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May 23, 2025 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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A Few Words for Stefan Molyneux
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All right.
If you have questions, comments, issues, challenges, problems, I'm going to die to hear them.
Thank you.
Somebody says, I owe, this is on X, I owe Stefan so much for giving me the tools to succeed in life.
I have not listened to him for many years as I have him modeled in my consciousness for guidance.
I remember growing up and there was a What Would Jesus Do movement.
I have a What Would Stefan Say model instead.
That's very nice.
I have that too.
The story of your enslavement might have ruined my life.
Amazing video.
Nobody stirred up the feminists more than Molly Meme.
All he had to do was mention why women wear makeup and they would lose their collective minds.
Somebody says, I know he wants to maximize philosophy in the future as opposed to popularity today, but very few philosophers are respected today who sat out of the public square in their time.
I really think I sat out of the public square.
I took bullets for 40 years, man.
20 publicly and 20 privately.
I want 2007 to 2012 mollybacks as someone.
I think there's a shame component limiting his return.
I don't think his base really liked his decision to support Trump in 2016.
I wouldn't say that my decision was to support Trump, I just didn't like the way the media was lying, that's all.
The purpose of, the truth about, I haven't mentioned this before, but, you know, if you're new, you haven't heard it, the purpose of my series, The Untruths About Donald Trump, was the media was lying about me, but nobody particularly cared that the media was lying about me, but if I could get people to understand that the media was lying about Trump, then that would discredit the media, and that would help, to some degree, me.
It wasn't the only reason, but it's an important factor.
Stefan is the OG.
His is a much-needed voice.
We need everyone.
I loved his truth about videos.
They are gold!
Someone said recently that his greatest crime was being early.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's true.
That's true.
Please, Steph, come back.
We need reason more than ever today.
Bye.
Bye.
Thank you.
Hmm.
Loved listening to Stefan in the 2015 era, says someone.
I just don't have the time slash mental energy to go to all the different little alternative sites and gather all the content to watch or read from everyone whose personal reason is not to be on socials.
I use X for news and a bit of trolling.
YouTube to learn stuff and entertainment and still follow a couple of the old-school blogs.
That's it!
I mean, I got no problem with that.
That's totally fine.
If it's too much to put my show into your podcatcher feed, I mean, I used to have to go...
So when I was a teenager and I wanted to read books, obscure books on philosophy or prior to the internet, I mean, I used to...
I actually looked it up some years ago, but it vanished long before the internet could record any of its presence, I think.
I used to have to go.
I don't know if you've ever done this, if you're old, older, oldish, like me.
I don't know if you ever had to do this.
You had to go and find ancient books, obscure books, and you'd have to go to booksellers from place to place, take the bus, talk to them, leave your name, leave your number, come back if they could ever find it.
It was a quest, man.
It was a quest.
And I spent, I can't even tell you how many hours pounding the pavement, bookstore to bookstore, trying to find, desperately find a book that I was dying to read, that I'd heard about, or was in some bibliography of some other book.
Seemed interesting.
Thank you.
It's cool.
And I don't mean to sound all kinds of like the young people today are weak, weak.
It's like, oh, do I have to copy and paste a podcast feed into a podcatcher where my phone will automatically download the latest episode so I can listen to it whenever I want?
You're tough.
Oh, come on.
Come on, man.
I'm only human.
That's the kind of thinking that, by the way, did not get the ring to Mordor.
I spent half my teenage years trying to track down obscure books, talking to librarians, making friends with booksellers, praying that they could get the book in any condition.
I didn't care if it had no cover, because the better the condition it was in, the more expensive it was.
So that wasn't great.
And you'd hope to get a book without too many scribbles and without too many notes and hopefully without too many penises drawn in.
So I spent years and years and years hunting down obscure books.
And people are like, okay, I have a computer that will...
But that's work, man.
I mean, copy-pasting a feed into a podcatcher.
Oh, my God.
I mean, I am but a mortal man.
I have but a mortal man's energies.
Muscles and bones, tendons and focus.
I will not live forever.
I cannot do it all.
You gotta meet me halfway.
"'You Nagasaki'd your entire reputation to bring me the truth.
How dare you even ask me to take on such a blood-soaked quest of Control-C, Alt-Tab, Control-V?
How dare you?
You may have destroyed your entire reputation to bring the world unpalatable and unfathomable truths, but do you know what it could do to me?
If I copy and paste, it might contribute one-tenth of a billionth of one percent towards carpal tunnel syndrome, man.
I mean, it's true that you got chased all over Australia by people wanting to do you fairly significant harm.
That's true.
That's true.
But have you ever tried to copy and paste?
You know, sometimes the copy and paste is in a soft keyboard.
It's not even a hard keyboard.
Sometimes Like, get real, man.
Get real.
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