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Jan. 11, 2025 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux

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	Good evening, good evening.
	Welcome, my friends, to the show that seemingly never ends.
	It will at some point, but we've a long way to go.
	And we are 10.01.25.
	10.01.25.
	Friday night.
	Welcome, welcome back.
	And we've got a lot to talk about tonight, I'm not going to lie.
	Because, you know, it's philosophy.
	I really can't.
	I really shouldn't.
	I really can't.
	I really shouldn't.
	So let me ask you this.
	Just let's get started straight up with the heavy-duty stuff, right?
	How was my day?
	My day was good.
	Yeah, my day was good.
	I woke up.
	Somebody needed an emergency call-in, so I did that.
	And then I did another call-in.
	And then I went to go and see Mufasa with Izzy, and then we did a movie review.
	And then I played some pickleball.
	And then I had a little bit of potato and meatball and salad.
	And then I am show.
	I am show.
	So, I would say it was a fine day of good philosophy and helping the world.
	So, of course, thank you everyone so much for your support of the show.
	Freedomman.com slash donate to help out.
	So, the day was good.
	How was your guys' day?
	How was your day?
	How was your day?
	Working hard.
	That's a full day, yeah?
	It's a good day.
	Okay, well, while I'm waiting to hear about your days, there was something quite interesting that was going on in studies.
	Now, the studies were around testosterone.
	Have you got your testosterone levels checked?
	Have you got your testosterone levels checked?
	You might want to.
	Get them checked.
	Here's something interesting.
	So there's a new testosterone study, and it says giving men a dose of testosterone makes them less likely to, quote, feign pro-social behavior, end quote, in front of an audience.
	Basically, a man with higher testosterone will do what he truly believes is right, rather than what he thinks others think is right.
	So, let's read this.
	Humans are strategically more pro-social when their actions are being watched by others than when they act alone.
	Using a psychopharmacogenetic approach, say that three times drunk, we investigated the endocrinological and computational mechanisms of such audience-driven pro-sociality.
	So, 192 male participants received either a single dose of testosterone on 50 mg or a placebo and performed a pro-social and self-benefiting reinforcement learning task.
	Crucially, the task was produced either in private or when being watched.
	And what happened was the higher testosterone men were able to do what they thought was right rather than getting sucked into this Milgram's experiment of Doing what other people think is right.
	So this goes back to a certain old meme that's been floating around for quite some time, which says that most people who are unable to defend themselves, sort of physically weak and so on, they don't ask what is true.
	They can only ask what is approved of.
	What will I not get in trouble for saying?
	So in terms of the fall of testosterone, I mean, I think this is interesting.
	I don't know what causes it.
	Microplastics in the balls are sedentary.
	Lifestyle, excessive video games and stress, a gynocentric educational environment, absence of fathers within the homes.
	I think it's all.
	But the population is much more pliable and compliant when the population is lower testosterone.
	When men are lower testosterone, we're just easier to push around.
	And high testosterone men, or what used to be average testosterone men, are incomprehensible.
	They're incomprehensible to low testosterone men.
	They look insane.
	A truth is only available to the strong.
	And this is why I've always told people, you don't know what your beliefs are until you work out.
	You don't know what your beliefs are until you're physically strong.
	You know, can you do 40 push-ups?
	Can you do 100 sit-ups?
	Can you do squat lunges?
	Can you do Satan squat?
	Frogs from hell called burpees.
	Can you bench?
	Do you lift?
	Do you even lift, bro?
	You don't know what you believe when you're weak.
	You only know what you believe when you're strong.
	So, please do your blood work.
	It's not medical advice.
	Talk to your doctor.
	But I suggest get some blood work done and see where you're at.
	All right, so let's get to your comments.
	Let's get to your comments.
	Yeah, we put out a two-part call in today.
	Husband and wife, FDR Podcast, 5799 and 5800. Yes, yes, yes.
	So that's worth checking out.
	FDRpodcasts.com slash 5799 and 5800. Excellent.
	Excellent stuff.
	Don't forget you can tip on Rumble and Locals here.
	If you'd like to help out the show, I'd really, really appreciate that.
	Let's see here.
	Usually these live stream prompts for Bitcoin purchase, this one would be the testosterone levels lab kit.
	I think, you know, I'm a big fan of blood work.
	Get it done and figure out where you are.
	As you get older, you know, I've known people who've just dropped off the face of the earth because they hadn't been tracking their health that way.
	It's good to get a baseline and good to check it out.
	For more on that, Mike Cernovich is a big proponent of blood work and he knows his stuff very well.
	All right.
	Boom, boom, boom.
	Yeah, so if somebody is physically weak, if they don't exercise, if they have, you know, that sort of modern scant beard pudge face, you know, the moon face, if they've got, you know, sloping shoulders, bad posture, if all of their success is virtual, I don't, I'm not talking to the person.
	I'm only talking to the weakness.
	That drives me crazy.
	I'm not talking to the person.
	I'm not talking to the mind.
	I'm only talking to the weakness.
	You know, one of the things in ancient Rome that was essential for maintaining power over the slaves was what?
	You know this guy.
	You guys know this.
	What were slaves never allowed to do?
	What was forbidden to slaves?
	What was forbidden to slaves?
	What were they not allowed to do?
	Forbidden.
	And...
	Cannot be done.
	They were not allowed to exercise.
	They were not allowed to work out.
	Well, they were allowed to read.
	I mean, a lot of them.
	I mean, some of them had to read if they were bookkeepers or accountants or something like that, but no, they were not allowed to work out.
	The ancient slaves were not allowed to exercise.
	It was forbidden.
	Any slave with muscles was severely punished.
	So, that tells you something.
	Tells you something!
	Something quite important.
	Now, let me ask you this as well.
	Let me ask you this.
	Do you care?
	And I should.
	Maybe I should.
	Maybe I should.
	I don't really.
	But do you care about the fires?
	You can promote a link here.
	Steve, that's fine.
	That's fine.
	So, what if muscles are needed for the work?
	Oh, my friend, you can puzzle that one out for yourself.
	Do you care about the fires in California?
	I mean, really, one of the greatest catastrophes in American history, as far as...
	Yeah, do you care?
	I mean, people are just reaping the rewards of being willfully ignorant.
	I mean, it's funny because a lot of people sold their souls to get wealth and power, bought houses in California, and the devil took them all.
	Fires are sad for the people who live there.
	Well, here's the thing, too.
	So in California, I think it was in 1988, in California, they voted in a law that said that insurance companies couldn't raise their rates without government permission.
	Why?
	Because the government didn't want the rates to go up.
	Because insurance rates rising is bad for the government.
	Because it indicates mismanagement on the part of the government.
	Because the government has no skin in the game, right?
	FUMU, fuck up, move up.
	Like, you just get promoted.
	At least in the private industry, it's something called the Peter Principle, which is somebody who's always promoted one step above their actual competence.
	They're always voted in one step.
	Thanks, Matt.
	They're always voted in one step above.
	So the junior programmer becomes a programmer, becomes a senior programmer, becomes a project lead, becomes a manager, and then they're bad at being a manager.
	But then it's hard to demote them.
	So someone goes one, but then they don't go beyond manager because they're bad at being a manager.
	So people get promoted one layer above their actual competence, and then they just kind of sit there doing damage, right?
	And this is why a lot of people end up getting fired, because they go one step beyond their competence.
	So that's called the Peter Principle in the army, in government, and so on.
	And Kash Patel goes into this in his book, Government Gangsters.
	FUMU, fuck up, move up.
	If you really screw something up, you will be promoted, because nobody wants to admit their mistakes and admit their faults.
	And the people who screw up, who have no shame about it, end up blaming everyone else and pretending they didn't screw up and everyone else betrayed them and then they get very aggressive and people just promote them to get them out of their way.
	Also, a lot of people get promoted and moved into obscure positions so they can't do any damage to the actual productivity of the organization in one form or another.
	So, the Californians and the government The Californians wanted something for nothing, which is don't make my insurance rates go up.
	And the government wanted something for nothing, which was votes by just banning insurance companies from insurance.
	So the insurance companies in California, they're only allowed to use these old tables.
	They can't adapt to new circumstances, new conditions.
	And so, you know, they want to hide rising crime from the population.
	And so one of the things that would happen with rising crime is insurance goes up.
	They want to hide arsonists, right?
	I did this whole presentation on the destruction of America's mental health care institutions, which you can find at fdrpodcast.com.
	If somebody could dig up the number, I can read it off.
	Thank you.
	And so they turned a lot of people loose from the asylums.
	And of course, they turned a lot of people loose from the prisons.
	And that's bad.
	Bad for society.
	It's a destabilization.
	Basically, it's people who had abused childhoods who got left behind.
	Do the crimes and other people who had abused childhoods and got left behind release the prisoners into the population as a vengeance.
	For more on this you can check out my presentation on the French Revolution at premium.freedomain.com So the government wanted to hide incompetence in the crime rates and people wanted free or cheap insurance so they banned insurance companies from being able to raise their rates.
	And they needed to raise their rates because government incompetence was massive.
	No controlled burns, not enough water, storage, and factors other than pure meritocracy in the fire department and in the management of all of this sort of stuff.
	In other words, and I mentioned this before on the show, incredibly highly complex systems founded on a ruthless meritocracy cannot survive anything else.
	A system that is rooted on a ruthless meritocracy cannot survive any other methodology for promotion.
	So, in 1988, it became pretty much impossible for insurance companies to raise their rates in any sensible, reactive fashion.
	So what happened was, insurance companies just stopped insuring people.
	Can't make money at it.
	It's way too risky.
	They can do the math.
	They've got skin in the game.
	The government doesn't, and the people don't, at least in the short run.
	So, what's happened, of course, is a lot of people's houses are burned to the ground and they're not even insured.
	And then what's going to happen is people are going to try and rebuild, right?
	They're going to try and rebuild.
	I mean, still some of the best real estate on the planet, right?
	So, I shouldn't laugh, but this is the consequence of people's greed, corruption, and delusion.
	So, let me ask you, what is going to happen when people try to rebuild California.
	What is going to happen when they try to rebuild in California?
	They are going to run into the endless, thorny, bottomless hellhole of permits, regulations, licenses, and begging indifferent bureaucrats for permission.
	And...
	Given that everyone's going to try and rebuild at the same time, the delays are going to be massive.
	Five to ten years easy to get permission to rebuild.
	Now, you may know, you may not know, that five or six years ago, I did a whole lengthy documentary on the disaster waiting to happen called California.
	It's called Sunset in the Golden State.
	You can get it for free at freedomain.com slash documentaries.
	freedomain.com slash documentaries.
	Now, I do love this.
	Dog ate my homework.
	Climate change!
	Climate change.
	It's just climate change.
	It's just...
	Climate change.
	Everything is climate change.
	Well, given that climate change, even if you believe in it, is a known thing, it still should have been taken into account by the government bureaucrats.
	Go back to the 1974 Roman Polanski-slash-rapist film Chinatown for how corrupt the water situation is in California.
	It's wretched.
	But at least they gave a lot of firefighting equipment to Ukraine and money and everything.
	I'm no expert in this, but...
	So, think of how much CO2 has been released into the air because of these fires.
	So, if you're really concerned about climate change, You'd absolutely want to make sure that you are totally prepared for fires, right?
	So saying, we're having these fires because of climate change, is saying, well, we're having these fires because of CO2, and therefore there's no possible way to not release billions and billions and billions of tons of CO2 through these massive fires, and therefore what?
	Can't remediate anything.
	Can't remediate anything.
	So, of course, some people are saying, well, why not just, you know, it's right on the water, man.
	It's right on the water.
	Just take the seawater and dump it on the fire.
	Well, what's the, um...
	What was it somebody was saying?
	Leftists trying to figure out how to blame the California...
	Fires on white men, but not Gavin Newsom!
	What is the problem with dumping seawater on land?
	And I'll tell you while I'm waiting for the answer, let me tell you, man.
	So, way back in the day, this is back in the 90s.
	It's a long-ass time around now, early 90s.
	Ah, no, mid-90s.
	I went to California a lot for business.
	I went to California a lot for business.
	And, wow, it was absolute paradise.
	It was absolute paradise.
	I used to go with the salespeople and we would have, I remember crossing over the bay and having a beautiful steak dinner and these Kind of hobbit restaurants in the sides of the California hills, and you could walk the city at night, and it was paradise.
	It was absolutely...
	I mean, California in the 60s and 70s, but, you know, in the 90s, it was still pretty great.
	It was still pretty fantastic.
	It was amazing.
	Now, well, not so much.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Not so much.
	Very sadly.
	So, it's all gonna change.
	Alright, so let me get back to your answers here.
	So, yeah, it destroys the soil, the salt corrodes just about everything, and so it kills the vegetation, and, you know, they literally used to call it when you destroy a country or a culture, you would salt the earth.
	It would salt the earth.
	Yeah, if they'd had control burned, if they'd logged things, and so on.
	And this...
	Yeah, my family did a family vacation, says Steve, in Southern California in the mid-90s.
	What a glorious place.
	Yeah, it was beautiful.
	Less than 20 years.
	Right.
	No, wait, sorry.
	I lied.
	Less than 30 years.
	Yeah, I'm older.
	I'm old!
	So, yeah, less than 30 years.
	It's almost completely...
	Gotten wrecked.
	So, yeah, it's a bad scene.
	It's a very, very bad scene.
	It was probably much better when you were there.
	I'm young, and it was good, as I remember, but that was like 2008. Still better than it is now.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Yep.
	So, I mean, maybe people will...
	Learn?
	Maybe people will learn.
	Maybe they will learn.
	But when you want something for nothing, you get something for nothing, and then you lose your soul.
	Right?
	And, you know, has there been a whole bunch of lightning out there in California recently?
	I don't think so.
	So, I do think that it's arson, and they've arrested some arsonists, of course.
	But of course, America has a lot of leftist DAs, so it just puts people out.
	So this is what David Lind, this is 19 hours ago, he said this LA fire is the most destructive in US history.
	29,000 acres destroyed, 57 billion dollars in economic damage, 180,000 people evacuated, and that is just wild, right?
	The fire is the size of the entire city of San Francisco, 45 square miles or 29,000 acres.
	It's the seventh most expensive natural disaster in U.S. history outside of the 2020 election.
	And 180,000 people have been ordered to evacuate.
	200,000 are under evacuation warnings.
	Seven confirmed deaths.
	I think they're up to ten.
	I think they're up to ten now.
	Ten deaths.
	But the other thing, too, I mean, what's going to happen is people breathing in all of this smoke.
	I don't know if you've ever been around a forest fire.
	But it's really tough to breathe.
	Everything stinks.
	It gets everywhere.
	And being inside only does a certain amount of good.
	There are 16 investigators looking into the cause of the fire.
	Yeah, arson, if I had to guess.
	23 people have been arrested for looting homes in evacuation zones.
	According to Fire Chief David Akuna, some 95% of wildfires in LA are started by humans.
	The fire will lead to air pollution that will remain for weeks.
	Breathing the smoke can kill you.
	It has been shown to increase the risk of lung disease, heart disease, and dementia.
	As I said before, many insurance companies dropped people's fire protection last summer.
	State Farm announced in March 2024 that it would not renew 72,000 property insurance policies.
	1600 of these homes were in the Pacific Palisades.
	LA has experienced little rain over the past few months.
	Humidity levels dropping below 5%.
	Dry vegetation and strong winds, you get massive fires.
	Well, something still needs to start to fire, right?
	The LA water system is not designed for large fires.
	Well, this is the other thing, too.
	As you jam more and more people into an area, you get more and more resource requirements, right?
	Some fire hydrants stopped working because local water tanks held only about a million gallons.
	Water was also needed to be pumped upwards to places like the Pacific Palisades.
	Firefighters have known about this risk for years.
	Here's a quote from a firefighter.
	If the wind hits the wrong way, it's just going to burn straight through L.A. and there's nothing we can do about it.
	It's like London, 1666, the Great Fire of London.
	Bernie Sanders, of course, is blaming climate change.
	Thank you.
	Of course he is.
	Of course he is.
	So.
	Very sad.
	Very sad.
	But, I mean, I am no longer interested in giving people sympathy for the inevitable consequences of their own bad decisions.
	I'm just, I'm not.
	I have no emotional energy or interest or enthusiasm left for giving sympathy for the utterly predictable results of people's own greed, stupidity, and futility.
	Yeah, you wanted the government to handle everything.
	You wanted something for free.
	This is what you wanted, and this is what you're going to get, right?
	So, maybe they'll learn.
	Maybe.
	Maybe they'll learn.
	But I seriously doubt it.
	I seriously, seriously doubt it.
	They won't learn until things get even worse.
	You know, will people learn that you shouldn't try and get things for free, for quote free, right?
	Should they?
	Will they ever learn that?
	Right?
	I mean, people come, like, you get the welfare state, right?
	You get the welfare state, everyone's like, oh, wow, this is great, we can take care of the poor, the welfare state.
	And then what happens is, with the welfare state comes a lot of people who want to come and take advantage of the welfare state.
	So, you end up not really taking care of the poor, of course, right?
	You end up not really taking care of the poor.
	And instead, what happens is you end up with more and more poor people and then you end up with people coming from other countries to take care of or to access all of the resources from the welfare state.
	So you don't take care of the poor, but you end up with a lot of people coming to take care, to use the benefits of this.
	And it's really a terrible thing.
	But the wages of sin, right, is fire in this case, right?
	If you use hellish morality, it turns into hell for you, right?
	It turns into hell for you.
	So, let's see what happens to people.
	All right, let's see here.
	you Yeah, you take what you want, and then you have to pay for it.
	You take what you want, and then you have to pay for it.
	California will not learn they would just elect other Democrats.
	Well, of course, remember, California used to be a staunch Republican state.
	California gave America Ronald Reagan, for better and for worse.
	All right.
	Do you think that this will cause any political shifts in Cali since a lot of rich people got hurt this time?
	you Well, people, unfortunately, when they make bad decisions, there's a massive, massive, massive market for it's not my fault.
	It wasn't my bad decision.
	It wasn't me.
	And so this is why it's climate change.
	It's...
	It's the insurance, bad insurance companies.
	It's white people somehow.
	So how many people can actually look in the mirror and say, well, I wanted things for free, and this is the result?
	And, of course, people have lost Christianity, so they have lost that narrative, right?
	All right.
	Oh, yeah, and just letting the criminals back out into the public, right?
	Steph, have you discussed the Greenland, Canada, and potentially Mexico annexations to the USA yet?
	That's not going to happen.
	That's not going to happen.
	So, Trump is a wily old bastard, as we all know.
	So, I don't know what the technical term for it is.
	It may be a gish gallop.
	But what happens is, so, you know, Trump is, what, 12 days from taking his...
	Sentenced to nothing.
	I mean, I think he's still a felon, technically, right?
	So if I can't vote, can't own a firearm, may have difficulty traveling, so to speak.
	But what Trump is doing is putting out a bunch of clearly outrageous stuff that he's never going to do so that the media talks about all of that.
	You know, like when you want to distract a dog, you just throw the meat to one side.
	So Trump is just talking, he's not going to ask Canada.
	Maybe he'll rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America or something like that.
	I mean, Greenland seems quite unlikely.
	There's like 56,000 people in Greenland and was it Norway owns it or something like that?
	So, yeah, none of this stuff is really going to happen, but it's outrageous enough that this is what people talk about while he tries to get the important things done.
	Somebody says, how long were you alone with your mother for?
	Your brother went somewhere else.
	Yes, I was 12 until almost 15. So, you know, depending on sort of how you count it.
	But a couple of years, I was with my mother and my brother was in England staying with relatives.
	I wonder if there will be a lot less private help going to California than we got for the hurricanes in North Carolina and Tennessee.
	I don't think people have a lot of sympathy for Californians as a whole.
	But don't worry.
	Don't worry.
	I'm sure endless amounts of countries will be sending massive amounts of aid to America for California.
	Oh, dear.
	Yeah, Ronnie thanked California.
	So, Ronald Reagan did no-fault divorce, amnesty, and the Vaccine Act.
	So, pretty, pretty bad stuff.
	What's your IQ, roughly?
	I don't know.
	I don't want to know.
	It doesn't matter.
	IQ is not an argument.
	Unrelated, but what are you thinking of the Bible lately, Steph?
	Really liked the thread where you asked people's favorite verses.
	I'm just really doing some very deep and powerful work with Bible verses.
	I mean, to confront...
	And Process Bible Verses is about the deepest work that I can do at the moment or at all.
	So it's really tying into my early religiosity and some very interesting connections between philosophy and theology.
	So these are coming out.
	These are coming out.
	Let's see here.
	Ukraine should help out California, yeah, for sure.
	Daniel is my favorite book of the Bible and a pretty good song.
	By Elton John, covered by Wilson Phillips.
	I'm down for the Bible.
	My most favorite anime crossover, yeah, yeah, for sure.
	You have talked a lot about the IQs of other people.
	Sorry, whose IQ have I talked about?
	Whose IQ? I mean, which individual's IQ have I talked about?
	Because you're asking me a question not of, say, the average IQ for white people or white males, but you're asking me for my individual IQ. So if your response is that I've talked a lot about the IQs of other people, I guess this is some passive-aggressive, semi-bitchy way of saying, you're a hypocrite, man, because you talk about IQ, but you don't reveal your own IQ. Well, okay, so tell me where.
	I'm happy to be schooled and instructed on this.
	Then tell me where I have talked about the IQ of another individual as something relevant, right?
	In other words, IQ is not an argument because let's say my IQ is 180 or 200, right?
	Let's say that my IQ is 180 or 200. It doesn't make me right about anything, right?
	Albert Einstein's IQ was 130. Which is only two standard deviations above the average.
	So, if you can tell me where I've talked about the IQ of another individual, I've talked about group averages, of course.
	But if you can tell me where I've talked about the IQs of other individuals, I'm happy to take that criticism.
	I don't remember having done it.
	It doesn't mean, you know, almost 6,000 shows.
	That's a lot.
	But if you're trying to make some Kind of bitchy, passive-aggressive point about, you won't reveal your own IQ, but you talk about other people's IQs.
	Well, okay, then tell me where I've done that.
	And if not, then shut up.
	All right.
	The universals in the Bible are countless, yes.
	Andrew Tate, next prime minister.
	Top G equals top government.
	Yes, I know he's heading down that path.
	Truth about the Bible series soon.
	Yeah, I'll do it as I kind of cook along with regards to As the Bible Verses Strike Me.
	Currently going through the Bible cover to cover.
	But yeah, when I was working up north, I read the Bible cover to cover.
	Thank you for the tip, Dylan.
	um He says, saw a video, Steph, of a dad pranking his five-year-old son.
	The son pretended to cut his dad's hand, which was fake.
	The dad had it fall off, scaring the kid like he was shaking.
	What are your thoughts on these jokes with kids?
	It was a bit much to me.
	That is psychotic, sadistic cruelty.
	Yeah, that is psychotic, sadistic cruelty.
	It is just absolutely appalling to do that to a child.
	It's absolutely appalling to do that to a child.
	Steph probably has an IQ of 100 because 100 is a big number.
	And I think that's pretty smart.
	laughs Thank you.
	I usually scored around 130 as well, never had any success in life.
	So, Alec, Alec, you were, I think, kind of passive-aggressively accusing me of hypocrisy because I did not talk about my own IQ, which I don't even know, by the way.
	But you think that you're kind of accusing me of hypocrisy, so you need to tell me how I've talked about other people's IQ. Or you should apologize for...
	Kind of roundabout accusing me of hypocrisy, right?
	It's just polite, right?
	I mean, you can take a run at me, and that's fine.
	No problem.
	I take runs at people.
	You can take a run at me.
	That's fine.
	But if you take a round at me and you're wrong, don't you apologize?
	Bo-boom-boom-boom-boom.
	I would love to see you and Duke Pesta riff on the Bible.
	That's a great idea.
	That's a great idea.
	Have you ever heard of the highest IQ guy in the US, Chris Langan?
	He has an alleged IQ of 200 and pushes neoplatonism online.
	I've heard of some of these guys, but I haven't really looked into anything that they do.
	But there's like seven different types of intelligence.
	Someone might exceed in a couple of areas, but severely lacking in most others.
	Yeah, there really isn't, though.
	I mean, IQ is about it.
	IQ is about it.
	I already gave you an example.
	You pretended not to see it.
	Oh, wow, you are pretty bitchy, aren't you?
	I pretended not to see it.
	Okay, so you're saying that I saw it and I pretended not to.
	How would you know?
	How would you know if I pretended not to?
	Muhammad Ali, for example.
	Oh, I'm so sorry.
	I didn't realize that you were talking about...
	So, did I talk...
	I mentioned Muhammad Ali's IQ? Okay.
	So I mentioned Muhammad Ali's IQ, which I think was very high, which I thought was interesting because Muhammad Ali was a pretty brilliant guy and also a boxer, right?
	Which is an odd combination.
	But that had nothing to do with him being right or wrong.
	So I'm still not sure why I would need to talk about my IQ if I mentioned Muhammad Ali's IQ. And I've mentioned one person's IQ once as an interesting thing for a boxer to have.
	in 20 years.
	But yeah, see, this is kind of bitchy stuff, Alec, right?
	So if I missed it, I apologize, of course, but you didn't say, you just typed Muhammad Ali, right?
	Which I don't know if you're replying to someone else or having some other discussion.
	So what you'd want to do, you know, if you want to be a good communicator, or at least not kind of bitchy, what you'd want to do is you'd want to say, Steph, you mentioned Muhammad Ali's IQ. As opposed to just Muhammad Ali, and I'm supposed to puzzle out, you know, while running a show and a whole bunch of people typing to me all at once, I'm supposed to figure out that Muhammad Ali refers to an IQ presentation I did, you know, 10 or 12 years ago, right?
	So if you don't communicate effectively and just typing Muhammad Ali, I kind of figured it out afterwards because of my IQ, you see.
	So you need to type it out properly and say you mentioned Steph in response to your question or you mentioned Muhammad Ali's IQ. Don't just type Muhammad Ali and expect me to puzzle it out as all of the stuff goes flying past.
	But then when you say, well, I did type it out.
	You just pretended to ignore it.
	No quality person is going to want to interact with you, bro.
	Like nobody.
	Because that's just being a complete douchebag.
	It's just being a complete dickhead, right?
	You're hypocritical.
	Okay, give me an example.
	Muhammad Ali.
	I don't know what that means.
	You just pretended to ignore it.
	It's like you're just volatile and you...
	Obviously came from a bad childhood, which I sympathize with, but I don't have to put up with it, right?
	So, you pretended not to see it.
	You read my mind, bro.
	All right.
	Let's see here.
	Just joined.
	Sounds lively.
	Yeah, it's lively.
	The lack of awareness by parents who post these videos is unreal.
	Well, you know, it's actually pretty helpful because when the parents post these videos and the kids later wonder why they're screwed up, they literally have it online.
	Like, it's stored, it's posted, it's there forever.
	It's beautiful, baby!
	It's beautiful.
	All right.
	Intelligence is not a measure of moral rightness.
	Seven of the 13 men at the 1C conference were post-grads.
	Yeah, for sure.
	For sure.
	What do you think of the Myers-Briggs tests?
	They seem to pop up periodically fared in Christian circles.
	Myers-Briggs, is this the one that was made up by a bunch of secretaries?
	Is that right?
	Is that right?
	I think, let's see.
	All right.
	Who invented the Myers-Briggs?
	I did this a long time ago.
	So.
	Right.
	Demeyes Briggs self-reported research into personality.
	Yeah, I think it's mostly just mental masturbation as a whole.
	I don't really think it matters at all.
	I mean, the only thing that I care about is people's morals.
	I mean, this old personality style is like, are you good or bad?
	Are you right or wrong?
	you right steph bickering with a little when philosophical questions are burning Pain.
	Bickering.
	Well, you're acting bitchy too.
	2025 is my year of frankness, right?
	So, saying that I'm bickering?
	No, I'm just mildly annoying, and I'm just telling someone how I'm experiencing them.
	What do you mean bickering?
	I don't understand.
	Steph, don't feed the trolls.
	All right, let's see here.
	Anyone who doesn't join the Telegram streams is missing out.
	The stream before the last got pretty wild.
	That's true.
	Do-do-do-do-do-do.
	Semi-Jungian personality test.
	Wow.
	Steph is definitely an INTJ. Possibly a Scorpio with Taurus rising and Iris moon.
	Very true.
	I saw a video, says someone, where a kid was getting his dreadlocks buzzed off because he made fun of a schoolmate with cancer.
	The kid was screaming and crying in the barber's chair.
	The majority of the comments were cheering this act on, saying it's a lesson the child will never forget.
	Felt a sadistic vibe coming from the comments section.
	Yeah, for sure.
	For sure.
	Muhammad Ali had an IQ in the 80s.
	Oh.
	Thank you for the correction, I think.
	You're right.
	I think you are absolutely right.
	I appreciate the correction.
	Thank you.
	Yes.
	IQ of 78. IQ of 78?
	Very interesting.
	But was it true?
	I don't know.
	know is that true is that true is that true uh yeah so some of this stuff you you Mmmmm.
	Thank you.
	Yeah, that was the research.
	This is back in the days of my producer Mike.
	I'm not going to blame him because it came out of my mouth, but that was Mike's research.
	And we used to have all of these lovely sources, but then we had a message board that got heavily attacked and so on, right?
	I'm surprised that your mother had a good relationship with her father.
	Usually women who abuse their sons had terrible relationships with their fathers.
	Why do you think that my mother had a good relationship with her father?
	I'm not sure what that means.
	I'm sorry for being a bitch, Steph.
	I realized that after I typed that.
	No, no problem.
	Hey, I can be a little bitchy myself, so I'm, you know, glass houses and all of that, so, but, you know, I like it when people point it out as well.
	I was hoping Steph wouldn't see what I said.
	Because I had instant regret, yeah.
	Is Telegram better than the locals' feed?
	Either or.
	Either or.
	All right, let's do another.
	I'm happy to take your comments and questions.
	What else do I have here?
	Let me see what I have for you.
	Yeah, you wanna go?
	Ooh.
	you All down to the Grange.
	Mel Gibson on Joe Rogan is pretty wild.
	Pretty wild.
	Oh, this is quite sad.
	This woman says, Content warning!
	I had an abortion in 2016 with my partner, who is now my husband.
	I was not wanting a kid at that time, and I felt my relationship with my partner was too new to be bound to him because of the pregnancy.
	I was so desperate to exit the situation.
	I had no moral qualms about getting rid of a clump of cells from my body.
	I just wanted it done as soon as possible.
	My partner wanted to keep it and kept trying to convince me that I was being flippant for so quickly considering abortion and that it was alive.
	But I could not be convinced.
	He even told me that I might feel guilty, post-procedure, immediate relief.
	I was so thankful that I had a way out.
	A month.
	Post-procedure, I started feeling immense guilt over my abortion and even horror at what I had done.
	I spent a whole year in extreme grief, depression, and constant rumination.
	Got triggered every time I saw babies.
	At about the one-year mark, I had a helpful convo with my partner, now husband, and I finally stopped ruminating.
	I've thought about my abortion from time to time since, Not with the mental anguish I had before.
	Okay, so fast forward to now, seven years post-procedure.
	I now have a baby whom I love so much.
	Sometimes looking at his face and features and holding him, however, triggers me and it makes me think of the aborted child and what could have been.
	It doesn't help that I'm still with the same partner that I had the abortion with.
	The feelings of guilt and regret are re-emerging.
	When I thought I had resolved them.
	Has anyone been in this boat and recovered?
	I'm surprised that such intense feelings have returned.
	I sincerely hope I don't get stuck in the loop again, because that was pure hell.
	Why at Earth would Bro stay with the woman who flippantly killed his kid?
	Why?
	It's appalling.
	I'm sorry.
	Thank you.
	It's appalling.
	That's tough, man.
	That's tough.
	Oof.
	I mean, there's shocking people.
	That is a shocking thing that people have to go through, or do go through at times.
	All right, so let's see here.
	you You said your mother worshipped her father.
	I'm sure that I did, but that doesn't mean they had a good relationship.
	Worship is not a sign of a healthy relationship, especially if it's one-sided.
	All right.
	Oh, he was being drafted.
	Muhammad Ali was drafted.
	He probably failed the IQ test intentionally.
	Oh, that's interesting.
	That's interesting.
	Steph, back in your tech industry days, how often did you read books to advance your career?
	I read books on a regular basis for my career, and this is back before YouTube, so you really couldn't get videos online, but I used to go to conferences.
	I went to a Microsoft conference in Hawaii, of all places.
	Beautiful, beautiful place.
	The Hilton Waikaloa in Hawaii.
	Amazing.
	And I remember telling them that I was actually the first developer to produce a production system based upon the brand new released Access 97 platform with the MDE where you could actually compile it into an executable basically.
	So yeah, I did conferences and read a lot, a lot because there was no type ahead in code and there was not many code examples back on there.
	All right.
	When do you think the welfare state will end?
	Well, the welfare state will end when money can't be stolen anymore.
	In other words, when Bitcoin becomes the standard.
	Get those tips pumping.
	We've got to give the staff some fuel for philosophical takes.
	That is true.
	Thank you, Dylan.
	Appreciate that.
	Alex says, I am 10 days sober now.
	I haven't drank at all this year.
	I used to drink about 20 beers in a day, about two days a week.
	Wow!
	Good for you, man.
	Good for you.
	That is fantastic.
	Alcohol is poison.
	Don't take it if you can at all avoid it.
	And in general, you can, right?
	So, congratulations, Alec.
	That is absolutely fantastic.
	You should be immensely proud.
	That is a very difficult thing to overcome.
	Please hang in there and please make sure that you are part of a community that you can help, maybe do some therapy.
	And figure out what you were self-medicating.
	What trauma were you self-medicating?
	What were you trying to drown in alcohol that kept coming back to life and trying to kill you?
	So, well done.
	Steph, do you think Zuckerberg is really red-pilled or just putting on an act?
	So, he's a changeling, right?
	He's a changeling.
	When it looked like the Democrats were going to win, he was all into censorship and he gave like hundreds of millions of dollars in value to the Democrats in various ways.
	And now the Trumpist one, he's like, hey, man, I'm curly-headed Jimbro, and I'm into free speech.
	It's all, anyway, the wind blows.
	So, yeah, it's, I mean, he has gotten into exercise, he has gotten stronger, and so on, but, no, I don't think he's really a red pill.
	He is a dodge-and-weave kind of guy.
	Now, he was saying, of course, on Joe Rogan that the US government was putting immense pressure on him to censor things that he believed to be true.
	And I think he pushed back against that quite a bit, which, you know, to his credit.
	And then they started investigating him like crazy, and it was pretty brutal.
	So, I mean, if I were in Zuckerberg's shoes, They would panch.
	Now, if I was in Zuckerberg's shoes, this is why, for me, being the head of a social media company would be about a five-minute job.
	Because I'd get fired in about five minutes.
	Because I'd just say, if the speech is legal, leave it up.
	If the speech is legal, leave it up.
	And then if the advertisers pull out, I'd be like, I'm not letting advertisers run the ethics of my system.
	And business ethics are valuable.
	In a relatively free society, business ethics are kind of suicidal in a heavily propagandized society.
	You're killing people by saying that the vaccine has side effects.
	Well, of course, the vaccine.
	Everything has side effects.
	Everything has side effects.
	It's a tautological statement to say something you put in your body.
	Everything has side effects.
	Every medicine has side effects, to my knowledge.
	Not medical advice.
	I'm just saying, as far as I know, every medical intervention has potential for side effects, right?
	So, I would say, if the speech is legal, leave it up.
	And then, of course, people, they refresh your feed until the advertisers sit next to something objectionable, and then they say, oh, do you want to associate your brand?
	Now, if you have a decent number of ethical people, they say, if the speech is legal, I don't agree with it, but it's free speech, man.
	But unfortunately, we have no longer people interested in principles.
	All they are is interested in feelings.
	It feels bad when I see a product next to something that's controversial or objectionable.
	It just feels bad.
	There's no principles involved here.
	It's just hedonism.
	And when you can convince people that hedonism is a value, ethics decay and go out the window.
	Well, okay, so I've written some pretty good poetry.
	I've written good novels.
	I've written good plays.
	I've written good nonfiction.
	I've solved the problem of secular ethics.
	I've been decades ahead of my time in a wide variety of pretty important fields, and I'm a good live speaker, a good debater.
	I was, of course, very good in the business world and built a company that grew to 30-plus people and did well in a challenging field.
	I learned, I taught myself how to code.
	You know, there's a lot of machinery that's going on here.
	There's just a lot of machinery that's going on here.
	You guys have seen me pull analogies, great analogies out of thin air.
	You've seen me role-play other people's parents.
	And Aristotle said that the capacity to create and process analogies is the highest form of intelligence because it sees the similarity between dissimilar things, right?
	So whether you believe Aristotle or not, the capacity to create And work with metaphors and analogies is the highest form of intelligence, according to one of the greatest philosophers in history.
	I'll let you draw your own conclusions about all of that.
	All right.
	Zak is scared for his life.
	Yeah, might be.
	Might be.
	I have to cut down on the coke, the bottle type, not the whole, not the white powder kind.
	Uh, please don't drink soda.
	Please don't drink sugared soda.
	Please don't drink sugared soda.
	Uh, Zuck is like a couch.
	He takes the impression of the last person who sat on him.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Shout out to the Freedomain team for the Homestead movie review.
	Loved the observation of modern Christianity worshipping the female and relating that to the Garden of Eden story.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, well, I went to church.
	Take me to church.
	Yeah, I went to church and you can't really miss it.
	Turn to alcohol because of mommy issues, as is so often the case.
	Yeah, don't refer to them as mommy issues.
	Mommy issues, I'm sorry to be such a nag.
	I really do.
	And again, a massive congratulations on quitting drinking.
	But don't refer to them as mommy issues.
	Mommy issues is a diminutive term, right?
	If you were to say a victim of maternal abuse, see, mommy issues is putting you in a subservient toddler role.
	Mommy issues, it's a negative phrase that really comes out of feminism.
	Has Facebook ever suspended your account like YouTube and Twitter?
	I think once or twice we had a hiccup or whatever, but I think I'm pretty heavily suppressed.
	I think I'm pretty heavily suppressed on Facebook.
	Oh, dear.
	I don't really listen to any podcasts.
	I always recommend Free Domain.
	The best thing about it is it really feels like a community.
	Oh, thank you.
	Appreciate that.
	Appreciate that.
	All right.
	I haven't had a Coke in so long I've forgotten what it tastes like.
	I don't know.
	A couple of times a year, I'll drink a Diet Coke.
	But as far as having a sugared coke, probably been a quarter century or more.
	Clean orange juice is fructose-based and fights endotoxins, for example.
	Coconut water.
	Coconut woman is calling out.
	Coconut water seems like a good Coke replacement.
	No Diet Coke, Steph.
	Full sugar Coke time.
	Lean in.
	Or as my daughter would say, lock in!
	Lock in!
	Apparently that's the phrase.
	Among the young people.
	Kombucha?
	Yeah, I definitely have kombucha.
	I definitely have kombucha.
	I definitely have kombucha.
	That is a nice stuff.
	Why is there so much virgin shaming nowadays?
	There didn't used to be.
	In fact, it used to be the opposite.
	Well, Alec, I think it's because if you're a woman who's a virgin into your mid to late 20s, You know, there is a certain amount of what's going on.
	Do you, like, have no sex drive?
	If you have a sex drive and you want to get married and have sex, then get married and have sex.
	Sugar maxing.
	Yeah.
	I don't drink Coke, admittedly, but tons of OJ. Gosh, Dr. Robert Lustig, L-U-S-T-I-G. Dr. Robert Lustig, he's the one who red-pilled me.
	On OJ. He's the one who red-pilled me on OJ. I had him on the show many years ago, and you can check out the link.
	Or you can go and look.
	Just look for Lustig, L-U-S-T-I-G, at fdrpodcast.com.
	He gave a good description on...
	If I remember rightly, the problem with juice is that it's severely sugared, and normally...
	The fiber in actually having an orange would slow down the absorption because the fiber is generally taken out.
	The pulp is generally taken out.
	It goes straight into your veins, so to speak.
	Podcast 1564. Podcast 1564. Did politics?
	Oh, yeah.
	We did two.
	Sorry.
	We did 1564 and 1565. One is called the politics of obesity and the other is the fructose epidemic.
	Oh, yes, that's right.
	I read an article of his as well.
	I'd love to hear you're working on your longevity, Steph.
	Check out Ray Peet, for real.
	I will make a note of that.
	I will make a note of that.
	Hey, if he's got an audiobook, I'm big on audiobooks.
	I'm big in Japan.
	All right.
	You ever have that thing where you really feel like singing, but your voice sounds like crap?
	I have that on a regular basis.
	All right.
	Any thoughts on my first question, Steph, about philosophy slash Christianity?
	Sorry, I don't...
	Do you want me in the middle of a show?
	Why don't you just find it and copy-paste it?
	Sorry, I don't...
	Do you want me to scroll up or do a search for your name?
	Oh, one moment, everybody who's watching and listening.
	I just want to be able to edit this afterwards.
	So, if I miss a question of yours, do a brother a solid.
	Come on, man.
	Try and put yourself in my seat.
	Try and put yourself in my seat.
	Right?
	If I missed a question and there's stuff flying by here, right?
	You understand that, right?
	If I missed a question...
	Copy and paste it and say, you missed this, would you mind?
	Right?
	That's fine, right?
	But thinking that it's like the guy who's like, you just purposefully ignored it, right?
	It's like, nope.
	Yeah, I don't.
	I mean, this is a basic empathy thing, isn't it?
	Just put yourselves in my seat, right?
	Put yourself in my seat, trying to run a big show here.
	A lot of people watching, a lot of people with questions flying by, a lot of thoughts going on.
	So rather than saying, Well, what do you think of my question that I posted 10 minutes ago?
	What am I supposed to scroll up like 300 texts and find it?
	Just copy and paste it.
	Like, put yourself in my shoes.
	Honestly, just put yourself in my shoes and think what would be helpful.
	And it's not about me, right?
	right?
	It's just about having those skills as a whole in your conversations with people, right?
	Oh, yeah, the Sam Altman.
	He's an AI guy, right?
	His sister has filed a lawsuit against him, accusing him of years and years of rank sexual abuse.
	I think I have this correct, right?
	My God.
	It's just wild what goes on in people's lives, right?
	Yeah, the worst allegation, this is from Sam Altman, he says, the worst allegation she has made is that she was sexually abused, oh, this is from the family, that she was sexually abused by Sam as a child.
	She's also claimed instances of sexual abuse from others.
	Her claims have evolved dramatically over time.
	Newly for this lawsuit, they now include allegations of incidents where Sam was over 18. That is wild.
	Yeah, the family says Sam's sister is lying.
	Now, of course, accusations are not proven.
	It's innocent until proven guilty.
	And, I mean, really, what choice do they have?
	If it's true, what choice do they have but to call her crazy?
	But, of course, the big question is what made her crazy?
	Now, maybe she's been one-shotted by some 9D Mesopotamian demon through dabbling around with ayahuasca, right?
	Maybe.
	Maybe.
	And maybe she just went crazy, drugs or a head injury or there's a brain tumor.
	It could be.
	It could be any number of things, right?
	I don't know.
	I mean, I just read this.
	But there should be some reason as to why she's crazy.
	I mean, maybe there's a schizophrenia or some sort of biological basis for it.
	I don't know, because I think that's still fairly hotly debated.
	But, wow.
	Oh, it's crazy.
	Excuse me.
	It's just crazy.
	Why would she be crazy?
	Again, not all accusations are true.
	Trust me.
	I've been falsely accused of many things, right?
	Not all accusations are true.
	But the question is, in a family, she's crazy, then for me, for me in particular, for me, it's like, But why is she crazy?
	Why is she crazy?
	Why is she crazy?
	And why would the craziness manifest in this way?
	Any recommended audiobooks on Audible?
	Well, I'm currently listening to Pushkin, Alexander Pushkin.
	I've never been a huge fan of short stories.
	I was into O. Henry short stories for a while.
	Oh, when I was in my early teens, Ray Bradbury, but he's pretty anti-white, but I was really into Ray Bradbury.
	He's a lovely writer in many ways and very imaginative and creative, but very subversive.
	But I decided to listen to...
	He wrote a very famous book called Eugene Onegin.
	But yeah, Alexander Pushkin, and I'm listening to his short stories at the moment, and they're in a bit.
	They're quite interesting.
	It's very sentimental and very exaggerated and almost fantastical, but this is because I got, I think on Audible, you can get the collected words of Dostoevsky.
	It's like, I can't remember, it's like massive.
	It's gigs and gigs of stuff, like 250 hours or something like that, like his letters and every sort of thing known to man.
	And I was listening to The Demons.
	The Demons by Dostoevsky.
	It's terrible.
	It's absolutely terrible.
	I've tried it three times in my life.
	I just can't get through it.
	It's just absolutely terrible.
	Do you think listening has a different effect than reading?
	Yeah, it certainly comes to life in a lot of ways.
	That's better.
	I mean, it's a funny thing.
	When you think about reading, you're just sitting there staring at dead wood, vividly hallucinating for hours, right?
	It's very true.
	Once you experience peeting, oh, this is a repeat, okay.
	I did think about reposting, but I thought that he would not like me doing that, looking like I was spamming the chat.
	No, spamming is when you're trying to sell things and you repeatedly post.
	Saying, if you missed this question, I'd appreciate your response, and then posting it again.
	That's fine.
	Because what is my other opportunity, right?
	What is it?
	Did you post it again?
	Here.
	You say here, but I don't see it.
	Oh, my God.
	What's going on?
	Did you repost?
	Just hit me with a yes.
	John, John, did you repost it?
	Because you said here, but...
	I have a bit of a guilty pleasure, too.
	It is the Harry Bosch guy.
	Gosh, what's his name?
	The guy who writes the Harry Bosch series.
	I can't remember his name at the moment.
	But I will occasionally have his books.
	I wouldn't say it's a totally guilty pleasure because he's good on plot, but it's not very literary, to put it mildly.
	But it's a good entertaining plot and all of that.
	Oh, you did repost it.
	Okay.
	So let me look here.
	You wrote here, and then I don't see anything after that from you.
	And then it says I do think...
	Yeah, the next thing from you.
	So you write here.
	I assume it's not above that, right?
	or is it above that?
	Okay, I'm...
	Yeah.
	It's not.
	You haven't posted it.
	You haven't posted it.
	Let's see here.
	Somebody says, I liked it when you record your childhood jealousy of the pet hamster that didn't have to go to school.
	I felt the same way when I saw the neighborhood cat.
	School was hell.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	I'll be honest, my locals' manipulation is crap.
	I don't know what that means.
	Am I having some sort of stroke here?
	I can't understand what you're saying.
	My locals' manipulation is crap.
	I do not know what that means.
	Let me just go and check.
	Here, on locals, just in case it's not coming through to the studio.
	He replied to his own comment.
	That's the here, so he didn't repost directly.
	What does that mean?
	I don't know.
	He replied to his own comment, that's the here, so he didn't repost directly.
	Why am I having such trouble understanding everyone tonight?
	I feel like everyone's broken into fluent Klingon.
	Okay, oh, here.
	Oh, okay, I see, I see, okay, okay.
	It just, sorry, it didn't show up over in the studio.
	My apologies, I got it now, okay.
	I'm curious about your 500-year plan.
	Do you see philosophy becoming more popular given that Christianity already has a moral code and that it is applied by average people as well as smart ones?
	How does philosophy become the dominant thinking process if it is currently appealing to smarter people?
	Thanks.
	Well, Steph confirmed low IQ. No, it isn't.
	Not at all, though.
	I mean, I know you're kind of joking, but it's not really funny.
	But no, it didn't show up.
	Over here on the studio, which aggregates all of the chats from everyone.
	It didn't show up, it just says here, but when I went over to locals, it did.
	Okay, I will post it here so that everyone can see it.
	There.
	Yeah, but it's not.
	You say just kidding, but don't things have to be funny?
	All right.
	So, this is for the community, right?
	What is the community, right?
	The community should answer this.
	So, and also, if I'm going through something mildly frustrating, making a joke at my expense is a little insensitive.
	It's not the end of the world.
	Anything, right?
	It's just, you know, if I'm having trouble getting an answer and it's kind of have to go back and forth to different platforms and then you say, Steph confirmed low IQ. Generally, this probably comes from having a passive-aggressive father or mother where you're having difficulty and someone makes fun of you because they want to rub a little salt in the wound.
	So, Let's see here.
	How does philosophy, how does philosophical thinking become more popular?
	Just as a whole, right?
	How does philosophical thinking, what is my answer and what has it been for 20 years about how philosophical thinking becomes more popular?
	What is the answer?
	And so far, it's been a $50 night.
	It's been a $50 night.
	I'm not overly complaining, but if you guys could throw a little donation in, I would really, really appreciate that.
	Do you earn more from Rumble than you did from YouTube?
	Well, no, of course not, because YouTube, I would have had well over 2 million subscribers if they hadn't suppressed and then cancelled.
	Peaceful parenting.
	Yes, that's right.
	That's right.
	So, I teach parents how to reason with their children, and then children grow up speaking the language of reason, not of violence.
	This was a clever post.
	So there's a bookstore that says, buy books from bookshops, not a billionaire.
	And somebody said, go to bookstore.
	Every book has a garish cover and is a story about a teenage girl fighting space Trump while falling in love with a six-foot gnome written by some woman you've never heard of, but it's somehow on the New York Times bestseller list, even though you've never heard anyone talk about it.
	Only books for men are reprints of novels written before you were born, which normies only know about because there exist movies based on them.
	They each cost upwards of $30.
	Gee, I can't imagine why people use Amazon.
	Yes, my daughter and I will occasionally go to a bookstore to try and find something to read.
	It's appalling.
	And the young adult stuff is beyond appalling.
	The young adult stuff these days is straight up brainstem programming for catastrophe.
	Absolutely appalling.
	Jordan Peterson.
	Oh yeah, I talked about Blake Lively the other day on the Telegram chat.
	So, according to some court filing, Blake Lively was so afraid of Justin Baldoni's sexual harassment that she insisted he go to her penthouse one-on-one to write sex scenes without the intimacy coordinator president.
	Give me...
	A break.
	Yeah, I think she's going to lose.
	She's going to lose.
	Lose bad.
	And lose hard.
	So this is from some lawsuit.
	Baldoni stated handwritten notes from his meetings with the intimacy coordinator, which again, Lively declined attending, were read to Lively at her penthouse, where she insisted she and Baldoni meet to write sex scenes together.
	As it was, the sex scenes were not written, and it was always Baldoni's intention for them to be written with input from both the intimacy coordinator and lively.
	So, yep, so bad, man.
	He's so terrifying that he's got to come alone to my penthouse to write sex scenes.
	That's how dangerous this man truly is.
	Talk about face your fears.
	So, I don't mean to make fun of Jordan Peterson, but Jordan Peterson wrote on January the 9th yesterday, Let go of who you think you need to be.
	And just be who you are.
	Now, doesn't he have a whole clean your room, have aspirations, make goals, break out of habits, become someone better, ascend the mountain, become the highest of the high, manifest your massive potential and your giant throbbing boner of excellence?
	So, I'm not sure why he says both, your life sucks, you need to start by cleaning your room and set goals and achieve things and if you don't have goals and work towards them, you'll never get anywhere and you've got to Rise to achieve, but at the same time, let go of who you think you need to be and just be who you are.
	Okay.
	You spin me right round, baby, right round.
	Okay.
	I don't know.
	I don't know.
	Strange, strange, strange.
	Strange, strange, strange.
	Some woman wrote a harsh take on me.
	Pin bagpipe.
	So good.
	I like this one.
	My daughter made $110 on her lemonade stand today in like an hour.
	Turned out people were handing her fives and tens and she was just assertively saying thank you for the tip and not offering change.
	Man, tipping culture is just brutal.
	tipping culture is absolutely brutal.
	You have to be, Crypto T wrote, you have to be odd to be number one.
	Thank you.
	It's quite true.
	He said, quite true.
	He's acquired to Drew.
	All right.
	Let's get to your questions and comments.
	All right.
	Those who don't learn from reason will learn from bitter experience.
	Or their descendants will learn from their untimely death, for sure.
	$50 donation night, yes, at least here, yeah, for sure.
	You seem to get AdRef on Rumble and never did on YouTube.
	No, but with YouTube, I was streaming to like 6,000, 7,000 people on YouTube, right?
	Thank you, Adam.
	Yeah, I was streaming to thousands and thousands and thousands of people on YouTube and got lots of donations there.
	All right.
	Yes, podcast 5797, Justin Baldoni versus Blake Lively.
	Intimacy coordinator, what a job title.
	yes Yes.
	Hey, baby.
	Feel like coordinating some intimacy with some P. Diddy oil and a flamethrower?
	Donated 50 at FDR, says Kairosk.
	Come on, guys.
	The world's greatest philosopher deserves more than 50 bucks an hour.
	Thank you.
	Thank you, I appreciate that.
	Somebody says, "I confronted my wife's sister for cheating on her husband and was also confronted by my in-laws for allowing this man at family events." Okay, sorry, that's quite a convoluted thing here, right?
	I confronted my wife's sister for cheating on her husband and also confronted my in-laws for allowing this man at family events.
	Oh, the man that she was cheating with.
	Okay.
	They called me crazy and told my wife that I am no longer allowed at family events.
	My wife defended me and said that if I'm not welcome, she and her children aren't either.
	Why would they push me out, knowing me for 25 years, and welcome an immoral man they've only known a few months?
	Sorry, have you not heard of women?
	Maybe I'm a little confused here.
	The gynocracy wants you out.
	You're out, man.
	The gynocracy is like...
	Robert De Niro in Goodfellas with Joe Pesci.
	Well, we've been friends for 25 years, but I'm still going to ice you.
	The gynocracy as a whole.
	Thank you, Chris.
	Thank you.
	Appreciate that.
	Thank you, superfan.
	The gynocracy will smoke you like Snoop Dogg with a fat blunt.
	If the gynocracy decides to turn against you, And gynocracy runs just about everything these days, right?
	Except in my house, man.
	But the gynocracy runs just about everything.
	So what happened is the gynocracy is siding with your wife's sister because of female in-group preference, which is female terror of bullying.
	And you understand.
	Do you know what an expendable male is?
	An expendable male is a male.
	Males.
	We're expendable.
	Now, we get benefits.
	We don't have to get pregnant.
	We don't have to do childbirth.
	We don't get period cramps.
	And we don't get endometriosis and all other kinds of soupy-goopy innard stuff and so on, right?
	But we are completely disposable to most women, right?
	We're completely disposable to most women.
	I mean, I wrote a post years ago.
	On Twitter, I'm talking about how men can get cancer from oral sex with women, from going down on women, right?
	And you'd think, of course, that women would be like, oh my gosh, I didn't know.
	I really should get checked, and I should really tell my husband or my boyfriend, and we should really take caution, whatever it is, right?
	Because, you know, it's cancer.
	I think this is what Michael Douglas thinks happened to him with his throat cancer, right?
	The amount of coldness and hostility at even potentially coming between a woman and her orgasms.
	Well, I mean, he might die, but I really like that.
	I mean, he could die, but that does feel good.
	So, sorry.
	Right?
	That's how disposable a lot of men are.
	Honestly, it's wild.
	It's wild.
	Can you imagine the outrage if it turned out that fellatio could give women cancer?
	It'd be endless articles.
	Hand-wringing.
	Men would feel terrible.
	Things would change.
	Massive amounts of resources would be thrown into solving the problem.
	Doesn't matter.
	So, bro, you gotta step up, wake up to reality.
	So, what happened was, your wife's sister ran to all, I guarantee you, ran to all of the other women and talked about how bad you were.
	How terrible you were, and all the other women got all dramatic, and oh my god, and oh my, he's so terrible, and I can't believe it, and you're out.
	You're out.
	The only person you're not expendable to is your wife.
	Hopefully.
	Hopefully.
	But, yeah.
	See, for you, you're a man, so you would have loyalty.
	It was 25 years, and I've got to figure out the right and wrong of things, right?
	Again, not many people, but maybe a little bit more women than men, they don't care about the right or wrong of things.
	They care about who's got power.
	They care about who's going to screw up their lives more.
	Right?
	So you are a reasonable guy, so you will lose to the mob.
	Because the mob is full of unreasonable people who bully and threaten other people.
	And they don't care about what's right.
	They don't care about what's true.
	They don't care about what's moral.
	They don't care about what's noble.
	They care about what is going to give them the least amount of problems.
	Kicking you out is going to give them the least amount of problems.
	They don't care about the relationship.
	They only care about not getting in trouble.
	They only care about people not screwing up their lives.
	Right?
	Sorry.
	I mean, you just got to wake up to this shit.
	Like all of you.
	Listen, I say this with great humility.
	It took me an embarrassing amount of time to wake up to this stuff.
	But, yeah.
	You are disposable.
	Women fear women.
	Right?
	Women fear women.
	Women dress for women because they don't want to be put down.
	Women lose weight for women because they don't want to be shamed.
	Women fear Women, for the most part.
	Talk to women about their experiences as children and as teenagers with other girls.
	Seriously, seriously, have these conversations with women you know.
	Talk to them about their experience with the hive mind of gynocracy and the mean girls and the tough girls and the bad girls.
	Talk to the women in your life about their experience With female friends.
	Oh my God, nuclear shadows of former trust and virtue.
	Go talk to the women in your life about what it's like for them to be around women, modern women as a whole.
	Talk to the women in your life, and I say this with great sympathy because I'm sure you've got good women in your life.
	Talk to the women in your life about what it was like for them In female social circles, when they were children, and when they were teenagers.
	In particular.
	It's terrifying.
	See, if you've got a problem with a male friend, he'll just call you an asshole, you'll yell at each other, maybe you'll throw some hands, and then that's it.
	Maybe you're friends, maybe you're not, but it doesn't go after that.
	But people don't spread rumors that you have a sexually transmitted disease.
	People don't spread rumors that you slept with Half the football team.
	That's not how men fight.
	Men fight face-to-face, cussing and throwing fists.
	Women fight through poisoning the well and reputational destruction, which is a cancel culture.
	It's just mean girls aligned with state power.
	So, like, I'm sorry, you know, because I'm older now and all of that, so let's go over this again.
	I confronted my wife's sister for cheating on her husband and also confronted my in-laws for allowing this man at family events.
	Right, so they sided with the woman against the man.
	They sided with the woman who's more dangerous over the man who's less dangerous.
	See, here's the thing.
	If you are a rational, self-restrained, virtuous person, male or female, we'll just talk about men for the moment, if you're a rational, Reasonable, in control of himself man.
	You pose no threat to crazy people.
	The only thing that poses threats to crazy people are crazier people.
	And that's all that they respect.
	And that's all that they defer to.
	So they scan and they say, well, you're sane, so you're not going to fuck me up.
	You're crazy.
	You might fuck me up.
	Okay, ditch the sane guy and appease the crazy person.
	Because the crazier person will screw me up.
	The same guy, the guy who's nice and good and moral and ethical, well, he's not going to spread rumors about me.
	He's not going to try and destroy my life.
	He's not going to try and get me fired.
	He's not going to endlessly make up falsehoods about me.
	He's not going to try and poison all of my relationships.
	You're safe, man.
	You're safe because you're honorable.
	Nothing to fear from you.
	Because you're reasonable.
	And to be reasonable, In this social world as a whole, in general, is to be fucked.
	To be reasonable is to be completely fucked in a crazy social environment, which is why you have to surround yourself with sane, virtuous people who trust and respect you for being virtuous, not walk all over you because you're not crazy.
	Right?
	I want you to think of how most people assess, right?
	There's two people.
	Two people are trying to get them to do what they want, right?
	Two people, right?
	It's Bob and Doug.
	Now, Bob is trying to reason with you, right?
	You're this person, right?
	Bob and Doug are both trying to influence you.
	Now, Bob is trying to reason with you, trying to patiently give you evidence and facts and all of that.
	Reasonable guy, not raising his voice.
	He's not yelling.
	He's just saying, you know, it is kind of this way, and this is what I've seen, and this is what I've noticed, and these are the facts, right?
	So that's Bob, right?
	Now, Doug has a gun.
	Who are you going to defer to?
	I mean, this is how people calculate.
	I'm not even saying they're wrong.
	I'm just saying this is how they calculate.
	Well, you're a reasonable guy.
	You're unarmed.
	And you're unarmed because you're reasonable.
	That guy's got a gun.
	And he's willing to use it.
	So, bye-bye, Bob.
	I'm on the Doug team.
	I'm Team Doug all the way.
	So, you got gynocentric, right?
	You pose no threat.
	The wife's sister is cheating on her husband.
	It's clearly unstable, in my opinion.
	So, you pose no threat to them.
	Right?
	You pose no threat to them because you're reasonable.
	The crazy sister-in-law poses a threat because she's crazy and will do anything, right?
	So you've got to wake up to the stuff...
	I mean, to be reasonable is to be fucked in most I mean, you've felt that feeling, right?
	You've felt that feeling when you're trying to negotiate with people and things just get crazier and crazier and you get that sliding down a slippery slope of razor blades into hell itself.
	You get that feeling, right?
	That feeling is there to say, get the hell out.
	Get the hell out.
	Steph, I already spent my wifely stipend on silly things.
	I already spent my wifely stipend on silly things.
	All right.
	What does going down mean?
	Oh, gundalingus.
	I have an instinct to fight the gunocracy.
	It's a fault slash defense of mine.
	Yeah, in general, you can't fight the gunocracy because it only responds to aggression, not to reason.
	James says, I saw something earlier on the Cali fires where a woman pointing out how the woman firefighter couldn't remove her husband from a burning building and the firefighter blamed the man for being in a burning building in the first place.
	Sure.
	Yeah.
	And apparently you're not supposed to blame the victim, right?
	Women going down on men won't give them cancer too.
	I don't think so.
	I don't think so.
	Yeah.
	Putting the German 9 in 69, right?
	Yeah, so the woman firefighter said, well, you got yourself in a position you shouldn't have been in.
	And she was not slender either, so she got herself in a position at a buffet she shouldn't have been in.
	Thank you.
	Alex says, I'm a virgin in my twenties and I don't care, but I was desperate for sex when I was twelve to sixteen.
	I would have consented to sex with a woman then.
	Better than I could now.
	Not sure why people can't accept that.
	As a woman, yeah, women are pretty freaking scary.
	Way more scary than men.
	Yeah, for sure.
	My mom was the worst of them all, though.
	I'm sorry about that.
	It was so bad that I just avoided female social circles entirely.
	A woman says, I went to a female therapist once and talked about problems with my husband.
	She told me I could get another man easily.
	Really didn't understand the idea that I liked this one.
	Yeah, for sure.
	I always think it's funny when in stories you know two men are going to be best buddies when they're pissed at each other in brawl.
	Yeah, for sure.
	For sure.
	New dad to a little girl.
	Exciting, but not looking forward to that mean girl stuff when she gets older.
	Oh, well, you've just got to control that she's not around.
	Some of these lunatics, right?
	Someone says, people spread rumors that I was gay.
	That was fun.
	Also that I tried to kill myself when I was 11 at boarding school.
	Yeah, I'm sorry, man.
	I'm really sorry.
	I mean, it would never cross my mind if I had a conflict with someone to start spreading rumors about them.
	I mean, the hive mind is crazy because there is a massive increase in the possibility of divorce, or there is a massive increase in divorces.
	When one...
	If a woman in a female group gets divorced, the divorce spreads, it ripples, right?
	I write about this in my novel, The Present.
	No, The Future.
	I write about this in my novel, The Future.
	So, if a woman is going through a divorce, her female friends need to usually separate from her if they're married and want to protect their own marriages, because there is a domino effect from women getting divorced that the other female friends who are married because there is a domino effect from women getting divorced that the other female friends who All right.
	What is the escalation of craziness?
	Escalation of craziness, yes.
	Extreme danger, yeah, for sure.
	You know, that's that old thing where they say when you're at work and you tell a joke so funny that HR wants to hear it too.
	Somebody says, what outraged my in-laws is that my wife sided with me and doesn't bring my daughters to see them anymore for family events.
	What has become of the strong men?
	Thank you so much.
	Well, but if you marry into the gynocracy, you are an eternal cuck.
	I did not marry into the gynocracy, right?
	But if you do marry into the gynocracy, in other words, if you marry into a social situation where women run everything, then you have to obey the women.
	Otherwise, the women will convince your wife to leave you, and you'll end up living in a Chevy.
	Are we hitting a two-hour stream?
	We might be.
	All right, here is something for your show.
	My sister only dates men who tell her what she wants to hear.
	I tried to talk to her about her selection process and suggest better guys.
	Now she's mad at me.
	She's now 31 and still single.
	Well, first of all, she's welcome to do a call-in with me, freedomain.com slash call.
	And vetting is easy.
	Vetting is easy.
	Would you like to know...
	How to vet.
	Hit me with a Y if you'd like to know how to vet.
	Because you guys are looking for probably one person in 100 or one person in 200, right?
	So do you want to know how to vet?
	Because...
	Do you want to know how to vet?
	Thank you, James.
	Alright.
	For those of you who haven't donated, if I can tell you how to vet...
	In one minute or less, is that worth a donation?
	Come on, that's worth a donation.
	Because you've got to eliminate, eliminate, eliminate, eliminate.
	If you're going to take a drive across the desert, everybody wants to jump in their car and go.
	Even though there's no gas stations out there and there's no repair shops.
	So what you need to do if you want to get across the desert is you need to vet like crazy, make sure you've got a really good car.
	You don't just start driving and hope for the best.
	Hope for the best.
	So, here's how to vet.
	Here's how to vet.
	Disagree with someone.
	That's it.
	It's not more complicated than that.
	Just disagree with someone.
	You're dating some girl.
	Sally, right?
	You're interested in some girl.
	You're texting with some girl.
	You're going to disagree with her about something because you're two different people.
	All you do is disagree with her.
	Right?
	All you do is disagree with her.
	Let's say she says, I don't know, I'm fine with circumcising boys, right?
	Okay, so you disagree with that if you're into the non-aggression principle and not bad, right?
	So she says, I'm fine with circumcision, and you say, well, what do you know about it?
	You have to figure out if you are...
	If she's speaking from a state of ignorance or not.
	She says, oh, tell me what you know about it.
	Well, I don't know, it's just a, I think it reduces penis cancer, or it's just a, you know, a boy wants to look like his father, and he doesn't want to get made fun of in the locker room.
	Like, you've just got nothing, right?
	She's got nothing, right?
	Okay, that's fine.
	That's fine.
	So then you say, well, you know, it's not medically needed.
	It doesn't actually really reduce cancer at all, and cancer is incredibly rare of the penis.
	And it does slice off a third of the boy's foreskin, of penis skin as a whole, which is horrible.
	And you would absolutely oppose genital mutilation for girls, right?
	And it's often performed.
	Under local anesthetic, which is not nearly enough.
	And the baby boy is born and he's immediately genitally mutilated.
	And by the way, the stress hormones in babies are higher six months after for those who have been circumcised.
	And it is brutal.
	And it also cuts down on the sexual satisfaction of both the males and the females because you don't get the sheath that helps with intercourse.
	Right, so you just talk about it, right?
	You just talk about it.
	See how she reacts.
	Does she get cold?
	Does she get distant?
	Does she get annoyed?
	Does she get defensive?
	Does she gaslight?
	Then you're...
	You are vetted, baby!
	Because if you can't disagree with someone, you cannot have a relationship.
	All you can have is a slave chain.
	That's all you can have.
	Can you disagree with someone?
	Is she willing to listen?
	Is she willing to meet you in reality?
	And she may not agree with you, but she's, oh, that's interesting, but here's what I've looked up and here's what I've read and you have a good debate about it.
	Doesn't mean you're right, doesn't mean she's right, but are you allowed to disagree with her?
	Are you allowed to disagree with her?
	Are you encouraged to disagree with her?
	Do you guys enjoy exploring knowing that neither one of you has a monopoly on truth and that conversation is the best way to get to reality?
	Just disagree.
	Men, we are programmed to cock so that we can fuck.
	Right?
	Programmed to cock so that we can fuck.
	There are times in human history when eight females reproduced for every one man, which is why women find 80% of men unattractive.
	There will never be Enough super attractive men to go around for women, which is why women in general were willing to share men, right?
	And they're doing that now, right?
	They're doing that now.
	Twice as many women are in relationships as men.
	The math is not complicated.
	Situationships is just you speak for harem.
	Women are sharing men.
	Women are sharing men.
	So, men are programmed to not disagree with women.
	Because if we disagree with women, they'll freeze you out and your genes die with you.
	And not only do you freeze her, will she freeze you out, but she'll say you're crazy.
	You're creepy, right?
	You're a weirdo.
	You're just, there's something off about him, you know, something weird.
	He gives me the ick.
	Doesn't he give you the ick?
	Like, she'll just program other women to reject you, which is why women plus state power is gynocentric tyranny.
	Men plus state power is fascistic tyranny, so I get, I mean, but if you want to vet someone, I don't agree.
	Here's why.
	Not in any mean way, not in a hostile way or an aggressive way.
	So you just disagree?
	That's the only way to vet.
	Does that make sense?
	Just disagree.
	Just disagree.
	She will be very attracted to you.
	If you disagree, unless she's a complete bully.
	Yeah, and if she doesn't disagree with you on anything, that's also a red flag.
	Yes, for sure.
	Yes, for sure.
	When I confronted my former friend about abusing her husband, she gaslit me so hard, so that was fine, because it was a clear sign to drop her entirely.
	Yes.
	But what you're not saying, you said she was a shapeshifter, so she usually gravitated around my opinions, I guess.
	I didn't see that side of her before, right?
	So I'm very glad you did this, and I'm really glad that you as a female brought this up, and I really appreciate you bringing this up.
	So what's missing is any sympathy for her husband.
	You're just like, oh my God, my friend was so crazy.
	I got away.
	I was really glad to get away.
	It was a good thing.
	I didn't see that right, but what's missing is sympathy for her husband because...
	I don't know.
	Did you circle back and give sympathy to the husband?
	Nope.
	Probably not, right?
	And again, I'm not criticizing.
	It's just that empathy for men is very hard for a lot of women.
	Right?
	Empathy for men is very hard for a lot of women.
	Male suffering is suck it up and be a real man.
	Like, for women to have preferences as having standards, For a man to have standards is being controlling and abusive, right?
	For a lot of times, right?
	Situationships are where women don't know who else is in the harem.
	Yes, but they suspect, right?
	Somebody, a woman says, that's something I love about my husband.
	He will actually disagree with me.
	It absolutely drives me up the wall sometimes, though.
	Otherwise, though, you eventually feel like you're in a relationship with yourself.
	Yeah, for sure.
	And you're being manipulated, right?
	Being overly agreeable is one of the most...
	Insidious forms of manipulation.
	What if she passes this vetting process, yet her family doesn't?
	Well, you talk to her about the contradiction between her values and her family's values.
	Right?
	Is it good to be able to disagree with people and have rational conversations?
	Yes.
	Well, it doesn't seem to be the case with your family, so help me understand that, right?
	Marry her, not her mom.
	No.
	Oh, Steph, I still talk to her husband.
	Okay, good.
	Fantastic.
	Then he didn't have anyone to talk to.
	It was really sad.
	I appreciate that, and I appreciate the correction, and fantastic.
	Thank you so much.
	Thank you so much, and well done.
	Well done.
	Good for you, the quality of this listenership.
	I apologize for judging you by normie standards when you are in this conversation.
	I absolutely stand corrected, and thank you so much for saying that and for helping him.
	Thank you, thank you, thank you.
	All right.
	I am helping him get through it, and I'm giving him support.
	Yes.
	Okay.
	Donation for vetting talk.
	Yes.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	It absolutely shocked me that men sometimes go ages without a human touch.
	I just can't imagine that.
	It's so sad.
	Yep, I agree.
	Great vetting advice.
	Donate it again.
	It's something I've thought of before.
	Disagreeing and being an amazing debater to boot, I'm looking forward to when I start dating.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, for sure.
	I mean, there's things that you disagree with.
	And, of course, I've told this story before, so I'll keep it very brief about this woman I dated long before I got married who said that she was psychic.
	Yes, she was that pretty.
	I'm not saying I'm proud of it, but I'm saying I have a penis.
	So, yeah, and I was like, oh, man, if you're psychic, there's a million dollars waiting for us in Vegas, man.
	Randy the Amazing Magician has put up a million dollars to anyone who can prove psychic abilities.
	Man, let's go down.
	Let's split it.
	I could use half a million dollars.
	And if you genuinely believe it, I wasn't being like, yeah, right, you die.
	I'm like, if you're psychic, man, we got it made.
	We can go buy a house back there, right?
	It doesn't work that way, right?
	So, you know, just disagree with them.
	Disagree with people.
	I hate how they say that lonely people die earlier like I didn't have it bad enough already, Alec.
	Well, you know, Alec, your social life is within your hands.
	Your social life is within your hands.
	Make yourself, I mean, detox from the alcohol, get over your DTs or whatever's going on, but just make yourself go out.
	Make yourself go out and talk to people.
	Go join a club.
	Go join a sport.
	Go join a social group.
	Go something.
	On a scale of 1 to 10, Steph, how pretty was she?
	I'm going to plead the fifth on that one again, but that's out of respect for my current marriage.
	But yeah, she was a stunner.
	You know, that lightning bolt, right?
	The godfather thing.
	All right, so any other last questions, comments?
	Go and disagree.
	And if the woman enjoys her disagreement, then she's rational and reasonable, and you want to do all of that, right?
	I think stupid people live longer, says someone.
	My grandfather fell off a ladder in his middle age and is in his 90s.
	So you are going from your grandfather to a general principal?
	Don't do that.
	Yes.
	Don't go from a personal anecdote to a general principal.
	Do you know why you shouldn't do that?
	Do you know why you shouldn't do that?
	The reason you shouldn't go from a personal anecdote to a general principle is really smart people will take a step away from you at high speed.
	Actually, they'll turn and run.
	They'll turn and run.
	Don't do it, man.
	Don't do it.
	No more questions.
	Steph, just extremely appreciative of you and your kindness.
	Well, I appreciate that, and thank you to your kindness to the man who's being abused.
	And apologies again for mildly jumping to conclusions.
	Hey, man.
	Jumping to conclusions is my exercise.
	It's how I get my cardio in because apologies are painful and pain raises my heart rate.
	The plural of anecdote is not evidence.
	Yeah, don't go from, well, I think my dad did this and my grandfather did this and this is a general principle.
	Don't do that because, listen, man, to have a good life, you kind of want smart people around you if you're smart and don't drive them away with this kind of nonsense.
	Tempting though it is.
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