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Feb. 6, 2025 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
01:48:49
Stop Insulting Men!
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Good evening, everybody.
Welcome to your Wednesday night, live on the Sanco de Blanco of February 2025. I return to you from the very edge of human health, and we're going to be fine.
We're going to be fine.
Yeah, Politico, somebody writes, Politico has been shown today as having been paid millions of dollars since 2019 by USAID to falsely legitimize reports that Hunter Biden's laptop's criminality was fake news.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, I got it.
I mean, it's honestly, it's going to be, I await with some bland, I await with some bland curiosity where my name is going to show up in all of these nefarious bills and bribes.
The New York Times is getting millions of dollars from the government.
So they might not have been entirely neutral about me.
Maybe.
Just a tiny...
Tiny little bit.
Are you recovering well?
It's certainly...
I haven't had a flu in years and years and years, so I honestly can't remember the last time I had a flu.
But it's not a lot of fun.
It's not a lot of fun.
But, you know, it's good for your system to get sick once in a while, isn't it?
It's good for your system.
But, you know, the plus side is I'm taking the conjunctivitis.
I goo.
And it's nice.
It's actually nice to be able to open my eyes in the morning without having to have hot water on my eyes.
I couldn't pry them open.
It was so good.
Yeah, and the flu, it's like, the flu is like a gunshot.
Like, okay, they can pull the bullet out, but there's still a certain amount of healing that goes on afterwards.
So, yeah, the flu is, I get knocked out, but I get up again.
But it's kind of slow.
But it's kind of slow.
All right.
Let's get to your comments.
Steph, thank you for your time in last week's private call.
It was very great.
It was a very great and helpful conversation.
Well, thank you.
I appreciate that.
And if you want to do a private call, they are good, man.
There's a kind of bluntness and directness that I can have at a private call that just doesn't exist in a public call.
All right.
Let's see here.
Let's get to your questions and comments.
Steph, what are your thoughts on men getting on a knee when proposing?
Is it kind of simpish or just a benign tradition?
Okay, so look, bros.
Almost all, almost all of human society is driven by female vulnerability.
Right?
Almost all of human society is driven by female vulnerability.
Because a woman, when she has, Sex with a man risks getting pregnant.
When she gets pregnant, she is then tied to the man for the rest of her life.
I mean, imagine, as a man, that you had to have unprotected sex, and if the woman got pregnant, you had to marry her.
How would that change your behavior?
Right?
You couldn't use a birth control.
And if you got a woman pregnant, you would have to marry her because that's what's called a shotgun wedding.
That's, in fact, how it lock and roll, baby.
That's how it used to work throughout a human history.
So, I mean, I know that there's a lot of theories about why the left pushes abortion so much.
But one of the reasons the left pushes abortion, which I'm sure is unconscious, which makes it even more powerful, I think, One of the reasons the left pushes abortion so much is because it reduces the need for morality.
The most consequential thing in human society is female pregnancy.
I know, female is a bit redundant now that Trump's back in power, but female pregnancy because women lose their looks, they lose their figure, they are disabled, and then they are breastfeeding, and they require, you know, $50,000 a year of resources for 20 years.
So, women, there's a deal which says men have to be trustworthy for civilization to exist.
Men have to be trustworthy for civilization to exist.
I was talking with a fellow not too long ago who was Passionless.
You ever meet these people, they just don't seem to have much passion in their lives?
And he was having trouble.
He hadn't dated in, well, let's just say a long time.
And I said, but you can't get a woman to commit to you if you're not willing to be passionate, because a woman's security is baked into, is built into your Compassion for her.
You know, I want my wife to know, it's kind of like a running gag, you know, oh, are you leaving the house, honey?
When will you be back?
You know, I want my wife to know every day how much I absolutely love, worship, and adore her, and need her, like oxygen, right?
Because that's security.
That's security.
So you get rid of, you have abortion so that you get rid of the need for morality because morality is based upon scarcity.
And when you eliminate scarcity, you eliminate morality, which is why there are no property rights for heir.
Yeah.
Thank you.
Not a scarce substance.
Well, I guess where it is scarce, that's in scuba gear, self-contained underwater breathing apparatus.
Where it is scarce underwater, Then you have property rights in here.
So, when women can have consequence-free sex, then they don't have to judge the moral character of the men that they're having sex with, which is why they tend to go for bad boys.
So, women will have sex with bad good boys, and then they will take the tax money of responsible men, right?
Because men pay like 80% of the taxes, right?
So, they will take The money from responsible men in order to pay for the children of irresponsible men, which is why IQ is dropping and there are certain specific genes associated with educational attainment that are also being bled out of the general population.
That's what I said.
So, if a man gets on one knee when proposing, he's saying, "I kneel before you, you are And that is what women require in order to open their legs, hearts, loins, and wombs to a man.
They need to know that the man is devoted to them.
Because this is monogamy.
Monogamy benefits women.
Monogamy benefits women.
Because men get more and more valuable as they age, sexual market value.
And women get less and less valuable as they age.
So, monogamy benefits women primarily for the second half of their lives.
So, a woman needs to know that the man is so devoted to her that when he is at the peak of his earnings and attractiveness, so a man's earnings tend to peak around the age of, say, 45 to 55, right?
That's sort of when men's earnings peak.
And if you take reasonably good care of your health, you can be hale and hearty and energetic and vital.
I mean, I'm 58 and I'm still able to do most of what I've done over the course of my life in terms of physical activity and tennis and pickleball.
And I still do basically the same weights workout I did in my teens, which, you know, I'm not a big muscle guy, obviously, right?
But, you know, it's still, it sure beats bone degradation, right?
So, the woman needs to know that the man is absolutely devoted to her so that he will commit to her when he's, say, 45 years old and he's making a lot of money and can provide a lot of security and income for a woman, and maybe his first wife, like he got married in his early 20s, by the time he's in his mid-40s, his children are grown and he can start a second family.
Right?
He can start a second family.
So, why wouldn't he do that?
It would maximize his genes.
His wife is too old to have children.
So why wouldn't he just say, "Well, I've got all this money." Women are beating a path to my door.
I have proven fertility.
Women don't have to roll the dice on whether I'm going to be productive or not because I've got money.
So why on earth wouldn't I just start another family?
So, of course, it doesn't work.
If society does that, then society doesn't work.
Because women then won't commit to raising children because they'll need to keep working so that they'll have some income for the...
You know, from 45 to 85, they got 40 years or maybe 20 years, so they'll have to keep working, which means that cultural values aren't transmitted because strangers raise your children.
All the stuff I wrote about in my novel called The Present, which you should definitely check out at freedomain.com slash books.
So, yeah, women need to know that you are devoted to them and you're not going anywhere.
Now, men, of course, need to know that women are devoted to them too, so they don't get cocked and raise another man's.
Offspring, which is an absolute catastrophe, right?
What's that old joke about this husband who says, wow, you know, I got a vasectomy and I thought that was going to make me infertile.
It turns out it actually, all it does is change the color of the baby.
It's daddy's, mama's baby and daddy's maybe, right?
So you just, you need to pair, to have a civilization, you need to pair bond for life.
No maybes, no, right?
I mean, because you know what happens.
It's sort of the typical story that the older man has the sort of frumpy wife who's kind of aged out and then this lovely maid comes along or this masseuse comes along and just starts flirting outrageously and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
So for a man to go down on his knees before a woman is to say, you are what I worship now.
And that is what a woman needs in order to feel secure enough to have her children.
Because when a woman has children, understand, when a woman has children, the game is over for her.
This is one of the reasons why women resist so much the idea of having kids.
When a woman has kids, I mean, I did this whole, like, don't date single mom stuff, and lots of people have done this kind of work.
I mean, after me, but, you know, nonetheless.
But, uh, it's over.
It's, oh, oh, oh, oh, over.
Yeah, it's over.
Uh, the game is over.
I mean, she's gonna get pear-shaped, she's gonna get frumpy, she is, uh, gonna be tired, right?
She's gonna lose.
Her attractiveness and she's gonna, maybe she'll find some place to, if she's a single mom, to put her kid while she's dating.
But, you know, everybody's working like crazy to minimize the impact of the kid or kids on the guy who's dating in the hopes that he'll marry her and then everybody relaxes and then the true tsunami of the time and money commitment comes in, right?
Did you see Trump's 27-year-old press secretary is married to a guy almost 60?
Yeah.
Yeah, be like me dating Lauren Southern or something like that.
So, yes, and I mean, whatever they've got there, you can have your outliers, but as a whole, society can't work that way.
Yeah, society can't work that way at all.
Because if there's a big age disparity in marriage, then young men can't compete.
Because if older men, you know, the silver foxes, older men who've kept their looks and have a lot of money, right?
This is what young men are facing these days, is that women want expensive dates.
And to get expensive dates, they need older men.
And so women are sleeping with older men in order to have expensive dates.
Not obviously all, right?
Not even that many, but certainly enough to make a difference.
But women are sleeping with older men in order to...
Because it's all about the selfie now, right?
It's all about the selfie, right?
Look at me.
This restaurant is so hard to get into.
Look at my beautiful food.
Look at me.
Blah, blah, blah, right?
So, young men cannot compete with reasonably attractive older men because reasonably attractive older men Have tons of money.
I mean, for dating, right?
And they're still young enough to become fathers in their 40s, right?
I mean, it's funny because there's the silver fox thing and then there's just the ick thing.
And honestly, it has a lot to do with bald or not, although if you shave your head, that's not so bad.
But they're so...
A woman I talked to many years ago on the show, it was called Estrogen-Based Parasites, where she basically was sleeping with an older guy because she wanted to inherit his house, and I'm like, so you're straddling in Nazgul for real estate.
I do have a pungent turn of phrase from time to time.
So, yeah, women, if older men are dipping down into the dating pool of younger women, then the older men will burn up the younger women's fertility windows for the sake of vanity and, right, there's arm candy and then there's social media candy, right?
It seems like for modern women, the entire goal is not to reproduce or to transmit values or to be motherless, but simply to be envied.
Simply to be envied.
That is the goal of many, all too many, modern women.
Yeah, the show number is 3-1...
Sorry, the show number is 2-6-5-0.
And I think we did another one 3-1-2-4, wow, 10 years ago.
Ooh!
Ooh!
Yeah, so, you know, there's booty calls.
Where the guy calls up the woman at like one in the morning and wants to come over.
So there's a booty calls and there's a new phenomenon.
Maybe it's not that new, but there's a phenomenon called foodie calls.
And a foodie call is when a woman goes on a dinner date with a guy she's not going to sleep with.
And he pays for food.
And she just does it to save money on dinner to go out someplace nice.
All right, somebody says, I'm rereading The Fountainhead and you once said you liked Rourke more than Galt.
I'm curious what Rourke meant to you.
Well, Galt is too abstract and quote perfect a human being.
At least Galt, at least Rourke was tempted by things and so on, right?
So, somebody says, I have a new friend who's in his early 30s and he pays for these expensive dinner dates on the first date.
He's now on his fourth or fifth date.
A week of saying he's trying to make things work with a girl.
He's sweeter than pie and a total genius, but I think the girls are using him for dinners.
Right.
And she probably takes pictures of the fancy food and posts it on Instagram to show off to her girlfriends that she's competing with.
Yeah.
Right.
So, you know how this is supposed to work, right?
So, the way that it's supposed to work is if the woman doesn't have as much money as the man, then maybe he takes her out for a nice dinner, which can be 200 bucks, easy peasy, especially then maybe he takes her out for a nice dinner, which can be 200
So he takes her out for an expensive dinner, and then how is she supposed to reciprocate?
And no, it's not sex.
How is she supposed to reciprocate?
if she doesn't have much money.
So the way that she is supposed to reciprocate, sorry, I know there's a delay, is she is supposed to make him a very nice meal at her house.
Thank you.
Right?
So, he's showing, look, I have resources and can afford nice dinners, and then she's supposed to say, I have homemaking skills or cooking skills, and I'm happy to make you a nice meal at home.
And, I mean, the guy would be churlish to say, yes, but the meal out was more expensive.
That's really not supposed to be the point, right?
The point is that he shows off his resource acquisition abilities by being able to pay for a dinner out, and then she shows off her homemaking skills.
By being able to cook a nice meal for him at home.
I mean, that's the way that it used to work when I was younger.
Now, if I were to take out a woman for a nice meal, if I was still dating, and she did not reciprocate with offering to cook me a meal, now, if she's kind of new, maybe she doesn't want you coming over to her place, because for a woman who's maybe a little jumpy about that sort of stuff, it's easier for her to be at your house because she can leave.
But if things go weird and you're at her house, she can't leave nearly as easily.
So she might say, listen, I really appreciate that meal.
I would love to cook a meal for you.
I will pick up the ingredients and I will meet you at your house seven o'clock on Friday night.
So that's reciprocity.
And I have never sustained a relationship with a woman where there is not reciprocity.
And I would strongly suggest you don't do it.
You don't do it.
If she's not trying to think of ways to make your life better when you're paying for things, she's an exploiter.
She's a vampire.
She's a vampire.
How about Jennifer Lopez dating Kevin Costner?
I'm not sure why I would have any opinions or thoughts about that at all.
I try not to have opinions or thoughts about people who have neither opinions nor thoughts.
All right, hit me with a why if you would be interested in the topic called chore play.
Chore play.
This is the idea that if the man does more chores, the woman will be more sexually available because she's so more relaxed and happy.
While we're waiting for that, somebody says, Dorman says, Hey, Steph, have you ever seen any of the original Twilight Zone episodes?
I found the first two episodes surprisingly deep and well-written.
I'm curious if you had any thoughts on the series.
Yeah, I thought they were clever.
Kind of nihilistic, but clever.
Room for one more?
There's a really good one with William Shatner.
Seeing a monster outside.
In an airplane.
Alright.
So, chore play is very interesting.
So, chore play...
Oh, let's see here.
What if the woman is hesitant to go to your house early on in dating because she thinks that would mean you would expect sex?
Um...
Well, I would say that a woman should either make that clear ahead of time or just be able to handle...
A man who gets a bit handsy and says, no, it's too soon for me, but I appreciate the interest.
You're attractive.
I'm definitely excited, but it's too soon for me.
That's fine, right?
So, we would expect a woman to be able to handle a guy coming on a little strong, because sometimes that's what guys do, right?
She would be confident about that kind of situation Oh, to go to your house Yeah, no, I didn't address that, so it's a different, coming to her house is different.
So chore play goes a little something like this.
It's the idea that, you know, guys, women are like, women, we're so stressed, we have so much on our plates, we're juggling so many things that, you know, when we come home and the place is a mess, we're so tense and we're so stressed, we just, we can't relax, we can't, we can't feel romantic.
We can't feel affectionate in that kind of way because it's just so overwhelming.
And so, you know, you need to take things, some of these spinning plates, the men need to take off so that we're not so overwhelmed.
And if we're less overwhelmed, then we can relax, we can be romantic, we can be playful, we can be more sexual, but...
You know, we're just, we're so stressed and we're so tense about all of these things that we have to do and all of the burdens and, you know, a woman who comes home and the laundry's piled up and the dishes are in the sink.
She's just too tense and stressed.
She's got so much to do.
She can't relax and just enjoy that, right?
So, if you help women out, they'll be much more receptive to romantic advances and they'll be more playful and more fun.
But, you know, fellas, you just...
You've got to help out with these things.
Otherwise, women just can't...
We can't relax and enjoy your company in that way.
Right.
Have you ever heard of anything like this?
I'm not saying in your relationships as a whole, but it's called chore play, which is that doing chores for a woman is a form of foreplay, that it makes her more receptive to.
Uh, sexual advances and, uh, and romance, right?
Have you heard of this kind of thing?
Yeah, there's this kind of thing that's going on, uh, at the moment on, on X that's about that.
We're just overwhelmed, and if you help us become less whelmed, then, uh, we can, we can, we can have sex, maybe.
But you can't, you can't expect me to have sex.
When the place is a mess and the chores aren't done and the dishes aren't piled up in the sink and, you know, I can't roll around on the carpet with you if the carpet is crunchy.
Like somebody four generations ago ate a granola bar on the shag carpet and it's still like beach sand down there.
Right.
Have you heard of this kind of thing?
I have no respect for this stuff.
Well, first of all, I'm sure you've heard of the studies that the more, quote, feminine chores a man does, the less sex he gets.
Sorry, ladies, but science is in fact science.
So, the more traditionally feminine chores a man does, the less The less sex they're going to get.
The General Social Survey consistently finds that men do about half an hour more work a day when it comes to chores, childcare, and paid labor.
If you include emotional labor, they do an extra three hours.
So, yeah, the studies are pretty clear that if you as a man are doing laundry while your woman is unwinding on the couch, the studies are pretty clear that if you as a man are doing laundry while your woman is unwinding I mean, I'm not saying whether this is good or bad.
I'm just saying that it's not true.
It's not true.
Also wanted to mention, cases of schizophrenia linked to cannabis use disorder have almost tripled over the past 17 years.
This ain't your granddaddy's Marijuana.
It's terrible.
All right.
So, saying that women, what is emotional labor?
Well, it's resolving issues and conflicts in the relationship.
I know more than a few at work who fried their memory with weed.
Yeah, at least alcoholics know that they're alcoholics, man.
Weed addicts, you just get this endless stream of bullshit.
But it's all natural, man.
Yeah, like arsenic.
Yeah, weed seriously disturbs working memory.
The cliche of the drug-addled weed guy.
I still remember, man.
I still remember, we called them the Outback Gang.
In my junior high school and high school, these are the guys who were kind of out back by the parking lot, wreathed in clouds of smoke, laughing, playing hacky sack.
Not a care in the world, not a thought in their heads.
And it all looks like fun.
It all looks like fun.
Until...
Until you check in a decade or two later.
Yeah, one of those guys died.
I mean, he died as an alcoholic.
Died.
This is a guy who at my...
I went to three proms at the end of high school.
I went to my own school prom and then I was dating girls and I would go to their proms and I had a blast, man.
It was a lot of fun.
And then I went to work up north.
So the blast kind of echoed sadly in the snow.
I remember at my prom, which was at Ontario Place, one of these guys who later died was like, I didn't!
He was like running through, being chased by security guards who were trying to throw him out.
And he was like, I didn't do no disturbance, man!
I didn't do no disturbance!
It's a whole lot less cool then, right?
Because there is, right?
There's a whole coterie, and a lot of it's in the media, in Hollywood, right?
There's this whole coterie of, man, don't take on too many responsibilities.
Just chillax.
Just have fun.
Don't be uptight.
Don't be tense, you know?
All the guys with their little pocket protectors and their wound-up shirts and their tight balls, and they're just not having any fun, man.
You got to relax and enjoy yourself, man.
And all the cool girls will want to sleep with you, and you'll just have a blast.
And it's like, it's all just absolutely demonic stuff, right?
One of the biggest conflicts on Joe Rogan's Podcast was when Steve Crowder said weed sucks.
Yeah.
I mean, in my view, Joe Rogan is pretty much the epitome of controlled opposition, but that's not particularly important.
all right so with the the women who were like you know the planets need to align and all the chores need to be done in order for me to have any any romance right okay Thank you.
Or the women who say, I have a headache, you know, or as my wife said many, many, many years ago, well, you know what the best cure for a headache is?
She's not wrong, right?
So, You know, things just need...
I'm just...
I'm not aligned.
I'm not in the right space.
It's like, okay, so you just...
You don't have lust.
You don't have lust.
You know, some women will have sex in the toilet of a grungy nightclub.
And they're like, oh, but there's...
I can't...
I can't have sex if there's a cup that's not on the coast.
It's like, that's just not true.
It's just not even close to true.
What was it?
It was a very coarse comedy, well, I mean, by Kevin Smith called Mallrats.
They're not there to shop.
They're not there to work.
They're just there.
And have you ever had sex in a really uncomfortable place?
And I think they're referring to anal sex.
It's like, what, the backseat of a Volkswagen?
Women will have sex in the backseat of a Volkswagen.
Women will have sex in an elevator.
Women will have sex on a gritty roof at a disco.
So the idea that things need to be aligned and just, I need to be in the right mind.
It's like, nope.
Nope, nope, nope.
It just means that the woman is out of lust.
And if the woman wants to say, you know, I just, I can't, if things aren't just the right way that I want them in, In the house or in my life, I just, I can't, I just can't, I can't have sex, right?
I mean, imagine if the man wakes up in the morning and he says, yeah, I don't think, I don't think I'm going to head to work today.
Yeah, I don't feel it.
You know, I just, for me to really concentrate, like we just, we really haven't been having much sex at all lately and I just, I can't concentrate, I can't focus, I can't work.
So, listen, no worries.
I'm not trying to pressure you in any way, shape, or form.
Do whatever you feel like.
Do whatever you feel like.
But I'm just, I'm not feeling the work thing.
I'm, no.
And would she say, well, yeah, that makes sense.
You don't, you don't have to do anything you don't want to do.
You don't have to go to work if, like, say she's not working and they've got two kids or three kids under the age of six.
And if he says, you know, I just, I'm not feeling it.
You know, I'm just, I'm not feeling in my heart that yearning burning to just, you know, I'm really concerned that I'm not going to, I'm not going to be able to concentrate or focus or do a good job at work.
I mean, what would the woman say?
What would the woman say?
Would she say, no, I get it, man.
If you don't feel, That there's enough affection at home.
If you feel like your, you know, your balls are backed up, if you feel that, then yeah, absolutely you shouldn't go to work.
I mean, I wouldn't want you to go do some job where it's dangerous or you might yell at someone because you're too tense or like if your emotions just aren't there.
I mean, she wouldn't say that.
You've got responsibilities.
So.
Yeah, it must be really tough for a woman.
It must be really tough for a woman to no longer lust after the man she's had children with.
So, or if, let's say, that you're supposed to be going to your wife's parents for Christmas, right?
Thank you.
And you're like, you know, I just, I don't feel like we've been close enough.
I just, I don't feel connected enough.
So I think I'm going to stay home and watch some sports, maybe have some buddies over, drink some beer.
You know, I'm just...
I'm not feeling connected enough to go do the in-law thing.
I'm not feeling close or intimate or...
Yeah, I'm just...
I'm not feeling it.
I'm in a mansion.
I'm good.
Thank you.
Imagine.
What would she say?
Yeah, no, that makes sense.
It makes sense.
Look, if you're not feeling it...
Absolutely, you don't have to do it.
Right?
In fact, I would hate for you to do something you didn't really want to.
Oh, is your friend getting married?
Yeah.
You know, we really haven't been very close lately.
I mean, we don't have much physical affection.
I'm just not feeling it.
Sorry, honey.
Like, I mean, maybe if we can work on some of the closeness stuff, I'll feel different, but like I... I'm not going to lie.
I'm not feeling it, so I'm not going to go.
Can you imagine?
She'd be enraged.
you What do you mean you don't feel close enough?
I'd be like, but that's what you have, right?
How dare you compare?
I don't know.
It's just nonsense, right?
It's just not something that I would have even a tiny shred of respect for.
Yeah, if the rule is you never have to do anything you don't feel like doing in the moment, all right, then that's the rule.
She'd be all, how dare you, Thunberg.
Yeah.
So how would a man begin to reverse his wife's lack of lust?
Well, stop trying to appease her, for God's sakes.
You know, make sure you stay a reasonably healthy weight.
I mean, I don't work out because I'm joining any bodybuilder competitions.
I largely work out to, say, strong and attractive for my wife.
I mean, that's just part of the labor you have to put in.
I mean, my wife and I have monogamy, which means we only have sex with each other.
So...
I'm not going to get all kind of DMV on her and say, well, I have a monopoly, so I don't have to put any work in.
I have to put more work in because I have a monopoly, right?
Like, you know, there's this sort of cliche about the revenge body, right?
Some woman breaks up with a guy or divorces a guy, and only then she starts to work out and stuff like that.
It's like, well, that's just stupid.
I mean, if you have a monopoly, this is sort of my argument with parenting, if you have a monopoly, you have a higher moral standard, not a lower one.
So if you're going to say to someone, Which is marriage, right?
If you're going to say to someone, yeah, you can only have sex with me for the rest of your life, you better work at it, man.
Yeah.
Can you provide your thoughts on man-children?
In my observations, a certain percentage of men are mentally locked into a minor mental age.
At least one man-child I know who does not have a steady job, a license, or a bank account.
It's just a benevolent form of narcissism.
Oh, come on.
Come on.
Man-child.
Oh, the Peter Pan syndrome, all these men who refuse to grow up.
Okay, let me ask you this.
Let me ask you this, people.
I'm really sick and tired of this anti-male claptrap.
Okay, let me ask you this.
How many women do you know who never settled down?
No husband, no kids, no responsibilities.
How many women do you know who have refused to grow up and take on their date, they do their little jobs, they travel, they go to Taylor Swift concerts?
They take selfies, they duckface, right?
Do you think that the big problem in the modern world is childish men or childish women?
No, we've got to just criticize the men only and forever.
The men!
Come on.
Yeah.
Thank you.
Women don't even pay back their student loans.
I mean, we did this 10-year study where men had paid off.
There was a 10-year study.
Men had paid off a third of their student loans.
Women had paid off 3% of their student loans.
Women buy endless amounts of stupid, useless shit.
84% of household purchasing decisions are made by women.
What are they, human beings or magpies on cocaine?
Jesus!
We have a big problem that the women are just so astoundingly mature these days.
So mature, which is why a third of women can't even get their fucking act together to use any one of the 18 different forms of birth control but need to have an abortion or five.
Jesus!
Useless nonsense.
I'm in communications.
Social sciences.
Psychology.
They do almost nothing to maintain the infrastructure of the society.
All they do is sit in their fucking capri pants, sip lattes, and complain about men.
Not all.
Obviously, not all.
but a lot.
All they do is complain about men while 95% of men are responsible for 100% of the infrastructure that keeps them alive.
you Thank you.
These women would last approximately 72 hours without men, and all they do is feel oppressed.
It's retarded beyond words.
I mean...
Hey, I get it.
I don't work in essential infrastructure.
I did my manual labor for many years, but I don't work in essential infrastructure.
I get that.
I'm a frou-frou podcaster, but, but, I don't put down the men who keep me alive.
I don't put down the men who keep me alive.
Women with their long nails in their air-conditioned offices, with their orgasm makeup faces, complaining about being oppressed, when it's the men who are down the mines, it's the men who are cutting down the trees, it's the men who are stringing the electrical wires.
it's the men who are doing the farming, it's the men who are doing the industrial machinery, it's the men who are doing the fishing.
And you are falling into that?
Exactly!
My God.
Well, what about all these childish men?
Come on.
Oh, are you criticizing men?
Boy, that's almost as courageous as criticizing white people.
Ooh, what a brave edgelord you are.
Oh, my.
Wow, the courage it takes to go out there and say, you know, there are these childish men who just won't grow up.
Ooh!
Ooh!
I'm getting a face tan from the brilliance and nuclear fission of your courage!
We want equality!
Oh, does that mean we might get drafted?
We don't want equality.
Come on, man.
Look, if you don't want to criticize women, I get that.
Whatever.
It can be a surprisingly extreme sport.
I get that.
You don't want to criticize women, that's fine.
But then shut the fuck up about men.
Like, you get that society keeping the fucking lights on and the electricity running and the air conditioning and the food.
This is all men.
It's all men.
All men.
So, the people keeping 8 billion people alive is men.
And women aren't even doing the birth rate thing.
So, men are supposed to give a lot of deference to women, but in return, women are supposed to, I don't know, make people.
And so, the birth rate is collapsing because of women.
So, they complain about the men who keep them alive, and they complain about a society, and they bitch, whine, moan, and complain, and they won't even make enough children to keep society functioning.
And in all of that, and they're horribly in debt, and they're responsible for massive amounts of environmental degradation because of all the useless makeup and bullshit purchases, not all women, of course, right?
They lie ferociously.
with Spanx and makeup and fake hair and dye, and all other forms of self-adornment bullshit that would make a clown look like an elderly Asian grandmother.
They do all of this and won't even replenish the planet.
Thank you.
Because someone told them that motherhood is uncool.
It's just uncool.
You know, go be a boss, babe.
Go be a boss, babe.
Go build an empire.
Go be Beyonce.
When the Beatles got four Grammys and Beyonce gets 33. She's Peter Keating with giant tree trunk legs and a mediocre.
altar.
So, women won't do productive things in society, want subsidized jobs in comfortable offices, won't have enough children to replenish the won't have enough children to replenish the species, waste massive amounts of time and energy, money, and useless loans, debts, and occupations, interfere with HR, in productive people, scream for DEI.
And the only group that you can think of to criticize and bitch and woan and complain about is men.
Come on, man.
And...
Thank you.
This is not like you are not looking at all objectively at society and saying, of the groups as a whole, Who would be, at the moment, worthy of a little bit more criticism?
Because it's not like men haven't been criticized the living shit out of for the last 80 years, right?
Like, you understand, post-Second World War, the Simone de Beauvoir, the Friedman, the Betty Friedman, like, all of this stuff is just complain, bitch, whine, moan about men, right?
Male chauvinist pigs, men are assholes, men are selfish, men are rapists, like, men complain, bitch, moan.
Plain about men for 80 fucking years.
I mean, have you seen that there's this little meme of these two women in high heels walking down the street and there's some man working in a sewage vent and they scream at him for oppressing them and he apologizes? have you seen that there's this little meme of these laughs Thank you.
All of the richest women in the world took money from their men.
They didn't earn it themselves.
One out of 20 American women is on OnlyFans and you're complaining about men?
Come on, man.
Stop cucking.
You know, it's always this female in-group preference.
Fix, right?
Female in-group preference.
You know, the world wouldn't fucking die if we had some male in-group preference and I will not.
I will not sit here and listen to people complain about men.
Ever again.
I guarantee you that.
And I'm sorry that this whole brickload of delayed frustration is landing in your heads for asking a generally innocent question.
If it is innocent, I don't know.
But I am not, not going to listen to anybody bitch about men ever again.
I'm not going to support it.
I'm not going to enable it.
Because all you are doing is virtue signaling to women, well, I can criticize those man-boys because, you see, honey, I'm not a man-boy.
I'm a fully grown man.
Don't you want to sleep with me?
You're just shitting on men to look good to women.
How's that working out for society as a whole?
How's that working out for society as a whole?
Men dumping on men.
In order to look good.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
You're totally oppressed, honey.
Oh, males.
Chauvinist patriarchy.
Totally.
To help with your gay cuttlefish mating display.
How about you stand with men once in a while?
How about you stand with men once in a while?
Just maybe.
It's not the end of the world, is it?
And do you know why you should stand with men?
You should stand with men so that you can date a woman who's got a good relationship with her father!
That's why you should stand with men.
You see, if you are just cocking and bitching and complaining about men, you're only going to draw women to you who have shitty relationships with their mostly absent dad, which means that their father chose, that their mother chose the wrong dad to have kids with.
See what I'm saying?
You are selecting out all of the quality women in existence by bitching about men.
Because if a woman loves her father, cares about her father, respects her father, appreciates her father, then when you bitch about men, she won't like you.
Now, if a woman is...
Sublimating her anger at her mother for choosing the wrong guy into her father and blaming her father.
Oh, he just left.
Oh, he just wasn't there.
He wasn't available.
He was lazy, didn't he?
Right, so if the woman has a shitty relationship with her father based upon the mother refusing to take responsibility for who she chose to screw, then when you bitch about men, it's going to strike a chord with her because you sound like her resentful single mother.
Here's a tip, you know, guys, if you want to get a quality woman, Don't sound like a resentful single mother who won't take responsibility and blames men for all of her decisions.
Just maybe.
Maybe don't sound like a bitchy single mother if you want to get a quality woman.
If you say to women, men are incredible and wonderful, then a woman with a good relationship with her own father will be like, yeah, that was my experience for sure.
Yeah, my mom is my best friend and my dad is absent is now a red flag for me.
Oh, yes.
Mothers should not be the best friends of their children.
My God.
You're supposed to be a coach, which means you have to occasionally have your kids not like you in the same way that you get annoyed at a coach who reminds you to eat better and exercise.
Stop trying to get laid by shitting on your fellow men.
And I say this because I want to help you Because if you keep getting laid with women because you bitch at men, sooner or later, you're going to trip over a bunny boiler, man.
You're going to get a full-on Glenn Close, flipping the lights stalker.
You're going to get a false accusation.
You're going to get some seriously fucked up stuff, man.
Seriously fucked up stuff is going to happen to you if you virtue signal against men.
In order to try to be attractive to women.
Now, I'm not saying this about the guy who made this comment, right?
So, because, you know, I get that.
It's not like there's an overabundance of the fairer sex in this particular live stream.
So, I'm not talking about him as a whole, right?
Just so you understand.
And I appreciate his comment.
I really do.
But, no, you go out to women and you say, oh, I'm thrilled to be a man.
I love being a man.
And you know what?
I do love being a man.
I love women.
I really do.
I live with two wonderful females, the best people around.
I love being a man.
I love being a man.
I love the clarity, the objectivity, the rationality, the physical strength, the sense of security in the world, the sense of confidence moving through society.
And I say this with sympathy for women who are smaller and weaker, but I love being a man.
I love the...
Incredibly fertile creativity.
My wife often says, I wish I could spend, you know, 10 minutes in your brain.
I wish I could spend 10, just 10 minutes in your brain to see what it's like.
I love being a man.
I love women, appreciate women.
Love being a man.
Wouldn't trade it for anything.
I couldn't conceive of myself as female.
Because so much of...
This is what Simone de Beauvoir said about when she wrote the book The Second Sex.
She said, you know, when I think about myself, the most essential thing that I can say is that I'm a woman.
It's the same thing is true for me as a man.
I could not conceive of myself as female.
Because men and women are not the same.
I'm an edgelord in that way.
Like, I'd rather roll the dice and maybe be real dumb and super smart, right?
Because you know that there's...
More men at the higher echelons of...
I should probably pronounce that more accurately.
At the highest echelons of intelligence, there are virtually no women as a whole, right?
Women tend to cluster more around the media.
I'd much rather roll the dice.
I need to be really stupid or super smart.
Now, I happen to have been quite fortunate in how the dice rolled for me with regards to intelligence.
But my god, people!
You have to be thrilled, happy, and overjoyed, if you're a man, to be a man.
Now, if you're a woman, I want you to be thrilled, happy, and overjoyed to be a woman.
Women do massive amounts of good and wonder and beauty in the world, and they are really the most essential ingredient in creating actual human life.
But you've got to love being a man, and you've got to stop dumping other childish men out there.
Sure, I get that.
But when you focus on childish men, by implication, you are saying that it's a much bigger problem than immature women.
Right?
Yeah.
Right?
By implication.
Because you say, well, I'm really, really concerned about immature people in society, and I'm really, really going to focus on the men.
I'm not even going to mention the women at all.
I'm not even going to mention the women at all.
That's implication, right?
I'm really concerned about immaturity.
Let's talk about men only and not women.
So what you're saying is that there really aren't any immature women.
The only thing we have to focus on is immature men.
So, don't do it.
Thank you.
That is just propaganda.
And don't do it.
If you stand with your fellow men and you enjoy being a man, as you should, because there are great strengths in being a man, there's great strengths in being a woman.
Enjoy being a man.
Enjoy being a woman.
And don't turn on each other.
That is to be a slave to the single mother mentality.
So, I'll give you an example.
My mother, God lover, probably still alive for all I know, so my mother would complain about my father.
I think he's my father.
Anyway.
Now, if there was some guy slithering around my mother, as there was, she was a very attractive woman, very pretty woman, stayed slender into her 70s, 60s, 70s, or whatever the last time I saw her was, I'm sure she did.
Not the most common thing for a German fraulein.
So, my mother would complain about her life, and my mother would complain about my father.
Now, imagine some man is on a date with my mother, and she complains about her life being broke, and she complains about my father, right?
And let's say that The guy she's on a date with says something like this.
Well, how long did you get to date him before you got married to him?
Oh, we dated for like two years before we got married.
I'm like, oh, so you had a long time to figure out who you are.
No, he just changed.
It's like, no, no, people don't really do that.
They don't really change that much.
I mean, unless he got some sort of weird head injury, in which case there'd be no point blaming him, right?
Just be a bad accident.
So if...
If my mom's date were to hold my mother accountable for her choices, how would that date go?
Give me your numbers here, my friends.
From minus 10 to plus 10, how would that date go if a man on the date tried to hold my mother accountable for the choices that she made?
My brother and I are so different.
We don't look anything alike.
I don't know, man.
I would not be surprised if you ever see Princess Diana's writing and structure.
Yeah, minus 10,000, minus 11, minus 10. Yeah, she would be absolutely outraged.
She would get up, she would yell at him, and she would storm out.
So he'd be publicly embarrassed.
He'd have to pay for the dinner, and he wouldn't get any action, so to speak, right?
Got pillows if he was lucky.
Pillows if she had residual like for him.
More robust cutlery.
That would be...
He did cause a disturbance.
Great tie-in, man.
Great tie-in from earlier.
Well done.
You guys are delightful!
Delightful!
So, um...
Sorry to do nose job.
Give you a nose job on my show.
But it's better than the glistening caves of mucus.
Mixer.
So...
So, bitching about men is a reproductive strategy for trashy sex with resentful women who don't take responsibility for their lives.
Patriarchy is code...
It's girl speak for I'll blame you for everything wrong that happens.
Patriarchy is code.
It's girl speak for a woman who's telling you openly, I'm not going to take responsibility for anything that happens.
It's all going to be your fault and you can't hold me accountable for anything.
They're promising of this feminism as a whole.
Feminism as a whole.
I don't take responsibility.
Like socialist women.
Socialist women.
I remember being in Morocco.
And there was this...
I went...
Y2K I did in Morocco with a good friend of mine.
And it was quite a lot of fun, actually.
And there was this woman I met.
Very attractive woman.
And she definitely was angling for me.
But she was a communist.
And I was like...
Thanks, no.
But I can cut my own balls off if I have to.
Because a communist is saying, I have no free will, I have no moral agency, everything is circumstantial, which means they're going to bounce around like a pinball off their own passions and blame everyone else and the economy and the environment for their own choices.
I wouldn't date a socialist, never dated a communist.
And I remember many years ago, I had to go for some legal advice in the business world.
And, yeah, there was this lawyer, and again, she was obviously clearly very interested and very attractive, you know, for what it's worth.
And, but she was a socialist.
And I was like, hmm, can't make it, can't get there, can't do it.
Thank you, but.
Because that's just setting yourself up for an absolute disaster.
I've never dated a feminist, I've never dated a socialist, I've never dated a communist, obviously never a fascist or anything like that.
So, nope.
I'll do it.
So the mating strategy called complain about men to women is filtering out quality women.
And you're also saying, I have a bad relationship with my own father and my conversational preferences are consciously or unconsciously shaped By crappy, trashy, immature women who don't want to take responsibility for anything, and I signal for that by bitching about men to women.
Because when you bitch about men as a whole, or you put down men as a whole, you're saying you yourself don't have a good relationship with your own father, which means you don't have a male on your side who's going to help protect you.
All right, somebody says, speaking of immaturity, it always bothers me when I run into a 50 or 60-year-old woman who is wearing basically high school girls' clothing.
You know, the type with various shades of hot pink bedazzled clothing.
Yeah, with those super skinny, uh, Barbra Streisand stick legs.
Ooh, age a little gracefully.
Age a little gracefully.
Wait, wouldn't it depend on how many chores her date did?
You guys are funny.
Very funny!
Alright, Steph, in a recent show you said not to accept free stuff as it will taint your soul.
Does this also apply to being a recipient of religious charity and or a co-worker offering you a ride somewhere or just the government?
Like if someone refuses to allow you to reciprocate, should you just hide their money for what they've done for you in their car somewhere or something?
Okay.
Bye.
Thank you.
Sorry, like, I put you all in the top 1% of intelligence, and this is a dumb question.
So, when I'm talking about free stuff, I'm talking about the government offering you free stuff through debt and money printing, not even taxes.
Yes.
Thank you.
Debt and money printing.
So, debt and money printing is the delusion by which the government Pretends to be providing some sort of value.
You know, like if you're chipping in to buy dinner and some guy throws in counterfeit money, he's pretending that he's paying for dinner, but he's not.
He's actually putting you all at legal risk.
So, look, fuck.
Come on, guys.
I'm not talking about people in general.
This is just a thing.
This is just the thing.
Don't accept anything that you didn't pay for.
Don't accept anything you didn't pay for.
Okay?
How are you going to survive childhood?
I mean, this is just a basic logic thing, right?
Could I possibly be saying, don't accept free stuff as it will taint your soul, which means anything you don't directly pay for is bad for you.
So, let's say you have a stay-at-home wife and she raises your kids and runs a bunch of the household stuff and does taxes.
Well, you're not charging her for it.
She's kind of providing that out of the goodness of her heart.
Does that mean that you are corrupting her with your money?
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
The baby didn't pay for the breast milk.
Oh, my God.
The baby didn't pay for that can of squished carrots.
The baby's taking free stuff.
Come on, man.
And you're, I mean, I run a donation-based show.
FreeDomain.com slash donate to help out the show.
Very much appreciate it.
So, I don't charge people for my shows.
I mean, I do private calls now, but I don't charge people for my shows and I don't have ads in there.
It's donation-based.
So, the vast majority of people, Get my work without paying a penny, which I don't consider exactly morally elevated, but it's a fact that most people consume my show.
The vast majority of people consume what we do here and don't pay a penny.
That's my business model.
So, you need to, this is a good object lesson for critical thinking.
So, don't go, Dumb and rubber bones, and ask questions without being critical yourself.
So, here's the thing.
If I say, don't accept free stuff because it will taint your soul, does that mean, let's just say, okay, are there any examples of receiving things you don't pay for that could be considered moral?
Right?
This is just your own, right?
Don't waste people's time, right?
Don't waste people's time.
So, if you have a thought, because I think this is kind of trollish, right?
And I'm not saying you're being a troll, it's just kind of trollish, because it's such an easy thing to solve, right?
So, if you think, oh, Steph said any free stuff is bad for you.
So, what if somebody is being charitable towards you?
I mean, do you really think, since I say, please donate, donate, which is kind of like charity, so if I run a show that relies on donations and then I say, donations will change your soul, well, that's a stupid thing to think, isn't it?
Like, you understand that, right?
Like, you're literally in a show where people donate and you think that I'm making the argument that donations...
Are bad for you and will destroy your soul and your morals and your virtue.
Right?
So, you have to have the discipline in life to criticize yourself before you ask dumb questions.
Because it's really important that you don't waste people's life.
Don't waste people's time.
And when you ask questions, particularly in a public square, your reputation is going to be established, for better or for ill, for better or for worse, very, very quickly.
Thank you for the tip, Eric.
Kairos says, once I started regularly donating, I became more reciprocal in all my relationship.
It matters.
Yes, it's true.
Yes, it is a very low percentage of listeners who actually donate for Sometimes, honestly, sometimes thousands of hours of material, they don't pay a penny.
I mean, I'll survive.
Their own conscious may be not so good.
No, no, listen, I don't - it's fine that you asked the question again.
Again, this is just an object lesson, right?
So, if you have a criticism, right?
I mean, I've told people I donate to charity and so on, and I do.
But if you want to say, everything you receive that you don't pay for corrupts your soul, that's fine.
Okay, so then you have a thesis.
You have to pay for everything or it corrupts your soul.
So then, this is just a mental exercise.
So then you'd say, okay, can I think?
Of any situation where somebody receives something which they didn't pay for directly, is there any situation in which that would be okay?
Now, of course, the first thing that would come to mind is all children.
All children receive, right?
Why does Marxists, like, from each according to their ability to each according to their needs, why does that resonate with people?
Because that's the family.
The family is From each according to their ability, right?
Parents work or whatever, right?
To each according to their needs.
that's the babies the toddlers and the little kids right jared says that was me for the first seven years of listening i'm I'm at about the 50 cents a show mark currently.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's a shame.
It's a shame.
You won't get those seven years back where you could have...
So the reason you pay is because it means that you take philosophy seriously.
Because your unconscious is like, okay, is this just entertaining?
Is Steph just yapping in his vaguely foreign accent?
Is he just talk?
Or will he be taking any of this shit seriously?
Right?
So if it's like, well, I'm not going to give him 20 bucks, I'm not going to give him 10 bucks a month or 50 bucks or whatever, right?
Then your unconscious is like, oh, okay, so it's just noise.
Yeah, it's just, you know, it's just a bunch of yapping.
It's just a bunch of noise.
We don't have to take it seriously.
And you can't get those years back.
That you didn't take philosophy seriously.
I can't either.
Right?
I mean, I have regrets about that for sure.
So if you say, well, if you didn't pay for something, is it always bad?
Okay, well, we just, I mean, if you take a woman out on a date and you pay for the date, have you automatically corrupted her?
If she makes you dinner?
And doesn't charge you for it?
Has she automatically corrupted you?
I mean, we can all think of things wherein we've received something without paying for it, which has not been corrupting to us.
And then the second thing you do is you would look at the morality of the situation, right?
So, you would say, okay.
If somebody voluntarily chooses to give something to somebody else, does that violate the non-aggression principle?
Right?
So, you're walking down the street, and there's some woman in a wheelchair, she's hungry, and you give her a sandwich, right?
You say, hey, can you eat the sandwich?
Yes, I can eat the sandwich.
Here's your sandwich, right?
Okay.
What moral rules does that violate?
Has she initiated the use of force against you?
No.
Has she stolen from you?
No.
Has she violated your property rights in any way?
No.
Now, it could be a fraud, right?
If she, in fact, is super wealthy but just does this as a weird kind of fetish, right?
Or there was some John Stossel thing years ago where this girl said, I need bus fare to get home.
It turned out she lived three blocks away and was making like two grand a month just begging, right?
right?
That's kind of a fraud, right?
I am in the minority of donators simply because I can't afford it right now, doing what I can, keep up the great job.
Thank you.
Well, I just, I call bullshit, honestly.
I'm not saying you have to donate, but please don't give me this.
Like, you know that there's a tier of donation at freedomain.com slash donate, freedomain.com slash donate.
There's a tier of donations that is $3 a month.
Three dollars a month.
So, if you're telling me that you can't afford three dollars a month, I don't believe you.
Sorry, I just, I don't believe, I refuse to believe you.
And I'm, look, I'm not, again, don't donate based on this, right?
I just, I want you to know how you sound to somebody with some experience in the world, right?
If you say to me, Steph, I can't afford to donate.
I cannot afford three dollars a month or five dollars a month.
I can't afford it.
Maybe you didn't know about the $3 thing, but it's, you know, local starts out.
$5 a month.
I can't do $5 a month.
Which means that at the end of the month, you have less than $5 between you and homelessness.
Now, maybe you genuinely have no money and maybe what you do is you then spread the show So, if you can't afford it at all, right?
If you can't afford it at all, maybe you can just go to places and spread the show and some of them.
But I'm just telling you, nobody with an ounce of common sense believes you when you say, I can't afford $3 a month or $5 a month, right?
Like, nobody's going to believe you.
You can say that stuff, but nobody with any brain is going to believe you.
Now, listen, if you are going through hard times, you're worried about your finances, and you need to cancel, that's fine.
But just don't tell me you can't possibly afford it.
I mean, that's just not true.
And, you know, it's kind of an insult, right?
It's kind of an insult to say that to me because it's just so obviously not true.
I mean, most people have at least one streaming service.
Maybe they've got Amazon Prime or they've got, you know, they've got Netflix or something like that.
And what, Netflix is like 24 bucks a month or something like that now.
So, And that's fine.
I'm not saying that you should cancel Netflix and donate to me, although I wouldn't say no.
But if you just said, look, I prefer Netflix to your show, that's fine.
I mean, the vast majority of the human population does, in fact, prefer Netflix to my show.
That's fine.
Right?
That's fine.
But don't lie to me and say you can't afford it.
That's all.
Don't lie to me and say that at the end of the month, I'm left with only $1.
And I couldn't do one coffee out less a month.
There's just no possible...
I've cancelled everything.
I'm living on nothing.
At the end of the month, I have $2 left.
And if I paid you, Steph, $3 a month, I'd end up homeless.
Like, I just don't believe that.
And nobody with any brains would.
So, listen, the important thing is just be honest.
Look.
The honest thing, the honest truth is, and I'm not bitching or moaning or complaining you about this at all.
I'm just telling you the facts are.
The facts are, you have higher priorities than three bucks a month to me or five bucks a month to me.
You have higher priorities.
Just be honest about it.
Right?
Just be honest about it.
You have, like, you just have to be honest.
Because when you don't tell the truth, particularly in public, your reputation gets harmed.
But, I mean, look, if it was, I don't know, some crazy 500 bucks a month or something like that, and you said you couldn't afford it.
Okay, I understand that.
But it's not.
Three bucks a month or five bucks a month or whatever.
So, you can afford it, right?
You can afford it.
Everybody knows that, right?
And especially, you know, if it's three bucks a month and let's say you catch one live stream a week, right?
Let's say the only thing you do is one live stream a week.
Okay, so the live streams, let's say 90 minutes times four, that is six hours, right?
So six hours a month, three bucks, that's 50 cents an hour.
Now, most movies are 90 minutes, right?
Can you go see a movie for $1.50?
Well, when I was a kid, it was 20 cents.
I remember my friend, And I would calculate it's 20 cents on the bus, $1.50 to get in for $1.90, we could go downtown and watch a movie.
Right?
So, if you go to watch a movie, they're what?
$12, $15 or whatever.
So, a movie is 10 times the price of philosophy.
And I'm sure you've gone to see a movie.
Right?
I'm sure you've gone to see a movie.
And again, I'm not, just say, just be honest and say I'd rather go see a movie or I'd rather have a cup of coffee out than pay for philosophy.
That's fine.
I'm not complaining about that.
That's an, I prefer, I just, I just want honesty.
That's all.
I'm not trying to browbeat anyone.
I'm not trying to make you feel bad.
Just don't come to a moral philosophy show and lie to the host.
That's all I'm asking.
That's all I'm asking.
And if you do need to cancel your subscription, That's totally fine.
But don't tell me it's because, like, okay, let's say you've no income, you've no opportunity to get income, and you just need to hoard every penny.
Okay, well, I can understand that, right?
Because Steph did a video on the Atari 800. You know what?
Every sort of five or six years, I would go through and run an Atari emulator, an 8-bit Atari emulator, On Windows.
And every now and then I'll get something running and be like, holy crap, I remember this game.
Holy crap, Demons Winter, I remember that game.
It was great.
I think it's fair to assume that if no one donated, Seth would probably stop doing his thing.
Why would anyone want to be a part of the people who view Steph, but would contribute to him not doing shows anymore?
So the...
There's, so that's where I donate.
Yeah.
Do you still read Atlas Shrugged periodically?
I think I've read it three or four times.
I think I've read it twice and listened to the audiobook twice, but it's been a long time.
Thank you, Eric.
Yeah, I mean, look, if nobody donated, then I'd have to find another way to have income, right?
Obviously, I'd have to do something else, right?
If no one donated, I guess I would just have to do private calls and there'd be no shows.
Right?
Got to have an income.
Got bills, right?
Got to have an income.
So I would probably just shift to private calls and wouldn't be able to do any shows.
It would also be kind of depressing, right?
Because I would have to read the market signals, right?
And, you know, in general, when the show, when there's more donations, I'm more enthusiastic.
And, you know, sometimes it just kind of happens better, right?
I don't know Jodi Hildebrandt.
Thank you for the tip.
I don't know the story of Jody Hildebrandt, I'm afraid.
I'm sorry.
You mentioned it earlier and I looked it up.
How much AdRev does Rumble pay you?
Virtually nothing.
Not their fault.
They've got a fine business model, but I just don't have the kind of views that would make a difference that way.
And of course, you know, I got deplatformed and so on, right?
So...
That was kind of important to continue to have an income and all of that.
But yeah, so if you enjoy the shows, then you should be part of funding them, right?
right?
I mean, we're all market economists here, right?
All right.
I got laid off right before my annual membership renewal.
I canceled the annual one and started a monthly one because of the show.
Absolutely fine.
Now, listen, if you are absolutely, and I've been in this situation, so I really do understand it and I sympathize.
If so, if you're in a situation where you can't spend anything on anything, if you're in that situation, totally fine.
Enjoy the show.
Don't pay a penny.
Really don't.
And don't feel bad.
Don't worry about it.
Enjoy until you get back on your feet.
But honestly, if you're having a coffee out, you can afford a couple of bucks.
That's all.
Sorry, didn't mean to insinuate I'm destitute, paying off debts right now.
My only online subscription is here on Locals.
And I don't buy coffee ever.
Last time I even went to the theater was over five years ago.
I'm just penny-pinching right now.
Sorry for the confusion.
Somebody says, I just spent 10k on silver.
Okay, so you can afford it.
You can afford it, but you're choosing, and I'm not disagreeing with this choice, but you just need to be honest, right?
And this is just a level of rigor that's really important in life as a whole.
Like, the reason I nag you guys to be really honest is because It's just so productive.
It's just so good for your career.
It's so good for your relationships.
It's so good for everything.
So, you can afford it, but you're choosing to spend an extra couple of bucks on paying down your debt rather than subscribe to a show that you enjoy or subscribe more, right?
And that's fine, right?
That's fine.
All right.
To circle back on dating, what are your thoughts on resting bitchface?
Box Day recently put out a piece on how getting less than friendly looks is an improvement over them completely ignoring you.
Um...
Um...
What are my thoughts on resting bitch face?
Oh, so, I mean, sure, everybody knows, so I'll just touch on it briefly.
So, resting bitchface is when a woman has to...
look cold and mean so that men don't approach her all the time.
So, I don't find it attractive.
I don't.
I'm a big fan of friendliness, just as a whole.
I mean, my wife is the kind of woman, hi, somebody says hi to her on the street, hi!
You know, she's just very friendly.
And so am I. And so am I. So I don't have any particular...
I don't have any particular thoughts on resting bitch face.
Generally, I judge people a lot by their friendliness, their body language, their openness, their capacity to smile, and so on.
The resting bitch face stuff...
A lot of times it is just vanity stuff, right?
It's like the women who are like, men are just hitting on me all the time.
I just can't leave the house without men hitting on me.
And nobody ever says, well, what kind of signals are you putting off?
And also, is that even true?
Right?
Women do a massive amount of damage.
I mean, men do damage with their desire for status, but women do damage with the vanity, right?
So a lot of women...
I complain about men hitting on them in order to make themselves appear more attractive to men.
Men are just hitting on me all the time, and maybe it's signaling to other women how attractive they are, maybe it's signaling to the alphas how attractive they are, but a lot of it, I don't really believe it as a whole, but even if it is the case that men are hitting on them all the time, it's fairly easy to not get hit on too much.
Right?
Like if I were to, let's say, let's just give an example here, right?
So let's say that I decided in some other universe, right?
I decide, no, let's not make it me because that's too inconceivable.
Let's say Bob.
Bob decides to dress in the most expensive possible clothing and have a Rolex, right?
And a wallet.
Sticking out like some hump from his butt.
And he walks up and down the streets in the poorest sections of town.
Or where there's a lot of beggars or something like that, right?
So he's putting out that he's super rich and he's going to where there are a lot of beggars or people who want donations or money or my house.
Now, if Bob were then to say, I can't believe the number of people who just keep coming up to me and wanting me to give them money.
What would we say to Bob?
Thank you.
Well, one of the things I would say to Bob is like, well, if you find it so unpleasant for people always coming up to you and wanting money from you, maybe you shouldn't wear, you know, $2,000 outfits.
With a $50,000 Rolex and a giant billfold sticking out of your ass.
Maybe.
Maybe if you just tone it down a little bit, just tone it down a little bit.
Because, you know, if you're going to dress up super wealthy and hang out with a lot of beggars, they're going to kind of swarm you for money because they're kind of trained to know who is wealthy or not, right?
I mean, that's the way that...
This is why I love being a man, right?
This is how men would look at the situation, right?
Or if a man were to be constantly inviting women to yacht parties where there was a bottle service and, I don't know, male strippers or something like that, and if he were then to say, you know, women just seem to be mostly interested in me for my money.
They're just, women are such gold diggers, blah, blah, blah, blah, right?
I mean, as a man, what would you say to him?
Well, you'd say to him, you know, if you don't want women to be so interested in your money, maybe, just maybe, maybe, maybe, you could start flashing your money around all the time.
maybe so so yeah the women who are just men are just hitting on me all the time and you have no say in the matter and there's nothing you're doing to influence that outcome right Thank you.
All right.
Why are adult virgins not considered a good thing?
If it's good for children to be protected from sex, why isn't it good for adults to be protected from sex?
What are you talking about?
I don't understand.
What do you mean?
Why are adult virgins not considered a good thing?
I don't understand.
Maybe somebody can clarify this for me.
Are you saying that an 18-year-old woman who's a virgin is considered bad?
That's a negative thing.
Is that right?
Are you saying that a woman who's a virgin and who's 18 is really...
This is a huge negative, and she's just looked down upon.
I don't understand that.
I mean, adult is a long way from 18 to 88, right?
That's a cozy chunk of years, right?
Right?
That's a cozy chunk of years, right?
I mean, we're talking 70 years, almost three quarters of a century.
So, if you're going to say, adult, virgins are considered negative, are you talking about that 18-year-old or are you talking about a 40-year-old?
Well, a 40-year-old virgin is a weirdo.
Even a 30-year-old virgin is kind of weird, because it indicates significant romantic and sexual dysfunction.
And these days, for sure, if let's say that you are a 25-year-old male and you haven't dated for,
I don't know, seven years, what is the first thing a woman thinks of if she looks at a man who hasn't dated in seven years when he's a young, young, young, young, young, healthy man?
What is the first concern that she has?
The first concern that she has Is he's a rampant pornography addict.
Which means he's most likely to have erectile dysfunction and strange tastes and no particular capacity to get the emotional connection or romance of sex or anything like that.
So, there's red flags all over the place.
It either means that he doesn't particularly feel a lot of lust, Or a lot of passion or a lot of desire.
And if he doesn't feel much lust or passion or desire, he can't pair bond.
Because pair bond is lust, passion and desire set in concrete for your lifespan.
So she's not going to be interested in him because he's not particularly passionate.
Or he's getting his sexual needs met with prostitutes or pornography or something like that.
Or he's got a sexually transmitted disease.
that maybe he didn't even get it through sex, or there's just something weird that's going on.
A man can be a virgin because he's not enough of a predator. .
Oh, come on.
I mean, that crap, Alex.
Jesus.
So, your basic choice is incel or predator?
So, you're either a nice guy who has no needs and has no charisma and can't ask girls out and can't make them laugh, or you're a predator.
That's excellent.
Oh, dear, oh, dear.
That's sad, man.
Please don't tell your son that.
Well, son, you either don't talk to women or you're a mountain lion who eats their boobs off.
Oh, my gosh.
Thank you.
Yeah, it's a bad scene.
Yeah, don't do this thing.
Incels, in general, missed a turn-off of asking girls out, and rather than up their skills, they turn to pornography.
In general, right?
In general.
They simp and cuck too much for women, so they can't lead anywhere, or in any way.
which means they're not going to give women the confidence that women need to surrender themselves to a man.
And whatever you do, do not look up the number of women who have violent sexual fantasies.
Do not look up the number of women who have violent sexual fantasies.
Your life may never be the same.
I mean, you kind of suspect it with Fifty Shades of Grey, but your life may never in fact be the same.
All right.
Any other last questions?
I've never watched porn.
It doesn't turn me on at all.
Well, that's just a lie.
It's just a lie.
I've never watched porn, but I sure know for sure it doesn't turn me on.
Do you not even notice the rank contradiction there?
I've never ever watched a sunrise.
I don't like the sunrises that I've seen.
Good virtue signaling, bro.
you know?
Thank you.
Oh, dear.
Oh, those people in pornography, they just look foolish and silly, and it's just so animalistic.
It's not at all sensual.
I've never eaten pizza.
I don't find it tasty at all.
I didn't mean literally.
Oh, so you said something, and now you're complaining that what you said was interpreted exactly as you said it.
Yeah, do not read Anais Nin, do not read My Secret Garden, do not read Fifty Shades of Grey.
You may never emerge sane, or you certainly will emerge With the idea that women are shrinking innocent violets.
Can we get another five minutes, Steph, or are you needing rest?
Well, I'm a little tired, but hey, man, if you need another five minutes, I mean, I did nag you a bit about donating, so I feel it's fair to give you another five minutes.
Sure, you have another question?
Hit me up.
Hit me up.
Two and two makes five.
Well, I didn't mean that literally.
Okay.
See, if you, this in general, if I, if people, if people misinterpret what I say, I try not to nag them.
Right, so let's say I put out a tweet, like back in the day, I put out a tweet, and everyone, even people I like, everyone misinterprets what I'm saying.
Do I get mad at other people?
Or do I say, ooh, I missed the boat on that one.
I should try again.
I'm sorry I got things wrong.
My bad.
Let me be more clear.
Or as opposed to, I didn't mean that literally.
I'm just saying, I'm just saying, I'm just saying that you might not want to get mad at people If everyone misinterprets what you're saying, then you just communicated badly.
And look, it happens.
I do it.
You do it.
Everyone does it.
And this is a big sort of life lesson.
It's a good relationship lesson.
I haven't blinked for three days.
What are you, Carlos Danger?
Yeah, so if you get, quote, misinterpreted, And then you immediately get mad at the other person, you're probably not going to be much fun to be in a relationship with.
Isn't it scary that the oldest person on the planet is only about twice your age?
Yeah, I'm not going to make it that far.
I mean, that's a real anomaly, right?
I'm not going to make it that far, right?
I mean, I'm way past the halfway mark, right?
I mean, that would be to get to 116 years old.
There's no way.
I hope to make it to my mid to late 80s.
And that gives me another 30 years or so, which, you know, if I look back 30 years, when I was 28 to 58, it was pretty eventful and full of piss and vinegar.
And if I get another 30 years, and obviously I'm aiming to stay as healthy as possible.
So, all right.
Will there be an Izzy episode soon?
Yes.
Yes.
But we actually went on a university tour just yesterday.
We went on a university tour.
Very exciting.
Very exciting.
Alright, yes, so we are looking to do, I'll put out questions tomorrow.
We need to do a show for a while.
Somebody says, should I prepare or rehearse for an interview or is it better to just be spontaneous and do something adventurous right beforehand?
No, you should prepare and rehearse.
Please cryogenically freeze yourself.
Have we seen any terrible movies lately to review?
I got my family to watch, and it wasn't the easiest thing.
Godzilla vs.
King Kong.
I'm a sucker for CGI. I just am.
I just love it.
I love it.
And giant monsters fighting in rivers is really something.
So we did get to watch that, and that was quite vivid.
Quite vivid.
And usually there's at least one.
Charming, funny actor.
And there was two in this one, right?
Black guy and a white guy.
But no, we haven't been watching any movies.
Did you cheer up at all touring the uni with your daughter?
No, I mean, look, it's the right time.
It's the right time.
Did you ever consider donating sperm?
Um, I guess I thought about it when I was younger, but post-cancer, I don't think people will.
I certainly can't donate.
donate blood all the time, but I don't do it anymore because I had a blood-borne form of cancer, right?
So, what subject is he interested in?
Feminist studies, perhaps?
She's very interested in business.
If I may ask, you say, I need to stay strong.
Are you robbing people of freedom to force food coloring and artificial sweetness from food?
Are you robbing people of freedom?
To force food coloring and artificial sweeteners from food.
What the ever-loving fuck are you talking about?
I don't know what that means at all.
Do you think I'm going around well-armed and knocking Diet Cokes out of people's hands?
What major malfunction is going on in your brain?
No, Izzy's like, can I just have one normal experience?
That's fair.
Totally fair.
Totally fair.
All right.
Okay, I think I did my five minutes.
Okay, well, listen, I really do appreciate everyone's support tonight.
If you value the show and you like what I do, help give my spirits the wings of a dove at freedomain.com slash donate.
This stream has been a blast.
Well, thank you.
I appreciate that.
Some pretty good donations tonight.
And much though, I'd love to be absolutely independent of the audience.
Freddie did his best work.
Freddie said, I can only sing as well as the audience wants me to, and that's always stuck with me.
The quality of what I do is very innately bound up, not just with donations, but with the quality of the questions.
The idea of making America healthy, you can't force them to eat healthy.
What you can do is push to remove artificial ingredients from people's food.
I don't speak English.
Sorry.
Well, yeah, so there's lots of food ingredients that are banned worldwide, but only available in America.
And there's lots of people who say, you know, I went to...
Italy, and I ate all the food I wanted, and it was great, and I had no problems, and I lost weight.
Now, of course, they're usually walking all day as well, but it's more than just that.
So, there is this general idea that America is sort of uniquely positioned in the world to have shit chemicals in their food.
And I mean, go to America, man.
Go to America or look online and go look at the ingredients in bread.
It's half a fucking encyclopedia.
So, it's not that you're going to force people to eat healthy, but can you, like, they just removed this food dye number, the red food dye, because apparently it's bad for you, and it's banned in a lot of places.
They finally banned it in America.
I mean, you understand that, like, arsenic is banned.
You can't feed people arsenic because you'll kill them, and you'll go to jail for murder.
So, is that wrong, to ban people from poisoning each other?
In a free society, would dangerous additives be allowed in food?
No.
The DROs wouldn't allow it because it would be too expensive.
So, no, I don't understand what you're trying to say.
I mean, I get holding a gun to someone's head so they eat broccoli.
I don't...
Yeah, soybean oil and bread, it's insane!
Yeah.
I mean, the amount of allergies and gluten intolerance and lactose intolerance and all of that, it's crazy, right?
Why is there a sourdough craze?
Because salt, flour, water, yeast equals bread.
Yeah, well, sourdough is God's gift to make up for taxes and aging.
You know, if somebody said to me, you'll never pay taxes and you'll live forever, but no sourdough?
I gotta tell you, man.
Be a tough call.
Be a tough call.
Bread is chemistry lab leftovers here.
Yeah.
Yeah, there's a sourdough graze because people want a reason to get out of bed in the morning and sourdough is about as good as you can get.
I love this old, there's an old Scott Adams cartoon where Scott Adams, I mean, very intelligent, a brilliant guy, obviously, and a great analyst of political things.
He can't do stand-up to save his life, but he's hilarious on paper, and he had an old one.
It's like morning amnesia, nature's way to have you not wake up screaming.
Oh yeah, fresh-baked sourdough with gobs of butter.
I mean, if there were monasteries that only fed that, again, I love my wife, but yeah, I can't give up that stuff, man.
I just can't.
And my ancestors all evolved on bread, so don't give me the shit that it's just bad for you.
My ancestors would never have made it without bread.
Oh, bread is peasant food.
Only meat for the king.
Yeah, yeah.
That's right, because I want to get elephant-legged gout like Henry VIII, right?
Fantastic.
You ever known someone with gout?
My God.
It's like somebody with a creatine overdose.
It's horrendous.
Sherpas have superhuman strength because they mostly eat butter.
Is that right?
Thank you for the correction and clarification after I sent the man-child question sending a tip.
Thank you very much.
I appreciate that.
Alright, so I am officially now out of juice.
I need to go pass out for a little while and I hope that you have a wonderful evening.
I love and thank you all for your great questions.
Please don't feel bad.
If I rag on you about a question, if it's any consolation, I'm just as harsh with myself when I say silly things, which I do.
So, I really do appreciate everybody's input and feedback.
Love you all to death.
Thank you so much for a lovely evening of philosophy, and we will talk to you Friday night.
Lots of love.
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