5300 From Individualism to Tribalism - Friday Night LIVE 20 October 2023
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Do you have any thoughts on equality of opportunity and equality of outcome?
Seems a little basic, Nate, honestly?
What is equality of opportunity?
It means no voice, no force, right?
Equality of opportunity is no force barring you from competing.
Equality of outcome is micromanaging with violence what everyone's doing all the time.
Equality of opportunity is one rule.
So you think of a running race, right?
And in that running race, you just say, hey, start here, run like hell, let's see who wins.
As opposed to everyone has to cross the finish line at the same time.
It's micromanaging, it's anxiety-based, it's tyrannical, and it's often violent.
Because what do you do with people who just run as hard as they can?
You just gotta trip them, or cripple them, or push them back, or push them down!
Equality of opportunity is a meritocracy.
And equality of outcome is a tyranny.
And there's really not anything more to say about that.
All right.
How do I stop lying?
All my life I've had this problem.
I lie for no good reason about small things and big things too.
I'll lie about the smallest things without even thinking, such as if I have completed some task I promised to without even thinking about it.
Then I'll have to scramble to cover the lie, such as rapidly completing the thing.
This has predictably led me to a very unhappy place.
One lie leading to another.
Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.
Lying about how I feel or what I'd like to do and then digging my hole even deeper by continuing to lie.
I seem to be very good at it since I've never seriously had any of my lies discovered.
Obviously I should just tell the truth, but I've dug so many deep holes I'm afraid to tell the truth because of who it will hurt.
I of course know what I must do.
Stop lying.
I just don't have the will to do it.
I suppose I'm becoming an example, especially if I'm not able to pull myself out of this spiral I've set myself into.
I know the answer to my question.
Simple.
Just stop.
At least the other listeners can hear or read this and maybe catch themselves early.
Please hold truth as one of your highest virtues or you will become as unhappy as me.
Well,
Does anybody here lie?
Yes, I lie from time to time.
Let me put a blatant lie in there as well.
Song quiz.
Let's deal with this one first.
Yeah, I mean, you never lie.
That's a lie.
I get you're joking.
All right.
Come on.
Let's do Philosophy 101.
Right?
So there's two answers when people confess to a sin, right?
Three answers.
One, it's the nature of man to sin.
Two, you're a bad person who's doing bad things because you've made bad choices.
What is the philosophical free-domain question or answer, you could say, as to why somebody has a habit of lying?
Why do you have a habit of lying?
Why do you lie?
Why do you lie like a rug?
Why?
Who does it benefit?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, obviously he feels that it benefits him, at least in the short run.
What is the answer?
Human beings are innately bad and sinful and that's why you lie and you need to pay us to save you from it.
Or, well, you're just a bad person who made bad choices.
Right?
Yes, you got it.
You got it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Parenting?
Well, I can say I inherited it.
You were forced to lie to survive as a kid.
When somebody has a habit, the first thing we do is say, what was the consequences of not having that habit as a child?
What is it that makes us lie as children?
What is it that makes us lie as children?
Why do we lie as children?
Why?
I mean, all children experiment with lying.
That's perfectly natural.
But why do we lie as children?
Yes, yes, yes.
Everybody with the chillingly accurate and true statement.
To stay safe.
Right, so why do we lie as children?
We lie because we fear mutilation or death if we tell the truth.
Right?
I mean, we fear mutilation or death if we tell the truth.
So lying is a survival mechanism.
You know that meme, why are you running?
Right?
So lying is a survival mechanism.
Asking why a child lies is like asking why a baby zebra runs from predators.
Why does the baby zebra run from predators?
Because it will die if it doesn't.
And if you're raised with a predator, then subterfuge is a great defense, right?
Does that make sense?
Subterfuge is a great defense when you're raised with a predator.
I lied about stealing famous Amos cookies when I was like seven.
Yeah.
I lied about having an ear infection when I was in boarding school.
There were these, so we lived in these dormitories with like, I don't know, 40 kids in the dormitory and there was, I really really was tired, needed some sleep.
The kids next door in the next dormitory were making all this noise and somebody asked them, the matron, to deal with it.
They didn't deal with it.
It was keeping us up so I said I had an earache because it was too loud.
If it helps, says the person, I was never spanked or hit once.
Right?
Probably because you were a good liar.
Is it any less punishing to tell the truth?
I think not.
Now, what are the questions that lead us to lie?
Also, thank you very much for taking this.
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What are the questions that lead us to lie?
What type of questions?
There are two types of questions that lead us to lie as children.
And I don't view it as lying.
I just I view it as survival.
I used to hide stuff in my pants to make spankings less painful, then lied about how much the spankings hurt.
Yeah, makes perfect sense to me.
Things that criticize our parents.
Those that cause fear of consequences.
John says, I lied to skip school, went so far as to put the thermometer on a nearby light bulb to manufacture evidence.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, you put it under your armpit, you jog in place, then you got the gross thing of putting it back in your mouth, right?
I lie.
I'd lie about having done my homework.
Oh, yeah, constantly.
Oh, absolutely.
Absolutely.
All right, so there's two questions that make us lie.
The first question is the aggressive question.
Why the hell did you do that?
You know, that just people say, what are you doing?
Right?
Put that down.
What are you doing?
Right?
That aggressive question, we lie.
Uh, nothing.
Right?
That's number one.
And number two is the trap question.
Right?
The trap question is
When did you stop beating your wife, right?
When did you stop, when did you stop?
Why are you such a hater?
I remember this, I watched, God help me, I know it's too late for God to help me in this regard, but I watched an episode of Jersey Shore, where they were all finding ways, novel ways, to share bacteria in a hot tub, and someone was criticizing Mike, the situation, Serino, or whatever it was, right?
And he's like, why do you gotta be such a hater?
Why do you gotta be such a hater?
Why are you a white supremacist?
Right.
So why are you such a hater?
Or is this hate speech, which has a question embedded in it, which is that there is such a thing as hate speech, right?
Is this hate speech?
Well, that's a question which is not really a very good answer.
You can't answer it because the question is really, is there even such a thing as hate speech or is speech you hate, hate speech or whatever it is, right?
Because speech can't have emotions, right?
There's no such thing as hate speech.
That's like saying color sound.
These are two things that human beings can have.
Emotions, language cannot.
Why are you gay?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Or as my daughter will occasionally say, why are you like this?
Which I find very funny.
She is just hilarious.
We just did a yesterday with one of our social media reviews, which was just hysterical.
At least for me.
I think I have sent for her too.
It was very funny.
So yeah.
Why did you do this aggressively?
And the no winning questions, right?
The no winning questions.
Now, you know that society focuses a lot on children lying.
And there's only one thing that society hates more than children lying.
Do you know what the thing is that society hates more than children lying?
What does society hate more than children lying?
That is right, you guys are on it.
Yeah, children telling the truth.
Why didn't you do your homework?
Because it's boring and pointless.
And actually, you're a terrible teacher.
I feel completely unmotivated.
I hate coming to class.
You're aggressive, you're weird, you're bossy.
This stuff is completely irrelevant to my life, and I'd rather be doing just about anything, including putting my face on a cheese grater and nodding rapidly, than be in this class.
Oh, and by the way, if my parents don't pay your salary, we go to jail, and then you come and tell us not to use violence to get what we want.
You rank, bristly bearded, fake hypocrite, right?
Um, you know, if you don't want to call your mother and you don't call your mother and she says, well, why don't, why aren't you calling me?
Well, because I don't want to, I find you boring and irrelevant and it's kind of scary and traumatic and I feel uneasy for the rest of the day.
So yeah.
Uh, guess what?
I, um, I don't want to.
Go kiss your Aunt Edna.
I don't want to.
Why not?
Because her breath smells really bad.
She pinches my cheeks too tight.
And she's got weird bristly mole that I'm afraid is going to spread to my eyeball.
You owe me respect!
No, I didn't choose you as a parent and you don't act in a way that makes me respect you.
If you want me to respect you, you should act in a way that engenders respect and not just yell at me for not giving you what you haven't earned.
I mean, if I took money out of your purse, you'd be really mad at me because I'd be stealing what I hadn't earned and you want me to provide you respect while doing nothing to generate respect within me.
And that's why I don't respect you, because you suck, and you're a hypocrite, and you're a liar.
Right, so the only thing that people dislike more than children lying is children telling the truth.
I'm just doing about all of this.
Yeah, go apologize for calling that girl fat, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Don't tell the truth as a kid!
Don't tell the truth as a kid!
And so, of course, when you tell the truth as a kid and you get in trouble for it, right?
You get attacked and criticized and yelled at and you... And it's because you told the truth, right?
And then they say, you should tell the truth.
I don't want to share.
Well, you have to.
I don't want to do my homework.
It's stupid and retarded.
Well, you have to.
I don't want to go to this family function.
Well, you have to.
So what's the point of telling the truth?
You either get ignored or you get attacked.
I'm not sure which is worse.
I always preferred to be ignored as a whole as a kid, but...
You know, your parents become friends with some other parents and you don't like the kid.
Well, let's go over to so-and-so's house.
I don't want to.
Why?
I don't like him.
Why?
Because the guy comes into my room and goes through all my stuff and doesn't have any boundaries and he tried to unlock my phone and he read some of my writing and mocked me and laughed at me and I don't like him.
He's weird.
Well, find a way to like him because we like his parents.
I'm being bullied.
Well, stay away from the bullies.
Or, you know, I don't know if you guys remember this, but there's that moment as a kid when you find out about how completely effed up adult life is and the adult world that you live in is.
And I remember very clearly finding out about the national debt.
Yeah.
Do you remember that?
Everyone has something.
What was it that you found out where you're just like, oh man, this society is messed.
I do, I remember learning about the national debt.
I can't honestly remember how I learned about it.
Usually it's some older kid who's putting you wise to something.
But I remember being like, wait, what?
I'm in debt?
What do you mean I'm in debt?
Come on, I'm not in debt.
I've never borrowed anything from anyone.
Sorry kid, you're in debt.
What do you mean I'm in debt?
Why am I in debt?
Well, because all the adults voted for stuff they don't want to pay for and the debt's going to pass down to you.
Come again, what?
Yeah, they want all of this free stuff and they don't want to pay the bill for it, so they've just borrowed a whole bunch of stuff and you're basically going to spend the rest of your life paying it off.
Get the fuck out of here.
No.
That's not a thing.
You're... You're fucking with me, right?
Like, that's not a... Oh, and by the way, your teacher is also... Her salary comes from the threat of jail against your parents.
What?!
Oh, come on!
I'm in debt?
And the teacher uses violence to get her salary?
Oh, and also she can't be fired.
Oh, and also she gets summers off, and the reason that you get summers off is because, I guess 150 years ago there was a harvest, there hasn't been a harvest really that most kids have had to deal with for about a hundred years, but it just kind of stays that way because the system doesn't change because it's ringed with weaponry.
I'm like, what?!
And so when they tell you to be careful with your money, they're totally lying to you because they've already sold you into kind of debt slavery for the rest of your life.
Yeah, I'll be sure to do my fucking homework.
Not parent yet.
I suppose the right answer to the Aunt Edna question is, explain to the child how would it make you feel if someone said that about you?
Try to get them to empathize, but of course not lie.
Oh, this is the lying guy, right?
Alright, lying guy.
Answer me this.
Oh my God.
Did you grow up with a father, yes or no?
I don't mean like a father around.
You grew up, so did your father, your father lived with you and did you have any kind of close relationship with your father?
Not a string father?
I guess you meant strong, right?
Not a strong father?
I guess it's too late to ask for permission to swear.
Did I, I already, that ship already sails, right?
I feel the urge because this stuff pisses me off.
Oh, man.
Oh, man.
Permission to swear reaffirmed.
Long day, six, seven days a week of working 10 to 12 hour days.
All right.
All right, here we go.
How would it make you feel if someone said that about you?
Is there a more effed-up, feminine, estrogen, soy-based selection of spineless syllables that have ever skewered forth from somebody's mouth-breathing hole?
Dear Lord!
That is a sentence akin to reason, as candy floss is akin to a central's tunnel support on the New Victoria line.
How would it make you feel if someone said that about you?
Feels over reels, right?
Oh, it's whether somebody's upset.
It's not whether something is true.
How would it make you feel if someone said that about you?
Okay, so then they're saying that you shouldn't tell the truth if it upsets someone.
Right?
Shouldn't tell the truth if it upsets someone.
Okay?
Well, the reason I withheld things from you, Mom and Dad, is because you'd get really upset if I told you what was happening.
The reason I didn't tell you that I stole something is because you're going to get upset if I tell you I stole something.
So, we don't say things that could upset other people, so I have to lie to you so that you don't get upset.
Tell me the truth.
No, because it'll just upset you.
Oh, okay.
That's fine.
I don't understand, fundamentally, what's wrong with calling fat people fat.
Well, how would you feel if someone said that about you?
Well, I don't want to call myself fat, so I'm not fat.
How would it make you feel if someone said, Steph, you're bald!
Congratulations, I'm blue-eyed and have most of my own teeth and a strong chin.
What do you mean, how would it make me feel if someone said that about you?
If it's a true statement and you get upset at the truth, you have a mental health problem.
I mean, how would it feel to you if somebody said accurate information with you in an attempt to keep you sane and grounded?
Steph, how would you feel if somebody said, you're not as good-looking as when you were 20?
I'd be like, yeah.
Why would I be offended at a fact?
The only people who are offended at facts are people profiting from lies!
And maybe if somebody had said to Fat Aunt Edna that she was gaining weight and getting fat, she might not have gotten fat.
And maybe she'd have another 15 or 20 years to live.
You know how the Asian culture handles women who are getting fat?
I've heard this from a number of Asian women.
Do you know how the Asian culture is in general?
And, you know, I don't want to blend them all together, but this is a fairly common phenomenon.
Do you know how the Asian culture handles women who are getting fat?
You don't know?
They relentlessly fat shame and brutalize the women until they lose the weight.
Why are you so fat?
Why are you so fat?
You're getting fat.
Stop eating.
I'm not giving you any more food.
Drop the kimchi.
You don't get tempura anything!
Right?
Japan too?
Yeah, the women fiercely guard that, right?
And you would expect that in Asian cultures because rice is very hard to grow and anybody who overeats is enslaving everyone else, right?
I believe in environmentalism when they take on two things, obesity and female hyper-consumption.
Until they take on obesity and female hyper-consumption, I could care less what the environmental movement says because it's all just watermelon, green on the outside, red on the inside.
There's literally a Chinese plus-size shop called Fatty Fat Girl.
Yeah, I just did this with my daughter.
I stored a little video of the plus size stores in China.
Love calories!
Moo cow!
Fatty fat girl!
My Indian co-workers told me straight up I got fat for a period last at all, thankfully.
Kimchi is good, yeah.
Insurance rates go up at the waistline?
Absolutely.
Why are you so fat?
Stop being so fat.
Stop being fat!
I mean, that's a little different from Milo's famous stop being poor.
But yeah, just stop being fat.
But people might be upset if you tell them the truth.
Are they going to be upset if they get diabetes?
Are they going to be upset if they can't walk and have to get knee replacements because they've destroyed their cartilage?
Are they going to get upset if they have back problems?
Are they going to get upset if they have a heart attack?
Oh well, but that's later.
It's their feelings now that matter, not their health later.
God, I can't stand this feels, feels, feels.
Foggy, bullshit, acidic, spine and soul-eating maize have never upset anyone any time.
God.
How about this?
Instead of how do other people feel when I tell the truth, how do I feel when you bully me to lie?
See, you can't escape the upset, because either the people who are telling the truth are really upsetting other people, or they say, shut up and don't tell the truth, which really upsets the people who want to tell the truth.
So there's no elimination of upset here!
You're just fucking the truth tellers and rewarding the liars!
And doesn't it prick their own conscience of not telling Aunt Edna she's fat?
If they're not telling her, they're accomplices.
Okay, you want to know the truth?
You want to know the truth!
You want to know the truth about those who enforce lying.
Those who enforce lying have murder on their minds.
Straight up.
Those who enforce lying have murder on their minds.
It is a murderous fucking mindset.
I'm not kidding.
I'm not hyperbole-ing.
I'm not exaggerating.
It is murderous.
You don't tell someone who's gaining weight that they're gaining weight.
You are an accomplice in their death!
You don't tell a smoker he's going to die from smoking and you don't want to be around to watch that happen.
You don't put everything you have into the people you love to keep them healthy.
You don't tell someone who's drinking too much, hey man, you're drinking too much, I'm not hanging with you to do this, you've got to sort this out.
You've got to stop!
You understand lies and dies rhyme for a reason.
Liars are killers.
And not just the liars who enforce lying on others, in particular, they're killers.
Let me ask you this, let me ask you this, just out of curiosity, right?
Those who banished those who told the truth about war, what has happened to the world since the people who were virile anti-war advocates
What has happened to the world since the authentic and powerful anti-war advocates were deplatformed?
What has happened to the world?
How many people have been slaughtered?
Lying is dying and censorship is murderous.
Cancel culture is a dress rehearsal for mass murder, of course!
And people thought, oh wow, that was such an extreme statement.
Yeah.
People who silence others have murderous intent deep in their hearts.
Because we can't live without the truth.
You understand that?
The truth is life.
If you keep people from the truth, you are pushing them towards death.
Safe and effective.
Hundreds dead in Ukraine?
No, hundreds of thousands dead in Ukraine.
You know how so-and-so will feel if you withhold the truth?
They'll feel pretty dead.
They'll feel pretty dead.
Censorship is... censorship is... Okay, Steph, I have a deal for you.
Give me one minute of actionable, specific advice I can use over the next few days and it will influence how I donate.
I promise you this isn't a lie.
Stuff like your one-liner, how will you feel when you bully me into... how will I feel when you bully me into telling a lie?
Give me one minute of actionable, specific advice I could use over the next few days, but influence how I donate.
I promise this isn't a lie.
Do you mean with regards to your lying?
Is that what you are talking about?
Actionable, specific advice I can use over the next few days.
Mental tricks and tips I can use to ensure I tell the truth.
Do you know what cures you of lying?
It's not honesty.
That's a symptom.
It's not integrity.
That's a goal.
What is it that cures you of lying?
Not being around assholes?
No, that's the consequence of not lying.
Not being around dysfunctional people.
That's a consequence of not lying.
What is it that cures you?
What is the opposite of lying?
All right.
Let me ask you a question.
Who can tell more truth, the master or the slave?
The master.
Yes, the master.
Being forced to lie brands you as what?
A slave.
That's right.
You're a slave.
Now, I'm not talking about when you're a kid, but when you have an adult and some freedom and so on, right?
How do you escape slavery?
How do you escape slavery?
It's the whole point of the show.
Has been from the beginning almost 20 years.
How do you escape slavery?
How do you break the chains?
Run away?
Well, that's a consequence.
Nope.
Nope.
Call evil what it is?
Nope.
You can't, because you're a slave.
Seed the plantation?
I like that quote, too.
Practicing virtue?
No.
Oh, we have a very intellectual crew here tonight.
You've got chains that require everything you have to break.
How do you break them?
How do you break them?
It's not an intellectual thing.
Rage.
What is the one thing a slave is never allowed to be?
Very angry.
Am I right?
What is the one thing a slave is never allowed to be?
Very angry.
Slaves are not allowed to have anger.
Right?
If I'm wrong, please tell me.
Anger is the mark of the powerful.
The slave can threaten and get angry at and rage at the courtiers.
Can the courtiers get angry at and rage at the king?
Yeah, if they're suicidal.
But their death will enforce other people never telling the truth because they'll see the consequences, right?
If you are buff, angry, and Russian enough, you can break chains with your bare hands.
A power differential.
The slave is allowed to feel humility, maybe a slight amount of affection,
He's allowed to feel fear, in fact it's encouraged in him, but you are not allowed to be angry.
The only way out of a life of lying is what I call SFA, serious fucking anger.
Now I'm not talking about anything violent, I'm not talking about anything destructive, but serious fucking anger.
Aren't you angry?
That you were forced to lie to survive?
Doesn't that piss you off?
Righteous anger, yes.
Righteous, holy, God-given anger, for want of a better phrase.
Jesus and the moneylenders.
Flippin' tables, smashin' money.
Serious fuckin' anger.
Because allowing yourself to get angry, again, no violence, no acting out, but allowing yourself to feel angry is breaking the chains.
It is saying, I am no longer a slave.
Because slaves aren't allowed to get angry.
I'm letting myself get angry.
Whoever forced you to lie, you're angry at.
My friend.
Whoever forced you to lie, you are angry at.
Because they are using violent threats.
And all threats from parents are violent threats.
They are using violent threats to separate you from reality and set you in opposition to facts.
Lying that is compelled is begging for five more minutes without murder.
Good, this is actionable.
That person is my mom and my dad encouraging me to lie to make her happy.
Now, do you know how much your dad hated your mom to tell you to lie?
Anybody who tells you to lie to someone hates that person.
Anyone who forces you to lie to the world hates the world.
It's demonic.
Demonic!
I'm telling you, it's demonic.
There is no greater hatred than forcing falsehoods on the world.
How does someone get you to drink poison?
Right?
Do they say, hey, here's some poison, it'll kill you, will you drink it?
How does someone get you to drink poison?
Did they tell the truth?
They do not.
They lie to you.
You have this drink.
It's safe and effective.
How do they get you to drink poison?
They lie to you.
How does a con man steal from you?
He lies to you!
They'll even sip it and pretend it's yummy.
And as you say, right?
We had a lying ritual where we would go up to dad when he got back from work and get a kiss, even when we didn't feel like it.
It was just to make him feel better.
Right.
You haven't gained weight.
You look fantastic.
Is cover up for hope you die soon of diabetes.
There's a murderous intent behind forcing people to lie.
You deserve this most wonderful ambrosia to be had at the end of a large meal to cleanse your palate of life.
The peacemakers are deplatformed by those who murderously want war.
Never settle equals die alone with cats.
Yeah.
You're beautiful, no matter what.
Hope you stay alone.
Don't worry honey, you can freeze your eggs.
I'm trying to build a snowman.
I remember eating with another family, being flabbergasted that my dad told the mom he didn't like the dinner.
Impossible in my house!
Yeah.
Travel girl, go find yourself in the Sausage Fest.
I think of women flying in helicopter blades made of giant sausages.
That's how I travel.
Hopping from sausage to sausage like Indiana Jones on a collapsing rope bridge.
He's hot.
He's hot.
Yeah, yeah.
What's the biggest lies?
Yeah, the baby won't remember the pains.
Okay, to cut off a third of his penis skin.
Like, yes, like the skin.
And, come on, people.
Donate a little here and there, can't you?
Jeez, you know how hard I work in here?
Throw me a kibble or two, it won't kill you.
Might even help.
Might, you're about to, thank you, I appreciate that.
I appreciate that.
You know, I was just the other day.
No, was it yesterday?
So yesterday, I looked at how many people had downloaded my novels.
It's a lot of people, man.
It's a lot of people who've downloaded my novels.
I wonder how many of those people have donated for the years and years and years I spent researching, writing, editing, and learning how to write those novels.
Biggest lie!
Biggest lie that you see every day out in public that is shameless.
What is the biggest lie you see out in public every day that is shameless?
We as a society care about kids?
Yeah, but you don't really see that everywhere you look.
People pretending to be happy?
A lot of people walk around pretty miserable these days.
What is the biggest lie you see every day?
No, because you don't, fighting wars for peace, I'm talking about like empirical, not in terms of language.
What is the biggest lie that is empirically impressed upon you every day?
Yeah, people are mean to their kids, but you don't see that in your face.
Oh, look at that!
Look at that!
Makeup.
That is correct.
Thank you for your tip, Khan.
I appreciate that.
It's makeup.
It's makeup.
It's the biggest lie.
And, you know, you could certainly make the case that makeup is the biggest lie with the greatest effect.
Are you interested in that case?
I, you know, I don't know if you guys are interested or we can talk about anything you want.
You understand that of all the controversial things I posted, do you remember
Some of the number one stuff that was considered controversial enraged people, and Pearl Davis is doing the same stuff, thank you for your tips.
Now, uh, we'll attempt to action on this advice.
Well, I haven't given you the action yet, so hang tight, I appreciate that.
So, it's about makeup!
It's about makeup!
One of the greatest anti-rational forces in the known universe is makeup!
Do you know why?
Because makeup simulates orgasm, right?
The red lips is orgasm, the wide eyes is orgasm, the flush in the cheeks is orgasm, or sexual attraction, right?
So
When a woman is walking around half ejaculating into the eyeballs of every man she comes in contact with, what happens to men's reason?
When you are presented with hypersexual stimuli, what happens?
It's not even a theory.
What happens to your reason when you are presented with hypersexual stimuli as a man?
It's out the window.
It's gone.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
The prefrontal cortex shuts down.
That's why, obviously, I try not to take my shirt off too often.
Because I'm trying to be rational and I don't want the twin cannons of my flexing laser nipples to shoot out your neofrontal cortex, snipers.
Traps are traps.
Can you imagine how many tips Steph would get with makeup on?
Gotta watch out for those laser nipples.
Well, you can't because by the time they found you, you can't watch out for anything.
Boy, it was an exciting time when my daughter was young and I gave her a laser pointer.
Keep that away from my eyeballs!
Since you've been hitting the gym so hard, yeah.
Well, it's self-defense.
Makeup.
What does makeup do?
Makeup causes men to lose their reason, and it causes women to not have to increase their moral qualities.
Because women don't have to increase their moral qualities, men don't have to increase their moral qualities.
It's makeup versus philosophy.
Makeup versus morality.
Makeup is a subsidy
For immorality, to make it look better than it is.
Tell me if this is useful and makes sense.
I mean, my God, I can't tell you how many times, and when you see this you can't stop seeing it so it's going to change your life.
I can't tell you how many times you see women in these strapless tops that make them look naked.
Or, you know, horizontal landscape is for men and portrait is for women in cleavage, right?
Now portrait was invented so women can show their cleavage.
Ah, the magical shadow wherein your brain falls into the abyss.
Yeah, tight pants.
I mean, how late in the fucking empire of decay do we have to be where women walk around with thongs in shorts that have the word juicy printed across the buttcheeks?
I don't know, the no bra thing is dicey for women because it causes more sagging, right?
You know, young women wear these tops that look like lacy lingerie, yeah absolutely.
Women in the gym, I mean I used to go to yoga classes, Ashtanga yoga, and I had to put those like horse blinders on so I could get some blood to my extremities.
Why have we lost our culture?
Because we have makeup, in many ways.
All of the associated things, not just makeup, but the heightened sexual stimuli from women to men means that you don't have to choose a high-quality woman, which means that you don't have someone who's culturally versed and moral to transfer the morals to your children.
If you look at a culture or a religion or a mindset like Islam or other ones, you can think of sort of the Amish, the Mennonites, the Hasidic Jews and so on, the women don't live on looks and therefore the culture gets translated down through the generations.
The cultural passage goes on because the women can't strip men's brain of their reason and have to provide moral qualities which they then pass to their children.
Many women are dressing as though society has already collapsed.
No!
No, no, no, no, no.
It's quite the opposite.
Women are dressing because society... I mean, so I watched a video the other day of
There was this crazy guy who was starting to get really aggressive.
I think it was in England on the subway or on the tube as they would call it, right?
And when this guy began yelling and jumping up and down, all the women around started pulling their shorts down and started pulling their tops down and covering up their skin.
It's a very common phenomenon that a woman who feels suddenly under threat from a male will cover up her skin.
Hard times make clothed women clothed women.
Make good times, good times make unclothed women.
And you can either, listen, men, tell me if I'm right, tell me if I'm wrong.
You can either
Build and or maintain a civilization or you can walk around in a constant state of semi-sexual arousal.
But you can't do both.
Because for men to concentrate, they need to not be distracted by sexual stimuli.
Tell me I'm wrong.
So if you want to maintain a society, you can't have TNA floating around you like moon's opening Jupiter.
The welfare state also is a form of, quote, makeup because it adds value to women who don't have to add morality to their value.
Can't cut lumber straight when you're thinking about the other wood.
Yeah, you can have a civilization or you can have permanent semi-jubbies.
You can have a culture or you can have demirections all the time.
Demirections all the time.
That's just the way of the world.
Jordan Peterson touched on sexual tension at the workplace.
He was pilloried for that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, those who want to destroy civilization subject the males to constant sexual stimuli.
Right?
It's on your phone, it's in ads, it's in women all around.
It's like constant sexual stimuli.
And men... You know, what you feel like if you're surrounded by constant sexual stimuli, you get the mindset of a guy who's in charge, like the sultan of a harem.
Yeah, 1984 had a department for pornography specifically focused on the lower classes, right?
And you can see this, that the time of greatest expansion of a culture is the time of greatest sexual restraint and lower sexual stimuli.
Now we think of the 19th century Victorians, you think of the early to mid Romans, you think of Sparta versus Athens, you think of Rome versus Carthage,
If you want to take down a culture, lure women into hypersexualization.
I mean, come on, guys.
You're working on a tough abstract problem and some woman comes into your office to ask a question.
She's got a low-cut top.
Maybe she's showing half her belly and so on.
What happened to your concentration?
Oh, but men should be able to control their blah, blah, blah.
Of course, well, we can control, but we can't control.
We can control what we do.
We can't control the autonomous nervous system, right?
What is sexiness supposed to translate into?
Yeah.
Sexiness is supposed to translate into family.
And that's how, right?
So physical attraction, if it's downplayed, means that you have to have greater compatibility of values, right?
If you get hit with the tsunami of sexual stimulation, you don't care as much about values, right?
Is that fair to say?
And again, maybe I'm talking man-to-man here, but whatever, right?
I mean, it happens the other way.
I know it happens for women, right?
It happens for women.
How do I know that an excess of sexual stimulation destroys the requirement for moral values?
How do I know that?
What book revealed all this?
Yeah, Fifty Shades, right?
So James Dornan was known as the body.
I think he's Irish, right?
He's Irish.
He was known as the body.
He's got an almost perfect physique, great charisma.
He's a very talented guy, very handsome guy.
And women, because in the movie he's portrayed as dominant, high status, successful, fabulously wealthy, super handsome.
And emotionally completely broken, the result of semi-pedophilic or hebophilic experiences inflicted upon him by older women.
He's completely tortured and broken and effed up beyond the ability of a team full of hyperphroids to fix.
And she loses her reason because his beauty and his resources, Justin Bieber, not a big expert on the Beliebers, but
I can save him, yeah, for sure.
If he's good looking enough, if he's high status enough.
See, it used to be, it's funny because, and sorry, hit me with a why if you find this stuff interesting, because I obviously, it's a live stream, I'm not doing a solo show, I want to make sure that I'm offering stuff of value, and you perfectly well understand, no, I'm not sensitive about this stuff, I want to provide value for you guys.
Okay.
I can save him.
So it used to be that women would choose men who were high status relative to what?
A woman wants a high status man.
Now, what did he have to be high status to?
Sorry, what did he have to be high status relative to?
Status is a hierarchy, right?
It's a relative to, higher or lower.
What did he have to be high status to for women to find him the most valuable?
Other men!
Exactly.
Other men.
Why was it important that he be high status relative to other men?
Why did he have to be?
To bring home the cheese.
Well, he had to be high status relative to other men because he was competing with other men.
And if he was high status relative to other men, that meant that he could win against other men.
Does that make sense?
Like, let me sort of give you the typical example, right?
You're a kid, you're in a lot, there's a baseball game, two captains are choosing, right?
The women like the boys who were chosen or the men who were chosen first, right?
Because those men, or boys, those males, are high status relative to the other males.
They don't like the men who get chosen last.
Make sense?
So, the woman used to look for males who were high status relative to other males.
In other words, she let men, in a sense, judge the quality of her mate.
Because he was going to be competing with other men.
So if they judge him as high quality, it means he's very good at competing.
He's going to bring home the bacon.
She outsourced is the man of high quality to other men.
Do you follow?
Right.
What has that changed to now?
Do women still choose men based upon their status among men?
Yes, that's right.
Women to women's thoughts.
That's right.
Now it's, what will my girlfriends think of him?
And you say, I met a new guy.
What does the girlfriend, what did the girlfriends immediately say?
What did the girlfriends immediately say when a woman says I met a new guy?
What did they say?
Nope, they don't ask what he does?
Nope.
What do they ask?
Is he hot?
Is he pretty?
Is he cute?
How tall is he?
Yeah, they may get, you know, what does he do or whatever it is.
I don't think women, I don't know, maybe some women at that course, but I don't really see that.
Is he, yeah, is he cute?
Is he funny?
Did he vote for Trump?
Right, so women are choosing men based upon
Their status among other women, not among men.
Why has this shifted?
Why have they shifted from choosing men based on what other men think to what their girlfriends think?
Why has that shifted?
Well, it's not just the welfare state.
I mean, it's the whole income transfer from men to women through the agency of the state, right?
It's the whole income transfer.
It's not just the welfare state.
It's free health care, which women consume much more than men.
It's free education, which moms need more than dads.
It's government jobs, which are inordinately populated by
Not slender women.
It is old-age pensions because women live longer than men.
It's health care, of course, in the old age and so on, right?
So the reason that they would choose a man based upon his status to other men is that they needed a man to provide resources.
Now they force the state to provide male, largely male, resources to them so they don't need.
A man doesn't have to be high status relative to other men because she gets the money from the state.
Does that make sense?
So, when what you need the most is provided automatically, your standards become shallower and shallower and shallower.
So you think of the rock star, who's gonna get women to sleep with him?
Like, women will sleep with him, and he'll have, you know, 20 women after the show, or 50 women after the show,
Who's he going to choose?
Who's he going to choose of the 50 women who want to sleep with him?
That's guaranteed.
What he wants most is going to be provided, no question.
How's he going to choose?
Yeah, the best looking, the hottest, the prettiest, whatever his particular preferences happen to be.
If he's a leg guy, it's the woman with the great pair of getaway sticks or whatever it is, right?
So, if you have an excess of supply,
You have to make a decision.
You can't evaluate each person.
So you just choose based on the shallowest, most obvious, and visceral, and lowest, and most mammalian, and base of the spine preferences.
Does it make sense?
So, if you flip it, because women are rock stars.
Like, women in the modern West are rock stars.
Because they can get all the resources they need from men.
Whereas a rockstar can get all of the sex he needs from women.
And it's not just rockstars.
Of course, I'm just finishing up this biography of Marlon Brando, who could sleep with anyone.
And he was a complete sex addict.
I mean, he said, you know, the first thing I think of in the morning is, who am I going to F even if there's a woman next to me?
So the women have to choose shallower values because they don't need men for resource provision.
So how have men responded to women shallowing out their dating preferences?
And you see this.
Have you seen this meme?
It's been floating around forever and it goes something like this.
The woman says to the man, how tall are you?
And he says, I'm six foot one.
And she says, well, you know, a lot of guys kind of lie about that.
So, you know, I really want to, I really want to be sure of that.
Like, can you, maybe you can stand next to a doorway or you can, whatever it is, like, or you can go to one of those grocery stores or convenience stores where they have the height thing for the guys running out with the money from the till, the thieves, just go and stand.
I just need some proof, right?
And he says, yeah, listen, I'm perfectly happy to provide that.
And she's like, great.
I really, really appreciate that.
And then he says, I need you to show me a short video of you stepping on a scale.
And what does she say?
I need a full body picture with you holding the current day's newspaper or something like that, right?
Right.
She gets really, really angry.
Because she's in a position of choosing and she can get the male's resources.
So, who are you to be picky, right?
So this would be like the woman throwing herself at the rock star, but before they end up sleeping together, she says, yeah, I'm going to need a commitment.
I'm going to need, like, you're going to have to be my boyfriend, and you've got to take me out for dinner at least three times, and buy me some nice jewelry, and I need to marry you.
I need to meet your family.
There has to be some path forward for us to be permanent, maybe leading the marriage.
Now, what's the rock star going to say?
Yeah, I need to see you fresh out of the shower.
I need to see you without makeup, alright?
What does the rock star say if the woman demands commitment?
You take one step to the left and there's ten other women coming in.
So when women get resources through the state and when they hyper-stimulate men's sexual response, they can lower the moral quality of what they need.
They don't need a man's loyalty.
Right?
A woman needs to know that the man is truly devoted to her, really cares for her and is willing to make sacrifices for her so she can fall in love, pair bond and have children, knowing he's not going to run off.
Does that make sense?
So she needs maturity, responsibility, morals, pair bonding, love, devotion, deferral of gratification, suppression of sexual impulses.
So that she can feel that the resources, because a woman who throws herself into a ridiculously vulnerable position, when I'm not talking like
Kama Sutra style.
But a woman throws herself into a ridiculously vulnerable position, as we all know, when she has kids, right?
Because she's now going to be dependent on a man throughout history.
She'll be dependent on a man for the next 20, 30 years, and really for the rest of her life.
The moment she decides to have a child, she's dependent on a man for the rest of her life.
Because she's going to have a bunch of kids, then she's going to be a grandmother, and if he leaves her, she can't get another man
Because she's already got kids.
So another man, especially a man who's got quality and resources provision, is not going to want to date a woman who's got kids.
He's not going to throw all of his resources into raising another man's children.
Or at least men who had that preference, those genes died out pretty quickly, right?
Yes, that's true.
Some of these women are special effects masters with their makeup.
Oh, man.
It's wild watching a basic thick-necked human turnip turn into Jennifer Lopez over the course of industrial light and magic rearrangement of the molecules around her face.
It's wild.
It's wild.
Is that why women push out children to the 30s?
Because my life ends when kids come along?
I'm not sure I followed that, sorry.
So, how have men responded to women shallowing out their demands?
Oh, you've got to watch makeup tutorials.
Like, as a man, basic... I mean, you know, Cernovich is all like, you've got to get to BJJ, and you've got to learn Aikido, and you've got... Basic self-defense is like, no, yes, sure, fine.
But the basic self-defense is watching makeup tutorials.
Like that's like mask off, literally mask off, right?
It's witchcraft, yes.
If the church, if the men find out that we can shapeshift, they're going to call the church.
They're going to tell the church.
Yeah, the makeup stuff is straight up witchcraft, yeah.
They shallow themselves out, signal vanity and compliance.
So what happens is
The minority of men who can achieve high status pour heart, mind, body and soul into achieving high status, right?
They go to the gym, they tan, they get teeth whiteners, they get plugs, hair implants or whatever it is that they do to get super stimuli with regards to women.
And then what do the bottom 80 to 90% of men do?
They give up.
They give up, right?
They retreat to basements and pornography and they just give up.
Dentures at 40 scares me?
Ow!
Yes, dentures at 40 are definitely scary.
Hit me with a Y if you have to wear a night guard.
Hit me with a Y if you have to wear a night guard.
I have to wear a night guard.
Oh, for 20 plus years.
Have to, well, if you don't want your teeth drifting all over like a bunch of Bedouin
What is that?
A night guard is something that you put in to keep your teeth in place.
Like if you... I didn't know this because I didn't really wear braces much as a kid, but apparently if you get braces you have to wear a night guard for the rest of your life, otherwise your teeth will drift back to their original position.
I feel like giving up with dating.
Yeah.
I have one for grinding.
Right.
I have one for bump and grinding, but that's for donors only.
I grind during my sleep.
Don't need it.
Yes, you do.
Yeah, you do.
Because if you grind your teeth at night, I would guess I'm no dentist, right?
But isn't that going to crack your teeth?
And then you've got all kinds of problems and replacements and all that.
So yeah, it flattens them and all that.
I know you've been busy on the Peaceful Parenting book.
Do you still plan on the dating series?
Yes.
So the top men enhance their appearance in order to date around, and the bottom three-quarters or four-fifths of men largely give up.
Do you think churchgoing makes a difference for seeking mates?
It used to, but the church has been swallowed up by the inevitable estrogen leviathan, hasn't it?
It's all about feels, and it's all about immigration, and it's all about, oh, just all of the woke stuff.
I mean, hasn't the church been swallowed up by the estrogen whale?
True, not my church.
Yeah, yeah, not every church, obviously.
So, I mean, I think it used to.
Now, FDRDating.com, not an endorsement.
I'm just telling you it exists.
No one's interpretation is wrong about God.
You know, we don't judge, not too many rules, and make sure you don't make people feel bad for any sins that they may or may not be committing or thinking about or actually have done.
Boyfriend Jesus.
Yeah, women can't compete with pornography and men can't compete with boyfriend Jesus.
He's perfect!
He always listens.
He never has any needs of his own.
Hit the like button, share the stream, and don't forget to donate, my friends!
Please!
Please!
Please!
I would really appreciate it.
All right.
I think we've done enough dating.
Hit the like button, share the stream.
Quite right.
All right.
Should we switch to entrepreneurial stuff?
Money making.
We've done the sex.
Should we do the money?
The money making.
Shake your money maker.
All right, question.
Boy, patient guy.
Hey Steph, I've started working at a startup selling a product.
I think this product is going to revolutionize the industry I'm working in.
Despite this, my prospective clients can be dismissive and outright rude when I'm trying to explain how it'll benefit them.
How do you deal with rejection as an entrepreneur?
Do you take rejection personally?
What do you guys think?
Do I take rejection personally?
Do I take rejection personally?
No, not usually, but I'll tell you this, man, I'll tell you this.
Would I have pretty much the most excuse on the planet to take rejection personally?
Would I have the greatest possible excuse on the planet to take rejection personally?
Why?
Why would I have the greatest excuse on the planet to take rejection personally?
Hey, you see anyone else in the studio here?
You see anyone else?
It's me, baby!
It's me.
It's me.
And it's not just me, like... It's not just me, like, if you're a model and, you know, you just might not have the right look or whatever it is, right?
Or maybe you're just not quite handsome enough.
But it's not you, the essence.
But, you know, holy... Hades on a stick.
You know, I literally turn myself inside and out every single show.
Do you know what I mean?
Like, everyone, I just...
I turn myself inside out.
I mean, how many boundaries and filters do I have in this show?
Boundaries and filters in this show.
I think they all went out the window when I talked about women ejaculating on male eyeballs.
Yeah, like, I give it every fiber.
I, you know, there's a few things that I, you know, fools rush in where angels fear to tread, but...
So if I, turning myself inside out for the world's perusal, cannot take it personally, then you selling a product that is not you... What's the product?
Of course it's philosophy, but it's me doing the philosophy stuff, right?
The what on eyeballs?
If you can't keep up, I'm afraid there's no rewind!
There's no rewind.
Um... Nah, don't worry about it.
Okay.
Are you still in the chat?
Just hit me with a why if you asked this question and you're still in the chat.
You are.
Okay.
Well.
First of all, one way to solve rejection is to stop being a victim.
Oh man.
If there's one thing I could scrub, it would be victimhood.
All right.
Question!
How many ads or requests for things do you think you see a day?
Just out of curiosity.
You probably see hundreds of ads a day.
You probably see hundreds of ads a day.
How many products do you buy from those ads every day?
Yeah, none on here, that's right, by design.
It's virtually zero, isn't it?
Isn't it virtually zero?
Because, you know, it takes like 17 impressions for you even to think about buying something from an ad, and then you have to be in a state of needing it, and you actually have to follow through on it, and so on, right?
Now, every now and then, you know, I use the products, and if I get, oh, if you renew, it's cheap, okay, I'll do that, right?
Because, you know, I'm gonna buy it anyway, I might as well get it cheaper, right?
Here's the thing, when you're out there in the world selling stuff and you're like, man, most people are saying no and you feel like, do you feel like a victim?
Oh, they're just rejecting me and they don't listen and they're being kind of rude.
Do you feel like a victim, right?
Damn.
Damn.
How self-blind do you have to be when you spend almost all of your time rejecting others to just feel so sensitive when someone rejects you?
Yeah, you reject 99.999% of advertisements, right?
So you understand.
99.999% of what people are trying to sell you, you don't want, don't need, don't understand, will never buy.
Does that make sense?
Yeah, do you like Adblock?
Do you use Adblock?
Do you pay whatever to not get ads on your videos or whatever, right?
So all these people are like, oh, it's so terrible when people reject when I want to sell them, when you've just waded through an entire day of rejecting everyone who's trying to sell you something.
You're just part of the game.
And part of the game is most people will say no.
Most people will say no.
What percentage of my listeners donate?
You noble, beautiful, sun-kissed, God-levitated heroes.
What percentage of my listeners donate?
On local streams, 100%?
Not true.
Not true.
I won't tell you the number.
But I will tell you that in general, freemium, you're lucky to get 2-3%.
I'm not going to give you my number, but I'll just give you the general, right?
Freemium, which is stuff's free, but you can pay for blah blah blah.
2-4% is pretty good.
So it's very funny to me and I genuinely find this funny and I, this is going to sound mean, I don't mean it that way, I'm just, it's going to sound mean but it's genuinely funny to me.
When people complain to me, I'm not talking about this caller or this writer, when people call me or ask for advice because they feel rejected and they've never donated, do you know how funny that is?
Again, I genuinely find it funny.
Right?
It is funny because it's understandable, I understand it, you know, we're all the heroes in our own mind, we're all the protagonists and other people are secondary supporting characters or whatever, right?
But it is very funny when people are like, Steph, I'm really sensitive to rejection, you know, like I'm asking people for things and they're just not providing them.
And I can look, I can check pretty easily, right?
I got emails like, hey, have you ever donated?
You're just, you're very sensitive to when people don't support you and you're very sensitive when people don't say yes.
And people literally, I've had emails where people are like, I've been listening to your show for 15 years and I can't handle rejection.
I've been listening to your show for 15 years and I can't handle rejection and I go look it up and they've never donated!
Now, I get it.
Look, I know this sounds mean.
I don't mean it that way.
It is funny.
The sort of lack of reciprocal empathetic self-awareness.
Lawyers charge the time just on a phone call.
Oh, yeah.
You talk to lawyers, you're like, Nope!
Don't have any time for small talk.
I'm sorry.
Straight to business.
Hanging up.
So,
Let me ask you this.
They need to pay you for your time, no excuse really.
By donation do you mean other than subscriber fee?
I mean anything.
Anything.
Anything.
Alright.
Let me ask you this.
When you don't click on... We all see ads, we notice ads.
When you don't click on an ad, do you hate the person who's making the product?
Is it personal?
Do you know them?
Are you rejecting them as a person, as an individual, based on their morals, their ethics, their eye color?
Right?
Is it personal when you reject the thousands, hundreds of thousands of people you reject a day?
I mean, good Lord above!
You go up the grocery, go up and down the grocery aisle.
What percentage of products do you buy in the grocery store when they're right there in front of you blaring with their colors?
How many products?
So you go to the grocery store.
You buy 20 products.
I run advertising and excellent return is one call per 100 ads, 0.5 sales.
Yeah.
Somebody give me this number.
I don't want to type and all.
If you don't mind.
It's pretty easy.
How many different products are in your average supermarket store?
Is it 10,000?
Okay.
Numbers are varying here.
I guess it depends in the store.
I don't think it's 80,000.
It's huge though.
Let's say 5,000, right?
So there are 5,000 products
Including fruit, in the grocery store.
Five in Cuba, yeah.
And you go up and down these aisles and you walk blithely past all these people who are desperate for you to buy their what?
Their mouthwash, their cookies, their licorice, their tampons, you know, like... And even when you buy a jug of milk, boy, you must hate those other jugs of milk you reject!
If it's Walmart Superstore, 30,000?
Yeah, could be.
I once knew a guy in the business world who was like, who had grown up in running grocery stores, and man, going to a grocery store with that guy was completely fascinating.
He knew everything about everything.
It was wild.
The profit on everything, the loss, the risk, the... Even per hundred grams of everything, right?
It was amazing.
So... When you walk past something and don't buy it, is it personal?
I just can't seem to get men to buy my tampons.
Off topic, I went to the grocery store yesterday and there are starting to be gaps in the shelves where the products are out of stock.
Yeah, I don't disagree with that and I wrote a whole book about that.
Alright, so it's not personal.
It's not personal to you.
Don't take it personally.
Why?
Because it's not about you, it's about the product.
They're rejecting the product.
Now, either they're rejecting the product because they don't need the product, in which case it's not personal to you, or they're rejecting the product because they don't understand the value of the product, in which case maybe you can spend a bit of time educating them, but if they just don't want to learn or they're too busy or they're too dumb to understand the value of the product... How would I rank this show among all the products of humanity?
I'll be straight up with you guys, I'm not gonna lie.
NGL.
How would I rank this show in all the products of humanity?
Top 1%.
That's very close.
You're just one symbol too many.
Yeah, of course number one.
For me?
No, not 0.1%.
No, that would be
Hundreds of thousands of other things.
Well, I'm somewhere in the... No, for me, this show is the top product of humanity.
And, you know, it's us, it's the call-ins, it's the interviews, it's these great conversations, it's, you know, some of it's solo stuff and all of that, but this is a community and we're producing something which I think is the greatest thing in the world.
No, honestly, how am I gonna do the best show without aiming for the very top?
How am I possibly going to do the very best show without aiming for the very top?
And I think that we pull it off.
I do.
I think we pull it off.
I mean, that's being produced right now.
I'm not going to say all throughout history, but it's being produced right now.
All right.
So how do I deal with rejection as an entrepreneur?
Okay, let's say you have the most valuable painting in the universe.
You have, somehow, the Mona Lisa.
Maybe you say, I think that's the most valuable painting in the universe, right?
All right.
Now, let's say that you're offering someone to buy the Mona Lisa for $100,000.
Obviously it's worth tens of millions, it's virtually priceless, right?
So you're offering someone $100,000, you can have the Mona Lisa, right?
Why would people say no?
Why would people say no to you selling the Mona Lisa for $100,000?
Come on, give me some rejection metrics.
They have no clue why they think it's a scam.
Yep.
They don't understand the value of it.
Maybe they're blind.
Maybe they never studied anything other than rap videos or something.
They wouldn't believe you.
They don't need it.
They're not interested in it.
They can't judge value.
She took off her makeup.
That's funny.
Yeah.
So they don't understand the value.
They don't have a hundred thousand.
Yeah, they don't have a hundred thousand and maybe they don't have the intelligence to know anybody will lend you a hundred thousand dollars to buy the Mona Lisa, right?
Everybody, right?
So there could be any number of reasons to reject the very highest quality, right?
Yes, some people do.
Well, no, but even if you don't care about that painting, even if you just wanted to buy it to sell it, you'd recognize it as a superlative investment, right?
A hundred thousand dollars, you could sell it for a hundred million dollars, right?
Or it could be that they're dying!
It could be that they've just had the worst news of their life and they don't have any bandwidth to handle it.
It could be any number of things, right?
They've just got some bad medical news.
Their girlfriend just left them.
It could be any number of things that they're saying no.
But you don't know!
So, philosophy!
What is philosophy about?
Don't fake knowledge.
Don't fake knowledge.
If you take things personally, you're jumping to a conclusion called mind reading that they're rejecting me as a person, not the product.
Do you follow?
Don't fake knowledge.
When you jump to the conclusion that it's about you personally, you're faking knowledge.
You're lying.
Hey, we've got a theme here.
You're lying.
You're lying.
Because you're claiming knowledge.
You're claiming facts, not in evidence.
Have you ever seen that?
You've seen that in the courtroom dramas, right?
Right?
The defendant is... the prosecution is claiming facts, not in evidence.
Hearsay.
Right?
Hearsay is when the witness is testifying to something that he or she did not see or experience directly.
Does this make sense?
Don't assume stuff!
And here's the stupid thing.
Sorry, this is stupid.
It's just ridiculous.
Here's the wild thing.
If you are
Going to make up stuff?
Please, for the love of God, if you're going to make up stuff, make it up to your advantage.
Don't make it up to your detriment.
That's really bad.
Because then you're claiming facts not in evidence to prosecute yourself.
Does this make sense?
I got a spittle on my monitor here.
Okay, first of all, don't make up things.
Be empirical.
But if you are going to make up things, make them up in positive to yourself, not negative to you.
It's almost enormously narcissistic, says John, to assume it's all about you.
Well, there's an insecurity I get all of that.
But you have to view yourself as other people see you.
To be happy in this life, you must see yourself as other people see you.
You must!
I know this sounds odd.
You must see yourself as other people see you.
Do you know why?
Because if they hate you and they're wrong, you don't want to spend time with them because they will try to destroy you.
If they love you, but they're wrong, then they're lying to you and they're deluded and they're going to hurt you.
And you're going to hurt them.
If they hate you and they're right, they're going to stay away from you.
That's done for you.
If they love you and they're right, you want to bind them to you with hoops of steel and loyalty and love and all of that good stuff.
You must see yourself as other people see you.
Now, my life is very important to me.
I assume that what I do is somewhat important to you, less important than it is to me, and it kind of goes out radiating waves to people who
Hold on, some see you as the second coming of your bad guy.
I get all of that!
So I need to see myself as they see me, so that I'm empathizing with how malevolent they are.
Do you follow?
So that I can steer clear of them, or I can fight them, or whatever, right?
Right?
Do you understand?
Why does the baby zebra survive when the lion pounces?
Because the baby zebra sees what the lion sees, which is a meal.
That doesn't mean the baby zebra is innately a meal,
But you have to see yourself as other people see you.
Now, if you're a salesman and you're out there in the world trying to sell something, yes, you're going to be an annoyance.
And how do you know that?
Because most people who come up to sell something to you don't have what you need, they're kind of intrusive, they can be kind of pushy, and it's kind of annoying, right?
Like, you ever been to those?
Oh man, I did this once.
It's not a stupid thing to do.
I have no excuse.
It's a stupid thing to do.
You ever do this thing where it's like, hey, I'm on vacation and someone's offering me a free breakfast.
Oh my god, you ever done this?
Oh man!
Oh man, it's horrible.
It's horrible.
And, wow, a free breakfast from, like, a really nice person.
Free!
Free Disney tickets!
It's free!
It's just free!
Like, what excuse do I have as a guy who's studied the economy and, like, there's no such thing as a free lunch, but, ah, free breakfast!
Wow, it costs this much to be on a timeshare, but you can knock it down to this?
That's fantastic!
Man.
And, you know, the buyer's regret from people who do this kind of stuff is not quite 100%, because it's actually about 140%.
Even people who didn't buy it regret buying it.
So yeah, no excuse.
No, I mean, you know, but you know, whatever, right?
And there are the carpets.
Ooh.
Thank you, young lady, for bringing that back up.
Unrolling that with the body of my former bad decisions rolling all over the dinner party.
Ooh, he called me.
Yes, that's right.
I never regretted donating to FDR.
No, I'm not saying all purchasers have regrets.
Obviously, if there's one thing that you will never regret, it's supporting this show.
Free $20 breakfast with a room charged at 500% markup.
Yeah.
I was in Toronto not too long ago, stayed at a hotel, and they're like, free breakfast!
You got sold at multi-level marketing, not my proudest moment.
Yeah, my mom dragged me to a whole Amway thing.
And it's like, free breakfast!
My daughter was very excited.
Wow, free breakfast!
And I'm like, okay, let's not get our hopes up too much.
This is Toronto, after all, and there's been a lot of inflation, right?
They've inflated the money supply in Canada by like a third over the last three years, right?
And so we go down in the morning.
My daughter, you can't pry her out of bed early, except if there's free breakfast.
And then she's like, are you awake?
Can we go get breakfast?
Are you up?
Are you awake?
Can we get breakfast?
And what did we go downstairs to see?
And what did we see at this?
Not cheap hotel.
What did we get to enjoy and peruse?
Well, no cereal would have been dry eggs and toast.
No, it was giant vats of low-rent coffee and soggy sugar muffins in plastic.
And that's it.
And that's it.
Not as bad as when I used to take the train in England and British Rail gives you sandwiches that they've already put through the laundry ahead of time.
It's very nice.
Free jam packets?
No.
No.
Ah, muffins.
Because trying to get people to eat cake without icing would just be crazy.
Oh well.
Facts.
What can I tell you?
What can I tell you?
So yeah.
It's not.
It's not about you.
It's not even about your product.
It's that most people
don't want to have what you want to sell them and they don't want to take time to figure it out just as you don't want to take the time to figure it out let me ask you this you go to the grocery store and there's somebody trying to overcome their introversion by offering you free samples of Belgian whipped cranberry
quote cheese on some cracker, right?
Ever try Costco double chocolate chip muffins?
No, I would just, I think, inject the cane sugar straight into my brain.
Continental breakfast in the US aren't bad, even at the cheap hotels.
Yeah, well, it's Canada, right?
So,
Yeah, of course it's not about you.
It's just basic empathy.
Put yourself in the other person's shoes.
Because here's the thing, if you want to sell, you better get really good.
Flattery will get you everywhere.
Well, thank you, young... You look younger by that tip amount, even as we speak.
Hey, want to get even younger?
I appreciate that.
That's a lot of youth you're laying on me.
I feel the need to roll up my shorts and show you some hair.
Yeah, it's uh, it's wild.
What the hell was I talking about?
It was something great.
I got distracted.
Free corn syrup put straight into the veins.
No, it was past that.
It'll come back.
Oh yeah, Costco samples.
Yeah, that's right.
So you go past and it's a sample that you don't want anything of.
You don't want it, right?
You don't want it.
Like, you know, maybe it's a Coke versus Pepsi taste test and you're off soda.
So you don't like, it's not personal.
It's just like, it's not, oh, I've evaluated this person and their soul.
It's not personal.
If you want to be a good salesman, you have to, have to, have to put yourself in the other person's shoes.
And how do you feel when someone approaches you to buy something, right?
I remember when I was in the business world, people called me up to sell me stuff all the time.
It was really annoying.
You'd be waiting for some big call from a client.
Somebody called you up.
Hey, we've got this great new network printer, which you can get available on purchase for... It's like, get off my phone!
Right?
So, you have to, have to, have to... Because all this old... Yeah, I get that there are pushy salespeople, but the reason why they're pushy is you're putting off signals that you can be pushed.
They've read you like the back of a cereal box.
You know when you're a kid and it's like when I was younger, before phones and tablets, you're at the breakfast and you're eating alone.
It's like, hey, let me see if I can decipher this in French because I'm kind of bored and magazines are a bit far away.
So, no, you have to learn to read people so that you can find the people.
What do you need?
You need to find people who show interest and can actually buy.
Because some people will show interest just because, like, they're kind of bored and they want to chat with you, but they're never going to buy anything, right?
All right.
Quick question.
What creates sex addiction?
Me taking my shirt off, obviously.
I don't know that there could be any other cause in the known universe.
And this is not just for men or women, it is for most primates.
A surprising number of fruit bats, in particular Venus flytraps, without a doubt.
They just thirst me like it's insane.
And obviously ostriches, because they want to sit on my head and hatch my thoughts.
So yeah, sex addiction is
Well, you know, it's a burden that we have to bear, and you're looking at it.
I alone am responsible for all the sex addiction, and it's really weird, too, because not only is it cross-species and even down to the plants, sometimes it's geology.
The continents
are drifting towards me because they want to mate with me.
And not many people understand that that whole magma thing, the sun burns because it wishes to warn me.
Because when the sun burns hotter and I get warmer, I take off my shirt so that, you know, you can all thank me, like for the seasons and all of that, because the sun only burns so that I will take my shirt off.
Also, it's not just cross-species and across the universe, it's also back through time.
that in the anticipation of creating the sex god known as me, well, first single-celled organisms came into being, protozoa mated, and it all has been one march towards my ostrich egg speckled forehead perfection.
So, yeah, men controlled fires so women would take their furs off, yeah.
Yeah, the Ice Age ended in the anticipation of your coming, absolutely.
My eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Steff.
All right, taking timestamps to make a clip of this.
Yes, that will never be taken out of context in any way shape or form.
All right.
Someone reboots Steff.
He's stuck in sex god mode.
Yes, but when you reboot me, I come back even sexier.
And people are like, damn.
Plato has finally ejected the essence of male 57-year-old hypersexuality.
It is material form, yet also platonic perfection form all wrapped into one.
Aristotelianism and idealistic new-middleism have finally come together in the form of the big chatty forehead.
This is the perfect platonic dome and it is here.
Yes, absolutely.
Absolutely.
I can't join OnlyFans, despite the fact that it would actually be quite glorious to get kicked off OnlyFans.
I can't join OnlyFans because I will get the OnlyFans.
Like, everything and everywhere, it would all just be cancelled and it would all flow to me and I just can't handle that amount of power.
So, yeah, it's something else.
No, what creates sex addiction is instability in parental environment.
Instability in parental and social environment creates sex addiction.
Your lust escalates with randomness and trauma, and you can, for more on this, you can, because me talking about myself as a sex god is doubtless deeply traumatic to everyone in the audience, except my wife, of course.
I'm positive of that.
So yes, I have just escalated your sex addiction by traumatizing you by talking about how sexy I am.
So... Well, you know, I'm an empiricist and I'd hit that.
All right.
So yeah, you can look at R vs. K. You can look at Gene Wars, G-E-N-E Wars at FDRpodcast.com.
Somebody says...
I just signed on to learn about your position on the global conflict.
I was concerned with supporting Dave Rubin's neocon pro-war position.
Do you have any advice on supporting these platforms today when they appear to be supporting 2001 George Bush pro-war positions?
Well, I mean, look, we're... Steph doesn't run ads because the only reason the advertising industry exists is Steph's sexual market value.
Yes, I mean, I hate to say it, ladies, but everyone else, even if you were to reanimate the statue of David with the brain of Einstein, you know, I just hate to say it, but empiricism is empiricism.
Maybe you can get second best, but first is taken, I'm afraid.
Yeah, so you know that the age
The age of the individual is over now, right?
Like, it's done, it's past, it's dominoes have all fallen, the age of the individuals is past, and we're back to the default position of human history.
And you know what?
The default position of human history is the age of the tribe.
It's the individual who thinks, it's the tribe who conforms and fights.
So, postmodernism destroyed people's ability to think.
When you destroy people's ability to think, the individual becomes the enemy and becomes powerless, because he can't convince anyone else through reason.
And so, we now have tribalism.
Tribalism is the default position throughout almost all of human history, and we're just referring, we're turning back to tribalism after a brief hiatus of maybe 200 years.
Post-Renaissance, post-Enlightenment, Age of Reason stuff, right?
So, I mean, you say neocon, pro-war position, I mean, it's just straight up tribalism, right?
I mean, our side good, their side evil, our side virtuous, their side immoral, our side best, their side animals.
You know, it's, you know, the usual thing and of course that region, the Middle East, has been going on for thousands of years and
It's a tragedy and it's very sad, but we're back in the age of tribalism.
Again, if I'm wrong, this is why I don't do politics anymore, because it's just tribal now.
Where's the reason?
Where's the facts?
Where's the evidence?
It's just back to tribalism.
And tribalism is sophistry, for the most part.
And I don't really get involved in sophistry, particularly when it's a cover for violence.
All right.
Did I get all the questions?
I think I might have.
I might have!
How's the show going for y'all?
How's the show going for y'all?
It's pretty fine.
Did a good show this morning and I hope that you will check it out.
It's for donors at freedemand.locals.com and it was the value, the great value of the word mysticism.
More likes please so I can donate at the end.
Yes, you know, I gotta tell you.
Had a long day.
Had a long day.
Got up, did some paperwork, and then we had something to celebrate.
Took the family out for lunch.
We went to a Greek restaurant.
And then I edited Peaceful Parenting and read in the audiobook half of the next chapter, played about half hour of Baldur's Gate, got ready for this show.
So I've been working basically for, I mean, not quite 12 hours, but close on 12 hours.
I love grape leaves, so bad for me, but love them.
Well, yeah, grape leaves are good, right?
Just ate some baklava.
Yeah.
Don't ask me why, but I was curious if Des does home improvement or woodworking.
I guess I imagined he would make a sweet birdhouse.
I don't do any... Home improvement a little bit.
Not much.
I'm not particularly skilled in that area.
Woodworking?
No.
No.
If I have a chance, if I have some free time, I'm ripping off some philosophy.
Because it's a dark house, it's mighty mighty.
All right.
High-stepped, does parenting ever stop?
In other words, once Izzy is an adult, how will your relationship with her change?
No, parenting doesn't stop.
It goes to adult advice and then morphs into grandparenting.
So, no.
Once you have the kids, man, that's it.
I mean, you're never the same, you're never back, you'll never return to where you came from.
It's a one-way trip to Blissville.
So, no, it doesn't end as far as that goes.
So, any last tips or support?
You can, of course, go to freedomain.com slash donate.
And you know what I can give you guys?
You know, such a beautiful crew here tonight and such, you know, I know like you're such a lovely audience, you know, I know this is a bit cheesy, but honestly, it's real for me.
Absolutely real for me.
Let me give you the Peaceful Parenting audiobook link.
What do you think?
What do you think?
Oh, this is the computer where... Yes, I remember now.
Alright, so let's see here.
What have we got?
I need to get it from some other place.
Ah yes, here we go, here we go.
Satellite radio, you'll get hit with the boom, boom.
All right, here you go.
I mean, check out the book.
I think it's coming along really, really well.
What a great stream today.
Thank you, my friend.
You can take this feed, you can just copy and paste it into any feed catcher, and it's all yours.
I hope you love the book.
It's obviously not done, but I'm about a fifth of the way through it.
Great stuff.
Also like those listener call shows.
Yeah, we've got some of those
Coming up as well.
Thank you for the tips.
I hugely appreciate that.
And don't forget, AlmostNovel.
Novel.com.
JustPoorNovel.com.
And TGOANovel.com.
No, let's just do fdrurl.com forward slash tgoa for the God of Atheists.
Some great books.
If you haven't... Hit me with a why.
Have you done my... Ever played Goose Goose Duck?
Oh yes!
My daughter can give you several thousand hours, conservatively speaking, of rants on the differences between Goose Goose Duck and what went wrong with Among Us.
If you ever, you know, if you want to get my daughter really riled up
You can talk about teenage female obesity, you can talk about ducks, obviously, and you can talk about what happened with the font changes in Among Us and their utter lack of provision of new maps.
She can also talk about how Goose Goose Duck went all ADHD, overcomplicated.
So, is TGOA in mobile format?
I think it is, yeah.
I think it is.
The fonts!
Yes, that's right, James.
There are certain things that are just tripwires.
What are your tripwires?
Let's just close off this way.
What are your tripwires, my friends?
What is it that you feel the surge of rant is almost impossible to resist?
Like, what is it?
Is it Linux?
Is it?
Oh, oh, that reminds me!
Okay, you don't think you should tell me?
Here's the thing.
I owe two apologies to listeners.
Oh, yes, I almost forgot about this.
Well, you guys, I'll get back to this in a sec, right?
So, two apologies to listeners.
Now, fortunately, obviously, every time you watch the live stream, when you don't watch the live stream, when you listen to me, when you don't listen to me, a live
Dead.
Awake.
Asleep.
You see endlessly sexy Steph.
There's nothing you can do about that.
It's just the way that it is.
But fortunately you've never ever ever met Petty Steph.
That is a great hidden secret that I keep in one of my left lower bowel movements.
And you've never met Petty Steph.
But if you were to have met Petty Steph he would have said something like this.
I was talking on my last live stream about on Wednesday.
about my annoyance trying to get hold of a file from a file-sharing service, and somebody said, you should turn on a VPN.
And I said, oh, Pettystaff, not me, Pettystaff is the guy that they write about on Wikipedia, but I said, oh great, let's throw another variable
Into the mix, I'm sure that's gonna help.
Eh, just use the VPN!
Anyway, that wasn't me, obviously.
Demonic Possession by PettyWikiStuff, but Evil Twin.
He morphs in and out.
It happens.
Funny thing.
And have you ever been told something, to fix something, and you then have the impulse to try it?
And you're like, but I don't want to try it, because I already mocked this person.
And what if it works?
Anyway, I valiantly overcame that.
And I turned on a VPN and tried to access the file.
And quick question, what do you think happened?
Hit me with a why if you think it worked perfectly, and I owe someone an apology.
Yes, got file.
Now, I was mixed, of course.
Would I rather get a file essential for my peaceful parenting book, or would I rather not be wrong?
Save the world through peaceful parenting, or not be wrong about something unimportant that I marked someone for.
Tough call.
Tough call.
I couldn't find my double-headed coin to flip it, so I actually flipped a real coin.
Fortunately for the future of parenting and the peace of the world and all of that, I did end up
Turning on the VPN, and I was like, don't give me the file, don't give, oh man!
And the file, and the humiliation.
And the fundamental, bottom-of-the-canyon, interstellar being-wrongness was delivered unto me.
So... Why I was wrong about VPNs.
You were right.
I was completely wrong.
And not only was I wrong, I was wrong in an annoying, slightly insulting and petty way.
I know it was kind of funny and all of that, but I was wrong.
And because of the continuity of time,
I remain wrong, but in the past.
You helped me enormously.
I thank you for it.
I apologize for the petty sniping.
And I will, for the moment, take ownership of the alternate personality, Petty Steph, and say that we, collectively, not you, but we, me, Noble Sexy Steph, and Rigid Petty Steph, we collectively apologize to you for the pettiness.
I thank you, thank you, thank you, for the suggestion of the VPN.
And probably six to eight years from now, I'll be happy that it worked out that way.
Obviously, it's going to take a little time.
I've got to adjust and all of that to the novel experience of being wrong.
But I really know, in all seriousness, thank you so much.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
I appreciate it.
I was totally wrong.
Thank you for overcoming my petty annoyance and slight insults.
And you were right.
I was completely wrong.
I thank you for it.
It simplified my life.
I don't understand why it works.
Don't tell me about flushing the DNS cache or I'm gonna go and take a dump right here in the chair.
But it did work and you're totally right and thank you for that and I appreciate it.
The other one goes back a little bit further in that I don't know if you remember me talking about how incomprehensible it was that you wash your plates before putting them in the dishwasher.
Well apparently
Paddy Staff was wrong about that one, too.
No at all Staff was wrong about it, as he often is.
So I got a number of emails from people who service dishwashers.
So...
Apparently it's really important to rinse things before you... You can't tell my wife this.
Like, I can handle apologizing and being wrong with regards to listeners.
But no, not my wife.
No.
So I actually explained this to my wife and I said I was mocking your desire to have me rinse things before putting them in the dishwasher.
So apparently there's just stuff that gets caught in the dishwasher if you don't clean it out.
Like, there's just detritus and crap and you might as well just set fire to it and get a new dishwasher.
Which you can't do if it's actually running.
I don't have a sauna and I don't have a face steamer, but what I do have is the low intelligence to continually open the dishwasher even though it's running.
And the only reason I can say that is I grew up without a dishwasher other than my own two arms.
And also, have you ever had that dishwasher that sounds like they're detonating a swimming pool in the local vicinity or exploding a whale on the beach?
You know, those... It sounds like you're strapped to the engines of a
Sue is Canal Barge attempting to break into low orbit with the strength of its motors.
So I had one of those so I'm used to there being a sound and now for whatever reason we have a dishwasher that is a sound eater and it basically is in another dimension and so you open it and then suddenly it's like steam death, right?
So yes, it is.
It is happening.
But yes, you do need to rinse things or your dishwasher breaks.
Try not to break your dishwasher.
The last one that I installed turned into a six-hour nightmare task.
Well, I like installing things.
Because what I do is I get... I have... Does everyone have this?
It can't just be me who has this.
It's a special pair of plumber's pants.
Do you have those?
You know what I'm talking about, right?
See, women who wear low-rise, low-cut jeans often look fantastic, but if you really want a fantastic look, get a 57-year-old guy into a pair of low-rise plumber's pants.
And, man, it's... You know what it is?
Think of the most beautiful sunrise you've ever seen and replace it with two slightly hairy moons and you're there.
I mean, I think we've joined together in a fairly unholy mental imagery that I will probably apologize for in the next show for implanting in everyone's minds.
The crack is deep and wide.
I just don't wear pants.
Less laundry that way.
Yes, although you do end up doing more laundry but in prison, because you have more pants out there in the world, so that could, you know, but of course if you don't wear pants you might fit in very well at prison, so.
The buttcrack of Dawn.
Yeah, no, I mean it's like the original Star Wars movie where the two moons are over Tatooine, or the two suns are over Tatooine.
I'm like, yeah, that's like me and my lowriders, so.
Yeah, Plummer's Pants is just, it's wonderful.
It's like a giant spear of glory arising from a denim horizon of perfection.
All right, thank you everyone so much for your kind time and attention tonight.
Does it feel like two hours?
I'm telling you, it just seems to blur by as I go into this alternate fugue state of near-infinite language generation.
And so yes, thank you and thank you again for the very kind fellow who donates based on likes.
Any last things coming in?
I'm going to stretch it out here just a little bit.
Time flies when you're having fun.
Thanks, Steph.
Thank you, Autumn.
It was always a great pleasure.
And thanks, everyone, for the great jokes that you make.
I obviously try and keep up, because the collective hive mind of comedy is vastly outstripping mine.
So I really do appreciate that you guys really do make me laugh.
And that is a beautiful thing in a challenging world.
Oh, we need 10 more likes.
Get us to 67.
Come on, baby.
There are a number of people here and it's not a small number.
Give us some likes.
Where do you do the like anyway?
Where do you do the likes?
I think if you give my nose the finger, that's kind of a like.
You click the thumb.
I feel it should be that obvious.
Maybe I don't see it because I'm the host.
I don't know.
The thumb clicks you.
Lower right on the iPad.
There's me!
Giant thumb.
Steph, I wanted to upgrade my Freedom Inn annual subscription, so I contacted the good folks at Locals.
They told me I had to cancel my current subscription, wait till it expires, and then subscribe again under a different tier.
I'll do that, but I'm a bit bummed out.
Yeah, and look, I appreciate that.
I really do.
You know, people do send me emails.
With, you know, how do I do this?
How do I do that?
I don't handle any of that stuff.
Like, the stuff you do on my site, I can have a little bit more to do with, but I don't.
The local stuff is all handled by them, so support at locals.com, but I appreciate that.
Thank you, Chris.
That is very kind, very kind.
I appreciate it.
Under the window, or beside chat in Android.
Yeah, I don't have that.
I mean, seriously, how can I not like myself?
That's just weird, man.
Just weird.
All right.
Do you know it's odd to work out covered in butter?
Have you ever noticed that?
Unless you have a heat lamp and you're broiling yourself, you get like a little musty, slightly alpaca on the grill kind of smell, but working out drenched in butter,
It's nice.
I should probably save that for subscribers.
In other words, I won't post it.
It's surprises don't get that video.
So that, you know, it's like, well, that's worth my subscription.
So don't watch glistening peanut butter and butter stiff exercising.
What is it when you go see Last Tango at the Paris?
You simply can't order no butter on your popcorn.
It's just, it was a rule.
Boy, there's an obscure joke for you.
Butter.
Maybe if my feet were in scuba flippers and leather gloves.
Like, comment, share and subscribe.
The Entrepreneur Tips are worth it alone.
69.
We got 69 likes!
At 4.20 in the afternoon somewhere.
Somewhere in the world it's probably 4.20 in the afternoon.
We got 69 likes.
Excellent.
How many of you would rank the call-in shows near the top of what it is that I do?
I just want to sort of get that.
Hit me with a Y if you would rank the call-in shows near the top of what it is that I do.
Number one!
Yes, yes, yes, yes.
All right, all right, good.
So listen, if you guys here, I'm going to give you, right, call in, call in at free domain
We're good.
I wish it would have been earlier.
So don't wait for a disaster!
Don't wait for a disaster that's kind of hard to recover from.
Call in at freedomain.com.
I love doing the call-ins.
It's kind of unique for what it is that happens on the web.
And so if you have something, don't wait for it to get bad.
And call in at freedomain.com.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Absolutely, completely, and totally right.
So Steph Clips is going nuts.
Yes.
All right.
Well, everyone, thank you so much for a delightful evening.
I hope that you had fun.
And freedomain.com slash donate if you're listening to this later.
I would really, really appreciate it.
Love you guys back.
As well, a little late to ask whether you should join in as a scheme to commit fraud the day before you're being sent to prison for 20 years.
Yeah, yeah.
Knocked it out of the park as usual.
Jared says, four great previously unreleased call-ins rescued from 2021, superbly remastered, will be added to the premiere article tomorrow or Sunday.
Don't forget, it's, um, yeah, just, sorry, if you are listening to this later, like, don't forget man, it's, um,
Just go to freedomain.locals.com, enter the promo code, all caps UPB2022, UPB2022, you can just try it out.
You get Steph by the eye, you get the Peaceful Parenting book, you get premium calls, premium shows, premium live streams, it's glorious.
And if you don't like it, it's not worth it, you can cancel, you don't
Pay a penny.
The Haitian Mama?
When is that?
I can't remember when is that?
The Haitian guy?
When is that?
I can't remember when that's coming out, but it should be over the next couple of days.
We just have a lot of material.
As you know, I've hired two wonderful, brilliant young men to work with and
It's freed me up to do more shows, and because of that, we have a bit of a log jam.
But we'll figure it out.
How do you get to staffbot.ai?
You just join the donator section of freedomain.locals.com, and it should be right there.
All right.
Thanks, everyone.
Have you a wonderful evening.
I really appreciate you guys dropping by tonight, and lots of love from up here.
