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Jan. 10, 2025 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
04:50
Being More Direct in 2025
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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.
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.
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