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March 2, 2025 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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The Truth About WAR!
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Good morning, everybody.
Stefan Molyneux from Freedom, Maine.
I have come back from church.
This is the 2nd of March, 2025, and thank you for dropping by.
Thank you for giving me the room to go and make a joyful sound.
And I was talking about it in the pre-show, so maybe I'll do another show on it, but I really do appreciate everyone coming by a little bit later in the day.
It's 1 p.m.
So, let's get straight to it.
Question.
Hi, Steph.
After you defood, did you feel scared if you had only a small amount of people in your life?
How can you prevent yourself from getting into the victim mindset of feeling bad for yourself that you have so much work and reparenting slash learning to do as you were never taught or loved properly by your parents?
Well, that is...
That is a lot of questions right there.
That is a lot of questions.
I'm not sure why...
I don't know why people jam so much.
That's a 10-show series, right?
So could you do me a favor because you've got two or three giant questions in there.
Pick one and I'll attempt to answer it, but I'm not going to try and attempt to do justice to such a complex set of questions.
You're going to have to pick one.
Sorry.
So, I mean, you don't order at a restaurant by the page, right?
I'll take page one, right?
So you've got to pick a dish.
Pick a dish.
Hi, Steph.
Could you please remind me of the word that is used for women who intentionally use a high-pitched voice to manipulate men and people in general?
I don't know if there's a word for that.
Childlike.
But yeah, it's definitely a thing.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez does it all the time.
She has the QB doll baby girl voice.
The Betty Boop voice.
She does it all the time.
And it is, of course, designed to disarm men.
And, you know, I mean, it's funny because if people haven't been around masculine men, if they've only been around sort of effeminate men, they feel that masculinity is mean.
Right?
It's the Kevin Samuels thing, right?
He's just being blunt and honest.
I try to be blunt and honest.
I think I have a little bit more sympathy than Mr. KS, but when people have not been around masculine directness, then it feels like they're being oppressed.
It feels like it's toxic.
Toxic masculinity is just masculinity.
Thank you, Chris.
I appreciate that.
Hit me with a Y. I'll put the Y in.
Would you like me to talk about the true purpose of war?
What war is for?
Why there is war?
We can see this, of course, happening in real time at the moment.
Do you know what the real purpose of war is?
Okay, good.
Right.
Former Marine.
Okay.
So...
I will tell you the purpose of war and why it exists.
And really, we're talking about not necessarily evolutionary war, but war as it exists in the world that is, certainly in the post-Second World War world.
So the purpose of war is for the left wing to kill off the right wing by making the right wing Fight each other while under the control of the left wing.
Or, to put it another way, for more effeminate men to kill off their primary competitors, which is the more masculine men, by provoking the masculine men to fight each other.
It is a battle, intersexual battle.
That is what is going on.
So, Marco Rubio was on Caitlin, I can't remember her name, some CNN woman, I just called her Alice, I can't remember her name, but she absolutely gives me the creeps and willies.
And Marco Rubio was talking about how he's trying to create this peace deal, he and Trump are trying to create this peace deal, and Zelensky kind of torpedoed it.
And the CNN woman was like, well, didn't you call Putin a dictator, and didn't you do this?
And she's just eh, eh, eh, provoking, right?
And the way that it came across to me is there's a couple, they're upset with each other.
The woman comes over to her best friend's house and they're like, I really want to work it out with him.
We've got kids.
We loved each other for a long time.
We're having some problems.
Well, didn't he do this?
And didn't you call him an asshole?
And didn't this, like, just wedge, wedge, wedge, wedge, right?
Just driving the wedge and escalating, right?
Honor is a concept generally invented by people with no honor in order to manipulate masculine men.
I'm not saying there's no such thing as honor.
I'm just saying in general, right?
So the typical thing...
Which you'll see, and you'll see this all over the place in social media.
I don't know if you knew this, but Ukraine has a foreign legion.
Like, you can go and join.
You don't have to be from Ukraine.
You don't even have to speak Ukrainian.
You can go and join the war, right?
So if you care a lot about the war, then you would go and fight, right?
If you feel it's so important, right?
Or maybe you try and send your family members or something like that.
If you're too old, although I think it's like 20 to 60, like you can sign up to fight.
So all of the people who are talking about The war, promoting the war, provoking the war, and so on, are not fighting themselves, but they want other people to fight.
Now, we know, just in terms of evolution, that similar gene sets protect each other, whereas competing gene sets attack each other.
Right?
So subspecies rarely inhabit the same geographical location for long without one of them displacing the other.
So the red squirrel.
When I was a kid, there were gray squirrels in England and there was rare red squirrels.
And if you saw a red squirrel, that was kind of cool.
And the reason was, of course, that the gray squirrels moved in and they displaced or pushed out the gray squirrels.
So animals that are in competition will often attack the eggs or attack the young and so on.
But they don't attack their own young because their own young are closely genetically related.
Whereas competing genetics attack each other.
Whereas when you have a single family, they don't attack, they're young usually, right?
So if we just look at it this way, we know that those engaged in competition for the same resources attack each other.
Now, of course, the resources that are in question in society are, of course, the material resources, you know, the land.
The food, the housing, the whatever, right?
And, of course, also the women, right?
Now, the feminine men have a tough time because the masculine men are pretty dominant, and the masculine men can kick their ass, and the masculine men will push them around, take their lunch money, and take their women, right?
So, what do the feminine men do?
Or the low T, high T, whatever you want to call it.
The verbal skills versus the practical skills, right?
What do they do?
Well, they have a problem.
They can't compete in terms of fighting and practicality and usefulness.
They can't compete with the high T or the masculine men.
So what do they do?
Well, they invent this concept called honor and to some degree patriotism.
And I'm not saying that honor and patriotism aren't real values.
It's just that the people who invent them don't follow them.
In other words, if you really cared about the war in Ukraine, you would go fight.
Or at the very least, if you cared about the funding of the war in Ukraine, you and all of your friends would send $1,000 to Zelensky and you would cover his war bills for a while.
The low-T men invent rules of morality and respect and honor and so on that they themselves don't follow.
And they inflict that on the high-T men and then they provoke conflicts among the high-T men so the high-T men kill each other and thus leave more resources available for the low-T men.
And, of course, you'll notice that the people provoking the war We're not the people fighting the war.
And this is sort of what I'm talking about, right?
So, Republicans are generally more practical, often more kind, less manipulative, more direct, higher physical skills, and certainly much more in the military.
So, from stats that I've read, about 6% of those in the military Are Democrats.
About 6%.
A lot of independents, a lot of Republicans, as you can imagine.
And I would imagine that those 6% of people in the military who are Democrats are likely pencil pushers or women, right?
Because women tend to skew higher Democrat.
So, there is effectively zero Democrats in the military.
And certainly, I would imagine, on the front lines, fighting and shooting and so on, right?
So, when the Democrats, as they do in the media, when they provoke and exacerbate wars, what they're doing is they are eliminating the competition.
And certainly, in a political stance, since those in the South and those in the military tend to vote Republican, they are eliminating voters, right, by sort of provoking these wars.
Now, the question then is, and a lot of people have this, Great mystery, right?
The great mystery is, well, gee, why was the left so anti-war in the past, and now they seem to be so pro-war now?
I mean, there's a number of factors.
They are fighting.
Russia tends to be more Christian and conservative and nationalistic and so on.
And so, when America was fighting left-wing organizations, then...
The left tends to be anti-war, right?
I mean, you can read all of this.
Pinochet versus Allende.
Allende was a socialist slash communist who was about to take over in Chile and then, you know, the famous solar helicopter things.
So you've got these endless books about how awful Pinochet was and how noble and wonderful and lovely Allende, I think his name was, because he was left-wing and Pinochet was right-wing.
So they hate that.
Dictatorship, right?
When you were fighting against the Vietnamese, the Vietnamese were communists, the North Vietnamese, or at least the soldiers were, or at least the leadership was, each soldier.
So that was bad.
Same thing with Korea.
But the biggest difference, of course, was the draft.
So when you had a draft, I mean, of course, a lot more left-wingers would hide out in universities or flee to Canada or some other place, right?
But when you had a draft, then you had a much higher proportion.
Of Loti or weak or leftist men in the military, and therefore they were anti-war because it was capturing a wider net of people, which eliminated friends as well as enemies.
But now that the war, it's largely voluntary.
I mean, it's not voluntary in terms of the taxpayers who fund it and all of that, but conscription is not a thing.
The draft is not a thing.
So now, if you get two armies fighting each other, You are going to be mostly eliminating high-T right-wing men, which, if you're a low-T left-wing man and you are amoral, then that's a way of eliminating your competition for social resources and women and political power and so on.
So, yeah, I just wanted to mention that.
True, though, leftists, somebody says, no, James, true, though, leftists are typically less physically capable and so would be more likely to fail to qualify for the draft, at least until the more able-bodied were killed.
I don't think you can get out of the draft just by being kind of short and weak.
I think you have to have more than that.
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I think the draft was random too, so leftists also got sent to fight.
Yeah, for sure.
Right, so they were...
They were drafted to send to fight against people, a lot of them ideologically agreed with, i.e.
communists.
Or another way of arguing it is to look, then say, the war in which the most high-T men are both fighting, I think Asians have a little bit lower T than, say, whites, and I think whites have lower T than blacks, so when more high-T People are fighting.
it tends to be approved of.
You are quite effeminate yourself, probably because you grew up with a single mother.
Yeah, I don't.
That's not true.
I mean, that's good trawling, but this guy has been a troll here before.
It's pretty funny.
It's pretty funny.
I've had my blood work done.
All right.
Okay, so let's get back to our question.
With regards to defooing, how did you explain to your daughter why you defooed without burdening her with the details of the abuse you suffered?
In other words, how do you gauge how much you should share with your own child?
Well, I mean, I'm not sure why I would need to detail the abuses that I suffered.
Because she trusts me, right?
So if I say, well, I was treated badly and I tried to fix it, right?
Because I treat her well and she sees...
Me and my wife get along very well and all of that, so I don't need to justify it because she trusts me, right?
The big glasses that go with the high-pitched voice.
Yeah, for sure.
Somebody says, my Catholic priest during Mass stood at the foot of a four-meter Christ statue and apologized to the Muslims for the Crusades.
I never went back.
Oh, yeah, you should watch my...
You can get this at fdrpodcast.com.
You should watch my show, The Truth About the Crusade.
It's really, really important.
I mean, it's so misunderstood.
Well, it's just lied about, right?
All right.
So this is the lady who had big questions.
How can you prevent yourself from feeling despair slash hopelessness or in a victim mindset post-defeu regarding all the self-work we need to do and instead feel optimistic?
I mean, if you escape from captivity...
Right?
Or you break out of, like you're unjustly imprisoned and you break out of jail and you're free.
Why would you feel despair?
I mean, I'm not sure.
I'm happy to be corrected on this.
I'm not sure why that would be the default position.
Right?
I was unjustly imprisoned.
I managed to sneak out or break out of prison.
I'm free.
I can't get caught.
I mean, let's just say I go to some other country, no extradition treaty, whatever.
I'm free.
Why would I not celebrate?
Why would the default position be despair or hopeless?
I mean, why would I feel that if I've gotten out of an unjust situation, right?
So I'm not sure I follow why that would be the default emotional position.
If you're feeling despair and hopeless, that's one thing, but saying it's a default position, You know, like, how do you deal with pain when you have a really bad back?
It's like, well, having a really bad back hurts, I guess.
So that's the default position.
But I don't know why despair or hopelessness, when I've gotten out of an abusive relationship, I'm not sure why hopelessness.
Oh, so all the self-work we need to do?
Yeah, I get that.
I get that.
But at this point in my life, this doesn't justify anything.
But honestly, I'm just telling you how I feel.
It's just a perspective that I have.
At this point in my life, and really for the past 20 years, was I better off, or am I better off because I had a bad childhood, or would I have been better off if I'd had a normal average childhood?
Or, let's put it another way, is the world better off because I had a bad childhood, or would the world have been better off if I had a normal average?
Childhood.
I mean, I can tell you I'm better off for having had a bad childhood.
I might tell you that straight up.
And I think the world, I mean, I just did a show on Friday and somebody was like how this conversation, this philosophy, what we talk about here, saved his life.
Absolutely saved his life.
And, of course, I know that millions of children are not being hit because of what I've done.
Over the years, I have a great relationship with my daughter, a wonderfully happy marriage, and all this kind of good stuff, right?
So I'm better off having had a bad childhood than if I would have had an average childhood, a normal childhood, because I actually knew for many years the people I grew up with, some of them had these normal average childhoods, and they didn't really achieve much, if any, good in the world at all.
And they don't seem to have very good relationships, so I'm better off.
Having had a bad childhood.
Now, I know when you're just going through it and you're just waking up to it, that's a lot to ask, so I'm just telling you this is after the smoke has cleared and all of that kind of perspective, but I'm better off.
I don't sit there and say I'm so thankful for the bad childhood, but I do recognize that I'm almost infinitely better off because of that, and I think the world is much better off as well because of that.
All right.
DJ Big Chatty Forehead.
Ah, occasionally.
Do you generally align with the Bitcoin maxi ethos?
I don't know what that means, really.
Was the going to church metaphoric or brick and mortar?
Yeah, no, I went to a brick and mortar church.
I dressed up and...
listened to the priest.
I bet you couldn't last in the army.
Yeah, I mean, this is the funny troll.
I mean, he's learned nothing and all of that.
I mean, I did.
I did a lot of manual labor, a lot of hard manual labor.
You know, I humped giant drill bits through the frozen tundra, used flamethrowers to cut through the permafrost.
And, you know, if you want to watch my documentary, just by the by, if you want to watch my documentary on Hong Kong, I marched straight into cannons firing tear gas, got tear gassed, went back, right?
So I think I certainly got the physical strength and endurance.
I've done the manual labor and I've walked into, quote, Fire, right?
Obviously, it's just your guess.
Although, this could hit my face or I. So, I mean, I'm comfortable with that.
I mean, if it was a good army, I don't think I would go very well in the current army.
All right.
All right.
So Lenski is five foot five.
Ah, somebody says from DLive, I love this talk.
Would Democrats rig drafts like they rig elections to recruit more Republicans and have them eliminated on the battlefield?
Well, they do rig drafts, right?
And so the way that you rig the draft is you say, well, if you're in university, right?
If you're in university, if you come from wealth, you're often more likely to be on the left because you don't have any sense of sort of base reality.
I mean, one of the reasons that I ended up not on the left was because I paid my own bill since I was 15. Math and property rights is pretty important.
So, they do rig it by saying if you're in university, then you don't have to be drafted, right?
Because wealthier people, people who are more skilled, often in the intellectual arts of sophistry and so on, they can get into university and so on, right?
So, I was being genuine.
You call being genuine trawling?
Somebody says, you're an asshole!
That's kind of rude.
No, man, I was just being genuine.
Oh, it's so girly.
It's so girly.
Oh, it is so girly.
Jab, jab, jab.
Hey, man, I'm just making a joke.
You're effeminate.
That's kind of trolly.
Oh, man, I'm just being genuine.
It's so girly.
Oh, projection, projection, projection.
All right, um...
Let's see here.
I've not read much of Hoppy's work.
Didn't he?
But he was post-banking, I think, right?
I believe your bad childhood made you the man you are today.
Would we get the same Steph if you had a great childhood?
No, no, for sure.
I don't know.
I obviously can't theorize what it would have been, but it sure as heck wouldn't be what it is, without a doubt.
The world is better off.
My cousin and I talk about this type of thing often.
We and our kids are better off.
Having a bad childhood, and we wouldn't change it.
No, I can't get to the end there.
Because if I say, well, gee, I'm a better man for having a terrible childhood, then if I want my daughter to be a better person, wouldn't I do terrible things as a father?
No.
So, yes, I would change it.
It is quite scary not having a large support network and figuring the world out mostly alone.
What is a large support network?
Are these people codependent people who prop you up?
I don't know what a large support network is.
People who agree with you?
People who give you endless sympathy no matter what you do?
I don't know what a large support network is, but that seems...
No, the trolls are not on Rumble.
Oh, car issues, computer issues, etc.
bring so much anxiety because before defooing, my family would help me.
Well, I mean, you got a boyfriend, right?
Get a boyfriend and your boyfriend will help you with car issues and computer issues.
All right, I went to a social meetup of men Friday night who think differently and we all had a discussion about what we thought was most controversial.
There was one leftist there who was mostly decent and didn't freak out, so that was interesting.
Maybe he'll convert to full rationality.
No, but if there's only one leftist there, he's going to conform, right?
They conform until they get the majority and then they're They're bullies, right?
Like, you know how the left was into free speech until they controlled the institutions and the media, and now they're into censorship, right?
I'm eating chips now, but I have a Q question in 10 minutes.
Sorry, it's a bit of a female.
There may be a female, but it's just a little bit of a female thing, right?
I'll be there in 10 minutes.
I'm doing this.
I'm going to do my hair.
Just keeping you, calling you effeminate, isn't it?
Calling you a family isn't an insult.
Oh, that's sad, man.
Good Lord.
Relentless, right?
He's got that brain of just, like, cowardly insults.
I'm sorry, am I the only one who thinks Steph going to church is a new thing?
Did I miss a show or something explaining this new journey?
I don't know.
Did you miss a show?
I don't know.
All right.
I don't think...
Oh, James says, I don't think I'd come close to doing the good I've done had I had a less terrible childhood.
Yeah, I think so.
All right.
It's...
When I left my home and my family, I was no more than a boy.
All right.
When I left my family, I had issues with my income.
I'm sorry, I had issues, but my income doubled, now almost tripling soon, since I have some more confidence on whatever habits that brought bad people to me or good people to treat me badly is almost gone.
Put on the full armor of God, right?
That's the way it works.
When you don't have bad people in your life, You are almost magically shielded from bad people coming into your life.
I can't honestly remember the last time I had an infiltration, like some bad person trying to get into my life.
Yeah, it's just a funny thing.
I mean, defooing is leaving, if your parents are sort of relentlessly corrupt, or your family of origin is relentlessly corrupt, defooing is leaving the entire trash planet.
It's like breaking orbit.
And exploring the universe.
Like, it's not just about your family.
When you don't put up with bad people, bad people sense that and stay away.
It's not so much about separating from the past.
It is about shielding yourself in the future.
But I need to heal post-Difu before entering a relationship.
And that could take a long while.
Okay, so you are a female, right?
No.
Um...
Thank you.
What is it?
I don't know what healing means in this context.
So healing, right?
Healing is something that we generally get from the body, right?
The physical realm, right?
You break your arm and your arm heals.
Like I have...
This little finger here, I was playing volleyball, and a guy spiked it straight into my finger and bent it backwards, and I could barely move it for weeks.
Like, now it's, like, 99% back to normal, right?
So it's healed, right?
It's back to normal.
I could stretch it a little bit more, but it doesn't really matter, right?
So, but yeah, it was sore for, like, a long time.
I mean, when I moved it too much, right?
So that's healing.
It's back to normal.
Break your arm.
Put it in a cast.
It heals.
Back to normal, right?
So, healing is a return to a pre-functioning state.
There is no healing in abused childhood because you cannot get to a pre-functioning state because you never had that in the first place.
If you grew up in a very violent, abusive, neglectful, dysfunctional environment, there's no healing, right?
I mean, because there is no, you know, pre-functional state that you can get back to.
There wasn't like a you that got damaged, and then you can heal and go back to the you that was not damaged, because you were damaged from the beginning.
And I don't say this to give you despair.
I say this to give you hope.
There is no return.
I do not think there'll be a return journey, Mr. Frodo.
There is no return journey.
There is no going back and being whole.
There is no going back and being undamaged.
You have to work with what is, and that can be a great strength for you.
It can turn you into a very powerful person.
But healing, from what I understand, and correct me, of course, if I've got something wrong, but there is no healing.
There is no healing in the way that it would happen with the body, where you have something functional, and then you return back to that.
Because there wasn't, if you grew up in a toxic, dysfunctional family, there was no functional you, because you were just surviving that from the very beginning, right?
There was no functional you that you can return to.
There is no circling back and making whole.
There is only pressing on and finding strength.
Finding strength in the suffering.
There is no going back and undoing the suffering.
There is no healing.
There is only pressing on and finding strength through the suffering.
I was told by a crazy German woman, don't think.
Okay, when a crazy person tells you not to think, probably the best thing you can do is think, right?
I was raised with an entire group of people who believed in subjective morality and lived pretty terrible lives.
So, if your fat uncle tells you what he eats, you don't follow that diet, right?
If your drunken uncle tells you, well, you know, alcohol technically is a solution.
It's how you deal with things.
Go out, party, have fun, drink.
Right?
And then he dies of liver failure or something and don't do that.
So I was raised with a bunch of people who gave me massive examples of everything not to do.
And I've lived my life.
In reaction to that, insanity and found deep sanity.
But I can't return to some sane thing that I had because I was raised by crazy people.
I can't return to some sane stuff that's somehow back there.
I can only press on to the sane stuff that I get by judoing the trauma into deep and robust health.
Right?
There's no healing.
There's only health.
There's only pressing on to health.
No circling back.
There's no undo.
There's no original you that was not harmed, and I'm sorry for that.
I really am, and I'm not trying to give you any despair.
I'm trying to have you not wallow and circle back, trying to achieve something that can't be achieved called healing.
You can't heal yourself.
But you can press on and find strength in the suffering, find robustness and sanity Like, I can't go back and be raised by sane people.
But I can use the lessons of the insane people and become super sane myself.
There is no return to healing.
There is only advancing to health.
Bitcoin mooning.
I owe you a lot.
Oh, is it back up?
I haven't checked.
Well, of course, Trump just announced on Truth Social.
Whoa!
Holy crap!
It just went up almost $12,000.
Well, I guess, here's the funny thing.
I think I bookmarked it, but Trump, holy, I haven't seen that in a while, although I'm pretty sure it was coming.
So as the U.S. economy looked like it was going to get better, then people took money out of Bitcoin, I assume that's why it went down, and now they're talking about a strategic reserve.
It's going to go back up, right?
So Trump wrote on Truth Social, a U.S. crypto reserve will elevate this critical industry after years of corrupt attacks by the Biden administration, which is why my executive order on digital assets directed at the presidential working group to move forward on a crypto strategic reserve that includes XRP, SOL, and ADA, I will make sure the U.S. is the crypto capital of the world.
We are making America great again.
Now, I don't know, of course.
He doesn't have the capacity, I don't think, constitutionally to...
Executive direct the creation of that, but he can executive direct the working group or whatever.
But it's interesting that he didn't mention Bitcoin there.
Oh.
But that seems quite important.
So, yeah, wow, that is a whiplash, man.
Like, come on, do something, man.
So, yeah, Canadian, it just went up 10% in, I mean, since when?
Since 10 this morning?
Oh, since, so I went to church and it mooned.
Wow.
What is that thing?
It's like, buy the dip!
With what?
With what am I supposed to buy the dip?
Alright.
So that's interesting.
That is, yeah, that is quite a pump.
And who knows, right?
Yeah, like if you've smoked for a long time, you don't get to undo the effects of smoking, but maybe what you can do is you can commit to robust exercise regime and weight control and whatever that's going to give you the best chance of staying healthy despite the fact that you smoked, right?
right?
So, all right, well, that's interesting.
Good moon.
Good moon.
All right, sorry, let me just get back to your...
Your comments!
Thanks.
Thank you.
Nah, I'm not a female.
It's called the art of the deal, bro.
I'm reserving the queue.
Oh, so you're telling me that I'm going to answer your question?
You do not understand the art of the deal at all.
The important thing to know is, do I have leverage?
Do I have leverage?
Right, so if you're rude to me...
Or, you know, call me out of the deal, bro.
I'm reserving the queue.
Why would I answer your question?
Like, what hold do you have over me that I'm going to answer your question?
It's a funny thing, right?
I mean, if you're my boss, I guess you could be a little rude and brusque with me and tell me I've spent my life making deals.
I was in the business world making deals, made multi-million dollar deals, and sold the company twice.
So I know a little bit about the deal.
So if you lecture me about the art of the deal, And that you're reserving a question.
How the fuck are you reserving a question?
Why would I need to answer shit from you?
You're telling me about the art of the deal.
I've done tons of deals.
And you're telling me about the art of the deal while pulling a full Zelensky on getting me motivated to answer your question.
That is pretty funny.
Oh, that's great.
I'm going to keep a note of that.
That is delightful.
It's called the art of the deal, bro.
I'm reserving the question.
Not if I don't answer it, you're not.
So, people lecturing me on deals while making demands with no leverage, it's pretty funny.
It's pretty funny.
Can you shed light on Ukraine?
How is Zelensky the one in charge?
What do you mean, how is Zelensky the one in charge?
Just go look up Gonzalo, the late.
Gonzalo Lira had a good explanation of all of that.
You can go look that up.
All right.
Aha!
Oh.
This is his question.
This is the guy who was lecturing me about the art of the deal, telling me that I have to answer his question.
So, here's his question.
Okay.
I know you've spoken and given a ton of dating advice to young men dating women.
I haven't heard...
All of the recent episodes, yeah.
Although I wanted to see if you had some guiding principles for approaching women.
I've been cold approaching women these last few weeks, something I was super scared of my whole life.
I'm 24. I want to know what you think.
If I thought that I'd filter the women I approached to only those who gave me eye contact and if a smile definitely approached them.
What?
I want to know what you think.
I thought that I'd filter the women I approached.
Oh, to only those who give me eye contact and if a smile definitely approached them.
Yeah, I'll get right on answering that if you do one thing first and you know what that is.
All right.
What helps you find strength in the suffering if you ever feel really sad or the weight of the past is on your shoulders?
What's wrong with feeling really sad?
Sorry, do you think that sadness is just some affliction to be cured and eliminated?
That the state is...
The state of life as a whole is just deep joy, right?
I don't quite like what's wrong with feeling sad.
Sadness is not a problem to be solved or fixed.
It's just a state of mind that is teaching you that there's something to learn.
So you figure out what sadness is trying to teach you to learn, and you learn it.
And then your sadness will go away, right?
If you're sitting on something and it's hurting your ass, right?
You ever do this?
You sit in your car, your car keys are in your back pocket and they jab your ass.
Oh, that's just, that's uncomfortable.
Well, what's my body telling me?
You have keys in your ass attempting to unlock your sphincter and you take the keys out of your back pocket and you're better, right?
So, sadness is not a problem to be solved.
How do you get rid of sadness?
How do you deal with sadness?
Learn a lesson, right?
Learn a lesson.
Don't get shitty with me, Steph.
It's boring.
AF! You've praised yourself thousands of times for proving ethics without religion.
Now you're listening to sermons?
Do tell!
You're fucking hilarious.
That is too funny.
Why the fuck would I want to talk with you?
I mean, it's so weird to me that people are just like...
Well, you've got to tell me this.
I don't have to do shit.
I don't have to do shit with you.
Don't get shitty with me.
Answer my question, you hypocrite.
It's like, what the fuck would I want to engage with you?
I mean, maybe this works with trashy people in your life.
I don't know.
That's so weird to me.
Like, why would people think that I would engage with them when they're kind of shitty and trashing me?
That's so weird to me.
I don't need to.
I've got lots of people I enjoy engaging with.
Why would I engage with somebody who's kind of rude to me?
Anyway, it's just weird to me.
I don't know why.
I don't know why people do that.
Like, the entitlement, the narcissism is just staggering, right?
Heal, as in stop making bad choices and make good choices and stop repeating unhealthy habits of the past.
Simon the Boxer stuff.
Well, if you know what good choices are, you just have to make them.
Thank you.
Like, you just have to make the good choices.
There's no magic in that.
Like, so, stop repeating unhealthy habits of the past.
Well, of course, but the best way to stop repeating unhealthy habits of the past is to get toxic people out of your life, because the unhealthy habits developed in response to toxic people in the past, right?
Learning about peaceful parenting from you has definitely made me better going into fatherhood, and my kids' lives are on a lot better path than mine.
Thank you, Stefan.
Thank you, my friend.
That is great to hear.
Congratulations.
Beautiful.
Beautiful.
I haven't seen Stefan promoting any religion.
He has been reviewing the Bible and giving his thoughts on the sayings therein.
Yeah, fantastic stuff.
Yeah, that's, I mean, sorry, I don't mean my thoughts, although I think that's true too, but yeah, the Bible stuff is, I'm really, really finding that wonderful.
All right.
Powerful thoughts on healing.
I'm glad to be with you.
What helps you find the strength in the suffering?
Oh yeah, sorry, we did that one.
Let's get...
I heard that one of the best philosophies is error correction.
Have you explained that?
I'm sure.
Error correction.
That's a bit of an accordion, squished-in sentence.
One of the best philosophies is error correction.
Have you explored that?
I'm sure.
You're going to have to give me more.
I don't want to answer something that's irrelevant to your question, and I could really interpret that a bunch of different ways.
Strategic reserve of imaginary assets seems imprudent.
Strategic reserve of imaginary assets.
Oh, are you saying that government type bullshit into your own bank account, fiat, asswipe, fantasy currency is the real stuff, whereas a digitally limited and easy to transfer a store of value like Bitcoin is somehow imaginary?
Oh, that's funny.
That is very funny, man.
Good for you.
Well, government, you know, the government currency which they order you to have to use and which they counterfeit at will, that's the real money.
Whereas the digital transfer of information, which is how you're typing and how I'm delivering this lecture, is imaginary.
So that which you're interacting with is not real.
But the stuff the government makes up out of whole cloth and thin air and forces people at gunpoint to use, That's real.
Oh, man, that's great, man.
Good for you.
Good for you.
That's some willpower.
Man, that is some swallow the propaganda wholesale willpower.
That's fantastic.
He mentioned Bitcoin.
Oh, Trump mentioned Bitcoin in a later tweet, said it's obvious.
Yeah, for sure.
For sure.
For sure.
Obviously, Ethereum and Bitcoin will be in it as well.
well yeah for sure Frida says comparing the heal yourself platitude to physical healing just Maybe this word is constantly used by people who refuse self-reflection because healing, in physical terms, is an automatic process.
So, for example, if a woman dated a bad guy, they can heal from just ignoring the reasons she dated him and just numbing the pain with fun and distraction.
Healing is a red flag term used by people without self-knowledge.
Well, I think that's true to some degree, not that I have some ultimate authority in this, but I would say that A healing is set up by society so that you are on a never-ending quest.
Never-ending quest.
It's one of the problems I have with religion as a whole is, well, I'm going to infect you with an imaginary sin.
Sorry, I'm going to infect you with an imaginary illness and I'm going to sell you the cure weekly for the rest of your life.
It's cynical.
It's cynical, but this is one of the issues that I have.
So, the infliction of guilt is the ultimate strip mining of the resources of the human soul.
There's nothing really that turns us more into slaves and livestock than guilt or shame or the infliction of an imaginary negative that then you have to pay for the rest of your life to remove.
Right?
So, sin, of course, is one of them.
You are born sinful and you can pay us.
Every week for the rest of our lives to lift this curse called sin.
Well, that doesn't seem very honorable or decent as a whole, right?
That's one.
Another one, of course, is the chemical imbalance theory of mental illness.
You have a chemical imbalance, which we can't ever test for, we can't ever prove, and doesn't seem to be supported by any of the research in any robust fashion.
So you have this chemical imbalance, and if you just pay us every week for the rest of your life, we'll fix it.
Or, well, you're a racist, And if you donate here and you give that and you subjugate this and you shame yourself about that or you kneel here, we'll remove, temporarily, we'll remove this curse called racism or whatever it is, right?
Misogyny.
You've got to promote women and do that.
Oh, you're a misogynist.
We're going to hit you with this curse.
We're going to hit you with this imaginary illness or ailment.
And then you've got to pay us every week for the rest of your life, forever and ever, amen, to lift this curse.
I don't consider that particularly.
Hmm, how can I put this nicely?
I don't consider that the very summit of honor.
I have never, ever said that you are infected with some imaginary illness and you've got to give me money to lift that curse on a weekly basis.
No, thank you.
That is not how it works.
So, of course, if, let's say, the mental health monolithic industry, the mental health industry is selling you healing, Then they are selling you, in my view,
my amateur obviously, not advice, it's just my amateur idiot view, but they're selling you a nirvana that you can get to called healing, which is to have not been hurt in the first place or to have returned to a state of robust health that never existed in the first place because you were traumatized from very early on if you had a really bad family.
So they're giving you a nirvana or a fantasy that if you give them money, time, resources, obedience, or whatever, They'll get you to, and you never get there.
Right?
So, that's why healing, I just press on.
Press on and find the strength in your suffering.
Because you see this, like, all over the place.
Like, all over the place, you can see this stuff on the internet, right?
Well, are you tired, down, sad, low energy?
Vitamin X, Y, Z, it's your problem.
And you just buy this supplement.
Like, there's always this, like, just nirvana that we can get you to, You know, pay on, pay on, pay on.
So, I don't, uh...
I'm trying to reserve the question, LOL. I was being sarcastic, wanting to make you laugh.
But I apologize, because it wasn't obvious, and that's not respectful to you.
So, I was being sarcastic, wanting to make you laugh.
No, that's not...
And that's not what was happening.
What was happening was, I thought you were a female.
You got insulted by that.
And then you tried to level up and be superior to me.
It's called the art of the deal, bro.
Right?
So, this is not, you're not being honest.
I mean, I know what was going on.
You know what was going on.
You felt stung by the fact that I thought you were a female.
And then you attempted to level up by making yourself superior to me, lecturing me on the art of the deal.
And saying that you had authority over me because you were reserving the question, right?
So this is just a level up.
This is not an honest statement.
This bit where people say, like, there's nothing funny about this, right?
It's caught me out of the deal, bro.
I'm reserving the question.
It's not a joke.
I'm a funny guy.
You think I'm here to amuse you?
I'm a funny guy, so I have a good sense of humor.
I enjoy comedy a lot.
And I try to give a smile and make people laugh everywhere I go.
I'm pretty good at comedy.
And pretty good at understanding it.
So when you say to me, no, no, no, I just wanted to make you laugh.
It wasn't obvious.
So now saying this is another chord of leveling up is you don't want to say, yeah, I was kind of stung and I got kind of pissed at you and I got kind of mad and I wanted to level up.
I mean, that's fine.
I can respect that.
Right happens.
So.
Yeah, so this, this, I just told the joke, but clearly you didn't get it.
That's another form of leveling up.
So, sorry.
All right.
The sadness is painful, but that's right.
It's telling me something, and once I've figured it out, it won't be painful anymore.
Thank you.
Good, good.
Steve.
Who's Steve?
Sorry, I guess you're talking to someone else.
All right.
Oh, Steph.
Was that Steph?
Oh, yeah.
Okay, no problem.
Steph, would you consider a Doge report a couple of times a month?
Also, how historical is Doge in your opinion?
I mean...
I remember when Bill Clinton fired 277,000 government workers.
What's interesting about Doge is the transparency, where people, they really seem like they're opening up the data.
And I don't, we've never had, I don't think we've ever had someone as elementally competent as Donald Trump and Elon Musk looking at these kinds of issues.
So that is new.
That is new.
All right.
Let's see here.
How are we doing for donations?
Because, you know, I like to work a little.
Not great.
Not great.
If you'd like to help and support out, you know, I think I'm also modeling a little bit of assertiveness without being mean, but all right.
The troll is not used to interacting with people with self-respecting.
Yeah, it's funny.
It kind of breaks my heart to see how thin-skinned and petty Steph has become.
come.
Obviously, many of us are wasting our time here if we're not basking him in praise.
Oh, no.
Oh, no!
Oh, my God!
Oh, you know, it's really, really tough dealing with...
People going through menopause.
Like, it's really tough.
It's really tough.
Thin-skinned and petty.
We're just wasting our time here.
We're not basking in praise.
Oh, no.
That's so low, T, it's going to make my hair regrow.
Oh, no, I'm getting mad tits just reading it.
What?
Oh, no.
Oh, my God, man.
I tell you, please, go get your T-levels checked and lift some weights.
I tell you, I'm so sad.
How thin-skinned did Patty step in the car?
Yes, yes.
Of course, I took on the most controversial topics known to man because all I want to do is be basked in praise.
Yeah, yeah, just look at my Wikipedia page.
It's just nothing but being basked in praise.
Oh, holy merciful Maidol, that's really something.
Oh my god, that's hilarious.
I'm sorry.
Oh, it's so girly and manipulative, that...
It makes the average girl guy look like John Cena.
I'm sorry.
I'm so disappointed in you.
Okay.
Be professional.
All right.
Oh, dear, oh, dear.
What is your favorite novel or nonfiction book you've written?
I mean, Peaceful Parenting is great, but my favorite one is Almost.
All right.
This is one of the reasons why I love the emphasis on moral behavior, which is empirical and can be observed as opposed to the hidden guilt ghost.
Yeah, that's all.
I don't put ghosts in the machine.
Hi, Steph.
I'm a father of two of my 40s.
I've worked since I was 12. I've recently achieved financial independence.
Now I feel lost.
Any advice?
I feel lost.
Where's your wife?
Where's your wife?
Tell me.
What's your opinion on altcoins?
It's Bitcoin or nothing, really.
For me.
Bitcoin or nothing.
I remember you proposed to make a detailed presentation on why the birth rate in the West has collapsed.
It's not just the West.
In the past few weeks, you've mentioned birth rates on a few occasions.
For example, income tax is about lowering birth rates.
Yeah.
Yes, a truth about.
I think somebody is working on it, and I'm sure they will get back to me.
All right.
That's true, Steph.
Listening to you changes my entire rhetoric into one that wins.
I'm pointing out what you're doing is simply projection.
You're the one being thin-skinned and petty.
Oh, sorry, that's talking to the troll.
All right.
Oh, dear, are the hot flashes getting to you?
That's a good point, man.
I appreciate the feedback.
Sometimes I use that joking thing as a shield from accepting the truth.
My friend...
Pointed this out last week.
It did piss me off when you said the female thing.
I definitely do that superiority thing a lot for what I said was insulting to you, and I'm sorry for that.
Hey, man, nobody's spoken.
No problem.
I appreciate that.
So, yes, somebody mentioned that it was a show last week where I talked about how to approach women, and I hope that you will check that out.
All right.
Holy merciful, my little title for the show.
Oh dear, oh dear.
Let's see here.
I was here before most of you, LOL.
How am I a troll?
You don't feel like a troll?
I'm not going to try and argue you and convince you.
Alright, somebody says, almost a year after my defu, there was a week I couldn't stop crying.
Thought I was going crazy, but really tried not to judge the emotions and was able to figure out so much over the course of that week.
Ended up actually being one of the most memorable signs I was on my way out of the desert.
Wow, that's interesting.
It's interesting because you were in a desert.
You wept, which is a rain.
You made the desert green with grief.
We don't actually leave the desert.
We just turn the desert green.
And sorrow is the one.
I wrote a book of poetry when I was in my teens called The Dead Live in Dry Eyes.
That you can't let go of the past if you don't accept your suffering.
This is something, actually, Nathaniel Brandon was very good with this kind of stuff.
Weak in some areas, in my humble opinion, but very, and I interviewed him, I think, once or twice on this show.
But very good with, you know, his wife, one of his wives, he was married, I think, a couple of times.
One of his wives drowned.
And he was just, you know, he would throw himself on the bed and weep and sometimes he'd feel fine.
He said, just got to let the emotions flow through you, right?
Be in partnership with your gut.
Be in partnership with your heart.
Be in partnership with your body.
Don't be like your intellect just rides your body like the jolly green giant on a Shetland pony, right?
You'd be in partnership with your whole system.
That's where the real strength is.
Because you can talk yourself in and out of anything intellectually, but it is in the gut that real certainty is.
All right.
I thank Steph for teaching me about Bitcoin in 2014.
But to still be a Bitcoin maxi in 2025 is just absurd to me.
It's a dino tech for the industry, which is why I got out in 2019. Oh, you sold all your Bitcoin in 2019?
Okay.
All right, Stephan's steely logic applied to the text that comprise the English translation called the Bible is better than the control-freaking I hear from many churches.
I'm enjoying a logical take very much.
Yeah, this morning I did, to me, what was the Holy Trinity of ethical commandments, which was, I turn the other cheek, and if an enemy asks you to walk a mile, walk two miles, and if you are sued for your shirt, give you a cloak also.
So that was very powerful for me this morning.
So here's the funny thing.
I did 40 minutes on that, and then I challenged my daughter to what she would think of these three commandments, and she got it in less than five seconds.
Honestly, she got it and said, I took 40 minutes.
And I was like, she said, is that right?
And I'm like, yes, but I'm trying to think why I took 40 minutes and you took five seconds.
Oh, well, that's good.
That's good.
That's good.
My friend Kyra said it's a three-year process to get over a defu to a healthy level.
I truly believe that.
There's a lot to process.
Once it's signaled to your subconscious that you no longer have these abusers in your life, there's a lot that unravels.
I wouldn't necessarily say three years.
It really depends.
depends how hard you commit yes I did a show an interview with Nathaniel Brandon show 1521 and 2855 was an elegy for his passing Thank you.
All right, let's see here.
Steph's Bible verse series has been amazing.
Yeah, it just kind of came about by accident.
Somebody asked me for my thoughts and I felt such elemental power in the response.
I'm like, I could do that again.
And so far, so good.
So there's a principle in life that however long you think something is going to take is how long it's going to take.
If you say, well, I have to clean up my room by Saturday.
You will not clean up your room before Saturday.
If you say I have to clean up my room in the next 20 minutes, you'll clean up your room in the next 20 minutes.
So be very careful in saying, well, it's going to take three years.
Well, then you just have that in your mind.
And that lowers the urgency of dealing with things.
I never say to myself, I have six months to write this book.
I just work hard until the inspiration dries up every day until the book is done.
So try to avoid Saying, it's going to take X before I get what I want.
X amount of time, right?
If you say, well, I'll be happy when I'm a millionaire, you're just programming yourself to be unhappy.
And then by the time you become a millionaire, you've gotten so used to being unhappy that the million dollars don't save you.
So...
Giving yourself deadlines is giving yourself delays.
I didn't say to myself with peaceful parenting, well, I'm going to take a year to write this book.
Right?
We know this also, they've done studies on this, right?
So, in Canada, some places, or lots of places, you get like a year of unemployment insurance.
Or I think they changed the name to EI, employment insurance, right?
So you got a year.
So you got a year.
Because they say, well, it could take you a year to get a job.
So you get a year of employment.
You get a year of, quote, free money, right?
If you lose your job or whatever, right?
Okay, so when do people start looking for work?
About 11 and a half months.
Just the way it is.
It's just the way it is.
Don't give yourself deadlines.
Don't even give yourself goals.
Just do work.
Just do work.
My goal was not, I'm going to write this book on peaceful parenting.
My goal was, I mean, obviously plan to write a book and then just write every day.
I wasn't sure exactly when I was going to be done.
I wasn't sure exactly how long it was going to take.
Just working.
Just do the work.
Because oftentimes deadlines are delays and focusing on big goals feels overwhelming and you don't want to start it, right?
So, I mean, I'm not perfect with this.
I'm still, I'm trying to find the time, to carve out the time, because I've got a lot of stuff going on at the moment, trying to find the time.
I want to write this new novel, which is a love story in reverse, right?
Because I want people to see, here's the end disaster, let's step back and see all the little things that led up to it.
So, I've been wanting to write this for like two months or three months, and I've had a variety of things where I need, I just need some carved out time where I'm not going to get interrupted, because I hate getting interrupted when writing novels, because there's so many balls in the air.
Especially if it's about sex on a rollercoaster, right?
So...
When I start a novel, I don't think about, oh my god, it's so complex, I got all these characters, all these themes, all this dialogue, all this stuff, right?
Then...
I just...
I want to write this scene as well as I can.
As deeply, richly, and beautifully I want to write this scene as I can.
I want to empathize with the characters, really get their dialogue, really...
Respect their presence and so on, right?
Do that, right?
And then do the next one.
If somebody said, I weakly said, I'll move out by the end of December, and you said the same thing you're saying here.
Yeah.
I mean, I'll tell you this, man.
I got a lot of stuff done in my life, and that's because I won't give myself deadlines, and I won't think of the big project.
I can relate to that framing.
Steph, you helped me setting yourself a set date to move out of my parents' place.
Yeah, it really helped.
Everyone I shared it with, from my therapist to my friends, thought it was too soon.
I moved out earlier than my set date.
Yeah, for sure.
Yeah.
Deadlines are delays.
Deadlines are delays.
All right.
you Steph, did you ever write a play or do you have any plans in the future to write one?
I did.
I've written about 30 plays because I was in theater school as an actor and as a playwright, right?
And they loved me for the first while and said, oh, you're such a good actor.
You should forget about the playwriting and just do the acting.
And then they hated me both as an actor and a playwright once they realized.
I was an anti-communist.
So, yes, and I actually, I have produced, I mean, I wrote a short movie and produced it, and I wrote, directed and produced a play in Toronto called Seduction, which was an adaptation of Fathers and Sons by Turgenev.
So, yes, I have written a lot of plays.
I don't know if I have them anywhere, but I certainly read them.
Systems, not goals.
Yeah, I've never quite followed that one.
I haven't really looked into it from Scott Adams, but...
Maybe that helps.
All right.
Did you ever see the Zeitgeist documentary from the early 2000s?
That is an interesting question.
That is a very interesting question.
So, um...
Yes, this was done by...
I did see the Zeitgeist documentary.
Interesting, but didn't really move me very much.
But resource-based economy?
Wasn't that Peter Joseph's thing?
My God, what's he doing these days?
Because I had a pretty ferocious debate with Peter Joseph, who did the Zeitgeist movies, right?
Tita Joseph, what is he doing these days?
Yes, Venus Project.
Oh my God, this is taking me back.
He's now 46 years.
Of age.
He supported the Occupy movement.
Uh, right.
Oh, he made a new Zeitgeist, a fourth one called Requiem.
So, yeah, I don't know what he's been doing.
But yeah, so I have watched it, and I did watch.
I did a debate with him that was pretty good.
It was pretty fun, pretty enjoyable.
So you should check that out, FDR Podcasts, and so on, yeah.
Give Peter Joseph a search on FDR Podcasts.
Yes, Zeitgeist moving forward, a reply to Peter Joseph, that was 1844, and the debate is...
Show 2492. Zeitgeist versus the market.
Peter Joseph debates.
Stefan Molyneux.
Stefan, you were a project manager.
Did you create Gantt charts or try to just finish everything as fast as possible?
Any tips that made you a good project manager?
No, I didn't create Gantt charts.
So mostly I was in charge of upgrading the software, writing new versions of the software, adding features and upgrading it and so on.
So I just worked on individual things, but I didn't have a general project as a whole.
All right.
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Nothing at freedomain.com slash donate.
So it seems like I am not tickling people's donation fingers, which is totally fine.
If you are low on cash, don't worry about that at all.
I hope that you will enjoy that.
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So that's what CD is in your car.
I don't have a CD in my car.
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What do you think of Gene Hackman, his mysterious death, his career?
A good actor.
A good actor for sure.
And he had a face like a potato, which he'd be the first to admit.
Obviously a very talented guy.
Gene Hackman was interesting because he got the lowest marks in his theater school and he and Dustin Hoffman, who was, of course, another famous actor, We're both voted least likely to succeed.
And so what I like about Gene Hackman is he was basically like, screw that.
They think I'm going to fail.
I'm going to show them success.
Trust me, I know a little bit about this.
I know a little bit about this one.
Screw people.
I'm going to succeed even if they think it's bad.
Gene Hackman better than Jack Nicholson?
I think Jack Nicholson had more range from as good as it gets to a few good men was pretty wild.
Yeah, Gene and Dustin, they were friends, they were roommates, along with Robert Duvall, I think it was.
And Gene Hackman was the kind of guy, you tell him he can't do, because he was in the Marines for years, right?
He was in the Marines for like four years, Gene Hackman.
And so if you're going to say to Gene Hackman, you can't do something, that's like telling a Marine something is impossible.
He'll like, I'll show you, right?
And of course, I've had to bounce back from endless amounts of like, get knocked down, get back up again.
So, yeah, he just worked hard.
He had an incredible run as an actor, and he took risks, right?
So, Young Frankenstein by Mel Brooks with Gene Wilder and Corey, no, Marty Feldman, not Corey Feldman.
It was a little different.
He would have been a fetus.
But Gene Hackman played a blind guy, and he wasn't even supposed to be in the film, but he said to Mel Brooks, like, I've always wanted to do comedy.
Give me something, right?
And so he did that.
He, of course, was great as Lex Luthor.
Superman.
The only good, the only great Superman was Christopher Reeve, the very first one in the 70s.
Love that.
I even bought little baseball cards with the stills from the movie and put them up in my room.
I was completely inspired by Superman when I was a little kid.
But, yeah, Hackman portrayed being angry very well.
Yeah, of course, the scene in Crimson Tide, is it, with him and Denzel Washington is quite powerful.
A very Interesting, complicated movie, Mississippi Burning.
He was very good in that.
And so, yeah, Chris Reeves was so perfectly cast.
Yeah, he's such a wholesome guy.
And also with best friends, and they went to theater school, was Christopher Reeves and Robin Williams.
And after Christopher Reeves had his terrible accident, but he played Rear Window after that, Robin Williams came to try and cheer him up.
So, I've never seen the extended TV cut of Reeves' Superman.
I've never seen the Poseidon Adventure or that burning building one.
Tender Mercies, that was Robert Duvall, right?
A movie called Tomorrow with Robert Duvall really broke my heart.
Yeah.
Now, of course, the big question with Gene Hackman is what the hell happened?
So he was 95, and also he quit movies because his doctor said Gene Hackman's, I don't know why I know all this stuff I just do, but Gene Hackman's doctor said, like, your heart really can't handle it.
So, a lot of stress, right?
Making movies is stress, physical exertion, and so on.
In The French Connection, that's actually Gene Hackman driving the car in one of the most famous car sequences of all cinema history, and the car he ran into was actually a real guy.
It just drove through, somehow got past the closed-off movie set thing.
I didn't even know if they closed it off.
It's kind of like what happened in Midnight Cowboy.
With John Voight and Dustin Hoffman, where Dustin Hoffman, like, the car drives up and says, I'm walking here!
I'm walking here!
Totally breaking character, totally different voice, but it was a pretty funny scene, right, that he stayed in character when he almost got run over by a cab driver as Razzle Rizzo.
And so, yeah, it's pretty amazing stuff.
It's pretty amazing stuff.
The big question, of course, is what the hell happened to Gene Hackman, right?
Thank you, Cameron.
Big question, like, what the hell happened?
I mean, according to his pacemaker, he died, I've sort of read reports, either a week, 10 days, two weeks ago.
Gene Hackman died.
His 63-year-old Asian wife also died.
One of his dogs died, but the other wasn't.
They've tested negative for carbon monoxide.
So it looks pretty shady.
It looks pretty shady.
Now, of course, there's all these theories.
Anytime there's these theories, it's always like, vax, but I'm pretty sure the dog didn't get the COVID vax.
Or it's like, he was about to...
Reveal the Epstein list or something like that.
Like, as if there's ever going to be a revelation of the Epstein.
It's not going to happen.
So, I don't know.
I don't know.
It's not carbon monoxide.
Obviously, there didn't seem to be bludgeoning or anything like that, like the pharmaceutical company.
The pharmaceutical.
A couple in Canada, which was just, it seems to me, just was a hit, right?
But there's obviously no bludgeoning, because initially they said that the death of Gene Hackman, his wife, and the dog were not suspicious, but he was dead for a long time, and it was really, really tough.
It's really, really tough to know.
If it was foul play, it's almost certain that it will not be figured out.
Because if somebody wants to take you out, And they get a professional to do it.
Well, the professionals are very good at what they do.
They know exactly what to bypass.
They know exactly what to avoid.
They know exactly how to not leave any prints or any evidence.
So the odds, if somebody really wants to take you out, I mean, you can get one of those heart attack guns or I don't know, something like that, right?
But if somebody really wants to take you out, then you're going to be taken out.
And, you know, they never found out who killed Seth Rich, right?
So if they, so if he, I don't imagine what a 95-year-old guy, he retired from acting and started writing novels and stuff.
I don't know what a 95-year-old guy, what threat he poses, why somebody might have taken him out.
But it does seem odd, unless it was carbon monoxide.
Wasn't that Ben Stiller's parents or something?
No, Weird Al Yankovic's parents died that way, I think, just bad luck carbon monoxide stuff.
So, we'll probably never know.
It'll probably be just one of these wild mysteries as to...
What happened?
Maybe he pissed people off.
Maybe he was going to reveal something untoward, and he was taken out.
But, I mean, theorizing, we'll never know.
Never get the Epstein list, and we'll never know what happened to Gene Hackman.
At least that's my guess.
95 is not bad.
That's true.
That's true.
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Oh, joke from the 90s.
What's the opposite of Christopher Reeve, Christopher Walken?
Ouch.
Christopher Walken is a creepy guy.
And he was on the boat, wasn't he, with...
Wagner?
Robert Wagner and Natalie...
Wood?
What's the only wood that doesn't float?
Natalie Wood.
Jack Nicholson is fantastic.
Yeah, Cuckoo's Nest is just incredibly good.
And, of course, Five Easy Pieces is also fantastic from Jack Nicholson.
It's massively disappointing, the movie he made with Marlon Brando, though.
Very sad.
Would you do a talk or video on your favorite movies and shows that are worth watching?
I don't know.
How long can I talk about Burn Notice?
Absolutely one of my favorites.
If I were to say one of my favorite TV shows ever was Burn Notice.
Unbelievably great.
All right.
Why did the police say there was no foul play at the same time they announced his death?
Yeah, you know, they should investigate first, right?
Mm-mm-mm.
We still don't know what happened with certainty to Jim Morrison 50 years ago.
Yeah, I read his autobiography of Jim Morrison.
There still is mysteries, right?
Your logic that you share with us to help people is a real treasure in this world.
Thank you.
you I appreciate that all right It's a good show.
Watched it twice over the years.
Yes.
Yeah, Burn Notice is...
Fantastic.
Jeffrey Donovan?
Or whatever his name.
I don't know if he's showed up anywhere else, but he played Hamlet, and I don't know if it was ever recorded.
I'd love to have seen that.
All right.
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