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Feb. 28, 2023 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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Izzy and Stef - Philosophy Q and A!
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Alright, intro? Go.
Right. Excellent.
Okay, so this is... Hi, welcome. Welcome.
This is Izzy and Steph.
Yes. And questions for you.
Should we just dive straight in? Is there anything else that you wanted to talk about before we got started?
No, let's just go. Speedrun.
Alright. Throughout your childhood, have you generally been open to...
Oh, good.
Oh, good. I can't make it through the...
Oh, here!
Dude, don't die!
It's just a show! Too painful.
Oh my god. I can't do this question.
Would you like to... I can't. I can't even with this question.
You can't even. Okay.
Sorry. I can't with the question.
Okay. No, don't zoom it in.
What the heck? Okay. I have to.
No. Your eyes are younger.
So I can read it.
No, stop. Okay, go.
Okay, painful question.
Please go ahead. Throughout your childhood, have you generally been open to trying new activities slash sports?
Was there ever some kind of lesson or class that you were not immediately interested in, but your parents convinced you to try?
Stop laughing! And you felt glad of it afterwards?
I wish I was laughing.
Do you think we should do some backstories on this?
Alright, cheer me out. Learning, it sucks.
Not even learning in general.
No, you like learning.
You just don't like being taught. Yeah.
Look, I learned how to animate by myself from watching other people animate at most, but most of it was just me.
I learned how to draw digitally by myself.
To be fair, you also had a very animated father.
Still do. Oh dear.
The energy has gone from the conversation.
I learned how to take care of ducks by myself.
Like, I did a whole lot of stuff. You learned how to make movies by yourself?
Yes. Like animated movies.
Kind of similar thing. But I learned how to do everything I'm good at right now by myself.
Well, let's go through a couple of things.
I was three. Dance lessons.
You did dance lessons, right?
And you didn't like the fact that I was teaching them in the parking lot?
No. It was just an awful dance.
Look, I used to love dancing when I was young.
Like, I wasn't that good at it, but I used to like it a lot.
And I remember when we'd play the videos of the dance, and I would dance in, like, the family room or whatever, right?
Oh, we did that to Glee.
Some nights this day, I'm cashing in.
Okay, yeah, I remember that one. So I start doing stuff like that and then they're like, oh, well you like dancing so how about we crush that with dance lessons.
It's the goal really.
We have that as our entire business plan for parenting is find any spark of joy, crush it from a great height.
Yeah, no, it wasn't, obviously it wasn't purposeful, but I just, the lessons took out the joy of dancing for me.
Wait, wait, okay, but on the other hand, like at the complete opposite end of that spectrum, there were the gymnastics lessons.
No, hold on, let me add one last thing to the lessons.
I vaguely remember this. Obviously it was three, so it's very, like, foggy, I want to say, but it was like, um...
I remember, like, with a whole bunch of people, like, a lot of other kids my height, we were all the same height because we were all three, and, like, there was badly played music and it was way too crammed to do anything because I used to do, like, cartwheels, I'd spin, I'd, like, roll around and stuff, right?
Like, I was kind of a chaotic dancer, and I just remember kind of, like, going back and forth and, like, occasionally a spin.
It's like, bro, I can't dance.
There's no room. There's, like, a room, 30 room, tiny room full of, like, 30 kids.
Right, right. Gymnastics you didn't particularly enjoy.
I hated gymnastics. You've never really been interested in organized sports, right?
I don't like them.
We like disorganized chaos sports.
Yeah, like the ping pong with the chaos.
Yes, we did ping pong where you just have to keep it up.
It can be at the other end of the room.
As long as the ball's bouncing and you can get it back over, you're good.
And it's best to do in a crowded room with lots of stuff that you have to keep it going.
And the only thing it can do is stop bouncing.
Basically, it's whoever's side of the table it hit last is whoever's point would be lost or won.
Yes, that's right. We've never been, so most of the games that we enjoy don't have a super amount of scoring, at least when you were younger.
Yeah. I mean, role-playing, Dungeons& Dragons, not exactly scoring.
No. Yeah, yeah. Is there anything that, not that you'd ever admit this, I feel like I need to create that chat GPS bypass of personality structure, but was there anything that we convinced you to try and you felt glad of it afterwards?
I think I was joining the homeschooling group.
Yeah, yeah. Probably, yeah.
But that's recent. That's like six months ago.
Yeah, yeah. Okay. Okay, what are some examples of red flags you've witnessed in your interactions with other children?
Like when you get a feeling that a kid is going to be trouble, what is the main characteristic or virtue you look for when deciding whether or not to pursue a friendship?
I don't think I have an actual thing.
You just kind of sniff the personality.
Yeah, I get a good whiff of it, you know?
But yeah, it's kind of just like I'll hang out with them for a bit and sometimes I'm like, okay, you're nice, you're nice.
And then sometimes it's on the second or third time I hang out with them where it's just like, but then some people it's straight up front like they have dyed hair and they're rude.
It's like, okay, but other people it's a bit more hidden.
Hey Izzy, my question would be, do you think you had positive influences on the kids around you thanks to the peaceful parenting?
Man, I don't know. I think kids around us would get jealous in a way and try and sabotage and stuff because I was like the homeschooled kid with parents that were involved, right?
Well, and we all enjoy each other's company.
I know that when you were younger, without getting into any names, that I think you were kind of the envy of a lot of other kids.
Yes, but I wasn't high status.
Yeah, but envy often tries to claw people down.
Yes. But there were people who were like, not exactly like, oh, I wish I had your parents, but you know, you're so lucky and you know, all of that.
Yeah, that kind of stuff. Well, hopefully that gave some...
I think, I didn't exactly model this exactly, but when you were younger, when we would be out...
I would, again, I enjoyed it, but I kind of almost wanted to encourage the other parents to get involved.
Yeah. Because we'd be someplace and, you know, everybody's sitting on the phones.
We talked about this before on the couch.
Or even in the pool, you know, we're playing Marco Polo or something, right?
And it's like, just, you know, get involved and all of that.
Because the parents just sit there on their phones.
Or just, yeah, sit there suntanning. Because the moms are too fat and the dads are either at work or not interested.
So it's like, bro, go play with your kid.
Yeah. All right.
My question for Izzy.
For me. What's the most important thing you have learned from your mom and dad?
Well, guys, this is a good show.
I think we're going to wrap it up. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Now, sorry. And so the reason he's asking is I'm also just about to become a first-time father in September.
Congrats. I'm just getting my business off the ground, but do worry about making sure I put my kid first, but still make enough to support my wife and son, hopefully daughter.
We both work from home, so we do have that and do not need to travel, yet it can still get busy.
How do you both solve this in your family?
Most important thing you've learned from your dad and mom.
I don't know. I think it's just a lot of little stuff accumulated.
I think when I was younger and developing some more negative personality traits, you'd kind of be good at fixing that.
Just guiding it a little away from that now.
Yeah, because I have a pretty critical self-view, and despite that, I still think I'm probably one of the best-natured kids or teens that I know by almost a lot.
I mean, there's a few others I can think of that are pretty similar, but I think my thing is that I can be a bit too willing to get into arguments over stuff.
No, no, that's strength.
I'm sorry, I'm not sure. Are you saying that's any kind of weakness?
When does that ever cost me in my life?
I wonder. So it was kind of like 50-50.
I was playing with some other kids, and it's a game.
It's called Apples to Apples. It's a great game.
I definitely recommend it. And we were playing...
There were like six or eight of us or something like that, and there were some girls there that were kind of the sensitive...
I want to say like Valley Girls.
And one of the, so basically apples to apples is a game.
The first, one person will play a green card and that will have a prompt.
And the prompt in this one was dangerous.
And then everybody has five red cards.
And this goes around in a circle, like who plays a green card?
Everybody has five red cards and they respond with sometimes either the funniest or the most accurate.
Now we usually play for funniest, but someone played pit bulls.
I forget, someone else played, I don't know, cuddling, because it's a funny joke where you kind of do the opposite.
Anyways, Pitbulls ended up winning, and the girls were like, no, it's not the dog, it's the owner!
And me and this other guy got into kind of a pretty big argument about it, and this one other girl, I like her, she's nice, she was like, guys, just come on, let's play the game, kind of thing.
But I think I could have done a little better at, like, calming the argument.
But I was like, absolutely not.
Those are war dogs. They've been bred to be like that.
They're battle attack dogs, fighting dogs.
Obviously, there are exceptions.
But I think you've got to be wary of pit bulls.
Right. I think we won't get into details.
But I know in some situations with an instructor and with other kids, you've jumped in to make the case for peaceful parenting and not hitting kids.
I did. I did do that.
Yes. And it was very skimmed over in the whole thing.
Yep. Of course. Like, I was just saying it because I'll just say the instructor was saying something kind of that wasn't pro-peaceful parenting, right?
And I pointed out, I'm like, you know, if it's illegal to hit an adult, but it's not illegal to hit a kid, and the adult can leave and fight back and sue, and the kid's stuck there till 18, that's kind of...
And then there was a bit of a pause, and then she's like, anyways...
Right, right. Now, as far as the work-home stuff, I'll touch on this a bit and obviously let me know what you think, but the purpose of a parent is not to stare at the child.
The purpose of a parent is to prepare the child for adulthood.
Now, preparing a child for adulthood is preparing a child for the fact that somebody's got to go and work, unless you happen to have a lot of money for whatever reason.
So, the idea that you're only a father if you're home staring at your kid, playing with your kid, interacting with your kid, that's great.
You need to do that. You need to enjoy that.
But you also need to see your parents working so that you understand that that's part of life, right?
Well, I do plan to get a job. I don't know if I mentioned this summer, early fall.
Yeah, that's right. If I get hired, if I can.
Because I know it's always like, we're hiring, we're hiring, we're hiring.
But I've heard a lot of places you can get a job at the age of 14 at grocery stores.
I haven't officially heard that.
Everyone else says it's 15, but if not, then I'll just wait till I turn 15.
Hey, Stefan, Izzy, my question for Izzy, what genre of books do you like most and why?
What are you reading now, please?
And thank you. Um, so right now I'm in a book club and I believe the two books that were requested was The Three Musketeers.
And, oh, it's a janitor guy.
Eleven Thumbs or something about it.
It's for younger kids. It's from nine to eleven Three Musketeers.
I don't know what the rating is, but it's for older, I think, like teenagers.
It's supposed to be a teen book club.
It's really not. Like a lot of young parents are just like, well, we'll drop off the eleven-year-olds and nine-year-olds as well.
Or if there's an older kid, the younger kid just kind of goes with because they want to do the older, cool kid stuff.
Yeah, so obviously some parents are better at managing that, but others are just kind of viewed as a daycare for a few hours.
And you had suggested, what were the two books you suggested?
I suggested Lord of the Flies.
Well, the ones I'm reading now are the ones I... No, the ones you did last.
So I suggested Lord of the Flies, and I didn't have a second book to suggest, because the other ones I would have suggested had been chosen.
And also when I did suggest other books, they didn't know what the books and thought the name sounded dumb, so they didn't vote for it.
And you brought a conch.
I did for the actual meeting because it was such chaotic meetings usually.
I brought a conch shell for when we discussed the book.
I'd ask questions and we'd pass it around in a room full of like 30 kids.
It was actually very fun. And even the email was sent out later saying, yo, that was a great book club.
And so I suggested Lord of the Flies and the other book that was suggested, I hated that book, but it was called Nil.
I didn't even finish reading it.
I mean, I know I'm supposed to. It was just awful though.
And only like five or six kids that actually read it.
I mean, you're supposed to read the book so you can have a discussion, but we spent the whole time talking about Lord of the Flies.
Now, Shauna, you're phased out of the...
Wings of Fire. It was kind of childish and it just got way too woke.
Yeah, it got way too woke. So, um...
Yeah, I think you're mostly reading for the book club.
Now you're doing Three Musketeers and whatever the other one is.
Love and Thumps or something. Yeah, I wouldn't say that you're into any particular genre of book at the moment, but you're exploring a bunch of stuff through the book club.
I don't like books. There hasn't been anything that you really love from that.
I mean, I hate to say, like, I enjoy writing.
I just hate reading other books.
It's just like, yes, get to the point.
All right, boring. We understand the scene.
Yep, plot. I don't know.
I get impatient with books, and they have a very short time to get good.
To get interesting. To get interesting before I lose interest.
Like, I will give them two chapters and if you're not doing anything by two chapters, I'm done.
Like, I mean, I know it's not good because some books have a very slow start and a really good story if they're long, right?
But I still, I just get, I'm so impatient with books.
I'm not a good reader. Well, you used to be when the books were more interesting to you.
Yes. When I was younger, I found books more interesting.
But now I'm like, well, why don't I just write my own thing?
Right, right. I hope you're well.
What is your earliest memory of a disagreement between you and your parents?
What do you believe was the most effective approach to resolving it?
Gosh, I was like four or something.
I think we were playing Skyrim.
Like, you were playing it and I was watching that.
I think I was showing a little bit of the exploring in Skyrim.
Yeah, and I don't remember what it was, but we got into an argument about it of some sorts.
Yeah, I don't remember that one.
I mean, there was a question on one of my message boards about eating, like trying to get kids to eat better stuff.
We've certainly had some disagreements about that over the years.
But not big arguments or anything?
No, not big arguments.
Generally, we, I mean, my approach is, you know, don't be mean, but be honest, right?
If you're upset about something, say this is upsetting, or this is annoying, or this is bothering me, or please don't do this.
And don't assume you're right.
Don't be mean, but be honest and stand up for what you want and try and find something which works for both people, I guess.
Usually when I get annoyed, I don't say anything.
And if I end up saying something, it'll be even a few days, actually, probably after it's passed.
Because I find when I'm annoyed, I'm powered by emotions, not by words.
So usually I'll just go off, do my own thing for 20 minutes, and then come back.
Right, right.
I'll find things are annoying to me, but I'm not going to imagine for a moment that it's the other person's fault or that it's some permanent issue.
I mean, if there is some permanent issue, then yeah, bring it up because you shouldn't have to manage that.
And again, not assume you're right.
Don't be mean, but be honest.
And I think that's worked for us as a whole.
Yeah. All right.
Yeah, we talked about this one earlier.
Don't do anything dumb to your health, drugs, getting drunk, etc.
Anyway, it's not really a question. Izzy, does your generation see the future as bleak?
Do you, your peers, hope to own a home and have a high-paying job, or is there less of a focus on status and material goals?
I don't know, because I'm not exposed to the average public school woke kid, right?
So I don't have an exact...
Idea of that. The group of kids that I know kind of thing in this homeschooling group obviously are more Republican and conservative and stuff.
I mean, there are a few exceptions, but I don't know.
I mean, I think... We don't really think about the future.
I don't think my generation's too smart.
Sounds like a whole other topic.
Go on. Yeah. No, I don't know.
It's just everyone seems to like – or maybe not knowledgeable because the media suppresses so much and maybe their parents don't know too much, but I don't know.
But then there are other kids that are like making very Republican jokes and like with a lot of knowledge base and talking about crypto.
So I don't know. I don't know.
I think the big thing is you're not getting all of the doom and gloom climate stuff, which is really toxic for kids.
I mean, they talk about stripping you of your...
Hope for the future and happiness.
I remember when I first heard that, it was like, oh, by the time you're 21, the world's going to be dead.
And I'm like, then why am I learning algebra?
Or why am I learning not algebra?
Why am I learning division, right?
I heard the same stuff when I was a kid.
I was born in 66.
I remember when I was about 10 years old in 76, being told that the world was going to be out of food and oil by 1980.
Well, look at that. It really is.
I mean, we're out of eggs, but...
Yeah, you're out of eggs.
Well, not us. Not us, yeah.
Oh yeah, our duck started laying eggs.
Our duck. Duck.
Singular duck. Yeah, yeah. A lot though.
We got eight. Nine. No, ten.
Because the very first egg isn't with the others and we have nine there.
They're all different sizes though.
Our duck donut has been laying eggs.
I've actually been incredibly disappointed.
Why? Because they're not donuts.
No eclairs. No Boston creams.
I know. No rainbow.
Okay. Oh, did you touch the screen to bring back the question?
No, I touched the screen because it was fading off and I didn't want to have to go through the pause of reopening the thing.
Right. Well, you certainly believe you're going to own a home on a farm.
Yeah. No, I want to get married before I'm 25.
I want to have a lot of kids.
We're the merrier. All right.
Would you ever consider joining a live stream off camera with Steph, if allowed?
You have done that before. Yeah, I think we've done it once.
Yeah, we did it on Fatherhood. Long time ago.
Yeah, it was a couple of years ago.
I remember, though. It was a whole panel of people talking about fatherhood.
I didn't participate too much.
Like, I watched more than anything, but I did say...
But you did some stuff. Yeah, I did some stuff.
I was nine or something.
I mean, I don't see that there's any particular advantage to it.
So, yeah. All right.
Yeah, you may do a live stream of...
We just uploaded a show.
We've been playing some games, so we may do a livestream of that at some point.
If you're not too scared. Oh, you're open to that now?
You're open to that now?
Well, it wasn't that bad. We solved the puzzles pretty fast.
No, because I think we were talking about that just yesterday.
Yes, but I thought the puzzles might be too hard and we might have to look stuff up and I didn't want to be like, look how smart we are at Google.
Oh, yeah, yeah. Okay. Yeah, that kind of thing.
Hello. How would you rate the importance of friends your own age or similar compared to the importance of your family relationships?
Oh, friends. I'm kidding.
I'm kidding. I'm curious because most kids and teenagers, normies, value their friends way above their parents, especially when they get older.
Many teenagers seem to be especially embarrassed of their parents.
What are your thoughts on this? Can you share your personal experiences?
Yeah. So...
I think, obviously, family is most important because they're going to stick with you for the longest time, although it's different because I don't have siblings, so I'm going to outlive everyone.
But, I mean, I guess peers are good as long as they're a decent influence.
Like, I honestly think the normie kids should not have peers because peers are just bringing everyone down to the bad level of normie and democrat and stuff, right?
Yeah, yeah. But, I mean, when I say don't have peers, I mean, like, not value peers as much as they do right now.
Right. I mean, I think there's a natural alignment away to some degree from your parents towards your peers because your peers is where you find your boyfriend, your husband, it's your future.
I mean, we are always going to be part of your life as long as we're alive, but we are to some degree the past because you're going to outlive us and your peers is more to where you're...
Present and your future is going to be.
So there should be an alignment, I think.
I mean, otherwise, the people I've known who clung a little too close to their parents didn't quite launch out into the world too well.
So I would assume that.
And you definitely want, like in the past, I was usually part of friend gatherings.
But now you want to have time with your friends without us, which makes perfect sense, right?
Yes. Perfectly right. All right.
Hello, Stefan and Isabella.
My question for Isabella is, are you interested in driving?
And if so, what kind of vehicle would you like?
I want a Jeep. Giant salamander.
No, I want a Jeep.
You want a Jeep? I want like a thick car that's actually useful, not one of these like flimsy little neon nonsense.
Oh, these like low wedgy ones that look like a door wedge?
Yeah, it's like, bro, you can't transport anything.
It's tiny. It's like, forget it.
I want a nice fat Jeep.
Thick tires and like a truck bed.
I want something that can hold 57 ducks, exactly.
No, so look, I've heard from every single teenager that driving is awful.
Really? They all say driving is awful.
They all say it's terrifying, it's scary, they don't like it.
Really? Yeah, every one I've heard.
So, I don't know. I mean, I think it's not going to be a big issue.
I obviously won't like it much because like...
You just have to stay alert and assume that everyone's texting while drunk and then you're fine.
I mean, fair, but hopefully by the time in two years there'll be like self-driving cars, that'll be like 17,000 Bitcoin.
Right. So he says, I'm curious about this because it seems that younger generations are less interested in driving than the older generations.
I grew up in a major city and I was always interested in having a car.
Well, younger people don't seem to feel that way.
Well, this also applies to carbon unfriendly and things like that, right?
Yeah. Although everybody seems to be fine with the giant war that blows up everything.
Yeah. Yeah, I mean, when I was a kid, you know, getting a car was a real rite of passage and people really wanted cars.
I held off having a car for as long as possible because I was a student and I wasn't making much money and I didn't really need one.
If you live downtown, there's really not much point having a car because you've got buses and subways everywhere.
You live out in the country, obviously, you need a car.
And I biked everywhere, so.
Yeah. Yeah, so you definitely, you're interested in driving and you would like a functional mud farm jeep.
Yes, or truck or something, but I don't want, well, I'm going to paint it neon green, neon lime green, so I can find it in parking lots.
Yes, that's right. Because having like a gray or black or white car or whatever, it's just like, ah, yes, there's 7,000 other cars in this one parking lot.
I would like to get a car.
I'd like to have an option. Like, I like a moonroof or a sunroof.
I think it's cool. Yeah.
Spoilers are cool. What I want is a Geyser.
So what I want is a car.
So it's like a spume of hot water that goes spraying up.
No, I'll tell you why. Let me just sort of get comfortable.
So if it goes off every five or six minutes, right, then in the parking lot you would just look for the jet of water going to the sky and you'd find your car.
Or you could just paint your car neon green.
And oh yes, so then when the geyser comes up, it would be green.
No. Just in case other cars are the geyser thing.
Yeah, in case other cars aren't already lime green, right?
I just found out this morning that we're having a girl.
Oh, sorry. This is the listener, not me.
Yeah, for sure. I just found out this morning that we're having a girl.
She will be here in June.
Nice. The stalk will bring...
Okay. What special things did your family, specifically pops, do in your early life to make you feel treasured?
Sorry for the vague question.
My head is spinning a bit right now.
LOL. But any tips for building a strong dad-daughter connection is greatly appreciated.
To make you feel valued or loved or important or treasured.
I don't know. Usually, like, you and I would go out for a day kind of thing.
Like, I have great memories of going out to, like, creeks and rivers and streams, presuming you're not in, like, some tropical place with gators.
But, I mean, going out in places like that, just in nature and having fun, I've always enjoyed going out and not spending any money than compared to a lot of other people who are like, oh, well, we've got to go to arcade, then we're going to go to the mall, then we're going to go get a dinner, right, kind of thing.
But I prefer, I'm like, why don't we just go out into the woods, catch some frogs, have a chat, right?
Yeah, yeah. Maybe, like, my pro tip is just be more interesting than computers.
Because then your kids, like, when I was, if I was playing, I don't know, I used to like the game Dragonvale a lot.
If I was playing Dragonvale or, I don't know, Slither.io or whatever it was, right?
And you came down, I'd quit the game so we could go hang out, right?
But I know a lot of kids are like, well, computers are way more interesting than my parents, so...
What was it I said the other day?
I texted, I'm going to X, right?
I think you were playing or you were drawing on your tablet and I texted to you, I'm going and I was going out somewhere and I just ran to the door and you were like, come on!
I was halfway up the stairs.
I just responded with me too.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I mean, just, you know, how much I enjoy your company and, you know, just, you know, when you get into great conversations, time flies, it's great fun and you can just enjoy each other's company.
Yeah, and honestly, just talk to your kids about stuff and explain them.
Like, we were out for a walk a few months back.
animal or something and we were like, we pointed out to another family that was walking near us,
or a mom and a kid, right? Oh, look at the bird over there, because it was a cool bird.
And she was just like, oh, yeah, nice. And then just walked off and didn't explain anything to
her kids. So another thing you can do to get your kids built for conversation, I want to say,
is just talk to them about stuff.
Even if they don't fully understand what you're saying, they'll kind of get a sense of what the word means and what a conversation sounds like so that they're good at it.
So, yeah. And also, if you're explaining something to your child, you're saying, I care that you know something.
I'm interested about you, yeah. I care that you know something.
I mean, it's not a red flag in terms of, like, good or bad, but one thing I do look for with young people, teenagers now, is can they have a conversation?
Yeah, yeah. Can they have a conversation?
In other words, have they been raised by tablets or people?
And also, I would not get your kid a phone until she's like 13, 14.
Until she absolutely needs it.
Because I think a lot of kids get phones and just get absorbed by TikTok and Snapchat.
Oh, yeah. Do not let your kids on that stuff.
Do not let your kids on social media.
Don't do it. That stuff is just crazy toxic.
It's really driving a lot of people.
A lot of kids are kind of mental.
Oh, I was going to say something.
I can't remember anyway. What's your favorite color?
I like olive green, like a dark olive green, not like a yellowy-ish one, but if you're looking at a color wheel, kind of at the top, but a mix between the yellow and the deep green, and then make it dark.
No, it's not. Okay. But it's like a dark olive green is my favorite, but like a nice green.
That was actually our family room before we repainted it.
Anyway. No, it wasn't that color.
It was exactly that color. No, I mean like a bright olive green.
I don't mean like a gray one. I mean like a bright green one.
Steph, GPS, am I right?
Yes. Okay, sorry, I checked with AI. Okay, it's not GPS, it's GPT. And then, you've said that twice now.
Have I? Yes, you have. Sorry.
But for the longest time, it was like a bright cyan color.
Right. The way the color of the cyan character in Among Us looked about a year ago before they changed it.
So it was an Among Us character.
No, no, that's not the one.
Oh my god, I'm going to die.
I'm sorry, but I'm just back.
I'm just kidding. What are some ways to build trust?
I don't know exactly what that means.
Well, obviously, you've got to craft the trust in the crafting table with some wood that you chopped.
I'm sorry, a Minecraft reference.
Build trust? Well, just be reliable, keep your word.
Yeah, be loyal. I don't know, don't spill secrets and stuff.
I like rollerblading. I think it sucks.
Like, look, it doesn't suck.
Like, we tried it. If you want to see your insides, it's a great job.
Honestly, but I think it's, like, just biking is easier.
Yeah. Like, it's easier to store a bike.
You don't have to carry it around. And rollerblading, the issue for me is it doesn't go up high enough on the leg.
Yeah. So that, and it's not stiff enough up high on the leg.
So, like, I'll tighten it to the point where I can't feel my feet and it's still wobbly.
Like, it's like, no, I want it to be a built-in foot.
Yeah. They should put some metal pole or something up on the side of the boot, around the side.
You take your feet out, your toes are falling off from the circulation.
Pretty much, yeah. I tighten it, and it's still wobbly after a minute.
It's like, what... What websites do you use the most?
Oh, I know this. What?
Oh, I know this. Which one?
You take the quizzes on the Microsoft sites.
And you recently had a quiz about...
Ducks. So I had...
Once a day, I've been pretty bad at keeping it up lately, but I'll use Microsoft Rewards.
A friend got me into it back in September because she said, like, oh, hey, you can get free stuff.
You just have to take the quizzes and answer some stuff and look some stuff up, right?
In Microsoft Rewards, and you get points, and you can cash in the points.
And it's actually a pretty good system.
I like it. Yep. And I'm trying to save up, for a while I was going to save up like 50,000 points to get a Microsoft gift card for $50, which I would use on my, an Amazon gift card, something like that, which I would not gift, I would use it myself, but I decided not to do that because it's taking a while to gain points, so I may just go out at like 22,000 and get a $25 one.
And what else do you use?
I use YouTube on the website because I don't have the app because if I have the app then I'll go to YouTube instead of doing something productive but instead I have to open up my browser type it in because I don't save browser history so it's just like I have to type it in directly each time so it doesn't just pop up and stuff so yeah I don't think there's anything else that you really check I use the Little Nightmares website like official website it's my favorite game Little Nightmares the whole series it's a cool game if you like puzzles and horror and children then you should play it but no if you like children Because bad things happen to children on a regular basis in that game.
Okay, if you hate children, then you should play that game.
But... Let's see.
So I guess I use that website to just kind of browse around on it.
Don't tell anyone it says you have to be 16 to use it.
I'm not. All right.
I'm going to answer this one for you.
No, you aren't. Yeah, I am. What's your morning routine?
Oh, I don't know. Okay.
Hang on, sorry. I'm just, let me just, sorry, is there something you wanted to say?
Okay. Because I'm going to answer this question.
All right. So Isabella's morning routine.
So sometime around 11, 1130.
That is not even close to accurate.
Sorry, just a moment, please. The last two days have been bad because I've had a headache and slept really badly.
Her father will knock tentatively at the door.
Okay, you barge in and body slam.
I will open the door gently and I will try and dodge the irritable crown of Her Princess Majesty floating above her bed on her saffron gown of aristocracy where she says, what peasant is trying to get me up before noon?
Flog them! Flog them in the courtyard, I say!
I will have you know that for the whole month of February, excluding the last two days, I got up 9.30 and came down at 10.00.
Well, I have no way of knowing that.
Yeah, I wonder.
So, morning routine? I mean, you enjoy...
Dude, I hate routines. Routines are so dumb.
You like to stay in bed, you like to do some reading, you like to do some...
I don't do reading. But no.
I draw. You draw, yeah, for sure.
And you will have to read the Microsoft questions.
No, I do that at night. Okay, all right.
No, you don't really have much of a routine.
No, okay, I wake up.
Sometimes I will, like when I shower, sometimes I'll put my hair into braids so that when I wake up and undo the braids, my hair is poofy, but it's really uncomfortable to sleep with braids in your hair, especially wet ones.
So I rarely do it, but if I have that, I guess brush out.
Well, I brush my hair, brush my teeth.
Go downstairs. Well, change, I guess, and go downstairs.
That's literally my whole routine. I don't do much.
And you're like, Father, I would very much like to get my math homework done first thing so it doesn't hang over me for later.
No. Why would any reasonable person do that?
What kind of workouts do you do?
I play at the park and stuff when it's summer.
Yeah. I'll, uh...
Pickleball sometimes. I don't know.
I don't do, like, an actual set workout routine.
I didn't either at 14, by the way.
But I just, I don't know. Like, I'm fit.
Yeah. So, I mean, yeah.
And we'll walk when we can.
Yeah. Are there any places you want to visit one day?
Not really. I like Poland, but we've already been there.
Are you currently investing your money?
That's a little personal. Let's skip that one.
Fair. What do you wish your parents have done differently throughout your childhood?
Made it last longer? I don't know.
No, no. You're going to go out into the cold world soon enough, baby.
Yay. I don't think there's much less math homework, of course, because it's useless.
I think when I was working pretty hard, when Mike was around, and I was working, I had a couple of interviews.
I would have a couple of interviews a week.
I'd have to read a couple of books a week.
And it was like, yeah, I think maybe it was a bit too much work.
But, you know, it seemed important at the time.
And I think it was in some ways. Yeah, it was.
So, okay, so nothing you wish that we had done differently throughout your childhood?
Not that I can think of. If you ask my, like, nine-year-old self, I'd probably have, like, an entire book full of reasons, but, I mean, now it's...
Yeah, you found that book and burned it, by the way.
Oh, okay, I'm not surprised.
I couldn't... I wonder where it went. But, I don't know, yeah, I don't think so.
So, somebody's 12-year-old daughter is asking, is there a sport you'd like to play or one you'd like to try?
Everyone says football's good.
I like skating and skiing and stuff, but I already do that.
I could just tackle you randomly.
I mean, you already do.
Yeah, fair, fair. I tell you a sport that I would try.
Maybe we can try it this summer. Here's a sport that I would try.
I would try actual rock climbing.
I wouldn't. Not in the gym.
No. No, but if you woke up halfway up, like, you'd have to try.
Then I'd just fall. No, no, but we would, like, tie it off and all that, right?
I wouldn't want to. I think rock climbing's honestly dumb.
I'm sorry. We liked it in the gym, right?
Yeah, not, like, hugely.
I mean, I took rock climbing lessons in the gym and it sucked.
I mean, like, I like racing to the top and my favorite part about it is climbing to the top and then just, like, floating down.
It's so fun. Anything like, um, so sorry, you were going to say?
I would not like to do on a mountain.
I'm not even that scared of heights.
It just seems like it'd be a waste of time and money for me.
What about water skiing?
No. Flight suiting.
Yes. Yeah, flight suiting would be cool, right?
Flight suiting would be fun.
Hand gliding? I would prefer that.
Anything that's like flying. I wouldn't want to do plane jumping or whatever it is.
Parachuting. Parachuting.
I'd do that again. I know.
I mean, it just for me seems like...
There's always that tiny chance the parachutes won't work and I have too much to live for.
Let me tell you about what could happen when you drive.
Well, I know, but I mean...
Driving is a bit more necessary.
Yeah, driving is necessary.
So anything else you wanted to add about that?
No. Okay. So his daughter is also asking, what is your favorite meal?
Was my favorite meal?
I know there's more to that.
Yeah, but do the after. A sandwich I make.
It's a very simple sandwich.
So it's like keto bread, but most keto bread sucks.
It's a good one. You can get it in a red package.
Keto bread, avocado slices sometimes.
We don't always have avocados.
Tomato slices, they're my favorite vegetable aside from spinach.
I love spinach. Spinach, but I cut off the stem because it goes on better.
Sunflower seeds. Olive oil, but not the kind for, like, roasting.
It's the kind for, like, using.
Salads. And salt.
They're really good. They're really good.
They're better when I eat them, though, because you don't like them as much, so that's just how it works.
Right. Don't question me.
Is there a meal you want to learn to cook yourself?
No, I'm content with my sandwiches.
I was, like, eating pizza.
We got pizza last night, and I was eating it, and my sandwich is tastier.
Wow. First, Izzy's solo show rant when?
He's wanted me to do this, but if I ever do a show or start up my own thing, it's not going to be on his channel.
It's going to be my own separate thing, and my parents most likely won't know about it.
I'm kidding. I'm kidding.
I'm kidding. But probably not any.
I'm not good at making conversation to myself.
Yeah, you bounce off, but it's not something that you have to start up, right?
That's a lot to ask from 14, too.
Somebody says, I think I remember Steph telling a story where he'd asked you something along the lines of how much of your personality was your mom and how much was him and you would answer about 50-50.
What is your current estimate?
Is it still 50-50 or does it even make sense to look at it like that anymore?
No. No to what part?
Yes. Okay. Perfect.
I think it's like...
I don't know. I think I'm a lot closer to you than I am to mom, in terms of personality-wise.
But I'd say I'm a lot more myself.
I think I'm a lot more even-tempered than both of you, and that's a lot to say because you're both pretty even-tempered.
I'd say, in some ways, I'm a little more independent.
I guess it's harder to make a comparison to because you're an adult and I'm a kid.
I don't know. Yeah, I think I'm pretty different from both.
I'd say like 10% each nowadays.
Yeah, I mean, certainly the goal is you're going to have a pretty strong imprinting of parental personalities when you're young.
And then, of course, the goal is to have you become more of who you are, right?
Think for yourself and all of that.
So I think that it was probably when you were younger, you felt a little bit more like a blend.
And now you feel 80% you, 10% me and mom, which I think is probably just about right.
Yeah. All right, so we're going to go play a little bit of Little Nightmares.
Yes, and that will be published.
I don't know if it's just to donors or what's going on there.
No, but I haven't put it out in the mainstream, but I put it out for people who are on my various platforms.
Fair. Okay, so become, like, I don't know, donor and stuff.
Freedomain.locals.com.
That's the place to go. Thanks, Izzy, so much.
Thanks, everyone, for the great questions.
They were good questions. Very good, right?
Yes. Okay, we'll talk to you soon.
Ask them what my favorite color is in a week.
It'll probably be different. Olive green.
All right. All right. Bye, everyone.
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