Wednesday Night Live 8 May 2024Join me in this episode as I share updates on the Peaceful Parenting audiobook release, discuss reading preferences, and highlight the importance of handling feedback effectively. We explore the dynamics of online comments, power dynamics, and reciprocity in relationships. Emphasizing integrity, personal responsibility, and value exchange, we engage in thought-provoking discussions and touch on various topics from physics to cultural reflections. This interactive episode offers gratitude for audience engagement, light-hearted moments, and reminders about donations and upcoming shows.EVERYONE who donates in May gets a copy of the eBook and Audiobook of PEACEFUL PARENTING!Help save the world...https://www.freedomain.com/donateJoin the PREMIUM philosophy community on the web for free!Get my new series on the Truth About the French Revolution, the Truth About Sadism, access to the audiobook for my new book 'Peaceful Parenting,' StefBOT-AI, private livestreams, premium call in shows, the 22 Part History of Philosophers series and more!See you soon!https://freedomain.locals.com/support/promo/UPB2022
Hello, hello, and good evening, and welcome to your peaceful parenting.
I still have, you know, this is the longest little kind of phlegmy throaty thing I've had.
It's been like, it's my third week, but that's alright.
No, no problem.
No problem.
We are now the 8th of May, 2024, and I have done the Peaceful Parenting book.
The audiobook is out.
It's 23 hours.
The 700 or 800 page book is out.
And remember, you don't have to read it all.
I would say read the theory for sure.
Read the practice.
All of the detailed scientific stuff is not super essential.
Somebody says, it's a big book and excellent writing.
I just seem to have a short term focus issue on how I miss the days.
Oh, how I miss the days of reading books more.
Yeah.
Well, we've been trained out of reading books, right?
We've been trained out of reading books.
I've been reading a very interesting book called Sisters of Secrets, because I'm going to do a true crime and I really want to get the background research on it.
And it's tough, you know, I'm so trained to like fragmented Twitter brain, right?
That get in the long flow.
But of course, I have the advantage also of writing books.
I've also been listening to the audiobook of The Present again.
Oh my gosh.
You know, sometimes I even amaze myself.
Well, that doesn't sound too hard, but it's so good.
It's so good.
I'm going to put the link here just to remind you.
The novel, well all my novels are great, but my novel called The Present, I'm going to put you, going to give you this here, you can go to rss.com slash podcasts slash present and you should get that.
It's free and the dialogue literally gives me goosebumps.
It sounds like a documentary.
Good morning from Australia!
I've already donated twice for the Peaceful Parenting book, and we'll do it again soon!
Thanks for all the beautiful work you've done.
Mate, cheers!
Thank you.
G'day.
Thank you very much.
rss.com slash podcast slash present.
Fantastic book, thank you.
I just started Just Pour audiobook with my wife a couple of weeks ago, four to five hours in.
I like the depth of the characters, especially Lord Carvey.
Uh, Serb's daughter, and Mary, and of course, Knotted Bob.
Yeah, Knotted Bob.
I love that guy.
Love that guy.
So, and I really do appreciate, um, you know, it's funny, uh, it's funny, you know, when you've been around on the internet for a while, since the beginning, I was, I think, user number three, when you've been around the internet for a while and you put out something that is sort of personal and requesty or so on, right?
You know, you know what the trolls are going to say, right?
You know what the trolls are going to say.
So when I said, you know, I'm just disappointed and upset that I didn't, wasn't getting the feedback that I asked for on the book.
And, you know, the troll voice is like in your head and the troll voice is like, Stefan Molyneux spends two hours berating people who don't call his book the greatest thing ever put to paper.
You know, that kind of stuff, right?
Audiobook of the present was my introduction to your fictional works.
Oh, good.
Thanks.
So.
Yeah.
Stefan Molyneux berates guy for donating $5.
You know, it's kind of right.
What was it?
Somebody was saying, um... What was it?
Somebody was saying... It was like... You just berated some guy for telling you how landmines worked!
You know, just the kind of stuff where it's like, what?
What the hell?
What.
The.
Hell.
Uh, do you guys like the troll stuff?
Like, dealing with the troll stuff at all?
Do you like that?
Because I've got one.
If you want it.
If you want it.
If you want it.
So let's see here.
Oh, yes.
Here we go.
Here we go.
I had a nice troll comment and I know some people really like it when I show you how to unpack troll comments.
Love the audio book for the present.
The part where the dogs had Rachel cornered had me on edge.
Yeah.
I had a couple of bad experiences with dogs as a childhood, so I had very vivid stuff there in my gut about all of that, so.
Alright.
So, here we go.
I used to be a subscriber, and now I just listen for free.
One of the main reasons was you were just so dismissive of critical comments.
The whole, I don't understand that nonsense.
You are either deflecting, dense.
Also downloads don't equal people reading or listening to your work.
That is marketing wonk.
I could download your novel 1,000 times and never read it.
And there's, you know, a couple of typos and grammar errors and so on, all that, right?
So, you know, one of the things that's around that's a hilarious rumor is
Uh, well, Steph just doesn't, you can't, you can't criticize the guy.
He doesn't take any negative feedback.
You know, he, he just, he, he deflects criticism.
He's always right.
He doesn't take any negative feedback.
You're so dismissive of critical comments.
So, um, the mechanics of this are very interesting to me.
Really, really, very interesting.
So let me ask you this.
And if you're online, this is a broader or wider question.
Let me ask you this.
How many people in your life do you take criticism of without doubt?
Right?
How many people in your life, they say, I think you're doing this, or this is not good, or this is bad, or you're too ill-tempered and you're just like, okay, like, I'll, I'll absolutely listen to that.
How many people in your life do you have?
Who have unfettered access to your conscience and corrective mechanisms.
I got five.
Five.
And I would check elsewhere because lots of comments are kicking up all over the place.
Um, yeah, I mean, if we've had call-in shows and so on.
It says two, Michael says two, zero, too many people.
Right.
It is rare, right?
Now, zero, zero, one.
Now, of the people who have unfettered access to your conscience, what percentage of them
Should have unfettered access to your conscience.
What percentage of people who already do have unfettered access, and by that I just mean they say there's something wrong and you're like, okay, tell me, like I'll absolutely work on it.
And you don't have skepticism regarding their feedback.
Does this sort of make sense?
You don't have skepticism regarding their feedback.
You just accept it.
How many people do you have like that?
Zero percent.
So, there are no people who give you feedback that you trust.
And, I mean, this is important.
It's an important metric.
It's an important metric to understand and to process.
So, if you've been in the public eye, I mean, I still am, to some degree, not quite the all-blazing sauron eye that it used to be, but when you're in the public eye,
Everybody and their dog gives you feedback.
Now, feedback is a very interesting thing.
I love the feedback.
I always start off with the show, you know, with particularly voice live streams, questions, comments, issues, criticisms, you know, problems, whatever.
Feedback is great.
But I am, and you have, you just have to be this way to stay sane in the public sphere, particularly if you're dealing with controversial issues.
I simply
Have to have a massive filter on.
Now, a lot of people try to program you to follow their neuroses with baseless attacks.
And sometimes they sort of gang up.
I mean, when people organize this kind of stuff, I know that there are these kind of organizational places like, well, we're going to hit him from every angle.
And we're going to say, we're going to start the room.
We're going to say, Steph doesn't take feedback.
Right?
Steph doesn't take feedback.
He doesn't accept criticism.
He's too touchy.
He's too prickly.
He's too reactive.
Right?
And so when this comes at you, right?
From a bunch of different angles and you know, over the years, right?
Comes to you from a bunch of, you say, Oh my God, like, I wonder if that's true.
I wonder if, if, if do I, do I have a problem taking, like, am I too touchy?
Am I too defensive?
Staff is so wedded to his theories.
He just won't take any even legitimate criticisms of the contrary.
He just dismisses and blocks and bans, like all this touchy sensitive, right?
Of course, if people find flaws in my arguments, I know this sounds kind of cheesy, like, I welcome the flaws.
Like, honestly, if people... I don't want to go to my grave... I don't want to go to my grave... with UPB incomplete.
Like, with there being a problem with UPB, that would break my heart.
I mean, I guess it would be some other philosopher who would fix it up.
But I don't want to go to my grave with there still being problems with UPB.
So if people have things to clarify, things to fix and so on, love to hear it.
Love to hear it.
But what people do is they want to control you.
Now, when you have influence, then people want to control you.
They want to hijack your brain so that you can push their agenda without them having to earn your audience.
It's really important to understand this happens in your personal life as well as in your public life.
So when I had, you know, 10 million views and downloads a month, it's a big ass audience, right?
So what people would do is they would try to constantly hijack constantly hijack me so that they could push their agenda through me to my audience without actually having to earn my audience.
Does that make sense?
I don't want to over-repeat it if it's pretty clear.
But people will do this.
Gossip is a way of doing that, right?
So if you're angry at someone, you spread malicious rumors about them.
Oh, they have an STD or got pregnant out of wedlock.
And then you hope that people will spread that so that it will damage the other person, right?
You're hijacking people for your own agenda.
You're using them as an amplification device for your own neuroses.
Right?
So I'm very skeptical regarding feedback.
Of course!
Because most feedback is bullshit.
Most feedback is a hijacking attempt.
Right?
So most feedback is a hijacking attempt, and one of the ways you can tell a hijacking attempt is... Well, let me give you a couple of ways that you can tell a hijacking attempt, because these are going to happen to you all over the place, right?
Okay, so what they'll do is they'll say, you lost my money.
You're losing me, you lost my money, you lost the plot!
The hell does that mean, you lost the plot?
So... Oh yeah, and go and look up on X. It was a really horrible video of the guy who wrote Space Jam and Kindergarten Cop and was involved in trading with places and so on.
Go and watch the video of him.
Absolutely appalling.
Anyway.
So, well, not necessarily trying to poison my audience, but they're trying to hijack me as a vehicle
To deliver their message without having to earn my audience.
And plus it's safer, right?
Because if you can use me to deliver your pet peeve, pet issue, pet cause, then I'm the one, I'm the one who takes the hit and you get to evade risk.
Right?
Because I'm the one who goes out there publicly, you've got your
Puppet, hand up my ass.
I'm the one who goes out and says such and such.
Steph, you gotta cover this.
You gotta.
It speaks volumes that Steph hasn't said this about the other.
Right?
If Steph had an ounce of integrity, he'd be dealing with this issue.
Like, so it's an issue that's your pet thing and, you know, as a public figure, you get billions of these emails over the years, right?
You gotta deal with this.
You gotta deal with that.
You gotta deal with the other.
Right?
You know, Zelda, you know, if I do something people don't like, what do they say?
Mask off!
Joe Rogan finally meets the real Stefan Molyneux.
Mask off!
Like I've got a mouth with a tongue that has a mouth.
Alien style.
So, I never watched Space Jam.
I never saw it.
So, I used to be a subscriber and now I just listen for free.
One of the main reasons was you were, W-H-E-R-E, one of the main reasons was you were so dismissive of critical comments.
Now, people always tell you the truth, right?
Whether they like it or not, people always tell you the truth, right?
So, he's trying to get my attention, because, you know, donations are down, and, you know, if you guys could help out, of course, I'd hugely appreciate it, freedomain.com slash donate.
So, donations are down if you can help out, freedomain.com slash donate, or you can donate, tip right here in the app.
So, you know, donations are down.
So he starts off with... You're losing money!
Right?
Now I just listen for free.
One of the main reasons was you wear so dismissive of critical comments.
The whole, I don't understand that nonsense.
You're either deflecting or dense.
And... dismissive of critical comments.
That which is asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence, right?
That which is asserted without evidence... No, of course he doesn't provide examples of the dismissive comments, and the funny thing is, is that he is himself providing a critical comment with no context.
I really love your novel, The Present.
The scene with Rachel thanking her father and Oliver's scene with his mother had me in tears when I first read them.
Brilliant piece of art.
This should be a film right now, not these shitty collectivist films that fewer and fewer people are seeing these days.
Can you imagine a film that turns the laser eye of philosophy on the daycare industry?
Thank you.
I appreciate it, Lloyd.
Thank you for the tip.
So, dismissive of critical comments.
And if you want to hijack somebody in the public eye, let's say you want to influence somebody in the public eye, well, you have to earn it, right?
I mean, you have to earn it.
And so, if you want me to change my mind about something, I mean, it's a philosophy show, right?
It's not an opinion show.
Yeah, what?
Somebody levying criticism against you and doing the exact same thing they're claiming you do?
No, people don't do that!
Slash, very heavy sarcasm.
Yeah, yeah.
One of the main reasons was you were so dismissive of critical comments.
Well, if people are going to tell me I'm wrong without telling me why then they're either not even remotely intelligent enough to respond to
Or, they are so early in the days of philosophy, they don't know what is required to change the mind of a rational person.
And also, what they're telling me is they... and I sympathize with this guy, I do.
Because what they're telling me is, I was verbally abused and bullied as a child.
And so the only way I know how to get something done, or how to change someone's mind, or how to influence someone, is to threaten, bribe, and abuse them.
Because what he's saying is, well Steph, the reason why your donations are down is because you don't accept criticism.
Right?
Now maybe if you accepted more criticism,
Then I'd be a donor again, right?
Just maybe, just maybe.
If you accepted more criticism, I'd start donating again.
Like I'm for sale.
It's so sad.
It's so sad.
I mean, so it just means that this is somebody who has a lot of unprocessed trauma, which I really do sympathize with.
I know this sounds like, oh, love your enemy stuff.
Like I really, really do sympathize with the amount of trauma that this guy must have gone through to think that he just needs to be
Bribe-y and mean and I will change what I do.
Why would someone get the idea that if you threaten someone and I know it's like you say well I'm not donating because you don't accept criticism so that's kind of like a threat like that I'll pay you if you do it's I guess kind of like a bribe but it's half it would be a bribe
If he said, I'm donating, but if you don't accept more criticism, I'm gonna stop.
I'm gonna stop being a subscriber.
But, this is a, uh, it's kind of a threat, right?
You're so dismissive of critical comments.
The whole, I don't understand that nonsense.
So, when I say I don't understand something, do you know what that's code for?
Do you know what it's code for when I say, like, what am I really saying when I'm saying I don't understand something?
What does it really, really mean?
If you peel back all the layers and all the depths and the complexity of the dog whistles, what does it really mean when I say I don't understand something?
Now, it's a bit of a spoiler.
So, when I say I don't understand something,
What I'm really saying is, I don't understand something.
Yeah.
It means you don't, I don't understand.
If somebody is going to say something that's vague or undefined or like, I don't understand.
That's what, when I say, I don't understand.
So what he's saying is, Steph, you're either deflecting or dense, right?
So he's saying that when I say, I don't understand that, I'm lying.
Now, of course, this is basic Socratic stuff, right?
I mean, also he tells me he's never read any philosophy, because this is basic Socratic stuff, right?
So Socrates, when he meets a man who's bringing a lawsuit against his father, because his father may have caused the death of a servant, right?
And he's like, well, it's just, it's justice, right?
And Socrates is like, wow, you've got to be super confident of justice in order to bring a suit against your own father and maybe get him thrown in jail or executed.
You've got to be really, really solid on what justice is.
I'm confused sometimes, a lot of times about what justice is.
So, you know, I can sit at your knee and I can learn about justice and that's how I, so I don't understand.
I don't understand.
But because he's saying, and this is just basic projection, this is how you defend yourself in the world, this is not a chance comment, whatever, right?
But this is how you defend yourself in the world.
If somebody's doing what they're accusing you of, you can dismiss them completely.
Because if they're right, they're only right accidentally, and you don't, you don't.
Want to trust someone who's only right accidentally because they're not right because they can't reproduce it, right?
You know, like if somebody says, who makes a lot of SD cards, and you hear that as what's the capital of Jamaica, and you reply, Kingston.
What's a big city in Jamaica, right?
Kingston.
Well, that happens to be, but you're not right.
Just an accident.
And the ways I've sort of explained it to my daughter is, you know, we play mini golf.
Mini golf's a lot of fun.
Although I can never find quite the right cool one.
I always have this image of the windmill and you've got to hit it through.
It's always just some curvy thing.
So I say, if you
If you have to bet on two people, one of whom is a really expert putt putter, a really expert mini golfer, and the other one is a three-year-old kid, and you just saw the three-year-old kid, like, blindly swing and get a hole in one, who would you bet on?
Well, you'd bet on the guy who's the really experienced and well-tested mini putter, right?
Because it's true that the three-year-old just hit a hole in one, but that's totally accidental.
It's not reproducible.
It's random.
So people have to have a consistent methodology to gain credibility with me.
So let's say somebody happens to land on a criticism that's valid.
If they still don't have a methodology, then why on earth would I listen to them?
Because they're never going to be right again.
If that makes sense.
So... The whole, I don't understand that, nonsense.
You're either deflecting or dense.
Now, of course, downloads don't equal people reading or listening to your content.
Of course not.
I could download, and it's two words, down, space, load, which is another error, right?
I could download your novel a thousand times and never read it.
Blindingly obvious.
And that's why I say, this many novels and books downloaded a month.
I can't say read, because I don't know.
So, anyway, I mean, there's a lot of hatred and contempt in this kind of language.
And try as best as you can, and genuinely humble advice, I don't know if this is going to work for you,
I think it works for me.
So this is very, very humble advice.
I hope that you'll accept it in the spirit in which is intended.
Very humble advice.
My humble advice is this.
So what is going on with this person, right?
Well, what's going on with this person is, you know, there is this sort of contempt and this anger and hostility and so on, right?
This was not an email, this was a comment under a video.
Now, what's underneath the anger?
What's underneath the contempt?
What's underneath the hostility?
Powerlessness.
People escalate when they're powerless.
Now, when I have a strong filter for the advice that I take, then manipulators are powerless.
Right?
And powerless people, if you want to understand, just think of a rap, or a song, or a poem, where you rhyme powerless with venomous.
It's not the perfect rhyme, but it's not the opposite of a rhyme.
Powerless and venomous.
Deplatforming is powerless and venomous.
Verbal insults, bribes, threatening to withhold money, saying that you don't pay me anymore because I just don't do X, right?
That is venomous.
And what's underneath venomous is powerless.
Venomousness equals powerlessness.
And it's really, it's very tragic.
It's very tragic.
So this person wants me to believe or accept something and this person won't make a rational argument with any kind of evidence.
Right?
So he won't say, for example, for example, Steph, here you got a legitimate criticism and you just blew up and yelled at someone.
Right?
Could that have happened?
I don't think so.
It's possible, you know, maybe I was going through an estrogen peak or something, I don't know, but it's possible, right?
It's possible.
So if someone were to say, and of course they'd have to be a bunch of times, right?
So just once, right?
One swallow does not a summer make, right?
So there would be, you know, here's an example, and if someone cared about me being too volatile and being dismissive of actual critical
Rational arguments that were critical of me or critical of mine, because you can't criticize me.
You can criticize my arguments.
What do you criticize me about, right?
I mean, I don't, I'm not that interesting.
It doesn't matter.
I'm going to come and go, but hopefully the philosophy lasts and grows, right?
You know, I'm just, I'm just like a bird flying through a room, right?
It's the droppings that count, right?
That's what leaves behind.
So,
He wants to change what I think.
He wants me to do something, wants me to not do something.
Do something or refrain from doing something.
You want someone to buy a product from you, you want them to do something, or you want them to not do something, right?
Maybe don't vote for a big government party or something.
And there's a helplessness.
How do I get Steph to do what I want?
Well, I can go through the hard work of figuring out where he's made the arguments, right?
So this guy, either he saw me do what he's accusing me of doing, right?
I'm just dismissive of critical comments, right?
And of course he doesn't mean if somebody's verbally abusing me, right?
And I dismiss that.
I mean, he wouldn't say that's a bad thing in any sort of rational universe.
So he's seen me do something legitimately intellectually not great, right?
So then he's got the work of saying, well, I want to change Steph's mind.
So I need to gather some evidence and some facts.
Right.
And so I'm going to say, okay, so here's the situation.
Here's the video.
Here's the timestamp.
Here's the argument.
Here's what happened.
Here's your response and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Right.
In other words, he genuinely wants to help me or help philosophy or have me gain credibility or something like that.
He wants to do something to improve me.
So he's gonna give me evidence.
Right.
Does this sort of make sense?
And that would be great!
That would be great!
Like, what a wonderful thing to do, right?
What a very helpful and wonderful thing to do.
But he's not doing that.
What he's doing is he's just thumping at me like you would thump at a TV hoping to fix it, right?
He's too impatient, right?
So he wants to get the legitimacy of criticism while only insulting me.
This is very common in life, right?
Hit me with a why if this has happened to you in your childhood, in your life, right?
He wants the legitimacy of criticism
And he's the only one calling you out.
You would think more people would speak up.
No, this has become a bit of a trope.
Steph doesn't, you know, Steph trashed someone for only donating $2.
Steph doesn't take criticism, blah, blah, blah, blah, right?
It's become a bit of a cliche, right?
So what's really going on?
Well, to earn the right to be respected for your criticism means that you have to bring a solid case, right?
Right?
That you have to bring a solid case, because otherwise I'm just folding because someone's mean to me.
And now if I was going to fold because people were mean to me, I would have been an origami about 17 years ago.
But that's not going to happen.
I'm not going to fold because someone's mean to me, because that's the purpose of philosophy is so you know whether somebody can be trusted or not.
One of the main purposes of philosophy is to filter out manipulative douchebags.
And the false dichotomy thing, right?
The whole, I don't understand that nonsense.
You're either deflecting or dense.
I mean, how sad is it?
Genuinely tragic that somebody would imagine that I'm going to accept their false dichotomy.
I mean, this literally is on the level of, have you stopped beating your wife yet?
Questions.
Well, you're either this or that.
It's like, why on earth would I let sign a mononymous stranger
Give me a binary proposition about my entire life.
Am I wrong?
That's the saddest thing around.
Right?
That is the saddest, saddest, saddest, saddest, saddest, saddest thing around.
Well, you're either this or you're that.
It's like, why?
Why would I even remotely accept you defining my life?
Why?
How could that possibly be a thing that I would allow you to say, well, you're either this or you're that, with no proof?
Well, which are you?
Are you deflecting or are you dense?
It's like, why on earth would I possibly listen to someone giving me a false dichotomy like that?
It's wild to me that this would cross someone's mind, right?
You know, it's like somebody calling you up and saying, well, you're either running north or south.
It's like, why?
You know, you either give me $100 or you don't love your wife.
It's like, what?
Like, it really is such a POS way to speak to someone.
Well, and what they're confessing is, like, I view this as a kind of possession.
I really do.
I view this as a kind of possession.
This person, they're not themselves.
You know, you're just not yourselves when you're hangry, right?
So... What was it?
There's this meme of this woman who stole... A guy just died at the hospital and a nurse stole his debit card to go and buy some snacks from the vending machine and somebody said, well, you're just not yourself when you're hungry.
I view this as possession.
I view this as a lawnmower that got free of a person and is just kind of rolling down a hill.
It's dangerous, I get that.
It's a little dangerous, a little alarming.
But I don't view this as a person who's making choices.
I view this as a person who's possessed by a lack of self-knowledge.
They don't have choice because they don't have self-knowledge.
And if you don't have self-knowledge, you can't really have choice.
So I view this as literally it's an NPC written by another NPC written by another NPC that was auto-generated from AI.
I take it about as personal as that.
Right?
If you had InsultoBot, which would actually be kind of a funny AI, right?
Just glorious genius insults, right?
Be kind of funny.
But, if an AI roasted you, it would be funny, right?
It wouldn't be personal, thank you.
C2 Spark, or C2S Park, or C2SB Ark, or C2SBA Ark.
Anyway.
Or at.
So it's not personal.
This is not somebody who's making a thought and applying any kind of independent evaluation and going through the reason and the evidence and trying to help me be a better philosopher or whatever it is, or somebody who even is frustrated, but knows that they're frustrated and tells me why I'm not.
I'm not reaching my own lofty standards, like all of that, right?
This is not somebody who's thinking it's not somebody who's making a choice.
It's not someone who's going through any rational process.
Whatsoever.
It is just regurgitating an NPC script that was dropped in them by their abusive parent, whose NPC script was dropped into them by their abusive parent, and it's just copy-paste, copy-paste, copy-paste.
The way you get someone to change their behavior is you bully and insult and bribe and threaten them.
That's how you get it.
If someone's a philosopher and wants to improve, you don't give them evidence, right?
And this is also, you don't give them evidence, you just give them insults.
But here's the other thing, too.
So, this is an appeal to insecurity.
Man, if you peel away the appeals to insecurity in your life, your life becomes so much better, I'm telling you, friends.
Your life becomes so much better if you peel away
Appeals to insecurity, right?
So, the appeals to insecurity are... Well, Steph, you know, you know that you're dismissive of critical comments.
You're just pretending to not understand things.
Right?
You're just, you're just pretending, right?
You know, there's this horribly overused couple of phrases.
The most common movie line phrase is, let's get out of here.
But one of the ones I hate, right, is, well, that's not the case and you know it, right?
And you know it, right?
And you know it.
And so this is the appeal to insecurity, right?
You're either deflecting or dense, right?
That's the appeal to insecurity.
Maybe I am unwilling to accept criticism.
I mean, I do have all of these.
I have an entire series of shows called I Was Wrong About, and I've apologized to Christians for my rudeness and hostility.
So it is the appeal to insecurity.
Maybe I am.
Like, somebody's so upset with me,
That I must be doing something wrong.
Like, I've really upset this person.
They... I used to be a subscriber, and now I just listen for free.
I hate listen, right?
So yeah, if you drive away... And how... The only way you can survive the appeal to insecurity is to require proof.
You don't expect it, you demand it, but you require it.
I don't expect proof.
I certainly don't demand it.
I'm not gonna reply to this guy in...
I demand you prove... He wants to give you a complex.
No, he doesn't want to give me a complex.
He wants to, hopefully, strip mine a complex that's already there.
If that makes sense.
He wants to exploit a weakness that's already there.
So... Oh, you're dismissing critical comments.
The whole, I don't understand that nonsense.
You're either deflecting or dense.
Well, obviously I'm not dense, right?
So, you're just deflecting and you know it, right?
The and you know it stuff is the attempt to implant a kind of complex in you, right?
And, I mean, I'm not kidding when I say this, like, it's funny.
You know, it's funny.
Like, it genuinely is transparently ridiculous, right?
Because, and you understand, first of all, you can look at someone like this as just being mean, right?
And so, you guys are saying this, and I understand this, and I'm not, you know, I'm not going to try to say you're totally wrong, right?
So you say, oh, he's just trying to dunk on you, in my opinion, and yeah, that's true.
He says, well, if he manages to get through in offending you, in his mind, he will have bested you, and that is evidence of his sheer brilliance.
Yeah, that's true.
Somebody says, want to say your peaceful parenting book is brilliant, painful, and everything in between.
I did send you an email apologizing for not giving feedback and really want to dig deep in the email as to why I didn't.
I hope it helps you.
Thank you.
Yeah, he wants to give you a complex.
It's a classic attempt to elevate yourself by putting down others.
Man, that is so vicious.
I get that.
I get that.
But what I see is I see someone trying to free himself.
I see someone who's trying to free... and I know this may sound weird, right?
It may sound weird.
And I think, because he's coming to me saying, please, please, please call out the demons who have me by the throat.
Call out the bullying.
Because, look, this is just some guy's comment on my video, but what I see, and I don't want to be pathologically altruistic or anything like that, so, I mean, again, it's bad behavior, but what I see is, imagine dating this guy.
It's a guy, for sure, I think.
But imagine dating this guy.
Imagine that.
Imagine
Trying to be friends with this guy.
Imagine how much he's alienating and driving away any person of any quality in his life by being, you know, kind of petty and vicious and mean and exploitive, right?
Because if I'm such a bad guy, why are you still listening?
Right?
So if he genuinely thought, oh, Steph's a manipulative son of a bitch and, you know, it doesn't take any feedback and he just pretends that he doesn't know things just to control people, then he'd stop listening, wouldn't he?
But he knows I tell the truth, and I view this as a reach from the rubble.
That's what I call it in my head.
This is a reach from the rubble.
I'm buried by shitty people from a shitty past.
I'm buried.
The fucking ceiling just collapsed on me, the walls are caved in, I'm buried.
And it's a reach from the rubble.
I want to make sure this makes some kind of sense to you guys.
It's a reach from the rubble.
He's buried.
He's buried.
And he's come to the one place where he's going to get some truth.
Right?
So he's goading me.
So on, on the sort of conscious level, he's mad at me.
He thinks I'm a terrible person and he's goading me.
But what's underneath that is the reach from the rubble.
Help me, for God's sakes.
Nobody else is telling me the truth.
I can't, I can't get out.
I can't break this habit.
And, and because what happens, of course, if you, you know, if you behave in shitty ways, you end up with shitty people around you.
Right?
That's just a basic fact of life.
If you behave in shitty ways, you end up with shitty people around you.
And so, who around him is going to tell him the truth?
Who around him is going to say, listen, yeah, it's shitty behavior, I'm not going to get mad at you, I'm not going to humiliate you back, I'm not going to whatever, right?
Most people would just walk away from him and not try to help him like you are now.
Well, the reach from the rubble is the interesting thing.
Oh, that's a very meaningfully compassionate way of looking at it.
Well, and that's why I say, I'm not, I'm not going full pathological altruism, right?
And I'll tell you why.
I'll tell you why.
Because, do you know what the reach for the rubble is sometimes?
Or you can say, the reach from the churning, green boiling waves of ocean, that you're on a dock and the hand is reaching up from the boiling sea below.
A lot of times, you guys can tell me what you think the ratio is, but a lot of times, the reach from the rubble is to pull you down.
He doesn't want, so this is a battle, and it's a battle in the heart, mind, and soul of man, right?
I'm trapped with shitty thinking.
I'm gonna provoke someone who I know is gonna tell me the truth, and he knows I'm not gonna be abusive back, right?
So, I'm gonna provoke someone, and part of me wants to be saved, and part of me wants to damn others.
Right?
And I didn't see, but here he has left another comment.
This is interesting.
Okay.
So I wrote a couple of hours ago, I just wrote, it's your conscience, not mine.
Right?
It's your conscience.
So when he says, well, I just, I, now I listen for free and blah, blah, blah.
Right?
So this sort of meanness is like, it's your conscience, not mine.
And he says, he says, thanks for the reply.
I'm giving my feedback as to why you may not be getting feedback.
To be fair, I've enjoyed your content, read your books.
And have donated and has have given feedback about your novels via email.
Almost novel.
I mean no ill will but your dismissiveness on comments in the community turn me away.
I understand as you explained you are not long for this world and don't want to waste time.
That sounds like a threat.
I know it's not.
Right?
So I said it's your conscience not mine.
And what I mean by that is you think you're trying to hurt me by behaving badly.
Right?
So, to me, this is the equivalent of somebody punching themselves, right?
So, my conscience is clear, right?
I... My conscience is very clear.
Doesn't mean I'm perfect, obviously, but my conscience is clear.
So... If somebody behaves in a hostile or negative or mean way to me, you know, unprovoked, right?
Then...
They're hurting themselves.
Like it's your conscience, not mine.
So if you're going to listen to my work and consume the fruits of my labor and not pay a penny, that's your conscience, not mine.
And this is a really, really powerful thing for me.
I mean, I hope it's helpful for you.
It's your conscience, not mine.
Well, I'm just not going to pay you a penny.
It's like, cause you know, listen, I mean, I'll be frank with you guys.
Most people don't donate.
Most people don't donate.
I mean, the vast majority of people don't donate, and never do.
And it's their conscience, not mine.
Right?
I have to do the very best that I can do to help the world and its members.
I have to do the very best that I can do to help the world and its members.
That's my conscience.
So if somebody is mean to you, say, it's your conscience, not mine.
I'm innocent in this.
I've never talked to this guy.
I, you know, maybe he sent me feedback.
Uh, the novel Almost I read like four years ago.
So maybe he gave me some feedback on Almost, which is nice.
Donations are a skin in the game.
Well, yes, but donations are a conscience thing.
Donations are an escape from childhood, right?
Because when you're a child, you don't have to provide value.
When you're a toddler and you're a baby, you don't have to provide value.
You just have to exist.
And resources are showered upon you by your parents.
Donations are a way of saying... I'm going to be frank with you guys, right?
Donations are a way of saying I'm not a toddler anymore.
I have to exchange value for value.
I'm not here to consume.
I'm not going to treat staff as some infinite resource mommy-daddy.
Right?
When you're a baby, you don't have to earn your daily bread and you don't have to exchange value.
And I'm trying to woo people to adulthood here, right?
I'm trying to really, really woo people to adulthood.
And adulthood means you exchange value for value.
And you can't get any other place with this kind of value.
I mean, I genuinely believe that.
I would go to my grave believing that.
That's my commitment.
That you can't get any other place with this kind of analysis and this kind of
You know, raw practical honesty and principles.
Some people don't have consciences.
Yes, but they tend not to stick around here, Evan, in general.
So it's not just skin in the game.
Donations are... So, you know, one of the things that people don't like about some aspects of modern hyper-femininity, right?
So, have you ever had this situation where you date, I've had this, you date a girl, and you keep taking her out, and you keep paying for something, and it's all a one-way street.
Because I don't consider sex or anything, that's not a payback, because then it's just prostitution.
But it's all like, maybe you've got some money and she's broke, but she doesn't cook you a meal.
Right?
So it's just one way, right?
Now that's indicative
of a woman stuck in a very early mindset.
Right?
You serve me, I don't have to provide reciprocity.
So, it happens at the very lowest and the very highest levels of power.
The very lowest level of power being a baby, the very highest level of power being a king.
The king doesn't have to provide reciprocity to the servant or the slave or whatever, right?
And so there's an arrogance in non-reciprocity.
You work for me and I don't have to give you a goddamn thing.
Well, that's the abusive parent, right?
And on the flip side, I want to consume and I don't want to donate because that would be to exchange value for value.
That's the infant, right?
So the abusive parent is, hey, you work for me and I don't give you a goddamn thing, right?
You live under my house.
You do as my rules.
I'm not paying you for doing chores, right?
So that's the arrogant parent or authority figure, and then there's the helpless infant and toddler, right?
You don't go to your toddler like you don't go to your two-year-old and say, well, here's three hours of chores.
If you do that, you'll get your dinner.
That would be abusive, right?
So,
The call to donate, again, you know, if you listen consistently and therefore you've gotten value, and you also know that you can't get value like this anywhere else.
You can't.
You can't get value like this anywhere else because of the wide variety of topics that we cover.
And I think the sensitivity and firmness, like morality with empathy without weakness, is a very heady brew and it's very rare in society, right?
Morality sometimes means just weakness and, you know, everybody who's in need, you just support them and enable them and so on, right?
Or, you know, it's like
Tough guy, suck it up, stop crying, move on.
But to have empathy with standards and firmness is not a common combo and I've worked pretty hard to try and manifest that in myself and therefore in the world.
So the donation thing is, you need to be an adult and you need to exchange value for value.
I'm inviting you to the big boy's table, to the big girl's table.
I'm inviting you with a boat off
The Lost Boys Island, right?
Off Peter Pan Island, right?
Exchange value for value.
You'll feel better.
Because if you...
Exploit me.
And I say this with genuine, like, hey, if you're just starting out, you're listening, enjoy, listen, don't even think about it.
Also, if you're broke, don't worry about it.
Please work on getting your income up.
So I'm just talking about people who've been around and, you know, can afford 20 bucks, right?
If you've listened for hundreds of hours, it's like two cents an hour, right?
It's 20 cents an hour.
It's a pretty good deal.
So, it's kind of exploitive to consume without reciprocity, right?
It's kind of exploitive.
It's like if you have a friend, and maybe he's got a bit more money than you, but he just keeps inviting you out.
You keep going out places, and he pays for things, right?
Thank you, I appreciate the tip.
So, but if you just keep letting him pay, and you never offer to pay, and maybe you don't have much money, but at least you can offer something, right?
You can offer something.
You could cook him a meal or, you know, something like that, right?
But if it's one way, it's both vain and helpless, right?
So excessive vanity leads to exploitation, and excessive helplessness leads to exploitation.
In a sense, like when it's not age appropriate, right?
So babies should not be required to be reciprocal, right?
Although it happens very early, like I remember my daughter being like five months old and me feeding my daughter and then she grabbed the spoon and turned around and fed me.
Yeah, gas pressure washing his driveway, etc.
You know, or at least help the guy move or, you know, something like that, right?
Somebody says, it took me a little while to donate for the first time after discovering you because I was originally unconvinced and had to work through the rationality of your arguments.
After being convinced of the philosophy and rational methods here, I also had to agree with your value for value argument.
I've been donating as consistently as possible ever since.
Now that's interesting.
So that's interesting.
So in order to get your donation, I had to be right.
That's interesting, I'd never really thought of that before.
In order to get your donation, I had to be right.
That's interesting.
So it wasn't the courage of what I'm doing, or the
I mean, pretty deep humanity I bring to these thousands of call-in shows that have really, really helped people, or, you know, all the peaceful parenting stuff I've talked about, the ACE stuff that I've talked about, you know, all of the IQ stuff that I've, like all the, you know, the really, you know, pretty wild and controversial stuff.
It's not that.
Courage and directness and so on.
I had to be convinced of the value.
Ah, you see, now, that's a very interesting question, and I don't have an answer to this.
Yeah, call in at freedomain.com.
Yes, if you want to set up a call, then call in at freedomain.com.
So you had to be convinced of the value.
Now that's interesting, right?
Def, you didn't get back to us regarding showing up on other content creators' platforms.
Uh, okay, I will.
Um... So, I would say... I would say that I had to be convinced of the value.
The value is the consumption.
Right?
The value is the consumption.
So if you're listening to me and I'm giving you stimulating thoughts, and I don't have to be perfect, I don't have to be right all the time or every time, but the value is that you're consuming.
Because the cost for me, whether I'm right or wrong, is the same.
Right?
In other words, you downloading and watching isn't free for me if I'm wrong, but it only costs me money if I happen to be right.
Right, so as you consume, you're costing money, right?
There's no neutral consumption here, right?
When you consume what I do, you're costing to show money, right?
And I'm not putting ads in and so on, right?
And this is not an ad for donating, I'm just sort of telling you the reality, right?
So if you say, well, I've listened to 50 hours of stuff
But I have to be convinced of the value.
I think that is not quite accurate.
I think the fact that you've listened for 50 hours or 100 hours or whatever, that is the value, whether I'm right or wrong.
Because certainly that's the cost, right?
If that makes sense.
And the fact is that you've kept listening.
And the fact that you've kept listening means that there's value in that.
Innately, right?
To get my subscription you had to provide value.
It didn't take long.
Ah, you know, I'm sorry to be such a nag and I could be totally wrong about this, but my gut sense, which is not, doesn't mean it's accurate, but my gut sense is you are putting whether I provide value on me.
I remember 25 cents show in your argument of distribution of labor.
You inspired me to donate to all content that I consume.
Oh, that's good.
Good for you.
I appreciate that.
So, you're saying that the value that I provide is based on me, not on you.
That's not true.
That's not true.
That's not true.
The proof in the value that I provide are the shows that you consume.
Right, so you think that I have to pick the lock and get you to donate.
Let's say you've listened to a hundred hours of my content, right?
Which costs a fairly staggering amount of money to produce, if you count all my education, all the books I've read, the deplatforming, the cost of reputational damage, the research costs, we've got employees, studio, server, bandwidth costs, you name it, right?
So, I mean, I can't even tell you, I probably have, gosh, let's do some rough calcs, right?
So I worked, I guess including the audio book, I probably worked about 50 hours.
Nah, let's be fair.
40 hours a week.
Sorry, 40 hours a month.
No, more than that.
Let's see, right?
Okay, so I have 560 hours and, you know, maybe 200 of Jared's hours.
So 760 hours in peaceful parenting.
Right, 760 hours in peaceful parenting.
And there's more to go.
A guy who did the cover for Just Poor has agreed to do the cover for Peaceful Parenting, which is great.
Because I'm one of these annoying guys, like, I know if it doesn't look quite right, but I don't know how to make it right.
Whereas this guy's really good with that.
So, 760 hours, right?
So, that money that I've sunk into that, right?
And what I won't do is I won't say my hourly rate, right?
But I'll just put it in my own mind, right?
Yeah.
So, it's a lot of money.
It's a lot of money.
And since 14 months of my time, 40 hours a month times an hourly rate.
And you know, I was a chief executive in a software company, entrepreneur and so on.
Right.
So hourly rate is not tiny.
I mean, it's not the same exactly, but you know what I mean?
So you're saying that the value.
If you consume 50 or 100 hours or more of my content, then you're saying that the value is something I have to prove one-eighth of a year on that book.
Oh, you mean like 24 hours?
Yeah, that's not a very... I mean, nobody works 24 hours, that's not a very helpful thing.
It would be the equivalent of, you know, three and a half or four months straight full-time.
I would imagine that you probably had to directly pay for some access to data, so yeah, it's a pricey book.
It's a good book, I'm glad to have done it, and so on.
You see, if you offload whether I'm providing value onto me, that I have to do some dance or make some connection or do something, then you are outsourcing your conscience.
And this is not about donations, right?
I appreciate them, of course, but what you're doing is you're taking a very aristocratic thing, right?
And you're saying, well, I've cost F a certain amount of money by consuming his shows, but he's still going to jump through hoops in order for me to donate.
And what that's not doing is it's not saying to you, yeah, Jared did have to pay.
Well, we all had to pay for some of the research.
And I'm not, I'm not, this is not critical.
I'm not being critical.
I'm not being negative at all.
Like this is just really fascinating to me and I'm sort of mulling through it in my head.
So I mean this with all positivity and enthusiasm for these questions because they're really interesting.
What that means is that you had highly conditional love.
Right?
Highly conditional love.
Right, so you had parents who were like, well you have to do X, Y, and Z, or we're just not going to like you, we're not going to give you positive feedback, we're not going to enjoy spending time with you, we're not going to love you, right?
You have to do X, Y, or Z. Right?
Whereas, if you're consuming what I do, it's your conscience.
Not some hoop that I have to jump through where I make you.
Be reciprocal?
You know what I mean?
Reciprocity is something that's an internal integrity standard.
It's not something, well, well, you know, when he does X, Y, and Z, or if he proves this, or, you know, then I'll donate.
It's like, no, no, because that's relying on the integrity for me to do something, whereas integrity is you do something!
Do you see what I mean?
Integrity is your standard.
If you consume, you should reciprocate.
That's integrity.
Whereas you're waiting for me to stimulate your integrity.
Does this make sense?
I'm so sorry if this is completely retarded, and it might be.
It might be.
But it shouldn't be up to me to stimulate your conscience, your integrity.
Well, when Steph makes me want to donate, then I'll donate.
Right?
So, but it should be on your conscience.
That's why I said to this guy, it's your conscience, not mine.
Like, honestly guys, there's not much else I can do to give to philosophy.
I don't have any reputation left to sell.
I don't, you know, my time, my energy, you know, next year it'll be 20 years.
20 years working nose to the grindstone for philosophy.
You know, 6,000 shows and
Three documentaries, and twelve books, and the History of Philosophers series, and the French Revolution series, the introduction to sadism.
We've got close to 150 premium shows.
Like, it's a staggering amount of stuff.
It's a staggering amount of stuff.
And, you understand, it is, to a large degree, for the future, right?
So, to a large degree, for the future.
And that's the only safe place for philosophers to live, is in the future.
Because, you know, it's often too dangerous in the present.
So, if you're waiting for me to trigger your conscience, to trigger your integrity, you've outsourced your self-ownership.
Again, I hope that this makes some kind of sense, and I don't mean this in any negative or mean way.
Well, you don't pay your barber for messing up your haircut.
I... do.
I do.
I don't... I don't think... If I've had a barber, well, of course I don't have much of a haircut to mess up, but... You probably wouldn't go back.
But I don't know that you wouldn't pay your barber for messing up your haircut.
You just wouldn't go back.
Which would be like somebody who comes and listens to a couple of shows of mine, thinks I'm an idiot, or whatever, and doesn't come back.
Well, I wouldn't expect a donation for that.
Don't send me 75 cents because you listened to three shows, or three hours of material, and think I'm an idiot.
Right?
That's no good.
So, that would be not the same thing.
That would not be the same thing.
It's a close analogy, but not quite right.
Thanks for exploring this topic.
If I found the communist version of Free Domain and I listened to 50 hours of arguments and found them unconvincing, should I still donate and support to that creator?
Based on what you are saying, my initial take is that I probably should donate for the value of helping me explore those arguments, but then I would stop donating as I stop consuming.
Yeah, I think that's fair.
Because if you listen to 50 hours of arguments, there has to be value in them.
Right?
There has to be value in them, right?
So, right?
So, it's like if there are 12 seasons of a show, right?
A year.
Sorry, 12 shows a season, and you listen, or you watch this show, like it's some show on TV, and you watch for four years, right?
So, 48 hours, 50 hours, right?
So, if you watch a show,
And you watch four years worth of that show, you watch 50 hours of that show, is it at all rational to say it has absolutely no value to you?
Again, I'm open to the arguments, I really am.
I'm wide open to the arguments, right?
Yeah, everybody's been to a restaurant and you didn't particularly like your meal, right?
I mean, for me it's like Asian food, like I roll the dice with Thai food.
If I get a great
Green chicken curry, it's paradise.
But a lot of people don't make it very well.
I don't just sit there and don't pay.
I mean, I probably won't go back.
Unless my daughter likes it there, which just happened the other night.
But, I don't like not pay.
So, if you watch... I mean, can you imagine?
Somebody says to you, what did you do this weekend, right?
Oh, I watched all four seasons of whatever show, right?
I watched all four seasons of whatever show.
Oh, what did you think?
I found no value in it whatsoever.
Wouldn't that be kind of incomprehensible?
If it was particularly bad, i.e.
literal bugs or fecal matter, yes, okay, fine.
Fine, but that's not, I mean, let's not stretch the analogy too far, right?
Because that's not the case with this, right?
It's just a podcast, it's not something that can give you salmonella, right?
So, can you imagine, it would be like, you go out with a woman,
Two hours a week, like Friday night, Saturday night, you hang out with her for an hour each time.
And, right?
So that's six months of time.
And someone says, how's it going with this girl that you've been seeing for six months twice a week?
I'm completely indifferent to her.
She has to prove her value to me.
Right?
I've watched four seasons of this show
And it has to prove its value to me.
It already has!
Because you've watched four seasons!
This is... Praxeological!
Right?
By definition, if you've invested... 50 hours into a show, it has value to you.
Because that's 50 hours you could have been doing something else, but you chose to do this.
So clearly it has more value than anything else you could be doing with that time, because that's what you did with your time.
No, it's fine, Simph.
It's a good argument, but it's a little too far from the analogy.
So, imagine... I try not to beat the dead horse, but it's really, really important to understand this, because this is about you and me, right?
I have to remember this too.
It's about you and me in conscience, right?
If you're dating a girl and she keeps going out with you, right?
And she dates you for three months, right?
Regular dating.
You go out, you neck a little, you go watch movies, you go for walks.
We, you go to the art museum and you go see plays and you have dinner and you're going out, right?
And she's, Oh, Hey man, I'd love to, let's go out.
Let's go out Friday.
Love to go out Friday.
Let's go out Friday.
And, and she, she doesn't go out with other guys.
She goes out with you.
Right.
And you go on out like, I don't know, four hours a week.
Right.
Dates Friday and Saturday.
Right.
And then after a couple of months, she says, I'm still waiting for you to provide value.
When you, because you say, well, can we get some kind of commitment here?
No, I, I'm not dating really other people.
And we, it's true, been going out for a couple of months, a couple of times a week, but I'm still, I'm still waiting for you to provide value.
You could, you could just be completely the wrong guy for me.
Wouldn't that be kind of strange?
I think it would be.
And wouldn't you feel a little like, well, but you keep going out with me.
How can you keep going out with me and then say, I don't provide any value?
That would be, that would be odd.
And so if you're waiting for me to provide value, it would be, I think it would be a little cruel.
And look, nobody's being mean to me tonight.
I fully accept that.
Nobody's being mean to me.
And I love this topic.
I think it's very interesting and very positive and very important and very helpful, very useful.
But to me, it's a form of withholding.
Right?
It's a form of withholding.
Hey man, I'll decide when you've provided enough value.
I'm not surrendering to any external standard of reciprocity.
I'm not allowing the empiricism of my actions to bully, control, and dictate my behavior.
The fact that I've listened for 50 or 100 hours doesn't obligate me.
That's, that's on me.
I'm going to choose that.
I'm going to decide that.
And if it's not happening, it's your fault.
Because it's a little bit, that's what's happening, right?
And I'm not saying it's that mean, but I think in its essence, it's like, Steph, I've listened to 50 or 100 hours of what you do.
And if I haven't donated, it's because you haven't made me donate.
Like when, it's like you probably have women who are like, well, we just don't have any chemistry.
Right?
Well, we just don't have any chemistry.
Like, I can't make a decision about who to date.
It just has to be chemistry.
I can't choose the guy based on his virtues.
I can't choose a guy based on his integrity or his honesty or his morale.
I can't choose anything based on that.
It just has to be magic, alchemy, stuff.
He's got to bring out that chemistry in me.
Like, you know this thing where women would say, you know, well, this guy, if the guys are too nice to me, it just gives me the ick.
Like, why are you so nice to me?
It's because you're desperate, right?
Somebody says, I want to try every dish at your restaurant and then I'll decide if I want to pay.
Um, not quite that, because this is a long-term thing.
I want to come back to your restaurant for three months straight.
Right?
Let's say two months, right?
Let's say you've listened to 60 hours.
Nah, that's 90 hours, right?
So that's going to a restaurant for dinner for an hour for three months, right?
So, I'm going to come to your restaurant for three months, eat your food every night,
And then I'm going to decide if I'm going to pay.
Now, of course, if I've come to your restaurant for three months straight every night and I've eaten your food, at the end of it do I get to say, you know, you haven't shown me any value?
Why have you been coming back and eating the food?
Isn't that showing value?
Somebody says, are you not kind of setting that standard by providing a free month's trial?
Not that it had an impact on me because I went in without doing that.
What do you mean by providing a free month's trial?
I don't quite understand that.
I don't quite understand that.
That's showing a kind of value that you can get.
Because, listen, some people are going to donate because they've listened to a bunch of content and they know that reciprocity is what adults do, right?
And because it's a conscience thing, and it's an integrity thing, and it's a self-respect thing, right?
Because if you're taking without returning value, it's kind of exploitive, and that's not particularly great for your conscience, right?
Again, I'm not expecting you to do as much as I do for philosophy, but, you know, the reciprocity is a mark of maturity and adulthood, right?
Whereas some people, they want to donate.
They haven't listened for much, but they really, really want to get the History of Philosophy series, or they really, really want to get History of the French Revolution, which is like 9 or 10 hours.
They really want to get the Introduction to Sadism.
There's some premium podcasts.
They want to be part of the live streams that occur on the voice chats.
They want to be part of the live streams that are donor-only.
So, they haven't listened for much, but they really want the best.
So, for them, yeah, a free month, you can try and see if that's enough benefit for you, right?
So, but here's the thing, right?
So this is... God thief.
So what you're saying is though, is you're saying, Steph, you are responsible for whether I donate.
No, no, no.
I'm not responsible for whether you donate.
I can remind you and all of that, but I'm not responsible for whether you donate.
And none of this is harsh.
None of this is mean.
I'm not trying to finger wag at anyone.
I think it's a fascinating topic.
And I really do appreciate you guys bringing this up.
But it's not up to me whether you donate.
It's up to you and your actions, and you and your actions alone.
If you consume a significant amount of value, you should reciprocate.
But then what you do is you say, well Steph, you know, you have these free trials, and you haven't proven your case yet, and all of that is an excuse for you not to be reciprocal.
And I'm, you know, as I'm a big one for no excuses.
And again, you know, if you're broke, if you're just starting out, enjoy, consume, I'm totally fine with me.
Totally fine with me.
But the other thing too is that donation is not just about you, right?
Donation is for the people who can't afford, right?
It's a lot of people who are broke students and they can't afford to support and subscribe.
So those of you who have
Some reasonable levels of income.
It's a little bit nice, isn't it, to help for the people who can't afford, right?
So it's not just about you.
And of course, it also creates all of this stuff that goes into the future with a huge wide ripple effect down the road and all this kind of stuff, right?
So what you're doing is you're saying my integrity is dependent upon Steph's actions.
He has to do this, jump through these hoops, prove this, show that, and then I'll donate.
No, I don't think that's self-ownership.
I don't think that's self-ownership.
And again, I'm not trying to guilt anyone at all.
I just think it's a really interesting topic.
And I think it's really interesting to talk about this stuff.
Thank you for the tip over there on Rumble.
I appreciate that.
Thank you.
But that's interesting, right?
And you know, I have this thing where through this month, people who donate get a copy of Peaceful Parenting, the book, right?
The e-book and the audiobook.
And a bunch of people have done that, and I appreciate that.
I really do.
But it's interesting that these are long-term listeners, because, you know, I assume, right?
And not all of them, right?
But some of them are long-term listeners.
And it's like, okay, so you're long-term listeners.
And maybe they've donated before, so I cross-referenced.
But I'm sure some of them are like, oh, a free book?
Okay, well, I'll donate.
Oh, a book?
Oh, I'll donate for that.
And again, I'm glad that they're doing it.
I'm glad to get the book out there.
But
I'm just saying that as a whole, you don't want to outsource your conscience to the actions of others because that gives you excuse for a lack of integrity.
And I have to remind myself of this all the time too, so I'm not preaching from any holy place, but when people say, well, you know, you got to prove your point or you shouldn't have an introduction because you shouldn't have a month free because that sets the stage for people not donating and so on.
It's like, no, it doesn't.
No, it doesn't.
And it's funny, of course, because... I mean, just for those of you who work in a tipping business or a tipping industry, it's really interesting to me.
Because it's everywhere now, it's ubiquitous.
And the reason it's ubiquitous is when you get one of these POS systems, these point-of-sale systems, it's default set up for donations, for tips, right?
It's default set up for tips, right?
In fact, somebody on X was showing there was a self-checkout which had a tip request at the end of it.
Like literally you scanned and bagged your own items, paid yourself, no human intervention, and then apparently the machine wants a tip, right?
But it's just set up that way, right?
I think it's a fairly good rule as a whole that if I'm ordering while standing up, I mean, I'll still tip.
Usually I'll still tip because I was a waiter and it's just a soft spot that I have.
But when I was a waiter,
Just about everyone tipped.
For me carrying food over.
And, you know, 15%, right?
That's pretty good, pretty good money.
This is all back when people did cash and coins.
So, when I was a waiter at pizza, I had this green apron, and I would get all the tips off the table, right?
Or you'd take the money, you'd get the change from the cashier, that would be your tip, right?
It's 100 bucks, they give you 115, and you get the 15 bucks.
And sometimes it would be coins if it was a smaller amount.
And so by the end of the night, I'm like, I'm like this, I sound like this knight in full chain mail armor.
Like the t60 or whatever right because I'm just rolling around with like these giant balls of change On my on my thighs, right?
But so what's interesting to me is that when all I did was carry people food Just about everybody donated But then when I'm actually working to save the world through the most powerful philosophy I think that's ever been around very few people donate so bring food donations Bring truth reason and virtue
Yeah, maybe after you jump through some hoops.
Anyway, so enough of that.
I just thought it was a very interesting topic.
And again, I'm not trying to guilt anyone.
I'm just saying this is, I think, the philosophical approach to these kinds of things that I think is important and helpful and useful.
So I'm happy to move on to whatever topics you like.
Unless there are any kind of criticisms, in which case I'll cry and rail and rage against you.
Carl Fuentes.
Oh, Nick Fuentes?
This is part of the agenda thing I was talking about before, right?
I'm off politics, right?
So, not a thing.
He's back on X, isn't he?
Is he back on X?
I think he is.
So let me ask you this question.
Let me ask you this deep philosophical question.
And with a father is out on the boat, riding the water, riding the wave on the sea.
That's a great song, Mercy Street by Peter Gabriel.
Really hypnotic cymbals in the back, or bells.
Anyway, and there's a lovely bit where they do it, he does it with his band acapella at the beginning.
Beautiful.
All of the buildings and all of the cars were once just a dream in somebody's head.
It's kind of a trite observation, but it is important.
Everything, everywhere you look, everything that's around you is frozen thought, right?
This microphone is frozen thought.
My glasses are frozen thought.
I also have been designed and conceived of and executed.
It's all frozen thought.
Everywhere you live is in the mind and imagination of other people made flesh, made real, made tangible, made material.
It's all thought to things.
You live in the frozen thoughts of other people.
So,
If you're out there on the water and you have a suitcase.
Why must I be a man in a suitcase?
You're out there in the water.
You're in a rowboat and you have a suitcase.
And you throw the suitcase overboard.
Does the water level go up or down or stay the same?
You're in a rowboat.
You got a suitcase.
And you throw your suitcase into the water.
Does the water go up or down or stay the same?
I'm not going to trick you.
I'm not going to trick you.
Well, little did you know a penguin grabbed it before it hit the water and flew off it.
It goes into the water.
Does it go up or down or stay the same?
You say it stays the same?
That was my first impulse.
It could be the right impulse.
But that wasn't my second impulse.
Does the suitcase sink?
I'm not sure that matters, fundamentally.
I'll tell you the way I reasoned it out, in my mind, right?
So, the suitcase in the boat, the boat is displacing the water, which raises the level, right?
Right, like you push a bucket into, you push an empty bucket, or a full bucket, I guess, for that matter, into a bath, the bath level rises, right?
When you take the bucket out of a bath, I forget the water, I forget the lake, like the big body of water, because it's too big for my little brain to handle.
So what I do is I think it's a little bathtub, right?
The bucket out of the bathtub, then the water level of the bathtub goes down, because it's got to fill in the hole left by the bucket.
So, when the suitcase is in the boat, the boat is pressing down on the water, which raises the level of water.
When you take the suitcase and throw it out, the boat level goes up, which lowers the water, but then the suitcase goes into the water, which raises it again.
But, I think there's a difference.
Happy to hear otherwise.
So, it doesn't really matter how heavy
The suitcase is, because when the suitcase is in the boat, it's only displacing based upon weight.
But when the suitcase goes into the water, it's displacing based upon weight and shape.
In other words, when the suitcase is in the boat, the shape of the suitcase is not displacing the water, only its weight.
But when the suitcase goes into the water, it's the weight of the suitcase that displaces, and the shape.
So, I think it does raise the water a tiny bit, and it really doesn't, like, if it's very heavy it raises it more, but if it's, let's say it's full of feathers, right, well then it's displacing the boat very little, and when it goes out, then the boat goes up a little, but, and let's say it only sinks a little, then it's still got the weight, but it's also got the shape.
If that makes sense.
And I think, like, you can say, of course, when the boat goes down a little bit more of the hull is displaced in the water, but I think with the four squares and so on, I think... Now, if the suitcase floats, it displaces the same volume as it did in the boat.
I don't think it does.
I could be wrong.
I'm not an engineer or a physicist, but I don't think it does.
Is the suitcase waterproof?
Again, I don't think that matters.
I don't think that matters, because the suitcase is going to be displacing the water based upon volume and weight, whereas in the boat it's mostly just weight.
The level goes down if the suitcase sinks.
No, I don't think that's true, because then you have all four sides plus the weight displacing the water.
Now, of course, if you think that the suitcase is super heavy, then it's going to displace more of the boat.
So the boat volume displaces because more of the boat is pressing into the water.
It raises the water level.
Anyway, so I just, I think it's, I don't know what the actual answer is, but I just thought it was a very interesting question.
Um, somebody, was it you, Jared?
Somebody put a chat GPT-4 thing.
Can you, uh, can you give me that?
Cause I can't remember where that, where that went.
But if you could give me that chat GPT-4 answer and wait, maybe that's right.
Maybe that's wrong.
I think it's pretty reliable, but.
Yeah, I think in general it stays the same, but I think there could be some slight variations based upon, because of the volume.
Because you're adding the volume of the suitcase, but when the suitcase is on the boat, then there's more volume of the boat pressing down in the water.
So I don't know how that plays out.
It's mostly the same, I think.
But I think there's a little bit more displacement with
The suitcase in the water, which I thought was interesting.
All right, so we'll wait for that.
And let me ask you this.
Do you deal with... Let's do another couple of minutes here.
I want to make sure I have to save my voice for something tomorrow.
But... Oh, wait, wait.
We've got something coming in here.
The Turbo Free Domain Chat.
The Turbo.
Sideways.
Free Domain.
Chat.
Oh, was it in Locals?
Okay, well let me see if I can dig that up, because I think then Jared did answer that.
I think?
I think he did.
I think he did.
Alright, let me see.
And I also do want to thank everyone who's given me the feedback on The Peaceful Parenting, and of course for a lot of people, The Peaceful Parenting is painful because it brings up memories and also it brings up criticisms of their own parents, so it's a really searing book.
It's a really searing book to get through.
Oh, did I not?
I thought I posted this on...
Oh, I think I posted it on... I need an answer.
I need to know.
I need to know.
Oh yes, I need an answer.
Now, I can't believe everybody fell into this trap, right?
So, there were more people who gave me feedback on the suitcase question than originally gave me feedback for many months on peaceful parenting, which was going to provoke a lecture, but then I decided to be more humane.
All right, so let's see here.
Oh, no, I don't see it there.
So somebody says, it stays the same.
Mass displaces an equal volume of water regardless of whether the mass is in or out of the boat.
More pragmatic answer is, noting that you asked in general, is that in a lake or river or sea the volume of the suitcase would be immeasurably small so you could never detect an impact even if there was one.
No, I get that, but it's a theoretical, right?
This is easy versus, why don't you give me feedback?
Yeah, quite right.
Quite right.
All right.
Oh, man.
Is it just me or is this hot?
Is it hot in here or is it just me?
A video exploring the sinking case.
Oh, that's interesting.
Oh, was it in the Telegram FDR chat?
Okay, let's see here.
My daughter is singing.
I can hear it through the vents.
Oh, beautiful.
She actually sings very nicely.
Okay, let's see here.
Yeah, that was quite a heading.
It was quite a heading.
RFK Jr.
says worm ate part of his brain and then died inside his head.
To which my daughter said, of starvation?
But let's see here.
Somebody did a big suitcase thing.
Suitcase floats versus sinks.
Oh, somebody deleted that message.
Maybe it's gone.
Oh, oh, oh, here's the chat GPT, is this the one?
Ah yes, chat with GPT, alright.
When you toss a suitcase overboard from a boat, the water level will actually lower.
Here's why.
1.
While in the boat, when the suitcase is in the boat, it adds to the total weight of the boat.
According to Archimedes' principle, the boat, including the suitcase, must displace a volume of water equal to the total weight of the boat and its contents, including the suitcase, in order to float.
After throwing the suitcase overboard, when you throw the suitcase into the water, it displaces water equal to its own volume.
Since the density of the suitcase is likely greater than water, considering it sinks, it displaces less water by volume compared to when it was in the boat, contributing to the boat's overall weight.
Is that right?
Comparison of water displacement.
When the suitcase was in the boat, the boat needed to displace an additional amount of water equivalent to the weight of the suitcase.
Very true.
However, when the suitcase is thrown overboard, it only displaces water equivalent to its volume.
Ah, interesting.
Okay.
No, but it also displaces it relative to its weight, because if it's full of feathers it displaces less water than if it's full of bricks, so I don't think that's accurate.
Um, since the weight of the suitcase in water is typically more than the volume of water it would displace if submerged, the overall displacement of water is less than when the suitcase is in the water than when it's in the boat.
Therefore, the net effect is that throwing the suitcase overboard reduces the total displacement of water.
No, I don't think that's accurate.
Again, I'm no physicist and could be totally right.
But since the weight of the suitcase in water is typically more than the volume of water it would displace if submerged, but it is...
It is submerged to some degree.
It's not floating above the water.
So in order for it to impact the water, the suitcase has weight and has to be submerged.
So you can't remove that from the equation.
It's not floating above and also impacted the water.
That's a contradiction.
Engagement test.
We are going to work on a peaceful parenting AI that is going to be available to everyone.
We're gonna work on that.
Alright.
Will you post your peaceful parenting summary somewhere public so it can be shared outside of locals?
Yeah, the whole thing's going public at some point.
Yeah, for sure.
Relatively soon.
So, if you go to... If you go to...
Premium.freedomain.com.
Let me just double check that.
I really should know this.
Sorry, James.
If you go to... If you go to premium.freedomain.com, you can see... Yes.
You can see all the cool stuff.
All the cool stuff that's going on.
And one of the things you get is DefBot AI, which has been trained on all of my books that are nonfiction.
It's been trained on all of my articles and it's been trained on a fairly significant number of podcast transcriptions.
So it's really, really close to me.
And, and, if English doesn't happen to be your first language, and I really, really do appreciate those who are listening to me when it's not their first language, but the StephBot AI has like 70 different languages.
You can ask it in whatever language you want, it will reply in that language.
So it's really, really cool, as far as that goes.
And you can ask it all the questions you want about peaceful parenting, but we are going to create, this is sort of one of the projects we have ongoing, we are going to create an AI specifically for peaceful parenting.
And then you can ask just about any questions to prove what's the scientific data behind ACEs, and you can get those kinds of answers without having to burrow through all the 800 pages or whatever it is of the book.
So we are definitely working on that, and that's, I think, a pretty big project.
And that's going to be open.
That's going to be, I mean, we'll have a bit of a testing period to make sure you can't tell it to, you know, sell newborns into slavery, but we are definitely going to be working on that.
This video just reminded me of how the physics girl, hey, is this still Praxgirl?
I mean, like once every year or two, I think of Praxgirl.
Is she still around?
Let me have a look.
I did a show with her many, many years ago.
All right.
That's a girl.
She was a very pretty girl who was talking about Austrian economics.
Is she still around?
Oh, looks like she is, but I don't know.
When did she last post?
Two years ago.
Videos.
Oh yeah.
318 views.
396 views.
9.1k views.
But good!
I'll put the link here so you can check her out.
She was fun.
And they certainly did, what, 12 years ago?
13 years ago?
It doesn't look like there's me.
12 years ago.
I wonder what ever happened to her.
She was very smart.
A lot of fun.
But it looks like she has gone the way of the dodo.
Although she had 10 years.
Your abusive relationship with Daddy State.
Yeah, 373 views.
Anyway, I don't think I'm on here.
No.
They may have scrubbed me for various reasons.
Anyway, here's the link.
It was a good show.
Alright, let's see here.
All right, some questions, comments.
Yeah, do you deal with any chronic pain?
I was just reading like up to half of Americans deal with chronic pain and a quarter of them have been dealing with it for 13 years or more.
Steph, I think you're now doing even better work than in your heyday on YouTube.
That is very telling.
Well, thank you.
I appreciate it.
I'm constantly astonished at what I'm coming up with.
I just did this whole argument about how atheists are more superstitious than Christians.
We will be adding the other donor perks to premium.freedomain.com.
Yeah, go check out premium.freedomain.com.
You can see all the cool stuff that you get.
I mean, five bucks a month, seriously.
I already use your StephBot when I'm having difficulty understanding something and it's pretty accurate.
Yeah, I think it is.
I think it is.
I think it is.
Any other tips tonight?
Just out of curiosity?
Maybe mildly related to the long talk about conscience and integrity.
I mean, you know, I had to get a haircut today, man.
It's funny, you know, I got a haircut today and was chatting with my hairdresser, and I don't obviously have any kind of regular thing, but wherever I happen to be, it's not like I've got a number two buzz, it's pretty easy.
And please do the ears, right?
You can't do the forehead.
There's nothing to do on the forehead, but because I'm over 50, please weed-whack the ears a little, that'd be excellent.
The flattest ears known to man, you know?
Because these people, it's like they can get interstellar FM with their ears.
There was a guy on Sherlock about that.
Um, so you ever have this thing where you're kind of feeling each other out for original thought, right?
So, you know, we were chatting at this, that, and the other, and I sort of won't get into the details of the conversation, but it ended up being quite a lot about
You know, Bill Gates buying up the farmland and them wanting to not be farmers and, you know, hating cows and like all this kind of stuff, right?
And Mark Zuckerberg, who apparently is quite concerned about climate change, and has a $300 million mega yacht that can land a plane and has four giant diesel engines.
It's hilarious, right?
I mean, it's so in your face, right?
Uh, you know, you have this thing where you're just kind of feeling someone out.
Like, okay, how far can we go here?
Right.
How can we, uh, how far can we go?
Yeah.
The angel bot.
I think, I think we still want to call it peaceful parenting bot.
Cause we want to brand that, but I think that the prompt can say angel bot or something like that.
Yeah.
Cause they're like the angels from the present, but I think that's too, um, it's intro to philosophy put into staff bot AI.
Yes.
Yes, it is.
We'll donate a large chunk soon myself.
I appreciate that.
And of course, if you're holding some crypto, it's very gratefully accepted as well, there as well, so that's very nice.
Agreed.
Your best work is consistently what is being posted tomorrow.
Tried to buy coins.
Local's website.
Purchase button grayed out.
Where else can we give tips?
Yeah, freedomain.com slash donate.
Very much appreciated.
And I, you know, I'll tell you this.
I'll give you guys a gift that will take your soul.
I will give you guys a gift that will take your soul.
I think I'll do that tomorrow.
I had a call in with a guy whose girlfriend, he was with this woman for a long time, and she cheated on him within a couple of months of getting married.
Man, it was rough.
And you can sort of get a sense of what that's like when I release the show.
We did a roleplay that was 27 minutes long.
That was by far the most brutal roleplay I have ever experienced in this show.
Because he was roleplaying his wife, and oh my god, like,
I don't think I've ever gone through that many flashes of emotions and colors.
I'm glad I didn't have the video on me.
I looked like a disco light.
Thank you, Kev.
Kevin?
Kev?
Kev.
I appreciate that.
But, yeah, I mean, it was unbelievable.
And I'll put this out for donors tomorrow, and I'll put a warning, like, if you've ever been around dysfunctional people, and in particular a really dysfunctional girlfriend,
I mean, it's funny, there was a guy, I can't remember if it was the same guy, but I was talking to a caller recently whose relationship's on the line, and
I sort of asked him about what he attracted to his girlfriend, in particular because of her looks, and he's like, no, we're both kind of sixes, sevens kind of thing, right?
Anyway, so he played all of the insights that I had to his girlfriend, and she ended up storming out because he referred to her as a six or a seven, as far as she could get.
I'm like, oh man, talk about missing the forest for the trees, right?
Like the dog sat when it, what did the dog say when it sat on sandpaper?
All right.
Any other last comments or questions or issues?
Um, uh, getting into your books and I enjoy sci-fi and fantasy.
So I started listening to the future.
It's funny because you started listening to the future in the present, but you will listen to the present in the future.
All right.
Uh, do you remember that emergency call in with the bride who cheated on her fiance on her bachelorette party and he flew home?
What happened to him?
Curious.
Yeah.
Yeah, I'm curious too.
I'm curious, but yellow!
Uh, this month, man.
Totally free.
Buka buka buka.
Kambuka.
Kambucha.
It's my new drug.
Kambucha.
And, uh, let me just post this here.
Uh, what about the column about the guy who was illegal in dating the American woman?
Always wondering.
LOL.
Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, you can go to freedomain.com slash testimonial for a lot of people's like and how it's impacted their...
It's at freedomain.com slash donate you.
There's a testimonials thing, which we're going to move more to the main page.
Did we ever get that done?
I can't remember if we did or not, but we're going to move that to the main page so people can get a sense of just how much the show.
I've sort of given up collecting them, but I have for a year or two, I was collecting the testimonials I was getting and it's just amazing.
So, I mean, that just gives you the fuel to overcome almost every obstacle.
That just gives you the fuel to overcome almost
Every obstacle and that's beautiful.
It's just beautiful.
It's all too beautiful.
All right.
I'll do the last comments question.
It's all good.
I tip hundreds.
All for good.
You deserve it.
Evan, that is heroic and massively appreciated.
Thank you.
Thank you so much.
Tanky, tanky, tanky.
I appreciate it.
More than words.
Really look forward to that.
Oh yeah, that would be a fun show.
We'll have to sort of arrange it.
It would be kind of fun, you know.
It'd be sort of in my dreams.
It would be like fun to rent out a whole convention center and have a reunion of callers.
And we give them tags with their actual show numbers on them.
Come back, hey, how are things going?
That would be really cool.
Did a guy get arrested for calling back in the day?
I have a vague memory.
Yes, there was a call
Where the guy was talking about all of the challenges in his life and there was a ding dong and bro got arrested during the course of the show and his girlfriend took over.
That was something.
And I still get some pretty jaw-dropping conversations.
A lot of them go into the donor section because they're just a little too wild and too easy to misinterpret for the general population.
So, the spiciest call-ins, without a doubt, and really, honestly, I don't mean to oversell, but some of the best call-ins, they are in the premium section.
Arrested for what?
Well, do you ever have dreams about Collins?
I'm sure I have, but I can't remember any at the moment.
Surprised they rang the doorbell.
Well, I think in general they do ring the doorbell.
Um, I think in general they still do.
Rough dad joke?
Yes, I'm afraid it was.
I'm absolutely, I'm absolutely afraid it totally was a dad joke.
Not gonna lie.
Not gonna hide it.
Uh, let's see here.
Yeah, there's this new flex going on on social media, which is people complaining about babies crying.
People complaining about babies crying.
That's so sad.
I saw this thread too.
If you sleep less than seven hours, you're making a gigantic mistake.
So total testosterone and total sleep time is dose dependent.
Right.
So people who sleep like four and a half hours are getting 250 testosterone.
People who are eight are like 600 and it goes, you know, goes up, goes up in a line.
So get your sleep, get your sleep, friends.
Um.
Yeah, this woman says all the girls who are being 20 right now being absolute whores in the club in 10 years, they're going to be 30 trying to settle down and realize that all the good guys are taken.
They had a complaint that they were run through their whole life.
But while they were partying for the past 10 years, all the good girls got cuffed by the good guys.
And so now when they look at all the men that are options, they're going to be competing with the now 20 year old good girls and be stuck.
Why?
Because all the good guys are gone.
You missed your chance being an effing whore witch.
That's kind of funny.
Yeah, AstraZeneca vaccine has been withdrawn worldwide.
That's really something.
That's really something.
That's really something.
You know, philosophy always means being sorry that you're right.
Philosophy always means being sorry that you're right.
This, I don't know if this is true or not.
So if somebody says, because I grew up, somebody says, my parents told me eating carrots was good for my eyes in the 1960s.
I only lately discovered that was 1940 British disinformation to cover up why the RAF was winning the Battle of Britain.
RAF pilots ate carrots to improve their eyesight.
Actually, it was a secret called radar.
Did you know that?
I knew about the spinach thing, that the benefits of spinach was because of a typo.
It took forever to get fixed.
But, yeah.
I love this.
A friend of mine is an avid bicyclist, and I sent him this meme.
Pedestrians, I have to be careful not to get hit by a car.
Drivers, I have to be careful not to hit anyone with my car.
Cyclists, and then there's just a picture of the Japanese kamikaze pilots from World War II, and it's like, oh my god.
That's wild.
That's wild.
You can literally spend the rest of your life and never finish watching women complain about prices in Canada.
Isn't that something?
Isn't that something?
So...
Her girlfriend hired a private investigator on her boyfriend because she thinks he's cheating just to find out that he's getting food and watching a movie by himself.
So he's just in a restaurant watching a movie on his phone because that's how little peace and quiet he has at home.
Man, you have to, have to, have to be peaceful, positive and fun and engaging and enjoyable with the people you live with.
Oh my gosh.
You have to, have to, have to have that man.
If you can't bring peace and joy to the people around you, your relationships will not last.
Um, there's also, it's a TikTok filter that says, it shows you what you look like as a liberal.
It's absolutely hilarious.
I think the redheaded libertarian went and did it too.
And it shows you how you look as a liberal.
It's truly staggering.
Uh, just how much it makes people look, uh, somewhat different, somewhat different.
Oh, this is nasty.
This is from Pearly Things, H. Pearl Davis.
One-seventh of the world population has been aborted in the last 50 years.
Owen Benjamin was really ragging on boomers saying about how they aborted a third of Gen X. Aborted a third of Gen X. Oh yeah, the Lawrence Southern article.
Uh, there's another meme that I thought was funny.
Sorry, I'll just describe it for the audio.
Me, kills a huge mouse with a baseball bat.
Everyone else at Disneyland.
Very funny.
This is from Carnivore Aurelius.
In 1917, the USDA recommended men eat bread, butter, meat, sugar, fruits, greens, poultry, fish, eggs, cheese, and milk, and almost nobody was obese.
Today, we're told to avoid bread, butter, meat, sugar, cheese, and milk, and 40% of people are obese.
It's time to wake up.
I have no answers about nutrition.
I just thought that was very interesting.
I have no answers about nutrition.
Have you ever seen the movie Ordinary People?
It's a movie I haven't seen in forever and ever, amen.
I do remember it being quite powerful, and Mary Tyler Mott was great, really playing against time.
All right, let me just go back and check your comments, psychotists!
All right, let's see here.
Show must go on.
I'm looking for a man in finance.
I'm looking for a man who's six foot four.
I'm looking for a man with blue eyes.
I'm looking for a man in finance.
Oh my gosh.
Just horrendous.
He got arrested for bail violation, didn't show up for court.
Yeah, I think that was the guy.
Anti-lateralism propaganda.
It's, um, man.
It's rough.
Almost 40% of Chinese couples don't have kids and don't plan to.
Dinks, right?
Double income, no kids.
Man, it's rough.
I'm looking for a man in finance!
Yeah.
The show that you get for filling out the feedback form was great.
Yeah, actually, Jared, if you could post the feedback form, that'd be great.
I saw a small section of a recent Fresh and Fit show, and one of the girls on the panel said this generation is out of control because parents aren't whooping their kids anymore.
So tiring and predictable.
Yeah.
I remember a girl in high school that spent a solid year eating carrots trying to save her eyesight from needing glasses.
It did not work, of course.
Yeah, well, most of the girls eating carrots in my high school were trying to get boyfriends.
But, you know, different time.
Different time.
Leaves and all.
Cyclists are like a cult of people that's only unifying tension tenant is to annoy people.
They even have a cult uniforms that they wear.
That's pretty funny.
All right.
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I'm literally addicted to the word literally.
It's a punchiness and a pseudoproof and it's a terrible word to use in that way.
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