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July 27, 2023 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux

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5230 Freedom from Guilt! Freedomain Livestream

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	It's Devan Mullaney from Free Domain.
	It is, gosh, where were we at?
	22nd of July, 2023.
	China.
	China.
	Well, I'm glad you can get through the... That overhead's a bit shiny, isn't it?
	What do you think is going on with Yellow Freight?
	30,000 layoffs and lost pensions?
	Yeah?
	Well, you can read about all of this in my novel called The Present.
	You can get that for free.
	freedomain.locals.com So let me just let everyone know that we're live here.
	Yeah, sound off!
	Where's everyone coming from?
	Just out of curiosity.
	If you feel comfortable sharing.
	Live.
	Now.
	Live we now.
	Let's tell everybody.
	Straight up, that we are here.
	We are not queer, in terms of oddities.
	And when it comes to philosophy, is there really any getting used to it?
	In general, no.
	In general, no.
	All right.
	Just tell everybody where we are and what we're doing and hit me up with your questions.
	And I have topics, I have stories, I have maybe a few things that are mildly amusing.
	But I'm here for you.
	I can amuse myself on my own time.
	You don't need me for that.
	So... If there's anything philosophically related that I can talk about, I'm perfectly thrilled to answer your questions.
	Well, perfectly thrilled... Overjoyed.
	Overjoyed.
	All right.
	Let's throw it in the places.
	There's some social media stuff.
	I don't even know if anybody really follows me, but I post there anyway, because OCD.
	O-C-D.
	James Spader style.
	All right.
	There we go.
	That should do it.
	All right.
	She keeps Moe at a Shendon in a pretty cabinet.
	All right.
	All right.
	More singing, please.
	Well, that's very, very kind.
	Maybe, maybe there will be things.
	Oh, Richard Lynn passed away this week?
	Oh, I didn't know that.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, I mean, it's, you know, as a guy who had cancer once, it's pretty hard to forgive the woke mob for their attacks on people who've done
	Some really great cancer work, but also talked about IQ and got nuked.
	It's like, well, I guess people would rather die of cancer than find out facts.
	All right.
	Let's, you know, let's get straight on with you guys.
	Yeah, let's get straight on with your questions.
	Digging straight in.
	Where we got people coming from?
	Just south of communist Portland here.
	No street pooper needles.
	Yeah, Portland's pretty wild, eh?
	What are the choral aspects behind punctuality?
	Was it taken more seriously in the past?
	What are the... Oh, yes, you mean choral asoects.
	I think you mean moral aspects.
	So, punctuality, and I started the show one minute late, so I guess I can't really talk about it.
	Yeah, punctuality is super important.
	I mean, it's very, very important.
	Like, if you're a doctor and you've got people scheduled for, like, for consults or surgery or something, everyone's got to show up on time.
	I once dated a woman who was a purser.
	I was going to say head cheerleader, not head cheerleader.
	But she was a purser, is the head stewardess or flight attendant on an airplane.
	And of course, there's a certain law.
	You have to have a certain number of flight attendants per flight.
	And I'm doing a standing show now, but now I have to look down to see the screen.
	I've got to find a way to move the screen up.
	So I'm doing this.
	And so you couldn't fly if you didn't have the requisite number of... of stewardesses, right?
	Or flight attendants waving... The older ones were called sky fossils or galley hags, I remember that.
	So yeah, I mean, if you want to flight, the pilots have to show up, the mechanics have to be on time, they have to... you have to have... food has to be there, like... Punctuality is what makes the world run.
	Being on time is what makes the world run.
	And but but it's hard for society to ask people to be on time, young people in particular, if it doesn't treat those young people with any respect in any other fashion, right?
	So yeah, punctuality was very serious.
	When I was growing up, being on time was very important.
	It was kind of drilled into you in boarding school and so on.
	And being on time is very,
	Important being on time is a form of empathy as well.
	It's sort of respect for other people I'm sure we've all had that friend in our lives that you have to bake in an extra 15 minutes for them to Get things to show up, right?
	I remember once I was supposed to supposed to meet a friend of mine downtown and for a variety of reasons
	We didn't even leave to go and meet him.
	It was at least 45 minutes to an hour to get there until after we were supposed to meet him.
	Oh, it was brutal.
	It was brutal.
	And he was rightly upset and I really worked to not have that happen again as a whole.
	So yeah, with Yellow Freight, 30,000 layoffs and lost pensions.
	Well, you know, I know it's not really politics, but you know that
	The American economy is like under direct attack, right?
	I mean, I think everyone's kind of aware of that.
	I don't really need to dip into that too much, right?
	But I don't believe that all of these plants being on fire and all of that is an accident.
	It's just under direct attack and that direct attack has its layoffs, right?
	Time is going by too fast.
	I've got too much to do.
	Time is going by too fast.
	I've got too much to do.
	I don't quite understand that.
	Generally, time goes by too fast for people who waste their time.
	Right?
	You know, it's like the people who, if you don't homeschool your kids, then you miss out of 16,000 hours with your children.
	Why would you want to miss out on 16,000 hours with your children, right?
	I was telling my daughter, I was playing to my daughter the song Spread Your Wings.
	Sammy was low just watching the show over and over again.
	Great, great opening line by the way.
	And it's one of the few Queen songs that has no harmonies, no layered vocals.
	It's just straight up singing from Freddie.
	I think it was written by John Deacon.
	Spread Your Wings.
	And I was saying how much this song meant to me when I was a kid, right?
	Spread Your Wings and Fly Away.
	And she says, at one point he says, um, you should have been sweeping up the Emerald Bar.
	And I said, I never, she said, did, and my daughter said, did she say, did he sing Emerald Bar?
	I said, yeah.
	I said, I don't really know what that means.
	And she says, well, cause you're half Irish and that's Emerald.
	So that was even more important to you.
	And I'm like,
	40 years later, after I first heard the song, 45 years after I first heard the song, my daughter explains its meaning to me, just casually, straight off the bat.
	I'm like, boom!
	You got it.
	You got it, kid.
	You got it.
	All right, well, Montreal, Canada, Texas, Minnesota.
	Are you planning to see Oppenheimer?
	Yes, I will see Oppenheimer because, I mean, who doesn't want to watch communists create bombs and
	have to mysteriously end up in the hands of the Soviets through the Rosenbergs!
	So yeah, I will see Oppenheimer.
	I did see Barbie.
	I did see the Barbie movie and I'll be doing a review of that.
	Tomorrow, I think.
	West Coast, US.
	Sudbury, Ontario.
	Ah, the great smoke.
	Locals.
	Well, no, we're all here on locals.
	Texas.
	Midwestern, US.
	Oops.
	Ah, yes.
	I have very often lived in a town called Oops.
	It's right next to a town called Malice.
	Some black pill today?
	I don't know, man.
	I don't know.
	Wherever philosophy, wherever the brain philosophy horses drag me, I will try and keep up.
	That's generally what happens is I get yanked by the brain horses of philosophy and I just try to hang on until they throw me off somewhere and I go to bed.
	North Korea, New Hampshire, Southwestern Ontario.
	Hey Steph, any tips on how to remove clutter from your mind and reduce mental stress and anxiety?
	Yeah, have a big purpose and pursue it relentlessly.
	Have a purpose 10 times bigger than you think you need and pursue it relentlessly.
	That will organize things enormously well.
	See, here's, you want to, okay, I don't know.
	You guys ready for this?
	You guys ready for this?
	I don't want to, oof, again, I don't want to be too much of a tease here, but I, uh,
	I don't know if you're ready.
	Are you ready for a mind-blowing fact?
	I mean, it's right at the beginning of the show.
	It's too early!
	It's too early!
	You can't handle it!
	Hell, I can barely handle it.
	Okay, this, you know, you need to flex your tip button.
	Freddie Mercury AI cover songs.
	Yeah, I listen to him do a welcome to your life.
	There's no turning back.
	Yeah, I listen to that.
	I listen to him do Rolling in the Deep and I listen to him do My Heart.
	We'll go on.
	It's actually pretty cool.
	So yeah, you've got to flex.
	Do a little warm-up with your... Well, he did some songs with Michael Jackson, right?
	He did State of Shock and I can't remember the other song.
	Freddie Mercury and Michael Jackson tried to work together but apparently Michael Jackson kept bringing his monkey in and asking, and his llama, into the recording studio and he kept turning to his monkey and saying,
	You think that was a good take?
	Do you think we had a good take?
	Was that good?
	Should we do it again?
	And Freddie's just like, I can't, I can't do, I can't do this zoo thing.
	So don't worry, I'll get there.
	Hot Space was an effort at that scene.
	Oh man, Side 1 of Hot Space was, I mean, body language is okay, but the rest of it was just pure garbage.
	Side B of that album is underrated.
	Les Palables d'Amour is a great song, Cool Cat's a great song, Put Out the Fire is not a bad song, and you know, there's stuff on Side 2.
	of that album that was actually pretty good, but Hot Space Sidewinder was just Freddie attempting to out-gay the Pet Shop Boys, and that just is really functionally impossible.
	So again, not to be too much of a tease, just warm up your tip button, because I'm going to earn your tips in about 90 seconds.
	Are you ready?
	Just hit me with a why, because I need to know that you're ready.
	I don't want to just
	I'll just drop this on you like it ain't no thing.
	You need to be ready.
	You need to be prepared.
	Hit me with the wire if you're ready.
	Are you sure?
	Tip is ready?
	Okay.
	Whatever you think it is, just hold down the nine, hold down the nine button and it won't be enough.
	Okay.
	Your level of mental intensity, your level of mental activity will always be the same.
	If you're focused on something really cool and wild and interesting and important, you're at a hundred.
	And it's all focused on producing something big and cool and powerful and wonderful and amazing.
	If you are sitting there with your thumb up your ass doing absolutely nothing, your level of mental activity is still a hundred!
	It'll just be filled up with detritus and garbage and nonsense.
	So, people think, well, I'm going to take a rest from having purpose and I'm just going to let my mind wander and I'm going to do nothing.
	It's like, but your mind doesn't wander.
	I mean, am I wrong?
	I mean, it doesn't just end up nothing.
	This void that is the Buddhist ideal, you never end up with that.
	That's just a fantasy.
	Well, you're going to just have peace of mind and serenity and your mind will empty out.
	It's never going to happen, brothers.
	Never going to happen, my sisters.
	Never, ever, ever going to happen.
	So your level of mental activity is going to be the same.
	It's either filled with nonsense and worry or activity and purpose.
	Right?
	You know what it's like?
	It's like you've got a glass.
	You can either fill it full of water or you can fill it half full of water and the rest will be just crap thrown in.
	Just sediment and
	Weird ice of different colors, you know, a rat's tail and some hair.
	Like, you can either fill your glass up to the top with water and drink that, but if you fill it halfway up, it just gets filled in with crap.
	It's the same thing with your mind.
	You either fill it up with purpose, or you say, well, I'm not going to fill it up with purpose, and then it just gets filled up with crap.
	I mean, if I'm wrong, tell me.
	Tell me!
	I'm wrong!
	Your brain is always active.
	You either give it something to do,
	It's like a kid who's like really intelligent in public school.
	If they're really engaged in what you're saying, they'll do it.
	They'll focus.
	They'll be in, right?
	And if they're not, their brain just gets all staticky and weird and right?
	So, it's purpose or static.
	That's life, man.
	It's purpose or static.
	Again, if I'm wrong...
	I don't think I am.
	Certainly not with this crowd, who I top 1% of intelligence.
	Absolutely.
	Absolutely accepted.
	It's intensity or garbage.
	It's purpose or worry.
	It's focus or it's anxiety.
	That's all you get.
	It doesn't matter.
	If you think you're going to take a break from purpose, all you're doing is saying, well, I just want the rest of this cup of water filled up with crap.
	Again, if this doesn't apply to you, if you can achieve empty brain, then you tell me, tell me, tell me I'm wrong.
	Because we mistake the mind for the body all the time.
	Right?
	Don't we do this?
	We mistake the mind for the body all the time.
	So we are, I'm doing this thing where I'm, you may not believe this, I'm doing this thing at the moment where I am writing
	The Peaceful Parenting Book, and I'm going to tell you what we've got done here.
	Man, this is, it is a howl of rage, this book.
	I really cannot put it out in its current form.
	I'll be straight up with you.
	It is a howl of rage, this book.
	Let me see here, why can I not?
	Why are you giving me error?
	All right, there we go.
	What have I got here?
	Oh, I know all these shortcuts.
	So I have 44 pages done and 18,000 words.
	And it's basically one giant scream of rage and aggression at the moment.
	So I'm just telling you that I write.
	What I'm doing at the moment is I am, I have like a, it's like a Bowflex machine or something like that, but it's just you know weights and just that and the other, right?
	And I'm actually doing weights while voice dictating the book with a computer propped up in front of me so I can voice dictate.
	Because I need, there's something about this book, I need to be in motion, I need to be in physical stress, I need to be exercising, I need to be working out to write this book.
	I do not know why,
	It doesn't really matter.
	Like once when I had to finish... I rewrote the last half of Just Poor.
	I could not type it for the life of me.
	This is before I did voice dictation or before voice dictation was even really possible.
	And I quit.
	I took a leave of absence from my job and I...
	I flew to England and I rented a cottage in the middle of nowhere and I went and talked to the locals, I went and met with the farmers, I went and walked all around so I could get the true physical environment because this place, the story took place in the deep countryside in England in the 18th century and it was so primitive back then out where I was that it really was like going back in time so I felt like I was actually walking the landscape
	and looking at the old buildings in the villages and so on and meeting the farmers whose life hadn't changed for like hundreds of years.
	I felt like I was going back in time and describing the book I was writing.
	Like I actually went in to the world that I was writing.
	It was one of the few times you can actually do a historical novel while seeing that.
	So yeah, I was actually really, really, the same cottage where you invited that one woman.
	Yeah.
	Good memory.
	Good memory.
	Uh, good memory.
	So.
	And when I wrote that I tried writing, typing, I bought a computer and I couldn't type it.
	I just couldn't type it.
	I ended up having to write the entire thing out in longhand.
	Partly I think because I was in the old England, I was in the old countryside, so I thought I was going to have to get a freaking quill pen to write this thing, but I ended up having to write it out.
	I couldn't even write it in pen.
	Couldn't even write it in pen.
	I had to write it in pencil.
	And I had to find like old time looking and an old looking notebook with like a leather cover and brown paper.
	Like I, I had to write in pencil, which is something, I don't know why it's just, just the only thing that I could.
	And then once I did that, I was able to write the ending in like new ending in like two weeks.
	So books are a funny thing.
	Books are a funny thing.
	I remember when I first wrote Revolutions, I had to, I couldn't crack the characters and how they would talk too well.
	So what I had to do eventually was I created paintings that the characters would have painted at the age of 10 or 11.
	You know, like the big sort of watercolor thick brush stuff that we do.
	And I had to do different paintings of all the different characters, what they would have painted and been interested in at the age of 10 or 11, that cracked the characters for me.
	And I was able to write about them very vividly after that.
	So you just have to try just about everything.
	I've written stuff before where I've been on a treadmill, like I have a whole computer set up with a screen facing the treadmill, I can voice dictate and walk and sometimes for a difficult passage if I crank
	I don't know if this is writing secrets for me, right?
	Sometimes for a difficult passage, if I crank it up to like 30-35 degrees, then I can write it, right?
	So the harder it is, usually the more incline I need, and it gets my blood flowing, it gets my heart pumping, and it just... And I'm not the first guy to do this.
	I mean, Dostoevsky used to...
	He would pace around and he had a woman who would write down.
	He would just dictate his novels.
	Other people have dictated.
	Adam Smith, I think, dictated his books and so on.
	Aristotle.
	We only have the notes of his lectures.
	That's not by design.
	But what we have of Aristotle is him actually dictating things.
	Will you auction off the physical just poor manuscript?
	That's interesting.
	That's interesting.
	That's interesting.
	Somebody says, I recently found Practical Anarchy in a local charity shop.
	It was nice to see other people were reading it.
	I didn't buy it because I hope someone else will read it.
	Oh, it's nice to hear.
	Nice to hear.
	So your level of mental activity is constant and you either give it purpose or it just gets filled with nonsense.
	I mean, it's different from the body, because with the body, when you lie on a couch, your body is resting, right?
	Hit me with a why, if you've ever lay on a couch and thought more, or if this happens on a regular basis.
	You lie on the couch, like, oh, I'm so tired.
	You lie on the couch, and you're like, okay, brain, can we just relax a little here?
	Can we just stop thinking about it?
	Can we just cool it, brain?
	Just cool down the brain, right?
	Tear down the wall, cool down the brain, right?
	Are you ever able to order your brain to stop working?
	Like you can order your body to stop working.
	I could just lie down on the ground right here, right now.
	I can order my body to stop working, no problem.
	Can you ever order your brain to stop working?
	One of my favorite things in the morning is to wake up
	And lie on my face, get my head just on the right angle on the pillow so I can breathe well.
	And it's not too far that my neck feels weird.
	You know, there was this Babylon Bee article, like 38 year old man rushed to the hospital because he slept at a slightly odd angle.
	Right.
	And so I, in the morning, and I just sit there and I think about the world.
	I think about the future.
	I think about what I'm doing.
	I shape my intention as the old Dalai Lama used to say, and you just have to, right.
	And that's a wonderful time.
	Yeah.
	Brain is like the heart.
	It never stops.
	Right.
	Right.
	I mean, sometimes you can do it.
	I don't know if you listen to audiobooks.
	I guess when people are listening to this show, but when you're listening to this show, I hope people are engaged and not just passing the left, let it wash over them like a crab with the sea.
	Uh, I, um, but it's tough, right?
	Your brain starts cooking and well, your brain starts cooking and it don't stop cooking.
	Uh, somebody says I was on the couch all last year with a badly broken leg, mind racing with all the stuff I couldn't do.
	Yeah.
	So here's the thing, man, your mind is always racing.
	Your mind is always racing.
	And it's like a car with a brick on the accelerator.
	Isn't it?
	You can't slow your brain.
	I mean, you can't slow it down.
	You can distract it.
	You know, if you play a video game, right, then people can distract themselves.
	So maybe if you listen to audiobook a little, it can distract yourself, but your brain is always pedal to the metal, isn't it?
	And so this is why, like to me, if you've got a car that's, well, car's the wrong thing, cause it's like two dimensional, right?
	Uh, if you have, but just say, if you have a car that's going to go really, really fast, like you want to get a cool destination, right?
	Somebody says I can't slow, but if I work with it, I feel, I find it feel less like I'm on a runaway carriage, right?
	Runaway train never coming back.
	What happened to your leg, by the way?
	All year with a badly broken leg.
	My gosh.
	I've never broken a bone, so I don't know what that's like, but I assume it's pretty brutal.
	Did they have to, like, screw it back together?
	Was it a compound fracture or a twist fracture?
	Twist fractures are pretty bad.
	Twist breaks are pretty bad, right?
	UK healthcare?
	Oh yeah, maybe, yeah.
	I hate asking, but what if you don't know or have such a powerful purpose?
	Motorcycle ankle, 21 pieces of hardware.
	Yeah, I mean, I hate to say motorcycle, that's on you.
	You know that, right?
	You know that's on you, right?
	Motorcycles are by wheel death traps, right?
	I mean, they only, they basically only, they throw you off near the graveyard and if you're lucky you fall in, right?
	Number of people I know have just had brutal accidents on dirt bikes.
	Yeah.
	Number of people I know who've had brutal accidents on motorcycles.
	One of my best friends when I was younger got beheaded on a motorcycle.
	I mean, it's not, it's not exactly a death wish, but it's not exactly the opposite of a death wish either.
	You didn't even crash.
	What the hell happened?
	Did you, did you miss the crank?
	All right, you'll type it in.
	But yeah, so if you don't have a purpose, that's...
	That's a total lie.
	I'm so sorry.
	That's a total lie.
	Hit me with a why.
	I'm happy to be wrong about this, and I don't mean to be mean, right?
	But, you know, we have a fairly advanced crew here, right?
	Your brain's always active.
	You either point it someplace useful and get somewhere, or all you do is spin in circles, right?
	So if you have this car where the pedal is glued to the bottom, the pedal is glued to the metal, you can go in a straight line, or you can just spin uselessly and choke on the dust, right?
	I just don't feel motivated.
	Like life on cruise control.
	My friend broke his pelvis on a dirt bike.
	He got wish-boned.
	Took months to recover.
	Oh, that's when you're... right?
	Okay.
	A friend fell off a cliff on a motorcycle.
	Which is your friend Tom Cruise.
	That was in the Mission Impossible movie.
	I got a motorcycle license but never got a bike.
	I could never just... I did dirt biking when I was a teenager.
	A friend of mine had a cottage.
	We used to go up all the time.
	And it was really a great time.
	It's great to get out of the city.
	And I remember one of the things we had to do up there was we had to move the outhouse.
	You ever had to do that?
	Have to have to move an outhouse.
	That's really one of the most vile jobs on the planet.
	But I would take the motorbikes.
	They also had snowmobiles, which was great fun.
	We used to all hang out.
	Somebody would drive the snowmobile and we'd all be throwing snowballs at them.
	And whoever hit them with a snowball got to drive the snowmobile.
	The only thing that motivates me is to fix my shit and find a quality woman and breed.
	Yeah, okay, so kids will give you purpose for sure, but... Okay, I mean, I don't know.
	I mean, how robust are you guys feeling?
	How blunt do you want me to be?
	Minus 10 for super soft and plus 10
	to giant illuminating Gestapo eyeball swinging lamps and rubber truncheons.
	Plus 10?
	Are you sure?
	Eleven.
	Though it'd kill me.
	So it looks like we have a lot of motorcycle riders here, metaphorically.
	All right.
	Listen, I don't mean to force you to donate, but I mean, you're going to tip.
	If what I tell you right now, you're going to tip.
	So if you don't have, you don't have any money or you don't have any desire to tip, you might want to drop out now because you will literally be compelled emotionally to tip right after this.
	All right.
	No more teasing.
	Here we go.
	Hit me with a why if your environment is morally perfect.
	Everyone's a peaceful parent.
	Everyone accepts the non-aggression principle.
	Everyone rejects hierarchical, oligarchical, institutional power.
	Hit me with a why if every one of your moral companions is excellent to the nth degree.
	And yourself, by the way, as well.
	Yeah.
	No.
	Right.
	So, let me tell you what you are.
	Let me tell you what you are.
	You are doctors without precedent in human history.
	I shit you not, I kid you not, you are doctors without precedent in human history because you, having listened to UPB, having listened to this show, you are in possession of the absolute final rational and empirical proof of universal morality.
	No doubt, no gods, no governments, facts, reason, evidence.
	Boom.
	You have been handed
	The ultimate curative pill in the universe.
	Sorry, I told you right at the beginning, if you listen to this show, responsibility will pile upon your shoulders like leaden wings that
	You feel they're going to drag you down to the depths, but will in fact get you to the stars.
	You've listened.
	Hey, that's cool, man.
	Philosophy's kind of cool.
	That deaf guy's kind of funny.
	Boy, he takes his shirt off.
	He sings a little.
	He does some really antique stuff.
	You know, he goes out to Hong Kong.
	He gets facefuls of tear gas just marching with the anti-communist protesters.
	And, you know, he gets into really wild debates when he gets
	Jumped and ambushed on TV and by Joe Rogan.
	Like, he's really a neat guy.
	In a way, he's kind of funny and entertaining.
	And boy, he's really good with analogies.
	That's an entertaining show to watch, man.
	That guy's got some verbal skills.
	He's got some logic ninja.
	He's got some debate voodoo man.
	Those truth about shows are really entertaining.
	They bring history to life, and he's got a lot of passion, and he's got a lot of focus, and he really is enthusiastic about philosophy.
	Boy, what a great show to watch!
	Hit me with a Y if this has ever crossed your mind.
	That I'm a show.
	I get thrown out at LA City Hall.
	Hit me with a why, if you've ever been like, yeah, this is a really entertaining show to watch.
	This guy's really passionate and eloquent.
	Yeah.
	He's got some good thoughts and kind of compelling and he's quite convincing and yeah.
	Yeah.
	So, um, you know, what a, what a great show to watch.
	You idiots.
	It's okay.
	I've been an idiot too.
	Cause I watched philosophy for 20 years before realizing, uh, I was right.
	You're an idiot, I'm an idiot.
	Because we think philosophy... I told you you're gonna tip on this, man.
	I thought philosophy was largely for debate, entertainment, writing and speaking.
	Yeah, no.
	And you watch this show like, wow, this is really interesting and compelling stuff, man.
	He's got a lot of courage and he gets really beaten down but, you know, he comes back up and, you know, it's really, boy, I love tuning in to see this show because you never know exactly what he's going to say next but it's always pretty insightful and cuts me to the core and improves my life and, boy, it's kind of entertaining like I'm a show!
	I'm a showman!
	Isn't that your, uh... I know, it's not like that, but I've done it plenty!
	Ha ha ha, yes.
	Dance, monkey, dance!
	Yes, indeed.
	Yeah.
	I wish Steph would go back on Twitter, because I love watching him own the irrational people.
	What a show that was!
	Like a coliseum where you've got an anemic, somewhat elderly and bald slave armed only with a toothpick and a sharp tongue who takes down three tigers!
	Yeah, it's quite a show, isn't it?
	Thumbs up, thumbs down.
	Are you not entertained?
	Let me entertain you.
	Let me entertain you.
	Right?
	Boy, aren't I entertaining?
	Come on!
	We've all been there.
	Philosophy is edgy and cool and exciting and fun.
	And I'm the holder of a secret and special flame.
	I warm my heart with the secret blue internal fire of philosophy and can stride through life feeling superior as the benighted people lost in the matrix of darkness aren't lit up by the special flame that I hold.
	I can only sustain my philosophy boner with the blue pill of Steph's red tongue for a couple of hours before it fades, right?
	Listen, you've nothing to apologize for.
	I'm pointing it out.
	And I'm pointing it out with all deep humility that I spend half my time with you guys.
	Like philosophy is like really cool, man.
	Like it gives me a lot of secret insights and it makes me feel special and intelligent.
	And like, you know, it does make me smarter.
	It helps me understand the world.
	I just suck it up like a Roomba with a bunch of cockroaches.
	Right.
	Right.
	But unfortunately I've been turning you into plague doctors.
	But with real cures this time, unlike that voodoo nonsense and the Black Death.
	Or COVID for that matter, right?
	Somebody says, I think I pursued philosophy because it was my only way to not die.
	Same.
	Same.
	So here's the facts.
	You hold the cure in a time of plague and thinking that philosophy is there for your edification, enlightenment, and entertainment is the equivalent of a man going to medical school, learning a secret cure for the universal disease, and then saying, wow, you know, the guy who taught me that cure, man, the guy who taught me the cure,
	Yeah, a lot of charisma.
	It's pretty funny, you know.
	Not the best singer, but, you know, he threw himself into it and seemed to have a good time.
	I guess I can't deny him that if he wants to throw in a scrappy song from time to time, but, um, you know, he throws his, he takes his shirt off and it was kind of funny and, you know, not bad for his 50s or whatever, but, uh, ain't gonna be taking home any prizes anytime soon, but...
	Yeah, pretty funny, good with a joke, good with a repartee, and good at dismantling nonsense, and good at debates.
	The guy who taught me the cure for this universal disease was really kind of funny and engaging and entertaining.
	Yeah.
	Now at some point somebody might say, well, so you're saying that the guy who was the teacher who was really engaging and entertaining, that guy
	Like he, he taught you the cure for the universal plague, right?
	That's what you're saying.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	You know, I'll send you a video too.
	No, no, no.
	I won't.
	So you know the cure to the universal plague.
	Have you cured yourself?
	Like I'm more of a watching someone talk about the cure kind of guy than actually curing kind of guy.
	Like, I want you to think of it like this way.
	Like, I'm 300 pounds and there's a really entertaining diet and nutrition expert online.
	Like, he's funny, he's engaging, he's warm, he criticizes, he's blunt.
	You know, he's really, really motivating.
	And you're like, somebody else is like, Oh, so you must've been like, what, four or 500 pounds.
	Now you're 300 pounds.
	No, no, no.
	I was like 250.
	Like I'm now at 300.
	And you're like, it's the other person.
	It's like, well, wait a minute.
	You said that this diet and nutrition coach was hugely entertaining and engaging and motivating.
	So if that's the case, why are you still gaining weight?
	It's like, no, no, no.
	He's motivating me to watch more of his videos.
	That's what's because they're interesting, engaging, entertaining, and enlightening.
	So what I'm motivated to do is not actually diet and exercise like he says.
	What I'm motivated to do is watch more of his really entertaining videos on diet and exercise.
	Well, what about all the people around you who are like even more obese than you are?
	Do you talk to them?
	No, no, no.
	Like occasionally I'll send them this guy's videos, but they don't really like it that much.
	But yeah, I've been, I've been watching this diet and exercise guy for like, oh man, I think my six or seven years, if I think about it, I took occasional breaks when he really pressed for me to actually act and change my diet and exercise habits.
	Cause that felt a bit intrusive to be honest with you.
	You know, it's one thing to be engaging and entertaining about diet and exercise, but every now and then he'd say, like, you've really got to fucking do it.
	Right.
	Like, and that's kind of bothered me.
	Like I, that seemed a bit like kind of in your face and a bit, um, that hit me sideways.
	Right.
	It almost seemed kind of rude, you know, like, Hey man, I'll make my own choices.
	Thank you very much.
	I'm here for the entertainment.
	I'm not here.
	To do the stuff you talk about.
	I'm here to be entertained.
	You know, like when you watch a Maw movie, it doesn't mean you sign up.
	When you watch somebody fight a lion with a net and a trident in the amphitheater, you don't sign up to fight the next fight.
	You're just there to be entertained.
	I can watch movies about ghosts without becoming a ghost hunter.
	I watch The Sixth Sense.
	I don't think I'm surrounded by dead people unless I'm at a leftist dinner party.
	I mean, you don't become what you find entertaining, right?
	I don't watch Sin Elsewhere and imagine I'm a doctor, even though they talk a lot about medical stuff.
	Like I'm here to be entertained.
	I'm not here to... to change.
	And so what I do is, I am entertained.
	Look, I do want people to change, right?
	So I'm 250 pounds.
	I was 250 pounds five years ago.
	I'm now 300 pounds.
	And what I do, you see, it's really cool.
	What I do is I send, the diet and exercise guy, I send his videos to other people.
	But for some reason, it's kind of weird, for some reason, they don't seem to, they don't seem to get it, man.
	They don't seem to respect
	The diet and exercise guy.
	We'll call him Biff, right?
	Biff the diet and exercise guy.
	Like, Biff's super entertaining.
	I send people the videos.
	But they don't get into Biff.
	Why?
	Why don't they get into Biff?
	Maybe they think his name is backward.
	It's Fib or something.
	Like, he's a liar.
	Like, it's weird.
	Now, occasionally I get the thought that I went from 250 pounds to 300 pounds and I'm sending, and they know I watch Biff, and then I send the videos of Biff saying, you should watch this, and I think maybe deep down they're thinking, I just had this thought occasionally, I obviously shug it off as completely crazy, but I was wondering if maybe because I've gone from 250 pounds while I watch Biff, and then I send the videos of Biff to other people, occasionally I get this weird feeling that that's maybe why they don't.
	Take Biff very seriously, because they look at me and I'm like, I'm a huge fan of Biff, but I've gone from 250 to 300 pounds while watching him, right?
	No, I'm not here to change my diet and exercise.
	I'm here for the
	Giant forehead and entertaining analogies.
	Come on, we've all done it.
	Am I wrong?
	Hit me with a why if you're here sometimes for the funsies and the humor and the insights.
	Right.
	You're here for the feet pics?
	Yes, for the last 10 plus years, right?
	Right.
	Going through COVID revealed the evils of the world to me and this toxic ring around me.
	It's made dating hard, but now I know who to avoid.
	Yeah, COVID has a huge efficiency matrix.
	Some people respond negatively to nagging.
	Do you mean like if you nag them about what I say?
	Is Jesus here to tell you stories or change your life?
	Just out of curiosity.
	Is Jesus here, did Jesus come and sacrifice himself to tell stories or change people's lives?
	If you hear, look, I aim to be entertaining.
	Absolutely.
	Spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.
	You present it well, but I needed it all to get well.
	Taking the philosophy pill made me sick at first, but then it did its magic in me.
	So I've turned you into plague doctors.
	They say universal plague.
	And then you all say to me, I just feel I don't really have much of a purpose in life.
	Do you see how crazy this sounds?
	You're plague doctors.
	People are dropping down all around you.
	You know how to cure the universal plague.
	You've probably cured it in yourself to some degree.
	You know how to cure the universal plague.
	People are dropping all around you from the plague and you say,
	I just don't feel any sense of purpose.
	I don't know what to do.
	Imagine that I could give you the words that turned your fingertips into the cancer curers.
	You touch someone, they're cured of cancer.
	Let's say that half of your family is infected with cancer.
	And you've got magic cancer-curing fingertips and you say, I just don't feel motivated and I don't really know what to do with my life.
	I just feel kind of listless and bored and restless and I don't really know what to do.
	How about curing the cancer around you?
	What if people don't want the cure?
	They reject it.
	Absolutely.
	Yeah.
	Matthew 10 34 to 36.
	Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth.
	I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.
	For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.
	And a person's enemies will be those of his own household.
	Think I hadn't read those words when I was a teenager?
	Read the whole Bible!
	Yep.
	Yeah.
	And Jesus was a real historical figure.
	Even if you believe he wasn't the son of God, he was a real historical figure.
	There's a scene at the beginning of Life of Brian.
	And originally they were going to write a comedy about Jesus, but they couldn't find anything objectionable about Jesus or anything funny about Jesus.
	So they didn't make it about Jesus.
	The beginning, he says, blessed are the cheesemakers.
	And there's a crowd fairly distant saying, is he saying blessed are the cheesemakers?
	What does that mean?
	Well, of course, when he's referring to cheese makers, he's referring to all manufacturers of dairy products, right?
	Some smarmy guy interpreting already.
	What will your conscience do to you?
	If you fail, the purpose you have already accepted.
	What will your conscience do to you if you fail the purpose you have already accepted?
	I'm here to help.
	Somebody says, I originally heard about you from a podcast that was criticizing you.
	I still find myself listening for the funsies, but I credit you for changing my life through philosophy.
	Thank you, Steph.
	I appreciate that, Evan.
	It's very kind.
	It's not me, it's you.
	I'm probably, maybe gave you a map.
	You hiked through the woods in the dark, chased by wolves.
	The moment you accept your capacity to cure, you are responsible for illness.
	The moment you have the capacity to cure, you are responsible for illness.
	Don't want to sacrifice my life for a world not worth saving.
	I'm not saying sacrifice your life.
	I'm not saying be aggressive.
	I'm not saying any of that.
	No self-immolation.
	You see me sacrificing?
	You liberated me from the darkness of immense nihilism and misdirection.
	I'm thrilled.
	But you did it.
	I appreciate, listen, I absolutely appreciate your incredible kindness and generosity of spirit at telling me what this show has meant to you.
	I respect it.
	I'm not trying to be Mr. False Humility.
	Well, I didn't do anything.
	No, I did something.
	But you did most of it.
	You had to choose to listen.
	You had to choose to accept.
	You had to choose to overcome the nihilism.
	You had to try and pursue virtue.
	You had to accept the reality of what I was saying.
	That's on you.
	That's your medal.
	Even if I make the medal, you earn it.
	You
	Talk to whoever will listen.
	You talk to whoever will listen.
	And if somebody won't listen and somebody attacks you or criticizes you or lies about you, inevitable, then you, man, I'm telling you 95% of what I do is to save you from your conscience and me from my conscience.
	It has at times felt like a very heavy burden to have figured out and know what I know.
	I'll be straight up with you.
	I mean, it has at times felt like a very heavy burden that I did not want.
	I didn't want.
	I didn't want to be the guy to solve the problem of secular ethics.
	I didn't want to be the guy who can help people see a truth that nobody else seems to have found or can illuminate.
	I didn't want that.
	I didn't want that.
	I didn't want to feel like I was bungeed here from the future.
	I didn't want to wake up to the fact that people are largely sleeping striking Satanists in a way.
	Did I want to defend children?
	I wanted to defend children.
	I didn't want to find out what happens to people who defend children.
	That I didn't want to see.
	I mean, it's like the story of that physicist who first figured out nuclear fusion?
	Fission.
	And he said, he was out with his girlfriend in the park, moonless sky, clear night.
	His girlfriend looks up and says, stars are so beautiful tonight.
	And he said, they are.
	And as of right now, I'm the only man alive who knows why they burn.
	I'm the only man alive who knows why they burn.
	With UPB I was the only man alive, before publishing it, I was the only man alive who knew the why and the what of virtue.
	Not in laws, not in commandments, not in violence, not in tradition, not in habit, not in culture.
	In fact.
	In fact.
	And boy did I strive to the barbaric mountaintops of the world and lucid primeval yawp of truth across the heavens.
	Boy did I stride forward with great enthusiasm to all of the people thirsty for virtue in this world and say it only I know why these stars burn.
	Only I know the what and why of virtue.
	I say this now, having published it 14 years ago, and never having seen a rebuttal.
	It can't be rebutted.
	It can't be rebutted.
	And I strode forward and I was like, wow, people are going to... I don't want to be... I don't care about praise for me.
	Honestly, I don't care.
	If you've done something, praise is irrelevant.
	If you've actually done something, praise is irrelevant.
	And of course, if you try and suckle at the black teat of praise, then you also get the club of condemnation.
	Resist praise and you survive criticism.
	People who are self-critical are there because they're desperate to praise themselves, and because they're desperate to be praised even by themselves, they're open to be crushed and criticized, even and especially by themselves.
	Why do I survive criticism?
	Because I don't seek praise.
	When have I ever said, praise me?
	When?
	Never.
	I've always been perfectly humble.
	Nobody can beat me in humility.
	I'm the best.
	It's a gold medal.
	In humility.
	I always tell people they do it themselves.
	I worked at philosophy, I have a lucky brain, and coincidentally fantastic technology.
	That's it.
	So I brought virtue and the proof of virtue to the world.
	And you'd think that a world thirsty, because what does the world say?
	I want to be good, I want to oppose evil.
	I want to be good and I want to oppose evil.
	When I say, here's what is good.
	Here's how we define evil.
	And what do people say?
	Yawn.
	It's just Kant's categorical imperative warmed over.
	What a plagiarist.
	It's not even real proof.
	It's ridiculous.
	Oh, Mr. History major thinks he can take on the biggest problem in ethics.
	Well, excuse me for being a little skeptical.
	I don't even know where to start.
	Where do I even begin to unpack all of the errors in this work?
	I don't even know where to start.
	You can't get a not from an is, bro!
	And all of the atheists, the statists, the statists worshipping atheists, all of the atheists.
	We don't need God!
	But we can still be super good.
	In fact, you know, God interferes with your virtue.
	The Ten Commandments are just commandments.
	They don't come out.
	You can't command thought.
	You've got to think through things yourself.
	You've got to know what is virtuous and what is why is virtuous.
	Why?
	Why?
	Okay.
	Here's the what and the why and the how of virtue.
	Can't be disproven.
	Absolute.
	Stealing can never be universally preferable behavior.
	Rape, theft, and assault can never be universally preferable behavior.
	Done and fucking dusted.
	First time ever.
	Inescapable.
	God is the false cure for evil and is a false siren of good.
	Leads you the wrong way.
	Leads you only to obedience to words, not knowledge, reason, and understanding.
	God is a pied piper leading you all off a cliff.
	Reason, science, facts, and evidence will bring us to virtue.
	Oh, here's the rational proof of secular ethics.
	Oh, doesn't he think he's clever?
	See, Richard Dawkins, a biologist, can talk a lot about virtue, you see.
	That's totally fine.
	Oh, fuck, Sam Harris, neuroscientist?
	Yeah, he can talk about virtues, no problem.
	Oh, you studied the history of philosophy?
	Fuck, would you be qualified to talk about ethics in philosophy?
	You just wrote your graduate school thesis on the history of philosophy.
	Why the hell would you know anything about the purpose of philosophy over time?
	He doesn't have the right number of magic letters after his name.
	There's no reason to believe him.
	Yeah.
	Cause you know, Socrates totally had a PhD from Stanford.
	That's the only reason anybody ever listened to Socrates.
	Aristotle also, you know, absolute PhD from Harvard.
	I think it was, was it Stanford, Harvard or MIT?
	Something like that.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Nietzsche was totally accepted in the university system as a philologist.
	Yeah.
	They absolutely loved him.
	Totally great.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	I mean, the whole history of philosophy, you can see Spinoza, all these people.
	Yeah, they were all accepted as brilliant philosophers in their own time and accepted by all of the sophists and maleducators of their time.
	So I went and sky wrote the proof of virtue in the world.
	And you'd think that everybody who had abandoned God, because it was false virtue and fake virtue, you'd think that everyone would be like, Oh my heavens!
	Oh my heavens!
	This mad lad has gone and done it.
	The mad bastard went and did it.
	He proved secular ethics.
	We abandoned God.
	And lost absolute ethics and came up with some Darwinian bullshit.
	Mutual altruism is an advantageous gene strategy.
	Oh, so people with closer genes should help each other?
	Oh no, that's right.
	It's terrible.
	No, I can't do that.
	You know that most atheists just rejected God because they don't want to be good.
	They want to be gods.
	Most atheists reject God because they want to be gods.
	They want to be the definer of their own values.
	They want to be the alpha and the omega of their own evaluations.
	What I will is the good.
	And I'm about to embark on the 19th century in the history of philosophers, which is the rise of the age of power.
	So of course, if you flee God because you don't want to be constrained by facts or you don't want to be constrained by values, let's say.
	Flee God because you don't want to put a limit on your hungry ego for resources and domination.
	Flee God because God constrains you and you wish to be as a God.
	You wish to be greater than God.
	You wish to be greater than God.
	Because God defines virtue universally.
	Whereas you define virtue as whatever the hell you want in the moment.
	Because it's evolutionary advantageous, don't you know?
	Actually.
	So you are fleeing anything which limits your own ego.
	To the point where Rich Dawkins can say, oh, pedophilia, it's not really so bad, is it?
	It's really not terrible.
	My gosh, people make such a fuss about it.
	Diddling children.
	I'm not kidding, look it up.
	Well, the French intellectuals, 1960s onwards, all absolutely desperate to lower the age of consent to approximately minus 12.
	So of course you don't run away from the moral absolutes of religion in order to trip and fall into the chasm of the moral absolutes of UPB.
	That's like running out of jail in order to get to a smaller jail.
	I gotta borrow out of this jail cell because I hear there's one half its size with more cockroaches and mice.
	Why would I invent magic and then want to be bound by absolute physics?
	So then I of course come along and say, oh yeah, no, I understand that you find that the commandments of God are unsatisfying.
	I get that.
	You don't believe in God.
	You believe in science, reason, evidence, logic, objectivity.
	Fantastic.
	Here's that proof for morality.
	No, no, no, no.
	No, sorry.
	We got away from God because we don't want our egos to be limited.
	We left God because Satan said that if you leave God, you can control the physical world.
	That if you leave religion, you get science.
	Right?
	That's what Satan said.
	Give up your God.
	Give up your morals and you can control all the physical world.
	And you know, that horny headed son of a bitch was right.
	Was right.
	We gave up God and we got science.
	But science is amoral.
	Knowledge and power.
	Science is a knife thrown in to a highly questionable social conflict.
	We gained unprecedented power over every natural force in the universe and lost control of ourselves completely.
	We gained the power to blow up entire planets and now we no longer know what a male is.
	We gained the power to travel to other planets.
	And we lost any and all moral purpose in the world.
	And a funny story, it turns out that science was really promoted by secular rulers who wanted all the benefits of science because, you know, you can't get central bank digital currency and endless surveillance on people without science!
	Can't get that, right?
	Need science for that!
	So you all go out and make all of this scientific shit, right?
	And then, because there are no morals, and there are no ethics, and there's no property rights, and there's no self-ownership, and you're all creepy determinists, and, right?
	So you go out and invent all of this crazy technology shit, and then we will rule your ass forever.
	To Timothy 3, thank you, but know this,
	That in the last days, the critical times hard to deal with will be here, for men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, haughty, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, disloyal, having no natural affection, not open to any agreement, slanderers,
	Without self-control.
	Fierce without love of goodness.
	Betrayers.
	Headstrong.
	What was the devil's bargain?
	Thou shalt not surely die if you eat of the fruit of the tree of good and evil.
	Thou shalt be lifted up as to a god.
	Yeah, lift it up.
	An ego and the price was the loss of truth and happiness and peace.
	Lousy bargain.
	You'd think, okay, do people have more power over their own happiness now or in the past?
	People have more power over their own happiness now or in the past?
	Who has the most power in society, men or women?
	Who has more power in society, men or women?
	M for men, W for women.
	Who has the most power in society, men or women?
	Yeah, women, of course.
	Of course.
	Who's more happy, men or women?
	Yeah, men are more happy.
	Women's unhappiness decade after decade since the 1950s has increased.
	The women have the most power and they're the least happy.
	I will give you immense power over everything in the natural world.
	And what does the devil take in return for all the power he gives?
	What does the devil take in return?
	Yeah.
	Christeberg.
	Spanish train style, he takes your soul.
	Why do unhappy older women accept they're unhappy, but then encourage young women to follow their path?
	Because misery loves company.
	This is an old thing, right?
	It's one thing to be unhappy.
	It's another thing to be unhappy watching other people be happy.
	Because that could have been you.
	That could have been you.
	If you just had made better decisions.
	If you hadn't listened to the sophists.
	That could be you.
	You could be that happy.
	You could feel overjoyed.
	Why do women feel so powerless if they have more power?
	Because the more power, this has to be the deal that UPB was designed to fix.
	The more power you have over external things, the less power you have over internal happiness.
	You follow me?
	The more power you have over external things, the less power you have over internal happiness.
	Because internal happiness is the feeling you get when you have successfully adapted to reality.
	But if all you ever do is adapt reality to yourself,
	You never develop the muscle of adaptation to reality that gives you happiness.
	Happiness is the feeling that we have when we have successfully adapted to reality.
	But if all we ever do is change reality to suit our own whims and pleasures and preferences, then science gives us that power in many ways.
	We gain power over the world, we lose power over our own happiness.
	Please, read my novel, The Future.
	Roman explains all of this
	Why does he live in the wilderness when there's a fantastic city just over the horizon?
	He knows all about it.
	Why does he live in the wilderness?
	Happiness, this is the reward of successfully adapting to reality.
	Science gives you the power to adapt reality to everything and we get weaker and more miserable as a result.
	Now, science plus the free market, plus science plus stateless society, science plus UPB, I get no problem with that.
	No issue with science.
	No issue with science.
	But science is a hole of soul-deadening comfort that people crawl into to escape the rules of God.
	Science is a discipline-dissolving dream of comfort that people dissolve themselves into in order to escape the strictness of moral absolutes.
	Hit me with a why if you follow.
	I'm not saying if you agree.
	I want to make sure that you're with me.
	I can't see you the way I could see an audience I was talking to.
	Do you follow what I'm saying?
	Again, I'm not saying do you agree.
	I'm just making the case here, not asking for agreement.
	We have unprecedented control over our environment.
	I'm old enough to remember life before air conditioning.
	I was old enough to remember life before air conditioning.
	Now a friend of mine, so I kicked my mom out when I was 15.
	I was working two or three jobs.
	I had two roommates paying the bills.
	One of my roommates, his father worked in the HVAC business and he got us a used, about to be thrown out air conditioner.
	Now for the people who are older or who grew up poor, do you know how insane it was, temperature variances, when I was a kid?
	It was crazy.
	Cold as a witch's tit in the winter, hot as a Indian food farting oven in the summer.
	We had to put coins into the heater.
	We didn't have coins a lot of times.
	Just huddled up, threw on clothes.
	Sometimes I could see my breath in the apartment or the flat that I grew up in.
	Particularly in England in the 70s, there were coal shortages, gas shortages, fuel shortages.
	My brother had a car.
	The cooling system in the engine was so shot that the only way he could keep the car running was to put the heat on in full blast.
	Because it would bleed the heat off from the engine.
	I would rather bike in the sun than take his car.
	It was just brutal.
	It was like literally being dragged behind a space shuttle in a sauna.
	I remember the first day.
	I was about 15 and a half, maybe 16.
	First day we got that AC installed.
	I was out waitering and I was working a patio and it was ridiculously hot.
	Toronto is like crazy hot, crazy muggy.
	It's like living in somebody's lung while they're jogging up a mountain or a solar flare, more likely.
	Sweating the whole time.
	Walking the whole time.
	And gulping down drinks all day because I was so thirsty.
	And I came home.
	Of course, you sit on the bus.
	The buses didn't have air conditioning back then.
	You sit on the bus.
	Hot, hot, hot.
	You walk.
	I had a long walk from the bus stop to my place.
	Got the elevator.
	Hot.
	Everything was hot.
	Nothing with air conditioning.
	But this is one of the first air conditions we put in the window.
	Open the door.
	It was so beautiful.
	I still appreciate air conditioning.
	You get into a car on a hot day, turn on the A.C.
	Fantastic.
	Love my daughter.
	She can't really handle temperature changes very well.
	And we only had one air conditioner.
	So what we would all, all my roommates and I would do when I was sort of 15 or 16 years old is we'd all sleep on couch cushions in the living room.
	Cause that was the only room that was reliably cold or cool.
	Right.
	Cause hit me with a why, if you've ever done this thing where you're trying to, you're trying to sleep in the heat.
	I mean, isn't it crazy?
	Don't you feel like the sheets are slowly wrapping around and tightening like they're these molten anacondas choking the last remaining cool bits out of you?
	You're sweating.
	Oh, my God, it's so hot.
	And you're trying to sleep, but the sweat is running down your face.
	Of course, I worked up north.
	We were out in the bugs and the black fly.
	Always the black fly, no matter where I go.
	I'll die with the black birds picking my bones in North Ontario.
	I remember that song.
	Yeah, the black fly would drive you mad.
	And you're lying there and you're trying to get some sleep and then little lava of sweat goes down your face, wakes you up.
	God, it's horrible.
	I remember reading, I'm never a big fan of the writer William James, but I remember him describing two people trying to sleep in a hot hotel room in New York.
	Just horrendous.
	You can't sleep.
	Man, it was too hot to sleep.
	You ever hear this?
	It's the Robbie Robertson song, right?
	Let me just see if I can dig up the lyrics.
	Some good lyrics.
	Gosh.
	Robbie Robertson did a lot.
	A lot of songs.
	Yeah, Somewhere Down the Crazy River.
	Let me just get this.
	I won't do the whole thing and it's not really even a song.
	Like the song Stealin' by Queen.
	But he did a fantastic job of doing this song like a sort of beaten down 1950's I've Got a Headache and a Dire Straits song.
	Private Eye.
	Yeah, I can see it now.
	The distant red neon shivered in the heat.
	I was feeling like a stranger in a strange land.
	You know, where people played games with the night.
	God, I was too hot to sleep.
	I followed the sound of a jukebox coming from up the levee.
	All of a sudden I could hear somebody whistling from right behind me.
	I turned around and she said, Why do you always end up down at Nick's Cafe?
	I said, uh, I don't know.
	The wind just kind of pushed me this way.
	She said, Hang the rich.
	Wait, did you hear that?
	Oh, this is sure stirring up some ghosts for me.
	She said, there's one thing you gotta learn.
	It's not to be afraid of it.
	I said, no, I like it.
	I like it.
	It's good.
	She said, you like it now, but you'll learn to love it later.
	It's a good song.
	It's a good song.
	Yeah.
	It's too hot to sleep, man.
	It was too hot to sleep.
	I used to sleep on my balcony.
	It was so hot inside.
	I had a little cot, like one of these tiny little ass cots.
	And I slept on my balcony.
	Five floors up from the radiating surface of the sun, tarmac of the fading sunlight-soaked tarmac day.
	Oh, so hot.
	Yeah, whoever invented AC has a special place in heaven or there's this meme where somebody's saying, hey, what are your plans this weekend?
	And it's a white guy hugging a black guy and the black guy is the air conditioner.
	How did you get the job up north?
	My father, my father knew the guy he was hiring.
	My father was a geologist and the guy that was a job that was for a geology company.
	So,
	For me, I still love air conditioning.
	Honestly, I know this sounds ridiculous, but it's true.
	That many times, many times, when I'm drinking a cold drink, I will remember how incredibly unique it is in history to be able to have a drink at different temperature than your environment.
	I've said this before, like, imagine what kind of Genghis Khan you'd have to be.
	You're down at the bottom of the mountain in the hot jungle and some guy's running down the mountain with a bag of ice on his back just to give you a cold drink and you can get that by pushing a fucking cop up against the lever on your fridge.
	Beautiful.
	And now we have all the air conditioning in the known universe.
	We have all the digital entertainment in the known universe.
	We have all the power over nature that any of our ancestors could have conceivably imagined in their wildest dreams.
	And we're miserable.
	We're stressed.
	We're tense.
	We have no meaning.
	We have no certainty.
	We're being taken over by evildoers.
	Resistance seems futile.
	Take the world, I'll take your soul.
	You get control over the world, I'll take your soul.
	And I tried through UPB to give people their souls back.
	Wrestle it back from the devil!
	Oh, tricked you, you horny-headed son of a bitch!
	Got it back!
	Billions of souls, six, seven, eight billions of souls in a bag, like Google's novel Dead Souls.
	I'm out there buying souls back from the devil, giving it back to humanity.
	You can get your morals back!
	I beat him!
	I tricked that redheaded son of a bitch.
	I slid under his door with a bag full of souls to give him back to you.
	What a feat.
	What a feat.
	People gave up their souls for power.
	Gave up their souls, their virtues, their meaning, their purpose, their morals for the sake of air conditioning and cars and pretty pictures of flags on the moon.
	And I did the unimaginable, the unthinkable.
	Which was to go in at night like Bilbo with the dragon and steal back everyone's souls and offer them up for free.
	For free!
	Hey, and you could even keep your power over nature.
	You don't have to give up your power over nature to get your souls, your ethics, and your meaning back.
	Isn't that incredible?
	What a feat!
	What a benefactor!
	What a gift!
	You keep your science and, with the same methodology you use to control the universe, you can now control your own happiness through rational, secular ethics!
	Did they want their souls back?
	Did they go to UPB and say, wow, we can keep the power and we get our ethics back?
	Reason and evidence gives us vision, fusion.
	We know where the stars burn.
	We can send tin cans past Pluto with millimeter accuracy.
	We get radios and airplanes, internal combustion engines, computers.
	We get quantum physics.
	We get an imaginary answer to nothing called string theory.
	We get incredible stuff.
	We get all of this.
	All of this.
	And we get our meaning back.
	We get our virtues back.
	We get our souls back.
	Well, Ravage Queen with the bar pole, I'd like to say thanks.
	Thank you, man.
	We didn't even know we'd lost our souls.
	We just kind of felt empty and vacant and undistimulated in our gizzards.
	Thank you, man.
	You actually went, did battle with the devil and got our souls back and are just handing them to us for free.
	Wow.
	What a benefactor.
	When I was a child I had a fleeting glimpse Out of the corner of my eye I turned to look but it was gone I cannot put my finger on it now The child has grown, the dream is gone I have become comfortably numb
	It's a funny thing, you know, to see this benefit.
	The return of the soul.
	But here's the thing, man.
	This is the thing.
	This is the wildest thing.
	Isn't it interesting to think that the devil who steals your soul actually robs you of your desire to want it back?
	That the real stealing of your soul is actually stealing your desire to get it back.
	And that's what the devil is really up to.
	I bet you at the end of the equation, the devil says, I'm just kidding man, you can have your soul back.
	And people are like, no!
	No!
	No!
	Keep it!
	Well you know that means hell.
	Keep it!
	Do you know why people don't want their souls back?
	If they've lived too long without ethics.
	What comes with the soul that starts with a C?
	What comes with the soul that starts with a C?
	Bang on James.
	And all of those who are mistyping conscious, I know what you mean.
	That's right.
	Conscience.
	I want you to look at that word conscience.
	It's actually two words.
	What are the two words that make up conscience?
	What are the two words?
	Right.
	Con-science.
	With science.
	For our Spanish friends, but also the con called science.
	It's a con.
	Science is a con.
	It's a trick.
	It's sophistry.
	It gives you power over the world as the devil promised and steals your entire fucking soul to the point you can't even want it back for free.
	Science is a con.
	You think language is just accidental?
	Language is about as accidental as dreams at night.
	Now.
	Have you ever wondered, after all the wrongs I've suffered, why I still have such joy and peace of mind?
	Relatively, right?
	I mean, I don't know if you think about me or what I say or whatever.
	It doesn't matter if you have or haven't.
	I'm just curious if you've ever wondered why I still sing and laugh and dance and have fairly unbridled joy in my life despite all of the wrongs and lies and blah blah blah, right?
	No, tons of people who have a couple of coins don't have peace of mind.
	You are active?
	Lots of people are active and don't have a good conscience.
	A clear conscience, yes.
	By clear conscience, no, lots of people have a family and don't have a good conscience.
	So, why is it that I've retained joy
	Here's the thing.
	People think that I've retained joy despite being wronged.
	That's not the equation.
	I have joy because I've been wronged.
	I'm telling you, it'll blow your mind.
	It'll blow your mind.
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	Why am I happy?
	Because I've been wronged.
	Because if you can overcome your fear of being wronged, what barriers to happiness do you have?
	If you can overcome your fear of injustice, if you can overcome your fear of injustice, you liberate your capacity to do good.
	Subbed and donated.
	Worth it, chat.
	To me, so worth it.
	Thank you, my friend.
	Thank you.
	The greedy and wicked seem perfectly happy with their greed, wickedness, and resulting spoils.
	They're not happy.
	Have you ever been around people who are wealthy and powerful?
	You ever been around people who are wealthy and powerful?
	I'm not massively familiar with that world, but I've seen it.
	I was in the business world in the entrepreneurial world.
	I've seen it.
	I remember one guy very up in the business world was mocked because he was so lonely.
	He'd bought a Russian bride over.
	Why were they unhappy?
	Because they had money, but no virtue.
	Beyond a certain amount, what is money going to buy you?
	If you're starving, that first $10 means the difference between life and death.
	If you've got a million dollars, what does a million and $10 get you?
	Somebody says, I pursued wealth and it has not made me happy.
	Pursuing virtue and virtuous people has.
	People who have sex with a lot of women become miserable at some point.
	Yeah, for sure.
	So thank you for the tip.
	So you say, if people attack you for trying to help them, they release you from the responsibility of helping them.
	This is, uh, thank you.
	I appreciate, I appreciate your support.
	Thank you, Matt.
	That's very kind.
	I appreciate that too.
	Really do.
	So the reason you help people, you say, oh, well, I'm afraid that they're going to get mad at me.
	I'm afraid that they're going to reject me, that they're going to attack me.
	They're going to ostracize me.
	I get that.
	I understand that.
	I really do.
	I really understand that.
	Hit me with a why if you'd like to be released from that fear.
	Hit me with a why if you'd like to be released from that fear.
	Come on.
	Come on, son.
	Okay.
	No for the doormaster.
	Okay.
	Don't listen to this.
	There's nobody.
	There's nobody.
	There's nobody who isn't helping you.
	Everybody is helping you.
	Everybody is helping me.
	Everybody is helping you and everybody is... they can't help themselves.
	They can't help themselves.
	But help me.
	So if you have a friend
	Who's making a bad decision, right?
	I've told you this story before.
	It's just a convenient one.
	My friend was having real trouble in his marriage to the point where some legal stuff was happening.
	Some real problems in his marriage.
	He says to me, what do you think's going on?
	You're a wise man.
	What do you think's going on?
	And I said, well, you certainly don't listen from time to time, but your wife is pretty aggressive.
	And I told you that before you married her.
	Your wife can be quite aggressive.
	So, I won't go into all the details, but I spent a lot of time trying to help him.
	So then, a week or two later, he gets into a big fight with his wife and he says, Oh yeah?
	And you know who else thinks you're a real bitch?
	Steph!
	He told me!
	He thinks you're a real bitch!
	So he broke confidence and lied about what I said to score some silly point in a fight with his wife.
	Now of course part of me Dagny Taggart leaping at the phone style wants to jump up and call her and say well that's not what I said and that's not what I meant and I did criticize him as well and I know that there's two people at fault here and I was like ah!
	And then what?
	What did I do?
	Let it go, let it go
	Right, just let it go.
	I am now free of the responsibility of trying to help these people.
	I'm free.
	I'm free.
	There's nobody who's not helping me in this world.
	The people who attacked me first as a cult leader and a smasher of families for fun and profit and all of that, they helped me.
	Do you know how they helped me?
	I started doing interviews, consulted the experts.
	All the people who banned me revealed that most of my audience was merely there for the spectacle, the entertainment, the humor, the stories, the analogies, and the fun.
	I appreciate you saying I'm sorry that it happened to you, mate.
	Don't.
	It's not a bad thing.
	It's not a bad thing that my former friend lied about me to attack his wife.
	It's not a bad thing.
	It's not a bad thing.
	All the people who deplatformed me, do you know what they were saying to me?
	I will tell you what they were saying to me, what they were doing to
	Help me, and to help the world.
	Do you know what the deplatformers were telling me?
	They couldn't be more motivated by the moral good if they tried.
	What were the deplatformers telling me?
	They were saying to me, and rightly so, do philosophy, not politics.
	Do philosophy, not politics.
	Yeah, I was doing the wrong thing.
	I was doing the wrong thing.
	I was on the verge of sacrificing myself for things I could not change and robbing the world of all I could do in the future.
	Did you all know that Plato tried getting into politics?
	Did you know that?
	Do you know what happened?
	He was in Syracuse.
	Not, obviously.
	Yeah, you knew that, right?
	He lost?
	No, he didn't just lose, man.
	He tried to run for politics, tried to run for office, tried to be a politician, and he was kidnapped and sold into slavery.
	And he only happened to be liberated because one of his former students was at the slave auction and paid $40 to buy Plato and release him.
	I was talking to a friend of mine the other day.
	I had to give a speech.
	And he said, I'm really nervous.
	And I said, well, of course you're nervous.
	Most times when you have to give a speech in public, you were defending yourself against the accusations for horrible crime.
	You were begging with a jury not to give you hemlock or have you burned at the stake or drawn and quartered or hung or guillotined or beheaded with giant burly ax man hands.
	Ah, no, I think Aristotle learned from Socrates and Plato.
	And when they were coming after Aristotle, he said, I will not let Athens sin against philosophy twice, and fled.
	Everyone is trying to help you.
	You've seen this scene a million times.
	A million times in movies.
	Tell me which movie you've seen this scene in, which show you've seen this scene in.
	There's a battle.
	The enemies are overwhelming.
	There's one guy manning the gun, the laser, the machine gun.
	Fire and arrows.
	The enemy is coming too strong and he's like, get out!
	Save yourselves!
	I'll cover you!
	And everyone's like, no!
	We can't leave you behind!
	Come with us, man!
	I can't leave!
	No!
	Go!
	Save yourself!
	I got him!
	I got him!
	I can't leave him!
	We gotta go!
	We gotta go!
	We can't leave him!
	Go!
	How many times have you seen that?
	Right?
	Starship Troopers, Firefly, the 300, Money Heist.
	We've all seen this, right?
	Right?
	Everyone's seen this scene.
	It's like, you know, you know what's another scene?
	I literally can't, I can't watch another one of these scenes, right?
	I can't watch another one.
	Platoon, the Benghazi movie, Armageddon.
	Yeah, get out of here, man!
	We can't leave him!
	Save yourselves!
	Right?
	Aliens, right?
	So, I can't feel my legs, right?
	The other scene that's ridiculous, and they're literally programming people to accept torture.
	So the other scene is they capture the bad guy.
	The bad guy has information.
	And they say, give us the information or things are going to get really badly for you, man.
	And the bad guy's like, I don't got to tell you shit.
	Spits in their face, right?
	They wipe their face slowly, calmly.
	They glare down at him.
	They pull out a gun and they shoot him in the leg.
	Right?
	Police!
	Alphabet agency guys!
	You see this a million times!
	He's got information!
	Well, he's not gonna give you the information, oh yeah?
	Right?
	I just literally... like, due process?
	Fuck that.
	Lawyers?
	Nah!
	Just shoot them in the leg.
	They're really just programming people for this shit, right?
	It's crazy.
	Um...
	So they're helping you.
	I mean the people who stayed in politics
	The people who stayed in politics, I mean, gosh, look what happened to Jordan Peterson.
	I mean, look what is coming out about Steven Crowder and the pictures he was sending to his employees.
	Andrew Tate stuff.
	These are the leaders of the movement.
	Get out, man!
	It's time to save yourself!
	Right?
	Right?
	Get out.
	Do philosophy.
	That's what you need to do.
	Did I ever send dick pics to employees like Crowder?
	Jared, please check your inbox.
	James, you may want to check your extra large spam folder.
	No, because not many people have 72 inch horizontal monitors, so they can't handle dick pics.
	Like, that's just not the way.
	It's just like, you need to have the physics there, right?
	What are your thoughts on Catholic priests giving advice about love and family without being married or having children?
	I think it's fine.
	I think it's fine.
	If they have universal moral principles, if they say you guys got to have compatible values and so on, right?
	I mean, I give advice to women sometimes.
	I don't... I'm not a woman.
	So... Yeah, so...
	The people who, like, let's say you go, you got a friend, Bob, and you go and try and help Bob, and give Bob reason and evidence and thoughts and facts and values and virtues, and you try to wrestle his soul back from the devil, and you're like, Bob, here's your soul, man.
	No strings attached.
	Here's your soul.
	Back.
	Ethics.
	Morals.
	Certainty.
	Purpose.
	Value.
	Right here, man.
	It's free.
	I just, I lost nine teeth and three fingers getting this soul of yours back from the devil.
	I'm giving it to you on a silver platter.
	You'll owe me nothing.
	I'll be overjoyed if you take it.
	You'll never have to pay me a penny.
	You'll never have to praise me.
	You'll never even have to tell me, anyone, that it was me who got your soul back from you.
	Silver platter, ribbon, pretty please on top, sugar, whatever you want, man.
	I'll deep fry it in chocolate if you want.
	I'll deliver it on the massive plastic cleavage of a Hooters waitress.
	Whatever you need, man.
	And your friend Bob, when you offer him his soul that you wrestled back from Satan, and he says, like, you're just in some kind of weird cult, man.
	I don't even know what to say to you.
	My soul, are you insane?
	I'm fine.
	I don't know what kind of weird rabbit hole you fell down on the internet, but I'm fine, man.
	This Matrix steak is really good.
	Freedom!
	Right?
	Nothing is better than the freedom.
	You gotta listen to that song by Colin James.
	It's really good.
	Really good.
	He's got a great raspy bluesy voice.
	I remember seeing Colin James live and he did a song with Elvis Costello.
	It was a really high song called You and Who's Army.
	And he's singing it live, and I remember the drummer saying, oh yeah, it's all lots of fun in the studio.
	Everyone forgets about doing it live, night after night.
	Your voice up in the stratosphere until you're coughing up blood.
	How is your digital steak?
	Does it taste good?
	So they're freeing you.
	If you offer someone
	A million dollars.
	And they spit in your face.
	Do you feel rejected?
	Do you?
	I'm serious about this.
	He has 50 bitcoins, no obligation.
	I'm not getting into that crazy internet voodoo magic bullshit dust.
	I like my assets fixed and firm and deeply buried in gluten-enhancing Levi's.
	I'm serious, you're offering people a million dollars.
	Here's your soul, infinitely worth, infinitely more than a million dollars.
	Here's your soul.
	You'd feel, you'd feel a bit insulted.
	Why would you feel insulted?
	You're giving, you're offering someone a million dollars and they're spitting in your face and you feel, you feel insulted.
	Isn't it funny?
	Tragic, of course, and ridiculous, but isn't it funny in a way?
	Okay.
	Tell me, write, write me this, write me this, and I'll hold you to it, man.
	Write me this.
	Get ready to type.
	Write me this.
	Who's the most attractive woman in the world to you?
	And don't give me, like, wives, girlfriends.
	I'm just talking, like, shallow, physical, fleshly fertility markers, right?
	You're not allowed to say Sofia Vergara because she's taken.
	Salma Hayek, very attractive woman, particularly when she was young.
	Do you know in the movie that Tarantino did with Salma Hayek, somebody, there was a character who needed to, she poured liquor down her leg and he had to suck it off her toes and he's like, oh, I'll play that role!
	He's a bit of a creep with the feet and all of that, right?
	Yeah, you can talk.
	It doesn't have to be like right now, right?
	It could be anytime.
	In their prime, right?
	So what do we got here?
	Salma Hayek.
	Ivanka Trump.
	Interesting.
	What?
	Pre or post plastic surgery?
	Kylie Minogue in her prime.
	Yeah, before the cancer thing.
	She was great.
	Kate Upton.
	I think she sold mobile games from her cleavage.
	Salmonella?
	What?
	Okay, blonde AOC.
	Salma Hayek too.
	Yeah, you're that guy.
	Angelina Jolie.
	Hayley Atwell.
	Hayley Atwell.
	Who the hell's that?
	Is she the girl from Mission Impossible?
	Jennifer Aniston, yep.
	After she loved young Nicole Kidman, Taylor Swift.
	She was a bit of a blonde stick insect when she was younger though, right?
	Scarlett Johansson.
	I was wondering if she would come up.
	She's a very pretty woman, right?
	Right, okay.
	Stephanie Mulvaney.
	Dylan Mulvaney.
	Well, you know, to each their own, I suppose.
	Taylor Cole.
	Yeah, okay.
	All right.
	All right.
	So, um, now let's say that you ask Mary from the Bible, I believe she's, she's taken, Charlize Theron.
	Olivia Wilde, she got that big white almond face, right?
	Okay, so let's say that you ask your friend, what is the prettiest woman around, right?
	I gotta tell you, like the people who are like, oh Margot Robbie's mid, it's like, Margot Robbie is stunning.
	She is like laser-designed AI
	3D printer, female face perfection.
	Cameron Diaz in the mask, yeah, very pretty.
	Halle Berry, young Halle Berry, like Catwoman time, or whatever, right?
	Yeah, for sure, right?
	Very, oh, Monsters, Inc.
	I know, Monsters, not Monsters, Inc.
	Monsters, Inc.
	is about Adrenochrome.
	But anyway, so, so let's say that you ask your friend, you ask your friend, who's the hottest woman for you?
	Who's the hottest woman for you?
	Linda Carlisle.
	I think she did drugs.
	Anyway, so you ask your friend, he says, I don't know, let's, Carly Simon, huh?
	Interesting.
	Nobody does it better.
	Great song.
	It's one of the first 45s I listened to.
	Okay, so who's, what have we got?
	Who's a pretty, who's, what have we got here?
	So let's say it's Salma Hayek, right?
	Let's say, so let's say you say to your friend, who's the most attractive woman in your life, in your mind, right?
	And let's pretend it's the right age, whatever.
	So Salma Hayek, right?
	And then you say to your friend, you won't believe this, man.
	I can get you a date with Salma Hayek.
	I can get you a date with Salma Hayek.
	And your friend says, no, no, I'm going to aim higher.
	What would you think?
	You've asked him, who's your dream date?
	And you say, I can get you a date with her.
	I can get you a date with her.
	Emily Blunt, the girl from, oh, the Hunger Games girl, what's her name?
	I can never remember these people's names.
	Anybody who showed up on Between Two Ferns, right?
	Jennifer Lawrence, thank you.
	Jello!
	Oh yeah, Jennifer Lopez, also very pretty when she was younger, right?
	And pretty now too, right?
	Latinas, they don't age, right?
	There's no Crypt Keeper Latinas, right?
	It's like Greek women, they're gorgeous and then they just shrink into black holes overnight when they're 80.
	Ursula Andres, yeah, when she was younger.
	Very pretty, very pretty woman.
	Sofia Vergara, yeah, we talked about her.
	What was one of the girls, the dark-haired girl, Kristen... Not wig, obviously, but the one of the girls from Sex and the City who had the dark hair.
	I thought she was very pretty when she was younger.
	Kristen... someone?
	Kristen... I can't remember, anyway.
	But she was very pretty when she was younger.
	Oh gosh, what's the girl from Desperate Housewives?
	The woman from Desperate Housewives was also very pretty when she was younger.
	Kristen Davis, yeah, she was very, she had a very sort of preppy, pretty look.
	Teri Hatcher, never hugely.
	Eva Logaria, yeah, she was very pretty when she was, oh and she's still very pretty and all of that, right?
	Did you see her back it away from Biden recently?
	So, okay, so if your friend, let's say you both agree, you both agree, you both agree,
	That it's Megan Fox or whoever, right?
	Megan Fox, you know, you know, maybe without the Satanism, but so... It's Sofia Vergara or whatever, whoever's the most attractive to you both.
	And you say, listen, I want to give you first dibs.
	You can go on the date with Salma Hayek, but if you don't go on a date with Salma Hayek, I'm going to go on a date with Salma Hayek, right?
	Now, if you get to go out with Salma Hayek, if your friend says no to a date with Salma Hayek, and then he says no, and you get to go out with Salma Hayek, are you happy?
	Unhappy?
	Disappointed?
	I just want my friend to be happy so much.
	I can't believe he's not going out with Salma Hayek and now I have to go out with Salma Hayek.
	Aren't you going to be like, whew, thank goodness, right?
	Now, if you're offering someone's soul back to them, right?
	If you're offering someone's soul back to them, and they say no, you get to keep your soul.
	Because if they say yes, and then they mess around with it, and they don't take it, and they waste your time, and they drag you down, you're at risk of your own soul.
	So somebody who openly says, oh, here's your soul.
	Oh, I'm not in that whole soul cult nonsense weirdo stuff that you're onto.
	They've just freed you.
	I am no longer now burdened by any delusions that you're sane.
	Oh my God, how freeing is that?
	How freeing is that?
	I gave my friend good advice.
	He choose to lie about me and betray what I said to his wife to win some stupid fight or to try and win some stupid fight.
	And I'm like, Frida, I don't have to waste time trying to fix your marriage, trying to help you with your marriage because you don't want it.
	You'd rather fight than win.
	There's so many people like they'd rather fight than win.
	Win at life, like be happy, be in love.
	For some reason I'm having trouble focusing now.
	Right.
	Because you are, you listen to the show, you get rational secular ethics, self-knowledge, values, purpose, truth, reason.
	You are now a plague doctor for the universal ailment.
	And what's the universal ailment?
	Amorality.
	Amorality.
	Amorality, which leads to hedonism, which leads to despair, destruction, death, spiritual and genetic obviously, often.
	Depression, anxiety, enslavement.
	You have the cure!
	And you're offering up the cure.
	Now, if you've modeled the cure and you're happy yourself, so much the better.
	I don't think you guys would be like... Would you really be, like, into this show if... It's just like, man... I don't know what to tell you guys, man.
	Philosophy is just a... It's a big, heavy... It's like a weight.
	It's like a... It's like a burden.
	It's... It's... It's heavy, man.
	I mean, I...
	Pursuing virtue has opened my eyes to the black hearted hollowness of like everyone around me and I just walk in heavily deepening shadows into the darkness of my own despair.
	You want to join me?
	You want to dance with me in the black fading quicksand hellscape of deep knowledge of human evil?
	Hello, darkness, my old friend.
	I've come to talk with you again.
	I can't even sing the rest of the song because I can't seem to draw any deep breath.
	My breath is getting as shallow as the Kardashians' ethics, man.
	Sorry, I could do that all night, but I probably shouldn't because I don't want to steal your souls either.
	It's not a phase, mom!
	Yeah, quite right.
	Quite right.
	Staff the emo.
	Needs more eyeliner.
	I thought I was listening to American Prayer for a second.
	What the hell is that?
	Isn't that Jim Morrison's album?
	You could get boobs.
	Got him, thanks.
	I'm over 50.
	I got him.
	I need more hot topic voice?
	That's not the tough guy voice, isn't it?
	I don't remember hot topic.
	So, I mean, if I was sad and miserable and depressed and anxious and, ugh, I mean, and I'm like, no man, but I know all about truth and virtue and, you know, virtue, you know, reason equals, virtue equals, like, happiness.
	And I've, like I've, I've ridden that camel like across the desert.
	I've got to, I've got to, I've got to a place called happiness.
	I'd be like the first 20 minutes of every listener call known to man before I tell them, please God, I'm Wattle, you've got to fill in these gaps!
	Yeah.
	I'm solving happiness and, uh, you know, it'd be great if you guys would,
	I don't know, buy some.
	Like or something?
	That'd be good.
	I guess.
	I mean, I don't want to, I don't want to impose or anything.
	And I, I don't want to finish this sentence or anything.
	Cause it's just feels like too much commitment or too much focus.
	Too much of something, but the happiness thing, that's, yeah, that's for sure.
	Come join me in my infinite black hole of bliss.
	We can all put each other in our interstellar heaviness.
	What do you think?
	Yeah, it wouldn't really work, right?
	Wouldn't really work.
	So you can't lose by attempting to cure, by attempting to help.
	You can't lose because either you help people or you're liberated from helping them and you walk on with a clear conscience.
	Come on, let's end up at this topic and listen.
	You know how much I've given you tonight.
	I have excavated my soul to give you these lemon rinds of bitter facts that cure you from the scurvy of modernity.
	Put me over the edge, take me there, give me a happy ending to the show.
	You can put on some Sade if you want while I heat up the baby oil and put the blood petals on my nipples.
	Let's not do that all night because I literally could do that penthouse letter stuff all night.
	Okay.
	Whoa, yes indeed Joe, that is a whoa.
	I tell you what, if you donate I'll stop talking about this kind of stuff and you won't feel so unclean that you'll feel like you have to have an enema with a
	What scourer!
	So I can give you, I don't know, you don't care about the story of my colonoscopy, do you?
	You don't care about it.
	Do you care?
	Hit me with a why if you care about the story of my colonoscopy.
	I had one this week.
	First time.
	First time.
	It was really like a frat ritual.
	You did two this year?
	You're a lucky guy.
	Please no.
	Brave.
	Okay, first of all, you have to basically turn yourself inside out.
	You ever have those toys, like some rubber toy, like you could turn it inside out?
	That's what happens with the colonoscopy.
	First of all, you can't eat for like 24 hours.
	We're good to go.
	But anyway, really, really nice people at the Colonoscopy Place.
	And I go in and there's like a cluster of people around me, all very nice, all very thoughtful and all of that.
	And there was this one absolutely magnificent Jamaican nanny.
	Oh, my God.
	No, Caribbean.
	Sorry.
	Caribbean nanny.
	And she was a Caribbean nanny.
	And she was so gentle and she was so kind.
	And I had to turn to my side.
	She's like, just lift your ass a little, honey.
	She's stroking the side of my head, you know, because I'm going to get dosed.
	I'm going to get drugged to put under.
	Right.
	Because they, right.
	And and she's like,
	Just raise your ass a little, honey.
	I need access to your ass.
	And he's like stroking my head.
	I'm like, OK, chocolate mommy, do I get breastfed when I wake up?
	And that was like, yeah, I can't even tell you the number of jokes that I made because I figure, you know, everybody's in there.
	It's a little awkward and all of that.
	But yeah, it was really, really something.
	And really, it was fine.
	It was fine.
	Please accept my IOUs, just change gears now.
	Alright, donate if you want me to change gears, or if you want more us camera stories, it's really up to you.
	Yeah, I'm like, I think I'm gonna need some flowers and a little small talk before this goes on.
	Oh, that was very funny.
	Soundbite gold here.
	Yeah, no kidding.
	Well, you know, you're basically going to sleep with some lovely woman stroking your head.
	It was like really, really nice.
	It was very, she was very, very nice.
	Where are the pics?
	I think buried in some computer somewhere.
	They'll study you in schools and then things like that will just pop up.
	Yeah, yeah.
	But, you know, and, you know, it's great, you know, it's great that it's really, really professionally done.
	The one thing I don't like is sometimes they'll just hand you the results without the doctor being there.
	That's happened to me once before.
	I had to get a full body scan for something, and they handed me all these results, and it's like, oh, you got a little cyst here, and you go, I don't know, is this good or bad?
	I don't know, I'm just flipping through this thing, hoping to not find some skull and crossbones somewhere.
	Yeah.
	Will the colonoscopy be posted on local subscribers only?
	That's right.
	It's like the old video game Descent.
	Boy, look that up if you want to know what I'm talking about.
	It's 3D.
	And yeah, they actually, they went so far up my colon they found the source of UPB.
	Oh, are you furiously donating so I change the topic?
	It's going to cost you more than that, my friend.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	And I said, you know, OK, if I wasn't off YouTube, man, we could live stream this.
	Can I donate to see your colon?
	All right.
	Here you go.
	Here you go.
	It's right here.
	Done.
	Oh, nothing like a little joke about grammar.
	Boo.
	All right, donate and I'll stop making jokes like that.
	I'm basically just holding you hostage with a little tiny scrap of wisdom or two at the end here.
	What the hell are we going to talk about before you all drag me up my own ass for stories?
	Okay, now I'm here for the entertainment.
	Yeah, that's, that's fair.
	That's fair.
	And again, if you're over 50 talk to your doctor, you know, I know that's this poop test, they look for a little bit of blood or whatever, but apparently that's the gold standard and I shouldn't have left it so long.
	So but yeah, whatever you're doing, talk to your doctor, but I think over 40 it's not a bad thing to get done.
	How long did the colonoscopy take?
	Well, I don't know when I was out, but I don't think it's too long.
	It's about 20 minutes, assuming that they don't find some space alien laying eggs, or, I don't know, a politician's conscience, or that gum that everyone told you was gonna stay in your body forever when you swallowed it at the age of six.
	So I don't think it's very long, if they don't find too much.
	But...
	Anesthesia, yeah, they had to put me out.
	Did you hear about the girl who gave birth to an octopus?
	I feel that's set up to a dad joke.
	When I first came out from my first one, I told the cute nurse she was amazingly beautiful.
	Yeah, it's pretty.
	This is just nonsense, but it's interesting for me at least.
	When I was a kid, did you ever have as a kid, did you ever want to feel yourself fall asleep?
	I was always curious about that.
	I'd always be like, I want to feel myself falling asleep.
	I want to know what it's like to slide down that tunnel into your own mind, right?
	I always wanted to, because you can't, right?
	And I would really really try to find out, like I used to do this experiment where I'd flip the lights and close my eyes just as I flipped the light because I wanted to see the room half in darkness and half in light because I didn't understand the speed of light, 186,000 miles a second I think is a little faster than my 30 frames a second peepers.
	But I always wanted to find out, feel what it was like to go to sleep, right?
	Oh yeah, I mean I would count down, I'd count sheep, that kind of thing, right?
	I hear the most amazing music just before I fall asleep.
	Does that happen to anyone else?
	No, but I think like most people, I've dreamt of wonderful songs that I can't remember when I wake up and I think, man, I could be a zillionaire if I just remembered these beautiful songs, but I can't remember when I wake up.
	Anyway, so I was always trying to find myself falling asleep, but I couldn't because the moment I would think about falling asleep, I wouldn't fall asleep, and then I'd just wake up and it'd be like, oh man, I didn't... Anyway, so I thought, okay, well, at least when I first go under, which I think I first did like 10 years ago when I had this surgery on my neck, when I first went under, I'm like, okay, but finally, finally, I'll feel what it's like to fall asleep, because it's irresistible, right?
	Irresistible.
	Does it happen?
	It does not.
	Because you're like, oh, I think I'm gonna... Then you wake up, right?
	I had a dream I talked to you over the phone.
	I don't remember the dialogue.
	All the dialogue that really pissed me off.
	That's philosophy, right?
	That's a philosophy.
	That's philosophy.
	Okay, if anyone can remember, I'm not going to stop in a second or two, but if anyone can remember what the hell I was going to talk about before I ended up heading out my own ass for a hike.
	What the hell?
	What was I going to talk about?
	Lots of colon talk, people.
	It's kind of rude.
	Let me just go back.
	I'm just going to scroll all the way back up here.
	Keep this going.
	This is the only action I get.
	That's really nice.
	That's really nice.
	Oh yeah, the most beautiful woman.
	Yeah.
	So if people reject you handing them their own soul for free, you get to walk.
	Oh yes.
	This is what I was going to ask.
	Okay.
	Hit me with a why if you've ever been vaguely satisfied when someone who's rejected good advice has a bad experience.
	I'm going to put in a yes.
	Yes.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	That happens all the time.
	Hit me with a B if you think that's a bad thing.
	You live for that?
	Do you think?
	I'm not saying it is or it isn't, I'm just curious what you guys think.
	Bad, good, bad.
	Do you think it's like schadenfreude, you're taking pleasure in other people's blah blah blah, right?
	Like all the people who were like, hey man, we just voted to increase the taxes on the landlord, we didn't vote to increase our own rent.
	Depending on the degree?
	Alright.
	Right.
	You... What happens to me?
	So, in a movie, when a bad guy gets his punishment, do you feel bad?
	And the answer to that, of course, is no.
	No, you don't, right?
	The bad guy who hurt the children, who kidnapped the heroine, who tried to blow up the bridge, right?
	All of the bad guys in a movie, when bad things happen to them, it's kind of satisfying because you want bad guys to get punished and good guys to do well, right?
	Now, I'll tell you this is my last tip, and if you want to tip me for this, I'd be more than grateful.
	I'm turning myself inside out for you guys, even more than I did with the 40 gallons of seawater that had me jet skiing like a guy with a bagpipe of water juice flowing out of his back and spiraling over a lake somewhere in Northern Ontario.
	So, when someone is an NPC,
	They're programmed.
	They just have predictable responses.
	They don't think for themselves.
	They're told you're bad, so you're bad.
	They told you're wrong, you're wrong.
	When somebody's an NPC, they become, to me, a character in a movie.
	Because a character in a movie, of course, you get this vague satisfaction when the bad guy gets his and the good guy, right?
	There's a great song by Phil Collins and some guy from David Crosby, I think, called Hero.
	Really, really good, good song.
	Well, it was one of those great stories that you can't put down at night.
	The hero knew what he had to do.
	Wasn't afraid to fight.
	I don't have the tune quite right, but it's a good song.
	You should listen to it.
	David Crosby sings it, actually.
	It's a very sort of mournful song.
	You feel sympathy for NPCs?
	No, that's pathological altruism, in my humble opinion.
	So, when people are NPCs, when they're programmed that they don't think for themselves, they've abandoned the responsibility of human consciousness, then they become
	They become a character in a movie, because they are.
	They don't have their own dialogue, they don't have their own individuality, they're chained by the script, they don't think for themselves.
	So I don't feel any more bad for a bad guy coming to a bad end in real life, if they're an NPC, than I do for a character in a movie.
	So I take them from 3D to 2D, I take them from my life and I put them on the screen.
	Because that's where they belong!
	Tell me if this is unjust and wrong, I'm perfectly happy to hear the argument, I'm always happy to hear,
	But if somebody is a character programmed by someone else, I don't feel any more particular empathy for them than I do for an actor.
	You know, it's not real.
	They're not real.
	Put him in a movie!
	It's now a show you're watching.
	Programmed by other people.
	Put him in a movie!
	Put him in a movie!
	Tell me if, again, I'm happy to be corrected on this.
	If this is cold, bloody-minded, chilly-hearted, I'm happy to hear the argument.
	But I won't care for people more than they care for themselves.
	I won't care for people more than they care for themselves.
	That's, to me, emotional suicide.
	I will not care for people more than they care for themselves.
	If they don't care to think, then they become an NPC, they're programmed by other people, and it's not real.
	I often feel a slight bit bad because it could have been different.
	Now, there's no alternate history.
	If people choose not to think, there is no could have been different.
	There is no could have been different.
	Don't don't be fooled by these movies with like the sliding doors movies with alternate endings, right?
	But the actors in the movie don't die in real life, but the NPCs will suffer for real.
	But if you tell them how to avoid their suffering and they attack you for it, the suffering is a punishment, right?
	Right?
	Isn't it a suffering punishment?
	You tell someone, hey man, you really seem to like gambling too much.
	You've got to stop gambling.
	It's going to take you down.
	And I'm happy to talk to you about it.
	Here's some books on it.
	And they're like, no man, I have no problem.
	The problem is you don't know how to have any fun, man.
	God, I can't believe you're such a square.
	So I go and gamble a little.
	I work hard.
	I play hard.
	It's cool.
	It's fun.
	I get free drinks.
	There are no clarks.
	It's dice and cleavage, man.
	That's how I roll.
	Can't believe you're so pathetic, man.
	Oh, why don't you go listen to more podcasts while I'm out here having fun?
	Okay, so he ends up losing his house.
	It's a character in a movie.
	To me.
	He chose his own suffering.
	He chose to suffer.
	He chose to suffer.
	How can you call it suffering?
	What are you gonna call people who didn't choose to suffer?
	Like, I'm a healthy guy, I happen to get sick.
	Okay, that's suffering.
	I didn't earn that.
	Didn't deserve it.
	Whatever that means, right?
	It's sort of like if someone pays some dominatrix to put her heels on his balls and drip melted wax on his nipples and then he shows up with a limp.
	Am I supposed to feel sorry for the guy?
	He chose his suffering.
	He paid for his suffering.
	He wanted his suffering.
	I'm not going to call him a victim if that's what he chose.
	He chose to suffer.
	He wanted to suffer.
	He paid to suffer.
	Hey man, you know, I've been training.
	I've been a boxer for like months and I've been training.
	And I went into the ring and I got this black eye, man.
	The guy just hit me.
	Like, what the hell?
	I'm such a victim.
	Help me, I want some, give me a steak.
	No, you chose to get in the boxing ring.
	You're gonna get hit.
	Like, you chose the suffering.
	I don't, if people choose their suffering, I'm not going to disagree with them.
	I mean, I think it's healthy and I might tell them, I don't, I don't think you should go and pay this dominatrix to beat you up.
	But if, if you pay for a dominatrix to beat you up, I'm not, why would I feel suffering for your suffering?
	It's not suffering.
	You chose it.
	You chose it.
	Why am I gonna give people sympathy for what they have chosen?
	Especially when I told them it was a bad idea.
	Right?
	Some guy gets involved with some crazy girl and you say she's a crazy girl and here's why and here's the evidence and here are the facts and you go out for dinner with them and you talk to her and you talk to her bluntly and she goes crazy she storms out and you say you can't date this woman and then he dates her it's like okay you're now a movie to me you're like a movie called What Not To Do.
	You're a movie called Disaster.
	You're now no longer an individual.
	You are an object lesson for other people on what not to do.
	Your only purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others about what happens when you don't listen.
	Just don't listen.
	Well, when people choose their own suffering, I'm not even going to call it suffering.
	I'm not going to call it suffering.
	Because that's an insult to the people who genuinely are victims and genuinely don't earn or deserve their suffering, or choose suffering.
	You know, hit me with a why if you've known some guy who's a player, who just dates and sleeps with girls and, you know, like your countdown to crazy man, sooner or later you're going to get that bunny boiler, that
	That crazy girl, she's going to stalk you, she's going to falsely accuse you, she's going to get you kicked out of school, she's going to tell all these lies and she's going to, like you, she's going to wreck your life, man.
	Just stop doing it, man.
	You're going to get an STD, you're going to get some girl pregnant, like you're just, you're playing Russian roulette with your own sperm.
	You're going to get some woman who turns the condom inside out and jams your seed up her hoo-hoo, right?
	Yeah, she's going to show up to your work, she's right.
	Yeah, you regret it deeply.
	Did anyone warn you?
	Oof.
	I mean, if people choose suffering, it's not suffering.
	If they choose suffering, it's not suffering.
	If a woman sleeps around all through her twenties and then tries to settle down when she's 35 and complains that the guys don't want to date her, they just want to date younger girls.
	Or the girls who were like, you know, there was this, um, this study that was done on a social media app.
	And it was like, 85% of women wanted a guy what height or taller?
	85% of women wanted a guy what height or taller?
	No, it wasn't 6'6", like really tall guys.
	It was 6'1", 6'2".
	85% of women want the top 10 or 12% of guys.
	Okay, so you're setting yourself up for suffering.
	Don't accept anything less, sister, girl, boss, slay queen, okay?
	So if you just want to have a really top-tier guy,
	Without being workout queen and reading and learning economics and talking philosophy or politics or whatever the hell he wants to talk about, right?
	Yeah, confident, yeah, because, you know, sociopaths are never confident, right?
	No, so 80, like again, this is like not a real world thing, but then these, so the women who say, well, men, men shouldn't objectify me or just judge me by physical characteristics, but if you're under six foot two, don't apply, right?
	And guys do this too, like, you know, you have to look like some waifu anime balloon boob character with a waist three and a half inches across, right?
	Has this always been true or just contemporary?
	Well, no, but of course it's always been true that women have hypergamy, so do men, right?
	In terms of like wanting the best.
	You, of course, you want the best you can get in the dating market.
	You want the best you can get.
	But what happens is, so okay, hit me with a why if you're a girl here.
	We'll just end on this.
	Hit me with why you're a girl here.
	Because guys, you need to understand this, right?
	So from the male perspective, from the male perspective, would you say women have it?
	Hit me with a why if you think women have it easier in the dating market.
	You think women have it easier in the dating market?
	That is not true.
	Because as a man, you can act.
	As a woman, generally, you have to receive.
	You have to wait to be contacted, to be asked out, and so on, right?
	Now, if you're a girl, let's say you're, I don't know, 16 or whatever, there's some prom coming up, then there's three guys that you want to ask you out, and you've got guy one, guy two, guy three, in order of preference.
	Now, if guy three asks you out, what do you do?
	What do you do?
	Do you say yes to guy three and then guy one asks you out the next week and you gotta say, ah, I'm sorry, right?
	Do you say no to guy three, hoping that guy one or two will ask you out?
	It gets closer and closer.
	They're not asking you out.
	It's terrifying.
	Who do you choose?
	Who do you love, right?
	Who do you choose?
	Who do you, right?
	Or do you go back to guy three saying, oh, I'm sorry, but I will go to the prom with you.
	He knows that you're his second or third or whatever choice, right?
	Maybe he's going to go ask someone else.
	He's like, I'm sorry, right?
	So you could end up with no date to the prom because your standards are too high.
	In the marriage market, in the past, women, guys are getting snapped up left, right, and center, right?
	Who are you going to get before they're snapped up into monogamous, permanent relationships?
	Who are you going to get?
	You want the best guy you can get?
	But if you wait for a better guy, this guy's gone, and maybe you have to go an even lower guy.
	Right?
	You think you can get an 8.
	Okay, you wait for an 8.
	Maybe you can get a 9.
	You get a 9.
	Oh, god, I can't get a 9.
	Going back to the 8s.
	Oh, man, the 8s are gone.
	Okay, I'm gonna go for the 7, but the 7 knows I'm second choice, so he doesn't want me, because he's trying to get an 8, and maybe you just tumble down, you get a 6, a 5, whatever!
	Horrible!
	But they have many more choices.
	Isn't more in terms of options a greater degree of freedom?
	No!
	No.
	Because option paralysis is a real thing.
	The more choices you have, the more... Come on, we all know this.
	The more choices you have, the less satisfied you tend to be with whatever you choose.
	The more choices you have, the less satisfied you tend to be with whatever you choose.
	Greater chance of a bad choice.
	Could have gotten better.
	Let me ask you this.
	If you've ever bought and sold stocks or crypto or anything like that, have you ever had a perfect sale?
	You sold right at the very penny top and it all went down after that.
	You ever had a perfect sale?
	No, of course not.
	Never.
	Oh, you've had?
	Okay.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Obviously.
	Yes, it can happen once, right?
	Who sells crypto?
	Yeah, quite right.
	Yeah.
	You ever sell a house?
	You ever get the exact perfect price you want?
	No, because you're at exact perfect prices.
	So option paralysis, the fact that women have more choices doesn't make them more happy.
	If women have more choices and you think more choices means more happiness, then women should be happier than men, but they're not.
	Because as a man, you can act.
	You can ask the girl out.
	If she says no, you go ask another girl out.
	The rejection comes with action, but being on the receiving end, not knowing if another guy is going to ask you, that's tough.
	That's tough.
	All right.
	Any last donations?
	I don't mean to be a nag, but I'm going to ask anyway, because I really want to model.
	I just want to model what it is like to assertively ask for what you want after providing massive value to people as a whole.
	Any chance I could get any last tips from you people?
	Any last thing, any last little bit.
	Maybe you can not get a latte tomorrow and help me.
	Thank you, Nathan!
	Oh, magnificent, thank you so much.
	Really appreciate it.
	Gorgeous, lovely, darling, beautiful.
	Sorry, I'm getting all Freddie Mercury there.
	Thank you so much.
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	Oh, I'm sorry to hear that.
	I'm sorry to hear that.
	Hope this voice makes it into the parenting audiobook.
	It's not really a book, it's much a shark attack in the water.
	So yeah, it's way too ferocious to publish at the moment.
	But it's, you know, good to get it all out of my system.
	Get it down, then get it right.
	That's my writing philosophy.
	Get it down, then get it right.
	All right, just waiting for any last tips.
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	Good lord, have we really been going two hours and twenty minutes?
	Come on, you know there's no value per syllable like this one.
	There's no value per syllable like this show.
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	This show was power packed as usual.
	That's right.
	An unusually positive show for one where my shirt stayed on.
	Although I guess I'm kind of looking at like the backdrop here where I'm basically a floating head of Venus.
	All right.
	Thanks everyone so much.
	I now officially weigh less than I did when I was 17.
	I officially now weigh less.
	Than I did when I was 17.
	And I actually had a written instruction to the colonoscopy guru.
	Just take out all the bullshit, man.
	Just take out all the bullshit.
	And I lost three times my body weight.
	So you never know.
	Thanks everyone so much.
	Lots of love from up here.
	I will talk to you soon.
	Appreciate your support.
	And I will talk to you soon.
	Take care.
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