosophers on Location.
	What are some of your favorite songs?
	What do you like about them? Lyrics, the sound, etc.
	I'm not a huge fan of lyrics, but as a poet myself, I find, you know, songwriters are not really great poets.
	Not that I'm saying I'm a really great poet or anything, but as somebody who consumes a lot of poetry, has written a lot of poetry, song lyrics usually don't do much for me.
	But no, it's very much the beat is very important for me, whether it's got a really good rhythm.
	I don't mean some disco thing, but just a really good rhythm.
	Rhythm can be fast or slow.
	And the passion of the singer.
	This is why I'm such a Freddie Mercury freak, right?
	It's the passion of the singer. How much does the singer dig into what he's doing?
	How much does he excavate from his soul and push out from his larynx?
	How connected is he to what he's communicating?
	That is really, really important to me.
	All right. It was Dewey Bennell who sung A Horse With No Name.
	Do I have that completely?
	Let's see here. Horse with no name.
	Oh, you're right. Is that that?
	Boy, you're absolutely right.
	Yeah, written by Dewey Bunnell.
	Completely and totally right.
	First and most successful single.
	Man, these band albums.
	Everybody was so thin from back then, right?
	It was America, right? My gosh, does he ever sound to me like...
	Did Neil Young do a cover?
	Did they do a cover?
	Oh, Horse With No Name, is that the drug thing, right?
	The songs resemblance to some of Neil Young's work aroused controversy.
	Yeah, yeah. Oh, virtually everyone at first hearing assumed it was Neil.
	Yeah. Okay.
	Interesting. The heat was hot.
	There were plants and birds and rocks and things.
	Yeah. So, Dewey Bunnell.
	Yeah, thank you. I appreciate the correction.
	That's very good. Look at that.
	I've got myself some musical law and trivia and history going on.
	Alright. I think you've been pro Dream Journal.
	Curious if you can recall the most beneficial experience you had with it.
	I think you're doing it myself. So the Dream Journal was how I came up with the concept of the MECO system.
	So the MECO system is that I never think of myself as an I, like a cyclops.
	I never think of myself as an I. I think of myself as a we.
	A we, because that is French for years, no?
	So I think of myself as a we.
	I don't think of myself as one thing, as one entity.
	I'm an ecosystem.
	There's Things I want to do, things I'm averse to doing.
	There's courage, and then there's caution.
	There's love, and then there's individuality.
	There's wanting to be a good parent, but also wanting to model adulthood for my daughter.
	Like, there's, you know, lots of things.
	Lots of things that go on in my mind, pro and con.
	Everybody... Well, I shouldn't say there's a lot of people who don't have any inner voice, inner monologue, inner dialogue.
	God knows how they get through the day.
	But I think everyone here...
	And you've heard me a million times on call-in shows, have someone play a parent or a teacher or whoever, and they just do a perfect job of imitating.
	I've always wanted to fund a study where you get a mom, you ask her a series of questions, and you see what lights up in the brain, and then you get her son or her daughter as an adult and ask them to answer in the style of their mother and see if the same parts of the brain light up and then have them answer themselves.
	Have them answer themselves first, see what lights up.
	Have them answer pretending to be their mother and see if the same parts of the brain light up.
	In other words, can you get the footprint of the maternal ghost in the brain and record it scientifically?
	I bet you could. I bet you could. Absolutely.
	But... So for me, I met characters in my dreams who had really powerful perspectives that were really hard and unexpected for me, and I gave them all a whole bunch of different names, and I would just get into the wildest debates with them.
	Sometimes the debates would be in the dreams, and sometimes the debates would be I would just be writing in my journal, a therapy journal, and just like, so-and-so says this, and so-and-so says that.
	Like, I had a really tough guy.
	I called him Lord Gruul, and he was just, boom, he was so harsh about my life.
	Because I was struggling with insomnia then.
	And he's like, insomnia?
	You don't have insomnia. You have sleepwalking.
	You're sleepwalking through your damn life.
	You've got all these values and you don't live them.
	You've got all these values. The people around you oppose these values considerably.
	And you won't give up the values and you won't give up the people.
	You're living a complete contradiction.
	You think there's a problem with you sleeping.
	The problem is the fact that you're sleeping the whole time.
	Anyway, I won't imitate him for the rest of it.
	But, you know, there was a really tough, meaty, muscular, masculine aspect of myself that was important because I grew up without a dad, right?
	So I was a little bit on the let's be tentative approach, right?
	So getting into arguments with myself and trying to not self-censor, right?
	Well, censorship starts with the self.
	It only ends up later in law and in social media and so on.
	Censorship, I can't say this, I can't think that, right?
	That's where censorship starts.
	And learning how to not self-censor, for better or for worse, learning how to not self-censor is really important and dream journals are fantastic for that.
	What do you think about the doomsday clock?
	Is it just meant to scare the population?
	It's supposed to be at 90 seconds to midnight now.
	I honestly... Yes, if it's in the media, it's meant to scare the population.
	Media is fear porn and almost nothing else.
	Fear porn and hate porn, right?
	The reason that people got so hostile towards the unvaccinated was that when you're made afraid, you're taught to hate.
	Hatred and fear are two sides of the same thing, right?
	Fight is hatred and fear is flight, so fight or flight.
	So everyone who teaches you to be afraid, everyone who inflicts fear on you also teaches you To hate.
	So Trying to find a way to lower the fear in your life is a way to let go of hatred.
	Because you can't let go of hatred if you continue exposing yourself to fear.
	And I remember that stupid fucking doomsday clock from when I was a kid.
	Oh, it's like so close to the end.
	It's so close to... No, it's just people trying to make you terrified so they can harness and harvest your fear.
	You plant a demon seed, as the song goes, you raise a flower of fire.
	So you keep pounding these nails of fear into people's heads, and out comes these white beams of pure hatred.
	Because fear makes you feel lesser.
	It makes you feel ground down.
	Fear is the bully emotion, being bullied.
	Now, human beings will only be ground down for so long before they'll turn around and want to grind somebody else down just so they can try and feel a little better.
	You knock people down, they'll just try and knock other people down to get back up a little.
	And this is why it was pretty clear that the fear of COVID was going to translate into a hostility towards those who questioned, those who criticized, those who were skeptical, those who were hesitant.
	You know, this is the crazy thing about society, man.
	Like your whole childhood, right?
	What are you told? What are you told your whole childhood?
	I mean, you've got to resist peer pressure, man.
	You know, when I was a kid, hey, man, if everyone else was doing it, what did everyone say?
	The teachers, the parents, what did they say?
	Well, everyone else was doing it.
	Oh yeah?
	And if everybody else was jumping off the Brooklyn Bridge, would you jump too?
	See, when they want you, do not do something.
	Peer pressure. Peer pressure is just terrible, man.
	Just because other people were taking drugs, you don't take drugs just because of peer pressure.
	You think for yourself. Didn't you hear that?
	Your whole childhood, all your teenage years.
	Don't use the bad decisions of other people to justify your own decision.
	Don't take drugs. Resist peer pressure.
	Now, this therapeutic, this mRNA thing, well, you've got to take that.
	Wait, didn't you just say I should be skeptical and not do things because of peer pressure?
	Right, so, I don't know.
	I don't know. Is it just me?
	Does nobody notice these massive contradictions in society?
	Resist peer pressure.
	Oh, no, you've got to do what everyone else is doing.
	Otherwise, you're a selfish holdout who's endangering people.
	Avelma, a few for us cheapskate losers, please.
	Love the media reviews. I can't watch Velma.
	It's too much promulgation of hatred for me.
	I just, I can't.
	It's too hideous. It's too hideous.
	How can we help promote you insanity in a 2023 world?
	What can normies for results do when we're all pushed more and more into camps?
	Um... Well, as somebody who's been pushing moderation, reason, science, evidence, facts, and sanity for 40 years, 40 plus years now.
	I'm going to be 57 this year.
	I started in my mid-teens.
	So, you know, I've got 40 plus years in pushing reason, sanity, and moderation.
	I'm the ultimate moderate because I'm like, we all got to meet where the facts are.
	Let the facts adjudicate, let reason, let science adjudicate.
	So, the crazies have won, right?
	I mean, the crazy people have won. The bad people have...
	They dominate the landscape and they control the social discourse and so on.
	And, you know, maybe there'll be a certain amount of waking up that happens if things go badly over the next year or so with people's health and so on.
	Maybe, and I hope that's not the case, but if it is, maybe people will...
	I think people are beginning to wake up.
	They're feeling a little uneasy. They're feeling a little uneasy.
	You know, like Bill Gates. Sorry, I've got to cross myself.
	Bill Gates was just being interviewed, I think, fairly recently.
	He was saying, well, you know, the mRNA vaccines, they have a very short lifespan and they don't handle variants and they don't protect from illness.
	They protect a little from illness, but they don't protect from transmission.
	Oh, just, oh, God.
	And, you know, I mean, there's a guy who pushed vaccines like crazy just saying they don't work relative to how they were, to what was promised, right?
	And people aren't taking up these.
	They've got to get these annual shots.
	It's like, well, the protection only lasts months, if that.
	What's an annual shot going to do?
	So I think people are sort of waking up to the fact that They were like to.
	They were like to.
	They were like to. Ah, the science changed!
	No, no it didn't. No, no it didn't.
	No it didn't. No it didn't.
	Because science doesn't change.
	Now, scientific explanations, like science in terms of the observation of the facts, that doesn't change.
	You know, it's not like when you find out the world is round, suddenly you see a curve on the horizon.
	Or you find out that there are infrared rays that you can't see with your eye.
	Now I can see them! Your sense data doesn't change.
	The facts you're observing, they don't change.
	An explanation changes that hopefully matches the facts and predicts future behavior more accurately.
	Science doesn't change.
	Ah, well, you know, these mRNAs...
	The virus stops with you!
	Well, no, they never even tested for transmission.
	They never tested for transmission. Science didn't change.
	You're just saying things that weren't true.
	You're saying things that weren't true. Like, everybody who's in power needs a magic wand to shut you up.
	They need a magic wand. There's a magic wand to shut you up.
	Now, one of those magic wands...
	Is God, can be, right?
	This is what it says in the Bible, this is what it says in this holy book, so this is what you've got to do, right?
	Sometimes it's just abuse that shuts you up, or what you say is bigoted and phobic and blah blah blah, and they shut you up that way.
	But another way they shut you up, which is like the modern cult, is just science!
	Science! Well, they don't care about science.
	I mean, I had, what's it, 19 world-renowned experts on human intelligence on my show.
	Nobody cares. Doesn't matter.
	The facts didn't matter. Science didn't matter.
	Data didn't matter. I don't care about science.
	But if the word science shuts you up, or, you know, they'll say, anti-vaxxer.
	Well, you're not an anti-vaxxer, are you?
	With all that vitriol, right?
	That's just to shut you up, right?
	You're not a bigot, are you?
	Just to shut you up. You're not a racist, are you?
	Just to shut you up, right? So, science is the new god of silence, right?
	Shut you up. But of course, science is all founded on the skepticism of experts.
	That's an old Richard Feynman line right there.
	All right. Thoughts on watching violent action movies, shootouts, swords with heads chopped off, and so on?
	Yeah, so many years ago, I gave up on violence in movies.
	Many years ago. I don't do it as a whole.
	I mean, occasionally I can get surprised by something, whatever, right?
	But I remember watching the movie, was it the movie Casino?
	This is decades ago. I was watching the movie Casino because I thought that Goodfellas was, you know, get your shine box.
	Pretty terrifying movie, but very well done.
	And I was watching Casino and it's at the movie where they have a guy's head in a vice and they're squeezing it and his eyes pop out.
	And I was just like, fuck, I'm done, man.
	Peace out. I'm tapping out.
	I can't do this. Like, I'm not paying for this.
	I'm not going to subject myself to this.
	So I got up, I walked out of the movie, and I have not consciously gone into a violent movie with this, that kind of sadism and torture ever since.
	So I don't do it myself.
	I mean, it's not some fundamental moral thing.
	I'm not actually doing any violence.
	It's all simulated violence. But I can't do it because I want more of a story.
	And, you know, as I get older, too, I've written some real action scenes in my new book.
	They only matter because the characters are so strong and vivid.
	What type of person works in a mortuary?
	Do you think they just couldn't find another job?
	Weird question, I know. Well, I would assume that they were raised in a house of the dead.
	There's a great Dostoevsky book called Memoirs from the House of the Dead or Notes from the House of the Dead about his time in Siberia.
	But have you ever been...
	Did you have friends when you were younger?
	It's like the House of the Dead.
	A friend of mine, when I was in my mid-teens, we almost would never go to his house.
	Because whenever we'd go to his house, his family would just be sitting around, like literally like their mouths half open watching TV. It was a house of the zombies, just a house of the dead.
	Nobody really talked about anything.
	They never got interested in anything.
	They're just watching TV. And I was like, I remember saying to him back in the day, like, dude, your family is pretty quiet.
	I was like, oh yeah, they never say anything.
	So I assume that if you were raised in kind of the house of the dead, you'd probably feel more comfortable in the house of the dead, so to speak, right?
	Nothing to fear but fear itself.
	Yeah, I hate that quote. I'm not blaming you on that, right?
	But nothing to fear but fear itself?
	Oh no, there's tons to be afraid of in the world, right?
	It's just you have to manage your fear by saying, can I do anything about it?
	And if you can't do anything about it, you have to try and put it out of your mind.
	But yeah, there's lots of it.
	Governments love peer pressure.
	Germany was like, I wouldn't send Leopard two tanks unless America sends Abrams tanks.
	Yeah, you know, like there are actual Nazis in Ukraine, so Germany's sending tanks to support.
	Anyway, I think I've seen this movie before.
	All right. Did they let you back on Twitter?
	Any new thoughts on that as a tool for potential good?
	Does it do good or is it a waste of time?
	Yeah, I mean, somebody, a friend of mine actually told me that my Twitter account had been restored, and it is, and it has been.
	So, I mean, I'm pleased for that.
	I mean, if people want to quote my old tweets or do a search for them, they can find out that just about everything that's told about me is a complete lie, and they've got the evidence for it and so on.
	No, I don't have any particular interest on going back on Twitter.
	So, you can do a search.
	FDRpodcast.com, you can search for Twitter for all of my reasons for that.
	All right. Have you seen those TikToks of girls showing off the 10 pills they take?
	How is someone supposed to recover from that and gain perspective?
	What? I don't know. 10 what pills?
	I don't know what that means, 10 pills.
	You'll have to be just a little more specific.
	Let's see here. My mother showed me Jurassic Park at age 4 and Terminator 2 at age 6 and wondered why I had nightmares.
	Chucky 2? Yeah, that is definitely abusive.
	That's definitely abusive. Steph doesn't like violent movies.
	He only likes chopping up zombies in the Doom game.
	Yeah, they're not really zombies, just so you know.
	If you're going to get your passive-aggressive shots in, pal, you might want to get your facts straight.
	I think that they're technically demons.
	But yeah, for sure.
	The way that you get ammo is you chainsaw these little demons in the Doom game.
	Absolutely. Do you remember I said I'm not going to subject myself to that?
	In other words, I'm not just going to be passive if someone pours actual human torture in my face.
	Imaginary demons with chainsaws where I'm actually fighting my way out of hell.
	That's more of a metaphor for my life.
	Watch Steph get banned from Twitter again.
	Without making a single tweet, that would be something, right?
	How do you find a good doctor these days?
	Any tips? Yeah, try and find an old one, I think.
	Does lying go against UPB? Does lying?
	I wonder if a solid case against lying would shift the view of the mainstream or government lies.
	So, no, lying does not go against UPB because lying is not inflicted on other people.
	If someone lies to you, Who's in your life voluntarily, right?
	Somebody lies to you. Your friend lies to you all the time.
	They're not inflicting their lies on you.
	You're choosing to be in a relationship with someone who lies to you.
	So lying is not...
	UPP is for things that are coercively inflicted upon you.
	Lying is not coercively inflicted upon you.
	Now, if someone, let's say you're running a restaurant and someone says, I found a rat tail in the soup and they publish that and it's a falsehood and your restaurant business collapses and you lose a million dollars.
	Well, that's a violent infliction, right?
	Because they're now basically taking your business from you or harming your reputation.
	So that to me is a UPB violation, which is why you'd sue them and get your money back or whatever, right?
	Try and get your money back from them.
	So, because you're not choosing to be in a relationship with someone who's telling lies that are directly harming your financial interest in a sort of very provable way.
	You're not choosing that. You didn't choose to be in a relationship with the guy who lies about you and reviews and says that he found a rat tail in the soup or whatever.
	So, lying is in the realm of aesthetically preferable behavior.
	So, three categories of behaviors in UPB, in the analysis.
	Neutral. Neutral. Running for the bus, sleeping in, just neutral.
	There's no moral or aesthetic quality to them.
	And then there's aesthetically preferable actions, which is things that are better, And more positive and things that you want, but you can't enforce them because they're not enforced upon you.
	So if you have a friend who's chronically late, that's annoying, and it's hard to plan, and you start off, you know, the late people are annoying because you're sitting there for half an hour waiting for them to show up because you're supposed to go to a movie or something, and then by the time they show up, you're sort of annoyed enough that you can't really have fun with them at the movie.
	Like, it's a really crappy thing to do on a repetitive basis to be late.
	And I'm not talking about five, ten minutes is going to happen, but, you know, sort of chronically late people.
	So it is preferable to be on time, but you can't shoot someone for being late, right?
	Because they're not violently imposing their will upon you.
	You're there by choice. So there's aesthetically preferable actions such as being on time, being reasonably polite, reasonably diplomatic, you know, things that are positive but not enforceable.
	And so there's neutral, morally neutral actions, aesthetically preferable actions, things which can be universalized, everyone can be on time, things which are reciprocal, you don't like it when people are late, And make you wait, therefore you shouldn't make other people wait, the sort of do unto others thing. And then there's UPB, truly universally preferable behavior, which is to refrain from force and fraud, which is a theft, right?
	Or defamation or slander, which has direct material negative consequences.
	So that is right.
	All right. Oh, SSRI pills, they seem to be prescribed for all sorts of stuff.
	Yeah. Well, I mean...
	If the government is paying for things, the most expensive solution is the optimal solution.
	I mean, I think it's fairly, if you read the books by Peter McCullough, you read the books by Robert Malone and other people.
	And again, I can't evaluate these things.
	I'm not a doctor. But they may make a reasonably solid case that there were cheaper options than, what, did they give a billion dollars to Moderna to develop these options?
	Things, these mRNA things.
	And now they're, what, raising their price to $130?
	Yeah, nice, nice. Government pays you to develop the thing, mandates that people take it that you could raise the price.
	I mean, so inefficiency is efficiency in the government economy.
	Inefficiency is efficiency in the government economy.
	And trust me, I worked with some government agencies when I was in my entrepreneurial phase, and it was not unheard of to people say, well, you know, we've got to spend this money, otherwise the budget is going to get cut for next year.
	We've got to hire more people. It's going to justify a budget increase for next year, right?
	Like these adult daycares, you know, you see these twinkly piano music, little TikToks of...
	It's always women going to these adult daycare.
	You know, oh, I showed up and I got a snack and I had a meeting and then I got another snack and a coffee and then I had a cute little lunch and then, you know, I did a little bit of work and then I played some pinball and then I had a massage, you know.
	And then I got laid off because reality.
	So... Yeah, it's...
	If you look at all this dysfunction that's going on, body, horrible things happening to people's bodies and all of that, you just have to look at who's paying for it.
	Who's paying for it? You know, if we had a private system, something like COVID comes along.
	Of course, I would argue with a private system, you wouldn't have COVID coming along because nobody messing around with this stuff.
	But you would look for the cheapest, most effective, most efficient solution.
	But with the government, you look for the most expensive solution, which is why it has to be mandated, right?
	So, yeah, I mean, the government is just a massive waste of resources, which is why all the environmentalists who don't talk about government spending just are completely boring to me.
	All right. Oh, so SSRI pills?
	They take 10 pills?
	Yeah. Yeah. So, it's a terrible phenomenon in the world, and it breaks my heart, really.
	It's desperately sad.
	It's desperately sad.
	When I was younger, and I think that they call this in Japan, the people who are still single in their 30s or whatever, they're called the leftovers, right?
	There's a tragic, truly tragic number of people in this world that nobody wants.
	Nobody's dreaming of them.
	Nobody's pining for them.
	Nobody's trying to figure out how to approach them.
	Nobody wants to ask them out on dates.
	There's just a tragic number of people that nobody wants.
	They evince no desire.
	They evince no... They stimulate no pursuit.
	Nobody's looking to wife them or husband them.
	Nobody's looking to be their boyfriend or their girlfriend.
	They're just... Unappealing.
	And often they're unappealing physically, but that's not particularly important because that happens to everyone over time, but they're just unappealing.
	They're not particularly witty.
	They're often infected with bizarre kinds of hatred and often a lot of false superiority, which is one of the most off-putting things in anyone.
	It's this false superiority because then you get to play...
	Wormtongue handmaiden to their delusions for the rest of your life, which is about as pitiful a way as I can imagine to spend our precious time on this earth.
	But it's just nobody wants them.
	Everybody knows someone like this, or more than one person like this.
	Just nobody wants them.
	So where do they go when nobody wants them?
	Well, they go into these weird subcultures.
	Well, nobody wants me, so I guess these furry people are opening their arms, so nobody wants me, but there's this club that seems to be enthusiastic that I'm around, and The trading of identity for companionship is endemic to a social species like ourselves.
	Back the desert with the horse with no name, right?
	We will give up our identity for community almost every time.
	Almost every time we will give up our identity for community, which is why if you want weird communities to flourish, just make people lonely.
	And they'll even give up their sanity.
	Just to have a sense of community.
	We are a social animal.
	To be alone for most people is torture.
	Loneliness is fatal.
	Loneliness is as bad as smoking a pack of cigarettes a day.
	Loneliness is a massive health hazard.
	And particularly for women, loneliness is kind of agonizing.
	It's kind of agonizing.
	I enjoy my time on my own.
	I don't get much of it because, you know, I'm homeschooling and all of that.
	But I enjoy my time on my own and It's torture for most people, though.
	And so for most people, if they're lonely enough, if they're isolated enough, if they're tortured enough, just any group that will accept them, they're like, okay, I'll, you know, and we're driven by that genetically, right?
	We're driven by that genetically because we needed to pair bond and, you know, human kids take forever to raise.
	So we'll give up our identity in return for companionship, in return for a community, for sure.
	I mean, this is really the case the world over, right?
	And throughout our evolution.
	Give up your identity. To maintain your community, which is why when people attack you, they're revealing what is their greatest fear, right?
	So people attack you, they try to isolate you and strip you of your community because that would be the worst thing for them.
	They imagine that what's the most painful for them is the most painful for you, which is why these attacks often don't hit in the way that they intend or want, right?
	In fact, it can make people strong.
	If you strike me down, it can make you stronger, right?
	So... So, if you look at, say, the goth culture or you look at whatever's going on, and you say, okay, well, the punk culture when I was younger, it's like, okay, these are people that nobody wants, they're desperately lonely, and they're willing to take on a collective, quote, identity just in returns for some kind of community because they're dying from lack of connection, right?
	They're dying from lack of community.
	They're dying from lack of acceptance.
	And if the tribe says, well, you've got to do this crazy thing, In order to join the tribe, people will do that crazy thing and join the tribe.
	That's what we're biologically programmed to do, because we can't reproduce on our own.
	So, yeah, if there's a tribe called, we're all crazy, we're all mentally ill, we all take these handfuls of SSRIs, then you join that tribe, you've got to be crazy, and you've probably got to stay crazy.
	Well, I take more pills and it just becomes...
	You see this in people praying.
	Lonely people, man. Lonely people.
	Have you ever been a night owl?
	I've never been a morning person, so...
	Yes. A friend of mine married an older woman who lied about her age.
	She was at least eight years older.
	Yeah, that would be an element in any rational sense.
	Do you think Botox is a negative for young mothers with toddlers?
	Botox can freeze your facial expressions.
	I wonder if that's bad for a kid.
	Imagine it would be. We know that the masks have put a lot of speech impediments on kids.
	Why on earth would a young mother want Botox?
	You've got a baby. What are you, modeling?
	I don't understand. I think Crowder and others show us that they can put us in camps.
	Is there any winning strategy if they keep us divided?
	Yeah, I mean, I think the Crowder Daily Wire thing is interesting.
	I think I've talked about it in shows before.
	I don't particularly care how it plays out.
	They're focusing on the now, I'm focusing on the future.
	When you say, I can't evaluate these things, I'm not a doctor.
	Do you mean legally? I don't know what you mean.
	I'm just, I'm not a doctor.
	Is it a logical fallacy that hyperinflation might fix some of the problems we see by exerting reality back into people's lives?
	It's a logical fallacy that hyperinflation might fix some of the problems we see by exerting reality back into people's lives.
	I don't understand that question.
	Sorry, if you can please rephrase.
	Chat GPT, this room is rebooting.
	Do you think Alec Baldwin will get what he deserves?
	Well, I guess one Trump might be heading...
	No, I mean, it's fourth.
	It's in fourth level manslaughter.
	Max 18 months, max five grand.
	No. And he's actually getting more charged as a producer than as an actor.
	No, he will not get what he deserves.
	I mean, he's rich and he's famous.
	I'd be very surprised if he spent any real time in prison.
	I mean, it does happen occasionally, so it's not impossible.
	But the thing is, though, that Alec Baldwin, if this had happened before 2020, it would be a whole different matter.
	But the left doesn't need Alec Baldwin anymore because...
	Well, maybe if Trump comes back, but whatever, right?
	So... I saw on YouTube ages ago, lonely death cleanup in Japan.
	Old people dying alone in apartments, left to rot for weeks and months.
	Really odd. Well, it's not that odd, really, when you think about it.
	And I think I saw a little bit of that same show.
	Yeah. I mean, these are people who...
	I was just talking with a friend of mine about...
	Like, I'd love to go to do a documentary in Japan.
	Like, what the hell's happening with the birth rate?
	Like, why have the Japanese gone from the samurai terrorists of the known universe to these weird infantile anime characters who, you know, only seem to want to reproduce with Kleenexes?
	I mean, I don't know. I mean, curious what's going on.
	So I'd love to know. But one of the things, of course, that happened...
	So the people who are old now in Japan...
	Yeah, they would sort of be my parents' age.
	I only have one parent left, but yeah, it would be my sort of parents' age.
	And yeah, when they were younger, they worked like crazy, right?
	When they were younger, they brought into this karoshi, right?
	Death by overwork, right? This just work, work, work, be a company man.
	And so they barely saw their kids.
	So there's no point trying to Prevent people from experiencing the consequences of their own decisions because all you're doing is hiding the consequences of their own decisions from other people.
	I will not care about people more than they care about themselves.
	This is sort of my... Since two and a half years ago, right?
	Two and a half years ago, prior to that, for like 15 years, I was like willing to put myself right on the cliff edge to help people to do...
	And, you know, after seeing what happens post-deplatforming, which again, very liberating, very instructive, and I'm not mad at anyone.
	I'm just, you know, taking the facts because I'm an empiricist.
	It's like, well, okay, so this is where people are, right?
	Not really a lot of loyalty or anything like that.
	So that's fine. No biggie.
	It's just facts, right?
	I try not to get mad at facts because that's kind of an immature thing to do, right?
	So, with the people in Japan, well, it's really odd.
	It's not odd at all. They left their kids alone and went to work a lot, I imagine.
	They were disconnected and they also have voted for more and more and more free stuff for themselves.
	There's a reason why Japan has been in a recession for the last 30 years because the old people just vote for more and more and more free stuff for themselves to the point where now Japan is selling more adult diapers than baby diapers.
	So, you know, there's no point having kids if they don't see you enjoy parenting.
	I don't know why people don't understand this.
	I'm not sure what the point of having kids is if they don't have kids themselves.
	I don't, like, what's the point?
	Bloodline just ends, right?
	What was the point? So, the way that you encourage your kids to have kids is they see you really enjoying parenting.
	I love spending time with my daughter.
	She is like one of the most fun people on the planet.
	My wife and my daughter are just super fun people.
	I'm incredibly blessed to have them and to be able to go through this life journey with these two just wonderful, wonderful women who are females.
	So I don't...
	Parenting is never a drag.
	It's never a problem. It's never a negative.
	It's never something that's, you know, it's always a great pleasure and a great joy.
	Now, because if, you know, I mean, A, that's true, and B, how am I going to expect her to want to raise kids if parenting is some big burden to me?
	So, in Japan, the reason, I assume, why the younger generation is not having any kids is because their parents didn't enjoy parenting.
	The dads were working all the time, the moms were working all the time, they were shuffled from daycare to daycare to daycare and they never got any pair bonding in.
	They had to try and survive in this Lord of the Flies lowest common denominator hellscape called daycare.
	So they got no bond. And then the parents just greedily took away their children's childhoods by having kids and then ignoring kids, and then voting for more and more free stuff at the expense of their kids' future.
	I'm writing about this in my book at the moment.
	I'm just going through the last edit round, and I'll do the audiobook after this.
	And you can find the book at freedomain.locals.com.
	The first chapter is pinned.
	It's free. It's pinned at the top of the feed.
	So why is it odd?
	The old people, when they were young, didn't invest in parenting, didn't invest in their kids, didn't enjoy their time with their kids.
	Parenting was hell. It was no fun.
	They were constantly stressed and overworked.
	Why would anybody want that?
	Why would you want that?
	And because they don't have any bond with their parents and because they're angry at their parents for voting for more and more free stuff, thus destroying the economy for the future.
	I mean, why wouldn't the old people die alone?
	Thank you.
	How could it be otherwise?
	Maybe I'm missing something, of course, but I can't imagine how it could be otherwise.
	All right. I super miss Christopher Hitchens these days.
	Bet you don't! Christopher Hitchens, almost without a doubt, would be entirely pro-Ukrainian war, because he was very pro-Iraq war.
	So, yeah, I don't think you would enjoy his commentary at the moment.
	Why do you think loneliness is bad for you?
	Does it cause stress in most people?
	Well, so think of sort of collective evolution, right, which is the general tribe, right?
	So, if you're lonely, then...
	You are consuming resources without providing anything back and so Nature, in a sense, would want you to not be around.
	So I assume that there is...
	Like, we think of our immune system as internal.
	This is my, obviously, just an analogy, right?
	There's nothing medical about this, right?
	So we think of our immune systems as internal, but I think the science is fairly clear that our immune system is shared with other people, in that our immune system tends to be stronger when we're around positive, bonded social relationships with love and support and all this, and then our immune system is stronger.
	So our immune system is not just within our own body, it's collective, right?
	And so if you're isolated, your immune system weakens down.
	I think you're more susceptible to various kinds of illness and so on, right?
	All right. Do you think the Logan Paul Japan suicide forest video was overblown or was it really bad?
	Yeah, he's a douche, but he showed the truth.
	Yeah, I mean...
	I mean...
	Whenever this kind of social...
	I did a video on this way back in the day, but...
	Whenever this kind of social outrage shows up, say, oh my God, he showed somebody who was dead.
	It's like Europe got a million migrants because they showed a dead kid on a beach.
	They don't have a problem showing dead people.
	The question is, is it for or against the narrative, right?
	All right. Do you consider yourself white-pilled, black-pilled, blue-pilled, red-pilled?
	No disrespect if you don't follow these terms.
	I think I get some of the terms.
	I just consider myself a philosopher, so...
	I might be a leftover. Never any takers.
	Haven't been seriously interested in anyone for over a decade.
	I would like to change that.
	Well, I think you should change that.
	I think you should go out and grab life by the gusto and put yourself out there and try and fail and get yourself back up and try and fail again.
	I think that's dangerous to your health.
	It's dangerous to your future. And it's kind of tragic, especially if you're listening to this show, which means you're smart and you should definitely try and become a parent.
	All right. Thanks for nagging me instantly.
	Of course, I've got a whole documentary on Hong Kong.
	You can find it at freedomain.com slash documentaries.
	All right. Any last questions?
	Any last questions?
	Thank you so much for dropping by tonight.
	Don't forget, freedomain.com Welcome to my show!
	FreeDomain.com slash donate if you'd like to help the show out.
	Of course, I would massively appreciate it.
	I'm still trying to keep things going after, of course, you know, quite a significant deplatforming thing.
	So, any Bitcoin roundtable soon?
	Hit me with a Y if you'd like me to do a Bitcoin roundtable again soon.
	Hit me with a Y if you'd like me to do a Bitcoin roundtable again.
	I would be happy to.
	What was it? Was it Arizona just introduced a bill to make it...
	Legal tender and I think the European Union is now allowing banks to hold 2% of their assets in Bitcoin.
	So, yes, you would like this?
	Okay. Okay, good.
	And I started posting about Bitcoin's potential and then it went up by, what, a third or something like that.
	So, okay, I will take that under advisement.
	Thank you so much. And thank you so much, my friends, for El Salvador.
	Yeah, it's funny what you can do when you don't have capital gains on Bitcoin and put the actual murderers in the actual prison.
	You can cut your rate enormously.
	All right, I will take that under advisement.
	Thank you very much. And have yourselves a wonderful evening.
	Lots of love from here.
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	I would hugely appreciate it. I hope you enjoy my new book as it's coming out.
	Lots of love. Talk to you soon.

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