Sept. 8, 2023 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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5256 THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A 'LOW RISK LIFE'!
Join the PREMIUM philosophy community on the web for free!Get access to StefBOT-AI, private livestreams, premium call in shows, my new book and the History of Philosophers series!See you soon!https://freedomain.locals.com/support/promo/UPB2022Do you have any thoughts on the slippery slope fallacy?Hey Stef, what do you think is a faster route to find a wife, dating around or finding good friends in the hopes of getting setup?Conspiracy theories?How much should we trust scientists?I think that's the first time I've ever heard someone make this point. I wonder if I've just missed it in the past.
Ah, they are sitting out like the tree lines near the Arctic.
Good evening.
Hello, hello, hello.
Welcome to Philosophy 10666.
Class is now in session, and we are going... I don't know what accent that was.
Some bizarre accent from Beverly Hills Cop.
So, how's everyone doing tonight?
Are you ready for the one-syllable song quiz?
This is relevant to this week.
One-syllable song quiz.
You might want to try a new hair dye.
Your current color looks a little trans.
Uh, trampoline.
Yeah, they bounced off.
Okay, one syllable song quiz.
Do you like the Smiths?
There is one song by the Smiths that is one of the greatest songs ever written and it was two takes and it blows my mind when I hear it.
I used to, I remember dancing to it at clubs when I was a teenager and so on.
Hang the DJ?
No, no, no, no.
The lyrics, the vocal delivery, the guitar.
It's flawless.
It's perfect.
It's one of these crystalline gem goddess dance mixes of a song that you just know came spiraling out of Satan's armpit perfectly and fully formed.
How soon is now?
That's the one, baby.
That's the one!
That is an incredible song.
That is an incredible song.
Oh yeah.
Oh, that's a headphone song.
Do you have any thoughts on the Slippery Slope Fallacy?
Why is it a fallacy?
Why is it a fallacy?
Why would a Slippery Slope be a fallacy at all?
Slippery Slope is not a fallacy.
See, Slippery Slope Fallacy is saying, well, this leads to this, leads to this.
Well, the principle leads to something, right?
The principle leads to something.
So if we say the government should control X, then we're saying that coercive centralized control of X is a good thing.
So why would it ever stop there?
Why would it ever stop there?
Yeah, so I mean, I never view the slippery slope as a fallacy.
I just view it as a substantial fact of life.
I mean, of course it's a slippery slope.
And come on, right?
It cancels 90% of Morrissey's tour.
He went from hyper slender to ultimate deadbot in a couple of decades.
Well, um, yeah, so the slippery slope fallacy is, well, on principle, this is going to lead to this.
Oh, that's just slippery slope fallacy.
No, it's not.
So the way that you counter somebody who says, oh, that's just a slippery slope fallacy, is to say, so let's say you say, well, yes, of course governments should control education, and governments should control health care, and governments should control old age pensions, and governments should control X, Y. And you say, well, yes, but that's going to lead to progressive government takeover of the economy, right?
Oh, that's a slippery slope fallacy.
Bullshit it is.
You're saying it's good for government to control things, so of course the government's going to control more and more.
And it's going to get worse and worse, right?
The first generation of whatever the government takes over is the best, and after that it all goes to hell in a handbasket.
Ultimate entropy.
Yeah, honestly I can't think of a recent slippery slope fallacy that didn't turn out to be true.
Yeah, now Slippery Slope is, I'm going to pretend that my principles don't follow through.
Yeah, so a government coercive hierarchical control of things is really good.
Well, isn't that going to mean that there's going to be more and more of that?
No!
It's like, okay, well why?
So it's really good, but there's not going to be more of it.
On principle, coercive control is good, but...
So if the government takes over another industry, let's say it takes over the oil industry, that's in conformity with the government taking over things is good, the government controlling things is good.
So the government is just going to want to take over more and more and more.
Of course it will, right?
Power corrupts.
I mean the whole power corrupts is a slippery slope argument.
Damn, power doesn't corrupt all at once!
Power corrupts slowly.
Or, or, if somebody says, and this is not my argument, I'm just putting this in as a counter, right?
If somebody says to you, oh, slippery slope arguments are invalid, it's like, oh, okay, so if a woman gets hit once by her boyfriend, she shouldn't assume he's just abusive.
She shouldn't assume that the abuse is either going to continue or maintain or get worse, right?
Because that would be a slippery, you just hit her once, it's just a slippery slope fallacy.
All right.
So yeah, Slippery Slope is just one of these... It's just something that's made up.
Like Conspiracy Theory.
Oh, it's a Conspiracy Theory!
You know, it's amazing.
Do you know that still now my... Oh.
Wait, was that... Did I just hear a click of a red tripwire?
No, Jared, don't goad me, man.
OK, we'll do one word song quiz.
And this is relevant to the news from this last week.
Are you ready for the one word song quiz?
Sam... What is it?
Sam...
What is it?
There you go.
But he once told me the world is gonna roll me.
I ain't the sharpest tool in the shed.
Yeah.
Uh, Smash Mouth.
That guy died.
Uh, didn't he just die this week?
It's not the Shrek theme.
Uh, liver failure?
Was he a drunk?
Was he an alcoholic?
I assume so.
He had that look.
I don't know for sure, of course, right?
He just passed away?
He was 56 or something like that, right?
Okay, um...
Severe alcoholic?
He had that look, right?
Waste roll away.
Uh, right.
Well, it's nice to know something that people can't chalk up to the COVID Vax.
All right.
Arf-arant!
I am yours to command and obey.
Arf-arant.
Arf-arant.
All right, you Austria.
Wait, time to unpop the rant.
Here we go.
Here we go.
Look at this.
Yes, that's a girl traveling through Europe for free.
So, rant.
Can you believe?
Can you believe that this, in the year of our Lord 2023,
People are still unironically referring to theories skeptical of power as conspiracy theories.
Can you, listen to me, there's a couple of markers of, like, just people too dumb to talk to.
Nobody here.
Guaranteed.
People too dumb to talk to.
Of course, the big one is per capita.
Obviously, people who don't understand per capita is like, sorry, I'm going to leave you to figure out the magical bunny running around tying up your own shoelaces rather than talk to you about anything because you just can't handle per capita.
The second, of course, is the I know an exception guy.
I know a tall Chinese fellow.
I know.
I know.
I know a woman who's taller than the average man.
Number three is you make a general statement and they put themselves forward as the exception.
So, women in their late 30s who try IVF, what percentage of those women get a viable baby?
What percentage of those women get a viable baby?
What percentage of those women
Get a viable baby.
30 percent, 5 percent, 4 percent.
No.
No, it's 7 percent.
7 percent.
Now, somebody post this on social media.
Right?
They say, oh, you know, yeah, women in late 30s, whatever, they go for IVF.
I don't know if this is true or whatever.
It doesn't really matter if it's true or not.
What matters is the response.
In vitro fertilization.
So you extract the eggs, you extract the sperm, you mix them together, you re-implant them, right?
So, and if someone can check that for me, I'm happy to correct it, but it's not particularly important whether the number is super accurate.
What is important is the response.
So, you post something like that on social media, what is the response?
What do people say?
What do people say in response to that?
You know.
These odds are actually quite low and quite bad.
What do they say?
They don't say re.
I mean, they do a little bit, but what do they say?
Well, I know a woman.
My sister had two IVFs and both went 100%.
It was just ah.
I... I am the exception!
Because I don't understand percentages and I... I really think that the entire world revolves around my experiences and something can't possibly be low percentage if I actually achieved it all!
No, it's not devil's advocate.
Devil's advocate is taking a position against what you believe in order to steal men and make sure you're giving your best arguments against.
It's just a rejection of the bell curve.
Well, I know a woman who got married when she was 34 and she had three children by the time she was 40.
So math is irrelevant because I know someone.
And that's empiricism to the point of just being plain-up retarded, right?
I'm the main character and I'll always come.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
The main character syndrome, right?
Main character syndrome.
What are the odds of a single mother finding a husband, right?
What are the odds of a single mother?
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Steph's ran second best thing I hear all week.
Scripture is the first.
Thank you, I appreciate that.
Hello, Delhi!
Welcome.
Oh Danny Boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling.
From glen to glen and down the mountainside.
Alright, so percentage of single moms who end up with a husband kind of thing... It's 20% of single moms end up with any kind of husband and of those single moms who end up with a husband, 60% of those marriages fail anyway, right?
Oh yeah, I don't understand.
Like, people... I was talking about this with my daughter today.
Like, people who
Oh, let's see here.
Sorry.
Oh, yes.
People who get upset about facts, to me, is mentally ill.
Like, something is fundamentally wrong with your brain.
Like, if you get upset and angry about facts, I don't know what is the matter with you.
It's like, to be allergic to reality is to have an immune system that's fighting the truth.
It's like vampires in sunlight.
Like, to be
Offended!
I can understand emotional whatever, right?
You know, but to be offended by facts?
I find reality enormously off-putting.
The data is revolting.
Well, the data usually is revolting, right?
It says here, according to CDC, the average percentage of assisted reproductive technology... Nope, that's not the same as IVF.
That's not the same as IVF.
Men manipulate reality, women manipulate men.
So the idea that in this year of our law, 2023, people are still dismissing theories skeptical of power as conspiracy theories, I don't even know what to say.
How much evidence do you need to accumulate to recognize that there's a problem?
I mean, did you hear about this today?
I think it was the Pfizer or whatever it was under these companies that
have in their government's contracts, the contract they had with Canada and South Africa, it says, long-term effects of the vaccines are not known.
Non, non, long-term effects of the vaccines are not known.
Now, how was this possible to know ahead of time?
How was it possible to know that nobody knew the long-term effects of the vaccines?
How was that, you know, just vaguely possible to know for anybody with half a brain?
Well, there wasn't no testing, but they were pretty, pretty brand new, right?
So, as you know, it takes 10 years to get the average vaccine approved if 94% failure rate.
Hey, look at that!
Things a couple of months old don't have long-term safety data.
Not long!
But then, of course, the governments all say safe and effective.
They don't know.
They don't know.
So just imagine, imagine, still unironically using the word, the phrase conspiracy theory to dismiss things, right?
Just wild.
What do you even say to people like that?
What do you even say?
Well, that's just conspiracy theory, okay?
Let's look at the last, say, half dozen or dozen or fifty or five thousand conspiracy theories
And see whether they've come true or not.
I mean, you could just pick any of them, right?
Just pick any of them.
Pick any one of the conspiracy theories that people have talked about over the past 10 or 20 years, or for me, 40 years.
Just see.
Scott Adams says, I'm sorry you still believe the local news.
Yeah.
Isn't that wild?
Yeah.
Yeah, just imagine.
Imagine, especially after the last couple of years, because it's been pretty vivid.
The other stuff is kind of like death by inches, right?
Like that old Gary Larson cartoon where there's this giant wall of ice in front of a cave and there's one caveman saying to another, hey, is that wall of ice closer today?
OK, there's a little bit of incrementalism and so on.
But imagine, imagine, imagine not being skeptical of any kind of authority after the last couple of years.
Like, oh my god, can you imagine?
Like, Jill Biden just got COVID again.
Watch, she had two shots, two boosters, and yeah, it stops with you, right?
It's like, imagine.
Crazy.
Imagine trusting a company that demanded no liability for its products.
I'm sorry, I don't mean to laugh, but imagine trusting a company that demanded no liability for its products.
I can't, I mean, I don't know what to say.
This is half a laughter of despair.
Oh, my gosh.
And imagine, oh, no, I can't do two rants in a row.
I'm not 17 anymore.
I can't do two in a row.
I need, you know, a little breathing room.
I can't do two rants in a row.
Do it!
Do it!
All right.
Trust the science.
Trust the science.
What does that mean?
It means trust the scientists, right?
Trust the scientists.
They have strength of character.
They have integrity.
They are stalwart, staunch, steeled, metal-spined heroes of intellectual integrity, virtue, strength.
And really, really powerfully able to resist social pressure, money, sex, bribes, rewards.
They are just Howard Rock on steroids.
Right?
Now, quick question, quick question.
When you were in, say, junior high school, you were in junior high school.
What were the kids like who were super into science?
Like really into physics and you know the real chemistry guys.
What were they like as a whole?
Right?
It was always tough to catch their names, right?
Like, it was always kind of tough to catch the names of the science nerds in junior high, right?
Because they were always stuffed in lockers with somebody's jockstrap around their head, right?
Now, those socially awkward nerdy kids, you know, they grew up to be scientists.
Now,
They didn't seem to me to have much more social substance than a leaf in the wind.
And they... Did they have... Did the science kids in junior high have really great abilities to stand up against bullies?
Like when bullies came along and they were just like, no, you cannot bully us.
We are the science kids.
Were they great with that?
Did they form a phalanx, learn karate, and just stand up for themselves?
And you couldn't push them around, man.
You break their glasses, they'll just headbutt you into oblivion.
I mean, the science kids as a whole, were they really good at standing up to bullies?
Right?
Were they really staunch and stern and strong and independent and worked together and... Oh, you didn't.
Quantum mechanics.
I was!
It's not all about you, my friend.
Yeah, okay.
Infertile rate biologists, right?
That's like saying, well, the science kids are going to band together with the Dungeons and Dragons kids and, hear me out, the violin kids.
And they're going to take over this fucking school.
It's going to be a rule of people great at slide rules.
It's going to be a rule of people who really know the correct tightening strength of their bow and who know how to put that rosin on like you wouldn't believe, man.
Those kids with the pocket protectors, they're gonna own this place!
And all the bullies and the jocks and the crazies and the aggressives, they're gonna kneel at the feet of the kids who really know how to identify their rocks.
So when people say to me, trust the science, they're saying trust the scientists, which means trust the people who, in my experience, have had absolutely zero ability to stand up for bullying in every single circumstance, in every single instance, in every single example, of every social situation I've ever seen them in, ever!
Well, they never fought back against any of the bullies I've ever seen, but I'm sure they'll fight back against the bullies in the media, and the government agencies, and the people who give them funding, and the social pressure, and the bureaucrats.
Because they didn't stand up against people who pushed them into lockers, I'm sure they'll stand up to the WOO and the CDC!
Sorry, like, I don't mean to laugh, but it's like, who believes this stuff?
Trust the science.
Man, those science kids, you can't move them, man.
You can't bully them.
Like, they'll just stand up no matter what.
Oh, I mean, look, I love science and I have great respect for scientists and so on.
Not so much government funded scientists, which is to say most of them I've generally have respect.
My major respect is private sector engineers.
Private sector engineers, God's gift to the planet from here to eternity.
Everyone else like bleh.
Bleh.
Smart and tough kids don't become researchers or government employers, employees.
See, the scientists are pre-selected for spinelessness, right?
How do we know that?
Because the scientists as a whole are in academia, they're in think tanks, they're in this and that and the other.
Now, if somebody said to me, I just want you to picture this, somebody said to me, hey, Steph, you know,
Somebody stuck a blarney stone up your sphincter when you were in the womb.
You clearly were born with a philosopher's gift.
You can rub some seed oil on arguments and make them burst into Kim Kardashian ass flame.
So yeah, we'd really like to, uh, we'd like to fund you.
We'd like to fund you now.
Here's the thing though.
Big chatty forehead.
We're going to tell you what you can and can't talk about.
We're going to fund you, and then you're going to build this big operation that's going to have studios and vaccine dances in the background, and you're going to be traveling, and you're going to get prominence, and you're going to have security.
You're going to get totally addicted to this mega-money lifestyle, and then
If you want to talk about something we don't want you to talk about, if you want to talk about something that doesn't serve our interests, our needs, our fundamental sphincter tasks for global domination, yeah, we're gonna destroy you financially.
We're just gonna cut off your funding completely, and you'll have no career, and you'll never be able to get a job, and you won't be able to broadcast anymore.
So yeah, we'll give you a lot of money,
And in return, you need to give us that thing you so laughingly call a conscience, right?
So... Can you imagine?
What would I say to that offer?
I mean, assuming it hasn't already come and gone.
We'll get into that story another time.
But if somebody offered me a lot of money to toe the line, what would I say?
That's a diamond hard boner rock hard no.
Be gone Satan.
Yeah.
I'd rather starve under a bridge.
Well, I'd rather not.
I'd rather not do anything than lie.
I'd rather just be silent than lie.
I mean, I wouldn't be happy doing that.
I would feel gross, violated, like my conscience would turn into dancing Bruce Willis shards of barefoot broken glass floor, right?
You're Loving the Future?
That's a great book.
The future is great.
The present is also great.
You should check that out afterwards.
And, like, I'd like to say I was even tempted, but I'm not even tempted.
Like, it wouldn't even be a temptation.
And part of me wishes I would be tempted so I could feel more virtuous for overthrowing the temptation.
You know?
I would like to be tempted.
I'd feel like a better person.
But I'm not even tempted.
Like, it doesn't even come close to being tempting.
Honestly, it would be funny.
And you know, I was deplatformed because I don't take deals, right?
You all know that.
Deplatformed by them.
Platformed by you.
And thank you much for your support, right?
Oh man, Steph, you've been teasing that story.
Interested to hear.
Yeah, I'll tell it one day.
Oh!
Oh, were you ever tempted like that when you were younger?
Yeah, it is something you kind of grow into.
But like all habits, right?
Going to the gym the first time is easy, going to the gym the thousandth time... Sorry, going to the gym the first time is hard, going to the gym the thousandth time is easy.
So you can click support, by the way.
You can support the show, you can support what it is that I'm doing.
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I'd love it if you could help, because I think we're doing singular work here, and all of that.
And look, someone's got to pay for this background sheet.
I mean, this stuff isn't free.
I've got to knit that from my chest hair and youth.
One that gets me is the old, we need a dictatorship to solve this complex crisis.
I know it's never worked in the past and has actually made things much worse, but the current dictatorship says it'll work this time.
I mean, people are fucking jigsaw puzzles in the wind, like nothing fits together.
Well power corrupts, and perfect power corrupts perfectly, and infinite power corrupts infinitely, and absolute power corrupts, and power corrupts!
But let's give the government more power.
Nothing hangs together with anything.
Yeah, so the idea that...
That the people who've been alienated and bullied are going to, like the scientists, are just going to stand up against bullying.
And that anybody who ends up dependent upon the menopausal whims of Anthony Fauci has any integrity whatsoever.
Because, you see, people with any integrity would say, oh fuck, I'm not going to lie for money.
I'm just going to tell the truth.
And then their career gets destroyed and they vanish, right?
They disappear.
Disappear.
Disappear.
So the only people who were left are the people you can't trust.
In general, right?
Because they've filtered out and found the people who you could trust and they've removed them from the equation.
Right?
Gone.
Baby gone.
Right?
I mean, I was talking about, yeah, please tip.
Y'all, thank you very much.
I appreciate that.
Thank you very much.
Yeah, the creepiness of the people who are just smiling the whole way.
Oh God, it's creepy.
The people who smile about, you know, desperately terrible issues and just keep grinning along the whole way without any sense of irony.
Alright.
Yeah, so, I mean, science is just the bought-and-paid-for weaklings who are willing to lie for money.
As a whole, right?
I'm not talking about anyone in particular, but as a whole, I mean.
I mean, and I know this as well, and one of the reasons I know this is that I was in academia.
And I was recognized, there was me and one other guy who were like the stars of the program.
And he was, in my view, a real conformist, and I was not.
And you should see the preference that people had for him.
He wasn't any trouble to anyone.
He was a relativist and a subjectivist.
He wasn't any trouble to anyone.
He got put on the treadmill and I did not.
I had to, gosh, I had to... I spent months trying to find a thesis advisor.
All right.
Whereas he got to effort everything under the sun, right?
Because in my view he was corruptible.
All right.
Hey Steph, what do you think is a faster route to find a wife?
Dating around or finding good friends in the hopes of getting set up?
What are you trying to strangle me with false dichotomy planet?
Both.
Neither.
Oh my god.
Oh my god.
Um.
Hit me with a why if you're looking for a husband or a wife.
Are you looking for a partner?
I mean, we're just curious.
Right.
Okay, so yes.
Yeah.
I'm struggling with finding quality women as well.
Been on dates with nine different women in the past two weeks.
Okay, so you're not filtering properly, right?
My soul is painted like the wings of butterflies.
All right.
Um, I mean, I can tell you how to find a great partner, but you won't like it.
Well, of course, if you knew you'd be doing it already.
I can tell you.
I mean, I've dated bad.
I've dated medium and I've dated fantastic.
Right?
I mean, still with the woman 20 plus years later, marriage ambushes.
No.
I would love three to five dates with three to five good potential women instead of mass dating from the apps.
Be a billionaire, 25, six pack, six foot, six foot penis, six inch penis, looks like Adonis, be a good man.
No, that's not it.
That's not it.
I saw this, this TikTok of this woman who was like, you know, ladies, if your boyfriend tells you that you're too expensive, just remind him that there are many other women in many other price ranges and you always get what you pay for.
Be virtuous?
No, that's not it.
I mean, yes, necessary but not sufficient.
Being virtuous in your own room doesn't get you women, does it?
They don't come beating down the doors.
It's not like you're a gravity well now.
Oh, great women fly to the black hole of your virtue.
Be so good they can't say no?
Yeah.
Yeah, but what does that mean?
What does that mean?
Staff rules start at...
Be a virtuous man.
Yeah, but being a virtuous man doesn't... you can be a, you know, virtuous man in your own room.
It doesn't get right.
Be a good man yourself.
Yeah, but that's not even close enough.
It's an acronym.
It's an acronym.
It's not a good acronym.
But I can tell you how you can get a great woman by this time next week, or this time next month, or a great man.
Be a charming man.
That's a Smith thing, right?
If you are waiting to meet someone in your own home, you are limited to delivery drivers in the end.
Okay.
You see Andrew Tate's system?
I would not recommend it.
Lower your standards.
Absolutely not.
Tell me.
All right.
Make sure your friends share your values.
It'll increase your chances of meeting the right man or woman.
Okay.
So let me ask you this.
Let me ask you this.
Out of how many women, what are the odds of who you're looking for?
Out of how many women is one in?
Like one in how many are you looking for?
One in how many?
One in 10,000.
One in 6,000.
One in 10,000.
Yeah, so we've got 10,000,000.
One in several million.
One in probably 50 to 100.
One in 10,000.
Easy, I'd hope.
One in 50.
Right.
Right.
1 in 5,000.
So extremely rare, right?
Extremely rare.
Now, she'd have to be attractive enough and virtuous, but also single.
Yeah, for sure.
Now, why is such a high-quality woman still single?
Why is such a high quality woman still single and looking for your ass?
She's not.
No, she is.
Yeah, she is.
She probably won't if she's that good.
No.
No, no, no, no.
She's holding out.
That's right!
Petrov.
Brilliant.
Brilliant.
She's holding out for a great man.
She's looking for the 1 in 10,000 guy.
Right.
She's looking for the 1 in 10,000 guy just because you're looking for the 1 in 10,000 woman.
So, how do such rare specimens find each other?
How do such great specimens find each other?
Great and rare specimens, how do you find each other?
Nope.
Not Tinder, not network, not tattoos, not Reddit.
Candle on a mountain.
Church.
Nope.
Doing great things.
Create the girl's greatest philosophy podcast.
Well, I met my wife before then, right?
In the wild.
So.
Gosh.
Permission to swear.
Yes or no?
Happy either way.
Yeah.
Alright.
GFMD.
GFMD.
GFMD.
So when you have extraordinarily rare mating opportunities, you need GFMD.
That's a giant fucking mating display.
A giant fucking mating display.
You need to be visible from space, you need to be out there, you need to be huge.
You need to be visible.
Right?
If you've got whales lost in the ocean, they need to be loud, they need to be able to find each other, and they need a giant sonar mating display.
You need a giant fucking mating display.
Need a Bugatti.
No, that's just drawing a... Yeah, like Oliver in the present, yeah?
Giant fucking mating display.
He wouldn't put it that way, of course, but yes.
But that's what... We know this biologically, right?
You need a giant... So what's your giant fucking mating display?
Doesn't that reek of desperation?
That's your emotional response to a giant fucking mating display?
So you're just anti-biology, you're anti-statistic, you're anti-what-works?
Like, this is logic 101, right?
If two people are extraordinarily rare, they need to have big displays in order to find each other.
Those peacocks are so desperate.
No, but what's interesting, my friend, is that, oh, reeks of desperation.
Now, reek is one of these words like spews where I know it's an emotional trigger.
You're spewing vitriol, you're spewing hate, you're spewing, spewing is one of these words where you just know it's triggered propaganda, and reek is another one, cringe is another one.
I just blur over people who speak like that, and don't, don't do it.
Like, just don't do it.
Wouldn't giant fucking mating display being taking a stand against some great immorality in the world?
Not necessarily.
Not necessarily.
Be prominent in the community?
Maybe.
Okay.
Do you care?
We'll call her... I don't know.
What's a nice, attractive woman's name these days?
Not Sally.
Elizabeth?
Liz?
Sasha?
Sasha's nice.
Rachel?
Jenny?
Karen?
No, not Karen.
Belle?
No.
Let's go with, let's go with Sasha.
Sasha is a very, very nice name.
All right.
So Sasha, right?
So Sasha is going to be a great wife, a great mom.
She's going to be a great homemaker.
She's just desperate to fall in love, to be with the right guy, but she cannot surrender.
To the average.
She cannot surrender herself to the average because that would be humiliating.
She would look down.
She would tear that man apart because her expectations are high and she knows she's capable of great things.
She wants to be married to a man who's capable of great things.
So do you care about Sasha?
Sasha is the perfect woman for you.
Do you care about her?
Do you care about that potential?
Do you want to make her happy?
So, if you want to make Sasha happy, then you need to be prominent, so she can find you.
Right?
So if you're hiding in your room, if you're just going to the gym, if you're not talking to anyone, if you're just hiding out at work, if you're just playing a bunch of video games or, you know, visiting the Spank Bank every third minute on the corporate coin, if you are not making yourself prominent for her, then you don't care about her.
Because you're willing to hide from her when she has too much pride to go hunting for you.
Because she's a quality woman, which means she wants to be pursued.
So do you care about her?
Giant fucking mating display.
Doesn't have to be money.
Doesn't have to be some big prominent virtue.
You don't have to be doing that.
But let me ask you this.
Do you shrink on these dates?
Do you shrink on these dates?
Are you downplaying your intelligence, goals, capacities, ambitions, knowledge, and virtues?
Are you reducing your size and then hoping to be found?
Are you drinking the invisibility potion of the average and then wanting to be found?
Yes, I was taught to keep a low profile.
I'm guilty of that.
No, but I'm not doing for a woman.
I don't know what that means.
Dream bigger than her whims would halt.
Don't want to show off.
What do you mean you don't want to show off?
Bad peacock!
What do you mean you don't want to show off?
What do you mean you don't want to show off?
Oh, you were taught to not show off, yeah.
Would you like examples from my life or should I talk more in the abstract?
L for life, A for abstract.
If you could, let me know.
Life.
Okay.
So, uh, when I was younger, when I would meet a woman and I would be interested in her romantically and she'd say, what do you want to do with my life?
What would I say?
What do you want to do with your life?
Well, you know, what are your plans?
What are your ambitions?
What do you want to do with your life, right?
What would I say?
Bat, baby.
Bat.
B-A-T.
Big-ass things.
I want to do great things.
You know, I remember saying to, you know, I want to be a great philosopher.
I want to be a great artist.
I want to, you know, Shakespeare, Dickens, and me.
That's what I'm aiming at.
Shakespeare, Dickens, and Molyneux, right?
That's what I want to, I want to be that because of course I want to aim, I don't know I'm going to get there, but I definitely want to aim high because I don't have enough vanity to think I know how good I can be.
I don't, I don't know how good I can be.
Like I was just doing the show last night.
I did a show where I had a bunch of locals questions and I was just pacing around.
It was like one o'clock in the morning and I was like, my brain was on fire and like, this is great.
And I know that the next show will be even better.
At least that's what I aim for.
I think I'm still only at 10% of what I can do.
I'm still working.
I ripped off some fantastic analogies and metaphors tonight.
And I want to do even better.
I want to go even further.
I want to do even more.
Now, you don't have to be a writer.
Obviously, don't be too literate.
Don't be too literate, right?
I want to be the best father who ever lived.
I want to be the greatest family man in existence.
I want to devote myself to this, that, and the other.
I want to, you know, buy some land and become a great farmer and provide for my family.
Like, what?
It doesn't have to be, you know, some big literary philosophical thing.
But by God!
Are you going to be an exciting ride?
Or just a little trolley car bumping along the streetcar named Cemetery?
I had a date and the girl asked me what I want to do with my life and I said I want to do great things and she flipped out.
Who do you think you are?
I ended the date soon after that.
Right.
So yeah, don't even have it on the date.
Have it before.
Don't waste your time with people who are looking to dissolve into the average!
Because you ain't the average if you're here.
You ain't the average.
And you're looking for one in 10,000.
Right?
Giant fucking mating display.
What does that look like?
Is the high quality woman looking for an exciting ride or a safe one?
What do you think?
Is the high quality woman looking for safety or excitement?
Safety first?
Well, is there safety in boredom?
Nope.
There's no safety in boredom.
How is there safety in boredom?
What does boredom provoke?
What does boredom provoke?
If you just spent 10 years bored out of your skull, what does boredom breed?
Anxiety!
Depression!
Regret!
Regret?
Oh, I fucking wasted 10 years of my life.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
All right, let me ask you this.
From 1 to 10, when you go to a theme park or rollercoaster place or whatever, from 1 to 10, how exciting are the rides that you do?
What do you aim for?
7, 9, 10, 6, 9, 7, 8,
Yeah.
Five, but I'm chicken.
Yeah, that's fine.
Right.
Why do some women and others, but usually women, claim you are arrogant for describing terrific achievements or future great plans?
What do you mean?
Why do they, why do they claim you're arrogant?
Everybody knows that, right?
You know why they call you arrogant for having big plans, right?
Why did they call you arrogant?
If you are very ambitious, why did they call you arrogant?
Because they want to stay small, but they don't want to feel small.
So they say that if you're grand, that you're insane, so they can stay small and call it sensible.
They can self-erase, they can limit themselves, they can live in the pathetic blown glass nothingness of the beach and call it sensible.
Well, I'm practical.
Damn, this hits close.
It's virtuous to accomplish nothing.
It's virtuous to go with the flow.
It's virtuous to mouth other people's platitudes and call them your own thoughts.
It's virtuous to do nothing.
It's virtuous to echo popular cliches and consider yourself a moral person.
It's, you know, that's great.
And it's fine.
Leave them there.
You guys are on the right-hand side of the bell curve.
You men and women here, you're on the right-hand side of the bell curve.
So for God's sakes,
Get yourself a giant fucking mating display!
My mother and wife do this to me all the time.
Esteemed thieves.
Listen, I get that.
And there's a little bit of women here.
So women generally don't know brilliant people.
Because as we know from the bell curve of the IQ stuff for males and females, there are just fewer brilliant women.
So women...
They don't get the Pareto Principle because they don't generally work in those circles.
Like, we all, I mean, I knew, I happened to have a very smart cohort of people that were around my friends when I was in junior high and high school, and some of them were just fantastic at stuff!
Like, incredible!
The math skills were unbelievable.
My language skills were unbelievable.
And they couldn't do my language skills.
I couldn't in a million years do their math skills.
So as a man with sports, with intellectual abilities and so on, we just know people who are just insanely great.
And we can't do it.
We can't do it.
We can't match that.
They're insanely great.
We can't possibly match it.
So then we're like, yeah, OK, there should be a meritocracy.
And there's a Pareto principle.
But women are kind of clustered around the middle.
So everyone's kind of like them.
And there's not any real exceptions.
And so they just look and say, well,
The average is the life, right?
My mother and wife.
Okay.
Big ambition leads to high risk, high risk, high reward.
No!
Absolutely not!
Absolutely not!
There is no low risk!
Fuck!
Get that out of your head.
There's no such thing as low risk.
Oh my God!
You've got to be kidding me.
There's no such thing as low risk.
All there is, is fucking the future for the sake of cowardice in the present.
There's no such thing as low risk.
Get that out of your head.
There's no such thing.
There's only trade-offs.
There's only trade-offs.
There's no such thing as low risk.
You try to live safely, you get depressed, you get regretful, you get hollowed out,
You feel like you've wasted your life.
Oh look, you've played it safe and you're fucked.
There's no such thing as low risk.
Please.
Please, my friends.
Get that out of your head.
It's a fantasy that paralyzes you.
Well, that's too risky.
Compared to, okay, jump out of a plane.
Fuck that.
There's no such thing as low risk.
No such thing as low-risk.
Trade-off.
Mmm, crabs annoy the heck out of me when I say I'll figure it out.
It drives people nuts.
If you're aiming for a low-risk life, if you're aiming for a low-risk life, your potential will nag the shit out of you.
Because just call it by what it is.
Just call it by what it is.
You're scared.
I get it.
I sympathize with that fright.
I empathize with that fear.
You're scared.
Don't call it prudence.
Don't call it sensible.
Don't call it practical.
What is low risk?
Low risk is just deferring anxiety.
That's all it is.
You're saying, well, I don't want to be afraid now, so I'd rather feel like shit later because I missed my potential.
No, low risk is not mediocrity.
No, no, it's not what I'm saying.
Low risk is high risk.
Low risk is high certainty of disaster.
If you have what you call high risk, you have a chance to succeed.
You understand?
If you have high risk, you have a chance to succeed.
If you take low risk, you have no chance of success.
Zero.
Zero.
Fucking zero.
So don't tell me that's sensible, that's well calculated, that's prudent, that's not prudent, that's fucked in the head.
You understand?
That's... Oh, I never exercise.
I'm not gonna exercise.
I could get injured.
Okay, maybe you'll get it.
You will get injured.
Yeah, you'll get injured.
You'll get injured.
I've been injured countless times over the course of my life exercising and doing sports.
Yep.
Pull a disc.
My shoulder's a little sore at the moment.
A little finger is mostly healed from a volleyball injury.
Yeah, you're gonna drag around a couple of aches and pains.
Well, you know, I don't want that.
It's like, okay, so you don't exercise.
Then what?
Then what?
You don't exercise.
You think that's lower risk?
Oh my God.
I want to reduce my risk.
You're trying to sound prudent when you're just scared.
And again, I sympathize.
I understand that fear.
I really do.
But my God.
If you aim too low, you will crush yourself inside.
You follow?
Would, like, I took a 75% pay cut to do this back in the day.
I had a great career in the IT industry, I was well respected, I spoke at conferences, I did all this kind of cool stuff, and I was gaining more experience, and I was just like, nope, I'm just gonna crush my income to do this, right?
Was that high risk?
No!
It was not high risk.
It was not high risk at all.
I took the least risky path I could.
Did you follow?
Oh my God, I'm sure this is clear.
I don't want to repeat myself.
Oh man, that's risky.
No, it's not.
I did the least risky possible thing that I could do.
Are you with me?
The other risk was not realizing the potential to be the greatest living philosopher or whatever you want to call it, whatever I've done.
And I wanted to have kids.
It's the world a better place in it with a moral philosopher who's had 800 million views and downloads or another software executive.
Right?
I'd never looked at it as, oh, man, this is a risky, this is a risky gambit, man.
This is really risky gamble.
I got this, I got this salary.
I've got this prestige.
I've got these options.
I got these stock things.
If I stay, I vest and blah, blah, blah.
Or I could just go podcast.
Cross my fingers.
Right?
If I'd stayed... Well, here's the funny thing.
So if I'd stayed in the software gig, who knows?
I mean, as a white male, I probably wouldn't have had much of a future.
And even if I had had a future, my potential would be gnawing at me like rats in the bottom of a ship.
My potential would be gnawing at me.
Do more, do more, do more, do more, do more.
This isn't it.
This isn't it.
You can do more.
This isn't it.
It still gnaws at me.
I've been doing this for 18 years.
It still gnaws at me about how much greater and better I can do.
Like now!
Y'all think you were gonna get yelled at about risk?
Didn't think so, but here we are!
Here we are.
Where does low risk and giving up differ?
Fuck.
I just said there's no such thing as low risk, and what are you doing?
You're asking, well where does low risk fit into all of this?
There's no such thing as ghosts.
Okay, I accept it.
There's no such things as ghosts.
But what about ghosts?
And it's like...
I feel you are not listening, my friend.
I accept that the world is a sphere, but go with me on this.
The world is flat.
Like, you can make a case against it, but for God's sakes, don't pretend I didn't say anything.
It's kind of rude, isn't it?
Oh my God, do you guys really think that?
Like, oh, if I go and ask this girl out, I'll be rejected and I'll feel bad.
If I go and talk to this girl, she might not want to talk with me.
She might have a boyfriend.
It might be really awkward.
And so I'm going to take the low risk option and not talk to her.
Yeah, that's low risk, isn't it?
You die alone!
Never experience mature adult love.
Have no children.
No progeny.
No continuation of the line.
You're selfishly exploiting all of the sacrifices of the last 12 trillion years of evolution.
And that's it.
Do you think that there's such a thing as low risk?
All there is, is
Completely immature avoidance of discomfort at the moment at the expense of your future self.
Do you follow?
There's no such thing as low risk.
Well, I don't want to ask the girl out in the present, so I'll just be alone forever.
Oh my god.
Well, it's risky to ask the woman out.
It's risky to talk to the woman.
It's risky.
Don't tell me that.
Don't tell me that.
You can say you're scared.
I get that.
And let's be honest about that.
No, don't.
It's risky.
Sounds like your fears are justified.
Low risk sounds like a belief Arlo would hold.
Yes.
Because if you've read the book, the moment that Rachel takes a stand about something, right?
What is Rachel doing in the book?
You think this is a new idea?
What is Rachel doing in the book, the present?
Sorry if there's spoilers.
What is Rachel doing by publishing something sympathetic to men's rights?
What is she doing by publishing that?
Giant fucking mating display.
To who?
Who is she giving her giant fucking mating display to?
Oliver!
Right.
Now, she does take the most astounding risks, right?
From going from a life of complacency, she takes the most incredible risks, right?
And she survives, she flourishes, she finds love.
Arlo is pathologically risk-averse, lays low, plays low, has a job with lemurs, plays low, lays low, stays low, right?
And what happens to him?
Well, I won't say, but it's not ideal.
Let's put it that way, right?
Low risk, low risk, low risk.
If you look at the novel, The Future,
Roman!
Why does he beat his children?
Why does he beat his children?
Yes, they don't even know, right?
With Arla, they don't even know.
Yeah.
Why does he beat his children?
Because the civ, your civilization is going to collapse.
It can't sustain itself.
So the lowest risk thing for me to do is to prepare my children for the collapse of civilization because civilizations never survive.
It's never happened before in the past.
It'll never happen now.
I'm protecting my children.
The civ is too risky.
I have to admit, I related to Arlo about the low-risk things.
Yeah, of course.
Of course.
Listen.
I can't make it any more obvious in the book.
What is Arlo wearing the first time that Rachel finds him?
What is Arlo wearing the first time that Rachel meets him?
This is a flashback scene.
He's wearing a chicken costume.
Is it too subtle?
It's probably too subtle.
He's a chick magnet.
So he's a chicken costume with a magnet around it, right?
So she's attracted to his fear because it keeps her small.
Magnet, chick magnet, he's a chicken.
She's drawn to him for his fear, his angst, his fears.
And then when she does something finally powerful and real, he has a panic attack and collapses and hates her.
And they say just about the ugliest thing, the ugliest things that you can imagine to each other.
I mean, I'm not like a super big insult guy.
I'm not very good at sort of coming up with, um, with insults, but let me tell you, cause you, if you haven't read this book, you've got to be kidding me, right?
Like just, just get this book for heaven's sakes.
You can go to freedomain.com slash books.
And just get the book.
I mean, just listen to the book, read the book, right?
I mean, it's fantastic.
All right.
All right.
Let's get to Arlo.
This brutal thing.
Arlo gestured at his heart, what do you love about me, Rachel?
You, your sense of fun, your intelligence, you're beautiful inside and out.
Arlo's lips curled in disgust.
That's just generic, like a birthday card.
He squatted down, adjusting the eiderdown around his waist.
He raised his face to her.
What in particular?
What do you love about me?
She challenged.
I loved our life together.
He said simply.
And then his voice began to rise.
But then I get dragged out at dawn.
Sorry, but then I get dragged out of bed at dawn to a screaming phone, a lying girlfriend, a wrecked life, a damned future, and a whole other world you live in that you've hidden from me.
Did you think I was going to be too judgmental?
Have I ever done that to you?
Allah's voice caught in his throat.
I have only ever been totally and completely supportive of you, Rachel.
You don't think I've ever asked myself if this career of yours is just vanity, a total waste of time?
Come on!
You've been at this for half a decade.
You make nothing.
You publish almost nothing.
How much time do you spend on your craft every week?
You don't have a career.
You're not really a writer.
You don't do anything in the community.
God forbid you touch charity with a 10-foot pole.
What do you do for anyone except yourself?
You're not a wife.
Not a mother?
You're just three pounds of makeup scrolling through her phone and pretending she's alive.
Ah.
Brutal.
Rachel jumped up.
Okay, gloves off, right?
What about you, Arlo?
You think sit-ups are gonna make you immortal?
God, I wish you would be judgmental once in a while.
Then at least you would have some kind of definition, some opinion that I wouldn't, that I wouldn't, that I couldn't just totally predict before it came out of your mouth.
You're, you're, you're just a fortune cookie with abs.
You don't play with monkeys, babe.
You are a monkey.
You live for now.
You don't care about the future.
And what the hell have you ever done for society other than flesh out the useless fantasies of women passing you by?
Take away your looks.
What are you?
Nothing.
A boy whose mother was too busy, whose father was too pretty.
And my career?
Oh, I see the bank statements, kiddo.
You're still taking money from mommy, just like your dad.
Two kept boys, vanity pets with golden chokers.
Anyway, so yeah, they're just unbelievably vicious.
And this is, you know, they've been in the relationship five years, and what happens for five-year relationships?
What happens in relationships if you don't have kids?
What happens to relationships in five years?
Right?
People pick at each other, they rage against each other, because their biology there is saying, oh, this person's probably infertile.
So I gotta dump them and move on.
I've known so many relationships.
Five-year mark, no kids, boom.
Right?
So they're doing the natural, right?
So she is like, there's no future with Arlo.
I got to get to Oliver.
Good match for each other, two surface-level people doing nothing real, nothing of substance ever done.
Now the question is, what are you going to do about it?
Right.
So they're taking a low-risk life, right?
She's not publishing anything risky, he's not challenging anyone or anything, they're just watching the social... Oh my god, and here's the thing too, right?
So how many clues are in the book, The Present, about how society is collapsing, right?
Every second or third page I'm throwing something in there about, shit's falling apart, shit's falling apart, shit's falling apart, and they're all like,
Let's go, let's go mountain climbing!
Let's not, let's not be too paranoid because, you know, that would be crazy.
So Oliver accepts risk and survives, whereas Rachel and Arlo, they try to live low risk, and then Rachel realizes that living low risk is dying inside, so she does a giant fucking mating display for Oliver, but she can't get to honesty, because she's secular and he's Christian, so this is a love letter to Christianity, this book is the most part.
Where is the low risk?
You call something low risk, it's just because you forget about how it's fucking you in the future.
You're like a smoker saying, well, you know, quitting smoking is pretty uncomfortable, so it's kind of risky, so I'll just keep smoking.
It's kind of risky to be uncomfortable.
I could be really unhappy, right?
I could be miserable.
Who knows what could happen from there?
I could get sick.
Maybe I'd throw myself off a bus.
I don't know, but it's really risky to quit smoking, so I'll just keep smoking.
Low risk, low risk, low risk.
Don't imagine for a single split fucking second that an addiction to low-risk activities is anything other than fear.
Now, fear is not the problem, right?
What's the difference between fear and cowardice?
Fear we all feel.
There's nothing wrong with fear.
It's a natural human emotion.
No, it's not what you do.
What's the difference between fear and cowardice?
If you're afraid, oh, you're a coward.
Coward as succumbs to fear?
No, there's nothing wrong with succumbing to fear.
Are you kidding me?
You don't fight every fear.
Are you kidding me?
Are you insane?
Sorry, Alec, are you insane?
If two grizzly bears are rushing at you, do you fight or do you flight?
There's nothing wrong with surrendering to fear.
Yeah, that's right.
Cowardice is when you pretend it's prudence, sensible, virtuous, I'm just taking the proper practical course.
Yeah, it's when you hide behind excuses.
No, do not disrespect your fear by saying it's something you must always overcome.
You follow?
Fear is very healthy.
Fear is when you assess risk.
Now, some fears are more rational than others.
Other fears are more paranoia.
I get all of that.
But you can't just say, well, the entire purpose of life is to overcome fear and all surrender to fear is cowardice.
My God, then your fear, like, can't help you, can't keep you safe.
It's like saying, well, you should do everything that hurts you physically and you should never give in or change your behavior based upon intense physical pain.
Man, when I step on a rusty nail, I just stand there.
Sometimes I do the fucking Macarena or I do some Lord of the...
Dance Michael Flatley ball sack drumming dance.
Yeah, I'm afraid of I'm afraid of flicking tiger balls too.
No, don't call yourself a coward for failing to overcome fear.
Fear is entirely sensible and rational.
We didn't evolve it so that we could overcome it and do stupid shit and get killed.
Right?
I mean, be perfectly frank, and I think it's fairly empirically evident now.
You know, four years ago or whenever it was, politics got kind of scary.
Ah, well, although politics might have gotten quite scary, I'm gonna be a coward if I change my behavior based upon a rational perception of imminent danger.
That car is coming towards me at high speed.
I'm afraid of that car hitting me, but I'd be a coward to jump out of the way.
The entire purpose is to overcome that fear so I end up as some splatter-bones-era hood ornament.
Courage is overcoming fear?
No.
Bravery is being afraid but doing whatever you have to despite the fear.
Including running away instead of being paralyzed?
Immobility?
No, no, come on.
Come on.
The powers that be can take down Russia.
I'm afraid of having children with a crazy slash evil woman.
A real man would overcome that fear and marry the witch, said no one ever.
Oh no, the witch says it all the time.
So, yeah.
When I was in Melbourne, I think it was, I was being hunted through the streets by a gang of feral socialists.
Well, I will stand and I will... Right?
Nope.
Duck and run.
Was I a coward?
No, of course not.
I mean, anybody who thinks they have self-defense against the mob should think again, right?
I mean, this has become pretty clear, right?
I don't have the right of self-defense in society.
You understand that, right?
So, no.
Like, you run.
You run, you hide.
I mean, of course you do.
Am I a coward?
No.
Not at all.
It's a tactical retreat, yeah.
I mean, there was danger when I was in Hong Kong and I was marching with the anti-communist protesters and there were like tear gas canisters flying all over the place.
I could have been hit, taken one to the eye.
I was fine with that.
Yeah, my grandfather escaped the Soviets in 1956.
He survived and I'm here as a result.
No, there's no...
There's low risk that leads to regret.
See, low risk to me is when you turn from fear to cowardice by justifying it as prudence.
Yeah, calling someone a coward is a manipulation tactic.
Yeah, yeah.
So calling someone a coward is, well, when they're not fighting the fights that you want them to fight.
Like all the people like, you should go back on Twitter and you should take on the powers that be.
It's like, yeah, yeah.
Sure, that would be kind of entertaining for you, but man up.
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, it's nonsense, right?
It's nonsense.
Yeah, just the moment you, the moment you start trying to talk to yourself about a low risk life, it is very dangerous.
Because of course you want low risk.
Of course you do.
It's just that your definition of low risk is compared to what?
Compared to what?
You know, America was founded by everyone who ran away, right?
You understand that?
America was founded by everyone who ran away.
I mean, Australia was founded by everyone who was pushed away, but America was founded by everyone who ran away.
And America was the lowest risk solution they could find, even though, you know, a bunch of them died on that six-week voyage from, what was it, Portsmouth to New York or whatever, right?
Yeah, don't fool yourself about low risk, man.
Low risk is just deferring an escalating regret.
A giant fucking mating display is the lowest risk behavior that you can make.
If you take no risks you'll get trampled on, will not mate and your genes will die along with you, how is that low risk?
Alright!
Would you like a practical giant fucking mating display?
I've done this.
Right.
So you are in a group, there are women, and as men, we all rate the women according to looks, right?
Because we're men, it's an automatic process, it's like digestion, it just happens for us.
Don't you see this big sorting routine?
Big bubble sort, bubble butt sorting routine, right?
We sort women by attractiveness, right?
Right.
Do you know what a giant fucking mating display is?
Walking past the hottest woman, ignoring her completely, and talking to the woman with the brightest sparks in her eyes.
The most intelligence, the most liveliness, the most curiosity, the best sense of humor.
Walk right past the prettiest woman like she doesn't even exist.
Walk right up to the girl with the brightest sparks in her eyes.
That's a giant fucking mating display.
Do you follow that?
Genius.
My mind is being blown past the stratosphere.
Well, if you want to get blown past the stratosphere, that's what you do.
It's called game.
No, it's not called game.
It's not called game because this is not a manipulation.
Look, do you know how many high-quality women who don't have the super-hotness, right?
And one of the reasons they are high-quality women is they don't have the super-hotness.
Do you know how many high-quality women are so fucking sick and tired of watching men
Chase after the bipolar cleavage hotties.
This is not manipulative, right?
You are saying, I value qualities of character more than accidental genetic characteristics.
That I'm looking for virtue, not just hotness.
Pretty women are a dime a dozen, to some degree or another.
Virtuous women, quality women, are much more rare.
Every time you get distracted by looks, you're bypassing quality, for the most part.
I thought you were attracted to the pretty one.
Well, of course you're attracted to the pretty one!
It's your balls versus your brain.
Your balls are selected and just want high-quality fertility markers to inject squid boys into, right?
Virtuous women get married early.
Do not take them for granted.
Oh, Dave.
Virtuous women get married early.
No.
Not necessarily.
Oh, you did!
So that's just a general statement about everyone because it's you.
I'm not sure you can see a virtuous woman clearly if you think this is all about you.
She was so beautiful but oh so boring I'm wondering what am I doing here?
So beautiful but oh so boring I'm wondering does anyone out there really care?
About the curlers in your hair, my little golden baby.
Where have all your birds flown now?
Yeah, just so beautiful.
So boring.
Yep.
Listen, you're being cynical here.
Great.
It's not cynicism.
You're not being wise.
You're just avoiding risk.
Oh, modern women, they're this, they're that, blah, blah, blah.
Bullshit.
You know, there are women right here in the chat.
There are women at FDR.
There are women who've been exposed to philosophy.
There's women who've been exposed to red pill content.
There are more virtuous women out there than ever before in human history because of the internet.
More!
You can do a giant fucking mating display that's visible all over the world.
There are more women exposed to red pill content at this point in history than have ever existed at any point ever in the past.
They're not out there.
They're not this.
So you're frightened.
You're frightened of rejection.
You're frightened of not finding the person.
Or you're frightened of finding a virtuous woman and her stepping over you, because you're not high quality enough.
So you've got this fear, which again I understand and I sympathize with, but you're calling it prudence and wisdom and an accurate analysis of the world.
Oh, so cynical.
So cynical.
That's just fear.
Cynicism is just fear of failure or fear of rejection recast as wisdom.
That's all.
And I don't know why you'd be so afraid of failure.
I think a virtuous woman would be repulsed by a guy complaining how bad women are.
Oh yeah, can you imagine, like you're a virtuous woman looking for a great guy and you're like, there aren't any virtuous women, they're all terrible, trash, 304s or whatever, right?
Okay.
Hey, now there's a self-fulfilling prophecy for you.
I'm never gonna be a good philosopher, I shouldn't even really try.
I don't have that much to offer the world.
It's just too much, you know, it's too much of a hassle.
What about dating work colleagues versus dating outside of work, both equally risky?
The first point you should take is that everything's equally risky.
So you're trying to, Oh, what's more risky?
Well, everything is equally risky.
Is there something that's more risky?
It's just a matter of time preference, that's all.
Is saving money or spending money better or worse?
Like, I'm sorry, it's retarded to even ask that question.
Is it better to buy a house or rent?
Is it better to lease a car or to buy a car or take the bus or ride a bike or rent a car?
Like, none of these things make any sense at all!
Well, is it better to lease a car that's out of your budget or buy a car you can afford?
If you buy a car through leasing that you wouldn't be able to afford otherwise, that car is going to come usually with better safety features that could save your life.
In which case, it was a hugely great decision.
How much looks do we sacrifice for virtue?
6 out of 10 looks for 10 out of 10 virtue?
Well, are you looking through the balls or the soul?
Because a virtuous person is beautiful.
Oh, but, you know, their eyes are a little off and their hair is kind of stringy.
A virtuous person is beautiful.
And here's the other thing, too.
You think that 6 out of 10 looks for 10 out of 10 virtue?
You think that's some static number?
Are you crazy?
Sorry to be so blunt.
What are you talking about?
You think that's a static number?
What happens to looks, my friends?
Come on.
You know this.
I know this.
What happens to looks over time?
Come on.
They don't just fade away.
Fade away.
They're replaced by ugliness.
Women are like chameleons.
A 10 looks like a 6 without makeup on.
No, look, your best fucking case scenario in this life is to turn into the fucking Crypt Keeper.
Right?
The best you can do, the best, most optimal solution in life is I'm going to look like the fucking Crypt Keeper.
I'm going to look like that melting Nazi at the end of my life.
So if my wife is with me for looks, let's just say it's a pretty excessively depreciating asset.
Now, what about virtue?
What about virtue?
Does virtue, is it a static quality throughout life?
Is virtue a static quality throughout the course of your life?
Virtue seems to be a compounding value.
Right.
Am I more virtuous now, if you've been listening for a long time, am I more virtuous now or is there more confirmation of my virtue now as opposed to 10 or 15 years ago?
I think, I mean, I would hope that I've gotten more virtue.
I think I have.
Like, I would say that my current, my perception of my virtue and my level of virtue has remained fairly constant, but the scope and temptations have increased.
So, it's like the weightlifter should continually feel tired, should continually feel the same level of tired because the weights are getting
Heavier.
But my commitment to honesty and integrity, I think it's been tested a lot, right?
I did stuff that got me deplatformed, and I haven't been tempted to go back to what I view as a corrupt platform and all that.
So, yeah.
Yeah, more virtue after having parented successfully?
Yeah.
Extreme, but let's say you could marry this woman, but you will be blind six months later.
Her physical looks won't matter.
Now, is she still desirable for who she is without that factor?
I hope it's a yes if you want to marry her.
Yeah, well.
Would you want her in your life if she was unavailable sexually?
I remember you back in 2016, the political days, but I left and came back during COVID and your work now has been life-changing.
Right.
Well, I mean, my work was always aimed to be life-changing.
I just got a little tempted by the old political thing, right?
For better or for worse.
For better and for worse.
I'll do an analysis for that one day, but
I felt that getting involved in politics was the least risky thing that I could do, given the alternatives.
And then it became a more risky thing to do, given the alternatives.
Yeah.
Enemies helped you.
That's why you love your enemies, right?
Because they help and guide you.
People didn't betray me by failing to stand up to me.
For me, they liberated me from having to be involved in this stuff.
Beautiful.
Yeah.
Do you want her in your life without sex?
It's really insightful.
Yeah, for sure.
Does she provide value other than sex?
Because if you have a woman in your life that you're mostly interested in because of sex, you'll become a pathological liar.
Like it will destroy your integrity.
It will destroy your conscience.
Do you follow?
Like you will become a pathological liar because you can't say to her, well, I don't really like you, but I just want to have sex with you.
I just want to get my rocks off and I don't care about you as a person.
And you know, whatever.
I'd rather you didn't talk.
Um, you just have to lie and pretend you care about her.
Pretend you love her.
It's wonderful.
I love you.
Just lying.
Right?
And once you become a pathological liar, and lying is the foundation of relationship, you're doomed.
What if you simply are not attracted?
What if you simply are not attracted?
If you're not attracted to a virtuous woman of sort of childbearing age, and you know, virtuous also means like not obese and healthy and exercises and all that sort of stuff.
So if you're not attracted to a healthy,
Attractive woman, because, you know, health is the ultimate attractiveness.
So if you're not attracted to a virtuous, healthy woman, then you're immoral and unwell.
Right?
Right?
That's just the way that it is.
Yeah, I was talking about this with a friend the other day, like, one of the reasons why, like, Christianity has become really gynocentric, like, there's no real incentive for men to go to church these days because it's just, you know, goopy, soupy, forgiveness nonsense.
And, of course, you know, like, the question of obesity was very accurately answered by Christianity, right?
So what did Christianity say about getting fat?
Gluttony, yeah.
Greed, gluttony is a sin.
You're literally wearing your sin with excess fat, like the devil's overcoat is your fat.
Yeah, sloth and gluttony are two huge sins.
And also, there's a lot of fasting in the Bible, and also with the Bible, your body is created in the image of God, it's a temple of the Holy Spirit, you do not defile that which is beautiful.
You do not defile God's creation.
Do you think that there are thunderous pulpit lectures condemning people who are triple jowl displaying the Satan overcoat of gluttony and the defilement of God's holy body?
Are we seeing any of that?
Maybe there's, but I've never.
I've never seen that.
Not at my church.
No, of course not.
Do you think that there's ever been, recently, last couple of decades, do you think there's ever been church services talking about the actual truth about the Crusades?
Anything?
Nope.
Do you think that men would go there if they were thundering the actual truth about the Crusades?
Of course they would!
Here's the maps, here's the facts, here's who Saracens actually were, here's what was actually going on.
Leviticus forbids marking the skin, yeah.
You think that scrawling graffiti on your body improves what God made?
This is like the idiots and assholes who spray paint the Mona Lisa thinking that it's better.
Half the people in churches are fat, but that's not why they haven't talked about the sin of obesity.
Half the people in church are fat because they haven't talked about the sin of obesity.
They're aiding and abetting sin.
They're aiding and abetting the sin of gluttony.
And in general, in general, obesity also leads to lying to the self and to others.
Do you know why obesity will often lead to lying to yourself and others?
A lot of people typing.
Because they need to justify it as healthy or whatever the new thing is.
Hiding eating, lying about your health to justify getting there causes you to lie daily.
I'm not that fat.
I'm not that big.
These clothes are changed.
They're made too tight.
It's genetic.
It's not my fault.
I don't overeat.
Whereas you hide your eating and you lie to other people, other people who are gaining weight.
Do I like, no, you're beautiful at any size.
Don't worry about it.
Right?
Just lie, lie, lie, lie, lie.
Just lie.
I mean, I knew a guy once, complete by accident, I knew a guy once, massively overweight, he asked me to get something, to look for something on his computer, he told me to hit the start, and his search history was, and he always claimed, oh I don't eat that much, I just have hormonal issues, I'm just, and it was all about, his search history was all about how to overcome binge eating at night, right?
I barely eat anything, but I can't seem to lose weight.
I'm big boned.
Yeah, dinosaurs are big boned, as the old joke goes, right?
So, no, you just have to lie.
You just have to lie.
People lie about obesity all the time.
This is one of the reasons why obesity is a sin, is it leads to more sin.
I have been dieting, I haven't been eating extra, I just have this issue, my doctor says, and it's like,
It was my dad's genes.
Listen, genetics are a thing with obesity.
Genetics are a thing with obesity.
So I sympathize with all of that.
But it still is calories as far as I understand.
I'm no nutritional expert, but you know.
When I wanted to lose some weight, I cut back on my calories.
Oh, and look what happened.
I lost some weight.
Right?
Not that complicated.
I mean, it's not easy necessarily, but it's not that complicated.
I went from 222 pounds to 191 pounds.
But no, obesity, the obese genes is like, then you know you shouldn't gain weight.
Yeah, physics don't care about your excuses, I mean... Steph, thoughts on why obesity has skyrocketed?
Food quality?
Yeah, you know, they say, oh, it's such unrealistic body standards to be slender.
It's so unrealistic.
And it's like, have you ever seen those videos of like New York in the 1930s or San Francisco in the 1920s?
You ever seen those videos?
They color code them and they've got the... they slowed it down so that it looks... right?
People are slender.
Just about everyone is slender.
When I was a kid, I didn't know a fat kid.
Nobody was fat.
Nobody was fat when I was a kid.
Food quality and chemicals and less movement, cable TV, video games.
Nope!
Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope.
Nope, none of that.
Not gluttony.
I'm old enough to remember barely any fat people.
Oh yeah.
You go and see like the world's fattest person
In some circus from like a hundred years ago.
That's crazy.
Sin?
No, it's not sin.
Sin is a constant.
Sin is a constant.
Saying, well, is there more sin now?
No, it's like blaming a plane crash on gravity.
Gravity is a constant.
Kids no longer allowed to play outside?
Nope.
People use food as a drug, for sure.
Yeah, it works for dopamine, I get that, but that's always been the case.
I mean, yeah, so in general there's an IQ decline, and IQ is inversely proportional to BMI.
But also, in general, the way that people stayed thin was their relationships were all voluntary.
Right?
Their relationships were all voluntary.
Quick question.
Do people who are significantly overweight, do they take more sick leave?
Are they less available to work?
Do they have less stamina for work as a whole?
So when relationships were purely voluntary or largely voluntary, then there was less success for people who were overweight and therefore there was less motivation for them to stay heavy.
So, when you were overweight, or you started to gain weight, what would happen to your health insurance when health insurance was largely private?
What would happen to your health insurance, and so on, right?
What would happen to your medical costs, right?
What would happen to your expenses?
What would happen to your risks?
What would happen to your, right?
And then if you took a bunch of sick leave because you were unhealthy or unwell or didn't have any energy or whatever, right?
And of course, if you were overweight and you worked in a team and you couldn't work as hard because you were overweight, then what would your co-workers?
Would they want to work with you?
Would they mock you?
Would they, right?
So in the past, when things were more voluntary, people got early signals of a lack of health and they reformed their behavior very quickly.
I don't have any thoughts on fat shaming because the word shaming is not a thought.
Is it better to be good or virtuous?
What is the highest?
I have no idea what that means.
Could women who were overweight in the past get resources?
Nope.
Not really, because if you were obese and you were 20, men didn't want to marry you.
So you couldn't get ahead.
I'm pretty sure obesity allowed a man to divorce his wife too.
So when relationships are voluntary, people got much more instant feedback.
Wasn't obesity a sign of wealth centuries ago?
No.
So obesity came with the problems of gout and tooth decay and other sort of major health issues.
So it was to some degree a sign of wealth, but it was really just a sign of greed.
And it's true, it certainly is true, that if you sort of look at Rubenesque women, the women who were slightly plumper a couple of hundred years ago, but that's because food was uncertain.
And so a woman who was slightly plumper could be more fertile and the child would survive if food was interrupted.
No, there was never a time when obesity was in general considered attractive.
Being a little heavier meant that you had access to food and you could survive the inevitable famines that even hit some of the wealthier.
So shaming, I, it's one of these, I don't know what, I don't have any idea what that means other than sometimes you say things that make people feel bad, right?
But, um, it's, it's a very, um, soy word.
Like there's no intellectual content to it, right?
Sometimes you say things and people feel bad.
So, uh, but I, there's no intellectual content to it.
Is it fair to criticize people who are overweight?
I think that it can be fair, in the same way that we criticize people who smoke.
Now, if people had their own health care and their health care costs didn't cost me money, that would be one thing.
But when people are overweight and they're reaching into my pocket with their pudgy fingers, or people are smokers, or people don't exercise, and then I end up having to pay their bills,
I'm not happy.
So if you want my money, I'm going to have some opinions about what you're doing.
If you want my money for your health care, I'm going to have some damn opinions about how you're managing your health.
I don't want to have those opinions because I don't want to have to pay for your health care.
But I don't have any problem having opinions about your health when you want my money to pay for your health care.
I'll rephrase shaming.
What's better?
Directly telling someone to the face that being obese will likely shorten their lifespan, all the negative things, versus telling them they are good, not fat, playing into their delusions.
So, I mean, I'm sorry, like, this is not oblivion, this is philosophy.
There's not these choices.
Oh, you have to say one of two things.
I'm sorry, I find false dichotomy questions unbelievably boring and irrelevant.
Breakdown of the family, makes obese kids, the mom is at work, dad has a new girlfriend, the kids eat and eat.
Well, if you look at Schwarzenegger's kid, the one raised by his mom versus the one raised by Schwarzenegger, right?
Oblivion, best game ever?
Skyrim, maybe, Skyrim.
Truth is always better than lies, but curiosity is always better than condemnation.
Almost always, right?
You don't see how relationships are more mandatory now?
What?
Taxation, redistribution, SNAP, Civil Rights Act, forced, you know, you can't do this, you can't do that.
I mean, what do you mean you don't know how relationships are more mandatory now?
I guess you've never been an employer.
All right.
Yeah, so when people say, is it better to do this or is it better to do that?
They're saying, well, which NPC response is better?
And I don't do NPC responses, we're free will.
You've employed ten people.
Sorry, is that the same person?
Uh, so let me see here.
I don't see how relationships are more mandatory now.
Yes, I've employed 10 people.
Well, maybe you're under the cutoff for employment laws, but yeah, I'm just, or maybe you're in a place, I don't know where you are, but employment laws are everywhere.
Steph, you're the only person I've heard mention the link between obesity and sexual assault.
In my close experience, it holds true.
Massive sympathy.
Yes, and of course the fact that children are being preyed on left, right and center because dads are out of the home.
Again, have I played Morrowind?
I did play some Morrowind when I was younger, yeah.
Ask a landlord during COVID who couldn't get rid of non-paying tenants.
Yeah, yeah, for sure.
In the USA, health insurance was paid solely by the employer prior to 1990 and prior to the Second World War, everyone paid for their own health insurance.
Roderick Long had a great essay I read many years ago on this show about how cheap healthcare used to be able to get a year's worth of healthcare for two days wages.
A year's worth of guaranteed healthcare, as much as you wanted, as much as you needed, for two days wages.
It's really tragic just how terrible things have become in the healthcare industry.
Of course, you know, coercion and blah, blah, blah.
And of course, all of the people who are not taking care of their health.
They always want socialized medicine and collective things and force other people, right?
I hope Bitcoin fixes a lot of this stuff.
Well, of course, that's the help.
So let me ask you, my friends, have you found this to be a helpful show as a whole?
If you're here and you're new, we've got a lot of people here who are new, I think, and thank you very much for joining.
I'm sweating bullets here.
I could even show you my armpits here.
Working hard, hard, hard, baby.
Diamond hard.
So if you haven't tipped, is there a reason?
I'm just curious.
Should I work harder?
Is there a different set of topics?
Is there more insight than I can provide?
Yeah, 99% perspiration.
I also wrote a chapter today on the Peaceful Parenting book, which was how to get your kids to clean your room.
I'm a broke college student, but the moment I get some coin, it will be yours.
Oh yes, so somebody said, Steph, if you and everyone else are okay with a change of conversation, I could use some advice as someone.
I'm going to be attending Harvard soon, and I'm trying to traverse it as best I can, especially with the recent rating of Harvard getting a 0 out of 100 for freedom of speech.
Do you have any tips while I go through this, aside from continually being active in this community?
You're going to Harvard?
Why?
Why would you go to I mean, I'm a little baffled.
Why on earth would you go to Harvard?
I'm not sure I follow.
Why?
Why would you go to Harvard?
As you say, they get a zero out of 100 for freedom of speech.
Yeah, I don't I don't
I mean, I guess you'll get well paid for going to Harvard, in which case you can shut up and take the money, I guess.
But, um, to me that would be like, it would be hell on wheels, but you know, I mean, that's a different, I'm in a sort of different phase of life and all of that.
And I was, uh, in university when there was good free speech.
It was good free speech.
So, I mean, if you're going to be paid to shut up, that's fine.
I mean, I, you know, just have to be honest with yourself and say, well, I'm going to take the money.
I'm going to take the prestige.
I'm going to take the income and I'm just going to shut up.
And I'm going to nod and smile when they say the most absurd or immoral things.
And I'm going to be well paid for it.
Just, you know, do what you want.
Just be honest to yourself about it.
Just whatever you do in life, don't be tempted into lying to yourself.
I'm doing that to provide better for my family.
As a data scientist.
So you're doing that to provide better for my family.
So your family wants your money, not your integrity.
They want your cash, not your soul.
They want your resources.
They want your material resources, not your spiritual and moral integrity.
Is that right?
Is that what they want?
Give me the cash.
Give me the cash.
And if you've got to fuck over your own integrity to do it, does me going mean I sacrifice that?
No, no.
You said that you're going to provide for your family.
What do you mean?
It's got a zero out of a hundred for freedom of speech.
So you can't be honest.
You can't be open.
You can't be truthful.
You can't say things.
You'll have to nod and smile and agree with things that you don't agree with.
And I don't just mean in class, but even socially.
Let me ask you this, my friend, let me ask you this.
You are asking me for advice on going to Harvard because you value my wisdom or knowledge or virtue or something like that, right?
Is that fair to say?
You're asking me about whether you should go to Harvard or not, or how to best survive going to Harvard, because I have some philosophical value to offer you.
Is that a fair thing to say?
Right.
Okay.
Did I go to Harvard?
Boom.
Did I?
Do I have a doctorate in philosophy?
Do I have an Ivy League doctorate in philosophy?
I do not.
So you're asking me, saying, well, I can only really be successful by going to Harvard.
And I would say that as far as influence and reach and downloads, I'm probably the most successful modern philosopher.
So you're asking me, and the stuff that I talk about, how much of this do you think I got from my graduate degree in Toronto?
Like of what I'm saying?
I didn't say that I needed that to be successful.
I want to use it to help more.
What does that mean, to help more?
To help more in what way, in what context?
A networking and career.
Oh, so you want to spend a lot of time with people who really value a place where you have no freedom of speech.
It's going to be online.
Networking career.
So you'll end up spending a lot of, you end up spending the rest of your life around people you can't tell the truth to.
Isn't that the case?
Like your network career, like in your business center, right?
Look, I don't know what you should do.
I mean, it's just casting benefits, right?
I don't know what you should do, but just be honest about it.
It's going to cost you going to Harvard.
Nothing comes for free.
It's going to cost you going to Harvard.
It's going to cost you honesty.
It's going to cost you openness.
It's going to cost you.
You're going to feel fake socially if you're into voluntarism, free market, honesty, integrity, real time relationships.
If you go to a place where for years you can't be honest, that's going to cost you.
I just don't want you to,
I'm going to be paid to go.
Right.
Do you think there's a cost?
Is there a cost spending years not being able to tell the truth in your environment?
And having to nod and smile and go along with the most absurd stuff.
Is there a cost to that?
If you're going to pay a cost, know ahead of time.
That's all I'm saying.
If you decide to go, and I don't know whether you should go or not, I'm not you, I'm just saying don't lie to yourself about the cost that it's going to have on you.
Yes, there is, and that's why I'm going to... I'm trying to hedge that by going online and for... I don't know what that means.
Yeah, and maybe that'll be enough, right?
And also talk about it with your family, right?
Talk about it with your family and say, because if they're willing for you to pay the cost in order to make more money, I mean, again, that's fine.
I mean, I can't advise you on that.
It's not a fun, you know, saying should I kill someone, right?
So if you talk to your family and you say, well, I'm going to this place where there's no real free speech, and I really am a big advocate for free speech, and I won't be able to say anything, and I'm going to have to nod along with a bunch of stuff.
It's not like you're getting a humanities degree, so I get it's not going to be as bad.
Then if they're fine with it, then just have everyone on board and be honest about what's going to happen, right?
Nine professors and researchers at Harvard have faced calls to be disciplined or fired for voicing controversial opinions.
Now again, he's in data sciences, so the physics department and so on is less woke, although that stuff is getting that way.
So yeah, I don't know.
I don't know what you should do.
But the only thing that I can say is just be brutally honest with yourself about the costs and benefits.
I think I'm just going to not sacrifice my virtue and go anyways.
If I get kicked, at least I didn't sacrifice my virtue.
No, see it's not a question of, if you say to yourself, I'm not going to talk about this, that, and the other.
I'm going to nod and go along because there's a benefit on the other side of it.
That's transactional.
You cast some benefits, right?
And you can easily make the case and say, well, you know, if I go and get a degree of Harvard in computer sciences or, or what was it?
Data science, then I am going to make so much money that I'm going to be free and able to speak my mind later on.
Okay.
I mean, you can make that case.
That's a transactional case.
It's not a foundationally moral case.
It's a cost and benefits case.
So you can make that case, but just be aware that it's going to be tough at times, and you're going to be tempted to internalize it, and they're going to be really seductive about going along with this stuff and all of that.
So you can make the case.
You can, you can make the case.
I mean, wouldn't be my choice, but then, you know, I'm in a different phase in life or whatever.
Right.
So.
Not like Harvard would be chomping at the bit to get me there.
Anyway, could you imagine?
So, you can make the case.
Say, well, I make so much money, I'll have more choice later, I can be more, I can do more free speech later, or I can have more integrity later, or whatever it is, I won't need to shut up.
So yeah, listen, shut up and take the money is not the worst thing in the world.
Just be fully alert and aware to what's happening.
Make sure that your family's on board, right?
Make sure that your family is on board with all of that.
And all of that.
And that they are agreeing about this risk and, you know, your wife can help watch your back and all these kinds of good things.
Where do bad rainbows go?
Prism.
It's a light sentence and gives some time to reflect.
That's funny.
Any last tips of the evening?
A few streams ago, someone chatted that they love their cat.
It seemed obvious, or maybe ridiculous to you, that they really don't love, didn't love their cat.
I was confused why.
You have an attachment to your cat, you have some affection for your cat, but you don't love your cat.
Love is reserved for virtue.
Human love is, like, you know, dogs bond with their puppies, and ducklings bond with their, it's not love, right?
My mother is a voodoo witch.
Yeah, it's coming, it's coming.
I've just, I've got too many shows piled up and it'll come.
Maybe I'll put it out this weekend.
So no, I don't like cheap substitutes for genuine love.
Right?
I mean, I have adult mature love with my wife and so on.
And the idea that that's the same as a cat.
It's, I don't know what to say.
Like, I don't know what to say.
I don't know what to say.
Release the flood of call-ins.
Well, I don't want to overwhelm people too much, so.
No, it's not whether cats are annoying or not, so.
Hello, Sammy.
You can hardly keep up with the content.
Yeah, I just put out the review of Baldur's Gate, so... Yes, indeed.
Cats will eat you if you die.
There's no real reciprocity.
Is there any way I can help with the show?
I've helped out in the past with an audio fix.
Thank you, Nate.
Could you email me, operations at freedomain.com, just to remind me, and we'll do our best to see if we can find something helpful.
And that's incredibly kind, and I really, really do appreciate that.
So, thank you so much.
All right.
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