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Dec. 7, 2023 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux

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For Heaven's Sake, BE PERSISTENT! Freedomain Livestream

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	Ah, hair and makeup time.
	Hair and makeup time.
	And shiny Rudolph butt-nose time.
	Hey, is it working?
	Are we working today? Yeah, it's funny.
	So it turns out that last time...
	I actually had hit the wrong button on my camera and recorded myself in 120 frames per second slow-mo.
	I'm like, why is it 80 gigs for a show?
	It's like every pour, every slow motion.
	And then the joyful thing, of course, is when you do slow-mo, you don't get any audio.
	So I had to use another audio recorder to match the video after changing the speed.
	and it was like mmm so much fun right somebody's saying no audio
	You guys can hear? You guys can hear okay.
	Yeah, it says it's broadcasting audio, no problem.
	Slow, slow, slow-loss-ophy.
	Yeah, it looks like everyone's working.
	All right. Good morning, good morning.
	So, what are your thoughts, comments, questions, issues?
	I have put out part 10 of the French Revolution, which is, I don't want to say a masterpiece, because a piece implies a part of a whole.
	It's not a masterpiece.
	It's a master whole, like a glory whole, but with philosophy.
	It's a master whole.
	Oh, not even a masterpiece.
	And I've got part 11 out, recorded, but I haven't put it out yet, and then I'm going to do an epilogue.
	Because I don't normally have this issue where I finish something and then afterwards I'm like, oh, I should have said this, that, or the other.
	But I had it with this, so I'll be putting in a wee tiny bit of an epilogue.
	Also, if you've listened to it, let me know.
	I know the audio quality is not quite super great.
	I'm using a really nice in-house mic and a portable recorder.
	But with this one, I'm constantly trying to find ways to keep the brain cooking, to take different approaches, to energize myself in different ways.
	And I was sort of finding that sitting hunched over a computer doing PowerPoints was not working for me as much as...
	As far as energy generation went and spontaneity and so on.
	So what I have done with this one is I've printed it out, I've noted it all up, and I've been walking around, pacing around to do all of that.
	Yeah, so just in general...
	Obviously, there are times when there are tech issues.
	But just in general, this is a sort of word to the wise or I guess a sort of politeness thing.
	If you're not getting any audio, you need to check – before you come and say I'm not getting any audio, you need to check your audio setup, right?
	I mean so on Windows, it's pretty simple, right?
	All you do on Windows is you change the volume, right?
	And so if you change the volume and you can't hear anything, then don't put audio issues on me because it's, you know, it's an issue.
	Now, if other people are getting audio but you're not getting audio, if you keep typing in the chat that you're not getting audio, that's kind of distracting and it's a little rude, if that makes sense.
	So... Just as a personal favor to me because I don't have a big engineering team here, right?
	So I can't just… And I'm also not… If I'm just recording, that's a different matter, right?
	If I'm just recording, then I can check everything and all of that.
	No, it's not perfect now.
	I have changed nothing. No, I've changed absolutely nothing.
	So no, it's not perfect now.
	So you fix something or something has changed on your end.
	I've not touched a single… So, just in general, and this is not, for me, this is every live stream you're going, before you complain about technical issues, make sure they're not at your end.
	Because it's very distracting for the person doing the live stream.
	And it's just like a kind of, look, we've all had people in our lives, alright, hit me with a why, if you've had people in Have you ever had that?
	In other words, do you date women?
	It's just not working.
	It's not taking my touch.
	It's not doing that. It's not doing the other.
	And it turns out to be a user error, right?
	Yeah, but if you're getting it on both the phone and the laptop on two different internet providers, then if...
	I'm just saying, just, yeah, Boomer Mom or whatever it is, right?
	Just check your end first.
	Now, the people who are saying, well, I checked everything on my end, well, then you have the challenging issue of explaining why it's working for everyone else but not for you, right?
	Your entire career, right?
	It may be bad for Steph if the recording is bad.
	Absolutely. Absolutely.
	I, um... Please understand, and I'm sure you guys, it's kind of annoying to even have to say this, I'm sure you guys are smart enough to know that I'm not saying, don't tell me if there are any technical issues.
	You know that I'm not saying, don't tell me if there are technical issues.
	Just for those of you who are saying, well, it's important that you get your tech right.
	Let me ask you this. For those who think that I'm saying, don't tell me if you have any technical issues, what am I actually saying?
	What did I say?
	You know, it's really, really important to have inputs in life.
	So when people are saying stuff, it's really, really important to listen.
	I know it's very obvious to say.
	It's really, really important to listen because if you don't listen, only losers will want to talk to you, right?
	And you want to be surrounded by winners.
	You want to be surrounded by enthusiastic, positive, energetic people.
	And if you don't listen...
	Then quality people won't want to talk to you.
	I'm just... This is a law of nature.
	This is just a fact of nature, right?
	Learned this acronym from IT friends.
	Picnic. Problem in chair, not in computer.
	You know, I mean, there's so many...
	And of course, I did help desk because I was the programmer.
	Yeah, first check at your end.
	Yeah, just first check at your end.
	And also read because some people have been repeating that they're getting issues when other people are saying it's working fine for me.
	Does that make sense? Yeah.
	So there were a number of people who it's working perfectly for everyone else and they keep saying it's not working for me.
	Now, frankly, what the F am I supposed to do about your setup from here, right?
	Still no audio. I'm going to sign off.
	Giving up. Have a great day, everyone.
	Your time has value. I'm sorry about that.
	It could be a driver issue.
	It could be a hardware issue.
	It could be a don't have speakers turned on issue.
	It could be output to the wrong audio.
	There's six million things.
	If you go to Windows or other places, mostly Windows, you wouldn't believe how many audio outputs there are, right?
	It could also be that you had it hooked up to a TV, even through airplay or whatever, maybe it's still there, right?
	So, pebcac problem exists between computer and chair.
	Yeah, so, I can't fix yourself, right?
	If it's working for everyone else and it's not working for you, complaining to me, I don't even know what to say.
	Yeah, your wife turned on the car, the Bluetooth is on there.
	It could be, yeah, maybe a Bluetooth settings is sending it somewhere else.
	You could restart locals, you could reboot your computer.
	So, yeah, this is, honestly, this is a really instructive and useful thing, I think, to talk about, which is just, why do people get so staticky when things aren't working?
	It's not working, it's not working, right?
	Yeah. I mean, y'all know the answer to that, right?
	Why do people get kind of staticky and unempathetic when things aren't working?
	Because nobody had patience to them, yeah.
	I mean, what happened when things didn't work, right?
	Like, I booted up.
	I've got this new camera, right?
	I think it's worth it. I think it's a nice picture and all of that.
	I think it's very good. But...
	Yeah, I mean, there's a button right next to the record that puts it in slow-mo, which I wasn't aware of, which was a drag, so I kind of had to fix that.
	I still don't have any... I've wired the output from the mixer into the camera, but it's not showing up, so it's okay.
	I'll record on the mixer and put it all in later.
	I don't know why. I haven't changed any settings that I know of, but it's a camera.
	I have to pick it up to change.
	The other camera, I could change the...
	Memory card without picking up the camera.
	This camera I have to pick up and move to change.
	And it's got so many buttons on it that I suppose it's possible to touch a button and all of that.
	And if you're peaking, maybe your volume is set too high or whatever it is.
	So it's an important thing to note what happens to you when things go wrong.
	What happens? And of course, as you know, things go wrong.
	I tinker. I'm a tinkerer when it comes to tech.
	I own it. I recognize it.
	I'm not saying it's necessarily a good thing, but I'm constantly trying to get things to be better.
	And I tinker and I change, right?
	So, things are going to get a little hiccup-y for me, and there are going to be problems.
	Of course, I've had internet problems, camera problems, audio problems.
	Sometimes the platform isn't working.
	I think that we had to restart the whole live stream the other day as the platform was having problems.
	It seems to be. Maybe there was something at my end or whatever.
	But... What happens when things go wrong?
	I mean, there have been times, I'll be straight up with you, there have been times where the live stream is so annoying to start that I don't want to do the show.
	Like, I honestly just want to throw up my hands and say, like, okay, how am I supposed to be positive, enthusiastic, funny, and creative when I've just spent 15 minutes wrestling with I don't want to let the inconveniences win.
	I don't want to let the problems win.
	I'm not going to say, well, there's some useless tech crap gremlin nonsense and therefore the world doesn't get another two hours of philosophy.
	That would seem like not putting things in their right and healthy priority.
	Does that make sense? So how do you deal with problems?
	You know, how you deal with problems, how you deal with hiccups and gremlins and issues and things you weren't expecting, how you deal with that is foundational to your success in life as a whole.
	It's foundational to your success in life as a whole.
	Now, if you kind of – and I don't want to characterize this unfairly, so maybe this is not true for you – But if there's like, oh, I'm not getting audio and you kind of freak out and panic and you type and I'm not getting audio as opposed to, okay, I'll just go through a series of steps to try and sort out the audio, right?
	You can't get paid much if you can't solve your own problems.
	Like you won't get paid much.
	Does that make sense? Like if you need a whole team around you to get things done, If you can't solve your own problems, you won't get paid much.
	Because what are you paid for?
	You're paid to solve problems.
	And if you need other people's help to help you solve problems, because you panic, and I understand this and I sympathize with it.
	I really do. Like, I'm not trying to, oh, you can't believe you panic.
	I get that. I mean, I remember some years ago, I used to sub in for Peter Schiff on the live radio.
	And it was five seconds before we went live where the technology finally worked.
	That was an exciting moment, I remember.
	So, and of course, I have massive appreciation for this technology.
	It didn't fail when I would go up on a stage and speak, right?
	Usually that didn't fail, right?
	But I'm up there speaking, right?
	So, keep calm and troubleshoot.
	Keep calm and troubleshoot.
	Here's the other thing too.
	If you can't get audio on a live stream, is that a big issue in life as a whole?
	Think about all the things you freaked out about in the past.
	Are they big issues?
	Are they big issues?
	I remember the very first program that I was required to write When I got my very first computer science job crashed when my boss tested it for the first time.
	I had to write a program to analyze disk storage on a tandem computer system, which is like a big server system.
	It was running COBOL 74.
	I had to write a program to get the equivalent of the file allocation tables and analyze which programs were using the most storage because they were trying to figure out whether they had to do an upgrade of the entire system.
	And so I wrote the program.
	It got all of the data.
	I wrote the program so that there was an interface where you could sort of – you'd see charts.
	You could click, rotate them, dive into them, drill into them and get lists and print them out.
	It was a really nice program for analyzing storage requirements because the upgrade was like well over a million dollars, right?
	So, I wrote the program and, of course, I tested it on my machine.
	I tested it on – I was working in the same room with about five or six other coders.
	And I then installed it on my boss's computer.
	He started it up and it crashed.
	And the reason that it crashed was because he had a freaky date set up, right?
	So in America, it's month, day, year.
	In most same places, it's smallest to largest is day, month, year.
	He had year, day, month.
	Right? He had year, day, month.
	So it started it up, and I hadn't handled that particular date option, which is very unusual, but, you know, it was what it was.
	And... He did that to check for level of detail, I think, right?
	He never explained to me, but why would you have a weird date format like that?
	He did it for level of detail.
	Like, is the programmer checking for problems?
	And so my program crashed and I was like pretty embarrassed.
	And I've said, I can fix that in about five minutes.
	And he says, yeah, do that.
	And so I fixed it and I went back and he's like, man, this is great.
	I want to send this to other people.
	I could play around with this all day.
	Year day month is a crime.
	Right. Right.
	Right. Right. It is.
	It is. So the way that you have to do it, at least in Windows, is you have to convert the date to a long number format, which I think is the number of Yeah, month, day makes sense? No, it doesn't.
	It makes no sense, Dave. It's in fact...
	It's the only proposition in computer science that's not UPB compliant and should result objectively in jail time.
	Year, month, day makes no sense because what do you check in the date, right?
	What do you check in the date?
	You care what day it is.
	I mean, I hope you know what month it is and I sure hope you know what year it is.
	So the idea that you would start with the most known and go to the least known is terrible.
	It is terrible. So, yes.
	I remember having to write all these papers for our customers about our Y2K compliance standards.
	What do you do when somebody just types in the last two digits of the date?
	So what we did was anything after 1930, we assumed it was 1900.
	Anything that was 30 or less, we assumed, was 21st century.
	Anything that was 30 or more for birthdates was 20th century.
	So, year, month, day only makes sense for sorting dates.
	It's mostly human-readable for computers.
	No, but computers don't do year, month, day.
	They have no idea what that is.
	They only care about numbers, right?
	So you have to convert it to some sort of binary or either a...
	An integer which is minus 32767 to plus 32767 or a single or a double or a long or something like that.
	And you don't need fractions because fractions don't really work well with minutes.
	Do you know why we have 60 minutes in an hour and 60 seconds in a minute?
	Do you know why it's 60?
	Just out of curiosity. Year, month, day is the styling of time travelers.
	They have to be careful. Yes, I would say that.
	I would say that. Yeah, it's Babylonian.
	That's right, Michael. So the Babylonian counting system was six-based, right?
	Every system is ten-based for fingers and thumbs.
	And so, yeah, the Babylonian system is six-based.
	I have no idea why. Probably because some cat god said that carved in the fur of its udder-like belly.
	Yeah, that's right. That's why we have 360 degrees.
	When using year, month, day, you can sort by dates alphabetically and it will be sorted chronologically as well.
	Yes, but sorting by dates alphabetically is much slower than converting them to numbers and sorting by numbers.
	Computers are way faster at sorting by numbers than they are sorting by text.
	So, sorry, that's just inefficient.
	Now, I get, like, I'm a programming guy from the days when memory and speed really matter.
	Like, nobody really has to worry about memory management, right?
	Nobody really has to talk about memory management.
	Like I remember my first computer, my first computer had how much memory?
	Just if you've ever heard me talk about this before, my first computer had how much memory?
	Just questioning.
	FDR trivia. Like if you want to do anything with a database, you have to load it into RAM. And you create a record set in RAM, which has all the exact characteristics of the database on the disk.
	So you load the dataset and you create a database in RAM. You manipulate the living heck out of it and then you just write it all back to desk.
	So the first computer I used was a PET. It had 2K of RAM. And I remember there was a word processor on it that would tell you how many characters you had left that you could title.
	So I had 2K of RAM. I used to take that home sometimes.
	And that was the computer I first – I wrote my first video game.
	It was a starship – a space exploration game and combat.
	And I tried writing missile command for ASCII. Like I used ASCII to create missile command, which only went so far.
	Of course, there's only so much you can do with ASCII. But the first computer that I bought – I got an inheritance from my step-grandmother.
	My step-grandmother died. I got an inheritance and I got an Atari 800 with an actual keyboard.
	The Atari 400 had a membrane keyboard and I didn't want that.
	The Atari 800 had a...
	A full keyboard, and you could hook it up to a television.
	I remember the first one, I bought a wavy TV. Do you ever have those when you were a kid?
	Like some 12-inch monstrosity.
	I remember watching on a 12-inch TV, black and white Wimbledon, where you could barely see the ball.
	You could just see this tadpole streak from time to time.
	But I had the TV. I bought it for $10 secondhand to hook the computer up to, and it was like a wavy TV. They used to do all these waves on it.
	It's a half-underwater TV, but...
	That was the way that it was.
	And I learned beginners applied symbolic instruction code, basic, and began to program there.
	I programmed a Zork-style game, which was you type in, I'm going to do this, I'm going to do that.
	You had an Atari 400 with the basic cartridge?
	Now, the 800 came with 8K, the 400 came with 4K. In hindsight, that's probably why.
	And I remember meeting a guy named Luigi in a parking lot to buy 32K. I bought 32K to get to 40K for $70, I think it was.
	And I was earning $2.50 an hour at the time, so that was...
	That was almost two weeks to pay to buy the memory.
	And of course, in hindsight, it wasn't quite in his coat with a bunch of watches, but I remember I bought from him in a darkened parking lot out back of an industrial area.
	In hindsight, I'm not entirely sure...
	That it was legitimately purloined.
	Like, I remember once going to work at the Don Mills Mall, and there was a guy in a van, two guys in a van with sort of skeevy looks, and they were like, hey man, we've got some speakers to sell you.
	Super high quality. Like...
	80% off. And, you know, there was that pause, like, I don't know, 80% off, you know, if you've got any cash, we can give you these speakers, like, right now.
	And, you know, I think, I'm pretty sure one of them was selling and one of them was a lookout, like, so it's like, no, I don't want that.
	Thank you. Oh, my.
	Oh, my. And I remember there were – what were the dice games?
	Oh, Backgammon. There was Backgammon on the Atari 800 that the computer never lost.
	I'm pretty sure. The source code is probably long gone, but I'm pretty sure that the programmer had programmed it so the computer basically couldn't lose.
	Yeah, hey, kids, you got it in cash.
	I got it in goods. 32K RAM, right for you.
	Yeah, that's right. You keep moving.
	Keep moving. 80% off is double the selling price for stolen goods.
	I agree. This is one of the reasons why addiction is so bad.
	Drug addiction is so bad because you have to steal 10 times what you need.
	You need 200 bucks for the drugs.
	For the day, you've got to steal $2,000 worth of stuff.
	You knew those speakers were going to sound amazing.
	Well, all I would do is I would say I have sound issues and I'm sure they'd give me a full refund.
	The only Atari experience I had was a 2600 game console.
	Yeah, the 2600 kind of blew.
	My wife, well, she remembered I had an Atari and she's very thoughtful that way.
	So a couple of years ago, she bought me an Atari console emulation, which you just got through HDMI to the TV. And I didn't have the heart to tell her that it was...
	And what the heck, we played some fun games on it, because going back old school, it's like a history lesson for my daughter.
	We do the French Revolution, and then we do Atari 2600 graphics.
	But this is the thing, like, you boot up the Atari 800 with the basic cartridge in, and it would just say, ready, and the cursor didn't even blink.
	It was one megahertz speed, I think.
	And it had, oh gosh, player missile graphics was the big thing.
	Player missile graphics.
	You could go horizontal, very smoothly, up and down, required machine language coding.
	So, it was really, really something.
	It was really something.
	Star Raiders was fantastic.
	Star Raiders was, like, unbelievably great game.
	And the guy never got paid for it.
	He was just some guy, and he programmed this incredible space fighting game in 8K of RAM. Like, unbelievable that he was able to do it.
	And he never got anything.
	Yeah, the 2600, I mean, what was it, okay?
	It did an okay job at Space Invaders.
	It did a terrible job at Pac-Man.
	There was this game, oh gosh, it was like an Indiana Jones running and jumping game.
	Pitfall! Pitfall!
	Oh my gosh.
	Pitfall was...
	Like, in North Korea, things are bad.
	I mean, they're terrible, right?
	The amount of, like, what you experience as a political prisoner is terrible, but at least they're not making you play Pitfall.
	Pitfall was... I mean, before there were formal tests for autism, there was pitfall.
	Pitfall was like such a fussy, finicky jump here, go down here, make over this.
	And it was like a one-pixel game, like one pixel to the left.
	And then you got to kind of start pretty far back.
	Pitfall, it was impossible, right?
	Pitfall was just like...
	People was like, you had to digest the right pick.
	The crocodiles, the climbing, the jumping.
	There were some great games on the Atari, for sure.
	There was one called Necromancer that was super fun, where you played a wizard, and that was great.
	I played the Ultima series on the Atari.
	It was great. I played Ultima 3, Ultima 4, and then I think they switched out of that.
	But those Ultima series, think like 2D, 8-bit pixel Baldur's Gate.
	It was really, really good. There was even a two-player game called Ball Blazer, which was split-screen top and bottom, where you would get a ball and try and shoot it into the other person's net.
	Everyone I knew who had Atari has a basket of broken controllers.
	Yeah. They made an Addams Family game with no save option.
	It was ecstatic torture. I remember the botany lab where I had to be reincarnated.
	Yeah, I don't know the no save option.
	That just seems kind of bizarre to me.
	And Zork was great.
	I remember a friend of mine who later became a professor was very excited.
	I don't know, all old memories, but he was very excited because you could type in the word verbosity to Zork and you'd type in the word verbosity and it would return maximum verbosity.
	Maximum verbosity. I have no idea why that phrase sits in my brain more than 40 years later.
	Maximum verbosity. It must have been luring me somewhere.
	It must have been something that had the future carved into my brain.
	Maximum verbosity. I just love that.
	That was great. There was puzzles.
	Hit me with a Y. Did you ever play Zork or is this like way too old school for you?
	Did you ever play Zork? And there was a whole bunch of Zorks.
	It was a text adventure game where you type what you want to do.
	Go north, go east, do this, that, and the other.
	So I remember one puzzle.
	I never finished it because I found it just too fussy.
	And too fussy is a...
	Yeah, vector graphics was insane back then.
	So you can find it, I'm sure, online and play it.
	It's very interesting. I remember there was a puzzle where there was a key on the other side of the door and you had a whole bunch of things and two of the things that you had...
	It was a file or some like a file like a nail file or something like that and a piece of paper and what you had to do was you like the key was on the other side of the door and to get through the door you had to put the paper under the door and then insert the file into the keyhole and what it did was it pushed the key out of the lock on the other side it fell on the paper and you pulled back the paper and that's how you got the key.
	It was just wild.
	It was just wild. Ah, yes, the Commodore versus Atari people.
	And then the one came along, gosh, the Amiga with all the sound.
	It had full MIDI interfaces and so on, right?
	So, yeah, I mean, they were very good...
	Vector graphics was wild.
	And if you got the right vector, Star Castle was a great game where you had a ship and you had rotating shields.
	You had to shoot through them and then shoot the ship in the middle while dodging all of these things that followed you.
	And vector graphics was monochrome, of course, like the old bomb, the Atari stuff, the asteroid stuff, sorry.
	But what they did with – I remember there was this down near Sam's Record near Yonge and Dundas in Toronto.
	Way back in the day. I would go down there, even without quarters, just to watch the games because I was just fascinated by computers.
	I remember that's the first time I heard We Can Work It Out by The Beatles.
	It's a very good song. But there was a...
	Star Castle was great because they actually put colors on the rotating.
	So there were different colors in vectors, which was impossible technologically at the time.
	But because there was rotation in the same place, you could put different colors on it, which was great.
	And there was a Star Wars game that was vector-based where you went into the trenches and shot stuff and it was like a full sit-down experience.
	I think that was one of the ones that was brutal.
	This was your first introduction to economics, which was the better the game, you'd go from 25 cents to 50 cents, right?
	Which is a big thing.
	25 cents to 50 cents.
	Telstar Arcade. Yeah, you used to get these computer magazines and there would be all these non-standard computers that seemed too good to be true.
	Two floppy drives!
	64k of RAM! But the thing was that it was its own proprietary operating system, which meant you will never ever find a game for this.
	And I used to go to this computer club where we'd learn...
	Well, every Saturday, wherever I could, I'd go in and learn computers.
	And I used to go Mondays to a computer club, which, shamefacedly, I say, was basically just a swap games for free club.
	I mean, computer club.
	Swap games for free club.
	Oh, dear. Oh, dear.
	Oh, dear. I remember...
	You'd get computer magazines and they would have games in them that would be pages and pages and pages of...
	Incredibly fussy and finicky machine language code that you'd have to type into the machine language module and then you'd get a game.
	Like you could spend half a day and it was so fussy and there was no quality control, right?
	Like if you just got one of these billion characters wrong, the game wouldn't work and it wouldn't tell you where the problem was really.
	So yeah, that was quite exciting.
	Zelda will always be the best game.
	I never played the Zelda games.
	They weren't medieval enough for me. I want my historical games medieval or nothing.
	I don't care about Persia. I don't care about France in the 19th century. I don't care about assassinating
	whoever in the 18th century. It's medieval or bust for me.
	Like if it's not medieval, I honestly don't care and the Zelda stuff
	just wasn't medieval enough. It's got to be European medieval too.
	None of this Eastern stuff.
	That's for them. I want my ancestor juice to be rattled by the 8-bit depictions of good old forests and orcs and goblins and all of the European medieval history.
	That's just it. That's just it.
	I remember the fake quarter slugs.
	Yeah, yeah. Even if you received them in place of a real quarter, you weren't bummed because it was still video game currency.
	And there were some people who would get a little hole in the quarter and they would drop the quarter in and yank it out just right after the game registered the quarter.
	So they got infinite plays.
	In my high school computer class, you just play Call of Duty 1 LAN. Yeah, that stuff was really great.
	That stuff is really great.
	Alright, probably half of the young folk are dying from boomer, semi-boomer nostalgia, so we'll move on to your questions.
	Here we go, here we go. Doom was kind of medieval.
	Well, but, oh gosh, what was they played?
	There was a medieval sword and sorcery fantasy game that was like Doom or built on the Doom engine.
	The name escapes me, but I played that and that was a lot of fun.
	Wolfenstein. How on earth is that medieval?
	Wolfenstein was World War II. Achtung!
	Doom was stressful. Yeah, kind of.
	Now, do I have to look this up?
	No, you're all going to help me. Somebody's got to know this.
	Somebody's going. I don't play Fortnite, no.
	Hexen! Yes, Hexen and Hexen 2, but there was one even before that.
	Okay, now here we go.
	Doom style medieval game.
	Heretic, that's the one.
	Yeah, Heretic. It was like Doom, but you had spells and all that kind of stuff.
	They had a Christian version of Doom where you kill sheep with a slingshot.
	Computer Club didn't sound to be UPB compliant.
	I will say that the Computer Club was not UPB compliant, but I don't particularly care.
	Do you know why?
	Do you know why I didn't care about stealing and trading games when I was 12?
	Just out of curiosity.
	.
	I have no shame.
	No conscience about it.
	Does anybody know?
	It could be helpful for you.
	There was no such thing as GameStop.
	God, no. No.
	No, there weren't games. There weren't computers.
	Who cared about you?
	Well, it's more philosophical than that.
	So the reason I didn't care at all about trading games was because my entire society had voted to put me in terrible schools and was voting to have me indebted up to the eyeballs through national debt.
	Oh no, I started working at the age of 10.
	No, I could work. I worked.
	Immigration was much lower back then, so you had to hire teenagers.
	So, no, why on earth would I care about the property rights of a society that was stealing my childhood and robbing me blind through debt?
	Like, are you kidding me?
	I'm not going to have higher standards.
	I mean, this was my sort of thinking back then instinctively.
	Like, why on earth? I mean, my society doesn't care that I'm getting beaten up, you know?
	Like, this is the problem when you let children get abused, is they don't They don't respect the rules of society.
	In fact, I considered it cringe to respect the rules of society back then.
	I considered it enormously cringe, like embarrassingly cringe.
	I changed. I mean, I changed relatively quickly for a variety of reasons, which I've talked about before.
	But initially, oh yeah, as a total state of nature with society.
	A total state of nature with...
	I considered it cringe to do anything but the bare minimum homework.
	I considered it cringe to respect all the rules of society.
	Come on. I mean, I knew about the national debt.
	I knew that I was never going to get a pension.
	I knew that government schools were forced.
	So... Yeah, like, you've got to be kidding me, right?
	Why would I, why would I respect, why would I respect the rights of a society that not
	only didn't respect my rights but violated them every single day?
	Now I changed in that way basically because I just got...
	I felt it was a bad path.
	It wasn't some big moral revelation.
	It was just like, man, I can't think this is going to go well in the long run.
	And also because, of course, society had something to offer me back then, right?
	Like, how do you tame young people's amoralism?
	Well, or to put it another way, how do you tame children that you're exploiting to not exploit you?
	How do you tame them? Well, you've got to have something to offer them, right?
	And if you don't have something to offer them, you can't tame them, which is kind of what's going on right now, so...
	Alright, let's get to your questions.
	I've been having an ethical dilemma in terms of AI-generated extreme images, and I feel it to be viscerally wrong, but it doesn't break the non-aggression principle since nobody is getting hurt.
	I'd really like to hear your thoughts on this.
	Thanks. I'm going to draw back from the giant black hole of AI-generated extreme images, so I'm just going to say that you are...
	You're not violating the non-aggression principle by using whatever AI-generated extreme images are, but you are seducing yourself into massive dysfunction and potential evil.
	You are seducing yourself into massive dysfunction and potential evil.
	It's a lot easier to stop things at the beginning than near the end.
	We'll get to this when it comes to The affair that somebody's fiancé cheated on him, right?
	So it's just, it's so much easier to stop things at the beginning than later on, right?
	So, you know, how affairs start, you know, there's someone at work and you're kind of flirty, you're kind of chatty and, you know, it feels good, it feels nice and, you know, you're not really doing anything and, you know, and then you get a little, you just go a little further, a little further, right?
	Like, people don't start out as raging heroin addicts, right?
	What do they start out? They start out with gateway stuff.
	They start out with smaller stuff and they start out with different stuff.
	What's with people's obsession with the concept of karma?
	Would you consider karma mysticism?
	That's a very interesting question.
	I'm going to put that on the queue.
	I'm going to put that on the queue because I want to go a little bit more in sequence.
	Let's see here. Somebody says, so recently I've been spending about 10 hours every day at work, back and forth, trying to build my community as well.
	On top of that, I've been neglecting my fiancée for about two months and during that time she cheated on me with another man.
	Any advice? What advice would the community give as a whole?
	And don't forget to tip your friendly neighborhood philosopher.
	I might need 32k of ram at some point.
	What is your advice if your fiancé cheated on him?
	I just want to get people's feedback.
	I don't know why things seem slow. Don't get married, says Dave.
	A little hard to argue. Find somebody else at a minimum.
	Get a new lady. Dump her.
	Don't neglect your fiancé.
	Ah, interesting. So, I don't know if that's a male or a female.
	She was going to cheat anyways.
	Bye. Accept her actions and move on.
	Find a new fiancé. Any red flags?
	Oh, come on, man!
	Any red flags?
	Okay. Find out why.
	I can tell you why she cheated.
	I can tell you why she cheated.
	Of course there are red flags.
	You don't ever have to ask if there are red flags.
	Now, were they blah blah blah, right?
	But I can tell you why she cheated.
	Are you still on the live stream?
	You're not somebody who had issues with audio and bailed out.
	Are you still on the live stream? I just want to know.
	I can tell you exactly why she cheated.
	He's not saying he...
	I can't say no if you're not on the live stream.
	Okay, I just... I don't know if I can get more information or what, but...
	Ethical dilemma.
	Let me see here. It's so funny.
	He's like, please save my entire life and prevent me from a complete and total disaster.
	I have this fundamental essential question, but I'm not going to tip.
	Oh, well, I just have to kind of get used to that kind of stuff.
	I don't know why people value themselves so little, but there it is.
	All right. Sorry, a bunch of people typing.
	Just hit me with a Y if you're still around.
	Hit me with a wife you still around All right, I he's not still around so I'm just gonna have
	to talk about this generically All right. So, the reason that she cheated is you gave her excuses to cheat.
	And she knew that ahead of time.
	You gave her excuses to cheat.
	So, how did you...
	How did you characterize your question?
	Well, I've been spending 10 hours a day at work trying to build my community and I've been neglecting my fiancé for about two months, right?
	Now, whose language is that?
	Who said that when you found out about the cheating?
	Who said that?
	That comes directly from your fiancé.
	Well, you've been not here.
	I mean, you're gone all day.
	you've been neglecting me of course I ended up screwing another guy right so
	that's her language .
	Well, I mean, you can say it's language.
	That's putting a bow and a ribbon on a present that still has to be opened called self-knowledge.
	All right? So jumping to conclusions and getting angry and hostile.
	I mean, I understand that.
	I mean, I'd be angry too, but...
	What you got to do is you got to figure out why it happened.
	Now, the why it happened.
	So, the reason that she cheated is she...
	People...
	You're never the first person to hear someone's excuses.
	You're never, ever, ever the first person to hear someone's excuses.
	Who's the first person to hear someone's...
	Who was the first person to hear her excuses?
	who was the first person to hear your fiancé's excuses?
	she was Peace.
	So what happens is, when people want to betray you, they rehearse their excuses and you're in their head, so they debate with you about They're excuses, right? So she's attracted to some guy and she's like, well, I really want to sleep with him.
	I really want to have sex with him.
	He's really hard or whatever, right?
	I'm really horny or whatever.
	So she really wants to have sex with him.
	And what she needs to do is talk herself into not being an evil, betraying, traitorous, backstabbing trollop, right?
	So what does she need to say?
	She needs to say, well, I'm being neglected.
	He's never here. He's not paying me any attention.
	I have needs, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
	So she needs to rehearse that in her head.
	But she needs to rehearse that in her head with you.
	So she's internalized your personality and she's able to convince you in her head that it's your fault she cheated.
	I mean, we all do this, right?
	We all have these imaginary arguments, right?
	We're not like those mid-marble-headed dullards who don't have an inner voice, right?
	So she's debated this with you in her head.
	She's internalized your personality, as you do when you spend time around people.
	Every personality is infectious, for better or worse.
	Infectious or inspirational. So she has rehearsed this in her head with you.
	Right? Right? Now, once she has convinced her inner you that she's somehow justified in her cheating, then she'll cheat.
	and then you'll find out about it and then she'll have that same conversation she had in her head she'll have with you
	and it works.
	She knows all your flaws and found the algorithms to get what she wants.
	Yeah. She has said in her head, can I get away with it?
	Can I get away with it?
	Is this the free domain live stream?
	Oh, what a troll. She has rehearsed in her head what she can get away with.
	So she doesn't have inner integrity, and people without integrity do what they can get away with.
	This is not a big, philosophical, deep, complicated thing, right?
	People without integrity will do what they get away with.
	And what they will get away with is what you let them get away with.
	Or maybe she already tried to talk to him and he didn't acknowledge her, so she went ahead and satisfied herself.
	I've never needed that kind of thing, but I have friends who are needy in that way.
	Recreational sex is their drug to pacify their deep feelings of inadequacy.
	No, no, but so she might talk to him and say, well, I need more time, I need more attention, but she's doing it in a way that she doesn't want him to give the time and attention because she wants to screw the other guy, right?
	So she'll say, I need more time and attention, and then you spend more time with her, and she says, I'm bored, I'm restless.
	like she just pushes back against your attention so then you avoid spending time with her because
	she doesn't seem to enjoy your company. Then she says, oh you neglect me because she's just
	laser focused and scud guided laser guided missile to get to the other penis right?
	People who give excuses for cheating are silly.
	No, no, she's not giving excuses.
	She's blaming him. So, you chose...
	She also probably did it out of spite, I can assume as well.
	No. I wouldn't assume that.
	I wouldn't assume that.
	That's tough. What communication did she miss to start the back-and-forth neglect?
	Often seems to work like that.
	Oh, my God. You chose a woman without morals!
	You chose a woman without morals.
	No, not everything is hypergamy.
	I mean, all these teachers having sex with mid-teen children, that's not hypergamy.
	Sometimes it's just lust. So you chose a woman without morals.
	And if you choose a woman without morals, she'll do what she can get away with.
	She'll do what she can get away with.
	I'm not convinced that women ever truly want to have sex with someone they don't love.
	Do you not think that women are just holy people without lust, without hormones, without an itch, right?
	Lust can be solved by quickies at the office or when he wakes up.
	Well, it depends though.
	It depends how long you've been dating for.
	Okay, I was talking to a guy.
	He dated his girlfriend for nine years before they got married.
	Spoiler guys, sometimes women just really want to have sex with a guy.
	Bye.
	Pfft.
	The same lust that you feel towards a woman, she will feel towards a guy.
	The idea that, well, you see, women will only have sex with someone they deeply care about who can provide them hypergamy is like, or that they have some deep, passionate connect.
	Come on. That's saying that, you know, women, men can be R-selected, but women can't be R-selected.
	Yeah, women enjoy sex just as much as men do.
	Women have the multiple orgasm, will-of-the-wisp that can lead them into junky swamps.
	It's just wild, right? I mean, go look up someday how many rape fantasies women have.
	I mean, there's a reason that women's kink is legendary.
	And not all women, of course, right?
	But women's kink is legendary, right?
	There's a reason why Fifty Shades of Grey became so popular, right?
	I've known a few lustful women.
	No, no, you haven't.
	You've known all lustful women.
	All the women in your life are lustful.
	My ex told me that she suffers from something similar to blue balls.
	If she doesn't have enough sex, it builds up as a pain.
	Well, I've mentioned this, of course, a million times on the show, but in case you haven't heard it, male semen contains antidepressants for women.
	Yeah, thankfully they are lustful.
	Yeah, nothing wrong with lust.
	Lust is a beautiful thing. Lust is a beautiful thing.
	Some women like to be choked.
	Some women like to be hit.
	Some women, I mean, it's wild.
	It's wild. I shouldn't marry that woman.
	Okay, but you're jumping straight to conclusions.
	Conclusions without self-knowledge are promises of repetition.
	Fifty Shades was only popular because we're living in a severely indebted and impoverished society.
	Yes, of course.
	Women are never attracted to aggressive wealthy men.
	Oh, no. Women are never, ever going to trade.
	Women never, ever get sexually turned on by humiliation because they're just angels and it's just the national debt that's driving all of that.
	Come on, man.
	Oh, my gosh.
	Livestream is taking an interesting turn.
	Fifty Shades is one of two million books.
	Fifty Shades is the biggest selling work of fiction in the history of the world.
	Fifty Shades of Grey is the biggest selling work of fiction in the history of the world.
	No doubt. If you've never read a Harlequin novel, it's hard to understand a lot of women.
	Please, I'm telling you, go out.
	Maybe you have to do it under cover of darkness.
	Go out and buy some harlequin romance novel with Fabio on the cover and some woman swooning between his
	massive pectorals.
	I'm somewhat brainwashed by romantic comedies and power ballads as a young man.
	So romantic comedies have as much relationship...
	To female sexuality as Lord of the Rings does to Celtic mythology, or to Celtic realities.
	They're definitely not attracted to broke-aggressive men unless they pretended to be nice first.
	You don't think women are attracted to broke-aggressive men?
	Oh my god!
	Oh my gosh!
	Oh my gosh. I think those books are for widowed grandmas.
	You don't? I'm sorry.
	I mean, I love you all to death, but you're severely not informed.
	I was going to use a different word.
	You're severely not informed about these things.
	Yeah, if the guy is really good looking and dominant and appeals to some attraction that she has, I mean, she'll be a puddle of lust.
	She'll be a puddle of lust. I mean, you know the amount of male, the amount of sexual male that serial killers get in jail.
	I mean, come on, you guys know all of this stuff, right?
	I'm not shocking your quasi-Victorian sensibilities, right?
	All the women I know who read those books have had husbands that let themselves go.
	Oh, my dear, my dear, Taylor, Taylor, Taylor, love you to death.
	That's very female. Had husbands that let themselves go.
	No, no, no, they didn't have husbands.
	They chose husbands who let themselves go.
	And they chose not to intervene when their husbands let themselves go.
	And why did these women have husbands who let themselves go?
	Because the women themselves have let themselves go and it probably is a pact.
	So the man gets porn and the woman gets romance books and that's about it, right?
	My woman has no interest in sex anymore.
	She is constantly fretting about her image and fighting or arguing with her kids.
	She doesn't cheat. So for her, sex is a very low priority in her life.
	Well, do you know why she's fighting?
	Do you know why she's fighting?
	Do you know why she's fighting?
	Without sex?
	All women are programmed at birth to blame men when the subject in public turns to sex.
	No, they're not. Oh boy, you guys just really, really, really dislike even the concept of female agency, right?
	I get it, it's tough.
	We don't want to give women agency for fear that women won't mate with us
	and therefore our genes will die out.
	But those women lie first to bond with them and at that point it's a game
	of the woman having the humility to admit they were fooled.
	It's not even true attraction.
	Dear oh dear. Oh dear oh dear my friends.
	Oh I'm glad we're talking about this.
	So when a woman says she was fooled by a man how many of you believe her?
	When a woman says she was fooled by a man, how many of you believe her?
	I just out of curiosity.
	It just happened.
	Has chat never eavesdropped on women gossiping?
	Oh my gosh, guys, guys, guys.
	Alright, um, sorry, gender 101.
	Women...
	We have evolved to be true scanners of truth and falsehood because women have to put so much more effort, time and energy into raising children.
	Of course, a man can spend, I don't know, a cozy half an hour seducing and having sex with a woman, then he can stroll off.
	The woman gets pregnant and she could die in childbirth.
	She has to breastfeed.
	She needs resources.
	She's disabled for quite some time, late pregnancy and early.
	You know, the vagina tears during birth.
	That's just a mess, right? So, women have evolved to not be fooled.
	If women were fooled by men who just abandoned them and they had no way of detecting any truth or falsehood, women are...
	We wouldn't be here.
	Like, we wouldn't be here. We wouldn't be here.
	So... Women have evolved to know when men are lying to them.
	Absolutely, completely, totally and deeply, women have evolved to know when men are lying to them.
	Now, let's say that a woman wants to be loved for who she is.
	Yeah, women are people specialists and men are things specialists.
	Yeah, for sure. So how does a woman know if a man is really interested in her and not just sex?
	Women are extreme liars.
	Dave, try and pack the misogyny away for just a moment and learn things rather than be angry.
	Because if you have this opinion, you're just never going to find a quality woman.
	And you'll be right, lonely, bitter, and dead.
	Okay, so knock it off.
	Knock it off. Don't even say stuff like that.
	You know, I'm married to a wonderful woman.
	I have a wonderful daughter. You trash women in this chat, you can fuck off.
	Okay? Frankly. Just don't do it.
	Don't do it. Women are wonderful.
	Men are wonderful. There are dysfunctions we need to understand and explore them.
	Okay? Yeah.
	How does the woman know that the man is committed to her?
	The man is willing to wait to have sex.
	Right. Now, you understand the only reason we have any IQ is that women made men wait.
	Right? Yeah, put a ring on it.
	That's right. The only reason we have any intelligence at all is that women would not have sex with men who didn't have the capacity to defer gratification.
	Yeah, women are fantastic at gauging the sincerity of a man's actions.
	And it's very easy to do.
	I mean, in the old show, Sex and the City, the women are lonely and bitter and angry and broken and hurt.
	It's actually a Victorian morality tale.
	That whole show is a Victorian morality tale about what happens when women try to act like gay men and have sex with everything that moves.
	No man will commit to them because none of these women require a commitment.
	They attempt to screw their way into having a commitment.
	And seriously, it's an absolute Victorian morality tale.
	That's as clear as day.
	And this is like, yeah, coarse women, women who have sex with anything that moves, will have sex but won't get commitment.
	They'll get used for sex and dumped.
	And then the men will marry someone else.
	There was an episode where...
	A woman who had been friends with a guy for a long time invited him to come and stay with her when he was visiting New York in the hopes that he would fall in love with her.
	And he's known her for years.
	They are gross. No, they absolutely are gross.
	I mean, the shows are gross.
	Absolutely gross, for sure.
	But that's the point. Because they're villains, right?
	So it's like saying, you know, the orcs are ugly.
	It's like, yeah, yeah. It's a morality tale.
	So in the show, one of the women has this guy come and stay with her.
	her, she's known him for years, and he meets a friend of hers, falls in love with that
	friend and within 10 days or two weeks they get married, within a couple of weeks they
	get married.
	And so the women are all shocked because the women are, I think the Samantha woman is over
	40 but the other women are in their 30s and they're starting to look a little worse for
	Of course, right? And they're like Grand Central Station as far as the comings and goings of the trains or the tubes.
	And – They're shocked that they have been 15, 20, 25 years in the dating circuit and don't even have boyfriends, and a guy meets a woman and marries her within a month.
	Now, of course, what do they say?
	say, oh, the marriage won't last, blah blah blah.
	And this is the same woman who's very hostile to men, and then some bartender pursues her.
	He has sex with her and then pursues her.
	And they literally say it's an urban myth that a one-night stand can turn into a relationship.
	It's an urban myth. And it is.
	Of course it's an urban myth. Because a one-night stand is a guy who can't defer gratification.
	He won't defer gratification.
	We know this test, right?
	The marshmallow test. Kids, if you don't eat this marshmallow for 10 minutes, you get two, right?
	It's an IQ test. Oh, and by the way, they can actually determine IQ from a brain scan now.
	Yeah, that which was predicted, I think, on my show like 10 years ago.
	Yeah, they can do it now. They can determine your IQ with a brain scan.
	But it's all cultural.
	So, it's very easy.
	That wasn't the correct quote.
	Grand Central Station in terms of the comings and goings in the tubes.
	No, no, no. I had a better analogy than that.
	Grand Central Station in terms of the comings and goings of the trains in the tubes.
	It's better than just the tubes.
	It's an interesting twist that they're all super rich and can afford to live these casual lifestyles.
	Well, I mean, but they are – it's sort of an analogy for sex workers because you never actually really see them at work, right?
	One's a lawyer. One of them runs an art gallery.
	One of them runs a PR company.
	But you never see them work, of course.
	So, yeah, they just – I mean, it's satanic in that it's trying to lure people into...
	It's interesting because it's a medieval morality tale because they're trying to lure people in.
	Like, how do you lure people...
	Well how do you lure women into envying a lifestyle?
	How do you lure women into envying a lifestyle?
	It's not hard.
	I mean, men are easily programmed too, but how do you lure women into envying a lifestyle?
	Of course it completely disregards children, yeah.
	Well, what you do is you get skinny, pretty women going to fabulous parties in great outfits and cool shoes.
	Now, of course, to men, we look at these women wobbling around and we say that's completely ridiculous and impractical, but for women, I don't know what it is with women in shoes, but it's like semi-orgasmic for them to see some skinny-legged woman wobbling around in Manalo Blanix.
	I don't know why that is. I couldn't possibly explain it.
	I think that if you want to understand women's relationship to shoes on video, then it's the equivalent of when some guy in an action movie is strapping on his shoes You know, like there are all these scenes, he's putting on his bolo knife and his bowie knife and he's strapping all his ammunition on his chest and all of this sort of stuff, right?
	So that's like manly and I think that's women with shoes.
	I don't know why women want shoes more than children, but it is just a reality.
	No consequences to bad decisions.
	Well, no, there are consequences to bad decisions.
	There are consequences with bad decisions.
	Yeah, tools of the trade.
	There are consequences for bad decisions.
	They're all lonely, and the oldest woman is ending up dating guys in their 70s.
	Like the Samantha, the oldest character, ends up dating guys in their 70s.
	And she demands that they have sex with the lights off and she's going to have sex with him.
	And then she sees his old man's spotty liver hanging butt while he goes to the washroom and then she just pretends that she got a bad reaction to shellfish and gets out, right?
	Now, of course, nobody's getting STDs.
	There are no unwanted pregnancies.
	So there is that fantasy, of course, right?
	Which is that promiscuity is very often fatal.
	Very often fatal.
	Men give me extra attention when I'm wearing my Manolos.
	hmmm....
	Well, you know what the high heels are for, right?
	Do you guys know what the high heels are for?
	High heels are there to signal to men that you're sexually available and can't run away.
	Because it raises the butt, which is sexual access, and you can't run away, you can't get away.
	It's the equivalent of foot binding.
	It's to make you look like a sex slave.
	Makes your legs look great.
	Yeah, yeah, for sure, because it gives you that tadpole cough, right?
	Pushes out the boobs and the butt.
	Yeah. Yeah.
	No, but you can't run away, right?
	Sexually available, can't run away, which means you're a sex slave.
	Raising the butt to dick height.
	Yeah, could be. The Charlotte and the short hair one were unhappy.
	So Charlotte is...
	The character of Charlotte, and honestly, Kristen Davis is like one of the prettiest girls, at least in the 90s, was one of the prettiest girls who ever existed.
	In terms of that preppy waspy Hamptons thing, she was really just lovely and a great figure and all of that.
	So, she plays the wide-eyed innocent and she is a warning that you will be dragged down
	to the level of the company you keep.
	You can't work in high heels.
	Of course you can. Are you crazy?
	You've never seen a lawyer in high heels?
	Accountants? Come on. And prostitutes work in high heels.
	I'm not equating them all.
	I'm not equating them all. Yeah, so Charlotte could be better, but she's constantly being dragged down to the level of her friends.
	And, of course, Sex and the City is a giant warning to women that if all you have to offer is sex, then you'll never get a commitment, right?
	So there's a scene where I'm not proud to know all of this stuff.
	I'm just, you know, might as well be honest, right?
	But there's a scene where Carrie, the main character, sort of the tangled-haired Sarah Jessica Parker...
	She is supposed to cook for – I mean, it's literally – his name is Mr.
	Big, like the guy she's trying to – he's a 42-year-old man-child who's had threesomes and obviously is a sexual deviant and will never settle down.
	The fantasy is – I don't know what happens at the end because I never watched it all the way through.
	I assume that they – the fantasy is that somehow she gets married but she's too old to have kids and whatever it is, right?
	Yeah. So there's a scene where Carrie Bradshaw is cooking for Mr.
	Big. And any guesses as to what she cooks?
	What does she cook as the big meal for Mr.
	Big, right? Because she's showing off her homemaking skills, right?
	What does she cook for Mr.
	Big? This is like Sex and the City trivia.
	You all knew this was Kabigana philosophy, right?
	right sex in the city trivia high heels ruin my reason high heels signal
	High heels is an NPC signal as a whole.
	Cheese sandwich? No.
	Oysters? No. Cup of soup?
	No. Mac and cheese? No.
	And so she says, I made you a fondue.
	She says, I made you a fondue.
	And he says quite accurately, so you just heated up some cheese?
	And she feeds it to him and she says, it's terrible, isn't it?
	And he said, yes. Now can we go out for dinner?
	So she can't even heat cheese.
	Mr. Big pays her debts and buys her a penthouse in New York City.
	Well, of course, that's the fantasy of the golden vagina, right?
	That the vagina can generate money without having to provide children, right?
	It's a hack or a hijack of the principles of biology to not use your lust and sexual capacity to produce children, but rather to get a fucking penthouse.
	It's horrible. It's horrible.
	She ditched the good guy, the carpenter, who had a place upstate New York.
	Yeah.
	Yeah. I mean, it's a massive warning, right?
	And Carrie Bradshaw says at one point, I don't even feel like I'm really alive.
	I don't even feel like really alive.
	I don't see how people find useless women cute.
	What do you mean? I mean, the actors are all gorgeous.
	I mean, Cynthia Nixon is not exactly, but then I can't get past that Rick Astley haircut.
	But what do you mean?
	People find useless women cute.
	Because useless women you use for sex.
	No, not useless. You use them for sex, and then you go marry someone who's actually going to help you in your life.
	See these? Well, I mean, the degree to which women act like children in order to attract men is creepy beyond words.
	Of course, it's not all women, obviously, right?
	But... To the degree to which women put on childish voices and wear pigtails and try to imitate women.
	Even the high heels make a woman wobble like she's a toddler, right?
	It is taking neoteny to unholy levels.
	The degree to which some women will try to act like a child in order to attract a man is...
	I mean, any man who's attracted to that is...
	a monster, not even in the making, an already made monster.
	So, yes, women are not fooled by men.
	Women are not fooled by men.
	At the end, what I got from the show was that Carrie was careless and couldn't afford a
	Big liked her, so he rescued her from her own dysfunction.
	New York City is a rough place for women.
	There are twice the amount of single women as there are single men.
	Yeah. Right.
	So Carrie was careless because she has the fantasy that men will pay their bills, right?
	Why is it that women get these useless degrees and end up tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt?
	Because they are certain that men will pay off their debts, right?
	Of course. And you kind of have to, right?
	Taylor says, I remember, even as a 16-year-old, being able to judge good men from bad.
	Yeah, for sure. Even ponytails?
	What's that old meme?
	If your girlfriend is tying her hair in a ponytail, walking towards you and maintaining
	eye contact, you're either going to have a very good day or a very bad day.
	How can men make peace with using women for sex?
	Thank you.
	It's not good, and men shouldn't do that.
	But nature has so programmed both men and women that men propose sex and women say yes or no.
	I mean, you don't need me to tell you all these studies.
	Because the studies where an attractive woman goes up to a man in a hotel bar and says,
	uh, come up to my room for sex, like, the majority of men will do it, and almost no
	women will do it when it's an attractive man.
	So that's just the reality, right?
	So yeah, women are the gatekeepers of sex.
	Men are the gatekeepers of marriage, right?
	That's an old Samuel.
	I should really remember his name.
	But yeah, so these older women also try to cock block younger women from forming healthy relationships.
	Yes. Now, was it Candace Bushnell?
	She ended up... She was the original writer of Sex and the City.
	And she had terrible regrets in her 60s.
	No kids, no family.
	Single, lonely, isolated.
	I listened to Steph when he said not to complain for a week and it might have gotten me a store-managed job.
	Or at least a car. Oh, that's great.
	Kevin Samuels. Sorry, if I start with the wrong name, I'm toast.
	Thank you. So...
	Do you know why women choose badly?
	The reason that women choose badly is because they know that society will forgive them for choosing badly and will
	support them and prop them up It took me 20 years as this woman to render my own red flag
	guide for men because I didn't have good role models I had to figure it out from a slate with nothing but pop culture written on it.
	I appreciate that.
	I appreciate that. I really do, and I understand that.
	But... You knew that offering sex to men early on was a bad deal, was a bad idea.
	That you're trying to catch a bull with a whip made of fog, with a loose lariat made of fog.
	You're trying to catch fish by murmuring the word hook into the water, right?
	You know that it's not going to work, right?
	Kevin Samuels was somewhat hypocritical.
	Yes, yes he was. So, yeah, women make bad decisions because they know they're going to get away with it.
	This is back to...
	that the woman made as her excuse...
	the woman made as her excuse for having an affair that the man wasn't paying attention to her.
	Right? That's not a reason.
	So... if you choose a woman...
	Who doesn't have morals, then she'll do what she can get away with and she'll have arguments in your head and if she wins those arguments in her head, she'll do what she pleases as long as she can make up an excuse.
	So the best way to get a quality women is to hold women accountable.
	There's not some theoretical exercise here like, oh, let's hold women accountable.
	That's not a theoretical exercise.
	The way that you get a quality woman is you hold women accountable.
	You hold women accountable.
	I've always had this kind of urge and thought to hold women accountable, and I've talked about it even long before this show.
	And it's a great sorting mechanism, right?
	So when women give you excuses, you hold them accountable.
	And if they run away from that accountability you just saved yourself
	10 years of your life in divorce court.
	Somebody says actually when I started listening back in 2013 I was quite sad
	in my life because I'd chosen men who You helped me figure out my errors.
	But you didn't really want to figure out your errors at that point, or to put it another way, there were people benefiting from you not figuring out your errors because, well, let me ask you this, my good friend.
	Quick analysis of the last tango in Paris.
	I've talked about that before.
	You didn't do a call-in show with me, I assume, right?
	You didn't do a call-in show with me, right?
	So if you started listening in 2013, it says it took you about 10 years or whatever to sort it out.
	You took the long and slow and painful route, and I'm not sure why.
	I'm not sure why. Why would you?
	Why would you? You know, it's free.
	You've got time. It's two hours out of your life.
	It can help you. It can help other people.
	I don't, you know, I'm kind of frustrated sometimes with the number of people who end up in a disaster when they could have just called me.
	Could have sorted it out in two hours.
	Do the parents of horse girls know what they're doing?
	Like the girls who get into the hobby really young, these women seem to live and die for horses.
	So, pets are for people who can't handle people, or won't handle people, right?
	Pets is a way of getting the dopamine of pretending to have a relationship because you're destroying
	the natural life of the animal in order to harvest dopamine from its messed up attachment
	that you've hacked to point towards yourself rather than its own species, right?
	Thank you.
	You breed dogs to remain puppies.
	They stay bonded with you forever and that prevents them from having a family and you exploit that bonding in order to feel like you have a relationship.
	How physically attracted to each other were you and your wife when you initially met?
	I'm good friends with a girl who is perfect in many ways and extremely virtuous but I'm not the most physically attracted to her.
	I'm afraid I'm being really dumb.
	If I don't, go on to the next step and let her go.
	But I also don't want to end up wasting her time and hurting her.
	her. I end up never feeling that strong physical attraction.
	Let me ask you this, is she a healthy weight?
	No.
	.
	And you understand, when I criticize...
	Pets are fine.
	You've got to have things herd your sheep.
	They used to give, in the Navy in the Second World War, they used to give cats badges.
	Like they actually gave them military badges because you needed rats on, uh, cats on the, on the ship to deal with
	the rats on the ship, right?
	So when you talk about the reality of pet ownership and its dopamine harvesting by exploiting animals
	people get really angry Of course, right? Because you're interfering with their
	drug of choice, right?
	She's a fairly healthy weight, right.
	So she's a healthy weight.
	So she's virtuous. She's loyal.
	She's good. She's moral. And you're like, but she's not hot enough in some way that you like.
	She has asthma and some health issues, so she hasn't been able to exercise well, but she's not fat.
	Well, can you tell me a little bit about those health issues?
	Dogs used to protect herd animals and small children, now they are the children.
	Oh yeah, it's hard not to look at those Shih Tzus and like, they can barely even breathe and it's like, oh my gosh.
	That's really, something's gone very, very wrong.
	Well, and sorry, let's go back to Saxony City just while I get the health information.
	There's a scene where the bitter lawyer woman with the red hair...
	She buys an apartment, a big apartment, and she buys it alone.
	And she has to keep checking, single, alone, single, alone.
	And then an older woman, when she's moving in, says, oh, it's nice to see some young people around here.
	You know, the woman who owned this place, she was single too, and she died in the apartment.
	And, oh, it took her, it took them like a week to find out that she was dead.
	dead and by that time her cats had eaten half her face.
	And then she ends up getting scared into having a relationship because she's scared about that kind of outcome.
	But she keeps overfeeding.
	Miranda, yeah. She keeps overfeeding her cat, right?
	She keeps overfeeding her cat because she doesn't want her cat to eat that.
	She has a lot of allergies and asthma from nasal membranes, something like that.
	She wouldn't be able to tell unless she told you that.
	Is she going to be robust enough to have a bunch of kids if you want a bunch of kids?
	Is she going to be robust enough to have a bunch of kids?
	That was on Sex and the City.
	Oh yeah, no, I mean, I get there's a lot of trash talk about Sex and the City, and I agree with, of course, some of it, but I'm saying it's a straight-up Emily Post Victorian morality tale about what happens to women whose only value is in their sexuality.
	Probably. All right. Well, the ultimate deferral of gratification is to not give in to lust and to aim for equality.
	So I can give you the two-minute scenario.
	So you marry a woman for lust.
	She knows that you're doing it for sex and not particularly for her.
	She knows you're not a virtuous guy.
	She knows you're not particularly attracted to her virtue, but her tits or ass or whatever it is, right?
	Her face. So she holds you in contempt because you're lying to her, because you're not being honest with her.
	If you're being honest with her, you say, well, I don't really like you as a person, but I'm very sexually attracted to you, so let's try and make a life together.
	No, you have, oh, I love you, you're wonderful, I care.
	So she knows you're lying.
	She knows completely that you're lying.
	And so she's going to have nothing but contempt for you.
	you, her looks are gonna fade but the bitterness is gonna remain and you're fucked.
	The beauty fades, the bitterness remains, and you're fucked.
	.
	Your lust will pull you off a cliff, right?
	right? Lust is a sin. Lust for virtue, yes, should draw you towards a virtuous woman.
	Now see there are pretty women who could be great wives.
	There are pretty women who are great wives.
	That's hostility towards pretty women.
	A pretty woman who's wise knows that her looks will fade and knows that she should commit to virtue.
	If she knows that you're lying, why would she marry you?
	All right.
	If she knows that you're lying, why would she marry you?
	To get your stuff. Come on, man.
	Take your stuff. Take your stuff.
	How to get over addiction to physical beauty?
	Well, stop exposing yourself to it.
	Right? Stop looking at images, or at least reduce the amount of...
	I try not to look at physical ideal, right?
	I mean, it's not great, right?
	So yeah, you've got to cut down your exposure to it, right?
	Like, if you want to stop drinking, stop going to bars, right?
	Amen. I found one that doesn't need to wear makeup to get any man.
	She demanded evidence of virtue first.
	Yeah, personally, I think my wife has an absolutely fantastic figure, but when I wore her, she wore what she affectionately refers to as her tent, right?
	She didn't want to show off her figure because she didn't want to be chosen for her looks.
	Yeah, try to picture the woman as a mother.
	And if you want to cure lust, Go meet the woman's mother.
	You understand? There's a reason why you go meet the parents, right?
	Because you look at the woman and you look at her 30 years down the road.
	You get that fast forward, right?
	Go meet her mother and say, that's what I'm going to get.
	That's what I'm signing up for.
	I'm getting that. And there's going to be a whole lot more of that than this.
	So let's say you get married at 30.
	Well, the woman's looks are going to really fade in her mid to late 30s, particularly if she has kids, and then you've got another 50 years.
	So you get maybe 10 years of the great looks, and then you get 50 years of the not-so-great looks, right?
	What if they are virtuous but might have not been able to have kids due to health issues?
	I don't understand that.
	What if they're virtuous but might not be able to have kids due to health issues?
	Then if you want kids, don't marry them.
	And if you don't want kids, she might be perfect for you.
	I don't know what to say about any of that.
	I mean, come on. You'll see the woman's mom and you'll see a man's father's success.
	Also good to see how she interacts with little kids, yeah?
	Now, a woman who's very pretty and also very virtuous is real fine, because she knows how to handle power in a
	positive way.
	Oh, my mother was chased almost exclusively for her looks and her figure, and it was not good.
	That was really bad. It was really bad.
	Like a man who's inherited
	10 million dollars Who's like humble and virtuous and helpful and charitable
	and doesn't brag and doesn't show off is a really great guy, right?
	Thank you.
	Now, a lot of people who inherit $10 million...
	I'll turn into like weird Instagram kids who just brag and show off and make other people feel like...
	So, anyway. I did the same as your wife, covered up, didn't want that attention.
	Yeah, for sure. I just met the parents of a virtuous woman I'm interested in.
	As a father of a daughter, what are some things you would want to be looking for in a potential suitor?
	I'm not telling you that. I'm not telling you that, Nate.
	I'm not having you hack the parental stuff.
	I'm not having you hack or bypass the father's guardianship.
	No. No, no, no.
	Be yourself, man. I'm not going to give you the combo to that lock.
	Wife's ex-friend didn't tell her husband that she had fertility issues until four months into their relationship
	See that's not giving the man agency Thank you.
	That's not giving the man agency.
	If you want kids, what's the first thing, what's one of the first things you ask a woman
	you're dating if you want to get married and have kids?
	I really want to have kids.
	What about you? If she says, I do want to have kids and lies about the fertility issues, then that's bad.
	But if he didn't even ask, that's on him.
	Any reason to worry about fertility issues?
	I don't know about worry.
	10% of couples have some significant issues conceiving.
	I mean, it's a bit of a... I mean, some people, some couples get pregnant just by sharing a cup of coffee, right?
	But No.
	I mean, especially if it's an older woman, you can go and get tests.
	You understand, you can get fertility tests, right?
	I think there's FSH or something like that, right?
	So you can go and go to a doctor...
	Of course, as a man, you can go to a clinic and get your motility and sperm count checked, and as a woman, you can go and get some rough indicators.
	I'm not a doctor, obviously.
	You don't take any medical advice from me, but this is sort of my understanding, that you as a man can get checked for your fertility value, and a woman can also get checked for her fertility value.
	You could dissolve the marriage on fraud grounds if you can prove the lie.
	Steph, how come some people talk over kids like they're not in the same room?
	It bugs me a bit. Oh, man.
	My daughter's raged about that for years.
	And now she's almost 15, right?
	So she's, I don't know, 5'3 or something like that.
	So I should probably know that in great detail.
	She's like, I don't know, 105 pounds or something, right?
	So she, yeah, now she's getting attention.
	And I always used to have to, I'd be like the linebacker in a football game, right?
	I'd be like the linebacker in a football game.
	I'd have to like... No, no, no.
	She was talking. Let her finish her point.
	No, no, no. She was just in the middle of her story.
	I constantly have to block people from talking over my daughter.
	It's crazy. It's crazy, man.
	It's crazy. But not as crazy as the paucity of donations on this very valuable show.
	My dad married and divorced his first wife due to her not wanting kids.
	He didn't ask or talk about kids with her for four years of dating.
	But that's lust. Right?
	That's lust. The lust is, well, this woman's really hot.
	She's having sex with me. I don't want to ask about kids because if she doesn't want to have kids, it's going to interfere with my sexual excess.
	Anthony, if you could do me a favor and just hold off on trying to meet women in the live stream, I'd appreciate that.
	It's a little distracting for people.
	And you're asking her to not listen to what I'm talking about and deal with you.
	So if you could appreciate, I appreciate it if you could avoid that.
	I would rather have people be able to focus on what I'm talking about.
	All right, so let's get to some other questions and issues that people have posted.
	Sorry, I know it's a bit of a delayed thing.
	All right. So, yes, 10 hours a day, your fiancé cheats on you.
	She only cheated on you because she knew that you would ask for advice, right?
	Which means that you did not date a moral woman.
	Jared says, thank you for the huge insights.
	Good reminder for myself.
	Post jab. I don't know what that means.
	Good reminder for myself. Post jab.
	Oh, to get fertility checked.
	Yeah, yeah. I appreciate that.
	that thank you for your very very kind support.
	I had a rant but it's been a long show.
	I'll save it for the next one. About obesity as a disease.
	Anyway, so...
	You have taken excuses from your girlfriend, and therefore she knows that you will excuse her behavior, and because she doesn't have internal standards, she does what she gets away with.
	Most people are like...
	You ever go to those water parks where they have these big giant buckets of water they fill up and then they spill over?
	So most people, they just, they're like water going down a mountainside.
	They just, whatever, it's the easiest path, the path of least resistance, they don't, that's it.
	And you've been a path of least resistance, so she ran all over you because she knew she could, because you let her do it, because you chose her for morals.
	You didn't choose her for morals, you chose her for some other reason.
	So this is your lesson of what happens if you If you choose a woman for some reason other than her integrity and her virtue, then you're going to have to be a continual enforcer and you're going to run out of steam at some point, so don't do it.
	All right. A few weeks ago in a podcast, you said in passing, can't remember about whom, but he's French, so everything he says is therefore suspect.
	I'm sure it's half-joking. I'm curious about what inspired it.
	For that, you can listen to the French Revolution, wherein I talk about some contemporary French virtues.
	Or you can look up a fellow named Frédéric Mitterand, M-I-T-T-E-R-A-N-D, F-R-E-D-E-R-I-C-K, Frédéric Mitterand.
	Who was the cousin of the socialist premier François Mitterand, and you can look up Frédéric Mitterand.
	So, yeah, you can do that, and then you can look at how many French intellectuals are pushing for truly obscene lowerings of the age of consent, and then you can...
	And you can also look at where, say, Roman Polanski, after sexually assaulting a girl, where he fled to, and how many people cheered him there.
	All right. What's people's obsession with the concept of karma?
	Would you consider karma mysticism?
	Karma is the idea that you don't have to enforce moral standards.
	The universe is going to do it for you.
	It's a lazy, off-shrugging of your actual, complete, total and deep moral responsibility to enforce moral standards in your own society, community, family, friendship, group, marriage, parenting, whatever, right?
	You have to enforce moral standards.
	Enforce moral standards. No, I don't have to do it.
	It's karma, you know, because if I believed in a religion, I'd have to enforce moral standards.
	So, I don't want to believe there aren't any moral standards.
	I'm going to, you know, half of enforcing moral standards is a deep, thirsty lust for vengeance, which is a beautiful thing in society.
	The lust for vengeance is a wonderful thing, not violent vengeance, unless it's in the extremity of self-defense and so on, and you don't want to lie or false or fraud, but...
	Yeah, the lust for vengeance is a very good and healthy thing in society, and so vengeance is when you hold people morally accountable and you try and work to help expel people who are unredeemably amoral or immoral from your circle, from your whoever, right? And so people don't want the moral responsibility of following a religion.
	They don't want to enforce moral standards themselves.
	So they get bullshit, boneless, and lazy, and they fog it off onto atoms.
	The atoms will enforce the moral standards.
	For people who are going to pay, I don't need to do anything.
	It's just going to happen for the man.
	It's just lazy nonsense that debilitates people and makes society worse as a whole.
	All right. I can have great rapport, like Michael Rapaport.
	I can have great rapport with unavailable women.
	Having the same level of comfort around available women who I'm interested in is a challenge.
	George Costanza syndrome. Why can't I act the same around women I like as you do around women I don't like?
	Well, how is karma different than the evildoers who will be punished by their conscience?
	Well, evildoers are punished by their conscience, but you want to make it conscious for the evildoers, right?
	You understand? Evildoers are like 30 seconds away from hell, right?
	Like 30 seconds away from hell.
	And everybody withholding that from them.
	Because evildoers will be punished by their conscience, but they tend to withdraw, so they don't act as examples.
	If you publicly call out evildoers and people see their spiral and collapse, then they act as warnings to others.
	So that's good.
	And empiricism, right? Of course, I mean, gosh, I don't even know what to say.
	Of course, you act differently around somebody's grandmother than you do around an attractive young woman who's single.
	Of course you do, because the grandmother, her rejection means nothing to you and probably won't happen if you're reasonable, whereas you fear rejection from the young available woman, right?
	And there's only one way...
	That you can overcome the fear of rejection.
	There's only one way to do it.
	I think, have I talked about this before?
	I'm sure I have. To get over the fear of rejection.
	Trust me, over the course of my public career as an intellectual and philosopher, I've had a little bit of rejection to process.
	Just a little bit of rejection to process.
	Still going on, in fact.
	Still going on. I still get disavowed.
	So, yes... It's pretty easy to get over rejection, though.
	I don't think I'm tortured by rejection.
	Get rejected a lot? Nope.
	No. No, that's like saying the way to get over PTSD is to do a lot of war.
	It's like, no, that can often make it worse.
	Getting rejected a lot can make it, right?
	How do you feel about blocking people on social media platforms?
	There's nothing wrong with that. I mean, if you have a pool party and somebody wants to pee in the pool, do you let them do it?
	No. Best take on karma I've ever heard.
	Thank you. It's worth eight bucks.
	All right. Well, that's good.
	I'm glad. I'm glad it was helpful.
	So, um, I'm not really getting any...
	Isn't it a dance between the reproductive instinct, lust, and pair-bonding virtue?
	Be the best you can be.
	No. God.
	No, no.
	It's Jeff. It's Jeff.
	The way to get over rejection is to be judgmental as fuck.
	Just be judgmental as fuck.
	.
	Judge people. Judge people.
	Right? Judge.
	Right? So, I mean, if there's some woman and she claims to be an intellectual or whatever, ask her a couple of intellectual questions.
	Right? If there's a woman who claims to be well-read, ask her a couple of – there's this funny video online about this guy asking – like saying to women, like, you're just not – you're not intelligent.
	You don't read any books, right?
	And then he asks them about the Game of Thrones.
	They give the wrong title. What book did you read?
	Game of Thrones. What's the title of it?
	She doesn't – I think it's Song of Fire and Ice or something, but she gets that wrong and she's just like, no, I just – like you're just not intelligent, right?
	Oh yeah, if the woman's into psychic phenomenon or horoscopes or whatever it is, right?
	Horoscopes is halfway to witchism, Satanism and so on, right?
	So yeah, you just judge people.
	Evaluate them. That dude was like 15.
	He embarrassed that Western girl.
	Yeah, and he was from the Middle East or something like that.
	Yeah, name 10 books. Name 10 books.
	Yeah. Some woman is like, oh, what have you been reading lately?
	I mean, I've read six million books on the French Revolution and whatever, right?
	So, what have you read lately?
	And you know that pause, and you can see them just making stuff up, right?
	He was Muslim, educated, not afraid of women.
	Yeah, yeah. And girls with crystals.
	Oh, my God. Yeah.
	So, I love Game of Thrones.
	Yeah. A lot of female fans of Game on Thrones.
	Yeah. So, you just evaluate, right?
	You just evaluate. Like, when you're going to go for a job interview, you're not begging for a job.
	You're seeing if you want to work there.
	Ask Jared anything about Napoleon.
	He's all in it, right? So, many of these things, occult hobbies, are considered dangerous by the Catholic Church, and rightly so.
	Have you ever touched a Ouija board after the age of 15?
	Bye-bye. Right? No, just evaluate people.
	Most people are bullshitting.
	Most people are pretending. Most people don't have any particularly deep value to offer a moral man or a woman.
	So you just... I have a stupid love for dragons.
	Yeah. Dragons are cool.
	That's not bad.
	Dragons are genuinely cool, in my opinion.
	Because they represent a kind of fierceness and a kind of strength and so on that is actually kind of necessary in the world, right?
	And, you know, dragons come from when people didn't know they were dinosaurs but found giant bones, right?
	Yeah, witchcraft starts in stages, tarot cards, mediums playing with fire.
	Yeah. So, yeah, J-A-F. You want to be, like, you've probably never been in the position where you are...
	Somebody with a lot of money and people want you to invest in various crazy schemes, right?
	Like, you know, 30% of people who win the lottery end up completely broke, right?
	Because what happens? They make a lot of money and all these people come in.
	I got this great business idea.
	I'm going to import emus and use them in Orlando as a ride and then after they get too old, we can turn them into burgers.
	It's going to be a ride emu burger place and whatever nonsense they've got going on and they just want your money, right?
	right? I want your money, your money. So if you're an investor you say no 99 times
	out of a hundred.
	Does that does that make sense?
	You are If I can't convince you that you have great value just by being on this live stream, I don't know what you're doing here, honestly.
	If I can't convince you that you have great value by being on this live stream, I mean, curious, intelligent, receptive, coachable, deep thoughts, deep virtues, deep curiosity, deep value.
	I mean, if you don't know that you have value just being on this live stream, I don't know what to tell you.
	I mean, that's your choice.
	I'm telling you, you have value.
	I keep telling you guys you're the top 1% and I'm not just blowing smoke up your ass.
	Like, this is just a fact. I've been around this a long time before.
	I've been around the world a lot.
	I've done a lot of great things in my life.
	I've been all over the world. I've met all kinds of people.
	You guys are the best. This is why I do live streams and not recorded shows for the most part, right?
	Because you guys are fantastic.
	You provoke great thoughts. To me, that killer thing on Friday was just a banger and a half because of great questions from the audience.
	and so you guys are the best people to spend time with outside of family and friends.
	My donut shop story always cracks me up.
	you I remember that one. Yesterday was the first day I felt like a 10 out of 10.
	Thank you, Steph. Are you excited by movies about toy dolls?
	Have you ever seen a Saw movie?
	How do you feel with feeling bad for saying no to a woman?
	Alright? So, I will give you an analogy.
	You are Warren Buffet or Peter Thiel or some giant investor dude, right?
	And some guy comes to you with a bad business idea, right?
	And he's like, man, I'm ready to work 18 hours a day.
	I'm ready to mortgage my house.
	I'm going to neglect my family.
	I'm just all in on this.
	I'm going to make cardboard out of seawater, right?
	And you say no to him.
	Are you being cruel? Are you being cruel by saying no to this guy?
	Oh, the donut, that donut, sorry, yeah, yeah.
	He didn't, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	So, are you saying no to someone when you tell them that whatever they're proposing is not quality?
	Now, if you, if some woman wants to go out with you, I mean, I remember, oh gosh, many years ago, a woman very much wanted to go out with me.
	In fact, she manufactured a story, I think in hindsight, she manufactured a story about being in desperate straits and then wanted to sleep on my couch and whatever, whatever, I won't get into the whole story.
	And then she was a publisher and she offered to publish one of my novels, which of course was one of my greatest novels.
	Desires at the time, published one of my novels, but, you know, it was kind of implied that I'd have to go out with her, right?
	Now, I mean, obviously it wasn't, and she was, you know, attractive, a woman, but that's just such a desperate level of insecurity and indirectness that I just, I mean, it wasn't going to work out.
	Plus, you know, it's kind of gross to take somebody's greatest thirst and desire and use it to try and manipulate them into going out with you.
	It just wasn't going to work out.
	So, And this happened another time where a woman offered to get one of my first plays produced on the radio, but I kind of had to go out with her, and just say no, right?
	And it would be very cruel to say yes, even if these considerations weren't in place.
	It would be very cruel to say yes, because it wouldn't work out anyway, and you're just wasting her time.
	And it's also dangerous because if you say yes, if you're like, if you're a 10 and she's a 6, and I just mean in terms of moral quality or whatever quality you want to say, if you're a 10 and you, oh, I don't want to say no, well, then the problem is women can get very addicted to highest status guys.
	And if you say no then, and you've wasted her time, she's going to get very bitter and you could have a serial stalker in your hand.
	You could have a real bunny boiler, right?
	You're not doing people any good.
	Oh, thank you for the tip of coins.
	I appreciate that. You're not doing people any good by feeding their delusions, right?
	You're not. Not at all. You're not at all.
	I mean, in your head you say, like, it would be cruel.
	You have to find someone at your own level.
	Like, you have to find someone at your own level or it won't last.
	And if you're a high level and you don't want to say no to a woman, just say, you know, yeah, it hurts in the moment, so what?
	You go to the dentist, sometimes it hurts when they scrape your teeth, but so what?
	Yeah, don't waste your time.
	And don't, you will also be poisoning her, right?
	Because let's say you're a 10 and she's a 6 and you date her for a couple of months and then you dump her.
	What does she think now? Oh, I can get a 10!
	So what's she going to do? She's going to waste her time.
	And now, the sixes, which is her level, the sixes are going to look ugly to her because she's like, oh, I can get a ten.
	In the same way, if you over-consume beautiful women, then normal-looking women look ugly to you.
	It's like your beauty exposure is worse than heroin in many ways.
	You go to heroin and then just feeling normal feels like hell.
	You over-expose yourself to beauty, then normal-looking people look like hell.
	Right? Right? That's why you should only listen to my shows, not watch them, because otherwise I'm completely distorting your ideal of male gorgeosity.
	All right, just kidding. No, I'm not.
	No, I am. No, but not really.
	A bit, a little. No.
	Yes. The pendulum continues to loop like an over-ambitious child on a swing.
	Dong! Goes the head. All right.
	Let's see here another question or two before the end of the day
	Let's see here. Oh, yeah, the woman has no interest in sex in modern
	She's fretting and fighting with the kids, right?
	She's fighting with the kids because she's not getting laid.
	Do you guys also know that...
	Do you know what the pill does to women's sense of safety?
	Right? Right? I mean, this is the migrant crisis.
	This is voting in all of the DAs who let criminals out.
	Do you know what the pill does to women's sense of security or sense of safety?
	So the pill, the birth control pill, artificially suppresses a woman's sense of danger.
	I don't understand the mechanics by it and you could look it up.
	But yeah, the birth control pill artificially suppresses women's sense of danger.
	So this is why women think they're tougher than they are.
	This is why women get all drawn into these, well, I mean, Fifty Shades of Grey is a woman
	not having a sense of danger, right?
	Because this guy's a psycho who likes to injure women for sexual pleasure.
	So she loses a sense of danger.
	All the superhero movies where the women can take on ten cops and beat up everyone known to man.
	There are no feminine women in Baldus Gates, right?
	So women lose their sense of danger when they're on the pill.
	So, this is also why they would have casual sex and they're sort of looking for Mr.
	Goodbar stuff, why they tend to underestimate the dangers of unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases.
	The pill just messes up women's sense of danger.
	So, if I was a woman, I'd be terrified of those pills.
	They can be a challenge.
	I asked a question at the top.
	Yes, let me just take five minutes to find it.
	I don't know why people don't just...
	Listen, if you're going to ask a question, come on, you guys are smart, right?
	I mean, I'm going to hold you accountable for this.
	If you're going to ask a question, you know it's a constant stream of hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of questions, right?
	If you're going to ask a question, type it out in Notepad, copy and paste it.
	Also, it helps if you do a tip with it, because what I can do is I can click on View Tipped, and I can see all the people who've tipped and their questions.
	So that can be helpful.
	Or you just keep it in Notepad, and if I don't answer it, you can repost it.
	And Milo Yiannopoulos on Breitbart many years ago wrote a whole article that's worth reading about the birth control
	pill.
	Body distortions are also a red flag for both men and women.
	Amen.
	Yeah, the pill changes what women feel attractive.
	When women get off the pill mid-marriage, it can really turn it on their head.
	Oh, yeah. Yeah.
	Yeah, for sure. I mean, it's perpetual pregnancy.
	It's a very strange state for women to be in.
	Alright, last question or two.
	Any last tips? I would massively appreciate that.
	If a woman is virtuous but overweight, I feel guilty for rejecting her because I feel like I'm prioritizing looks of virtue.
	That is not a fact.
	That is not a fact.
	Now, it depends. Some women are just a little heavier, whatever.
	I mean, I'm thinking like the sort of Irish women who can wrestle pigs or whatever, right?
	So some women are – not all women are skinny, and too skinny is not good.
	So, all right, here we go.
	The purpose of marriage is the production of virtuous children, right?
	The purpose of marriage is the production of virtuous children.
	Now, if you marry a woman who is fertile but not virtuous, you will get the children, but they won't be virtuous, right?
	If you get a woman who's virtuous but who can't have children, you can't fulfill the fundamental purpose of marriage.
	Again, you can have marriage. It doesn't matter.
	You can get married when you're older.
	You can get married if you don't want kids or you're infertile.
	But that's the central purpose of marriage.
	Right? Thank you.
	The central purpose of marriage, right, is the production of virtuous children.
	That's why it exists.
	Certainly from a philosophical standpoint, that's why it exists.
	Now, if the woman is obese...
	What's the problem?
	If the woman is obese, what's the problem?
	If the woman is obese, what's the problem?
	Thanks for watching!
	Her fertility is reduced significantly.
	And also women who are obese and pregnant will give birth to children who have a far greater susceptibility to becoming obese themselves.
	And obesity for women is like...
	A lack of gratification signal for a man, right?
	Like a man who, I don't know, smokes weed and doesn't have a job is just not willing to sacrifice any present pleasure for future gain.
	So a woman who is overweight has prioritized short-term happiness over long-term health, right?
	Yeah, I mean, you understand that as IQ falls, obesity increases because IQ and obesity are inversely correlated.
	Now, there's such a thing as too thin.
	Of course, too thin is also bad for fertility and so on.
	So there's a happy medium, right?
	A mid. So, if a woman is overweight, then that's a signal of a lack of capacity to delay gratification as a whole, right, in general.
	And you can find some exceptions, you know.
	Could be genetics.
	Nope. No.
	No, genetics is height.
	But there's no genetics that can produce fat out of absent calories, right?
	Do you follow? There's no genetics that can produce fat out of absent calories.
	Do you follow? That's physics, that's energy, that's biology.
	There is no genetics that can produce fat out of absent calories.
	Now, there are some people who are more disposed to gaining weight.
	I'm a little bit more disposed to gaining weight, so I have to really watch what I eat.
	I was reading this guy on Twitter who's like, yeah, you know, I'm tall and I'm slender and I weigh the same as I did when I was younger.
	And what that means is that I just have the most boring diet known to man.
	And he listed off his diet and yeah, it was like, I've read that diet and I half went to sleep.
	Eat less, move more. There's no genetics that if you're hungry and you exercise, the calories have to come from somewhere.
	You can't just make them up.
	They don't just spawn in.
	in, they don't beam into your body.
	A woman who's overweight and a man who's overweight is clearly willing to settle for lower quality
	characters, lower quality partners because that's the price of being significantly overweight
	is you get a lower quality partner.
	And it's like, well, I won't interfere with your choice to have a lower quality partner.
	Now, I get that, you know, there are some people who have great physiques even if they don't particularly exercise and they can eat whatever.
	I mean, there's a few people, right? I get all of that, right?
	So, all men are not created equal in their ability to have abs, right?
	I get that. But in terms of being a healthy weight, again, people can correct me if I'm wrong, and I'm no nutritionist, but as far as I understand it, this is just a fact of physics, that energy has to come from somewhere.
	If it doesn't come from food, it comes from fat.
	and the body cannot create fat with no calories to supply it.
	Listen to the doctors on these obesity shows.
	It takes an insane amount of calories to maintain that weight.
	Oh, yeah. Avocado, whatever his name was, started off as a skinny guy on YouTube and ended up obese.
	And you should see what the guy ate.
	It was unbelievable. Unbelievable.
	It's unbelievable. I met a woman some time ago who's fairly good looking, or she would be if she put on some muscle on her bones, but she eats like a chipmunk.
	She has terrible parents. I got that from talking to her.
	She seems to have no self-knowledge and she's got a look of inconsolable sadness in her beautiful blue eyes.
	I got her number easily, but I never called it.
	I'm still wondering if I should give her a better chance to tell her story.
	Well, I mean, this is a tough question, which is if you're attracted to a woman, can you help her in terms of self-knowledge?
	Why does everyone say it's because of hormones and medication?
	I never saw one fat person admit they eat too much.
	Oh yeah, I worked once with a guy who was easy 400 pounds.
	We'd go for lunch to discuss business matters and he'd order like a half row of sushi and it was just like, no.
	No. Mom tells me I'm too skinny because I'm 6'1", 165 pounds.
	Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I'm just a shade under six foot and I'm in the low 190s.
	And some of it's muscle, but I'm going to drop another 10.
	I just, I want to live even longer and I'm just, I'm working on it right now.
	In fact, I haven't eaten anything since, oh gosh, it's 20 hours.
	Yeah, I mean, I'm fine.
	I'm fine. I'm fine.
	I'm fine. Jowly stuff, right?
	I can eat my jowls.
	I can snack on my ass.
	Ass snack. Ass burger.
	That's my meal today.
	I once observed a surgeon tell his patient who complained of being fat and she didn't eat, tell her, Lady, you didn't get fat by eating nothing.
	Yeah. That's, uh...
	Yeah, and of course, people will tell you you're too skinny and blah, blah, blah, right?
	But you understand, you don't see old fat people.
	Like, you just don't. Do you see 90-year-olds who are obese?
	You don't. You don't.
	You know, it's like, uh...
	When I had a friend who was a smoker many years ago, he said, I'm happy when I see old smokers.
	I'm like, yeah, but what about all the old smokers you don't see?
	Because they're dead, right?
	Yeah, I don't know if you can help.
	Can you help a woman who is...
	Can you...
	Can you help...
	Someone you're attracted to psychologically.
	I think, you know, go for a coffee with her and ask her about her childhood and maybe give her some tips on some, I don't know, maybe honesty and mentally healthy practices and so on.
	But because there's a mixed motive, it can be a challenge.
	I have seen fat old people, but they look miserable.
	Okay, how old though?
	60, maybe 70?
	Not 90. Almost never, right?
	Almost never. I was a child in the 90s, says Michelle, when skinny was in.
	As a woman, though, fertility is highest with a little more body fat.
	Yeah, I knew a woman who dieted so much that her doctor warned her she was in danger of becoming infertile.
	So, yeah. Yeah, I mean, happy medium, right?
	Happy medium. For me, it's because I do racket sports and I want to be able to move in a more agile fashion.
	Because racket sports are a lot about changing direction.
	So I want to be able to change direction more easily.
	I don't want to worry about butt muscles or thigh muscles or calf muscles or whatever, right?
	Look at the high school photos or beach photos from 1984.
	We were healthy for the most of our history.
	Ah, yes, well, of course, but there were a lot of smokers back then too, right?
	A lot of smokers back then.
	And there was a movement in the classroom, right?
	And of course, neighborhoods were safer, so children roamed, right?
	Now there's this fear that comes out of diversity, as we know.
	You can look at the Putnam studies for all of that stuff.
	Bowling Alone is the book. So diversity reduces social trust.
	And of course, not having fathers around.
	Single mothers are much more worried about their kids.
	They keep them home. They're worried about the other, the stranger, and so on.
	And so kids stay home. All I did as a kid was move.
	That's all I did as a kid was move.
	Steph, why do people look so older back then?
	Lack of sunscreen, smoking, that kind of stuff, right?
	So... Low-cal, high-nutrient density with three to four days exercise a week is good.
	What's best is whatever you can sustain.
	Whatever you can sustain.
	Now, you have to give yourself time to sustain it, right?
	When I first stopped eating candy and stopped having desserts, I'll maybe have a dessert once every two months maybe.
	It took a while. It felt incomplete.
	The meal felt incomplete without dessert, but you just have to kind of get through it.
	Whatever you can sustain is good.
	Thanks for your shows about the French Revolution.
	Thanks, Tim. Part 6 and 7 especially made me realize why I never learned much about them before.
	Because if what happened then was more widely known, we'd be a lot more alert in the present.
	Having trouble with the tip function on the app, but we'll do so later.
	Thank you. Appreciate it.
	Is Worldwide Morality a bad title for a book or a blog?
	Again, Anthony, I can't tell you what to do, but if I were in your shoes, I'd just work on myself to increase and enhance stability and not worry so much about the world.
	Take time, focus on yourself.
	Don't worry about having a mission out there in the world.
	All of that is taking you away from yourself.
	And it's the old get the oxygen mask on yourself before you turn to help others in the plain deoxygenation scenario.
	And again, I can't tell you what to do, but if I were in your shoes, I'd work more on myself.
	Then try to help save the world and so on.
	Obviously, it's your choice, but that would be my particular approach.
	Have you seen the Brian Johnson guy who's trying to reverse aging?
	He takes 100 pills a day.
	I haven't. I generally enjoy exercise.
	I don't love it when I'm doing it, but I just feel so good afterwards.
	Like yesterday, I did 45 minutes weights and 35 minutes of hard cardio.
	And it just feels good afterwards.
	It just feels good afterwards.
	So, all right.
	Any last tips for our chat today?
	And I want to make sure I get to my last list of questions.
	Kind of rude if you did ask, right?
	My gosh, did I get through them?
	I think I did.
	So yes, takeaways.
	Please, please, please check out my books, freedomain.com slash books to check out the free books.
	I really would recommend my novels.
	I don't know which one to start with.
	It depends whether you like historical or contemporary, but I would check that out.
	Sports is a fun form of exercise.
	Yeah. Yes, it is.
	Yes, it is. So, freedomand.com slash donate.
	If you're listening to this later, if there are any last tips to come in today, I would massively, gratefully, deeply, humbly appreciate it.
	And yeah, go out and evaluate the heck out of people.
	You don't have to do it in a mean way, but just be skeptical.
	Be skeptical of the value that anyone has to offer you.
	There's nothing wrong with that.
	Be skeptical of the value that anyone has to offer you.
	Doesn't mean you're hostile. It doesn't mean you're hostile to them, but it does mean that you're skeptical.
	I'm skeptical. Like, when I get an email, am I skeptical that it is going to be of significant benefit to me?
	Am I skeptical? I mean, I obviously get a lot of emails.
	Am I skeptical? I mean, here's the thing.
	The last analogy I'll leave you with.
	All right. Automatically put people in your spam folder.
	Everyone who comes to you and wants something from you or wants to give you advice, they're in the spam folder.
	Put them in the spam folder.
	Now, every now and then it's worth reviewing a spam folder, but you're very skeptical of the value of Oh, do you have bad news for me and you've hacked my devices and found all my research on the French Revolution?
	Right, so when people are like, you can get new window blinds, you need to verify your password for X, Y, and Z, your mailbox is on...
	Like, do you think that's true?
	Do you think that's true?
	No! Now, every now and then, could something have ended up in your spam folder that's important?
	Yeah, so you know every couple of days it might be worth doing a quick scroll through and and see right
	Everyone for me starts off in the spam folder And that's fine. Look, I'm perfectly willing to show up in the spam folder for other people too, right?
	There's this guy on the internet who blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, right?
	Yeah, everyone starts in the non-notification inbox.
	Of course, you've got important emails.
	You flag them and you put them in their own folders and stuff like that.
	But to me, everyone new is in the spam folder.
	Now, I'm not hostile to the spam folder.
	it's fine, but probably not more than 1 in 100 things that end up in the spam folder
	has any value, right? Spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam lovely spam wonderful
	spam spam.
	Anyway, so spam. Spam until proven worthy.
	Yeah. Move to inbox, not spam.
	Please be sparing with that.
	Please be sparing with that.
	I mean, I once had a massively important email show up in the spam folder.
	I'm like incredibly glad that I got it.
	And, you know, so yes, every now and then, right?
	But seriously...
	Everyone is spiced ham.
	You're not seeing people.
	You're seeing tins of spiced ham grabbing at you.
	There's your sleep demon dream for tonight.
	Tins of spiced ham just yanking at you and grabbing at you and trying to drag you down to the spammy depths of inconsequentiality.
	Don't forget to like the stream.
	That's right. Yes, everyone...
	Everyone is a Nigerian prince.
	That's right. Everyone is a Nigerian prince.
	Now maybe, just maybe, there is a Nigerian prince who has money for you.
	But it's okay to have a pretty high bar.
	Like if people really want my attention, sometimes what I'll do is just ignore them.
	And if they really want my attention, what will they do?
	They'll email me again. Right?
	Okay, now it's important.
	But if it's like, oh, I really need something from you, right?
	I'll just leave it live for a couple of days.
	If they don't email me again, it's like, well, I guess it wasn't that important.
	Yeah.
	Yeah. Honestly, I mean, it's a good filter mechanism because time is valuable and you want to apply your resources to the people most likely to grow and change or at least to be an example of the dangers of not growing and changing, which is some of the call-ins.
	But honestly, just persistence is key.
	If you give up after the first try, it wasn't worth investing any time in you.
	Honestly, it wouldn't, right?
	Go watch the movie Wall Street.
	Like, look at what... The main character does to try and get the attention of Gordon Gekko, like shows up like every week with a cigar and just keeps doing it.
	He's persistent. That's why he gets in.
	He just showed up once and talked to Gordon Gekko.
	He's busy. Okay, bye. And he never comes back.
	Why would Gordon Gekko want to motivate someone who has no capacity to show persistence?
	Be a stalker. No, I'm just kidding, right?
	So, yeah. Everyone spam until proven otherwise.
	Right-click, move to inbox is a very rare thing.
	And when you meet a pretty girl...
	Yeah, spam until proven otherwise.
	When you meet a handsome man, any job worth working, you apply for at least twice.
	Yeah, of course.
	Do you know how persistent I had to be to get anyone to take any notice of the show at the beginning?
	I spent the first 90% of my career Trying to get people's attention, and then I spent the last 10% trying to avoid people's attention.
	It's funny how that works, but it is, in fact, a fact.
	All right. Thanks, everyone, so much for a great day.
	We'll see you guys Wednesday night.
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	If someone doesn't respond to me, I assume they aren't interested and I don't want to bother them.
	Okay. Then it wasn't that important to you.
	It wasn't that important to you.
	Okay. I want you to think of this.
	Think of this. You want to understand this?
	Think of this. Okay. You're in the ocean.
	There are sharks around.
	There's a plane flying low overhead.
	Do you wave at them just once?
	Okay, well, I guess I don't want to bother them.
	They're probably on some flight plan.
	They've probably got some place to be.
	I don't want to, right? I don't want to bother them.
	It's like, I don't want to intrude.
	Okay, well then, no! You'd scream at the top of your lungs.
	You'd splash as much water as you humanly could and you'd try and get their attention because it's really fucking important to you.
	Right? This over-conciliation, I don't want to bother people and so on.
	It's like, no, that's just straight out of family.
	That's straight out of family. That's I don't want to bother my parents because they get angry whenever I ask for attention.
	That's the neglected child's mollusking and snake-eating its own tail up your own ass, trying to vanish out of existence so that you don't bother people.
	And also it's saying that my persistence is a bother.
	It's not a bother. Persistent people are great because they're worth investing in.
	Give a man a why. He can bear almost any house.
	It's not important enough to you.
	Now, if it's not important to you, don't bother them in the first place.
	But if it is important to you, keep bothering them until you get an answer.
	All right. That's it.
	Thanks, everyone, so much. Have yourselves a wonderful day.

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