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	All right, well, here we go.
	I got a little bit of time this afternoon.
	This afternoon being the 17th of July 2023.
	It's just after four o'clock in the afternoon.
	And sorry, that was a drill to the ears.
	No noise, my apologies.
	And I have topics.
	I don't know if you've been following.
	That's an interesting debate that's been going on.
	On social media about women's expectations of monogamy from the top 10 or 15% of men.
	And their absolute horror.
	Okay, hit me with a why if you've ever been cheated on.
	Have you ever been cheated on by a girlfriend or a boyfriend?
	Yeah, okay.
	So I mean, it's not super uncommon these days.
	Yeah, I mean, I think one girl floated, one girl I was dating floated with another guy, but I've never been cheated on with regards to sexual matters.
	But cheating is interesting.
	It's an interesting question, interesting phenomenon.
	So it used to be pretty common that very sort of very high value men, I'm sort of thinking about you know elite politicians and military generals and so on, that elite men would have a wife and a girlfriend.
	Now the wife would be the mother of her children and the girlfriend would be who he went to for sexual activity.
	Particularly when his wife got older.
	I went through menopause and so on, right?
	So there was this general reality.
	And it's funny because, of course, in America, if you have an affair as a politician, or at least it used to be the case, that you would end up, your political career would be destroyed.
	On the other hand, in places like France, I think François Mitterrand, French president, premier, he had a woman on the side and I think everybody kind of knew about it and all of that.
	And
	That was a generally accepted thing.
	Now what happens is, let me ask you this.
	If a woman wants a very high value man
	What does she do to keep him monogamous?
	What does she do to keep him monogamous?
	So a high-value man will just have offers coming in, like women will flirt with him, women will send him nudes, women will give him their
	Hotel keys or cards when he's away on business?
	Appreciate him?
	No.
	I mean, yes, of course, but yeah.
	Drain him before he leaves the house.
	So a woman who wants a high value man in general, what she will do is make sure that he is very sexually satisfied, pretty much for the most part.
	I mean, that's right.
	I mean, isn't that, like, if your wife really wants romance, then it's important to keep the marriage, then you romance your wife, right?
	I mean, that's perfectly natural, perfectly healthy.
	If your wife likes being taken to Thai food, you take her to Thai food.
	If she wants long and involved conversations about
	Social things you give her along and involve.
	Like you serve what your partner needs, right?
	Like 80% of the household industry is about what women want, right?
	80% of domestic spending is controlled by women.
	So if you marry a high-value man,
	Then you stay attractive, you stay youthful, you stay athletic, and you're fantastic in bed.
	And, you know, he's going to be monogamous, right?
	For the most part.
	Now, of course, it's a lot of work for a woman to do all of that, right?
	So what do some wealthy wives choose to do?
	Instead of going to the gym for eight hours a week, instead of, I don't know, learning the Kama Sutra by heart, whatever it is, what do some wealthy
	Women, wealthy wives, what do they choose to do?
	Look the other way?
	Threaten divorce?
	Plastic surgery?
	Well, they... I mean, do you think all wealthy wives clean their own house?
	No, they outsource it, right?
	They outsource the cleaning of their house and oftentimes they will outsource the sexual satisfaction of their husband.
	I'm not talking about the morals of it.
	Of course, you know, you
	You have a vow and monogamy and all of that.
	But it's interesting because the main threat of an affair in a marriage is the breakup of the marriage.
	But if the woman accepts that the man has a higher sexual drive, particularly when it gets into his 40s and his 50s, because the woman's going through menopause and changes and the man is, you know, basically complete bricks from the age of 20 till about 75 when they fall apart, right?
	So she may very well, and if she says, look, you go get your sexual satisfaction elsewhere.
	I'll run the household and I'll be a good grandmother and I just can't be bothered with all of that stuff.
	So you go get your sexual satisfaction out, but you can't leave the family.
	Like you can't, you can't get somebody else pregnant and you can't leave the family.
	Now again, outside the ethics and all of that, we're just talking sort of biological evolutionary standpoint.
	Is it better for the family?
	If the man has an affair, but the family stays together, or if the man has an affair and the family breaks up.
	Again, assuming that he doesn't leave the woman, his wife, and he also doesn't get another woman pregnant.
	Right now, I find this area, I hope that you guys find it interesting, I find this absolutely rivetingly, grippingly fascinating.
	Which is the economics and choice options and trade-offs in a marriage, right?
	Now, if a woman doesn't want to clean her own house, she hires a maid.
	And the maid is, in a sense, performing wifely duties.
	Homemaking duties.
	Don't mistresses get pregnant?
	Well, but that's the deal, right?
	The deal is, don't get her pregnant.
	You can go have your affairs, use protection, don't get her pregnant.
	Don't leave the family, and don't get her pregnant.
	That's usually the deal.
	At least that used to be the deal in fairly elite marriages.
	For some women.
	Again, not all women, but some women.
	So I find it fascinating.
	Now, if a woman decides to outsource the cleaning of her house to a maid or whoever, that's all considered fine, right?
	If a woman decides to outsource the raising of her children, to a large degree, to nannies, to au pairs, or to daycare and so on,
	Is that considered, hit me with a why, if in general in society it's considered fine for a woman to outsource her parenting duties?
	Right, right, right.
	So she can outsource her cleaning, she can hire an accountant to outsource running the household, she can hire a financial advisor and outsource running the household finances, she can outsource any number, she can outsource her parenting.
	So, because in general, you know, wifely duties throughout history, what do they consist of?
	Raising the children, running the household, budgeting, running the finances as a whole, social engagements and so on.
	And so women have, in the modern age in particular, it's always happened to some degree or another, but in the modern age in particular, wealthy wives, generally middle class and upper, but definitely upper middle class and upper class wives, have outsourced spousal duties to outsiders.
	And so let me ask you this.
	Is it better morally for a man to have an affair, assuming again, all of these affairs, assuming he doesn't totally fall in love, he doesn't get the girl pregnant, he doesn't leave the family, right?
	Is it worse for a man to have an affair or is it worse for a mother to have strangers raise her babies?
	It's worse for strangers.
	Yeah, it's worse.
	So it's funny because for a husband to have an affair is considered the worst thing and it will break up the marriage and it's the most terrible thing and there's all this awful stuff.
	And so... But for women to have strangers raise their children, which is completely disastrous, that's fine, right?
	A woman can outsource everything except sexual activity to outsiders.
	It's really interesting.
	Now, there's an interesting kind of anti-intelligence in all of this kind of stuff, right?
	So when you get married, you are promising to maintain the romantic and sexual life, and to some degree, of course, intellectual life and conversational life, but you are now deploying a monopoly mode around your partner.
	Only me, only me.
	Now with monopoly,
	Comes responsibility, right?
	With monopoly comes responsibility.
	Again, to use a hackneyed example of mine, I'm not responsible for feeding a free man in New Delhi, but I am responsible for feeding someone I lock in my basement, right?
	Because monopoly is responsibility.
	Monopoly is responsibility.
	And so if a woman wants a wealthy man, a wealthy man is going to have women throw themselves at him.
	And so she takes on that.
	She has to work harder often in the bedroom, in the same way that a wealthy man generally has to work harder in the boardroom, right?
	He's wealthy because he works harder in the boardroom, and one of the things she has to do is work harder in the bedroom in order to compete with all the women throwing themselves at her high-value men.
	Hit me with a why if this makes sense.
	I'm not saying if you agree with everything, but you sort of follow the logic of the argument.
	Somebody says, what if the stranger is a better mom than the bio mom?
	Right.
	Right.
	Now, this is feminine thinking.
	All right?
	This is feminine thinking, and I'm very glad that you're here to get some slightly less feminine thinking from me.
	So, what if the stranger is a better mom than the bio mom?
	Why is that feminine thinking?
	Why is that feminine thinking?
	I'm just going to give you guys a moment.
	Why is that feminine thinking?
	Yeah, it's passive.
	It's asking about exceptions.
	It's passive.
	Now why is it passive?
	It's passive because what if the stranger is a better mom than the biological mom?
	It's passive because you have
	You have given up the responsibility to be a better mom.
	You say, well, I am this fixed thing called a bad mom.
	The stranger is this fixed thing called a better mom, right?
	Of course, the stranger cannot be a better mom than the biological mom, because the biological mom is the mom, right?
	It's like saying, I wonder if a stranger can be a better husband to my wife.
	It's like, well, no, if he's a stranger, by definition, he's not the husband.
	So it's passive because you're saying, take these two fixed things.
	Right.
	For men, it's like saying, like, okay, when you were, when you were a kid, right?
	When you were a kid.
	As a man, this is just for the boys, right?
	Just for the boys.
	When you were a kid as a boy, and you weren't picked
	For a sports team, and you wanted to play that sport, what did you do?
	Guaranteed.
	What did you do?
	You wanted to play baseball, you wanted to play soccer, or cricket, or rugby, or whatever.
	You wanted to play whatever.
	And you weren't picked, or you were picked last, or whatever.
	What did you do as a boy?
	Yeah, you practiced, you got better at it.
	Yes.
	Well, everyone's always picked at some point, but you want to be picked sooner, right?
	Right.
	So as a boy, you say, look, if I'm not good at something, it's my responsibility to get better at it.
	Right?
	I mean, I don't know if this is something that's innate to boys.
	I don't know if it is something that we're taught.
	I don't have any idea.
	So, what if a stranger is a better mom than the bio mom?
	Which is like saying, well, what if the kid next to me is better at baseball than I am?
	Well, the answer is get better at baseball.
	But you're taking these two fixed objects.
	You know, like if you've got to get to your eavesdrops, you don't bring the short ladder.
	You've got a short ladder, you've got a tall ladder.
	These two things are fixed and they do not change, right?
	So if you've got to get up higher, you get, but so the two ladders, you're saying that human beings, that human beings are these fixed things.
	Well, you've got a stranger who's a better mom than the bio mom.
	And that's saying that the skills of the bio mom is a fixed thing.
	So, I mean, let me ask you this, this is for the boys and the girls, my friends.
	If you know that in nine months you have to fly a plane, what do you do?
	If you know nine months, you've got to fly a plane.
	Not a jumbo jet, could be a Cessna, could be anything, right?
	In nine months, you have to fly a plane.
	Yeah, you make a plan, you do a flight simulator, you train with experts.
	One month study, eight and a half months practice.
	Yeah, my wife actually got me flying lessons recently.
	So I'm gonna give that a try.
	I should probably livestream that too.
	So, so you can't, like, if you're a bad mom,
	Well, you have, okay, let's say you don't find out you're pregnant for two months, you have seven months to figure it out.
	Let's say three months, you've got six months to figure it out.
	You can learn a lot in six months, right?
	So even if you had six months, you know, you had to fly a plane in six months and you can, you learn about it, right?
	So what you're doing, the reason that's feminine, it's totally passive.
	You're saying, well, people are just the way they are and they can't change and they can't improve and there's no planning and there's no this and there's no that, right?
	So here's the funny thing.
	I'm not trying to provoke any negativity towards anyone because I'm all about the love.
	That having been said, which is another way of saying but, so that having been said, let me ask you this.
	Hit me, just wait till I finish the question.
	Hit me with a why.
	If you ever had a mom who didn't really know how to parent, but if you didn't bring a jacket when it was cold out, you were an idiot.
	Wasn't really a very good parent.
	Didn't seem to really know what she was doing.
	But boy, if you didn't bring a jacket when it was cold out, it was on you, man.
	You were just foolish.
	You should have listened to her, right?
	Okay, so about 50-50.
	Yeah, about 50-50.
	Now, it could be a jacket.
	It could be something else.
	Okay, let me ask you this.
	This is probably a bit more relevant.
	Alright.
	So, hit me with a cue.
	Let's do a cue here so I get from the other ones, right?
	Hit me with a cue.
	Let me finish the question.
	Hit me with a cue.
	If you had a mom who was not very good at parenting, but if you came to her with a project you had to get done at school, that she had to get some cardboard or some glue or something, like and it was late, oh this is due tomorrow, or if there was a test, I got to study for my test, it's due tomorrow, or I have an essay, I got to stay up all night because of the essay, it's due tomorrow, right?
	So if you had a mom who wasn't particularly good at parenting,
	I think?
	Years!
	Like, you don't usually just become a parent, right?
	You get engaged, you get married, you talk about it, you go off birth control, so you've got years, but certainly six months or more, to read up on about parenting, to learn about parenting, to figure out best parenting practices and so on.
	So, they have years to figure out how to be a good parent because you've got an exam coming up called Parenthood, which they completely fail a lot of times, but they'll get mad at you if you're not prepared for a test.
	Isn't that wild?
	This is the amazing thing.
	It still literally, because I'm working on the Peaceful Parenting book, literally blows my mind.
	It literally blows my mind.
	Because if the mom was like, yeah, I didn't learn anything about parenting and it's totally fine if you flunk your tests, because you know, none of that stuff matters, it's important to just fly through life with a seat of your pants, never make a plan for anything and so on, right?
	But it's just wild to me that parents are like,
	You should have studied for that test.
	You knew you had time.
	You had weeks to write that essay.
	You should have.
	How come you didn't tell me about your project on the weekend when we were already at the mall?
	Well, why didn't you learn about parenting?
	That's different.
	Which more important?
	Some school project that comes and goes?
	Some stupid test?
	Or the actual raising of a real-life human being?
	Wild.
	Just wild.
	All right.
	Good news from the peaceful parenting researcher.
	All right.
	Thank you for your tips.
	I am thrilled to get them.
	And I will get to the people who gave me the tips and get to their questions.
	Except for the guy who gave me a dollar.
	Don't start off the show by being annoying.
	I'm begging you.
	All right.
	Somebody says, I was thinking about reincarnation.
	Maybe you were thinking again about reincarnation, but this time in a non-crab language.
	I was thinking about reincarnation.
	Is it possible that it means that experience is infinite, but the self is not?
	For example, you did not perceive the vast amount of time that went on before you were born.
	You are here now as a human individual.
	You will then die, and no matter how much unperceived time that goes by, just like before being born, you will again start an experience with, but with, with what?
	But with...
	I feel there should be more.
	But with.
	Lawyers in love.
	Alright.
	But with.
	Ah, so, no memories because memories are a tool that dies with the brain.
	Experience seems inevitable because it's happened once that we're aware of, so it's just a matter of time.
	It's just a matter of time!
	I hope that made some sense.
	I'm trying to use my brain.
	I could while away the hours conferring with the flowers, consulting with the rain.
	All right, so here's an easy one.
	I'll get to that one in a sec.
	Hey, Seth, been listening to a good number of your call-in shows lately and noticed a lot of the guys who call in are from Eastern Europe.
	Why do you think that is?
	A combination of bad parenting and anti-communism.
	So that's right.
	Hit me with a why if you would like to know why people believe in reincarnation, the truth that is in reincarnation.
	Hit me with a why if you would like
	To know why people believe in reincarnation.
	Right.
	I want you to think of a whale on the surface of the ocean with a seagull by the blowhole.
	I want you to think of a whale on the surface of the ocean with a seagull by the blowhole.
	Now.
	Your conscious mind is the seagull.
	Your body is the whale.
	Your conscious mind has a sense that you've lived before.
	It's all been done before.
	You've lived before.
	You have ancient wisdom.
	You have ancient knowledge.
	You are reincarnating to learn better.
	And you reincarnate until you reach perfection.
	You live again.
	And again, and again, and you hopefully improve each time.
	Now, you understand, that is the exact experience of your genes, if genes could have experiences.
	What do genes do?
	They live, they strive, they try.
	And if they succeed, they get born again.
	You follow?
	Your genes cope, strive, eat, fight, have sex, try to reproduce, try to raise kids, try to raise offspring for three billion years plus.
	If they succeed, they get to move on to the next generation.
	So all of us are the result of genes that won.
	Do you understand?
	Like, you are a giant metal of the universe.
	I hope you get that.
	Like, you might feel like a loser, you might feel like a failure, but you understand you are composed of everyone and everything and every scrap of DNA and every piece of genetic code that won for three fucking billion years straight.
	You are the ultimate gold of the ultimate history.
	You are where victors come to live, not where genes go to die.
	This is what bothers me so much about the people who won't have kids.
	You have the greatest, winningest genetics in the history of the universe, because the genes that started three billion plus years ago have all made it to you.
	And how did they make it?
	By reproducing.
	By succeeding.
	You think of the
	Millions and millions of generations all the way back to whatever, single-celled organisms and trilobites and shit like that.
	You think of the millions and millions of generations that had to win against incredible odds in order to produce you.
	So you don't have the right to feel like a loser.
	You're born the Rothschilds of the genetic lottery.
	And then people wake up and, oh, I'm down on myself, man.
	Oh, man, I'm just nothing.
	I'm a waste.
	I'm a waste of my life.
	I'm a loser.
	I'm a loser, baby.
	So why don't you kill me?
	Right?
	And yet, you are a glittering disco ball of unbelievably improbable success.
	I mean, look, if you had money, you were some cosmic dice dealer who lived forever, and you put money on genes three billion years ago and said, shit, this stuff's gonna still be around in three billion years.
	What are the odds?
	What are the odds that any particular gene set, yeah, scientists estimate the probability of you being born is one in four hundred trillion.
	How much money would you put on any particular gene set making it through
	Three billion years.
	I know I'm simplifying.
	Fuck.
	Give me a break.
	What odds would you put on any particular gene set getting through three billion years?
	Well, it's as close to zero as zero could be.
	It's 0.0 infinity back up one throw in a digit.
	You are an inverted pyramid to infinity concentration of ultimate winning.
	No genes survive in their original form due to point mutations.
	Right.
	See, this is feminine thinking.
	I'm gonna find an example.
	I'm gonna throw some shit in the soup.
	You know, I'm gonna throw some logs under the wheels.
	I'm gonna interrupt and stop to make myself look clever.
	It's an analogy!
	Oh, nitpickers.
	Oh, nitpickers.
	Stick to engineering.
	Not to morality, not to philosophy, and certainly not to inspiring any fucking biped in the known universe.
	Yes, but... but technically, actually... You are an engineer.
	I get that.
	Resist the impulse.
	When I'm on a glorious analogy that is there to inspire the audience,
	Take the win.
	Take the win.
	That's all I'm talking about.
	Take the win.
	You won.
	You won.
	Celebrate it.
	Glorify it.
	Just don't do that shit, man.
	Listen, if you're building a bridge, nitpick all the way.
	Absolutely.
	Building a computer, you're doing some quantum shit, nitpick all the way.
	I'm there, man.
	You're running an x-ray machine, yes, don't flood people with enough radiation to turn them into Spider-Man.
	I get that.
	Right, so I don't come to your engineering meetings and windbag about philosophy, do I?
	Because that would be really rude, you understand?
	It would be really rude for me to come in and say, well, you know, philosophy is very interesting, the way that it approaches the free market and the way that it approaches the distribution of goods and, you know, the economics and you're like, dude, we're trying to build a bridge here.
	Maybe shut up for a moment, just a bit, you know, just find your capacity to not talk because we're talking in engineering, right?
	You understand?
	So I don't come and windbag in big abstract issues when you're dealing with very technical details that are absolutely essential.
	I mean, if you're trying to figure out some genetics, right, and you're having a complicated discussion at a round table with a bunch of geneticists,
	And I kick the door in and I'm like, well, you know, what are the odds of us all being here after three billion years of genetics and we're a triumph and we're an inverted pyramid of ultimate winning?
	And you'd be like, dude, great, fucking interesting, but you know, please shut up because we're trying to solve this very technical problem about genetics, right?
	You understand you'd be pretty fucking irritated.
	If I came in and scattered all of the dove birds of your thought with blinding iridescent eloquence when you're trying to solve something technical.
	So when I'm doing philosophy, don't come in with this stupid nitpicking.
	That's all I'm saying.
	That's all I'm saying.
	I wouldn't do it to you.
	Please don't do it to me.
	Because it's all just about, it's your, it's all your discomfort, right?
	It's all your discomfort.
	Well, technically, like, no, no, fuck technically.
	How about you just live a little?
	How about you just go on the wings of an analogy and let yourself be seeped deep with the glorious wine of existence?
	How about that?
	There's plenty of wonderful times for nitpicking.
	Absolutely great times for nitpicking.
	When I am putting in the number of bytes into the feed of the podcast I produced, I have to get those numbers right.
	Right?
	That's totally fine.
	So know the appropriate time for your communication.
	And the reason I'm saying this is that I bet you somebody's passionate about a topic in your environment and you kill them with nitpicking.
	Oh, God forbid you're a parent, right?
	And your kid's really enthusiastic about something.
	Well, technically, and it's like, can we just let people spread their wings and fly?
	That's all.
	And this is not to denigrate nitpicking.
	And I'm not one of these like artificial divide guys.
	It's not to denigrate nitpicking at all.
	Nitpicking is fantastic.
	Nitpicking is why this show runs, right?
	I want the people who make the computer and the camera and the microphones and the internet and the amp nitpick.
	Absolutely.
	But the reason is that I'm concerned that you're nitpicking your own joy and flights of fancy as well.
	Could be wrong.
	Could be wrong.
	But maybe relax on the nitpicking and let yourself fly a little.
	It's like that old thing about the bees.
	Bees technically shouldn't be able to fly, but they do.
	Technically you can fly.
	So what I'm trying to say is that you are the ultimate amalgam of victory.
	So the idea that we've lived before, well of course we have.
	Because we can't be first generation most complex, right?
	That which is most complex takes the longest to grow, which is why the human brain is the latest thing, the last thing that we know of, right, so far.
	So, oh, I have a feeling I've been here before and there's been conditions and instruction and I've got to be excellent in order to get to the next phase and so on, right?
	You know, if you have
	Even features.
	That's because your ancestors were able to attract attractive people.
	Do you know the fundamental reason why we find even features attractive?
	Why high cheekbones, big jaws, both in men and women in general?
	Do you know why the biology or the drive, the evolutionary drive behind attractive features?
	They've actually done a study.
	It was just actually released today, I think.
	They've done a study where they had people rated in physical attractiveness, people rated in physical attractiveness, and then they followed them up ten years later to find out how healthy they were.
	Hit me with a why if you think the attractive people were more healthy.
	And not by a little bit, but fairly healthy.
	Yeah, of course.
	We're not attracted to tits or ass or beauty or features or face.
	We're attracted to good genes.
	We're attracted to beauty.
	Now, all of those people who were born with some particular kink for weird faces or they had some smallpox fetish or something like that, how did they do from a reproductive success standpoint?
	They did very badly.
	So this idea that we are, you know, we've lived before and the goal is to improve, of course the goal is to improve.
	Of course the goal is to improve.
	I don't know how many people here are sensitive and I don't mean that in any kind of negative way.
	But hit me with an N if you would like me to stay non-cussy.
	I can accommodate.
	Hit me with an N if you'd like me to stay non-cussy.
	Now, you all gotta listen to instructions.
	I didn't ask for yes!
	Alright, so we've had only one no.
	So, sorry for the one person with the no.
	The best thing you can do for the world is find and fuck the smartest person you know.
	I mean, settle down and write
	Find and fuck the smartest person you know.
	And that's really been our whole evolution, right?
	The most attractive, whatever, right?
	But that's you, Steph?
	Well, sorry, I guess it'll have to be the second smartest person you know.
	Because that's what it's all been about through our evolution, through our history.
	People just have to find the most successful.
	Because intelligence and attractiveness are related.
	Intelligence and slenderness are related.
	Intelligence and even features are related.
	So you just find the hardest person you know.
	And make some babies.
	This is all the way back to my very first novel, Revolutions.
	You can find that at freedomainnft.com, freedomainnft.com, my novel, Revolutions.
	Is it ideology or family that makes the world better?
	And this was a revolutionary, Sergei Nakhayev, actually a real historical character, and he was tempted with violent revolution.
	And he has to face the choice between settling down with the family or being a violent revolutionary.
	Great book if you have not read it.
	Thank you.
	I appreciate that.
	Thank you, Mr. J. So reincarnation is believable because it's almost an exact and metaphorical description of the fact that the lives of our ancestors all the way back to pre-human, the lives of our ancestors all the way back to the primordial soup, the lives of our ancestors are a continual life of struggle, knowledge, growth, and repetition.
	We have eyes because light-sensitive cells in the past developed into them.
	It's a little bit of learning, a little bit of progression, a little bit of understanding, a little bit of an expansion of intelligence, of capacity.
	Every single generation.
	That's what's culminated in us.
	So this idea that there's this law of eternal return, we've been here before, we've learned, there's a learning process.
	Isn't that not completely believable?
	As an analogy?
	In a pre-scientific way?
	Now of course then it hardens into ridiculous mystical dogma.
	Right?
	And then when you point these sort of basic facts out.
	So we have an instinct for these kinds of things.
	We have an instinct for these kinds of things.
	And then it hardens into mystical dogma, which then prevents us from examining it scientifically.
	But the instincts are very right on.
	You did not earn this.
	This is what drives me nuts about people.
	You did not earn your intelligence.
	I did not earn my intelligence.
	Did I?
	I didn't earn it.
	I didn't sit there and, oh, I'm going to practice this, and I'm going to use this.
	No, you didn't earn your intelligence.
	Women don't earn their hotness.
	You didn't earn your sex drive.
	I mean, there's morals, I get all of that, but most of these things are not earned.
	I mean, if you have intelligence, you're responsible for doing good with it, I think.
	But all these people, they try to wrangle all these things that they didn't earn, and they turn it into a vanity project.
	Oh, it drives me crazy.
	It's satanic, in my view.
	So women, you know, they've got a nice figure, they're pretty, they're young, and guys pay them a lot of attention, and they think that this makes them valuable or better.
	That they've earned it.
	They take three billion years of evolution that have produced the greatest brains in the universe that we know of, and maybe the greatest brains that we will ever know of in the universe, maybe everything else is that just fucking bacteria and primordial soup shit and a couple of snails,
	I mean they've detected signs of life on Venus, not the tennis player, the giant gas ball of sulfuric acid.
	Do you know how I judge my use of intelligence?
	How do I judge my use of intelligence?
	How do I judge my value as a thinker?
	How do I know if I'm producing value as a thinker?
	Well, results, sure, but that's tips.
	Well, that's a little bit of truth of that, because, you know, brain gotta eat.
	But the engagement and donations you get?
	Not necessarily, because if I wanted engagement and donations, I wouldn't have taken the path to truth that I have.
	Trust me, pure, applied, analytical philosophy is not the biggest moneymaker in the known universe, right?
	I'd be in politics, I'd be in religion, I'd be in sophistry.
	The way that I judge... Alright.
	I need to know if you're in crash position.
	Are you in the crash position?
	Hit me with a Y if you're ready for a truth bomb.
	Won't be the same!
	Won't be the same afterwards!
	Five point belt secured.
	What is that?
	I have a quest reference.
	Alright.
	The way that I judge my use of intelligence is how smart you get!
	You follow?
	Not how smart you think I am, not how successful I am, not how many views I get, although that helps, not how many donations I get, although that's necessary.
	I judge my use of my intelligence by how smart you get.
	And that's the best coach that there is.
	I mean, if you're training to be an Olympic athlete, or you're coaching a whole, I don't know, a dozen gymnasts, and you're coaching them, how do you measure your success as a coach?
	Is it by your pay?
	No.
	Is it by your prestige?
	No.
	Is it by the number of interviews you get?
	No.
	How do you judge your quality as a coach if you're training a dozen athletes?
	By the gold medals of the athletes.
	How good the athletes are.
	You follow?
	I judge my contributions and the use to which I put my intelligence by how well you do.
	Not me.
	Not me.
	People say, like, they parrot me or repeat me a little bit.
	Look, that's fine.
	Listen.
	Imitation is the origin of creativity.
	Imitation is the origin of creativity.
	Nobody who learns an instrument starts by playing their own songs, right?
	What do you do?
	You play cover songs, you learn Yesterday, you learn All Dead by Queen on the guitar, you learn Chopsticks, you learn other... So of course you copy other people.
	I did too for many years, right?
	You copy other people and then you become original yourself.
	If you're copying me, that's fine.
	I copied other people and then you become original yourself.
	So, a woman's beauty, a woman's physical beauty should be judged by what?
	How much money it makes her on OnlyFans?
	Of course not.
	How many boyfriends she gets?
	How many dates she goes on?
	How much attention she gets?
	How many social media likes she gets?
	What is a woman's beauty judged on?
	Boom.
	You got it, baby.
	You got it, baby.
	Number of well-raised babies.
	Yeah, that's how you judge the beauty.
	Now, if a woman makes the beauty for her, her vanity, her income, her money, she is perverting what it's for.
	She's corrupting what it's for.
	If I made my intelligence about manipulating people and talking the good talk and getting attention and being seen as super smart,
	I would be corrupting what my intelligence is for.
	My intelligence is to serve you.
	To serve the truth.
	To make the world a better place.
	That's what it's for.
	And nothing else.
	It's not for my vanity.
	It's not for myself.
	It's because I didn't earn it.
	Come on.
	Hit me with a why if you've ever known someone inordinately proud of an accidental feature.
	Oh, he's got great hair.
	Oh, he happens to be super tall.
	Oh, super good looking.
	Oh, what?
	Bleh!
	It's repulsive!
	It's demonic!
	It must be fought!
	And we all... Oh, look, I'm... I've got a big jaw and I have blue eyes.
	Oh, what?
	Somebody happens to be born with a great singing voice.
	Oh, look, I can sing!
	Accident.
	Complete accident.
	Didn't earn it.
	Yeah, people destroying themselves for not having these traits.
	That's right.
	That's right, the accidental scatter shot of quality in the world leads to massive giant pits of despair because I'm not tall enough!
	I'm bald.
	My teeth are crooked.
	I have nine nipples.
	Well, that's more personal.
	But you know, I mean, sure, there's other things, right?
	I have to wear glasses.
	What is a man's ability to be judged by?
	What are man's abilities to be judged by?
	Men's, not man's as a generic, but men's as a sex.
	What are man's abilities to be judged by?
	No, the smart, well-adjusted kids?
	That's more the woman's responsibility.
	How much she moves society forward?
	That's, yeah, that's close.
	That's very close.
	The positive impacts on culture, quality of women and job, who his wife is, his fruits.
	A man's quality is to be judged by the improvements he makes to his environment.
	This is back to my friends the engineers, right?
	A woman's quality is measured by the number of wonderful kids she produces.
	A man's quality is judged by the improvements he makes to his environment.
	Which is why, what did men do the moment there was a free market?
	What did men do with society the moment they were free?
	To produce, exchange, accumulate, and trade.
	What did men do?
	They built the shit out of everything!
	I can't see a ragged edge, I gotta make it straight.
	I can't see, I can't go to water, to the well, I gotta bring it into the house.
	I can't go shit in the woods, I gotta shit in the house.
	I need electricity, I need air conditioning.
	The moment men were free to express their masculinity, what did they do?
	They made their environment better for everyone.
	I want some smooth fucking roads.
	We industrialized the world.
	Made life easier for everyone.
	That's what we do.
	Because that facilitates success and survival.
	Women keep babies and toddlers safe, and men make sure they don't die of cholera from the water supply when they get older.
	Hit me with a why if you feel this.
	Does it make sense to you?
	Build, build, build!
	Secure!
	Safe!
	This is what I'm trying to do.
	I'm trying to build an edifice of morality that makes the world safe, finally, from the endless fucking predators who run things.
	We don't get it this round, but we'll get it next round.
	You build.
	You build.
	What do boys do when they get to the beach?
	What do they do?
	You build.
	You dig and you build, right?
	I mean, okay, you run around in the water a little bit, sure.
	But you build and you dig.
	That's our instinct.
	It's what we do.
	Make things better.
	Build and dig.
	There's an incredible video of the Amish putting up a giant, hugely, like the size of half a mall, a barn in one day.
	It's incredible.
	Dig and build, baby!
	Dig and build!
	Why do you think more boys play Minecraft?
	The children literally yearn for the mines.
	Yeah, you dig and build.
	Dig and build.
	Hit me with a Y if you went through a significant Lego phase.
	I did.
	Yeah.
	Hit me with a Y if you ever built a treehouse.
	I certainly did.
	Hit me with a Y if you ever built a fort.
	I certainly did.
	Fort in the woods?
	Of course you did.
	Of course you did!
	You build, you explore, you dig,
	You loved SimCity?
	Yeah, that's not bad.
	How many women have metal, sorry, how many women have felt outline two boards in the garage?
	It's approximately zero.
	Right?
	You look at these traditional things, right?
	Whatever you think of them, you look at these traditional things.
	What do girls want to play with?
	What do girls want to play with?
	Yeah, babies, dolls.
	Do they want to play house?
	Do they want to beautify their environment?
	Do they want a dollhouse?
	Not the Ibsen kind, but the Victorian kind.
	Yeah.
	They want to home make, they want to beautify, they want to play with babies, right?
	Yeah.
	What do boys want to play with?
	Trucks.
	Shovels.
	Sand.
	Diggers.
	Electricity.
	Chemistry.
	Guns.
	Trains.
	Absolutely.
	I was mad for model railroads when I was a kid.
	If I, you know, had another 30 year lifespan, I'd probably build another one, but it's kind of time-consuming.
	There's that study, says Jared, where they switched the gender as toys.
	Girls were having G.I.
	Joe tea parties and boys had Barbie massages.
	Right.
	If a girl gets a doll, the doll gets a holiday.
	If a boy gets a doll, the doll gets an autopsy.
	Yeah.
	You're on that tractor right now?
	Yeah.
	How many women were working up north doing the heavy, hard construction labor?
	Although, I did work with one Japanese woman who was a real, a real go-getter.
	She was tiny, man, but she would just haul stuff around like nobody's business.
	So, you know, it does happen, right?
	I mean, there's lots of exceptions to these things, right?
	So, a man's capacity to build
	Is how you measure your success as a man, the use to which your God or nature given abilities, they're given to you absolutely.
	How do you measure the good you're doing in the world as a man?
	How much better is the environment because of your efforts?
	Right?
	When we had an ice storm, a friend of mine lived in the country.
	There was an ice storm in Canada a couple years ago.
	I go out with him with chainsaws.
	We got to cut down the trees, man, because they're hanging low.
	They're half broken.
	We got to fix this up.
	Right?
	Right, you follow, right?
	Did this all make sense to you?
	So men, women who aren't having babies can end up depressed.
	Men who aren't building shit or building imaginary shit like SimCity, which is fine.
	Look, SimCity is fine to prepare, but go do something in the world!
	Make something in the world!
	Improve your environment in the world!
	Make things safer, better!
	More secure!
	Get some tools, make something!
	I haven't talked much about Andrew Tate.
	Is that fair to say?
	This may seem like a non sequitur, but it ain't.
	I haven't talked much about Andrew Tate.
	Andrew Tate, his wealth, the source of his wealth, masculine or feminine?
	Yeah, feminine, of course.
	It's not building things.
	He's just deploying tits to rob simps.
	Elon Musk, masculine or feminine?
	Yeah.
	Masculine.
	Building stuff, right?
	Somebody says, do I build stuff or go and fuck a smart woman?
	I'm confused.
	Well, you build stuff so you have the resources to protect a smart woman.
	I mean, this is one of the things that's so brutal about what's happening in the modern world.
	And you look at Sweden that went from one of the safest countries in the world to one of the most dangerous, second most dangerous rape capital.
	Well, men can't protect their women.
	It absolutely emasculates men.
	The emasculation of men is foundational to the crushing of civilization.
	And what you do is then you say, um, the criminals must be turned loose.
	The people in the insane asylums must be turned loose and we will prosecute anyone who defends themselves.
	Japan seems emasculated.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	And Germany, of course.
	And if you can convince women to not have babies, the shadow cast by that is that men lose their ambitions to improve the world.
	Do you have... I mean, this is an open question.
	I don't mean this is good or bad, right or wrong.
	It's an open question, because the Lord knows I have my battles with these demons, too.
	Zero being let it burn, ten being work day and night to improve the world.
	Where are you in your build and fix things?
	Zero is let it burn, ten is work night and day to make the world a better place.
	And again, open-ended, curious question.
	No right or wrong answer.
	Oh, the end point of an emasculated society is slavery.
	Sure.
	Yeah, of course.
	Right.
	Oh, you're retired.
	You do woodworking.
	Well, that's something.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	And especially if you can pass along that knowledge to other people.
	See, here's the thing too.
	If a society is not a place to raise a family,
	No intelligent person wishes... How do I put this in a way that... Let me just... For once in my life, let me organize my thoughts before speaking!
	Just once, I'm begging myself!
	Stop blurping!
	Stop thinking that the finger gods of sophistry will tickle your voice and produce magical sounds of perfection.
	Just think about it first.
	Fine.
	No intelligent person wishes to risk life and reputation to sustain a society that doesn't facilitate family.
	Why would you want to?
	Why would you want to?
	It's not conducive to life.
	It's not conducive to the normal, healthy mammalian activity of the having and raising of children.
	Now, for those of us who already have kids, we're kind of in the fight, right?
	Do you know that South Korea, do you know what the replacement level is in South Korea?
	It's got to be 2.1 as you know to sustain, just sustain the population, not even grow it.
	Do you know what the fertility rate is in South Korea? 0.78.
	No, it's not 0.5.
	That would be completely crushing.
	0.78.
	If our genes reincarnate, is there a gene nirvana at the end?
	No.
	What is the end to evolution?
	What is the end to evolution?
	Okay, if you know the answer to this because you've seen it, then don't answer if you don't mind.
	But if you don't know the answer to this, let's imagine that there is a baby beaver born in captivity and left to roam a house, right?
	It's a baby beaver, born in captivity, is separated from his parents,
	Has no modeling.
	No river.
	No wood.
	No twigs.
	No examples.
	What does the baby beaver do with objects in the house?
	Never been to a river.
	Has no examples of what beavers do.
	What does the beaver do the moment it can with every object in the house?
	Well, HUD got it.
	Heads up display.
	Build a effing dam.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Build a dam.
	Never seen a dam.
	Never seen a river.
	Never seen a beaver building a dam.
	It builds a dam.
	Yeah, you can look this up on Twitter.
	You can see they filmed it for like two minutes just grabbing everything and building a dam.
	I mean, come on, you've raised animals.
	You know how much innate knowledge there is there, right?
	I mean, we have a duck now.
	Had it about a year.
	Donut.
	And Donut now used to roam around all the place.
	Now Donut just sits on her eggs all day because she's brooding.
	We have the male ducks mate with the female ducks.
	They've never seen any mating.
	Life finds a way.
	Innate knowledge.
	I mean this blank slate stuff is just completely ridiculous, right?
	So, the beaver's desire to build a dam... Look at us going from female mating strategies to beavers.
	It's almost like there's a theme.
	The bald beaver from Brazil.
	The beaver does not earn its desire to build a dam.
	It's built in.
	It's innate.
	It's innate.
	Your lust for women, your lust for attention from men if you're a woman, you just inherited that.
	You didn't earn it.
	Innate knowledge versus tabula rasa.
	There is no question that there is innate knowledge.
	Now, innate knowledge is not universal, but there is innate knowledge.
	This can be shown in countless animals.
	You raise them in complete isolation, and they, like the beaver, it just grabs everything and, oh no, maybe it watched a beaver documentary once on TV.
	There's no, I mean, I have no dog in this fight, I'm just saying that there's no question that there's innate knowledge.
	I mean, come on.
	For the boys here, let's be honest, right?
	A man to man, let's be honest.
	We got nothing to lose, right?
	Let's be honest.
	And by the way, if you find these conversations to be helpful, motivating, inspiring, useful, clarifying, tips are most enormously gratefully received.
	It really does.
	It makes me more enthusiastic and engaged.
	I really am.
	It's out of my hands.
	People respond to incentives.
	I'm not going to pretend that's not the case.
	I'm not going to pretend that's completely under my control either.
	Like, you know, in the mornings I'll check, Oh, did I get any donations overnight?
	Honestly, it has an effect on my day.
	It just does.
	I mean, so as men, don't you remember?
	It was almost like a day.
	It was almost like a day when you were younger and you were out playing baseball, like you're seven, you're eight, you're nine, you're 10 or whatever.
	When you were younger and the girls wanted to play, what did you think?
	The girls wanted to come play baseball or soccer or football.
	What did you think or feel when the girls wanted to play?
	Oh man.
	Now we've got to be careful.
	Someone's going to get hurt.
	Someone's going to get upset.
	Someone's going to have offended.
	Yeah.
	Boring.
	You got to go soft on them.
	And really these people again, you suck.
	And they're going to make us lose.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, I don't mean to tell tales out of school, but, uh, just occasionally I've been, uh, you know, if I'm down at the beach someplace with my daughter and we play some beach volleyball and then girls are like, we want to play.
	Now my daughter, she really throws herself into it.
	She, you know, she's fully engaged with all of that stuff and, but you know, the girls are just going to sit there and the ball is just going to bounce by them.
	They're going to be like, eh, some of them, not all, right?
	Right.
	Now,
	If you have a sports party and you're 8, you don't want the girls there.
	If you're having a pool party and you're 16, do you want the girls there?
	Just out of curiosity, do you want the girls there when you're 16 and you're having a pool party?
	Hell yes!
	Right.
	Yes, all of them.
	Right.
	Right.
	Right, see if they can take their over-plumped lips from around the semi-phallic whatever podcast microphones and see if they can show up at this.
	I saw, was it Rollo Tommaso?
	I was watching some video with him the other day where he was with some genuine, all plastic, like one woman had basically a strip across her boobs, like there was under boob, side boob.
	It was just like, might as well have just been three inches of duct tape over her nipples and called it an outfit.
	It's just like,
	We get it.
	We get it.
	You don't want people to notice your personality.
	We get it.
	You don't want men to think around you.
	Right.
	So there's this day where girls go from kind of annoying and negative to what you live for, right?
	Am I wrong?
	It's like, flip.
	The hormones get turned on and suddenly that which was kind of annoying and unappealing becomes your whole reason for existing.
	I mean, tell me if I... I mean, did I just go too far from one to the other?
	And that's the way it is, right?
	It's like possession, but worse.
	No, it's just, you know, third grade.
	Oh, you were young.
	I'm trying to remember.
	I, yeah, I remember.
	Um, I'd remember the summer when this changed for me.
	Ah, I remember the summer of my change.
	What was it?
	There was some Zach Galifianakis, uh, Between Two Ferns thing where he's talking to some woman.
	I can't even remember who it is.
	Was it Brie Larson?
	And he says, um,
	Something like, I've heard that you don't really like personal questions.
	So this is a two-parter.
	One, why do you think that is?
	And two, how old were you when you got your first period?
	It was one summer.
	My brother went to England, where he stayed then for years.
	My mother went to Germany for one of her recreational hypochondriac surgeries.
	And then I just stayed with some friend of mine's grandparents.
	I didn't know them.
	It was like in a condo in the middle of nowhere.
	The woman was actually quite sick.
	And it was just there all summer, had nothing to do, had no money.
	And I used to just go to the library and just read and read and read and read.
	I walked forever.
	I would photocopy pictures and then try and color them in and stuff like that.
	And then I remember just waking up one day and I'm like, GIRLS!
	GIRLS!
	And it's like, my whole life is now going to align in a particular direction towards GIRLS!
	I close my eyes, I see them everywhere I turn.
	GIRLS!
	GIRLS!
	GIRLS!
	They're everywhere!
	I don't have a brother Peter Molyneux now.
	It's just the way that it is.
	It's girls!
	Yeah, girls.
	Girls.
	You know, and I remember, I came to Canada when I was 11, and I've mentioned this before, but this girl asked me to go study with her.
	She was in, I was in grade 6, I think she was in grade 5, I can't really remember.
	She asked me to go study with her, and I'm like, no.
	I didn't know what it was in particular, but I didn't, right?
	Next thing you know, you're making mixtapes!
	You're going to the gym!
	You care about your clothing.
	Did you ever remember caring about what you wore when you were a kid?
	Do you remember?
	Do you care about that?
	Next thing you know, you know, I had no money.
	I was broke as hell, but I used to go down with friends to the Goodwill where you'd buy clothing by the pound.
	And every now and then you could find some glorious jacket or some cool sweater or just something.
	And you're just like, yes!
	Now, you don't earn any of that.
	You just wake up one day and your body's like, all right, playtime's over.
	Time to get obsessed.
	Right?
	It's the way it is.
	Just got a suit fitted this weekend.
	Hey, good for you, man.
	Thanks for the advice.
	You are absolutely welcome.
	Well, you know, of course, of course, I'm just a fashion plate over here, right?
	So, yeah.
	I remember.
	Oh, you're listening to you while at the gym is where it's at.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Oh gosh, what was I gonna say?
	Oh, I remember when I was in boarding school, we had a sister school, we were all boys, but there was a sister school somewhere in the, I don't even know where the hell it was, and there was this one girl, just super pretty, she looked like a young Grace Kelly, and all the boys, and of course, I was like six or seven, and so it wasn't anything, obviously, like it was when I was older, but just kind of, she's so pretty, like, I just remember, and I could still, like, I've got a photo in the basement of all the, I think it was 500 kids in the boarding school, and it's funny, you know, at one point, because I remember sitting to get that photo taken,
	And I was six.
	And for years afterwards, I could name every single one of those 500 boys.
	Like, I knew his name.
	I knew their names.
	And I can still.
	She was in the picture.
	Pick her out.
	Right in.
	I know exactly who she is.
	You know, like 50 years later.
	It's crazy.
	It's crazy.
	So yeah, you don't care what you wear when you're a little kid.
	You're just out there.
	And so you just wake up and you've just changed.
	That's innate knowledge.
	That's innate drive, innate desire.
	You don't earn it and the girls don't earn it.
	The girls don't earn it.
	Yearbooks cause me seething for the longest time.
	It's a funny thing, you know, whenever I think something's important in my life.
	Hit me with a why if you were very interested in the quality of your yearbook photo.
	You'd sign to those photos and then they'd come out.
	How did my hair look?
	How did my face look?
	Did I have a good smile?
	Were you obsessed with how good you looked in your yearbook photo?
	Yeah, most people.
	Yeah, right.
	That was a big thing.
	Yearbooks are out!
	Let's go check our photos!
	Right?
	There's a photo in my yearbook of me like doing some, busting some crazy dance move in I think grade 10 or 11.
	I love dancing.
	Yeah, now what does it matter?
	What does it matter?
	What does it matter?
	What does it matter?
	An overemphasis on looks for men is kind of feminine.
	We should focus on building the world, creating things.
	So yeah, something's really big.
	It's a real big deal.
	It's really important.
	Like my yearbook photo.
	How often do you think about your yearbook photo now?
	Does it matter?
	Oh, it's so important.
	Who cares?
	It doesn't matter.
	I can't do this with you right now.
	This is the first time in like 10 plus years.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Yeah, for sure.
	All right.
	Somebody says, So Steph, I remember when you told a story of getting injured when you were a child in gym and the male teacher told you to shrug it off, walk it off.
	When a female sustained a minor injury, everything stopped.
	When it comes to MGTOW and men's rights advocates, do they seem too far out of line when taking into consideration the concurrent disparity in the current treatment of men?
	Or are they just a bunch of complainers?
	So, here's how you bust up a society.
	It's real simple.
	I mean, it's tragically simple.
	Now, you need a government and you need weird political incentives and all this kind of stuff, right?
	But the way that you bust up a society, I mean obviously you have to reduce the population and you either do it in the hard way through war, you do it in the soft way through opposing family, children and so on, right?
	So what you do, it's very very simple, what you do is you
	You get men to compare the weaknesses of being a man with the strengths of being a woman.
	That creates resentment.
	And then what you do, of course you understand, you get women, big spoiler, you get a woman to compare the weaknesses of being a man
	With the strengths of being a woman.
	And that creates resentment.
	And then, when men and women are suspicious of each other, but still full of unholy drives, they have sex with each other, they break the bonds, they make divorce more likely, they don't have kids, and nobody knows how to get out of the death spiral of depopulation.
	Not one culture in the recorded history of the planet has ever gotten out of a death spiral of depopulation.
	So what you do is you say, well here's the areas where men do worse than women and here's the areas where women do worse than men.
	So?
	So what?
	I mean, it's really boring.
	It's like the people who say, well, you know, you should never ever rent a property.
	You're just burning money.
	You've got to buy a property.
	That's just nonsense.
	It's just nonsense.
	I mean, if you buy a property, then you've tied up all your money in that property, and maybe the property value goes down, and maybe you could have invested in Bitcoin.
	What is the purpose of depopulation?
	Oh, you really want that?
	Do you really want that darker topic?
	I don't think we want that darker topic right now.
	You don't.
	You don't want that darker topic.
	It's not even the end of the day.
	So, no.
	You don't.
	I was the only man to help build the yearbook for my high school.
	Canon is in display.
	I managed to... I was on the yearbook writing staff and all of that.
	I worked on my yearbook and I got a... I managed to sneak in a joke.
	Would you like to hear the rude joke I snuck into my yearbook?
	People probably can verify this at some point.
	So I was in the play Our Town by Thornton Wilder and I managed to say... Attendance was good to the play.
	Those who came enjoyed it very much but after the show there was a lot of cleaning up to do.
	Those who came enjoyed it very much, but after the show there was a lot of cleaning up to do.
	That was my big joke at 16 or 17 or whatever the hell I was.
	That was my big risque joke.
	And it was then replaced by another editor, but I managed to slip it right back in.
	I managed to slip it in right before the end.
	So there was my, there's my big joke from like 40 years ago.
	Something, there we go.
	So yeah, Sticky Theatres, that's right.
	It was my Paul Reubens moment, I suppose.
	So sorry, let me just get back to your questions here.
	So yeah, so for men, you can say, you know, women get all this attention and deference and blah blah blah, while men are relatively ignored, right?
	Okay, sure, I get that.
	So yeah, at 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, blah blah blah.
	Yes, women get a lot of attention.
	Oh my gosh, they get so much attention.
	And men don't get as much attention.
	That's very true.
	Let's go to 60, shall we?
	How much attention do men get versus women?
	So all you do is you just, you time slice it, right?
	You time slice it.
	And you say, well, in this phase of life, women get much more attention than men.
	Ah, but in this phase of life, men get much more attention, right?
	I love women.
	Wouldn't want to be a woman.
	You know, that level of agreeableness or conformity or compliance that women have, I like having open fights with people rather than this reputational bullshit where they just try and savage your reputation and destroy your life, rather than having an outright argument with you.
	I couldn't, like, I mean, obviously that's been the way as women get more power, you get reputational destruction rather than open fights and debates.
	I like the open fights and debate stuff.
	I couldn't handle the slight up and down, or maybe more than slight up and down, of the periods.
	That would be kind of crazy to me.
	And, you know, women score higher in anxiety and neurosis and so on, hypochondria, this kind of stuff.
	Like, love the women, absolutely, it's wonderful.
	But it's really boring and it's low IQ, frankly, it's low IQ to say,
	Here's an asymmetry, and that's the whole story.
	You know, if you buy a house, you've got property, and if you rent, you don't have property.
	It's like, no, you just have different property.
	That's all you do.
	That's all you have, just have different property.
	Right?
	So if you have to put $100,000 down in order to own a house, well, that's $100,000.
	You're not investing in Bitcoin or buying stocks or whatever else you might be doing, or saving for that matter, right?
	It's not like so all you're doing is you're saying, well, you know, if you put $100,000 down in a house, you get equity in the house.
	And that's like, that's the only fucking equation.
	Like it's retarded to think that it's not even a thought.
	It's just manipulation.
	People who don't tell you about the costs and benefits who don't show you the full picture are just manipulating you.
	They're absolutely completely and totally manipulating you.
	And it's dishonest.
	It's gross.
	It's insulting to anybody with half a brain.
	So yes, people care more about female injuries.
	When I was 15.
	Yeah, I get that.
	So?
	So those girls also had all these guys chasing them just for sex.
	That's no fun.
	That cheapens you.
	That makes you suspicious and it's a difficult life.
	I mean, so the feminists, they say, well, you know, men are in all these positions of power.
	And it's like, no, because only a tiny minority of men are in those positions of power, whereas virtually all the young women are in the receiving attention category.
	And again, I mean, there's exceptions to all of that, but way more young women are being pursued than men have the summits of political, legal, and economic power.
	Like it's like 1% of men have legal, economic, and political power, whereas like 75% of young women are pursued, or 80%, or 90%, or whatever it is, right?
	So again, you're just looking at a strength and a weakness thing.
	And we see that clearly when we look at feminists describing men, but then we don't see that as clearly when men are describing women.
	Men have it hard, yes.
	Women have it easy at some times, yes.
	My wife was giving birth, I wasn't sitting there going, man, I got it so easy.
	Oh no, Maya, she's got it so easy, man.
	I ain't got nothing, right?
	Ah, how do you sustain your productivity?
	Hatred.
	How do you sustain your productivity?
	I have things I could do for which my future self would be thankful if I did them now, but I get easily depressed even before starting the work.
	I know it has its root to my childhood.
	I could rarely relax.
	I had to earn leisure with chores.
	You got nothing to do was the phrase I heard often before I was handed a list of tasks, which were later checked.
	I feel like my inner child still has a lot of say.
	He wants to rest, but it sabotages my adult self.
	Right.
	Do you know what the opposite of productivity is?
	Do you know what the opposite of productivity is?
	Give me your guess.
	Procrastination, that's how it manifests.
	Entropy, again, that's how it manifests.
	What is the opposite?
	Vanity?
	No.
	I mean, I'm quite vain about my intellectual abilities.
	Great.
	Fantastic stuff.
	Great stuff, guys.
	Procrastination, entropy, destruction, vanity, neglect, busy work, destructivity.
	Is that a word?
	Consumerism, depression, distractions, laziness.
	No, no.
	Oh, I'm going to tell you, and you're going to get it.
	Oh, God, I'm so good.
	Anyway.
	Or rather, the brain that I happen to inhabit is really, really good at this.
	All right.
	Oh, I don't know.
	I don't know.
	I have hesitation here.
	I'm going to play coy and hard to get.
	I'm concerned that if I give you the answer to this, I will be... No, I would be unleashing too much productivity in the world.
	No, no, it's too much.
	It's too much.
	It's supernova listener time.
	I don't know, man.
	Can you handle this kind of power?
	Do you want to be as productive as me?
	Oof.
	Are you sure?
	You can't turn back from this.
	I'm only half kidding about this.
	You cannot turn back from this.
	Unlimited power!
	John Cena.
	Did I see John Cena in a dress and high heels?
	Like, how much does he want to make it in Hollywood?
	Alright, hit me with a why.
	Do you want this?
	Do you want this?
	You can't turn back.
	Your life will completely change.
	Rate me productive and I'll raise a dozen peacefully parented kids.
	Alright.
	Fine.
	Fine!
	The opposite of productivity is resentment.
	Resentment.
	And you resent it because you were forced.
	This guy said it right here.
	He was forced to do chores.
	So he resents doing chores.
	So he procrastinates them because he resents creating things.
	You are forced to write essays.
	You procrastinate writing because you feel like you're forced to.
	You resent writing.
	Question!
	Who makes me do these shows?
	Well, either the God or the devil, depending on whether you read Wikipedia.
	Who makes me do these shows?
	I'm hourly asking you, who makes me do these shows?
	Nobody.
	Nobody.
	Nobody.
	Nobody makes me do these shows.
	Why do I do these shows?
	Why?
	Why?
	Most times I don't ask myself.
	Occasionally I do.
	Because I want to.
	Nobody's making me do it.
	I want to do these shows.
	I mean, there's a certain amount of responsibility, I think there's a certain amount of obligation, I get all that, but nobody makes me do these shows.
	So because nobody's making me do my shows, do I ever resent doing the shows?
	Is anybody making me write the peaceful parenting book?
	I woke up this morning, I got myself a coffee, I kissed my wife, and I said, I'm sorry honey, inspiration strikes, you're gonna have to breakfast alone, and I wrote for four hours straight.
	7,500 words.
	Nobody's making me do it.
	Do you resent doing taxes?
	Probably, right?
	Because you have to do those, right?
	Do you resent having to go and pick up a sticker so that you can use your own property?
	Right?
	Am I right in saying that resentment is the opposite of productivity?
	I love to write.
	I love to create things.
	Did anyone make me write my last two novels?
	Nope.
	I'm not on contract.
	I haven't taken them out.
	You've heard these endless stories of writers.
	They take these big advances.
	And then they have to write.
	I mean, Douglas Adams was one of these guys.
	His editor finally had to lock him in a hotel room to get him to write books.
	And this is why the Dark Ages, the Medieval Ages, were stagnant.
	Why?
	Because people were forced to do everything.
	And the moment people weren't forced to do things when you had voluntary choice, free trade, options, property rights, capital, trade, free markets, and you had investment through the stock market.
	First time in human history, right?
	What happened when people weren't forced anymore?
	What happened to people's productivity when they weren't forced?
	What happened when we ended slavery?
	What happened to people's productivity
	When people were no longer forced.
	You get the modern world.
	Many years ago, I was kind of half-kidnapped by a guy I was doing some technical work for.
	I was wiring up his home network back in the day when you had to run cable through walls.
	And I stepped over to his place and he took me to a whole insurance investment seminar or whatever.
	And it was very interesting.
	I finally got free after dinner.
	I'm like, please drop me at a subway, I've got to get home.
	I remember the guy said, well you're a bunch of salesmen and you know what that means?
	This is what I know it means.
	It means you will do almost anything I ask you to and you'll do almost nothing I tell you to.
	You will do almost anything I ask you to and almost nothing I tell you to.
	Now, do you know how much of my work, this and every day,
	With you beautiful people, do you know how much of my work is prying the fucking stone slab of resentment off your heart?
	And telling you, you have choice, you have freedoms, you have value, you have genius, you have opportunity.
	Pulling and fucking prying, it's like everybody around has got giant fucking redwood logs landing on their legs and I'm just lifting the shit out of those, getting the circulation going, getting you up and walking.
	How much of what I do
	Is designed to free you from the pathetic demons of resentment.
	Yeah.
	So this person says, Oh, Jared.
	Yeah.
	You pointed out how we do not have to do anything as adults back in 2014.
	I stayed in bed the next morning, reminding myself of that as part of me panicked about getting ready for work.
	I stayed there with my inner child, negotiating and thinking to myself till I wanted to get up and go.
	Life changing and reducing the resentment I regularly felt.
	I'll never forget that.
	Yeah.
	It's been from the very beginning.
	Why am I interested in advocating a stateless society?
	Because I know the glory and genius and beauty and magic that would be produced from people free of the point of the gun.
	Bullying people to be productive is like assaulting someone to be your friend.
	This is why I loathe and oppose determinists, and communists, and socialists, and fascists.
	Because they're all about forcing people.
	And when you force people, you set up the reaction called resentment, which cripples their productivity, and their joy, and their value, and what they can bring to the world.
	And that's why when you have movements for women teaching them to resent men, you have
	Movements teaching men to resent women.
	The productivity of family and children is gone.
	It's gone.
	Those who sow resentment will steal your fucking soul.
	Those who sow resentment will steal your fucking soul and I'm not kidding about this.
	Resentment is something you have to take on in your life.
	Like you are fighting to crack through the ice and get to the air or you will die because you will.
	Resentment will kill you more than just about anything else because it's a soft, avoidant death.
	It numbs you.
	It drugs you.
	It's like Novocaine for a toothache.
	You think you're better, but you're worse.
	Tell me this is not the greatest conversation in history.
	And it'll never be better because after this already has this.
	Resentment.
	Curiosity.
	Have I been mistreated in the public square?
	What do you think?
	Have I been lied to about and mistreated in the public square?
	Have you seen me fall prey to the devil of resentment?
	No.
	And for those of you... Listen, I'm open.
	I'm not trying to... I'm not trying to evoke a compliment.
	I want you to be honest, obviously.
	Is the show better
	Post-deplatforming, or was it better before?
	I'm perfectly happy with either answer.
	Is the show better after deplatforming, or was it better before?
	It's a bit of a... Sorry, I recognize this is a bit of a selective group, because if you thought it was worse, you probably wouldn't be here.
	But I think it's better after.
	You know, I will occasionally see, for whatever reason, one of my older shows about politics.
	I have no problem with them.
	I think it was a fine thing to do at the time.
	No problem.
	But in terms of like actual original value added and actually changing people's lives for the better, isn't it better now?
	Like a lot better.
	Injustice must be judo moved into improvement.
	Treat me unjustly, I get better.
	It's like a different show.
	Yeah, kind of, right?
	Somebody says, after deplatforming, a greater focus on eternal values instead of day-to-day outrages.
	Yeah.
	And it's things that you can do, things that you can change, things that you can affect, things that you can control, right?
	It's about you.
	Not institutions.
	And again, I have no problem with it.
	I'm happy with what we did in those days of politics.
	When things go bad, get better.
	When things go bad, get better.
	Somebody says, yes, better after deplatforming.
	I listened to an old show and you were talking about Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney.
	I skipped over it.
	What is resentment?
	I mean, I've been fascinated by this.
	I mean, even before, of course, Friedrich Nietzsche writes a lot about resentment, the French resentment, resentment.
	So what is resentment?
	What does it mean to you?
	What is resentment?
	It's the mother of passive aggression.
	What is resentment?
	Mental illness?
	It's very non-specific, if you don't mind me saying so.
	What is resentment?
	A response to abandonment?
	There are lots of things that are a response to abandonment.
	Resentment is, again, non-specific.
	Let me ask you this.
	Is resentment masculine or feminine?
	Fa-fa-fa-fa.
	Fa-fa-fa-fa-fava beans.
	Yeah.
	Resentment?
	Let's see here.
	We've got some great answers here.
	Something could have been much better, but isn't?
	No, that can compel you to achieve, right?
	Resentment is comparing your lack of achievement to another's appearance of it, especially if they break the mold.
	But again, there's lots of things that you can resent, right?
	You can resent being bullied into what to do, right?
	So.
	A form of revenge by attacking oneself to provoke pain in others.
	The dislike of what you're forced to do.
	Resentment is a kind of envy.
	I skip over politics and other topics as someone to get to life advice and psychology stuff.
	That's what I'm here for.
	Lack of action.
	Resentment doesn't prompt you to action.
	Not a masculine emotion.
	Bitchy is the word that pops up for me associated with resentment.
	Now please understand, I'm not some oracle.
	I don't have the answer but I'll tell you my answer and you can tell me if it fits and works for you.
	Okay.
	My answer.
	What is resentment?
	Resentment
	Resentment is radiating discontent in the hopes that someone is going to solve your problem.
	Someone else!
	Resentment is radiating discontent in the hopes that someone else will solve your problem.
	Which is why it's feminine.
	I'm unhappy.
	Fix it.
	It's perfectly appropriate as a child because you can't fix your own problems as a child.
	You can just try and survive what's happening to you.
	You can't fix your own problems as a child.
	You can only try and survive what's happening to you.
	Can't change the environment, can't change the situation, can't change the people in charge of you, can't change the school, can't change anything.
	You're just dodging rolling boulders coming down the hill.
	You can't do much else.
	So, if you're harmed, it happens in general.
	It happens to everyone, no matter how good the parenting.
	If you're harmed by your parent, you show unhappiness, right?
	Now, what is the purpose of showing unhappiness to your parent?
	Why do you show unhappiness to your parent?
	Yeah, the parent has control, that's right.
	Why do you show unhappiness?
	Well, you're looking for empathy, right?
	Aren't you?
	You're looking for empathy.
	You're also looking to see if it was a mistake, right?
	So, everybody who roughhouses with the child will occasionally hurt the child in some manner, and every child who roughs house with the parent will occasionally... We've all done this, right?
	We've all done this.
	Right?
	I mean, it happens, you're just gesturing and somebody happens to be behind you, you don't even notice, and you whack them, right?
	So, the reason that we show upset when we're hurt is to find out if it was an accident.
	If the parent says, oh my gosh, I'm so sorry, blah blah blah, and they come and help and they change and fix and feel terrible and make sure it doesn't happen again and blah blah blah, right?
	See if it was an accident.
	You look for empathy.
	If your parent yells at you and you burst into tears,
	If your parent cares for you, they will stop yelling at you, they will apologize, they will make it better, they will do all of these wonderful things, and they will try and find some way to make sure it never happens again, right?
	All of this will occur.
	Now, if your parent hurts you, and you cry, and your parent apologizes and comforts you, bond, right?
	Bond is not agreement.
	Bond is repairing problems.
	You don't need to bond if you agree with everyone.
	Your bond is to survive problems, right?
	You don't need a strong bridge if trucks never drive over it, right?
	A strong bridge, a strong connection is when there's pressure and tension on it, right?
	Now, if your parent hurts you,
	You cry, you show upset, and they double down, they escalate, or they storm out, they abandon, right?
	Then they're very clearly saying, no, no empathy for you.
	No empathy for you.
	I don't care that you're upset.
	I may in fact enjoy that you're upset, but you're not going to control me with your crying.
	You're not going to get me to change my behavior just because you're crying.
	You better cry.
	That's the point.
	Negative stimuli, so you do what I want.
	Taser, punish.
	Electrified tears scattered across the face.
	So resentment, the upset hardens into resentment and resentment is, I don't like what you're doing in the hopes, the desperate hope that someone is going to change something.
	So you're not forced.
	Everybody has this experience and you can tell me yours if you want.
	Someone hurts you.
	You say, that really hurts.
	It really hurts when you push here and they just smile and push harder.
	It really hurts when you do this.
	Oh good.
	I'll do more.
	How does a parent know it's a real cry hurt versus a fake cry?
	Not hurt.
	If you listen to your child, they don't fake cry.
	Right?
	My daughter's never fake cried.
	In fact, she's fantastic at figuring out who is fake crying.
	Because when she was upset, we would talk about it.
	We would solve it.
	We would sort it out.
	She's never fake cried.
	Well, she wouldn't have to.
	A man who has money doesn't use counterfeit money, right?
	And she always had money coinage with me.
	So she wouldn't fake.
	Why would she fake?
	She wouldn't.
	If you have a strong connection with your kid, they don't need fake crying.
	My mom used to say after beating me, I'll give you something to cry about.
	Yeah, that's right.
	That's right.
	Now, if someone enjoys hurting you,
	That doesn't fundamentally breed resentment.
	Like if I say you're a prisoner in some prison, or it's a bit redundant, you're a prisoner in some prison, it's unjust, and the guard treats you badly, you don't have resentment, you'll have anger.
	But being hurt by someone in authority is not enough to create resentment.
	You need one additional ingredient for the resentment to really harden.
	You need repetition.
	Yeah.
	I brought you into this world.
	I'll take you out.
	Yeah.
	I'm doing this for your own good.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Double standard.
	Brilliant.
	Yeah.
	So you need moral hypocrisy.
	You need moral hypocrisy.
	So, I'll give you an example.
	My mother would force me to do things with chaotic, impossible-to-follow instructions that I would always get quote wrong, and it was all just a trap and a mess and a maze and nonsense, right?
	And brutal nonsense.
	Now, once my mother... I must have been... You know what?
	I'm gonna actually look this up, because I have a... I have a reference point.
	Bugsy Malone.
	An old film with Scott.
	It's actually a musical.
	With the Scott Baio?
	Ah yes, I know.
	So I was eight years old.
	It was 1976.
	No, sorry, I was nine years old.
	I was nine years old.
	It's a gangster musical comedy.
	I haven't obviously seen it in forever, but it was fun.
	They have cream guns, splurge guns.
	And I wanted to see the movie and my mother had promised that she would take me to the movie.
	My mother had promised that she would take me to the movie.
	I think it was if I did X, Y, and Z or I can't remember exactly, right?
	My mother had promised, so I'm nine years old, my mother promised to take me to the movie.
	But then she decided she didn't want to go.
	Now, a quick question.
	If you had a parent like this, what would happen if you broke a promise to a parent who's abusive?
	What happens if you break a promise?
	You promise you're going to do something and you don't do it.
	Yeah, all hell breaks loose.
	You're a liar.
	You're untrustworthy.
	You get beaten, derision, contempt, punishment, whatever, right?
	So you can't break your promise to your parent.
	Now, quick question if you've had a parent like this.
	What if a parent breaks a promise to you and you insist the parent keep their word?
	What's the response?
	So when the parent insists you keep your word, that's a good thing.
	And if you break a word, that's terrible.
	What if the parent has made you a promise and you hold them to it?
	Yeah, you're right.
	They rage.
	Tough shit.
	They rage again.
	I owe you nothing.
	You're too needy.
	Yeah, you got it.
	Right?
	So, it's absolutely morally imperative that a nine-year-old keep his word to his parent, but a parent who extracts labor from the nine-year-old by promising to take them to a movie is not obligated to go and see the movie.
	This is one of the times, and I don't know if you've had this, if you've had violent or abusive parents, was there a time where it almost didn't make any sense, but you just dug the fuck in and got your way?
	Did you ever have that?
	I mean, it depends on the level of violence, of course, that you're facing.
	But this was one of those situations where I just dug the fuck in and got my way.
	Like, no, you promised.
	And I wasn't even like, you promised!
	I wasn't whining.
	I was just like, no, you promised.
	I have to keep my word.
	You got to keep your word, right?
	Listen, and this is not an honor thing.
	This is not a, well, I was just so brave.
	I just sensed in that time that I could get this and it wasn't going to get me killed or beaten or something like that.
	Right?
	So this is not a courage thing.
	This is not a, well, I stood up and you didn't.
	That's nothing like that.
	It's just my, my particular instinct in this time.
	And I've been always pretty good at walking that line.
	So.
	I got my way.
	I think it's just the thing that got the... I got to the repetition thing, right?
	So she would say, well, I've got a headache.
	And I would say, but you promised, right?
	And she would say, well, I'm too tired.
	Well, but you promised.
	Well, we don't have the money.
	Well, you can borrow from the neighbor.
	And it was just, but you promised.
	It's one of the things I learned about the repetition thing.
	I also learned, of course, that if you don't escalate, but you simply repeat,
	A lot of times you can win.
	And again, this isn't, if you had really violent parents, if you had, uh, this has nothing to do with, with me brave, you not, like, honestly, I just tried this, this strategy because I was exploring strategies like everyone, right?
	And I just tried the strategy of just without escalating, repeating my requests, right?
	I mean, honestly, I'm going to do this, right?
	Uh, even now, like tips, donations, blah, blah, blah.
	Just repeat, right?
	Try and ask what you want without escalating.
	So the resentment comes when you realize that there are no rules in society.
	There are no morals, really.
	There's control, there's power, there's justifications, there's ethical bullying, there's manipulation.
	But there are no rules in society.
	I mean, it's all an illusion, right?
	And there were no rules in my household.
	Right?
	Because when you have really violent parents, or really aggressive parents, part of you thinks, well, they're just really passionate about ethics.
	I mean, it sounds kind of crazy, but, you know, that's one of the defenses.
	Well, they just, you know, really, really care about the right thing, and they're really angry and disappointed when I don't do the right thing.
	They're just so interested in morale.
	Right?
	It's not true, right?
	When they have power over you, it's called morality.
	When you ask them to follow the same standards they inflict on you, you're being a bully and you're not being sympathetic and you need to be more understanding and mommy's just tired and all of that stuff, right?
	So the resentment is the hypocrisy.
	Oh, how do we apply the concept of resentment to the dating market?
	That's a great question.
	I'll get to that.
	But I want to give you something more immediate here, right?
	Now, I want you to imagine this is how much I work to break the spell, the demonic possession of resentment in you.
	This is how much I work.
	Successfully or not, I'm just telling you how hard I work.
	Now, I want you to imagine that I'm right in the middle of one of these explanations, and then there's a break for a three minute ad for toothpaste.
	How would you feel?
	Right in the middle of this, I'm going to tell you that this amazing thing, conversation, I'm casting all of these conjurer spells on analogies and metaphors.
	Now I'm going to break because there's this wonderful new colloidal silver toothpaste.
	That's right.
	Would you resent the ad?
	No, you can't skip the ad.
	And there would be one of these ads every 15 minutes, right?
	We've been going for almost two hours, right?
	So there would be seven ads of three minutes apiece, right?
	21 minutes, right?
	One of the main reasons I didn't want to take ads is because I knew it would provoke resentment.
	Yeah, you'd quit the show, right?
	I knew it would provoke resentment.
	I mean, like most of us, I live in almost ad-free existence.
	So I just can't stand that, right?
	I understand and I have no problem with people doing the ad thing.
	I just think there's better ways to do it.
	So I asked for donations.
	Rather than force you to pay through ads.
	I don't know, force, blah blah blah.
	But do you see what I'm saying?
	I ask for donations, which gives you a choice in models asking for what you want voluntarily, rather than you now have to listen to three minutes of slightly louder, intrusive music, repetitive, annoying, probably doesn't match what you want, and then we'll get back to it.
	And then you can't quite remember what I was talking about before.
	Disrupt, right?
	You would resent the hell out of these ads, because I wouldn't be giving you the choice to support the show.
	I'd be saying you have to.
	Well, ads used to be better.
	Now, I mean, as the population generally is not exactly advancing in its intellectual capacities, ads just become dumber.
	And of course, ads are now pushing agendas.
	They're not even trying to sell products anymore.
	Some people with channels insert an ad themselves to their sponsors in the middle of their dialogue.
	Yeah, for sure.
	Listen, there are podcasts, and I've had offers from these places, there are podcasts that you just give them the podcast, they'll insert the ads for you, they'll give you the revenue, and you never, right?
	Yeah, Spotify is one of them, even with premium.
	Yeah.
	I mean, it's tough enough when you're just telling a regular story, but when you're sowing wisdom and harvesting souls, it's not good to have toothpaste stuff in the middle.
	Also ads would be a lack of trust to you.
	Look, you guys would do the right thing.
	I know how much value I'm providing.
	You know how much value I'm providing.
	We all know that we live in an economic system and in a reality where you need to consume resources in order to produce resources.
	So, and you do in general, like I appreciate it.
	You guys do the right thing.
	You step up, you throw me a couple of bucks and it all works out beautifully.
	Oh, Peter Schiff and Jordan Peterson are really bad for ads?
	Poor Peter Schiff, man.
	What happened with him and that banking stuff was crazy.
	Somebody says, worst is when the podcaster integrates the ads into the message.
	Oh, yeah, yeah.
	Speaking of that, do you have a VPN?
	Again, it goes through my filter.
	It goes through my filter.
	Would ads help you guys get wiser and smarter?
	Nope.
	Oh yeah, and of course, you never know.
	I mean, you can't do all the research on who's behind the company that you're advertising and so on, right?
	Now to segue to our sponsor.
	That's funny.
	If you were to advertise some product in the show, any thoughts on what you would sell us?
	Honestly, I mean, I've thought of this, of course, many times over the years.
	No.
	There's nothing that I would want to interrupt what I'm doing to sell you.
	All right.
	Sorry.
	Did I watch the rest of Downtown Abbey?
	I think I did.
	I thought it wasn't as good later on.
	Hair extensions?
	No, that would be to sell vanity.
	I know you're joking, but I got a weighted blanket because you said you had one.
	Yeah, that's fantastic.
	Wonderful.
	Wonderful.
	He'd sell us better microphones for call-in shows.
	Yes, that's kind of true.
	I don't know what it is.
	Why people like it?
	Honestly, it's like 20 bucks.
	20 bucks for a headset, man.
	I even have this one, which I'll occasionally use for phone calls.
	Insignia.
	I think I got it for $23.
	You know, it's funny, you know, and I said this many years ago, people who do call-in shows, it's like, okay, you know, people are going to be listening on their sort of tinny beach radio cell phone speakers and
	You're going to be listened to forever.
	Like, why wouldn't you spend 20 bucks on a headset?
	It's much better.
	Anyway.
	I just imagined a pastor who sells snake oil in the middle of talking about salvation.
	Would you advertise pieces of entertainment media like the movies from Angel Studios?
	Well, I don't think so.
	Why?
	Because I'll do entire shows on things that I find to be of value.
	Like, I mean, I did a whole show on Sound of Freedom.
	So I don't think that taking ads, and isn't it more objective if I talk about things that I'm enthusiastic about?
	I talked about that Insidious, was it?
	That demonic movie or whatever it was, right?
	So I can talk about them objectively because they're not paying me to do it.
	Plus Pfizer never returns my phone calls.
	Nefarious!
	Thank you.
	Your novels are really good.
	How good is the revenue stream though?
	Well, summers are tough, man.
	Summers are tough.
	People are on vacation.
	They go away.
	They stop listening.
	So yeah, summers are lean.
	Summers are lean.
	I fatten up a little in the winter and then... When was the episode on Sound of Freedom?
	FDRpodcast.com.
	FDRpodcast.com.
	Just go and search for it there.
	Easier.
	I think I did two episodes on Sound of Freedom.
	All right.
	Resentment in the dating market?
	Let's finish there.
	Hit me with a why if you'd like me to finish.
	Give you a happy ending on the dating market.
	Resentment in the dating market.
	Right.
	All right.
	People... Men.
	Men respond to women like women are their jailers.
	When there are fellow prisoners.
	You follow?
	Oh, women are in charge of the government and they're in...
	Like women never got propagandized.
	Like women aren't heavily studied by manipulators in order to craft messages that absolutely appeal to their soft spots and their vulnerable spots.
	Women are studied, dissected so that they can be programmed.
	And y'all are looking at women and women do this to men too.
	Like, like we're all, we're all here in the Gulag of these tax farms, right?
	Why would you want to get mad at your fellow prisoners?
	Women are untrustworthy.
	But that's resentment, right?
	Lead a woman.
	Lead a man.
	If you can't out-talk the government, it's a little bit on you.
	If you can't out-compete a government program called propaganda, with charisma, with engagement, with humor, with positivity, with excitement, with... If you can't out-talk a government school teacher,
	I think you might want to look in the mirror just a little bit, rather than just getting resentful.
	It's up to you to woo the women away from propaganda.
	Right?
	I mean, can you imagine there's some Soviet-era restaurant?
	That just serves like, I don't know, hairy rat feces goulash and pierogies and shit like that.
	Some Soviet-era resentful waitress smoking like chimneys and dropping ash into the soup.
	And you want to open up a restaurant.
	It's like, no, but there's already a restaurant, man.
	They got the market cornered.
	It's like, dude, if you can't out-compete a Soviet restaurant, you're a terrible businessman.
	It's a challenge.
	That's all it is.
	It's a challenge!
	Can you woo a woman away from the devil?
	You think this hasn't been done before?
	Can you woo a man away from the devil?
	And if you wanna, you know how you...
	Do you know how you convince others?
	It's not by being right.
	It's not by being factual.
	It's not by being funny.
	Do you know how you convince others?
	The way you convince others is being capable of being convinced yourself.
	That way, it's not an authoritarian monologue where you're just trying to throw balls of facts at people until they bruise truth.
	Woo them, do you mean convince them?
	If you're dating, that's the same thing.
	Woo them away!
	Okay, hit me with a why if you've ever been really interested in a girl who's already dating someone.
	Hit me with a why.
	If you've ever been really interested in a girl who's already dating someone.
	Of course you have.
	Now, what's your basic argument to her?
	If you talk to her, if you, you know,
	Explore any potential interest.
	I'm not talking married or whatever, just... What's your fundamental proposition to her?
	Yeah, get an upgrade girl.
	Yeah.
	I'm not perfect, but I'm perfect for you.
	Yeah, I'm better than, I'm better for you than he is.
	Yeah, stop wasting time on that dude.
	And if you are better than her,
	If you are, sorry, if you're better for her than her boyfriend and she doesn't see it, then she's not worthy.
	Lose the zero, get with the hero, yeah.
	He's not married to you.
	Yeah, I mean, it's been many years, but I met a girl, oh gosh, after I moved out of my long-term relationship in my 20s, I moved into, I rented a room in a condo, because you just need a place to land, right?
	And this condo had a great swimming pool and a great gym, and I was down in the gym and I was chatting with this girl, really nice girl, she was a lot younger than I was, and we hung out for quite a bit.
	And we went on wine tastings together.
	You know, I was circling the friend zone and her boyfriend was a good looking guy and he was like a drummer on a cruise ship.
	You know, he wasn't writing any songs.
	He was just like, hey man, I'm a drummer on a cruise ship, bro.
	It's like that movie with Nick Cage, Meg Ryan, I think it is.
	He keeps showing up out of nowhere in the park and she's like, are you homeless?
	He's like, no.
	She's like, are you a drummer?
	What do you call a drummer without a girlfriend?
	Homeless!
	And again, you know, Roger Taylor's a drummer, but he wrote songs, right?
	Played other instruments.
	So, I mean, this was a go nowhere guy.
	There was a girl in my, when I was doing my master's degree, there was a girl that I liked.
	And her boyfriend was such a doofus.
	Oh my God, such a doofus.
	I was good looking guy.
	I get all this good looking guy.
	But he would always, you know, he was he was running his father's business for the summer or something like that.
	And he would always say, Hi, what are you doing for the summer?
	Oh, I'm ruining my father's business.
	I mean running my father's business, right?
	What did the drummer get in his IQ test?
	Saliva!
	What do you do when a drummer knocks at your door?
	You pay for your pizza.
	Keep the drummer... drummer jokes coming.
	They're beautiful.
	So, yeah.
	And you know those relationships aren't going to work out.
	You know it's just vanity.
	You know he's just a pretty boy.
	Whatever, right?
	It's like, come on.
	I mean, my whole life, my whole attitude was like, well, you could date other guys, but why?
	Why would you want to?
	Why would you want to date some other guy?
	You can either see the Mona Lisa and Michelangelo's David
	Or, or, you can go and see some children's paintings and some monkey 747 air jet splatter modern art.
	Why?
	I mean, honestly, I hear rumor, I don't believe it for a moment, but I hear rumor that people listen to other shows.
	I mean, theoretically, I understand.
	I see evidence of these other shows.
	People, apparently, they listen to other shows.
	Now that, to me, you could listen to other shows, but why?
	But why would you listen to other shows?
	We do such amazing stuff here!
	I don't have enough content.
	I don't think that's true.
	Don't forget, the History of Philosophers series is a 22-part series, a lot of hours.
	It has all my novels and all that.
	Not enough drumming content, maybe?
	Yeah.
	I can feel it.
	All right.
	Ed Dutton has a lot of facts.
	Yeah, he does.
	I like it.
	So... Ed gives good Ed.
	So... What happened to the drummer that rammed the ship of thesis onto the dock?
	He crashed cymbals?
	Ship of thesaurus?
	I think that's what you mean.
	When do I realize how good this show is?
	It's taken a while to find good content elsewhere.
	When I do, it's just one episode, once in a blue moon.
	Insights per square inch.
	We are more crowded than...
	I don't know.
	Cats on a recently deceased elderly lady.
	You see this video?
	It's a video where a guy who's got cats pretends to die with some cat treats in his hand and they just eat him.
	They try to eat him.
	Whereas a guy with a dog collapses with dog treats in his hand and the dog really tries to get him better and ignores the treats and tries to revive him.
	Steph ruined my enjoyment of novels.
	Well, uh, yeah, I mean, uh, I appreciate that.
	I'm, the novels are some of the favorite things that I'm, some of my favorite things that I do.
	Um, absolutely.
	So yeah, resentment to the dating market.
	You, you are given a challenge.
	This challenge has always been the same.
	Women tend to be more conformist, so propagandists, whether they're religious or theocratic or they are aristocratic or they are democratic, so propagandists target women.
	And then the way that you woo women away from propagandists is you offer them love.
	Because you can't love somebody who's propagandized because they don't really exist, they're just an NPC.
	You can't have an affair with an NPC in your video game and you can't love someone who doesn't think for themselves.
	So you woo them to reason and evidence with love!
	It's a challenge.
	I mean, my God, don't you love the idea of being a superhero who breaks people out of prison?
	Isn't that the coolest thing ever?
	And some people, they don't want to be broken out of prison.
	Some people are the guards, so to speak.
	Some people love the vibrant diversity and easy meals, right?
	The structure of the day.
	It's where their friends are, their companions.
	So you're going through life trying to break people out of prison.
	Isn't that the whole gig?
	I mean, surely I modeled that a little bit once in a while.
	Although, to use a more powerful metaphor, it's leading people out of hell into heaven.
	No, that's not a good metaphor.
	It's more powerful, but if it's inaccurate, it's just a more powerful gun that shoots the wrong way.
	No, it's not.
	Because people are desperate to get out of hell.
	Hell is horrible, right?
	The prison is only somewhat analogous, right?
	Because if you say to somebody in hell, I can get you to heaven, they're like, my God, it's horrible here, take me.
	Whereas they feel that they're in heaven, but you're trying to lead them to hell.
	Yeah, out of Plato's cave, out of the Matrix or whatever, right?
	We'll just lead them to truth.
	And they have to let things go, which is conformity to the blind.
	And then they have to, their eyes have to hurt because they see for the first time.
	And they have to wake up to how much they've been lied to.
	And like most people, if you, if you get enough of society to lie to people, who do they hate?
	Do they hate the liars?
	If you get enough of society, if your teachers lie to you, your parents lie to you, your priests lie to you, your politicians lie to you, the media lies to you, if everybody lies to you, who do you hate the most?
	There's a tipping point.
	If enough people lie to you, then you hate anyone who tells the truth.
	That's why it's really important to try and contain lies at the beginning.
	If they overwhelm society, then people adapt to the lies, and then the pain causes them such suffering that they feel assaulted by the truth-teller and will react out of self-defense.
	Yeah, they hate the cognitive dissonance, they resent you for causing it.
	Right.
	So, don't resent the dating market.
	Women and men in the cave, they don't have it easy.
	I mean, talk to people who took the vax.
	Who know about some of the health stuff that's come out, right?
	Talk to them!
	How much fun was it for them to conform?
	Are they happy with their decision?
	So yeah, the way that you avoid the resentment is
	It's an exciting, challenging, superhero journey to wake people up.
	What could be cooler?
	What could be more exciting?
	What could be more fun?
	What could be more valuable?
	What could be more virtuous?
	Love the challenge.
	Embrace the suck.
	So to speak, right?
	Hit me with a why if that may help you with some of your resentment.
	And don't look at where women have it easy and men have it hard.
	Right?
	Don't look at where... That's like a woman saying, well, you never have to buy tampons.
	Therefore, I resent you.
	It's like, yeah, okay.
	So it seems like that's helped most people.
	Women in your life, they're not your prison.
	They're not your prison guards.
	They're not your bosses.
	They're not tyrants.
	They're not the secret police.
	Maybe they have a bit more propaganda in them than men do, which is by design, right?
	There's a reason why I talk about this in my novel, The Presence, and the reason why propagandists target women.
	So, you know, the kid who's more shy in class who's just been more bullied at home?
	Do you resent him for that?
	You say, oh man, he puts all the effort of conversation on me, he's such a suck, he won't talk, won't even raise his eyes.
	You don't get mad at someone who's been more abused.
	You understand, women are more abused because propagandists focus on women more.
	They focus on hitting the women more for a variety of reasons we can talk about.
	I'm sure they're pretty clear, right?
	So women are more abused in society.
	They let men go a little bit more because they assume that men will gravitate towards the propaganda of women because of reproductive desires.
	So women are targeted more and we're like, wow, women are so blue pilled.
	And it's like, that's, you understand that's by design, right?
	It's by design.
	I mean, if there are women here, tell me that you don't get not just propaganda from the schools, but you get a lot of conformity from the fellow females around you.
	Try being a teenage girl and disagreeing with other teenage girls about anything important.
	Try that.
	As women, what's that like?
	I remember years ago, not that many years ago, I was talking with a friend of mine whose daughter, I don't know, but she's 16 or something like that.
	And she was talking to her friends and Lizzo came up and she said, yeah, you know, I like Lizzo's music, but I'm really concerned about her weight.
	Like that's just not healthy.
	Now, is that a controversial statement?
	That a woman who was, I think at that time, over 300 pounds, I think she's lost a little bit of weight since then.
	Is it fair to say that this is overweight and bad?
	And yet, right?
	Fatphobic!
	Try being a woman and a girl and disagreeing with other girls.
	Like with boys, you can disagree.
	You can have your conflicts.
	You just fight and blah, blah, blah, right?
	The amount of social conformity and propaganda that encircles and half-chokes women and girls.
	Come on, man.
	Come on, man.
	Have some sympathy.
	All right.
	The call-in shows are excellent.
	I listened to the other podcast just to fill the time between new call-ins.
	And yes, I'm aware of FDR podcasts.
	I'm sure I've heard most of them.
	I got probably half a dozen in the can.
	I will get round to them this week.
	All my female friends, says Michelle, have stabbed me in the back.
	It's tragic.
	Yeah, it's very tough.
	I saw women in college who got bullied because they wouldn't put BLM filters on their Instagram.
	Yeah.
	One reason I ended my last relationship was that I could not stand some of her work views.
	Seems a bit mean in retrospect for what you're saying, by design.
	Yeah, I mean, you're just trying to get logs off people's legs and some people don't want you to and you move on, but yeah, I mean, it's worth putting the time in, right?
	Steph, do you see Christian philosophers as having any traction in their analysis of the origin of the order we witness and discover more of all the time in science?
	More of all the time in science?
	I don't know enough about Christian philosophers and what they do.
	Will you release the very dark calling about the guy who said he was evil?
	The guy who tried to kill two people and then drowned his cat or almost drowned his cat?
	Yeah, that's pretty dark.
	Yes, I will.
	I will.
	And I will dig up and try to find the woman who called in because her brother was caught on a pedophile catching show.
	That was also pretty dark.
	Got some dark stuff in the can.
	Yeah, that was a rough call, man.
	Rough call.
	Met a girl with limited propaganda programming.
	It was sort of trippy.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	I mean, look, you can't free people from the chains they love.
	They'll just waste during their time.
	Just see if there's a possibility for them to think, right?
	Obviously you can't love someone if they just repeat what everyone else says, right?
	So alright, look at that.
	Two and a quarter hours.
	How does the time fly so fast?
	It's wild.
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