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Why People Leave
00:03:44
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| All right. | |
| The idea of Steph being more blunt slightly boggles my mind. | |
| Well, you know, I listen to comments. | |
| I read comments. | |
| And some of them are nonsense, but some of them are, of course, very interesting. | |
| By the way, this guy who posted about, hey, whatever happened to Stefan Molyneux? | |
| He was kind of neutral. | |
| He was kind of milquetoast, but they nuked him out of the universe. | |
| That thing's at like 5.4 million views or something like that. | |
| I mean, it's pretty crazy. | |
| Pretty crazy. | |
| But good. | |
| So... | |
| Somebody was like, oh, he was more direct back in 2015, 2016, 2017. And there's some truth in that. | |
| There's some truth in that. | |
| But I'm going to be wrestling myself back to the high, challenging, butt-scraping, charging horse of directness as best I can. | |
| All right. | |
| Steph says, Joe, I just renewed my locals subscription for another year. | |
| Looking forward to another great year. | |
| Well, thank you. | |
| I appreciate that. | |
| Local subscriptions are going down. | |
| And not by a tiny amount. | |
| So, I mean, this is just a general business issue. | |
| I mean, if you've been an entrepreneur, you kind of understand this. | |
| So, there's always, right, it's called turnover, right? | |
| So, people get into the show, they get distracted, they forget about it, they don't listen for a while, or for whatever reason, my content doesn't grab them by the brain horns and ride them to a blinding sunrise of illumination. | |
| And so, they end up, oh, I forgot about this. | |
| Renewal, I'm going to cancel or let it decay or whatever, not renew. | |
| And so normally you get people who just decay out of the show. | |
| I don't know why, but it happens. | |
| And then you get people who come in. | |
| Now, because I'm not as prominent as I used to be, and of course I've never really advertised, not on other people's shows, not on a major platform, the input is less than the output. | |
| So the outflow of people supporting the show is less than the inflow of people supporting. | |
| It's great. | |
| Sorry, the outflow is greater than the inflow. | |
| And that's just a fact. | |
| Obviously, I can try and do my best to give you quality, positive shows and be helpful and useful and productive and all of that kind of stuff. | |
| But it's just to say that if you are listening to this now, live or later, if you haven't subscribed and you've been listening for a while, I mean, I think it's personally, I just think it's the honorable thing to do is to support. | |
| What it is that you care about. | |
| Like, whatever you fund is going to get stronger. | |
| Whatever you don't fund is going to get weaker. | |
| And I think we all want philosophy to get stronger in the world. | |
| And, you know, just by the by, like, the mass immigrant rape of little girls in England is back in the news because of a report. | |
| And I posted on Locals just way over a decade ago. | |
| I was talking about this in very strong terms. | |
| So just having been right for so long and It's brutal, right? | |
| It's really, really tough. | |
| I hate being right, and the price of being early is horrendous at times. | |
| So, if you are listening, you want to help support philosophy, not just in the here and now. | |
| The philosophy that we do here is for all time. | |
| It is for all time, forever and ever. | |
| Amen. | |
| And it changes things. | |
| I get philosophy doesn't change a huge amount sometimes in the here and now, although it can in your personal life, but societal-wise, it takes time. | |
| So, if you have not Subscribed, it would be gratefully accepted. | |
| There, of course, are massive benefits to subscriptions. | |
| You get like 120 or 140 shows. | |
| You get the truth about the French Revolution and all kinds of other great stuff that goes on in the donor section. | |
| And there are private donor channels which we can talk about and talk with. | |
| So you get a lot of benefits. | |
| You get to help philosophy. | |
| I think it's pretty good for your own conscience. | |
| And, you know, you can donate for the price of, I don't know, a cup of coffee a week. | |
| Cup of coffee a week. | |
| $2.50 for a coffee. | |
| Four weeks, $10. | |
| You can subscribe. | |
| It's very helpful. | |
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Help Philosophy Conscience
00:01:05
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| People are leaving. | |
| Of course, that's inevitable. | |
| And if you could help either by subscribing or if you are subscribing, and again, obviously, if there are financial issues, massively sympathize. | |
| It can be a tough economy out there. | |
| So if you could hold on to your subscription, I would really appreciate that. | |
| And if you would like to help out, I would really. | |
| Appreciate that. | |
| As well. | |
| So thank you, Joe. | |
| By the way. | |
| By the way. | |
| Thank you for being so blunt, Steph. | |
| I needed that. | |
| Good. | |
| We need more of this, Steph. | |
| Right. | |
| Right. | |
| I love the bluntness. | |
| A 43-year-old can technically still have a child. | |
| You mean a 43-year-old woman? | |
| That's some real dice rolling, man. | |
| That's some real dice rolling. | |
| Because it's not just can you have a child, it's can you have a healthy child. | |
| Can you have a healthy child? | |
| You're right. | |
| Those painted on eyebrows. | |
| Yeah, it's wild, man. | |
| Feminine fit cooperative. | |
| Yes, that's right. | |