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Jan. 16, 2025 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
01:33:07
The Truth About BOOMERS!
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Well, well, well.
Good evening, everybody.
Oh, pinch punch.
Half a pinch punch.
We are midway through the month.
It is the 15th of January, 2025. I did...
Ah, man, I'm loving these Bible verses.
It's me versus Bible.
Versus.
And, yeah, my dad should have been slightly more specific when he told me that it was important to restore the prominence of the family name.
He may have said famous, not famous.
Infamous.
But he was a tiny bit of a mumbler.
Yes, people certainly have heard my name.
People have certainly heard my name.
So, oh well.
And it's important for people to be specific.
Lack of specificity can get you quite a wild Wikipedia page.
So, that's good to know.
Well, it's the funny thing, you know.
People who are...
Atheists generally don't think about the long term because they're like, well, I'll be dead, right?
So, you know, probably in about 100 years I will be recognized.
So my grandkids should be fine.
Sorry, honey.
But it is...
Whereas all of the people who sort of attack and castigate me will be the...
Meletises of their day, right?
The guy who prosecuted Socrates, so to speak.
But not to put myself in such august company, but to look at basically that whole process.
Thank you, Dorbens, freedomain.com to help out the show, but really, really appreciate it.
That would be very kind and helpful.
All right.
In communism, do you need property rights in order to enforce no property rights?
Well, sure.
Well, sure.
In communism, I mean, as I've said before, communism is an appeal to infancy.
No, just lie back, man.
You can play with your belly lint while all the hard work is done by other people, right?
It is an appeal to regression.
It is an appeal to make you brilliant by forever keeping you in grade three.
Regression.
Regression.
I remember once talking...
With a man who worked in a hospital, a sort of mental health ward in a hospital.
And he said, you know, you get these patients who come in and they're, you know, kind of off the streets and they just want to cocoon and curl up and lie in bed and you've got to like, get up, get out.
Nope, not doing that.
You've got to get up, you've got to get out.
And dragging people to actual adulthood, which has sort of been my mission with myself and others, dragging people to actual adulthood is a brutal, brutal thing to do.
I mean, so many people.
Just want to stay in childhood, right?
This is video games.
So games are supposed to prepare you for life.
Games are supposed to prepare you for life.
I had a conversation not too long ago with a bunch of young people who I felt were not taking something quite seriously enough.
And I said, like, if you want to have fun in life, you've got to take stuff seriously.
It's one of those minor little paradoxes in life.
You know, if you want to have fun in a video game, you can't just say, well, it's just a bunch of pixels being pushed around the screen.
It doesn't mean anything.
It's just a static storm of light and dark, right?
When you're a kid, if you want to take hide-and-go-seek seriously, you have to pretend that it really matters.
You know, you're being hunted by enemy soldiers, by lions.
Really make it matter, right?
You've got to play seriously in order for the game to be fun at all, right?
When you play Dungeons& Dragons, you have to care about your character.
You have to care about the scenario and the environment.
And my daughter created a dungeon.
It was a very complex dungeon wherein we had to find a murderer based upon various clues in the environment.
And I was like, I'm going to find that guy.
I don't get that.
Like, I really care about it, right?
The way that you...
You know, you never see a movie where they're playing poker for pennies, right?
At least not with any stakes.
It's got to be the highest stakes.
You're gambling for your life, you know?
So you've got to play seriously to enjoy life.
And so play is a preparation for the highest stakes.
And so if you play without thinking of it as high stakes, you are unprepared for the truly high stakes of Life.
So, you know, play very seriously, and that's the most fun, and it's the best preparation.
But people get locked into preparation, right?
People get locked into preparation.
The purpose of hide-and-go-seek is hunting and war.
The purpose of tag is hunting and war, right?
The purpose of frisbee, all throwing games, is hunting and war, right?
So you have to take it seriously when you're young.
And so people want to stay in that preparation phase, though, and they want to be taken care of, right?
You know, I wish someone would fund my desire for Japanese erotic claymation.
Whatever people come up with, right?
And Netsuke?
Anyway, so...
They just want to be taken care of, to stay in childhood, in the same way that women want to stay at that attractiveness level and opportunities of late teenage years, right?
That's why you see these women.
It's kind of embarrassing, really, in their 50s, still obsessed with how they look.
It's called hentai, and it's art.
Well, I don't know if I don't see it.
Just kidding.
Don't post it.
But, yeah, the desire to stay, right?
Do you have that?
I mean, I love every next phase in life, but for me, leaving the last phase in life is like ripping Velcro off my nads.
Like, it's really tough.
Like, I obviously would be, it would be bad to be in high school forever.
You know, what's that old line from?
Dazed and confused.
Very young.
I guess it was his first speaking role, Matthew McConaughey.
Man, I love hanging around high school.
I keep getting older, but the senior girls keep staying the same age.
Professional greasy guy.
But high school, I had a lot of fun in high school.
I mean, I wasn't party central, but I mean, it's funny because I used to...
I was actually thinking about this the other day.
I've never had much success throwing parties, and I think that's because I've always been perceived as a pretty wholesome guy, so there's not going to be any weird P. Diddy stuff at parties that I throw.
Dinner parties, yes.
I'm famous for those, but, you know, like the decadence parties, not so much.
But in high school, I had a lot of fun.
I worked hard.
I had, you know, people were always over.
And dated a lot and was in a lot of sports.
And I just had a really good time in high school.
And then there's that.
Now, of course, I went from high school to spending 18 months off and on working up north.
And that was not so much fun, to put it mildly.
Useful, productive, you know, gave me a good respect for material reality, but not really as much fun.
And I remember, you know, and I worked very hard to get out of high school early.
I left a semester early because I did summer school.
So I had a good time in high school.
I was very happy to get out.
And I was in play.
I was in Thornton Wilder's Hardtown in high school.
And I did a sketch in the talent show with a friend of mine and then did some stand-up.
It was a lot of fun.
But then when I left that behind, it's like when you leave your neighborhood behind that you grew up in, right?
It's tough.
You know, part of you wants to stay, part of you wants to move on.
I mean, maybe that's just me, but I think part of you wants to stay, and part of you wants to move on.
At least for me, and it's tough.
I mean, you know that if you stay, it's going to be depressing, right?
You know that, right?
That if you just kind of stay in the familiar, if you have capacity for more, it's going to get depressing.
But moving on, It feels like you're losing a part of yourself.
It's a tough call.
It's a tough call.
I mean, you have to move on, and you regret everything you leave behind.
And every moving on and regretting everything you leave behind is itself a minor rehearsal for the deathbed, right?
You've got to live your life for the reality of the deathbed.
So you don't look back and say, oh, coulda, woulda, shoulda, right?
Coulda, woulda, shoulda.
And we leave everything behind eventually.
So communism is just saying that you can get stuck in a toddler place where everything is taken care of for you and People sell you being interested in you in return for enslavement and subjugation, like your enslavement and subjugation.
Oh, we'll really care about the little art projects that you want to do and the fact that you want to do slam poetry and so on.
We'll really care about that, and we're going to, you know, like it's a love bombing, right?
We really care about you getting paid well, and we really care about you getting healthcare, right?
They'll just fake caring about you in order to pillage, exploit, and...
Destroy you, eventually.
I mean, communism and socialism and leftism, foundationally, is the desire for the unearned.
It's to rebrand things you didn't earn as things you magically deserve so that you can use aggression against people who don't pay their bills.
Don't pay your bills!
That everything you want is like a card you've lent out, and we'll use force to get it back for you.
The people are stealing from you and withholding from you, and we'll use force to get it back from you, and we're on your side, and we want to give what's just and right and fair and good.
We'll fight for you.
You know, you ever see this thing from politicians?
God, it turns my stomach.
It really does.
It turns my stomach.
Why, the politicians say, I'm going to go to Washington to fight for you.
I'm going to go to Ottawa to fight for you.
I'm going to go to London to fight for you.
It's like, I don't, I don't want me.
I don't want you to fight for me.
I'm going to go to your house and make love to your wife.
No, no.
I'm good.
No, thanks.
That's my job.
And it's a job I take very seriously.
I don't...
I'm going to...
I'm going to go to a good restaurant and I'm going to digest your meal for you.
No, no.
I'm good.
I actually would prefer to digest my own food.
I'm going to go to the gym and I'm going to work out for you.
It's like, no, no.
That doesn't help.
It just makes me weaker.
I'm going to fight for you.
I will fight for myself.
Thank you very much.
I'm quite happy to fight for myself.
Thank you.
I'm good.
I will fight for myself.
The people who will, I'll make sure you get the money that you deserve.
It's like, I will negotiate for myself.
I will earn myself.
If I'm unhappy with the money that I get, I don't want you raising minimum wages.
I don't want you threatening people.
I don't want you passing laws.
I don't want to unionize and get some government-sponsored or government-sanctioned monopoly union to negotiate on my behalf because I'm a grown-ass man.
I will talk for myself.
I don't need somebody else to fight for me, to negotiate for me, to give me stuff.
I don't want that.
Because that comes at an absolutely massive and brutal price.
Right?
That comes at an absolutely massive and brutal price.
I do not want other people to live my life for me.
I don't want other people to take my risks for me or to negotiate for me or to fight for me or anything like that.
That's very sad.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I mean, dating apps are kind of the same thing, too, in a way.
We'll find the girls for you.
You don't have to go out there and talk to them yourself.
You can just sit at home and type and type and think you're doing something.
Political activism.
Well, you know, you don't really have to take any risks.
You don't have to do anything like that.
But we'll...
Do all the risk, take you for you.
We'll take on all the controversial stuff.
You just support us, give us money, right?
It's all just this outsourcing of moral responsibility.
Crazy.
Crazy.
Yeah, the screen warriors.
I'm going to be a tough guy.
I'll type it on the internet under a VPN with four squiggles and an Elon Musk grandchild name as my username.
I'm a minor and non-account.
I'm so tough.
So tough.
Crazy, man.
All right, let me get to your questions or comments, because it is a live stream.
All right.
Steph, I know you don't discuss politics, but seeing Doug Ford barking and wearing this goofy Canada Not For Sale cap really annoyed me.
What are your thoughts, if any?
Guy didn't make a peep.
While they locked us down, his own daughter was making posts disagreeing.
He contributed to executing the tyranny as premier.
Now with this Trump crap and it's already late and things deteriorated with less leverage than before, he barks.
I mean, that's...
I hate to say, like, it's fine that it bothers you and I'm not saying it shouldn't, but, I mean, honestly, that's so far below, like, people cheering for their owners.
It's so far below my sort of level of where I'm working at the moment.
And again, I don't mean to be Joe's snobby head or anything like that.
It's a fine thing to bring up.
But when Trudeau, as a lot of people, Canada is not a nation.
It's a post-nation, what?
Frozen ice prison.
So.
Why would it matter who owns Canada?
Apparently it doesn't matter who lives in Canada, who comes and goes.
Why would it matter who owns Canada?
In sort of any rational way, if it doesn't have any particular history or culture or legacy or anything like that, it doesn't matter.
Steph, any tips to deal with the death of a loved one?
My girlfriend's mother died and she is devastated.
My girlfriend's mother died, and she is devastated.
I mean, I've certainly shed tears over people dying in my life.
you Maybe 30 years ago, a friend of mine's father died after being misdiagnosed repeatedly by the Canadian healthcare system.
And I shed tears on that.
Well, 2025 is going to be...
My year of bluntness.
My year of bluntness.
Okay, Joe, I mean, I'm happy to...
I want to be accurate.
I want to be accurate.
But Joe, minus 10 being a terrible mother, plus 10 being my wife.
Right, minus 10 being a terrible mother, plus 10 being a great mother.
Joe, how...
How would you evaluate your girlfriend's mother?
How would you evaluate your girlfriend's mother from minus 10 to plus 10 as a whole?
As a whole.
Oh, that's funny.
So, you know, there's this meme which says that you make a generalized statement to a woman.
And women always say, well, I know of an exception.
And underneath that, there's a woman who says, well, I'm a woman and I don't do that.
So when I talk about dating apps and you as a woman say, well, I'm an exception to that rule.
It is, you know, it's a quirky thing about women that whenever we talk, I mean, hey, man, women are an average shorter than men.
Well, my husband is shorter than me.
Right?
Like that's right.
So you say, Joe, that she is plus seven?
She is plus seven, right?
She is plus seven, okay.
Let me ask you this.
How old was your girlfriend's mother and how long was she ill for if she died of natural causes?
I mean, it's one thing if your girlfriend's mother is like 45 and got hit by a bus.
It's another thing if she's 85 and was sick for six months.
But I have not shed many tears from many people I've known who have died.
Now, I haven't known tons of people who've died.
I had a kind of weird cluster, as I've talked about before, when I was...
Late latency, early teens.
from about the age of 11 to sometime a couple of years after that, there were just a bunch of people I knew, kids actually, I knew who died.
But it's a tough call.
With most people that I knew, and of course, I grew up with not very high-quality people.
Obviously, it's no fault of my own, but I grew up with not very high-quality people.
In her 50s, she was sick the last six months.
Once you went in for a repeated procedure and didn't make it out.
That's tough, man.
Dying in your 50s is tough.
And Joe, I don't know how long you've been dating your girlfriend and so on.
So, how long have you been dating your girlfriend and did you love her mother?
What decade are you in?
How long have you been dating your girlfriend and did you love her mother?
This is important.
This is important.
And how do you know it?
Because I'm saying it, man, and everything I say is super important.
I saw the question about narcissism, but selfishly I'm not going to answer it.
No, I'm just kidding.
I will.
I will.
All right.
Stranger Strake lawsuit.
it.
Thank you.
Uh, file today.
Strangest.
We used to just meet people at the pub.
"You should just go play sports, go talk to people, go to the library, go to the coffee shop, go talk to people." Four years, she was okay.
I liked her mom.
Why are you not married, Joe?
I can guarantee you, as a parent, the one thing that her mother wanted for her daughter was to see her settled.
I guarantee you, the one thing her mother wanted before she died was to see her daughter settled.
So why didn't you all get married when she got sick?
You had six months?
Wouldn't that have given her great comfort?
What am I missing?
Again, obviously I'm happy to be schooled on this.
Any other subject or any other topic, but my God!
What am I not getting here?
Why wouldn't you get married?
I mean, it's a pretty good reason.
It's been four years.
Maybe there's some other reason that I don't know about, but I assume that you're in your at least 20s, maybe 30s, if the mother was in her 50s.
So why wouldn't you give comfort to her mother?
by marrying her daughter before she died.
And again, happy to be corrected.
Hey, Steve.
So, how much of...
How much is lost...
When the average unthinking person dies, and I'm not, you know, personal history, relationships, you know, grew up together, whatever it is, right?
But when the average unthinking person dies, how much is really lost?
You know, when a great soul dies who's done great good in the world or had a great impact or done big things and so on, yeah, I get that that's a big thing, but...
And this can be just a sort of personal neighborhood kind of situation, but how much is lost when the average NPC dies?
I mean, in a larger context, right?
So most people, I don't know, of course, if this is the case with your girlfriend, but most people regret when somebody dies because there is still stuff unsaid, right?
So when somebody dies, like, I'm sure bad things happened to my father when my father was a child.
Thanks, Tim.
I'm sure that bad things happened to my father, very bad things happened to my father, when my father was a child.
I will never know now, because he's dead and dust, and those memories are, I mean, they were pretty unaccessible in his life, because I'm not sure he ever would have confessed.
But they're completely inaccessible now.
So that's it, man.
The door comes down, right?
You know, Indiana Jones reaching back to grab his hat.
The door comes down, slams forever, and the sonorous stone heart crumbles into nothing and cannot be started or touched again, right?
So, if you've known someone is sick and dying, in a sense, for six months, then you try to get as much closure, try to talk about as many important things, try to make sure that you comfort them with knowing how much they were loved.
And you have the most essential conversations that you can.
I mean, I think at least once a week, what if I or someone I love dies this week?
Right?
It's not like drivers are getting smarter.
So I think about that.
And I think, what would I think if it took me five minutes to die?
Would there be all this stuff?
That I wish I had said.
Was there all this bottled up language that I wish I had said?
Do I have closure, relative closure, right?
Well, first of all, I think I would be missed, right?
I think I would be missed, and that's a good thing.
But that's because I've done some pretty extraordinary stuff in the world that is not reproducible.
That is not reproducible.
I'd be missed.
So, your girlfriend, why is she so devastated?
I mean, her mother was young, and that's a shame.
Was her mother, you know, deeply original and creative and honest and virtuous?
Was she a great pillar in her community?
Did she promote virtue and fight vice and so on, right?
You haven't mentioned her father.
I mean, Obviously, maybe the mother and the father are together and so on.
But she also raised a daughter who doesn't have the sense to get married in less than four years.
So there's got to be something wrong there.
There's got to be something wrong.
Got to be something odd.
If she raised a daughter who just lets you date her and date her and date her and date her and date her and date her and date her.
Did the mother say to you, Joe, and your girlfriend, I just want to see you settled?
Please get married.
Right?
Did she say that?
Somebody says, I've heard nothing but good things about your work experience.
Excited?
Check it out.
Funnily enough, I found your channel really early on.
A while ago, I watched your reactions to stuff.
Good work.
Great work.
Well, thank you.
Thank you.
I appreciate that.
So, I always wonder, and I don't know obviously the truth about this with regards to your girlfriend, although you can - we can do a call-in about it.
If your girlfriend wants to join, I can certainly help with grieving.
But honestly, I always wonder how much of grieving is for show.
I have one black low, these men.
I was in a play.
I was actually in a double night of theater way back in the day called The Bear with a Slight Ach.
The bear was not the cocaine kind.
The bear was a rough-and-tumble character in a Chekhov story where this woman had been grieving forever and ever.
And it was an affectation.
Again, I'm not saying that this is your girlfriend or anything like that.
And then I also played the lead in Harold Pinter's A Slight Ach.
It was the bear with a slight ache.
It was actually pretty good, because the bear, I played a comic character, and then a slight ache, well, there's no comedy.
In Harold Pinter's work, just a lot of very strange syllables.
But how much do people grieve because they think they should?
How much do people grieve because they're supposed to?
How much do people grieve?
Like, I was a bit surprised, honestly.
I mean, it's now been, what, four years?
Four years, probably, I think.
Since my father died, and, um...
Oh, my father, you know, what practical difference does it make?
I said everything I had to say to him, he said everything back, and we were done.
I'm not going to pretend all this sentimentality that I don't feel.
At the same time, you don't want to be cold-hearted, so I get all of that, but...
Joe seems to have gone dark.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Yeah, Joe seems to have gone dark.
That's a shame.
Maybe he feels bad because...
Maybe he feels bad because he didn't get married or talk about it.
Maybe he feels bad because he's stringing this woman along for four years without dating her.
I mean, come on, man.
After four years, it's embarrassing.
He's my girlfriend.
Like we're 12. That's my girlfriend.
Talk about a Peter Pan thing, right?
God's sakes.
Marry or get out.
What, do you think you're going to live forever?
Lyonson asks, would you say these long relationships are like Peter Pan syndrome?
I go on TikTok.
Sometimes, and I see these attractive couples posting videos together all the time, and I keep seeing their five-plus-year relationship anniversary.
No kids, no marriage, or engagement.
Right.
So, there's two poles in human existence.
There's vanity, and there's children.
Vanity and children.
So, there are women, there are literally women, literally women, millions of women out there who won't have children.
Because they're frightened it will screw up their figures.
They just won't be attractive, and they'll mess up their figures, and they just don't want that, right?
Which is about the saddest thing and the most pathetic and embarrassing thing known to man, God, or devil.
You know, the purpose of your figure is to attract a man so that you can have babies.
For you to use your figure to get vanity points with the anonymous thirst simp army on the internet rather than have children, It's absolutely stealing from nature and robbing your ancestors blind.
Your ancestors did not struggle through the fucking Roman Empire, the great plague, the great fires, the smoke-outs, the industrial accidents, the famine, the war, the endless death, the infant mortality.
They didn't bury half their children so that you could pose on a beach in Thailand in your fucking bikini at 35 and say, I don't want a baby to spoil this.
Demonic.
Satanic.
Repulsive.
Monstrous.
Monstrous.
I mean...
It is sand in an hourglass.
Life is sand in an hourglass.
Day, day, day, day, day, day, day.
You can do a little bit with luck to replenish the top by exercising and eating well while maintaining a healthy weight.
But it is...
Trip, trip, trip.
Day, day, day, day, day, day, day.
Done.
Day, day, day, day, day, day.
They done!
Time is gonna take your beauty.
you And ain't nobody looks pretty a year into the fucking ground.
Ain't nobody looks pretty at 80. Oh, I'm gonna hoard my looks, so I don't want to spoil them by having children, even though that's the whole point of having looks.
I'm gonna hoard them.
No, you're not.
Nope.
You're not gonna hoard them.
They're going.
They're going.
Susanna Hoff, Salma Hayek.
Oh, God, what's that chick from my cousin, uh, Vinny?
Posted, she's like 60, and her legs look great.
The eggs are dead.
Who cares about the legs?
It's the eggs, baby.
Marissa Tomei Time takes everything from you.
Hoarding is pointless.
You know, you can't take it with you, man.
You can't take your youth, your beauty, your looks, your attractiveness, your hair, your tits, your ass, your balls.
There's a boner above the balls, but there's no bone in the balls.
They're gone.
What is it?
Somebody made a plaster cast of Jimi Hendrix's dong.
Still gone.
Turns to dust.
Everything turns to dust.
Everything turns to dust, which is why you want to write as deep and honestly in the heart of the world so it lasts forever.
You've got to throw your thoughts up into the sky, hopefully publicly, even privately.
You've got to throw your thoughts up into the sky with enough force and fire that they become constellations.
All going to go.
It's all gonna fade.
It's all gonna go.
My voice box.
My eyes.
My nose.
My ears.
I get to keep.
Nature gets to keep my teeth, my clavicle.
My tailbone will stay.
My ass is dust.
My skull remains.
The thoughts, the brain are gone.
My father's hoarded memories of childhood abuse are gone.
And this used to be known, right?
This used to be known.
Alas!
Poor Yarek!
I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite.
Jest, the most excellent fancy.
He had borne me on his back a thousand times, and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is.
My gorge rims at it.
He's looking at his skull, right?
Here hung those lips that I have kissed.
I know not how oft.
Where be your jibes now?
Your gambles?
Your songs?
Your flashes of merriment that will want to set the table on a roar.
Not one now to mock your own grinning?
Quite chap-fallen?
Now get you to my lady's chamber and tell her, let her paint an inch thick.
To this favor she must come.
Make her laugh at that.
Let her paint an inch thick.
She can put on as much makeup as she wants.
The skull awaits us all.
Vanity.
Fertility.
Status.
Children.
Death.
Life.
Those are the polls.
you And all of the people who are posting the pictures of them doing cool things.
Oh, look at all this.
I spent my money on this vacation.
I got this cool car.
Look at this chandelier.
Look at it.
I remember seeing, I don't remember the movie, but there was some movie where this woman was dragging all this other women around showing how amazing her house was, and then she burst into tears at the end because she was infertile.
All nest, no eggs.
So when I see some guy, he's single, whatever, and he's got no kids, and he's like, look at this cool car I just bought.
It's like, I don't see a car, I see no kids.
Right?
I don't see a car, I just see no kids.
That's what you have in place of.
In place of life, in place of continuity, in place of responsibility, in place of fucking adulthood.
I have stuff and abs.
Yeah, stuff and abs.
Well, the stuff gets thrown up.
The stuff gets thrown out and your abs turn to fucking dust.
See some woman slenderer.
She's at the gym, right?
She's at the gym.
Look how good I look.
Look how good I look.
For what?
It's going to vanish.
It's going to go.
It's going to disappear.
It's going to disintegrate.
Everything you have is borrowed.
Everything you have is borrowed.
and everything you are will vanish.
Eternity comes collecting sooner or later, but always and always, forever and ever.
Amen.
And the only chance you have to live on after death is children and truth.
The only chance you have to live on after death is children and truth and hopefully both.
Immortality is in the effect You have on those who live on after you.
That's all you get.
So all the people who want to look good, great.
Thank you.
Don't have kids.
Leave the world to the deep souls, you shallow fucking mannequins of vanity.
Leave the world to us.
Great.
Don't have kids.
Don't have kids.
I'm not going to argue with you.
Don't have kids.
Because you'd screw up your kids anyway with your shallow vanity.
Get out of the way!
Mommy's doing a selfie!
I was raised by a vainglorious woman and I barely made it and I'm pretty fucking robust.
Skin of my teeth, Batman!
You lucky, lucky bastard.
I'm doing deals.
I'm buying cars.
I got a big house.
Good for you.
You got abs and stuff.
It's a demonic offer to have...
I don't get love, right?
What is the big substitute for love?
What is the big substitute for love?
Is envy.
Well, nobody loves me, but maybe I can provoke some envy.
Like...
Marissa Tomei.
No kids, right?
I don't think she has kids.
Ugh.
All these rich kids too, boy.
born of a lawyer, right?
Yeah, she's never been married and she has no kids.
Yes.
But she looks good.
And other women were, oh, you've got such great legs.
Thanks.
Thank you.
There was Susanna Hoff from, was it from the Bengals or something?
and there was a picture of her floating around.
You're...
A drop of rain on the windshield and mortality is the wiper.
You're gone, baby.
Before you know it, you're gone.
I really feel like it was like four days ago that I was 20. Before you know it, it's gone.
It's gone.
And you know how it works, right?
You're not going to get wiped out by a meteor.
You're not going to get hit by a bus.
The devil, after telling you to not worry about...
Having kids, to not worry about being in love, to not worry about virtue.
You know, life is just there for you to have fun, man.
Just have fun.
Go chase some dopamine, man.
Don't take anything too seriously.
It's literally not that serious, like you're some tween.
And then what happens is, and I'm old enough now to have seen this happen to the previous generation, what happens is you get really fucking old, but you're not dead.
You get really old, you've made shitty decisions, and you have at least 20 years in the prison of regret while your body decays.
Thanks.
Ouchies.
Ouch.
Your body gets old, your body falls apart.
You can save it off, but it happens.
But the real bitterness of age is regret.
The real loss in age is regret.
You've got to live your life backwards from the last 20 years.
I remember saying this on Twitter many moons ago.
I said, ladies, you live to be 80. You're pretty much infertile at 40. What are you going to do without kids for those 40 long years?
Travel!
have sex.
Like an endlessly migrating dopamine addict.
Thanks.
Thank you.
I'm like a bird.
I fly to penis for the winter.
It's important to stick the landing.
Oh, my God. .
Don't choose vanity, man.
Vanity dries up, and you're left with this just salty, dry lake.
Form a lake of regret.
Just nothing.
Just fuck.
And you can't even admit that you're fault.
This is where Karen's come from, right?
is women who can't admit fault.
All right.
Get to your question.
Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
They're going to lose it all after like 35 years old anyway, just a matter of time.
Yeah, and of course, women with normal, regular lives, they envy celebrities whose job it is to look good, who can have $20,000 worth of facial shit, and they hire trainers and nutritionists and dietists and cooks, and they get paid $10 million a year.
To be flat-bellied over 40, right?
And even then, I mean, no hate on Cindy Lauper, but, you know, she looks like a semi-triangular cave trawl at the moment, and, you know, I'm not as attractive, obviously, now that I was when I was younger, so that happens.
No hate on her, but it's going to happen, right?
She was an 80s cutie, right?
Or Madonna, right?
Madonna was one of the great faces of the 80s and 90s, and...
Now she looks like a ferret-faced kabuki mask that's gone through time travel.
I like Blunt Steph the most by far.
Good.
Steve says, Steph, I wonder what you think of this pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps versus we-have-none-of-the-opportunities-of-the-past generational debate that is raging on the X timeline right now.
Well, fuck all of the boomers.
Who ladled the hemlock, force-labeled the hemlock of intergenerational debt down the throats of their offspring, who then say that the offspring need to just work harder.
The fuck are you talking about, you ghouls?
The fuck are you talking about?
Y'all couldn't run your society in any sensible or rational way to the point where children are born millions of dollars in debt because if you're fucking wrinkled, Spotty asked Greed.
You gotta work harder.
Why didn't you work harder and pay taxes for all the free shit you wanted?
Gotta work harder.
You just gotta save.
Y'all couldn't save for shit.
Because any politician that came along and said, Ooh, you know what?
Here's a radical fucking idea based on simple math and an abacus that doesn't come from the ass of Satan himself.
Here's a radical idea.
How about...
We spend within our means.
Oh, no.
Apparently, math is holy water to the vampires of the boomers.
More!
More!
Adam Driver style.
More!
Spend more!
Borrow more!
Print more!
Control more!
Import more!
Boom!
Right?
How the living fuck did boomers get the intergalactic gall To say to the younger generation, have some discipline and self-restraint when they're handing $200 trillion worth of debt and unfunded liabilities to the next generation.
It's hilarious.
And how anybody breaks bread with people who fucked them royally so badly economically, who sold them off to foreign banksters for the sake of feel-good hormones and virtue signaling in the here and now.
How the fuck anyone breaks bread with these people is utterly beyond me.
Unless they were devotees and advocates of people like Ron Paul!
They ate your offspring on the buffet of endless feel-good vanity dopamine.
They ate your children's economic futures and then have the absolute fucking gall to say, just work harder and save more.
Just work harder and save more.
It's hilarious.
I mean, let's see.
At this point, what are you going to do?
All you can do is laugh.
All you can do is laugh.
I'm a discipline.
You have to live within your means.
It's so important to live within your means.
Oh, live within your means?
The fuck is the national debt, then, for?
Why does that exist?
Did you all live within your means?
Well, you know, you have to make sacrifices, because if you don't live within your means, it's going to cost you.
Okay, great.
Right, so you're going to give up your social security because of the aforementioned debt.
Oh, the young people, they have to make sacrifices.
To get ahead.
It's okay, well, there's no money for your social security.
There's no money for your old age pensions.
You are, in fact, the richest generation in human history, so you'll give up that shit, right?
Because sacrifice is really important.
And, you know, I'm going to go out on a limb here and I'm going to say that the unborn weren't morally responsible for your fucked up voting decisions for the last 50 years.
Let's just say.
Let's go out on a limb here.
And so, say, you know, the people who weren't even a glint in their daddy's eyes are not responsible for the fucked up boomer voting decisions of the past 50 or 60 years.
Let's just say.
I think that's a reasonable position.
It's a little hard to say that the people who don't even exist as tadpoles in the balls are responsible for what you did.
Oh, you gotta take responsibility.
Live within your means and don't spend too much and save.
It's like...
Are you fucking kidding me?
It's the ultimate gaslighting.
Now, boomers can say, yeah, you know what?
We fucked up.
We gave you guys a massive debt.
We railed against any cuts in government spending, and we wanted to feel good rather than do good.
We were addicts of our own fucked up social approval.
And we didn't want to, you know, we didn't want to help the poor precisely because, you know, the poor can be a little volatile and often they smell like vinegar and cats.
So we don't really want to go there and help the poor, but we did surrender your economic future to a bunch of con men who said they were going to help the poor while actually trapping them in an underclass of poverty.
So fuck off, shut up, and pay our social security from your barely existent income.
It's just a shame.
But the one thing that's wild about the boomers is they created a situation where the only evil is legitimate shame.
You know what?
That's that great line, I'm not ashamed of my body, from Seinfeld.
I'm not ashamed of my body.
That's the problem.
You should be.
All shame is toxic to the narcissist.
And when you say, we're not going to have any shame in society, nobody can be shamed, then what you end up with is such a bad conscience that any accountability or responsibility is like death to the false self, to the vainglorious ego.
I mean, why can't boomers ever admit they were wrong?
About anything.
Why can't boomers ever admit they were wrong about anything?
I'm now conscious because somebody said to me, Steph repeats all important points twice.
Steph repeats...
But it's important.
Why?
Why can't they say, you know what, it wasn't your fault.
That we handed you this giant national debt and a screwed up economy.
We're going to make some sacrifices.
We're going to make it right.
Nope.
Trying to get boomers to admit fault is like trying to get a communist to understand basic economics or math or human beings at all.
Thank you.
Other than to exploit and control them.
So, absolutely, the boomers are running the grimmest comedy show in the known universe by telling people that they just need to work harder.
And they're just doing that because they don't want to confront their own bad conscience.
They can't say, I feel bad about the amount of debt we guys gave you.
We inherited a system with virtually no debt and we delivered unto you a system absolutely crushed and crippled by that to the point where like 30-40% of government revenues are going on the debt, which is our vanity and our dedication to anything except reality.
ABR. Anything but reality.
anything but math.
Where's the Mia Culpa?
you Well, the government's way bigger now than it was when we got our voting rights.
There's way more debt.
There are way fewer economic opportunities.
The culture is diluted.
Everything's a giant fucking mess.
Because to take culpability would be to do the most horrible thing in the boomer repertoire.
is to make restitution.
Restitution is for white people who were never slave owners to black people who were never slaves.
It's never for the people who actually voted us into semi-totalitarianism and crushing levels of debt.
To admit fault is to have to make restitution.
To admit fault is to admit the existence of other people.
Boomers are the coldest generation.
And the most conformist generation I've ever heard of and have ever met.
And I know them quite well, of course.
I'm right on the edge of Boomer myself.
Like two years back, I would have been.
It's funny, my brother's a Boomer, I'm not.
It's nothing personal.
Nothing.
Nothing!
Why do you keep saying that?
They're the coldest people.
Because they have no empathy for the future.
It's consume, consume, consume.
Pac-Man.
Endless glowing dots, each one, the economic opportunities of their children being chased by the ghosts, the four inky-binky-ninky and blob of their own bad conscience.
Like sharks, they can't stop moving.
All right.
Now, at the same time, though, the amount of...
Economic opportunities available for the young has never been greater.
I mean, I do this show, you know, by the way, by the way, I certainly do appreciate people's support, but we've had no tips on locals tonight.
Working fairly hard here, bringing out the big old mental sweat.
So, I've been a couple of donations on free domain, which I really appreciate that, but you can donate here or on free domain.
I really would appreciate that.
Freedomain.com if you're listening later.
I think I'm doing some good work.
Just have some basic empathy for the future.
But something happened with the boomers.
I don't know if it was the fiat currency, the government debt.
I don't know if it was really big propaganda and so on.
Maybe they were too old to catch the truth bombs that come regularly rolling out of the arse end of the internet.
But they have just lived in an absolute cocoon of vainglorious, petty, pointless unreality.
And they don't seem to have any will to shake off the spell and grow the fuck up before they die.
They are giant toddlers in age-inappropriate clothing, roaming the malls in search of the perfect frozen yogurt while ignoring their grandchildren.
Going on cruises and saying, hey, you're not going to get anything.
We're going to enjoy it while we've got it.
And they don't give a shit.
And their bad conscience shows up in their inability to listen to any complaints.
They just wave them away.
Just wave away the complaints.
Somehow, they have told people...
Two absolute and opposing truths.
And their brains are so fucking shredded by fiat currency, vanity, drugs, and dissociation that they don't even see these glaring contradictions.
Number one.
Number one.
The citizens control the government through voting.
That's what boomers are.
I was raised by boomers.
That's what they always told me.
Well, you know, you get to vote and therefore you have to do what the government says because the government is a reflection of you.
The government works for you.
So you're voting.
Absolutely determines what the government does.
Right?
You are responsible for what the government does.
Public policy is a reflection of the will of the voters.
Hit me with a Y for you bastards.
Hit me with a Y if you ever heard that you, as a voting citizen, are responsible for what the government does.
Right?
That's what the boomers say.
That's what...
The boomers say.
They also say, in a truly, double-think, brain-twisting, gymnastic routine from hell, they also say, it looks like when AI does breakdancing, that's a boomer's mind trying to dodge basic facts.
Number one, the government does exactly what the voters want.
Number two, we're not responsible for the national debt.
Honestly, what can you say?
What can you say?
It's like watching somebody eat their own feces and call themselves a Cordon Bleu Chef.
You're a Cordon Bleu Chef.
It's wild.
Well, you know, when we want you to obey the government, we're going to tell you that the government is entirely responsive to the will of the people.
But when we voted for shitty government programs, we say, well, we're not responsible for that.
The boomers did not want reality and did not care at all about the future they leave for their children.
Yeah.
The boomers did not want reality and did not want reality and did not want reality and did not want reality and did not want reality.
Love it or leave it.
Oh yes, James, love it or leave it.
Love it or leave it.
You know, if you don't love it, you can just leave it.
But then you try and apply that to something you can actually leave without exit taxes called the family.
Well, I don't love you guys.
You're kind of selfish, narcissistic assholes who won't take responsibility for everything and are basically the same as when you were in diapers the last time.
Now you're in diapers now and you're the same person.
You're just a big-ass, wrinkled baby.
You're a toddler waving around a voting card like a monkey with a machine gun.
Love it or leave it?
If you don't love it, you can leave it.
Okay, I don't love this family.
I'm leaving it.
How dare you?
You must have joined that online cult.
Love it or leave it.
Okay, I think I'll take that with regards to you.
Right?
If you didn't vote, you have no right to complain.
Right.
Because if you vote, then you're responsible.
If you vote, then you're responsible.
But the boomers didn't vote.
Vote.
Really.
All they did was they were bribed with the avoidance of any sense of restraint or reality.
They voted and were bribed into the narcissism of the infinite money glitch.
Oh, I don't have to choose between this or that.
Guns or butter, that's what I was raised with.
Guns or butter.
Right?
You get more guns, you get less butter.
You get more military industrial, you get less consumer goods.
It's guns or butter.
Boomers are so unreal that they think that people can be in two places at the same time.
Well, you have an airtight alibi, but you still could admit committed the murder on the other side of the planet because reality doesn't exist for them.
Saying, well, if you want to spend more on, say, migrants, you have to spend less on other things.
How dare you bring math!
You know...
I was threatened with being failed for math on a pretty regular basis.
No, thanks, Allison.
I was threatened with being failed for math on a fairly regular basis.
You know, if you don't understand how to do algebraic division, we're going to steal a year of your life and keep you locked in grade 9 forever.
You're going to be the big kid.
And around the small kids, we might even put you on the short bus.
Tall kid on a short bus.
So, the boomers threaten to steal a year of my life.
If I didn't get my math right, but they can steal an entire fucking country.
Through debt.
And they won't be held responsibility at all.
That having been said, I couldn't have done this job in the past, right?
I mean, I got this whole fucking goose bumps up my spine the moment I heard of podcasting and did all of that.
The early shows are only 40k because the bandwidth was so blindingly expensive back then, 20 years ago.
The moment.
I mean, I wrote about podcasting and videocasting.
In a novel that I wrote in the early 2000s, 2001, 2002, I wrote a novel where someone did this and was able to have a real effect on the world.
I literally wrote my own future years before it happened, like half a decade before it happened.
The novel is called The God of Atheists.
You can get it at freedomain.com slash books.
So there are lots of opportunities now that did not exist in the past.
low barrier to entry entrepreneurship are almost infinite now.
Somebody says, when I try to explain any of this to boomers, they just look at me dumbfounded with their fucking lead or fluoride stare and say, oh, they just look at me dumbfounded with their fucking lead or fluoride stare and say, oh, well, the interest rate
So.
So.
So...
Marissa Tomei said in 2009, I'm not that big a fan of marriage as an institution, and I don't know why women need to have children to be seen as complete human beings.
I don't know why women need to have children to be seen as complete human beings.
She's flashing her legs at 60 with this vainglorious, insecure cheerleader vibe.
And then she's saying, well, I'm a complete human being.
Well, why can't you be a complete human being without showing half your ass crack by having your skirt right up in your 60s, your stick legs?
Aren't you a complete human being without showing all that skin?
Why do women need to have children to be seen as complete human beings?
You know why you are a human being, complete or not?
Because your mother had children.
You get to exist and have a great career because your mother had children and made some sacrifices to raise you.
So you are hoarding that.
You are taking that.
You inherited the greatest gift in the universe like you inherited the greatest wealth in known existence and you pissed it all away.
on bullshit films and skin.
You know what you need to be seen as a complete human being?
You need to exist.
You need to exist.
It's not so much whether you, Marissa, get seen as a complete human being.
It's whether the children you could have had get to exist at all, even as being seen as slightly incomplete human beings.
You didn't complete any human beings.
You don't have any human beings.
You did not make any human beings when you easily could have.
It's about me being seen as a complete human being.
You could have literally made human beings and you didn't.
That's selfish.
I know it's a mutual thing, but do you think women deep down resent their boyfriends who string them along in these Peter Pan relationships?
Well, of course they do.
Of course they do.
And the women live in a state of existential angst and terror because they want to get married.
They want to settle down.
They probably want to have kids.
And what they did was they said, listen, you can have sex without the ring.
You get to screw me like a kanji pretzel from every dimension, including that of time and conscience.
And you don't have to commit to me.
I'll give you all the Milk, you don't have to buy the cow.
You can have the sex, you don't have to commit to me.
In other words, they've separated sex from commitment, marriage, and children.
Sex is for the having of babies.
Right?
I've had to explain this a bunch of times to people lately.
Not you guys, of course, but marriage is sex.
And sex is not always marriage.
But marriage is all about sex.
Right?
Because that's what defines a marriage.
I can have friendships outside of marriage.
I can have business partnerships out of marriage.
I can have squash partners outside of marriage.
I can have workout buddies outside of marriage.
I can have co-hobbyists outside of marriage.
But I can't have sex outside of marriage.
That's the one thing that's not allowed.
Marriage is about sex.
Marriage is defined by sexuality.
And couples who don't have sex, or rarely have sex, aren't married.
They're just roommates.
With occasional side benefits.
They're living as brother and sister.
They're not married.
Marriage is about sex.
So a woman who gives up sex without requiring a commitment is hoping that the man gets addicted to sex and then will marry her.
Which is saying that she doesn't have the personal qualities that would make a man want to marry her.
She just offers up orgasms in the hope of bribing the man into marrying her.
And when the man doesn't marry her, because he's already getting the orgasms, when the man doesn't marry her, she's terrified to push the issue because then she'll get dumped.
And she keeps crossing her fingers every day, every day, step by step, drudge by drudge.
You know, you ever had a hike that just goes on so long, all you're doing is you're not even staring at the scenery anymore.
You're just kind of plodding ahead foot by foot.
Like when my friends and I got lost.
In Algonquin, in our teens, just plodding along.
I'm not looking at the scenery anymore.
I'm just looking step by step, man, looking for the path to end, just step by step.
You're down in the nitty-gritty of the moment, and that's it.
And they won't push it.
They're terrified to push it, and they live in a state of absolute terror, anxiety, and stress.
They resent the man, and then they make themselves have sex with the man, because if they don't have sex with the man, they're terrified the man's going to leave them.
And if they push for a commitment, they're terrified the man's going to leave them.
It's a horrible, horrible existence.
So they end up getting testy, getting tense, and they've got all their friends saying, why isn't he proposing?
What's going on?
Why wouldn't he propose?
And then, what am I doing wrong?
And then they try to make things better for the man, make things more positive, but it's resentful because it's based on tension.
It's a whole Lord of the Rings drama going on between her ears and her legs that men usually don't have much of a clue about.
We men, we don't have the metronome of the period, but just these tanks that go from our 20s to our 60s and then just fucking fall over.
That's it.
No maintenance.
Just die.
So, it's a horrible existence.
We don't notice the passage of time for men.
We have so much of it.
We have twice the fertility window.
No, more.
We have, so a man is fertile, let's just say 20, right?
20 to 80, right?
A woman is fertile 20 to 40, right?
So, 20 to 80 is 60 years.
20 to 40 is 20. So, a man has three times the fertility window of a woman.
We don't notice the passage of time.
And we've got the whole career thing, and we've got our friends, and we've got hobbies, and we're just going along, right?
The woman is like, tick, tick, dong, dong, tick, tick, right?
That's the scene in Marisa Tomei and in My Cousin Vinny.
I got the tick, tick, tick, and he's like, I'm trying to get something to work here, and you've got the tick, tick, tick.
It's a horrible, horrible existence.
you Thank you.
And the woman eventually just blows up.
Just can't handle it.
I've got to know!
I've got to know!
And she just blows up.
And then the man's like, well, this is bizarre.
What the hell's going on?
She's really turned unpleasant.
She just kind of went crazy.
I don't know, maybe it's hormonal.
I can't get married to her when she's like this.
And then they break up.
Because she was not honest.
"To herself or to him?" "When you look on Twitter, you see people really think they are entitled to money from It's mad.
But that's...
Most people think about government money the way that toddlers think of their parents' money.
You want something and somebody says, no, just...
Just have a tantrum or beg, whine, and plead, and promise, right?
Somebody says, "I matched this pretty girl, early 20s, last week in my building pool." She looked like she wanted to eat me up like a hamburger.
Saw her again at the building gym with her friend.
Spoke to her, got her number.
I texted her and she kept calling me babe.
Asked her out on a date and she told me she's down but she only goes out with guys who pay her a few hundred bucks each time.
Would she give me a special discount?
I said no and wished her all the best.
Yeah.
No, it's not often that a woman will so openly say that you'll get a sexually transmitted disease or a stalker just by dating her.
That's nice.
That's nice.
Israel Hamas withdrawal agreement.
Thoughts?
Well, they ain't going to give up cousin marriage, so there's not much that can be done in the long run.
All right.
Thank you for the tip, my friend.
And...
Thank you.
Boomers really will stay with their family no matter what they did to them.
My grandmother was awful to my mom and aunt, but they still look after her now.
Well, sure.
Because the boomers are one of the most morally corrupted generations in human history because they gave up God and math and moral responsibility and self-ownership and accountability while preaching morals and self-reliance to everyone else.
So boomers have to stick with family because nobody else wants to spend time with them.
I recently saw a statistic saying that the average online influencer as a career makes $6,000 a year.
Oh, is that right?
But, you know, remember, I mean, if you...
There's a pretty good way to out-compete people.
Three words.
It's a pretty good way to out-compete people.
Pretty easy way.
Right?
Do you know how to out-compete people?
Do you know how to out-compete people?
It's not that hard.
Don't hold back.
Just don't hold back.
Just don't hold back.
Just give everything your all.
You know, so many people hoard this stuff.
Like, you get to hoard your energy, hoard your intellect, hoard your communications, hoard your...
Like, hoarding for what?
You can't store it.
You either...
Like, when I was at work, man, if I got an assignment, I would absolutely throw myself into it.
150%.
150%.
You know, I don't really hold back, sometimes to my detriment, in these streams, right?
I sort of say, what's on my mind, make the case that I make.
Just don't hold back.
Because you're out there competing with people who have this giant eye of sore and critical brain looking at that and saying, well, that's cringe.
Well, that's inappropriate.
Well, that's just weird.
Oh, stop doing that.
You look ridiculous.
Don't you know how you look?
People are laughing at you.
They've got this track of static.
This is constantly grinding them down and pushing them down and holding them down.
Sidestep that, baby.
Ninja move that.
Neo that shit.
And give it your all.
What are you waiting for?
Christmas.
Right?
It's a long way away now.
It's January.
Just give it your all.
I don't know why people don't do that.
Right?
I mean, I just read this A little bit of Shakespeare, right?
I gave it my all.
Got right into the passion of it.
Why not?
I mean, I don't get to take all of the shit I hoard in my heart and mind and use it to extend my lifespan.
It's not like if you hold yourself back, you get to live forever.
You probably just die sooner.
Just give it your all.
What I want to know is, what's the average income for influencers who actually...
Lock in!
That's my daughter's favorite phrase.
She says, I'm locked in, I'm locking in, I'm locking in.
Lock in, right?
Star Raiders style.
That's what I want to know.
Is the success level and failure level of people who absolutely give it their odds Just give it your all.
Just give it your all.
Always throw yourself in 150%.
That way you find out if you like it, you find out if it's worthwhile, you find out if it's good for you, you find out if people care.
Just give it your all.
I mean, there are a few things I hold back on.
I'm not suicidal, right?
Right?
So there are a few things I hold back on, but everything else, you know, and I have that little, ooh, someone's going to take a little snippet of this and it's going to be taken out of control.
You know, you can't spend the rest of your life being castrated by assholes determined to lie about you, right?
I mean, you can, but that's not much of a life.
And, you know, one of my foundational principles is don't let the bad guys win.
That's a foundational principle for me.
Just don't let the bad guys win.
As much as possible.
Sometimes all you can get is a draw, but that's alright.
That's fine.
For a lot of people in human history, they couldn't win.
If I get a draw, and I think I've kind of got a draw so far, that's pretty good throughout most of human history.
So, just give it your all.
You're going for a good job interview.
Give it your all.
Hell, you're...
I'll make jokes when I'm ordering a burger.
You know, I'll chat with someone and ask about their life if I'm getting a coffee.
Just give it your all.
Why hold anything back?
It's all going anyway.
You know, it's like that film Brewster's Millions where the guy's got to spend like $10 million in 24 hours or he loses it all.
That's life, man.
Spend everything.
Spend everything. Spend everything.
Right?
Thank you.
Why?
Why not?
What else?
You don't get to keep it.
You don't get to keep it at all.
You know that, right?
You don't get to keep anything.
Sorry about that.
Wasn't there a study that showed the actions of the government have functionally no correlation with the will of the people?
Take the catastrophic open borders policies of foreign aid that the majority hate.
How can the voters be blamed for the actions of the government?
Politicians lie to get into office and they have no accountability for the results of their actions and breaking their promises.
Well, I agree with that.
I agree with that.
But the boomers and other people give all the money to the mainstream media.
Right?
They'll still watch.
They'll still tune in.
They'll still buy the products.
They'll still give all their money, right?
Still give all their money to the mainstream media.
And the boomers police the living shit out of political correctness.
Like, they police that shit like nobody else.
Like nobody else's businessman.
They are Gestapo.
They are, like, government-funded secret police when it comes to, like...
Younger generations are not politically correct, but the boomers, they are, they're the fucking Stassi when it comes to political correctness.
Holy crap.
Holy crap.
It's something else, man.
I've never seen anything like it.
I've never seen anything like it.
And, my God, I hope to never see anything like it again.
Spend like the boomers.
Good trolling, Steve.
Well done.
Spend like the boomers.
You know, yeah, don't hold back.
And for the boomers, it would be don't hold back on love for your children and the next generation.
Yeah, of course, not all boomers.
I get that, right?
Oh, Swiglet.
Oh, I'm making a general comment.
And what do you say, my lady?
I'm grateful my personal boomers are not like that.
I, Mimi, I, I'm the exception.
Don't judge me by the general rule.
So, sorry, the men here are working with the general rule, and again, I love it about women.
It's just a funny thing about, it's a quirk about women, is that working with general rules is quite anxiety-provoking for a lot of women, so they have to say how they fit in or don't fit into the general rule.
You notice this pattern, right?
You've done it twice.
In the call of the show.
No, look, I have no issue with it, but it is just kind of funny, right?
I'm just pointing it out.
I'm not expecting you to change, and don't think you have to or should.
It's just kind of funny, right?
You know, Asians tend to be less good at basketball as compared to blacks in Africa.
Well, you know, there's one really good Chinese basketball player named Ming Lau, or whatever his name is, like, hmm.
Tend, right?
Tend.
In general.
You know, in general, October is colder than August.
Wait, hang on.
No, I looked this up.
There was one day in 1947 when there was a day in October that was warmer than any of the days in August.
Or it's like, you know, it's, uh, It's going to rain in Toronto tomorrow.
Well, first of all, the rain is not like there's parts of the air that don't have raindrops, number one.
Number two, Toronto, it's not going to be like exactly in Toronto, right?
And third of all, you say rain from 2 to 4pm.
It's not going to be exactly 2 to exactly 4. Well, it is something where women want to differentiate themselves by saying, I'm not part of that general trend.
I'm not represented by that general trend.
But that's taking things personally, right?
Because it's not about you, right?
Oh, Steph, you're not bald.
You have eyebrows.
It's true.
Check this out, man.
I got the good old 50s cave troll nasal hairs that mysteriously start tickling whenever a camera goes on me.
Somebody said it's because my blood vessels dilate because of the excitement or the minor stress of being on camera or something like that.
Maybe that's true.
Steph, do you ever get a funeral sense?
About society?
Well, sure.
Our society is dead man walking.
I see dead people.
Yeah.
So, we have a society built on meritocracy, where meritocracy has been destroyed for the sake of equality.
So, everyone has kept - everyone, like 95% of the population is kept alive through meritocracy.
And so, people who vote for anything other than meritocracy, I assume, are too depressed to want to live because they're not going to.
Thank you.
They're not going to.
It's like we've seen this a zillion times over, right?
Well, let's destroy the kulaks and we're going to get all of the fertile land and put it into the hands of the proletariat, right?
Okay, mass starvation.
Nobody can be blind to this now.
Nobody.
Unless they're willfully closing their eyes.
Like, nobody can be blind to this.
It's happened in Cambodia.
It happened in, of course, it happened in Russia.
It happened in China.
It happened in Cuba.
It happens everywhere these policies are implemented all the times.
It's that a population is sustained by the allocation of our scarce resources to the most competent, right?
It is a meritocracy that keeps everyone alive.
And when you want to replace that meritocracy with something else, you're voting for mass death.
So, the thanatos, like, I would rather be right and die than change my mind.
It's an incomprehensible position to me.
I did talk about it a bit this morning, so there are certain ways in which it can be comprehended, but foundationally, I don't get it.
You know, I want people to stay alive.
I want people to do well.
I want the children to get enough to eat.
I want people to get...
Get healthy, get better, and I want people to have calories and strength, and I want all of these good things for people.
But apparently, the vast majority of people disagree with me, and they want to take resources away from the most competent and give it to less competent people.
Okay.
Great.
Then California burns to the ground and we run out of food, right?
This is the Atlas Shrugged thing, right?
And again, you don't even have to have read Atlas Shrugged, which is, of course, a shot put of a novel, but...
If you want to take away, like if you said to the NBA, you have to no longer hire the best basketball players, you have to hire the shortest people who have the least physical coordination because they deserve a chance too, man, and it's just your prejudice that's keeping them, right?
So if you said to the NBA, you now have to hire short, old, Physically uncoordinated people, there would be no NBA in about a week, right?
Because nobody would tune in to watch that, right?
Because if people wanted to watch mediocre basketball, the WNBA would be a moneymaker, right?
So maybe, I mean, some companies are getting rid of their DEI stuff now.
So maybe people would just look at this This is bizarre.
Tulip mania experiment in having a standard other than meritocracy.
Maybe.
Or maybe people would just ride this shit right into the ground.
Maybe.
I mean, if you want to look at perfect equality, go to the fucking graveyard.
All equal there.
Nobody's better than anyone else.
Nobody gets more than anyone else.
Nobody's wealthier than anyone else.
Equality is a cord stack of corpses.
That's all it is.
That's all it'll ever be.
If you want to make everyone the same height, you've got to stretch some people till they break and hack other people till they bleed out.
Everyone dies.
Because to the left, everyone's the same, and therefore the only reason some would have more than others is because of theft.
Because they're low-quality people, and because they're low-quality people, the Dunning-Kruger effect in general means that they can't determine quality.
So, if people vote for their own self-destruction, I can only assume that they're just so depressed that they just don't have the – they've got the Thanatos thing going, right?
They don't have the Eros, the love of life, the – Desire to conquer and challenge and win.
It certainly does seem to be possible to lose so much that you lose the desire, the great desire for life.
All right.
Any other questions, comments, issues, challenges, problems?
Do give me your problems.
Merillion style.
I was listening to this song, uh...
Occasionally I dip into an album that I listen to a lot as a teenager called Tarot Suite by Mike Batt.
B-A-T-T. And there's a great song on it called Imbecile.
I-M-B-E-C-I-L-E. Great lyrics.
Odd singer.
Bit of a frog voice singer.
Roger Chapman.
Do I have that right?
But you should check it out.
Hmm.
I like, let's say, any last questions?
And Lyonson, urgent emergency!
Yes, that's a good song.
I like, I ask for any last questions, and Lyonson writes, how?
How?
Howie Mandel.
All right, I think we'll close off for the night.
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Thanks, Steve.
I appreciate that.
And have yourselves a glorious, beautiful, wonderful night.
I'll talk to you guys Friday night.
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