Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux - The Perfect Mixtape
Aired: 2025-06-14
Duration: 03:52


=== Man Stuck in Traffic (03:22) ===

[00:00:00]  All right.
[00:00:00]  Thank you for your indulgence.
[00:00:02]  Lord knows I never use too many analogies.
[00:00:06]  Never.
[00:00:08]  Never.
[00:00:10]  All right.
[00:00:11]  Let me just get to your comments.
[00:00:16]  All right.
[00:00:21]  Let's go.
[00:00:22]  Let's go.
[00:00:28]  Deep questions like, do you have to wear a fedora as an atheist, or do you have to smoke and drink to be a philosopher?
[00:00:32]  Because that's the only thing he ever got asked.
[00:00:35]  Yeah, yeah, for sure.
[00:00:37]  Buggy whip manufacturer.
[00:00:39]  Yes, that's right.
[00:00:40]  What was the tongue twisters?
[00:00:42]  Red lorry, yellow lorry.
[00:00:44]  Red lorry, yellow lorry.
[00:00:46]  Remember that?
[00:00:46]  My first Mac says someone had no hard drive.
[00:00:49]  You had to switch out discs several times just to run a program.
[00:00:52]  Oh, yeah, for sure.
[00:00:53]  For sure.
[00:00:55]  I remember running Ultima 3. Pop the disc.
[00:00:58]  Every time we would die, my friend and I would be playing.
[00:01:07]  Does their screen say Etch A Sketch on the side?
[00:01:10]  Yeah, that's right.
[00:01:11]  You still have CDs?
[00:01:12]  Well, everyone still has them, for sure.
[00:01:14]  Because reasons, but I remember a 33.6 modem.
[00:01:18]  Oh, did it get to 33.6?
[00:01:19]  Okay.
[00:01:21]  There's a shop in Toronto that sells and repairs typewriters.
[00:01:25]  Sure.
[00:01:25]  Yeah, I get that.
[00:01:29]  I have a stick shift.
[00:01:30]  Man, I remember helping a friend deliver his Porsche in Los Angeles and getting completely stuck in every intersection because that was not great at stick shift.
[00:01:37]  I was actually pretty good at stick shift because I drove them up north, but not a Porsche.
[00:01:46]  Not salient to Steph's point, but I'm happy not to have the crap load of recorded media taking up physical space.
[00:01:51]  And my car has the manual transmission, right?
[00:01:55]  I'm sorry.
[00:01:55]  Actually, that's, I think, a small Hispanic guy.
[00:01:58]  Who changes it for you.
[00:01:59]  It's a manual transmission.
[00:02:03]  I feel the urge to apologize it, but I'm gonna, I don't, according to Nietzsche, don't leave your actions in the lurch.
[00:02:12]  At school, we had 80s era IBM's Apple II.
[00:02:16]  Yes.
[00:02:17]  Yes, I remember the Apple II.
[00:02:19]  I never had one.
[00:02:19]  It was way too expensive for me.
[00:02:24]  All right.
[00:02:28]  Like you said, they can't fight reality itself, so they'll pick the next best thing, which is you, if you're honest and objective.
[00:02:35]  Yeah.
[00:02:36]  My boombox CD player broke when my omnibus edition of H2G2 by Douglas Adams fell off a high shelf onto it.
[00:02:44]  Still have all of that, including tapes and CDs.
[00:02:48]  Oh, yes.
[00:02:49]  Oh, you'd spend time putting together the perfect mixtape, which was a complete art.
[00:02:54]  In itself, I think High Fidelity goes into that.
[00:02:56]  The perfect mixtape was an art in and of itself.
[00:02:59]  And then you'd play it a couple of times, and then you'd hear a terrible crinkling, like millions of voices cried out and were suddenly silenced.
[00:03:11]  The perfect mixtape cried out and were suddenly silenced.
[00:03:14]  And then you'd, with a fear in your heart, you would open the tape deck and you'd pull it out and all of this, it had been eaten.

=== The Perfect Mixtape Cried Out (00:30) ===

[00:03:22]  Ah, it was horrible.
[00:03:24]  It was just how you used the pencil to scroll in.
[00:03:26]  Oh, it was just terrible.
[00:03:28]  Cut.
[00:03:31]  All right, somebody says, this is the quote.
[00:03:35]  Oh, what the hell happened there?
[00:03:38]  This is the quote I was looking for.
[00:03:43]  Okay, let's look at the quote that you were looking for.
[00:03:48]  Sorry to be Joe Squinty here.
[00:03:50]  But I could not find my mid-range glasses.